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hair seal
noun
- any of various seals having coarse hair and no soft underfur.
hair seal
noun
- any earless seal, esp the harbour seal, having a coat of stiff hair with no underfur
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hair seal1
First recorded in 1815–25
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Example Sentences
A fur seal stands upright on his fore flippers, a hair seal lies supine.
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The last variety of hair seal, the sea elephant, varies considerably from the preceding.
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Their clothing is also marine, their parkees of the hair-seal and their mukluks of the giant seal.
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Many hair seal were seen about the island, and three were killed.
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Soon, with a heave, he got it inboard—a small hair seal not much more than three feet in length.
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