As the seat of Miami-Dade County, the municipality is the principal, central, and most populous of its metropolitan area and part of the second-most populous metropolis in the southeastern United States.
porpoise (plural porpoises) A small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to whales and dolphins. (Canada, US, imprecisely) Any small dolphin. Synonyms . garfish, mereswine, sea hog, sea pig, seaswine; Translations
The English word porpoise comes from the French pourpois (old French porpais, 12th century), which is from Medieval Latin porcopiscus, which is a compound of porcus (pig) and piscus (fish). The old word is probably a loan-translation of a Germanic word, cf. Danish marsvin and Middle Dutch mereswijn (sea swine).