(intransitive) 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.

A small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales. / (Canada, US, imprecisely) Any small dolphin.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of porpoise

plural of porpoise

simple past tense and past participle of porpoise

present participle of porpoise

Neophocaena phocaenoides, a species of porpoise that lacks a true dorsal fin and is found in the coastal waters of Asia, especially around Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Bangladesh.

plural of finless porpoise

A porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, that inhabits coastal areas and river estuaries.

plural of harbour porpoise