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gram·pus
(grăm′pəs)n.
1. See Risso's dolphin.
2. Any of various dolphins or other toothed whales, such as the orca.
[Alteration (perhaps influenced by grand) of Middle English graspeis, from Old French craspois, graspeis, from Medieval Latin crassus piscis, craspiscis : Latin crassus, fat + Latin piscis, fish.]
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grampus
(ˈɡræmpəs)n, pl -puses
1. (Animals) a widely distributed slaty-grey dolphin, Grampus griseus, with a blunt snout
2. (Animals) another name for killer whale
[C16: from Old French graspois, from gras fat (from Latin crassus) + pois fish (from Latin piscis)]
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gram•pus
(ˈgræm pəs)n., pl. -pus•es.
1. a large dolphin, Grampus griseus, of northern seas.
2. any of various other large dolphins, as the killer whale, Orcinus (Orca) orca.
3. a giant whipscorpion, Mastigoproctur giganteus, of the southern U.S. and Mexico.
[1520–30; earlier grampoys, variant (by assimilation) of graundepose great fish =graunde grand + pose, poys < Middle French pois, peis < Latin piscem, acc. of piscis fish]
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Noun | 1. | ![]() dolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises genus Orcinus, Orcinus - killer whales |
2. | ![]() dolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises genus Grampus - grampus |
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grampus
n → Rundkopf- or Rissosdelfin m → or -delphin m, → Grampus m (spec); to puff/snort like a grampus (inf) → wie eine Lokomotive schnaufen (inf)
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