grampus

gram·pus

G0220500 (grăm′pəs)n.1. See Risso's dolphin.2. Any of various dolphins or other toothed whales, such as the orca.

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[Alteration (perhaps influenced by grand) of Middle English graspeis, from Old French craspois, graspeis, from Medieval Latin crassus piscis, craspiscis : Latin crassus, fat + Latin piscis, fish.]

grampus

(ˈɡræmpəs) n, pl -puses1. (Animals) a widely distributed slaty-grey dolphin, Grampus griseus, with a blunt snout2. (Animals) another name for killer whale[C16: from Old French graspois, from gras fat (from Latin crassus) + pois fish (from Latin piscis)]

gram•pus

(ˈgræm pəs)

n., pl. -pus•es. 1. a large dolphin, Grampus griseus, of northern seas. 2. any of various other large dolphins, as the killer whale, Orcinus (Orca) orca. 3. a giant whipscorpion, Mastigoproctur giganteus, of the southern U.S. and Mexico. [1520–30; earlier grampoys, variant (by assimilation) of graundepose great fish =graunde grand + pose, poys < Middle French pois, peis < Latin piscem, acc. of piscis fish]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	grampus - predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seaskiller whale, orca, Orcinus orca, sea wolf, killerdolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoisesgenus Orcinus, Orcinus - killer whales
	2.	grampus - slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seasGrampus griseusdolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoisesgenus Grampus - grampus

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