fur seal

English

A cape fur seal, Arctocephalus pusillus.

Alternative forms

• fur-seal

Noun

fur seal (plural fur seals)

1. A marine mammal of either of the genera Arctocephalus or Callorhinus of the eared seal family Otariidae, differing from the sea lions in having dense underfur.

Derived terms

• Alaska fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus)
• Amsterdam fur seal ()
• Antarctic fur seal ()
• Antipodean fur seal ()
• Australian fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)
• brown fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)
• Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)
• Galápagos fur seal ()
• giant fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)

• Guadalupe fur seal ()
• Juan Fernandez fur seal ()
• Kerguelen fur seal ()
• New Zealand fur seal ()
• northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus)
• South African fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)
• South American fur seal ()
• southern fur seal ()
• subantarctic fur seal ()

Translations

marine mammal

• Afrikaans: pelsrob
• Cherokee: ᎦᏁᎦ ᎠᏐᎠᏍᏙ (ganega asoasdo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海狗 (zh) (hǎigǒu)

• Czech: lachtan (cs) m
• Dutch: zeebeer m
• Finnish: merikarhu (fi), turkishylje (fi)
• French: ours de mer m, otarie à fourrure f
• German: Seebär (de) m
• Italian: otaria orsina f
• Japanese: 膃肭臍 (ja) (おっとせい, ottosei), オットセイ (ja) (ottosei)
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• Korean: 물개 (ko) (mulgae)
• Maori: oioi
• Navajo: tábąąstííntsoh bighaaʼ díłchʼilígíí
• Nootka: k̕iłanuus
• Portuguese: otária (pt) f
• Romanian: urs-de-mare m
• Russian: морско́й ко́тик m (morskój kótik), ко́тик (ru) m (kótik)
• Swedish: pälssäl c
• Turkish: ayıbalığı (tr)
• Vietnamese: hải cẩu (vi) (海狗 (vi))

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