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Definition of Orcas
1. orca [n] - See also: orca
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orcas
Literary usage of Orcas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island: An Account of Their by Richard Charles Mayne (1862)
"The group consists of the three important islands of San Juan, orcas, ... Of these
orcas, the most northern, is the largest, and contains the finest ..."
2. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1875)
"... has been accepted as merely another name for Cape orcas, and this is justified by
... twice and orcas thrice—-the first always in connection with orcas, ..."
3. Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, Etc.: Copied from the Manuscript by Frederick Arthur Crisp, Frederick Brown (1888)
"My body to be buried without pomp or ostentation, in some evening, within three
or four days after my decease, in the churchyard of Sanford orcas, ..."
4. Somersetshire: Highways, Byways, and Waterways by Charles Raymond Booth Barrett (1894)
"... touch upon such antiquities there as came under my notice. Sandford orcas has
a curious name, the second portion of which is stated to be ..."
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