hair seal
any of various seals having coarse hair and no soft underfur.
Origin of hair seal
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How to use hair seal in a sentence
Under the generic name, seal, are included the true or hair seals and the sea-bears or fur seals.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonOf sealskins there are two distinct classes, the fur seals and the hair seals.
We saw a great many hair seals, shoals of pie-bald porpoises, and birds of the usual kinds in considerable numbers.
The climate is very wet; none but amphibious animals were seen, among which hair-seals were numerous.
These and other hair-seals lie in summer upon floating ice-fields where their young are born.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural History | Theodore Wood
British Dictionary definitions for hair seal
any earless seal, esp the harbour seal, having a coat of stiff hair with no underfur
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