Italian Meaning of sea elephant

Elefante marino

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Definitions and Meaning of sea elephant in English

Wordnet

sea elephant (n)

either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks

Webster

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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Elefante marino

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 => riccio di mare, sea eel => Anguilla, sea eagle => Aquila di mare, sea duck => Anatra di mare, sea drake => Cavalluccio marino,