Definitions for earless seal

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

ear′less seal′(n.)

  1. any seal of the family Phocidae, lacking external ears and using the hind flippers only for swimming.

    Category: Zoology, Mammals

Princeton's WordNet

  1. earless seal, true seal, hair seal(noun)

    any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers

Wiktionary

  1. earless seal(Noun)

    Any of the seals in the taxonomic family Phocidae characterized by lacking external ear flaps; true seals.


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