sea monstern.
A monster of the sea.
1. A huge fish, cetacean, or the like.
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the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > aquatic animal > marine animal
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c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme civ. 86 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 161 Sea-Monsters there: their plaies and pastymes show.
1611 Bible (King James) Lament. iv. 3 Euen the sea-monsters [margin. or, sea calues] draw out the breast. View more context for this quotation
1763 Ann. Reg. 1762 103 A sea-monster was cast ashore..near Leith. It is supposed to be of the shark kind.
1860 F. C. L. Wraxall Life in Sea ii. 27 This sea-monster [Rhytina Stelleri]..had a black skin an inch thick.
2. A fabulous marine animal of terrifying proportions and shape.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > aquatic monster or serpent
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1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 57 When he did redeeme The virgine tribute, payed by howling Troy To the Sea-monster . View more context for this quotation
1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) iv. i, in Wks. I. 218 Like a sea-monster, that were to rauish Andromeda from the rocke.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 462 Dagon his Name, Sea Monster, upward Man And downward Fish. View more context for this quotation
1917 E. Pound Lustra 86 The sea-monster Bulges the squarish bronzes.
1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid iii. 65 Below, she is a weird sea-monster With dolphin's tail and a belly of wolverine sort.
3. jocular.
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1761 G. Colman Jealous Wife iii. i. 45 He is a perfect Sea-Monster, and always looks and talks as if He was upon Deck.
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