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Fur seal   /fər sil/   Listen
Fur seal

noun
1.
An eared seal of the northern Pacific.
2.
Eared seal of the southern hemisphere; the thick soft underfur is the source of sealskin.



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"Fur seal" Quotes from Famous Books



... cockatoo. Its numbers on the South Farallon are not great. It makes a nest in a hole in the rocks, and bites if it is disturbed. The island was first used as a sealing station; but this was not remunerative, there being but very few fur seal, and no sea-otters. This animal, which abounds in Alaska, and is found occasionally on the southern coast of California, frequents the masses of kelp which line the shore; but there is no ...
— Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands • Charles Nordhoff


Words linked to "Fur seal" :   genus Callorhinus, Arctocephalus, Callorhinus, Callorhinus ursinus, eared seal, Arctocephalus philippi, genus Arctocephalus


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