pin|ni|ped

pin|ni|ped
pin|ni|ped «PIHN uh pehd», adjective, noun.
–adj.
1. of or belonging to a suborder (or, in some classifications, an order) of carnivorous mammals that includes seals and walruses.
2. having finlike feet.
–n.
a pinniped animal.
╂[< New Latin Pinnipedia the suborder name; (literally) fin-footed ones < penna, or Latin pinna wing, fin + pēs, pedis foot]

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