Phocinae vs Phocine - What's the difference?
phocinae | phocine |
Pertaining to a seal (or other members of the subfamily Phocinae; seallike.
*1871 , New York Daily Standard , 28 Dec 1871:
*:He telegraphed to the whaling ports of New England, and sent messages to San Francisco and Alaska, to know if a group of sea lions and other specimens of the phocine tribe could be secured.
*1955 , (Vladimir Nabokov), Lolita :
*:she had already yanked out of me the coveted section and retreated to her mat near her phocine mamma.
*1987 , , The New Confessions :
*:She walked over towards me with an odd elegance, big strides, like a champion girl swimmer, say; muscled but lean, with a phocine grace.
(zoology) A member of the subfamily Phocinae, comprising the "true" or "earless" seals.
*2007 , Brian Keith Hall, Fins into Limbs , p. 313:
*:Phocines anchor their hands by flexing their fingers, digging them into the substrate, and then pulling their body forward by elbow and shoulder flexion.
