bearded seal

American  

noun

1. 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.

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Example Sentences

Foote said the hospital would consider serving whale or bearded seal if enough was donated.

From Washington Times • Feb. 23, 2019

Foote said the hospital would consider serving whale or bearded seal if enough was donated.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2019

Women worked in a large outdoor kitchen, cutting meat from bearded seal, whale and birds with sharp round ulu blades.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2015

Lance Kramer, an Inupiat hunter from Kotzebue, hunted bearded seal on the frozen Kotzebue Sound in early May.

From National Geographic • Jul. 1, 2015

My father saw the head of a bearded seal, just the top of it, sticking up through the ice.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell