hooded seal

noun

1. a large seal, Cystophora cristata, the male of which has a large, distensible, hoodlike sac on the head.

hooded seal

noun

1. a large greyish earless seal, Cystophora cristata, of the N Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, having an inflatable hoodlike sac over the nasal region Also calledbladdernose

Word History and Origins

Origin of hooded seal¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Peter busied himself with cleaning and inflating a number of the larger entrails and membranous viscera of the hooded seal.

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