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grampus

Common name for Risso's dolphin, a slate-grey dolphin found in tropical and temperate seas. These dolphins live in large schools and can reach 4 m/13 ft in length. They have blunt snouts with only a few teeth, and feed on squid and small fish. The name grampus is sometimes also used for the killer whale. (Species Grampus griseus.)



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Grampus might take him-- and I could write to Fulke about it.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Scarcely a sound could be heard but the occasional breathing of the grampus, and the rippling at the cut-water.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
As to Paul’s, thof I’ve never seen it, being that it’s a long way up town from Radcliffe Highway and the docks, yet everybody knows that it’s the grandest place in the world Now, I’ve no opinion but this here church over there is as like one end of it as a grampus is to a whale; and that’s only a small difference in bulk.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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