The story
- Spanish · derived fromvaquita“little cow”
- English todayvaquita
From Spanish vaquita (“little cow”), diminutive of vaca (“cow”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
vaquita
va·qui·taToday it means: A critically endangered porpoise, the smallest of its kind, of species Phocoena sinus, endemic to the northern part of the Gulf of California, Mexico. Full definition →
Spanish vaquita