Definition of Harp seal

1. Noun. Common Arctic seal; the young are all white.

Exact synonyms: Pagophilus Groenlandicus
Generic synonyms: Earless Seal, Hair Seal, True Seal
Group relationships: Genus Pagophilus, Pagophilus

Definition of Harp seal

1. Noun. A species ((term Phoca groenlandica)) of true seal (or earless seal) found in the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and adjacent parts of the Arctic Ocean. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Harp Seal

harnesses
harnessing
harnesslike
harnpan
harns
harnt
haro
haros
haroset
haroseth
haroseths
harosets
harp
harp closure
harp closures
harp seal
harp seals
harp shackle
harpa
harpagon
harpagons
harpaxophobia
harped
harper
harpers
harpies
harpin
harping
harping iron
harping irons

Literary usage of Harp seal

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

1. The Illustrated Natural History by John George Wood (1865)
"In the first few months of its existence, the fur of the harp seal is white in ... The Greenlanders designate the harp seal by different titles according to ..."

2. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"¡9 highly prized Tne harp seal is especially abundant on the coasts of Greenland, where it almost always frequents the floating ice, and rarely ventures ..."

3. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"The female is slightly smaller than the male, in the case of the harp seal about one fourth less; but there is no such wide disparity between the sexes as ..."

4. Fur Seal Arbitration: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened by Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1895)
"harp seal. A species of hair-seal found in the North Atlantic off the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador; so called because the stripes on the back of the ..."

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