hair seal

Meanings

nounhair seal (plural hair seals)

Any of various seals which have coarse hair rather than fur
1. especially the true seals or earless seals of family Phocidae.

nounany of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers

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