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bladdernose

noun

medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters

• Syn: ↑hooded seal, ↑Cystophora cristata

• Hypernyms: ↑earless seal, ↑true seal, ↑hair seal

• Member Holonyms: ↑Cystophora, ↑genus Cystophora

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun

Etymology: so called from the inflatable sac on the head

: hooded seal

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/blad"euhr nohz'/, n.

See hooded seal.

[BLADDER + NOSE]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.