bearded seal

noun

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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How to use bearded seal in a sentence

The bearded seal (P. barbata) is from seven to ten feet long.
The Desert World | Arthur Mangin
Yesterday Petersen shot an immense bearded seal; it sank, but floated up an hour afterwards.
In the Arctic Seas | Francis Leopold McClintock
Curiously enough, no bones of the great bearded seal (Phoca barbata) are mentioned; but its absence may perhaps be accidental.
In Northern Mists (Volume 1 of 2) | Fridtjof Nansen
The harpoon-line is made of the hide either of the bearded seal (Phoca barbata) or of the young walrus.
Eskimo Life | Fridtjof Nansen
Many deer had been seen not far from the ship, and Hobson had shot a bearded seal.
In the Arctic Seas | Francis Leopold McClintock

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