sea horse
Britishnoun
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any marine teleost fish of the temperate and tropical genus Hippocampus, having a bony-plated body, a prehensile tail, and a horselike head and swimming in an upright position: family Syngnathidae (pipefishes)
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an archaic name for the walrus
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a fabled sea creature with the tail of a fish and the front parts of a horse
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Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons are responsible for carrying the species’s eggs to term and can have more than 150 eggs attached to their tails.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023
The male sea horse has a brood pouch that receives his mate’s eggs for fertilization and in which he nurtures the resulting offspring until birth.
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2019
Superheroes who travel by sea horse never get any respect.
From Washington Times • Dec. 11, 2018
I headed upstairs to the sea horse section, where the air smelled of salt and fishy demise.
From Slate • Nov. 9, 2018
All five of them were there: the unicorn, the mermaid, the merman, the sea horse, and the lion, who now spread both his wings as if he'd never lost one.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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