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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope