sea horse

noun

1. any marine teleost fish of the temperate and tropical genus Hippocampus, having a bony-plated body, a prehensile tail, and a horselike head and swimming in an upright position: family Syngnathidae (pipefishes)
2. an archaic name for the walrus
3. a fabled sea creature with the tail of a fish and the front parts of a horse

Example Sentences

On another, what looks like a transparent sea horse rears over a bottle clearly labeled “Eau de Parfum.”

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Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons are responsible for carrying the species’s eggs to term and can have more than 150 eggs attached to their tails.

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“This is huge for us,” said Leslee Matsushige, who leads Birch Aquarium’s sea horse and sea dragon breeding programs.

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Female sea horses utilize a protruding egg duct to essentially impregnate the male sea horse with her eggs, which he fertilizes and eventually births.

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Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons gestate a female’s fertilized eggs in a pouch.

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