bearded seal

noun

a large gray-to-golden seal, Erignathus barbatus, inhabiting the Arctic Ocean and adjacent waters, having square foreflippers and a thick mustache of long bristles on each side of the muzzle.

The Bearded Seal (P. barbata) is from seven to ten feet long.

Yesterday Petersen shot an immense bearded seal; it sank, but floated up an hour afterwards.

Curiously enough, no bones of the great bearded seal (Phoca barbata) are mentioned; but its absence may perhaps be accidental.

The harpoon-line is made of the hide either of the bearded seal (Phoca barbata) or of the young walrus.

Many deer had been seen not far from the ship, and Hobson had shot a bearded seal.

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