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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sei whale.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English preterit and past participle of see.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Norwegian seihval : sei, coalfish (from Old Norse seidh) + hval, whale (from Old Norse hvalr).]

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