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Sea elephant
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Sea elephant: 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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