peale's dolphin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small dolphin (Cephalorhynchus australis) found in the waters around Tierra del Fuego at the foot of South America.
Etymology
Named after American artist, naturalist, and explorer Titian Peale (1799–1885), who first noted the species in 1848.
Inflected Forms
Peale's dolphins (plural)