hair seal
English Thesaurus
1. any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | seal, |
| definition | : | any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | common seal, harbor seal, phoca vitulina, |
| definition | : | small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | harp seal, pagophilus groenlandicus, |
| definition | : | common Arctic seal; the young are all white (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | elephant seal, sea elephant, |
| definition | : | either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bearded seal, erignathus barbatus, squareflipper square flipper, |
| definition | : | medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bladdernose, cystophora cristata, hooded seal, |
| definition | : | medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | family phocidae, phocidae, |
| definition | : | earless seals (noun.animal) |
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