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单词 hooded seal
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hooded seal


hooded seal

n. A seal (Cystophora cristata) of northern seas having a grayish spotted coat, the male of which can inflate its flexible nasal cavity into a large black hood and can also inflate a nasal membrane into a red balloonlike structure. Also called bladdernose.

hooded seal

n (Animals) a large greyish earless seal, Cystophora cristata, of the N Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, having an inflatable hoodlike sac over the nasal region. Also called: bladdernose

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n. a large earless seal, Cystophora cristata: the male has a large, distensible, hoodlike sac on the head. [1860–65]
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Noun1.hooded seal - medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the headhooded seal - medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic watersbladdernose, Cystophora cristataearless seal, hair seal, true seal - any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippersCystophora, genus Cystophora - hooded seals

Hooded Seal


Hooded Seal

 

(Cystophora cristata), also bladdernose seal, a mammal of the family Phocidae. Adult males measure 210–250 cm in length and weigh 250–300 kg. Adult females measure 30–50 cm less than the males and weigh 50 percent less. Newborns reach 100 cm in length and weigh about 17–20 kg. The coloration is gray with dark spots of various sizes on the back and sides. Newborns have no spots; they are blue-gray above and almost white beneath. The snout of adult males has an elastic subcutaneous “hood” that inflates greatly in times of excitation. The hooded seal is distributed in the northwestern Atlantic and Arctic oceans. It reproduces on the ice in regions near Newfoundland and Jan Mayen; molting occurs in the Denmark Strait. The seal migrates extensively. It feeds on large fishes and cephalopods. The most valuable commercial product is the fur of the young.

hooded seal


  • noun

Synonyms for hooded seal

noun medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head

Synonyms

  • bladdernose
  • Cystophora cristata

Related Words

  • earless seal
  • hair seal
  • true seal
  • Cystophora
  • genus Cystophora
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