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单词 clapmatch
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clapmatchn.

Etymology: apparently < Dutch klapmuts sailor's cap: so called from the cartilaginous hood mentioned in quot. 1744.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈclapmatch.
A kind of seal: see quots.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > seal > unspecified type of
clapmatch1744
ground-seal1868
1744 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 612 (Greenland) Several Sizes of Seals, but of the same Shape, except the Klap-myss, which has a cartilaginous Hood, which covers his Eyes.
1776 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 102 The clapmatch seal and the fur seal are..distinct animals..the clapmatch is best pictured in Lord Anson's voyage, under the name of sea-lyon.
1832 C. M. Goodridge Narr. Voy. South Seas 29 The dog seals are named by South Seamen Wigs; and the female seals are called Clap-matches.
1874 C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals N. Amer. 130 The younger of both sexes [of sea-lions], together with the clapmatches, croak hoarsely.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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