sea horse

sea horse

n.

1. A small marine fish of the genus Hippocampus, characteristically swimming in an upright position and having a prehensile tail, a horselike head, and a body covered with bony plates.

2. See walrus.

3. Mythology An animal, half fish and half horse, ridden by Neptune and other sea gods.

4. A large white-capped wave.

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sea horse

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any marine teleost fish of the temperate and tropical genus Hippocampus, having a bony-plated body, a prehensile tail, and a horselike head and swimming in an upright position: family Syngnathidae (pipefishes)

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) an archaic name for the walrus

3. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) a fabled sea creature with the tail of a fish and the front parts of a horse

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sea horse - either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber seahorse, walrus pinnatiped, pinniped, pinniped mammal - aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers genus Odobenus, Odobenus - type genus of the Odobenidae: walruses Atlantic walrus, Odobenus rosmarus - a walrus of northern Atlantic and Arctic waters Odobenus divergens, Pacific walrus - a walrus of the Bering Sea and northern Pacific
	2.	sea horse - small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position seahorse pipefish, needlefish - fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates genus Hippocampus, Hippocampus - seahorses

Translations

sea horse n → cavalluccio marino