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heaviside's dolphin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
heav-iside's -dol-phin
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Cephalorhynchus heavisidii, a small dolphin endemic to the Benguela ecosystem along the southwest coast of Africa.

Etymology

Early in the 19th century, a specimen was caught off the Cape of Good Hope by a Captain Haviside of the British East India Company. Zoologist John Edward Gray then misidentified Haviside as the surgeon John Heaviside, who was known for his own biological collections at the time.

Inflected Forms

Heaviside's dolphins (plural)

Questions

What does heaviside's dolphin mean?
Cephalorhynchus heavisidii, a small dolphin endemic to the Benguela ecosystem along the southwest coast of Africa.
Where does heaviside's dolphin come from?
Early in the 19th century, a specimen was caught off the Cape of Good Hope by a Captain Haviside of the British East India Company. Zoologist John Edward Gray then misidentified Haviside as the surgeon John Heaviside, who was known for his own biological collections at the time.

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