HOODED SEAL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters

Synonyms:

bladdernose; Cystophora cristata; hooded seal

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("hooded seal" is a kind of...):

earless 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 flippers)

Holonyms ("hooded seal" is a member of...):

Cystophora; genus Cystophora (hooded seals)

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