sea horse

British  

noun

1. 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)

2. an archaic name for the walrus

3. a fabled sea creature with the tail of a fish and the front parts of a horse

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Example Sentences

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

San Diego — opened an exhibit intended to create an ideal habitat for breeding sea dragons, which are colorful cousins of sea horses.

From New York Times

San Diego — opened an exhibit intended to create an ideal habitat for breeding these colorful cousins of sea horses.

From New York Times

Female sea horses utilize a protruding egg duct to essentially impregnate the male sea horse with her eggs, which he fertilizes and eventually births.

From New York Times

Most people know that male sea horses become pregnant and give birth.

From Washington Post