Weddelln.

Brit.

/ˈwɛdl/, U.S.

/ˈwɛd(ə)l/

Etymology: < the name of James Weddell (1787–1834), Scottish navigator.

Weddell seal n. (also Weddell's seal) to designate a large brown Antarctic seal, Leptonychotes weddellii, first recorded by him and named in his honour in 1826. Cf. sea-leopard n. at sea n. Compounds 6b. Also absol.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > genus Leptonychotes (Weddell seal)

Weddell seal1902

1902 G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton in Rep. Coll. Nat. Hist. Voy. ‘Southern Cross’ i. 19 Weddell's seal is probably of wide distribution.

1923 F. Wild Shackleton's Last Voy. vi. 118 Near by a fat Weddell seal lay asleep.

1938 Geogr. Jrnl. 91 525 The two most abundant species of antarctic seal are the crabeater and the Weddell.

1971 R. Sale Man who raised Hell i. i. 14 He was trying to tag a Weddell mother seal... Weddells are big animals, going to twelve feet.

1979 Nature 11 Jan. 87/3 The Weddell seal has adapted to fill a specialised niche—the inshore fast ice zone—where it winters under the ice, keeping breathing holes open with its teeth.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	weddell
释义	Weddelln. Brit. /ˈwɛdl/, U.S. /ˈwɛd(ə)l/ Etymology: < the name of James Weddell (1787–1834), Scottish navigator. Weddell seal n. (also Weddell's seal) to designate a large brown Antarctic seal, Leptonychotes weddellii, first recorded by him and named in his honour in 1826. Cf. sea-leopard n. at sea n. Compounds 6b. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > genus Leptonychotes (Weddell seal) Weddell seal1902 1902 G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton in Rep. Coll. Nat. Hist. Voy. ‘Southern Cross’ i. 19 Weddell's seal is probably of wide distribution. 1923 F. Wild Shackleton's Last Voy. vi. 118 Near by a fat Weddell seal lay asleep. 1938 Geogr. Jrnl. 91 525 The two most abundant species of antarctic seal are the crabeater and the Weddell. 1971 R. Sale Man who raised Hell i. i. 14 He was trying to tag a Weddell mother seal... Weddells are big animals, going to twelve feet. 1979 Nature 11 Jan. 87/3 The Weddell seal has adapted to fill a specialised niche—the inshore fast ice zone—where it winters under the ice, keeping breathing holes open with its teeth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1902
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