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Definition of Pinnipeds
1. pinniped [n] - See also: pinniped
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinnipeds
Literary usage of Pinnipeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fur Traders and Fur Bearing Animals by Marcus Petersen (1914)
"pinnipeds. The Seals and Walruses are the only Pinniped or fin- footed Carnivores.
... Seals are the only pinnipeds that come within the scope of this work, ..."
2. The Romance of the World's Fisheries: Interesting Descriptions of the Many by Sidney Harry Wright (1908)
"THE pinnipeds or fin-footed animals, under which head are included seals, sea-lions
and walruses, are even less like fish than are the cetacea, ..."
3. Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society by New York Zoological Society (1905)
"NOTES ON CERTAIN pinnipeds, WITH DATA RESPECTING THEIR PRESENT COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE.
By CH TOWNSEND. THE history of the world's seal fisheries is largely ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"... contained in the residue is extracted. The residue and skeleton yield an
excellent manure. The pinnipeds constitute two minor groups or families: — 1. ..."
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