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单词 sea-elephant
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sea-elephantn.

The elephant seal, Macrorhinus elephantinus or proboscideus. Formerly applied to the morse or walrus.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Odobenidae (walrus)
morse1482
seahorse?a1500
rosmarine1590
horse-whale1598
sea-elephant1601
sea-ox1613
sea-morse1631
sea-cow1668
walrus1728
walrus calf1896
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > genus Mirounga (elephant-seal)
sea-elephant1601
elephant-seal1841
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. v. 236 There were sea-Elephants and Rams, with teeth standing out.
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxv. xxi. 1005 The Sea Elephant is bigger than the land Elephant, as Hector Boëtius writes in his description of Scotland.
1755 A. Berthelson tr. E. Pontoppidan Nat. Hist. Norway ii. 157 Their two large teeth or tusks..are as good as ivory for any kind of turn'd work; and therefore this creature [the walrus] is called by some the Sea-Elephant.
1798 in Naval Chron. (1799) 1 254 The sea elephant..has been rather scarce.
1875 J. H. Kidder Nat. Hist. Kerguelen Island 39 In former years the Kerguelen group of islands was noted as a favorite breeding-place for the sea-elephant (Macrorhinus leoninus, L.).
attributive.1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales (ed. 2) II. iv. 103 A considerable portion of sea-elephant oil is also procured at Macquarie Island.1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 201 Sea Elephant oil, crude and bleached.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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