Lexic.us

Definition of Sea elephant

1. Noun. Either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks.

Definition of Sea elephant

1. Noun. The elephant seal ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Sea elephant

1. A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. Angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Elephant

Literary usage of Sea elephant

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

1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1914)
"The following notes on the sea elephant (Mirounga leonina) are based mainly upon field studies made at the island of South Georgia during the Antarctic ..."

2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"The two sexes of the Sea-Elephant vary much in size, the male being ... The sailors on a voyage to the Sea-Elephant grounds, not having a supply of pipes, ..."

3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"215, I stated that the sea-elephant had become extinct in the Falkland Islands. Mr. Sclater, in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society' for 1868, p. ..."

4. The Natural Wealth of California: Comprising Early History; Geography by Titus Fey Cronise (1868)
"... Cats—Wolf—Coyote—Foxes—Sea Lions and Seals sea elephant—Shrews—Bats —Beaver - Marmots — Squirrels—Hats—Gophers - Porcupine—Hares—Elk—Deer—Antelope— ..."

5. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1824)
"It has since been brought to this city, and proves to be a sea- elephant, weighing upwards of 600 pounds, and measuring about nine feet in length. ..."

6. The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and by Georg Hartwig (1869)
"The Sea-elephant.— The Southern Sea-bear.— The Sea- leopard. — Antarctic Fishes. " Antarctic regions are far more desolate and barren than the Arctic. ..."

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