harbor porpoise

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   the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific

   Synonymsherring hogPhocoena phocoena

   Broaderporpoise

Questions about harbor porpoise

What does harbor porpoise mean?

harbor porpoise means "the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific".

What is another word for harbor porpoise?

Close synonyms include herring hog, Phocoena phocoena. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is harbor porpoise a common word?

harbor porpoise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.