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Hair seal   /hɛr sil/   Listen
Hair seal

noun
1.
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



... big seal, and Little Light Brown Seal, and goodness knows how many more! We are a large family. I am told that we have cousins living down in the Aleutian Islands who are very aristocratic indeed. They go by the name of Hair Seal. Why, their coats, I am told, are so valuable that Omnok, the hunter, would risk his life to get one of them! For my part, I prefer this simple coat which no man would steal, unless he needed it to make a pair of boots. But you ...
— Little White Fox and his Arctic Friends • Roy J. Snell



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



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