sea elephant Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks
elephant seal.
WordNet
Sea" el"e*phant
Definitions
(Zoöl.) 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.
