Canadian French Meaning of sea elephant
Éléphant de mer
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Definitions and Meaning of sea elephant in English
sea elephant (n)
either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks
sea elephant ()
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.
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Éléphant de mer
either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunksA very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for
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sea egg => oursin, sea eel => Congre, sea eagle => Pygargue à queue blanche, sea duck => Canard de mer, sea drake => Dragon de mer,
