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or·ca O0108200 (ôr′kə)n. A black-and-white toothed whale (Orcinus orca) that feeds on large fish, squid, and marine mammals such as seals and other whales and dolphins. Also called killer whale. [Latin ōrca, whale, probably alteration (probably influenced by ōrca, vessel) of Greek orux, orug-, pickaxe, a kind of large fish or whale, perhaps from orussein, to dig.]orca (ˈɔːkə) n, pl orcas or orca1. (Animals) a killer whale[C20: Latin]kill′er whale′ n. a large, predatory, black-and-white dolphin, Orcinus orca. [1880–85] or·ca (ôr′kə) A large dolphin found in all the world's oceans, having a black body with a white underside and a tall, triangular dorsal fin. Orcas grow up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) in length. Also called killer whale.ThesaurusNoun | 1. | orca - predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seasgrampus, killer whale, Orcinus orca, sea wolf, killerdolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoisesgenus Orcinus, Orcinus - killer whales | Translationsorca
orca: see killer whalekiller whale, orca, or grampus, a large, rapacious marine mammal of the dolphin family. Historically considered one species, Orcinus orca, ..... Click the link for more information. .OrcaVrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1986. Similar to Modula-2, butwith support for distributed programming using shared dataobjects, like Linda. A 'graph' data type removes the need forpointers. Version for the Amoeba OS, comes with Amoeba."Orca: A Language for Distributed Processing", H.E. Bal et al, SIGPLAN Notices 25(5):17-24 (May 1990).ORCA
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Synonyms for orcanoun predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal finSynonyms- grampus
- killer whale
- Orcinus orca
- sea wolf
- killer
Related Words- dolphin
- genus Orcinus
- Orcinus
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