Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of the family Phocidæ; a seal.
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- noun zoology Any member of the
family Phocidae , the trueseals .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Behaviour and energetics of ice-breeding, North Atlantic phocid seals during the lactation period.
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-- Among phocid pinnipeds, Phoca and Cystophora have been reported to hybridise, but again are from different 'subfamilies'.
The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas Darren Naish 2006
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Within the seal, or phocid, family, it belongs to a group called the monachines: the monk seals (monachins), elephant seals (miroungins), and Antarctic seals (lobodontins).
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The Caribbean monk seal or West Indian monk seal (Monachus tropicalis), was a phocid or true seal, and the only seal species native to the warm waters of the
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Harbour seals are not numerous in the Arctic and several of the populations that live north of the Arctic Circle are very small Arctic, there are three additional phocid (i.e., true) seal species: harp seals, hooded seals
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Behaviour and energetics of ice-breeding, North Atlantic phocid seals during the lactation period.
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The hooded seal is a large, pack-ice breeding northern phocid that ranges through a large sector of the North Atlantic.
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The Caribbean monk seal or West Indian monk seal (Monachus tropicalis), was a phocid or true seal, and the only seal species native to the warm waters of the
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Feeding and trophic relationships of phocid seals and walruses in the eastern Bering Sea.
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Feeding and trophic relationships of phocid seals and walruses in the eastern Bering Sea.
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