grampus

noun

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”).

1. A killer whale (Orcinus orca).

   “Some time after this we saw some very large fish, which I afterwards found were called grampusses.”

   “The Governor will blow like an old grampus, I know he will,—well, we must stop till he gets his wind again.”

2. Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus), with a blunt nose.
3. A hellbender salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis.
4. A giant whip scorpion (Mastigoproctus giganteus)