Definitions for hair seal

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

hair′ seal`(n.)

  1. any of various earless seals having coarse hair and no soft underfur.

    Category: Mammals

    Ref: Compare fur seal.

Origin of hair seal:

1815–25

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


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