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sea-otter
1. a. A marine otter of the shores of the North Pacific, Enhydris marina or lutris.
1664Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 14 A Sea-Otter. 1710Sibbald Fife & Kinross 49 Lutra Marina, the Sea-Otter,..differeth from the Land-Otter, for it is bigger, and the Pile of its Furr is rougher. 1772–84Cook's Voy. (1790) V. 1738 Sea-otters are amphibious. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxxiv, A large leathern pouch,..made of the skin of the sea otter. 1836W. Irving Astoria I. 174 Numbers of canoes soon came off, bringing sea-otter skins to sell. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 74/1 The fur of the sea-otter is thick, soft, and woolly.
b. sea-otter's cabbage, the large seaweed Nereocystis Lütkeana of the North Pacific, the fronds of which are a favourite resort of sea-otters.
1866Treas. Bot.
2. The thick dark fur of Enhydra lutris.
1813A. Henry Jrnl. 19 Nov. in E. Coues New Light Early Hist. Greater Northwest (1897) II. 753 His son had a robe of two sea otters, for which he demanded 48 beavers. 1915Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 48/2 Of sea-otter, too, perhaps one of the loveliest furs of all, the supply is failing. 1956J. G. Links Bk. Fur iii. 139 A sea otter collar to his coat was to the great industrialist of the last century what a private stratocruiser is to his successor. |