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Definition: Phoca |
PhocaNoun1. Type genus of the Phocidae: earless seals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Phoca" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Etymology: Phoca \Pho"ca\, noun. [Latin expression, seal, from the Greek]. (Websters 1913) |
"Phoca" is a common misspelling or typo for: Hock, Phase, Poach, Pock, Poke, Ponca, Pooch, Poona, Theca. |
Synonym: PhocaSynonym: genus Phoca (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Phoca |
| English words defined with "Phoca": genus Phoca ♦ Phoca vitulina, Phocacean. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Phoca": Phocine. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Spotted seal - Phoca largha.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Ribbon seal - Phoca fasciata.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | Weighing an unhappy spotted seal - Phoca largha.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Budd Christman and a new friend - a ribbon seal pup, Phoca fasciata.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | A photograph of a photographer - John Burns of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game with a ribbon seal pup - Phoca fasciata.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Restraining a spotted seal pup - Phoca largha.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | Helicopter pilot Budd Christman with a pal - ribbon seal pup, Phoca fasciata.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | A ringed seal - Phoca hispida - the smallest of all Alaska pinnipeds.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve A Harbor Seal, Phoca vitulina, is a small phocid with a stubby, compact body and short limbs. Colors range from silver-gray to tan and all are spotted. They occur in almost all nearshore environments from Baja,California to the Bering Sea.Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Harbor seal - Phoca vitulina. This marine mammal can be seen hauling out on rocks and piers during the winter months in Narragansett Bay.Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
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Expressions using "Phoca": genus Phoca ♦ Phoca foetida ♦ Phoca Groenlandica ♦ Phoca vitulina. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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phoca | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Phoca"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Ukranian | тюлень (seal). (various references) | |
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| Words rhyming with "Phoca" (pronounced 'Pho"ca'): Anasarca, Arctisca, Areca, Asarabacca, Attacca, Baraca, Barranca, Bibliotheca, Bocca, Chachalaca, Chica, Cloaca, Coca, Cuca, Dactylotheca, Fistuca, Formica, Glyptotheca, Gnathotheca, Hierotheca, Hippobosca, Inca, Lactuca, Lectica, lorica, malacca, Manca, Mattowacca, Mesotheca, mica, Mollusca, Musca, Myrica, Noctiluca, Oca, Ootheca, paca, Pataca, Perca, Phytolacca, Pica, Pinacotheca, Plica, Podotheca, Polacca, Portulaca, Postfurca, Quica, Raca, Rhamphotheca. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: poach. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-o-p" | |
-1 letter: caph, capo, chao, chap, chop, opah. | |
-2 letters: cap, cop, hao, hap, hop, oca, pac, pah, poh. | |
-3 letters: ah, ha, ho, oh, op, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-o-p" | |
+1 letter: carhop, cheapo, coprah, poachy. | |
+2 letters: aphonic, aphotic, camphol, camphor, capouch, carhops, charpoy, cheapos, coprahs, epochal, hopsack, isopach, pachuco, panocha, panoche, picacho, poached, poacher, poaches, pochard, potlach, shoepac. | |
+3 letters: aphonics, apothece, approach, atrophic, cachepot, calthrop, camphols, camphors, canephor, cenotaph, champion, chapbook, chaperon, charpoys, copperah, gazpacho, hopsacks, hypoacid, isopachs, orphical, pachadom, pachinko, pachouli, pachucos, panochas, panoches, parachor, picachos, poachers, poachier, poaching, pochards, potlache, potlatch, prochain, reproach, scaphoid, shoepack, shoepacs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 68 6F 63 61 |
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