Home › Words › P › phocaphoca/ˈfəʊkə/phoca · noun — A seal.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, phoca ranks #16,789 of 42,820 for Qualifying.phoca is pronounced /ˈfəʊkə/.EtymologyBorrowed from Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).nounA seal.e.g.“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.” — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.phocacean 74% match — Any species of Phoca; seal. vs phoca →phocine 65% match — Pertaining to a seal (or similar pinnipeds); seallike. vs phoca →phocid 62% match — Synonym of true seal. vs phoca →tangfish 58% match — A common or harbour seal (Phoca vitulina). vs phoca →sterrink 58% match — The crab-eater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) of the Antarctic Ocean. vs phoca →bladdernose 55% match — The hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) vs phoca →pellock 55% match — A porpoise. vs phoca →sealship 54% match — a ship used for hunting seals. vs phoca →