grampus

Significado (inglés)

1. The killer whale, Orcinus orca.
2. Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus, with a blunt nose.
3. The hellbender salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis.
4. giant whip scorpion (Mastigoproctus giganteus)

Sinónimos

killer whale

sea wolf

orca

Grampus griseus

killer

Orcinus orca

Risso’s dolphin

grey grampus

orc

porpoise

cow-fish

Rissos dolphin

grey dolphin

Etimoloxía (inglés)

From Middle English *grampas, grappays, grapas, graspeys, from Anglo-Norman grampais, Old French graspois, craspois (“whale, (salted) whale meat; blubber; seal”), from Medieval Latin craspicis (literally “fat fish”), from Latin crassus (“fat”) + piscis (“fish”).