Definition of Otariidae

1. Noun. Eared seals: sea lions and fur seals.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Otariidae

Oswald Spengler
Oswald Veblen
Oswaldo
Oswego teas
Ot3
Ota's nevus
Otago
Otaheite
Otaheite apple
Otaheite apples
Otaheite arrowroot
Otaheite arrowroot starch
Otaria
Otaria Byronia
Otariidae
Othello
Othello syndrome
Other Side
Otherworld
Otherworlds
Othman
Othman I
Othmans
Otho I
Otides
Otididae
Otis
Otis Skinner
Otis tarda

Literary usage of Otariidae

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

1. Materials for the Study of Variation by William Bateson (1894)
"The otariidae on the other hand have generally ^4, mf, but both the two upper molars stand at a level behind that of the lower molar, so that the posterior ..."

2. A New Fossil Pinniped (Desmatophoca Oregonensis) from the Miocene of the by Thomas Condon (1906)
"... two families otariidae and Phocidae, and as the Walrus family is considered only a specialized form of otariidae we have not considered it separately. ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"In the hair seals, otariidae, and walrus, Trichechidae, the hinder limbs have ... In the "hair seals," otariidae, which are the least aquatic of the group, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The third and last family of the Pinnipedia, and thus of existing Carnívora, is the otariidae, which includes the eared seals, or sea- lions and ..."

5. Outlines of zoology by John Arthur Thomson (1895)
"The mammae are two or four in number, and lie on the abdomen. Family otariidae—Eared or fur-seals, connecting the Pinnipeds with the ..."

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