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Sea elephant

Sea elephant Meaning & Definition
Sea elephant Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Sea elephant?

[n] either of two large North Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks

Synonyms | Synonyms for Sea elephant: elephant seal

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See Also | earless seal | genus Mirounga | hair seal | Mirounga | true seal

Sea elephant In Webster's Dictionary

\Sea" el"e*phant\ (Zo["o]l.) A very large seal ({Macrorhinus proboscideus}) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size ({M. angustirostris}) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.

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