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noun
a large seal, Cystophora cristata, the male of which has a large, distensible, hoodlike sac on the head.
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Also called bladdernose.
Origin of hooded seal
First recorded in 1860–65
Words nearby hooded seal
hoochie mama, hoochinoo, hood, hooded, hooded crow, hooded seal, hooded top, hooded warbler, hoodia, hoodie, hoodlum
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How to use hooded seal in a sentence
Peter busied himself with cleaning and inflating a number of the larger entrails and membranous viscera of the hooded seal.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields|Charles W. Hall
British Dictionary definitions for hooded seal
hooded seal
noun
a large greyish earless seal, Cystophora cristata, of the N Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, having an inflatable hoodlike sac over the nasal regionAlso called: bladdernose
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