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sea-swine

sea-swine is the alternative form of seaswine.

Meaning of seaswine

Noun

seaswine (plural seaswines or seaswine)

  1. (archaic) A porpoise or dolphin.
    • The seaswine are almost always seen in troops, especially in their sexual season, which is in the month of August.1828, John Davidson Godman, American natural history
  2. A ballan wrasse.

Forms of sea-swine

pluralsea-swines
pluralsea-swine

Questions about sea-swine

What is sea-swine the alternative form of?
Sea-swine is the alternative form of seaswine.

Words near sea-swine in the dictionary

  1. sea-sunflowers
  2. sea-suns
  3. sea-surface
  4. sea-surgeon
  5. sea-surgeons
  6. sea-swine
  7. sea-swines
  8. Sea-Tac
  9. sea-tomato
  10. sea-tomatoes
  11. sea-tortoise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sea-swine (page history and authors); seaswine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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