单词 | true seal |
释义 | true seal (once / 492472 pages) n WORD FAMILY true seal: true seals USAGE EXAMPLESThe true seal of approval comes during the encore. The Guardian(Jul 21, 2012) “Christian came back a few days ago, like a true seal hunter, carrying his kaiyack on his head, and dragging a seal behind him. Whymper, Frederick, The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adve...(2012) The Eared Seal is distinguished from the true seal, as his name implies by the possession of external ears. Various, Natural History in Anecdote—Illustr...(2011) n any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers Syn|Hypo|Hyper earless seal, hair seal Phoca vitulina, common seal, harbor seal small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere Pagophilus groenlandicus, harp sealcommon Arctic seal; the young are all white elephant seal, sea elephanteither of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks Erignathus barbatus, bearded seal, squareflipper square flippermedium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean Cystophora cristata, bladdernose, hooded sealmedium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters seal any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions |
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