the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] (101)
Zool. By Cuvier to a tribe of Mammals including seals and their allies.
Any of various carnivorous mammals constituting the order or suborder Pinnipedia; a seal, a sea lion, a walrus. Cf. fissiped, n.