hair seal

noun

any of various seals having coarse hair and no soft underfur.

Origin of hair seal

First recorded in 1815–25

Words Nearby hair seal

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How to use hair seal in a sentence

A fur seal stands upright on his fore flippers, a hair seal lies supine.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries | Francis Rolt-Wheeler
The last variety of hair seal, the sea elephant, varies considerably from the preceding.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson
Their clothing is also marine, their parkees of the hair-seal and their mukluks of the giant seal.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled | Hudson Stuck
Many hair seal were seen about the island, and three were killed.
Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 | Robert FitzRoy
Soon, with a heave, he got it inboard—a small hair seal not much more than three feet in length.
The Young Alaskans | Emerson Hough

British Dictionary definitions for hair seal

hair seal

noun

any earless seal, esp the harbour seal, having a coat of stiff hair with no underfur

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