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Definition of pinniped - 3 dictionary results

pin⋅ni⋅ped

  [pin-uh-ped]
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–adjective
1. belonging to the Pinnipedia, a suborder of carnivores with limbs adapted to an aquatic life, including the seals and walruses.
–noun
2. a pinniped animal.
Origin:
1835–45; < NL Pinnipedia. See pinna, -i-, -ped, -ia

Related forms:
pin⋅ni⋅pe⋅di⋅an  [pin-uh-pee-dee-uhn] , adjective, noun
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pin·ni·ped   (pĭn'ə-pěd')   
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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Word Origin & History

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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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