Associations to the word «Pinniped»

Wiktionary

PINNIPED, noun. Any of various large marine mammals belonging to the superfamily (formerly considered a suborder) Pinnipedia comprising walruses, eared seals and earless seals.
PINNIPED, adjective. Pertaining to or similar to such a mammal.

Dictionary definition

PINNIPED, noun. Aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats