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harp seal
noun
- a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale-yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur.
harp seal
noun
- a brownish-grey earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans
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Word History and Origins
Origin of harp seal1
First recorded in 1775–85; so called from the harplike shape of markings on the backs of adults
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Example Sentences
For thick waterproof soles the skin of the beaver or the harp seal is used.
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The Harp Seal frequents the coast of Newfoundland and is so named from the harp-shaped band which marks the backs of the males.
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Oleum phoc, L. From the hood seal, and harp seal, and other species of Phocid.
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They had caught an old harp seal, and he ate its flesh and drank its blood.
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He ate the flesh of an old harp seal they had caught in their net.
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