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Orca   /ˈɔrkə/   Listen
Orca

noun
1.
Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas.  Synonyms: grampus, killer, killer whale, Orcinus orca, sea wolf.



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"Orca" Quotes from Famous Books



... movement, but many times larger, and they have round, blunt noses that look like battering-rams. Some seemed as big as gunboats, and when they heaved up on the swells we could see the white stripes below the black. I was inclined to the belief that this species was the orca, a whale-killing fish. Boatmen and deep-sea men report these blackfish to be dangerous and had better be left alone. They certainly looked ugly. We believed they ...
— Tales of Fishes • Zane Grey



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