true seal
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true seal
n.
See earless seal.
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| Noun | 1. |  true seal - any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippersseal - any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions family Phocidae, Phocidae - earless seals common seal, harbor seal, Phoca vitulina - small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere harp seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus - common Arctic seal; the young are all white elephant seal, sea elephant - either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus, squareflipper square flipper - medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean bladdernose, Cystophora cristata, hooded seal - medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters |
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