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northern fur-seal

northern fur-seal is the alternative form of northern fur seal.

Meaning of northern fur seal

Noun

northern fur seal (plural northern fur seals)

  1. A fur seal of the species Callorhinus ursinus (formerly Arctocephalus ursinus), of the northern Pacific.
    • Arctocephalus ursinus. Northern Fur-Seal. Adult male grey-black; hair of the back long, black, reddish, with a subterminal band and a short grey tip; under fur short, wolly, red; the hair of the neck and front of the body longer, forming a kind of mane; lips and nose reddish; whiskers very long...1859, John Edward Gray, “On the Sea-Bear of Foster, the Ursus marinus of Steller, Arctocephalus ursinus of Authors”, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, page 103

Forms of northern fur-seal

pluralnorthern fur-seals

Questions about northern fur-seal

What is northern fur-seal the alternative form of?
Northern fur-seal is the alternative form of northern fur seal.

Words near northern fur-seal in the dictionary

  1. northern flickers
  2. northern fulmar
  3. northern fulmars
  4. northern fur seal
  5. northern fur seals
  6. northern fur-seal
  7. northern fur-seals
  8. northern gannet
  9. northern gannets
  10. northern giant hornet
  11. northern giant hornets

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