vaquita
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 7
/vəˈkiːtə/
Definition of vaquita
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A critically endangered porpoise, the smallest of its kind, Phocoena sinus, endemic to the northern part of the Gulf of California, Mexico.
“THE world’s smallest porpoise may have a fighting chance. The vaquita might be saved from extinction by an agreement at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Portoroz, Slovenia, last week. Unique to the Gulf of California, the vaquita has seen its numbers collapse to 59 in 2015.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Spanish vaquita (“little cow”), diminutive of vaca (“cow”).
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