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Sea lion

noun

Any of several large eared seals of the northern Pacific related to fur seals but lacking their valuable coat.

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Australian sea lion

California sea lion

South American sea lion

Steller sea lion

Steller's sea lion

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"Sea lion" Quotes from Famous Books

... riding a helmeted fish; the Northern Ocean as a Triton mounted on a rearing walrus; the Southern Ocean as a negro backing a sea elephant and playing with an octopus; and the Pacific as a female on a creature that might be a sea lion, but is not. Dolphins backed by nymphs of the sea serve a double purpose as decoration and as spouts for ...

— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber

... probable that man, with all his rapacity and all his enginery, will succeed in totally extirpating any salt-water fish, but he has already exterminated at least one marine warm-blooded animal—Steller's sea cow—and the walrus, the sea lion, and other large amphibia, as well as the principal fishing quadrupeds, are in imminent danger of extinction. Steller's sea cow, Rhytina Stelleri, was first seen by Europeans in the year 1741, on Bering's Island. It was a huge amphibious mammal, weighing not less than eight thousand pounds, ...

— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh

Words linked to "Sea lion" : Zalophus californicus, Eumetopias jubatus, Otaria Byronia, Zalophus californianus, eared seal, Zalophus lobatus