fur seal

English

a Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)

Pronunciation

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Noun

fur seal (plural fur seals)

2. Any pinniped of the genera Arctocephalus and Callorhinus, differing from the sea lions in having dense underfur.

   Hypernyms: eared seal, otariid, otary < seal < pinniped < marine mammal < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

   Coordinate terms: (fellow eared seal) sea lion; (other fellow pinnipeds) earless seal, true seal, walrus; see also Thesaurus:pinniped

   Near-synonym: sea puppy (a seal; informal, humorous)

Derived terms

• Alaska fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus)
• Amsterdam fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis)
• Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella)
• Antipodean fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)
• Australian fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)
• brown fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)
• Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)
• Galápagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis)
• giant fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)
• Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi)
• Juan Fernandez fur seal (Arctocephalus philippii)
• Kerguelen fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella)
• New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)
• northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus)
• South African fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)
• South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis)
• southern fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)
• subantarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis)

Translations

marine mammal

• Afrikaans: pelsrob (af)
• Catalan: os marí m
• Cherokee: ᎦᏁᎦ ᎠᏐᎠᏍᏙ (ganega asoasdo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海狗 (zh) (hǎigǒu)

• Czech: lachtan (cs) m
• Dutch: zeebeer (nl) m
• Finnish: haaremihylje (Arctocephalus); beringinhylje (Callorhinus)
• French: ours de mer m, otarie à fourrure f
• German: Seebär (de) m
• Hungarian: medvefóka
• Irish: rón fionnaidh m
• Italian: otaria orsina f
• Japanese: 膃肭臍 (ja) (おっとせい, ottosei), オットセイ (ja) (ottosei)
• Korean: 물개 (ko) (mulgae)
• Māori: oioi
• Nootka: k̕iłanuus
• Polish: kotik m
• Portuguese: otária (pt) f
• Romanian: urs-de-mare m
• Russian: морско́й ко́тик m (morskój kótik), ко́тик (ru) m (kótik)
• Swedish: pälssäl c
• Tlingit: x̱ʼóon
• Turkish: ayıbalığı (tr)
• Vietnamese: hải cẩu (vi) (海狗 (vi))
• Welsh: morlo manflewog m

Further reading

• fur seal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Otariidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Otariidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• fur seal at AnimalBase

Anagrams

• Laufers, earfuls, earsful, ferulas, refusal, salufer