Noun: bearded seal
- Medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean
"The bearded seal's distinctive whiskers were visible as it surfaced";
- square flipper seal, Erignathus barbatus
Derived forms: bearded seals
Type of: earless seal, hair seal, true seal
Part of: Erignathus, genus Erignathus
Encyclopedia: Bearded seal