sea elephant

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. Source: opted

2. n. either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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. Source: adambom

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