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Noun: true seal
  1. Any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers
    "The true seal awkwardly inched its way across the ice";
    - earless seal, hair seal

Derived forms: true seals

Type of: seal

Part of: family Phocidae, Phocidae

Encyclopedia: True seal