Illustration of bearded seal
bearded seal
noun
: a large arctic hair seal (Erignathus barbatus) with a tuft of long whiskers on each side of the muzzle
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web While not hit by a plane, a bearded seal delayed an outgoing and incoming flight at Utqiaġvik’s Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport in 2017. 
David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2022 Animals that rely on snow and sea ice, such as the ugruk—or bearded seal—are harder to find as sea ice melts, leaving subsistence hunters concerned for their livelihoods. Joey Lautrup, Time, 26 Apr. 2022 Formal policy recommendations shared the pages with tips on preserving reindeer meat in buckets of salt and snow and the difference in cooking times for walrus (long) and bearded seal (short). Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020 Derek would help push boats across the ice as his father searched for patches of open water to hunt walrus and bearded seal. Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019 Ringed and bearded seals use sea ice in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas. Dan Joling, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2019 Ringed and bearded seals use sea ice in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas. Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019 Your Instagram photo of the day Leo Sage returns to town in Utqiagvik, Alaska, after hunting bearded seals with his father by boat in the Arctic Ocean. Whitney Johnson, National Geographic, 18 Oct. 2019 The Beringia population of bearded seals is predicted to go extinct around 2095 as sea ice disappears and the creatures are forced into degraded habitat, according to the EIS. Adam Aton, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2019 See More
David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2022 Animals that rely on snow and sea ice, such as the ugruk—or bearded seal—are harder to find as sea ice melts, leaving subsistence hunters concerned for their livelihoods. Joey Lautrup, Time, 26 Apr. 2022 Formal policy recommendations shared the pages with tips on preserving reindeer meat in buckets of salt and snow and the difference in cooking times for walrus (long) and bearded seal (short). Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020 Derek would help push boats across the ice as his father searched for patches of open water to hunt walrus and bearded seal. Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019 Ringed and bearded seals use sea ice in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas. Dan Joling, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2019 Ringed and bearded seals use sea ice in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas. Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019 Your Instagram photo of the day Leo Sage returns to town in Utqiagvik, Alaska, after hunting bearded seals with his father by boat in the Arctic Ocean. Whitney Johnson, National Geographic, 18 Oct. 2019 The Beringia population of bearded seals is predicted to go extinct around 2095 as sea ice disappears and the creatures are forced into degraded habitat, according to the EIS. Adam Aton, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2019 See More Word History
First Known Use
1819, in the meaning defined above