porpoise

English Thesaurus

1. any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	dolphin,
definition	:	any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	harbor porpoise, herring hog, phocoena phocoena,
definition	:	the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	phocoena sinus, vaquita,
definition	:	a short porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California; an endangered species (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus phocoena, phocoena,
definition	:	porpoises (noun.animal)