Pinniped

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or belonging to the Pinnipedia, a suborder of carnivorous aquatic mammals that includes the seals, walruses, and similar animals having finlike flippers as organs of locomotion.
  • n. A mammal of the suborder Pinnipedia.
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  • n. Any of various large marine mammals belonging to the superfamily (formerly considered a suborder) Pinnipedia comprising walruses, eared seals and earless seals.
  • adj. Pertaining to or similar to such a mammal.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of the Pinnipedia; a seal.
  • n. One of the Pinnipedes.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Fin-footed, in any sense; having feet like fins or flippers. Specifically
  • n. A member of the Pinnipedes or Pinnipedia: opposed to fissiped.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    aquatic mammal   
    Hyponym
    seal    sea horse    walrus    seahorse   
    Form
    pinnipedian   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    seal   
     
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