grampus

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grampus

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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”).

noun grampuses

archaic A killer whale (Orcinus orca). Some time after this we saw some very large fish, which I afterwards found were called grampusses.
Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus), with a blunt nose. ‘[T]hey reckoned he was as active as ever, playing with a grampus he’d caught.’
A hellbender salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis.
A giant whip scorpion (Mastigoproctus giganteus)

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@misc{grampus_2026,
  title = {grampus},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/grampus},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}