phocoena sinus

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   a short porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California; an endangered species

   Synonymsvaquita

   Broaderporpoise

Questions about phocoena sinus

What does phocoena sinus mean?

phocoena sinus means "a short porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California; an endangered species".

What is another word for phocoena sinus?

Close synonyms include vaquita. 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 sinus a common word?

phocoena sinus 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.