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wavewashing

wavewashing is the alternative form of wave washing.

Meaning of wave washing

Noun

wave washing (uncountable)

  1. (marine biology) A form of hunting used by some pods of orcas to drive a prey animal (such as a seal) seeking refuge on a sheet of ice into the water, in which members of the pod swim together at high speed towards the sheet to create a powerful wave that breaks it up.

Questions about wavewashing

What is wavewashing the alternative form of?
Wavewashing is the alternative form of wave washing.

Words near wavewashing in the dictionary

  1. wavetrain
  2. wavetrains
  3. wavevector
  4. wavevectors
  5. waveward
  6. wavewashing
  7. wavewise
  8. wavey
  9. waveys
  10. wavicle
  11. wavicles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wavewashing (page history and authors); wave washing (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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