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Hair seal

noun

Any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers. Synonyms: earless seal, true seal.

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"Hair seal" Quotes from Famous Books

... of hair seal, the sea elephant, varies considerably from the preceding. Reference has already been made to the species earlier in the narrative. The habitat of these monstrous animals ranges over the cold, south-temperate seas; sea elephants ...

— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... plentiful on the eastern shore. Many of the bays and inlets were alive with hair seal. So many were seen in the extreme southern bay indentation of the entire group of islands that we called it Seal Cove. Several sea otter swam within rifle range on the west coast, and land otter we chased upon shore and killed. Birds' eggs, which the natives ...

— Official report of the exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands - for the government of British Columbia • Newton H. Chittenden

Words linked to "Hair seal" : bearded seal, harp seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, Phoca vitulina, sea elephant, family Phocidae, Erignathus barbatus, earless seal, bladdernose, harbor seal, common seal, seal, hooded seal, squareflipper square flipper, elephant seal, Cystophora cristata, Phocidae, true seal