seahorse

or sea horse

[ see-hawrs ]

noun

any fish of the genus Hippocampus, of the pipefish family, having a prehensile tail, an elongated snout, and a head bent at right angles to the body.
a fabled marine animal with the foreparts of a horse and the hind parts of a fish.

a walrus.

Origin of seahorse

First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English sehors, possibly meaning “walrus”; compare German Seeross; see origin at sea, horse

Words Nearby seahorse

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How to use seahorse in a sentence

We could trace where the seahorses came from and target protection efforts to those areas.
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After we shot the film, Tim found repetitions of the seahorse Smile elsewhere in the painting.
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In the film, you show Tim discovering one of these distortions: the seahorse Smile.
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At the same time, as if this were all her business on the Continent, the boat shoved off and was headed for the seahorse.
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But at that very moment they had all they could do to claw off the land and save the Thunderer from the fate of the seahorse.
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Señor Posnansky pins his faith to a small dried seahorse once given him by a Titicaca fisherman.
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Probably Señor Posnansky's seahorse was brought from the ocean by some particularly enterprising trader.
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It was a rather imposing fountain, with a Neptune in bronze riding a seahorse, with nymphs on dolphins in attendance.
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British Dictionary definitions for sea horse

sea horse

noun

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)
an archaic name for the walrus

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

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