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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus syn. Phoca groenlandica) of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans that is commercially hunted, primarily for its pelt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Greenland seal, Phoca grœnlandica or Pagophilus grœnlandicus, a large hair-seal of a whitish color with a crescentic black band on each side meeting its fellow over the back, forming a figure likened to a harp.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A species (Phoca groenlandica) of
true seal (orearless seal ) found in the northernmostAtlantic Ocean and adjacent parts of theArctic Ocean .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun common Arctic seal; the young are all white
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the shape of the markings on its shoulders and sides.]
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