sea elephant

See elephant seal.

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sea elephant

(Animals) another name for elephant seal

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Noun

sea elephant - either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks

elephant seal

earless seal, hair seal, true seal - any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers

genus Mirounga, Mirounga - elephant seals

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A fire is made outside the opening with sea elephant blubber and each man on retiring to rest takes his station between the thwarts of the boat where he usually rows." (22)

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But they are not strong enough to move all the snow so they call in on Brian the Sea Elephant and his pack to help.

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They never reconciled, but their method of working together remained the core of Alptekin's practice, whether he was working alone or with others (he went on to establish three collectives: Grup Grip-in, the Sea Elephant Travel Agency, and the Bunker Research Group), until his untimely death in 2007, at the age of fifty.

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