hair seal

noun

hair seal

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

First recorded in 1815–25

A fur seal stands upright on his fore flippers, a hair seal lies supine.

The last variety of hair seal, the sea elephant, varies considerably from the preceding.

Their clothing is also marine, their parkees of the hair-seal and their mukluks of the giant seal.

Many hair seal were seen about the island, and three were killed.

Soon, with a heave, he got it inboard—a small hair seal not much more than three feet in length.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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