PINNIPED Definition & Meaning

pinniped

[ pin-uh-ped ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

belonging to the Pinnipedia, a suborder of carnivores with limbs adapted to an aquatic life, including the seals and walruses.

noun

a pinniped animal.

pinniped

/ ˌpɪnɪˈpiːdɪən; ˈpɪnɪˌpɛd /

adjective

of, relating to, or belonging to the Pinnipedia, an order of aquatic placental mammals having a streamlined body and limbs specialized as flippers: includes seals, sea lions, and the walrus

noun

any pinniped animal

pinniped

/ ��ĭ��′ə-��ĕ��′ /

Any of various carnivorous, aquatic mammals of the group Pinnipedia, which some believe is a suborder of the Carnivora but others consider a separate mammalian order. Pinnipeds have long, smooth bodies and finlike flippers for swimming. Seals and walruses are pinnipeds.

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Other �y��vlog Forms

�辱��·�Ծ�·��·�徱·�� [pin-, uh, -, pee, -dee-, uh, n], adjective noun

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of pinniped¹

From the New Latin word Pinnipedia, dating back to 1835–45. See pinna, -i-, -ped, -ia

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of pinniped¹

C19: from New Latin �辱�ԲԾ��ŧ��, from Latin pinna feather, fin + ��ŧ�� foot

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As we burn fossil fuels, trapping heat that melts polar ice, the roly poly pinnipeds struggle to find sea ice to live upon.

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Later that year, the pinnipeds, especially younger, smaller ones, struggled.

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A huge school of anchovies — a favored food of the pinnipeds — brought them there, Chandor said.

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It’s possible the creatures were giant squids, or pinnipeds, like seals or sea lions.

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Climate change is not the only threat that is afflicting seals and other pinnipeds, the group of carnivorous aquatic mammals that includes seals and sea lions.

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