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commerson's dolphin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
com-mer-son-'s -dol-phin
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An oceanic dolphin, of species Cephalorhynchus commersonii, found in South America and the Kerguelen Islands

Etymology

Named after French naturalist Dr Philibert Commerson, who first described them in 1767 after sighting them in the Strait of Magellan.

Inflected Forms

Commerson's dolphins (plural)

Synonyms

jacobita skunk dolphin piebald dolphin panda dolphin

Questions

What does commerson's dolphin mean?
An oceanic dolphin, of species Cephalorhynchus commersonii, found in South America and the Kerguelen Islands
Where does commerson's dolphin come from?
Named after French naturalist Dr Philibert Commerson, who first described them in 1767 after sighting them in the Strait of Magellan.

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