sea elephant
Noun
Meaning
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlternative names
sea-elephant
Synonyms
elephant seal
Caspian Sea
black sea
Baltic Sea
Adriatic Sea
Caribbean Sea
Barents Sea
Bering Sea
Aral Sea
Arabian Sea
Aegean Sea
Philippine Sea
Coral Sea
red sea
dead sea
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