Crossword-Solution: GRAMPUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Grampus | n. | A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii. |
| Grampus | n. | A kind of tongs used in a bloomery. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “GRAMPUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Popular name for a killer whale | 1 answer |
| PERSON breathing heavily and loudly | 1 answer |
| ONE breathing heavily and loudly | 1 answer |
| BREATHING heavily and loudly (person) | 1 answer |
| Blunt-nosed dolphin | 1 answer |
| Dolphin cousin | 1 answer |
| Dolphin or killer whale | 1 answer |
| Dolphin variety | 1 answer |
| Relative of the dolphin. | 2 answers |
| Fierce whale | 2 answers |
| orca | 3 answers |
| Dolphin's cousin | 3 answers |
| Killer whale | 4 answers |
| Scorpion | 4 answers |
| cetacean | 9 answers |
| Blackfish. | 9 answers |
| Whale | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with GRAMPUS (5)
Now and then he would see a thin fin, like a big shark’s fin, drifting along close to shore, and he knew that that was the Killer Whale, the Grampus, who eats young seals when he can get them; and Kotick would head for the beach like an arrow, and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all.
Here they waited some little time while the marriage party enrolled themselves; and meanwhile the wheezy little pew-opener—partly in consequence of her infirmity, and partly that the marriage party might not forget her—went about the building coughing like a grampus.
There were seasons when one sat upon the other, holding him down, while each blew like a grampus, spat out the more inconveniently large sections of gravel and earth, and strove to subdue the spirit of his opponent with a frightful and soul-paralyzing glare.
The Major sat chuckling to himself for a minute or two, but soon he grew drowsy, and before long was snoring like a grampus.
Magnet, I am astonished that you should think this water even looks like sea-water! Now, I daresay that there isn't such a thing as a whale in all your lake, Master Pathfinder?” “I never heard of one, I will confess; but I am no judge of animals that live in the water, unless it be the fishes of the rivers and the brooks.” “Nor a grampus, nor a porpoise even? not so much as a poor devil of a shark?” “I will not take it on myself to say there is either.
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Appears in: NYT, WP.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1955–2015).