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Seal n. Zool. Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.
Note: ☞ Seals inhabit seacoasts, and are found principally in the higher latitudes of both hemispheres. There are numerous species, bearing such popular names as sea lion, sea leopard, sea bear, or ursine seal, fur seal, and sea elephant. The bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), the hooded seal (Cystophora cristata), and the ringed seal (Phoca foetida), are northern species. See also Eared seal, Harp seal, Monk seal, and Fur seal, under Eared, Harp, Monk, and Fur. Seals are much hunted for their skins and fur, and also for their oil, which in some species is very abundant.
Harbor seal Zool., the common seal (Phoca vitulina). It inhabits both the North Atlantic and the North Pacific Ocean, and often ascends rivers; -- called also marbled seal, native seal, river seal, bay seal, land seal, sea calf, sea cat, sea dog, dotard, ranger, selchie, tangfish.
Hood·ed, a.
1. Covered with a hood.
2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.
3. Hood-shaped; esp. Bot., rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.
4. Zool. (a) Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds. (b) Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.
Hooded crow, a European crow Corvus cornix; -- called also hoody, dun crow, and royston crow.
Hooded gull, the European black-headed pewit or gull.
Hooded merganser. See Merganser.
Hooded seal, a large North Atlantic seal (Cystophora cristata). The male has a large, inflatible, hoodlike sac upon the head. Called also hoodcap.
Hooded sheldrake, the hooded merganser. See Merganser.
Hooded snake. See Cobra de capello, Asp, Haje, etc.
Hooded warbler, a small American warbler (Sylvania mitrata).
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Cystophora cristata
n : medium-sized blackish-gray seal with large inflatable sac on
the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters [syn: hooded
seal, bladdernose]