Grampus

Origin

From Anglo-Norman grampais, from Old French graspois, craspois ("whale, (salted) whale meat; blubber; seal"), from Medieval Latin craspicis ("litteraly: fat fish"), from Latin crassus ("fat") + piscis ("fish")

Full definition of grampus

Noun

1. The killer whale, .
• 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 20, ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
2. , , with a blunt nose.
3. The hellbender salamander, .