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Phoca vs Phocacean - What's the difference?

phoca | phocacean |

As nouns the difference between phoca and phocacean

is that phoca is a seal while phocacean is any species of Phoca; a seal.

phoca

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A seal.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.viii:
    • His charet swift in haste he thither steard, / Which with a teeme of scaly Phocas bound / Was drawne vpon the waues, that fomed him around.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    phocacean

    English

    (wikipedia phocacean) (Phoca) (Phoca)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) Any species of Phoca ; a seal.

    • Hypernyms

    * phocid (Webster 1913)