Definition of "grampus" [gram•pus]

• A cetacean (Grampus griseus) related to and resembling the dolphins but lacking a beaklike snout. (noun)
• Any of various similar cetaceans, such as the killer whale. (noun)

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• "Jan held on and breathed through his nose, snorting like a grampus."
• "She had got the start, and kept it, but at the expense, for the time, of her power of utterance; for when she came in presence of the Doctor, she stood blowing like a grampus, her loose toy flying back from her face, making the most violent effort to speak, but without the power of uttering a single intelligible word."
• "It shares with the southern parks abundant marine life: Kamchatka crab Paralithodes camtschatica, sea otter (900 animals), sea lion Eumetopias jubatus (EN, 800 breeding animals), Kuril seal Phoca vitulina stejnegeri (500), spotted P. largha and ringed seals P. hispida ochotensis, Risso's dolphin grampus griseus, narwhal Monodon monoceros and walrus Odobenus rosmarus divergens."