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cochito

cochito noun: the vaquita (Phocoena sinus).

Noun

cochito (plural cochitos)

  1. (rare) The vaquita (Phocoena sinus).
    • The cochito has been killed accidentally in gill nets set near San Felipe and along the Sonoran coast for the totoaba, a large sea bass. This fishery began during the late 1940s, and as many as ten cochitos are known to have been caught in a single day as recently as the early 1970s.1983, Randall R. Reeves, Stephen Leatherwood, The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins, San Francisco, Calif.: Sierra Club Books, →ISBN, page 269

Forms of cochito

pluralcochitos

Questions about cochito

What does cochito mean?
Cochito means the vaquita (Phocoena sinus).
What part of speech is cochito?
Cochito is a noun.
What is the plural of cochito?
The plural of cochito is cochitos.

Words near cochito in the dictionary

  1. cochinita pibil
  2. Cochins
  3. Cochirleanca
  4. Cochise County
  5. Cochiti
  6. cochito
  7. cochitos
  8. Cochituate
  9. cochlea
  10. cochleae
  11. cochleagram

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