hair seal

hair seal

n. Any of various seals having short stiff hair, especially an earless seal.

hair seal

n (Animals) any earless seal, esp the harbour seal, having a coat of stiff hair with no underfur

hair′ seal`

n. any of various earless seals having coarse hair and no soft underfur. Compare fur seal. [1815–25]

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Noun

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hair seal - any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippersearless seal, true sealseal - any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regionsfamily Phocidae, Phocidae - earless sealscommon seal, harbor seal, Phoca vitulina - small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphereharp seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus - common Arctic seal; the young are all whiteelephant seal, sea elephant - either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunksbearded seal, Erignathus barbatus, squareflipper square flipper - medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Oceanbladdernose, Cystophora cristata, hooded seal - medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters