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phocas

phocas is the plural of phoca.

Meaning of phoca

Noun

phoca (plural phocas or phocae)

  1. (obsolete) A seal.
    • His charet swift in haste he thither steard,
      Which with a teeme of scaly Phocas bound
      Was drawne vpon the waues, that fomed him around.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about phocas

What is phocas the plural of?
Phocas is the plural of phoca.

Words near phocas in the dictionary

  1. phocae
  2. Phocaea
  3. Phocaean
  4. Phocaeans
  5. phocal
  6. phocas
  7. Phocea
  8. Phocean
  9. Phoceans
  10. phocenate
  11. phocenates

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