sea lion

From sea + lion, named from its marine habitat and its lion-like barking roar and mane. Compare Middle English see hound, cee-hound, se hound (“beaver”, literally “sea-hound”).

(heraldry) A monster consisting of the upper part of a lion combined with the tail of a fish (a lion marined).


beater

From Middle English beter, betere, bettere, from Old English bēatere (“a beater; boxer, fighter; champion”), equivalent to beat + -er. Related to beetle (“a type of mallet”).

inh

In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player who attempts to hit the opposing team's players with bludgers and to block the bludgers from hitting their own team's players.


seal

→ Punjabi: ਸੀਲ (sīl)

→ Sotho: sili

→ Swahili: sili

From Middle English sele, from an inflectional form of Old English seolh, from Proto-West Germanic *selh, from Proto-Germanic *selhaz (compare Scots selch,selkie, North Frisian selich, Middle Dutch seel, zēle, Old High German selah, Danish sæl, Middle Low German sale), either from Proto-Indo-European *selk- (“to pull”) (compare dialectal English sullow (“plough”)) or from early Proto-Finnic *šülkeš (later *hülgeh, compare dialectal Finnish hylki, standard hylje, Estonian hüljes).

The seals in the harbor looked better than they smelled.

A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.


walrus

en-noun

walrus (plural walruses or walrus or walrusses or (both nonstandard, proscribed, uncommon and often humorous) walri or walrii)

walruses (plural)
walrus (plural)
walrusses (plural)
walri (humorous nonstandard often plural proscribed uncommon)
walrii (humorous nonstandard often plural proscribed uncommon)

→ Punjabi:

Gurmukhi script: ਵਾਲਰਸ (vālras)

Shahmukhi script: والرس (vālras)

→ Welsh: walrws

Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native Old English horshwæl (literally “horse-whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross.

cog

Of all the Phocine family none present so terrible and grotesque an appearance as the gigantic Walrus, also known as the morse and sea-horse.

1887, James W. Buel, Sea and Land, page 251:

Odobenus rosmarus
Odobenus rosmarus#Translingual

A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.

You old walrus, don't you think it is time for you to lop your whiskers off?

2008, James E. Martin, The Chartreuse Mongoose, page 145:

One, a rumpled, whiskered walrus of a man, held a lantern near Mother's face.

(informal, sometimes derogatory) A man with a walrus moustache.


walrus

en-verb

walrus (third-person singular simple present walruses or walrusses, present participle walrusing or walrussing, simple past and past participle walrused or walrussed)

walruses (present singular third-person)
walrusses (present singular third-person)
walrusing (participle present)
walrussing (participle present)
walrused (participle past)
walrused (past)
walrussed (participle past)
walrussed (past)

It's strange to see parties of merrymakers gather where I nearly drowned, and later walrused with David Isaakovich, Father Basil and the rest of them.

2016, Andrey Kurkov, The President's Last Love, Kiev, 9 May 1985:

His untrimmed mustache walrused down and over his hidden mouth

2000, Michael L. McCoy, The Hunter, the Hound and a Rogue:

To be like a walrus
To hang like a walrus's moustache

Where a mammal had its canine teeth, great fangs walrused down from the grezzen's upper jaw, as long as scimitars and as thick as human thighs.

To be like a walrus
To be prominent, like tusks


phoca

Borrowed from Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).

His charet swift in haste he thither steard,
 Which with a teeme of scaly Phocas bound
 Was drawne vpon the waues, that fomed him around.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

With tangled fins, behind, huge Phocæ glide,
 And Whales and Grampi swell the distant tide.

1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 68:


phocine

From Latin phōca (“seal”) (from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē)) + -ine.

Phocines anchor their hands by flexing their fingers, digging them into the substrate, and then pulling their body forward by elbow and shoulder flexion.

2007, Brian Keith Hall, Fins into Limbs, page 313:

(zoology) A member of the subfamily Phocinae, comprising the "true" or "earless" seals.


South American sea lion

en-noun

South American sea lion (plural South American sea lions)

A sea lion, Otaria flavescens, found on the Chilean, Peruvian, Uruguayan and Argentine coasts, with a very large head with an upturned snout.


sea horse

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sea horse.wav

From Middle English sehors (“walrus”), equivalent to sea + horse. Probably a calque of obsolete French cheval de mer or directly of Late Latin caballus marinus.

Any of various small marine fish of the genus Hippocampus that have a horselike head and swim upright.

(philately) any of a series of British high value stamps issued during the reign of King George V featuring a depiction of Britannia on a chariot in choppy seas.


sealskin

sealskin (countable and uncountable, plural sealskins)

An item of clothing made from sealskin (whether real or imitation).


morse

From Middle French mors, from Latin morsus (“bite; clasp”), from mordere (“to bite”).

The morse bore a seraph's head in gold-thread raised work.

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative.


clapmatch

Borrowed from Dutch klapmuts (“hooded seal, hat with ear-flaps”).


hooded seal

An arctic seal, Cystophora cristata, notable for the fleshy bulge on its forehead and nose.


pinniped

From
Latin pinna (“fin”) + pes (“foot”).

Any of various large marine mammals belonging to the parvorder Pinnipedia comprising walruses, eared seals and earless seals.


selkie

(Celtic mythology) A seal which can magically transform into a human by shedding its skin.


crab-eater

Lobodon carcinophagus
Lobodon carcinophagus#Translingual

A crab-eater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus), which eats krill (not crabs).


ringed seal

Pusa hispida, an earless seal inhabiting Arctic and subarctic coasts.


elephant seal

Large marine mammals of the genus Mirounga, the largest of the pinnipeds.


fur seal

A marine mammal of either of the genera Arctocephalus or Callorhinus of the eared seal family Otariidae, differing from the sea lions in having dense underfur.


saddleback

A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.

great black-backed gull
great black-backed gull

The young bird had the plumage of the saddleback, not the even chestnut of the jackbird, although its plumage was rather duller than that of the adult.

1959, Robert Adams Wilson, Bird Islands of New Zealand, page 67:

(New Zealand) The bird Philesturnus carunculatus.


whitecoat

A new-born baby harp or grey seal before its fur becomes grey, normally around 12 days old.


Galapagos sea lion

en-noun

Galápagos sea lion (plural Galapagos sea lions)

Galápagos sea lion (canonical)
Galapagos sea lions (plural)

The fur seals can at first sight be confused with the more boisterous Galápagos sea lions.

1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 34:

Californian sea lion
Californian sea lion

A small species of sea lion, Zalophus wollebaeki (though sometimes considered a subspecies of the Californian sea lion), that breeds in the Galápagos islands.


sea calf

sea calf (plural sea calves or (proscribed) sea calfs)

sea calves (plural)
sea calfs (plural proscribed)

Phoca vitulina
Phoca vitulina#Translingual

(obsolete) The common seal, Phoca vitulina.


true seal

Any of the seals in the taxonomic family Phocidae; earless seal.


Saimaa ringed seal

Saimaa ringed seal (plural Saimaa ringed seals)

A subspecies of the ringed seal, living only in Lake Saimaa in Finland.


earless seal

Any of the seals in the taxonomic family Phocidae characterized by lacking external ear flaps; true seals.


grey seal

Halichoerus grypus
Halichoerus grypus#Translingual


ribbon seal

Histriophoca fasciata
Histriophoca fasciata#Translingual

A species (Histriophoca fasciata) of true seal (or earless seal) found in the Arctic and subarctic regions of the North Pacific Ocean.


harp seal

From harp + seal. So called because it has black harp- or wishbone-shaped markings on its back.

Pagophilus groenlandicus
Pagophilus groenlandicus#Translingual

One of species Pagophilus groenlandicus, a true seal (or earless seal) found in the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and adjacent parts of the Arctic Ocean.


common seal

Phoca vitulina, a seal living in the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.


seadog

(uncommon) A white-topped wave in an estuary.


leopard seal

Hydrurga leptonyx
Hydrurga leptonyx#Translingual

A large pinniped mammal (Hydrurga leptonyx) found in the Antarctic.


southern elephant seal

southern elephant seal (plural southern elephant seals)

A large seal, found mainly around Antarctica of species Mirounga leonina, famous for being the largest ever carnivoran mammal.


eared seal

A seal belonging in the Otariidae family; a fur seal or a sea lion, differing from the true seals in having small, visible ears and the ability to walk on land.


harbor seal

A species of true seals, Phoca vitulina.


otary

From Ancient Greek ὠτάριον (ōtárion, “little ear”), diminutive of οὖς (oûs, “ear”).


Japanese sea lion

en-noun

Japanese sea lion (plural Japanese sea lions)

A sea lion, of species †Zalophus japonicus, inhabiting the Sea of Japan, thought to have become extinct in the 1950s.


Caribbean monk seal

Caribbean monk seal (plural Caribbean monk seals)

Monachus tropicalis, an extinct seal once native to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.


phocid

(mammalogy) Any member of the family Phocidae, the true seals


crabeater

Rachycentron canadum
Rachycentron canadum#Translingual

A cobia or sergeant fish (Rachycentron canadum).

Ixobrychus minutus
Ixobrychus minutus#Translingual

A little bittern; a bird of species Ixobrychus minutus.

Although crabeaters often gather on the ice in large numbers, pupping takes place in small groups.

2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Chickaree - crabs, →ISBN, page 564:

Although few observations have been made of feeding crabeaters, it is assumed that they take bites from a swarm of krill, extracting one or two. Crabeaters sometimes feed collectively, which may increase the efficiency of their hunt.

2002, David G. Campbell, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica, →ISBN:

Also distinguishing them is that crabeaters often have moderate scaring around the head and chest from fights with conspecifics and deep scaring along the body resulting from close encounters with leopard seals.

2013, Roger Kirkwood, Simon Goldsworthy, Fur Seals and Sea Lions, →ISBN, page 45:

An Antarctic seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) that feeds on krill.


phocal

they wended their way westward to fields of blood and phocal carnage

1885, Gordon Stables, Wild Adventures round the Pole:


hair seal

Any of various seals which have coarse hair rather than fur

especially the true seals or earless seals of family Phocidae.


ursal

One of these, the Ursal, an inhabitant of the shores of the North Pacific Ocean, […]

1844, William Benjamin Carpenter, in the Popular Cyclopaedia of Natural Science, Zoology, volume 1, page 233

The Ursal (Ph. ursina, Gm. [Arctocephalus ursinus, F. Cuv. fig. 40.]—Eight feel long, no mane, varying from brown to whitish. From the north of the Pacific Ocean.

1851, Georges Cuvier (baron), Edward Blyth, Robert Mudie, George Johnston, John Obadiah Westwood, William Benjamin Carpenter, The animal kingdom: arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy, page 100

ARCTOCEPHALUS URSINUS. The Ursal; a species of Seal, from the north of the Pacific Ocean.

1852, Samuel Maunder, The Treasury of Natural History, or a Popular Dictionary of Animated Nature, page 34:

The sea-lions (Phoca jubata), the sea-bears (ursal seal), the shags (commorants), and penguins seemed to live in harmony, […]

1883, The Shipwrecked Mariner, page 254:

Callorhinus ursinus
Callorhinus ursinus#Translingual

(rare, archaic) The ursine seal or sea bear, better known as the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus.


sea leopard

Any of several species of spotted seals, all in family Phocidae.

Hydrurga leptonyx, of the Antarctic Ocean


odobenid

(mammalogy) Any of the family Odobenidae; a walrus


desmatophocid

(zoology) Any extinct pinniped in the family Desmatophocidae.


enaliarctid

(zoology) Any extinct pinniped in the family Enaliarctidae.


otariid

(mammology) Any member of the Otariidae, the eared seals


Ross seal

A seal, Ommatophoca rossii, which is found around Antarctica


Guadalupe fur seal

Guadalupe fur seal (plural Guadalupe fur seals)

Arctocephalus townsendi, a fur seal found on Mexico's Guadalupe Island.


otariine

This region is also rich in numbers and diversity of pinnipeds, including the odobenine walrus and four species of otariine or eared seals (the northern and southern fur seals, the California and Steller sea lions).

1978, Whalewatcher: Journal of the American Cetacean Society:


seecatch

Borrowed from Russian сека́ч (sekáč, “adult male boar, hog or seal”).

bor

(Alaska) A full-grown male northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus).


Steller sea lion

en-noun

Steller sea lion (plural Steller sea lions)

Named after the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller.

A species of sea lion, Eumetopias jubatus, the largest of the eared seals.


northern fur seal

northern fur seal (plural northern fur seals)

Arctocephalus ursinus. Northern Fur-Seal. Adult male grey-black; hair of the back long, black, reddish, with a subterminal band and a short grey tip; under fur short, wolly, red; the hair of the neck and front of the body longer, forming a kind of mane; lips and nose reddish; whiskers very long, strong, white, smooth, tapering to a fine point.

1859, John Edward Gray, “On the Sea-Bear of Foster, the Ursus marinus of Steller, Arctocephalus ursinus of Authors”, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, page 103:

A fur seal of the species Callorhinus ursinus (formerly Arctocephalus ursinus), of the northern Pacific.


sea bear

(obsolete) Any of a number of pinnipeds, but mostly fur seals, and especially the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus.


ursine seal

(archaic) Any of several species of eared seal, but especially the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus


oogruk

From Inuktitut ᐅᒡᔪᒃ (ocyok, “bearded seal”).

As soon as the seals are born the first part of April, the ice stops forming around the island. It does not freeze anymore. When that happened we went out with our kayaks, mostly for oogruks, or big bearded seals.

1987, Paul Tiulana, A place for winter: Paul Tiulana's story, page 13:


bearded seal

Erignathus barbatus, an earless seal with conspicuous whiskers, found in and around the Arctic Ocean.


Ladoga ringed seal

Ladoga ringed seal (plural Ladoga ringed seals)

A freshwater subspecies of the ringed seal, which are found entirely in Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia, Pusa hispida ladogensis.


spotted seal

A true seal, Phoca largha, inhabiting ice floes and waters of the north Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas.


she-walrus

she-walrus (plural she-walruses or she-walrus)

she-walruses (plural)
she-walrus (plural)

The advice given always consists of certain things that the one threatened must not do, rules of conduct that coincide with the various ones before mentioned ; or also, a dietary may be prescribed, such, for instance, as that the person must not eat he-walrus and only certain portions of the she-walrus ; that all his food must be boiled, and so on.

1908, Knud Rasmussen, The people of the Polar north; a record, page 153:

Charlie Slowokok told us about the she-walrus's love for her young. On one occasion he had watched a she-walrus from a distance hugging her offspring between her fore-fins, breast feeding it and playing with it afterwards.

1964, Sven Gillsäter, Wave After Wave, page 70:

One day they joined some other kayakers, and went in pursuit of a very large she-walrus. Kunuk lanced it four times at a greater distance than usual, and his arrow went right through the animal, which, panting for breath, after a minute or two was quite dead.

2014, Hinrich Rink, Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo, page 139:


Galápagos fur seal

Galápagos fur seal (plural Galápagos fur seals)

Like the penguins, the Galápagos fur seals tend to concentrate in the islands in the north-west near the cold upwelling and have to use many techniques to keep cool on land.

1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 32:

A small species of fur seal, Arctocephalus galapagoensis, endemic to the Galápagos Islands.


flipperling

1893 August, Rudyard Kipling, "Seal Lullaby", in "The White Seal", National Review.
Where billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; / Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!

There the flipperlings—young seals—are born, and from there, as the ice begins to break up with the spring, they and their parents come floating southwards on huge blocks of ice.

1921, The Literary Digest, volume 71, page 20:

At last an unwary cod, in flight from the big male, sped close beside the flipperling.

1936, Latrobe Carroll, The Canadian Magazine:


California sea lion

California sea lion (plural California sea lions)

A sea lion, of species Zalophus californianus, found in western North America.


crab-eater seal

crab-eater seal (plural crab-eater seals)

From the mistaken belief that they eat crabs.

The seal Lobodon carcinophagus, which eats krill.


saddleback seal

saddleback seal (plural saddleback seals)

From saddle + back + seal. From having a harp-like-shaped part of its back outlined in black, that looks like a location to place a saddle.

Synonym of harp seal (“Pagophilus groenlandicus, a marine mammal”)


Hawaiian monk seal

Hawaiian monk seal (plural Hawaiian monk seals)

Its common name comes from short hairs on its head, said to resemble a monk.

Neomonachus schauinslandi, an endangered species of earless seal in the family Phocidae.

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crabeater seal

Any of species Lobodon carcinophaga of seals that feed on krill.


Weddell seal

Named after British sealing captain James Weddell.

A relatively large and abundant true seal, of species Leptonychotes weddellii, with a circumpolar distribution surrounding Antarctica.