Definition of Sea animal

1. Noun. Any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals.

Exact synonyms: Marine Animal, Marine Creature, Sea Creature
Generic synonyms: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna
Specialized synonyms: By-catch, Bycatch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Animal

sea-sickness
sea-star
sea-turtle
sea-urchin
sea-weed
sea-weeds
sea-worthy
sea acorn
sea acorns
sea adder
sea amenone
sea anchor
sea anchors
sea anemone
sea anemones
sea animal (current term)
sea ape
sea apple
sea arrow
sea ash
sea aster
sea barrow
sea bat
sea bathing
sea bean
sea bear
sea beast
sea bed

Literary usage of Sea animal

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

1. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"No Similar sea animal.—Seen in Different Localities. —Observed from Sea and Shore.—Frequents New England.—Near Views Obtained of Him. ..."

2. Empirical Studies in School Reading with Special References to the by James Fleming Hosic (1921)
"T: What are some of the other things this shell, this sea animal, does? ... The first stanza tells us what the sea animal does. Now see what the second one ..."

3. The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch (1856)
"Here she stopped and turned round to see whether it was a god or a sea animal, and observed with wonder his shape and color. Glaucus partly emerging from ..."

4. The Story of the Prairies, Or, The Landscape Geology of North Dakota: Or by Daniel Everett Willard (1902)
""A sea animal!" he exclaimed. "Why, it was nearly a thousand miles from the ocean where I found this piece of stone!" "Yes, but all the land, all the solid ..."

5. The Story of the Prairies: Or, The Landscape Geology of North Dakota by Daniel Everett Willard (1907)
"... that the "petrified butterfly" was not a butterfly at all, but a fossil form of a sea animal which had long ages ago lived upon the sea bottom, ..."

6. The Age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, John Loughran Scott (1898)
"Glaucus, partly emerging from the water and supporting himself against a rock, said, "Maiden, lam no monster, nor a sea-animal, but a god, ..."

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