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Hair seal   /hɛr sil/   Listen
Hair seal

noun
1.
Any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers.  Synonyms: earless seal, true seal.






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"Hair seal" Quotes from Famous Books



... big seal, and Little Light Brown Seal, and goodness knows how many more! We are a large family. I am told that we have cousins living down in the Aleutian Islands who are very aristocratic indeed. They go by the name of Hair Seal. Why, their coats, I am told, are so valuable that Omnok, the hunter, would risk his life to get one of them! For my part, I prefer this simple coat which no man would steal, unless he needed it to make a pair of boots. But you ...
— Little White Fox and his Arctic Friends • Roy J. Snell



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