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Definition of Hair seal
1. Noun. Any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers.
Generic synonyms: Seal
Group relationships: Family Phocidae, Phocidae
Specialized synonyms: Common Seal, Harbor Seal, Phoca Vitulina, Harp Seal, Pagophilus Groenlandicus, Elephant Seal, Sea Elephant, Bearded Seal, Erignathus Barbatus, Squareflipper Square Flipper, Bladdernose, Cystophora Cristata, Hooded Seal
Definition of Hair seal
1. Noun. An earless seal; a true seal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hair Seal
Literary usage of Hair seal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... such as the sea lion and the hair seal, are in reality much more adaptable,
not being possessed of the powerful and unvarying instincts of the fur seal. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... such as the sea lion and the hair seal, are in reality much more adaptable,
not being possessed of the powerful and unvarying instincts of the fur seal. ..."
3. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"The hair seal Toward the end of October, the rookeries breaking up and our work
being finished, we left Una- laska on the revenue cutter Richard Rush. ..."
4. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1920)
"Those who had found the hair-seal hole brought their canoe up on land, ...
He was then pulled up, and together the two men pulled up the hair-seal. ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"hair seal».—The principal hair seal fisheries are those of Newfoundland and
Labrador (area about 200 milea), the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Jan Mayen and the ..."
6. Our Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands by Henry Wood Elliott (1886)
"Of this list the hair-seal f is the animal which has done so much to found that
... Although the hair-seal belongs to the great group of pinnipeds, ..."
7. 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)
"THE hair seal.—The above short schedule embraces the titles of all the ...
Of this list the hair seal is the animal which has done so much to found that ..."
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