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TRUE SEAL
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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 flippers
Synonyms:
earless seal; hair seal; true seal
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("true 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 "true 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 ("true seal" is a member of...):
family Phocidae; Phocidae (earless seals)
