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pin·ni·ped 
[pin-uh-ped] Pronunciation Key
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[pin-uh-ped] Pronunciation Key –adjective
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| 1. | belonging to the Pinnipedia, a suborder of carnivores with limbs adapted to an aquatic life, including the seals and walruses. |
| 2. | a pinniped animal. |
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| pin·ni·ped
(pĭn'ə-pěd') Pronunciation Key
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. n. A mammal of the suborder Pinnipedia. [From New Latin Pinnipedia, order name : Latin pinna, feather; see pinna + Latin pēs, ped-, foot; see -ped.] |
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pinniped
pinniped
1842, from Mod.L. pinnipedia, suborder of aquatic carnivorous mammals (seals and walruses), lit. "having feet as fins," from L. pinna "fin" + pes, gen. pedis "foot" (see foot).
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| pinniped | |
noun | |
| aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers [syn: pinniped mammal] |
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The American Heritage Science Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| pinniped
(pĭn'ə-pěd') Pronunciation Key
Any of various carnivorous, aquatic mammals of the group Pinnipedia, which some believe is a suborder of the Carnivora but others consider a separate mammalian order. Pinnipeds have long, smooth bodies and finlike flippers for swimming. Seals and walruses are pinnipeds. |
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Pinniped
Pin"ni*ped\, n. [L. pinna feather, fin + pes, pedis, a foot: cf. F. pinnip[`e]de.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) One of the Pinnipedia; a seal. (b) One of the Pinnipedes.
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