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sea horse
sea·horse or sea horse S5199200 (sē′hôrs′)n.1. Any of various small marine fishes of the genus Hippocampus, characteristically swimming in an upright position and having a prehensile tail, a head that resembles that of a horse, and a body encased in bony rings.2. A walrus.3. Mythology An animal, half fish and half horse, ridden by Neptune and other sea gods.4. A large white-capped wave.sea horsen1. (Animals) any marine teleost fish of the temperate and tropical genus Hippocampus, having a bony-plated body, a prehensile tail, and a horselike head and swimming in an upright position: family Syngnathidae (pipefishes)2. (Animals) an archaic name for the walrus3. (Classical Myth & Legend) a fabled sea creature with the tail of a fish and the front parts of a horsesea′ horse` or sea′horse`,
n. 1. any of various fishes of the genus Hippocampus, of the pipefish family, having a prehensile tail, an elongated snout, and a head bent at right angles to the body. 2. a fabled marine animal with the foreparts of a horse and the hind parts of a fish. [1425–75; late Middle English sehors walrus; compare German Seepferd] sea horse Any of several small ocean fish having a head resembling that of a horse, a body covered with bony plates, and a tail that can be curled around a supporting object. The male stores eggs in a pouch on its belly until they hatch.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  sea horse - either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubberseahorse, walruspinnatiped, pinniped, pinniped mammal - aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippersgenus Odobenus, Odobenus - type genus of the Odobenidae: walrusesAtlantic walrus, Odobenus rosmarus - a walrus of northern Atlantic and Arctic watersOdobenus divergens, Pacific walrus - a walrus of the Bering Sea and northern Pacific | | 2. | sea horse - small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright positionseahorsepipefish, needlefish - fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony platesgenus Hippocampus, Hippocampus - seahorses |
TranslationsSeepferdchenhippocampecavalluccio marinosea horse
sea horse1. any marine teleost fish of the temperate and tropical genus Hippocampus, having a bony-plated body, a prehensile tail, and a horselike head and swimming in an upright position: family Syngnathidae (pipefishes) 2. an archaic name for the walrus3. a fabled sea creature with the tail of a fish and the front parts of a horse Sea Horse any one fish of the genus Hippocampus of the family Syngnathidae of the order Lophobranchii. The body, which resembles the knight in chess, is 4–20 cm long. There are approximately 30 species, distributed in temperate and tropical seas. Sea horses live near the shore in thickets of aquatic grasses and algae and among coral. Two species are found in the seas of the USSR: Hippocampus guttulatus microstephanus, which lives in the Black and Azov seas, and H. japonicus, which is encountered in the Sea of Japan. Sea horses feed primarily on small planktonic crustaceans. Members of other closely related genera are sometimes called sea horses. REFERENCESNikol’skii, G. V. Chastnaia ikhtiologiia, 3rd ed. Moscow, 1971.
Zhizn’zhivotnykh, vol. 4, part 1. Moscow, 1971.sea horse[′sē ‚hȯrs] (invertebrate zoology) Any of about 50 species of tropical and subtropical marine fishes constituting the genus Hippocampus in the family Syngnathidae; the body is compressed, the head is bent ventrally and has a tubiform snout, and the tail is tapering and prehensile.
Sea Horse[′sē ‚hȯrs] (astronomy) Capricornus MedicalSeeseaLegalSeeSEAsea horse
Synonyms for sea horsenoun either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubberSynonymsRelated Words- pinnatiped
- pinniped
- pinniped mammal
- genus Odobenus
- Odobenus
- Atlantic walrus
- Odobenus rosmarus
- Odobenus divergens
- Pacific walrus
noun small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tailsSynonymsRelated Words- pipefish
- needlefish
- genus Hippocampus
- Hippocampus
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