Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the hooded seal, Cystophora cristata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a medium-sized blackish-gray seal (
Cystophora cristata ) with a large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic-Atlantic waters.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters
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_Klapmytsen_, the bladdernose seal, (_Cystophora cristata_, Erxl.) the walrus-hunters say they have never seen on Novaya Zemlya, but it is stated to occur yearly in pretty large numbers among the ice
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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