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or⋅ca
[awr-kuh] 
kə
–noun
| the killer whale, Orcinus orca. |
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| killer whale n. A black and white predatory whale (Orcinus orca) that feeds on large fish, squid, and sometimes dolphins and seals. Also called orca. |
| or·ca (ôr'kə) n. See killer whale. [Latin ōrca, whale, probably alteration (probably influenced by ōrca, vessel) of Greek orux, orug-, pickax, a kind of large fish or whale, perhaps from orussein, to dig.] |
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orca
"killer whale," 1846, introduced as a generic term for the species by J. Richardson & J.E. Gray in "The zoology of the voyage of HHS 'Erebus' & 'Terror,' " from L. orca "cetacean, a kind of whale." Earlier in Eng., orc, ork "large whale" (c.1590), from Fr. orque, had been used vaguely of sea monsters (see orc).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Language Translation for : orca
Spanish:
orca,
German:
der Killerwal,
Japanese:
しゃち
Orca
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1986. Similar to Modula-2, but with support for distributed programming using shared data objects, like Linda. A 'graph' data type removes the need for pointers. Version for the Amoeba OS, comes with Amoeba. "Orca: A Language for Distributed Processing", H.E. Bal
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