Phoca is an English word. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Phoca meaning
A seal.
Synonyms of Phoca
Using Phoca
- The main meaning on this page is: A seal.
- Useful related words include: genus phoca, mammal genus.
- In the example corpus, phoca often appears in combinations such as: seals phoca, phoca vitulina.
Context around Phoca
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Phoca
- In this selection, "phoca" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seals, spotted, genera, vitulina, largha and forming stand out and add context to how "phoca" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include harbor seals phoca vitulina and ambushing spotted phoca largha and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "phoca" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with phoca
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
More recently, five species have been split off from Phoca, forming three additional genera. (14 words)
There are three resident pods that eat salmon, but also some transient orcas that come to take harbor seals (Phoca vitulina). (21 words)
Seals are on rare occasions killed by brown bears, including eye-witness accounts of Russian bears ambushing spotted (Phoca largha) and harbor seals (Phoca vitulina). (25 words)
Seals are on rare occasions killed by brown bears, including eye-witness accounts of Russian bears ambushing spotted (Phoca largha) and harbor seals (Phoca vitulina). (25 words)
The genera Phoca and Pusa could have arisen when a phocine lineage traveled from the Paratethys Sea to the Arctic Basin and subsequently went eastward. (25 words)
There are three resident pods that eat salmon, but also some transient orcas that come to take harbor seals (Phoca vitulina). (21 words)
Example sentences (4)
Seals are on rare occasions killed by brown bears, including eye-witness accounts of Russian bears ambushing spotted (Phoca largha) and harbor seals (Phoca vitulina).
More recently, five species have been split off from Phoca, forming three additional genera.
The genera Phoca and Pusa could have arisen when a phocine lineage traveled from the Paratethys Sea to the Arctic Basin and subsequently went eastward.
There are three resident pods that eat salmon, but also some transient orcas that come to take harbor seals (Phoca vitulina).
Common combinations with phoca
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: