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Definition of Harp seal
1. Noun. Common Arctic seal; the young are all white.
Generic synonyms: Earless Seal, Hair Seal, True Seal
Group relationships: Genus Pagophilus, Pagophilus
Definition of Harp seal
1. Noun. A species ((term Phoca groenlandica)) of true seal (or earless seal) found in the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and adjacent parts of the Arctic Ocean. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harp Seal
Literary usage of Harp seal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Illustrated Natural History by John George Wood (1865)
"In the first few months of its existence, the fur of the harp seal is white in
... The Greenlanders designate the harp seal by different titles according to ..."
2. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"¡9 highly prized Tne harp seal is especially abundant on the coasts of Greenland,
where it almost always frequents the floating ice, and rarely ventures ..."
3. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"The female is slightly smaller than the male, in the case of the harp seal about
one fourth less; but there is no such wide disparity between the sexes as ..."
4. Fur Seal Arbitration: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened by Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1895)
"harp seal. A species of hair-seal found in the North Atlantic off the coasts of
Newfoundland and Labrador; so called because the stripes on the back of the ..."
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