(n.) A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.
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Grampus
Definition:
(n.) A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.
(n.) A kind of tongs used in a bloomery.
Example Sentences:
(1) We examined four dolphins (Grampus griseus) of 582 mass-stranded.
(2) Seventeen specimens representing nine cetacean genera (Delphinus, Stenella, Tursiops, Grampus, Delphinapterus, Globicephala, Kogia, Mesoplodon, and Phocoena) were studied post mortem.
(3) Nagoya Grampus Grampus being the Latin name of the Risso dolphin.
(4) The Nagoya Grampus striker will get all the headlines, but it was the man who played in the cross whose role was decisive.
(5) Larynges of 24 odontocetes representing ten genera (Delphinus, Stenella, Lagenorhynchus, Tursiops, Grampus, Delphinapterus, Globicephala, Kogia, Mesoplodon, and Phocoena) were studied post mortem.
(6) In 1759, a 24ft grampus or orca was caught at the mouth of the river and brought to Westminster bridge on a barge.
(7) Novakovic earns his living in Japan with Nagoya Grampus, the 10th club of a 17-year career.
(8) I am sure we can.” During his 18 years in charge the man who arrived as a virtual unknown from the Japanese side Grampus Eight has helped drag English football blinking into the modern era, revolutionising the domestic game’s thinking on an array of subjects from tactics to sports science to the mass importation of foreign players.
(9) In 1772, another grampus, 18 feet long, was caught; in 1788, 17 sperm whales stranded on the Thames' lower reaches.
(10) Colombia coach José Pékerman and former Nagoya Grampus manager Dragan Stojkovic had also been touted as candidates to replace Zaccheroni.
(11) In the novel he began to plan, he despatched his protagonist (the rhythm of whose name suggests Edgar Allan Poe), in a whaler, the Grampus, on an extraordinary voyage to the southern seas, following (as it were) Coleridge's Ancient Mariner .
(12) Colombia’s coach José Pékerman and the former Nagoya Grampus manager Dragan Stojkovic had also been touted as candidates to replace the Italian.