common seal

English

Noun

common seal (plural common seals)

2. Phoca vitulina, a seal living in the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

   Synonyms: harbor seal, harbour seal, selkie (harbor seal sense); sea calf (obsolete)

   Hypernyms: true seal, earless seal, phocid < seal < pinniped < marine mammal < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

   Coordinate terms: (fellow true seals) Baikal seal, bearded seal, grey seal, harp seal, hooded seal, ribbon seal, ringed seal, spotted seal; (other fellow pinnipeds) eared seal, otariid, otary, sea lion, fur seal, walrus; see also Thesaurus:pinniped

Translations

Phoca vitulina — see harbor seal