pinniped mammal

Questions about pinniped mammal

What does pinniped mammal mean?

pinniped mammal means "aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers".

What is another word for pinniped mammal?

Close synonyms include pinniped, pinnatiped. 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 pinniped mammal a common word?

pinniped mammal 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.