phocine

1. 1.

   of or relating to seals

Other forms of phocine

comparative

phociner·

superlative

phocinest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about phocine

What does phocine mean?

phocine means "of or relating to seals".

How many syllables are in phocine?

phocine has 2 syllables: pho-cine. The stress falls on "pho".

Is phocine a common word?

phocine is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.