Thesaurus: sea elephant

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1. A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.
2. n. either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks
3. A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.
4. A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarcticseas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length ofthirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose ofthe adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot inlength. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs onthe coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.