Definition of Eumetopias

1. Noun. Sea lions.

Exact synonyms: Genus Eumetopias
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Otariidae, Otariidae
Member holonyms: Eumetopias Jubatus, Steller Sea Lion, Steller's Sea Lion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eumetopias

Eulalie
Eulenburg
Eulenburg's disease
Euler
Euler's formula
Euler's identity
Euler's totient function
Euler characteristic
Euler characteristics
Euler method
Eulerian
Eumeces
Eumeces callicephalus
Eumeces skiltonianus
Eumenes
Eumetopias
Eumetopias jubatus
Eumops
Eumycota
Eunectes
Eunectes murinus
Eunice
Eunomia
Eunomian
Eunomians
Euonymous alatus
Euonymus americanus
Euonymus atropurpureus
Euonymus europaeus
Euonymus fortunei radicans

Literary usage of Eumetopias

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"Our black sea lion (Zalophus) is tougher than the larger kind (eumetopias), and is just the creature for showmen." 'The teeth of the fur seal are not, ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"As the representatives of Otaria and eumetopias are several times larger, in respect to bulk, than any of the representatives of either Callorhinus or ..."

3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1872)
"We are acquainted, however, with only two genera, one of which (Otaria jubata) inhabits the coast of South America, and the other (eumetopias Stelleri), ..."

4. Miscellaneous Publications by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1880)
"eumetopias differs from Otaria, as restricted by Gill, in having one pair less ... In eumetopias the depth of the skull at the anterior border of the orbits ..."

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