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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The seal Macrorhinus elephantinus or proboscideus, or Morunga proboscidea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) A very large seal (
Macrorhinus proboscideus ) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris ) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
elephant seal
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks
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