porpoise meaning in Tamil
கடற்பன்றி
UK/ˈpɔːpəs//ˈpɔːɹpəs/
porpoise in Tamil: கடற்பன்றி. In English, porpoise means a small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.
Tamil words for porpoise
- கடற்பன்றி
English meaning of porpoise
- noun A small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.
- noun Any small dolphin.
- verb Said of an air-breathing aquatic animal such as a porpoise or penguin: To repeatedly jump out of the water to take a breath and dive back in a continuous motion.
- verb Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing; or of a watercraft: to successively plunge up and down in the water.
porpoise in a sentence
- Near-synonyms: sea hog, sea pig, seaswine, mereswine
Synonyms of porpoise
porpoise in other languages
Questions about porpoise in Tamil
- What is the meaning of porpoise in Tamil?
- Porpoise in Tamil is கடற்பன்றி.
- porpoise என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
- Porpoise: கடற்பன்றி.
- What does porpoise mean in English?
- Porpoise means a small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.
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Tamil words from Tamil Wiktionary: porpoise (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: porpoise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Tamil words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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