phocoena phocoena

1. 1.

   the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific

   Synonymsharbor porpoiseherring hog

   Broaderporpoise

Questions about phocoena phocoena

What does phocoena phocoena mean?

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

What is another word for phocoena phocoena?

Close synonyms include harbor porpoise, herring hog. 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 phocoena phocoena a common word?

phocoena phocoena 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.