grampus

grampus means A killer whale (Orcinus orca). Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.

Etymology

From Middle English *grampas, grappays, grapas, graspeys, from Anglo-Norman grampais, Old French graspois, craspois (“whale, (salted) whale meat; blubber; seal”), from Medieval Latin craspicis (literally “fat fish”), from Latin crassus (“fat”) + piscis (“fish”).

noun

A killer whale (Orcinus orca).“Some time after this we saw some very large fish, which I afterwards found were called grampusses.”
Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus), with a blunt nose.
A hellbender salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis.
A giant whip scorpion (Mastigoproctus giganteus)