• Phoca

    Origin

    From Latin phoca, from Ancient Greek φώκη.

    Full definition of phoca

    Noun

    phoca

    (plural phocas or phocae)
    1. (obsolete except as Phoca) A seal.
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:His charet swift in haste he thither steard,
        Which with a teeme of scaly Phocas bound
        Was drawne vpon the waues, that fomed him around.

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