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    HAIR SEAL

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippersplay

    Synonyms:

    earless seal; hair seal; true seal

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("hair seal" is a kind of...):

    seal (any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hair seal"):

    common seal; harbor seal; Phoca vitulina (small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere)

    harp seal; Pagophilus groenlandicus (common Arctic seal; the young are all white)

    elephant seal; sea elephant (either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks)

    bearded seal; Erignathus barbatus; squareflipper square flipper (medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean)

    bladdernose; Cystophora cristata; hooded seal (medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters)

    Holonyms ("hair seal" is a member of...):

    family Phocidae; Phocidae (earless seals)

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