Definition of Family phocidae

1. Noun. Earless seals.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Phocidae

family Peripatopsidae
family Peronosporaceae
family Pertusariaceae
family Petromyzontidae
family Pezizaceae
family Phaethontidae
family Phalacrocoracidae
family Phalangeridae
family Phalangiidae
family Phalaropidae
family Phallaceae
family Phasianidae
family Phasmatidae
family Phasmidae
family Phillidae
family Phocidae
family Phoenicopteridae
family Phoeniculidae
family Pholadidae
family Pholidae
family Pholididae
family Phthiriidae
family Phyllidae
family Phyllocladaceae
family Phyllostomatidae
family Phyllostomidae
family Phylloxeridae
family Physeteridae
family Physidae
family Phytolaccaceae

Literary usage of Family phocidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Leather for Libraries by Edward Wyndham Hulme (1905)
"The skins of seal (family Phocidae) are most useful for bookbinding, ... These are the true or earless seals (family Phocidae), commonly called hair seals ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... The true seals (family Phocidae) are the most completely adapted for aquatic life of all the Pinniped ¡a. When on land the hind-limbs __^ are extended ..."

3. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"Some remains associated with these are doubtfully referred to the Seal family (Phocidae) among the Carnivora. Edentata.—Till quite recently no remains of ..."

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