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hooded seal
noun
- a large seal, Cystophora cristata, the male of which has a large, distensible, hoodlike sac on the head.
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 region Also calledbladdernose
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hooded seal1
First recorded in 1860–65
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Example Sentences
Peter busied himself with cleaning and inflating a number of the larger entrails and membranous viscera of the hooded seal.
From Project Gutenberg
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