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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ˈsea ˌhorse or ˈseaˌhorse, n. [countable]- Fisha fish of the pipefish family, having a curled tail, a long snout, and a head and neck resembling that of a horse.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sea′ horse′, - Fishany fish 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.
- a fabled marine animal with the foreparts of a horse and the hind parts of a fish.
- Mammalsa walrus.
Also, sea′horse′. - 1425–75; late Middle English sehors walrus; compare German Seepferd
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: sea horse n - 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)
- an archaic name for the walrus
- a fabled sea creature with the tail of a fish and the front parts of a horse
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