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Webster 1913 Edition
Sea elephant
Sea′ el′e-phant
(sē′ ē′ē̍-fant)
. (Zool.)
A very large seal (
Macrorhinus proboscideus
) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (Macrorhinus angustirostris
) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.