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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or belonging to the Pinnipedia, a suborder of carnivorous aquatic mammals that includes the seals, walruses, and similar animals having finlike flippers as organs of locomotion.
  2. n. A mammal of the suborder Pinnipedia.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Fin-footed, in any sense; having feet like fins or flippers. Specifically Having flippers, as a seal; pinnigrade; belonging to the Pinnigrada or Pinnipedia, as a mammal.
  2. n. A member of the Pinnipedes or Pinnipedia: opposed to fissiped.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of various large marine mammals belonging to the superfamily (formerly conisederd a suborder) Pinnipedia comprising walruses, eared seals and earless seals.
  2. adj. Pertaining to such a mammal.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One of the Pinnipedia; a seal.
  2. n. One of the Pinnipedes.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers

Etymologies

  1. From New Latin Pinnipedia, order name : Latin pinna, feather; see pinna + Latin pēs, ped-, foot; see -ped.

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  • skipvia
    His clothes are loud, but never square...
    Apr 26, 2009

  • rolig *reciting:*
    "We seek him here, we seek him there …" Apr 25, 2009

  • bilby How about this guy? Apr 25, 2009

  • sionnach Yes, but "The Scarlet Finfoot" doesn't quite have the same ring to it as "The Scarlet Pinniped". Apr 24, 2009

  • rolig Sometimes I wish English didn't fancy things up with Latinate words. How much better it would be if we called these animals finfoots. Apr 24, 2009

  • seanahan see puijila, which is the first time I'd ever heard this word. Apr 24, 2009

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