harp seal

English

Whitecoated pup

Mature harp seal

Wikispecies

Etymology

From harp +‎ seal. So called because it has black harp- or wishbone-shaped markings on its back.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɹp.siːl/, /ˈhɑːp.siːl/

Noun

harp seal (plural harp seals)

1. One of species Pagophilus groenlandicus, a true seal (or earless seal) found in the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and adjacent parts of the Arctic Ocean.

Synonyms

• (Pagophilus groenlandicus): saddleback seal, Phoca groenlandica

Hypernyms

• animal
• cordate
• earless seal
• mammal
• marine mammal
• Pagophilus
• Phocidae
• pinniped
• quadruped
• seal
• true seal

 

Hyponyms

• bedlamer

 

Translations

a species of seal

• Bulgarian: гренландски тюлен m (grenlandski tjulen)
• Catalan: foca de Groenlàndia (ca) f
• Czech: tuleň grónský (cs) m
• Dutch: zadelrob (nl) m
• Faroese: grønlandskópur m
• Finnish: grönlanninhylje (fi)
• French: phoque du Groenland (fr) m
• Georgian: გრენლანდიური სელაპი (grenlandiuri selaṗi)
• German: Sattelrobbe f
• Greenlandic: aataaq
• Hungarian: grönlandi fóka
• Icelandic: vöðuselur (is) m
• Irish: rón Graonlannach m
• Japanese: タテゴトアザラシ (tategoto azarashi)
• Lithuanian: grenlandinis ruonis m
• Norwegian: grønlandssel m
• Polish: foka grenlandzka f
• Portuguese: foca da Groenlândia f
• Russian: гренландский тюле́нь m (grenlandskij tjulénʹ)
• Slovak: tuleň grónsky (sk)
• Spanish: foca pía f, foca de groenlandia f
• Swedish: grönlandssäl c
• Thai: แมวน้ำลายพิณ (maew náam laai pin)

Anagrams

• pearl-ash, pearlash