grampus
noun
a cetacean, Grampus griseus, of the dolphin family, widely distributed in northern seas.
grampuses
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pluralof grampus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Panting like grampuses, mopping their red faces, Sir Colin & posse then went back to their pews.
From Time Magazine Archive
The second side-course—miocene—was out of course, flesh after fowl: marine mammalia,—seals, grampuses, and whales, served up with sea- weed on their flanks, hearts and kidneys deviled, and fins and flippers friccasied.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
Fifty white whales surrounded their monarch, and a host of dolphins, grampuses, and porpoises brought up the rear.
From Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend
Soon afterwards we saw an enormous shoal of grampuses, large black fish, about 25 feet in length, something between a dolphin and a whale, with the very ugliest jaws, or rather snouts, imaginable.
From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Annie Brassey
What's that among a tribe o' such grampuses?
From Diana by Susan Warner
