English Explanatory Dictionary

wave washing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of hunting used by some pods of orcas to drive a prey animal (such as a seal) seeking refuge on a sheet of ice into the water, in which members of the pod swim together at high speed towards the sheet to create a powerful wave that breaks it up.

Word forms

wave washing wavewashing

Etymology

From wave + washing (“move or erode by the force of water”).

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