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adj. - Of or relating to seals.

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Usage examples (7)
  • The enigma of the landlocked Baikal and Caspian seals addressed through phylogeny of phocine mitochondrial sequences.
  • When the mutual inspection, friendly glances, and exchange of civilities between the phocine and human tribes began to pall I told Nuredien to go full speed ahead to our...
  • "There's phocine distemper that in Europe has wiped out a huge number of harbour seals," he said.
  • "We were surprised when it came back negative for canine but positive for phocine distemper," Gill said.
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