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earless seal

DEFINITIONS OF: earless seal

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n any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers

Synonyms:
hair seal, true seal
Types:
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Phoca vitulina, common seal, harbor seal
small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere
Pagophilus groenlandicus, harp seal
common Arctic seal; the young are all white
elephant seal, sea elephant
either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks
Erignathus barbatus, bearded seal, squareflipper square flipper
medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean
Cystophora cristata, bladdernose, hooded seal
medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters
Type of:
seal
any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions
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