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Meaning of "fur seal" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FUR SEAL

fur seal play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FUR SEAL

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Fur seal is a noun.
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WHAT DOES FUR SEAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Fur seal

Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds in the Otariidae family. One species, the northern fur seal inhabits the North Pacific, while seven species in the Arctocephalus genus are found primarily in the Southern Hemisphere. They are much more closely related to sea lions than true seals, and share with them external ears, relatively long and muscular foreflippers, and the ability to walk on all fours. They are marked by their dense underfur, which made them a long-time object of commercial hunting.

Definition of fur seal in the English dictionary

The definition of fur seal in the dictionary is any of various eared seals, esp of the genus Arctocephalus, that have a fine dense underfur and are hunted as a source of sealskin.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FUR SEAL

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Fur Seal Islands
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fural
furaldehyde
furan
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furazolidone
furbearer
furbelow
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WORDS THAT END LIKE FUR SEAL

bachelor seal
broad seal
common seal
cylinder seal
eared seal
earless seal
elephant seal
great seal
grey seal
hair seal
harbour seal
harp seal
hooded seal
Hudson seal
monk seal
New Zealand fur seal
privy seal
seal
Solomon´s seal
southern fur seal
water seal

Synonyms and antonyms of fur seal in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «fur seal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FUR SEAL

Find out the translation of fur seal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fur seal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fur seal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

海狗
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Lobo marino
570 millions of speakers

English

fur seal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

फर सील
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ختم الفراء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

котик
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Lobo-marinho
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফার সীল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

otaries à fourrure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meterai bulu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Seebär
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

オットセイ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

물개
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sega bulu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hải cẩu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஃபர் சீல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फर सील
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kürklü fok balığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pellicce di foca
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fur seal
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

котик
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sigiliu blană
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φώκια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Pelsrob
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pälssäl
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pelssel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fur seal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FUR SEAL»

The term «fur seal» is regularly used and occupies the 58.938 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fur seal

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUR SEAL»

Discover the use of fur seal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fur seal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Behavior and Ecology of the Northern Fur Seal
Covering the behavior and ecology of the northern fur seal, this book is a model long-term study of marine mammals, one that tests theory through both observation of undisturbed behavior and manipulative experiments on individuals.
Roger L. Gentry, 1998
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Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals
TABLE I Scientific and Common Names of the Southern Fur Seal Species ( Arctocephalus spp.) with Their Mean Adult Body Mass and Most Recent Estimates of Population Size "Means of measurements for each species taken during various ...
William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, J. G.M. Thewissen, 2009
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Northern Fur Seal Foraging Behaviors, Food Webs, and ...
Statistical analyses Female fur seal trips originating from Vostochni rookery were used to examine if fur seals respond to the presence of the cold pool, like pollock, by spending their time at sea in other shelf domains. Fur seals from Vostochni ...
Jeremy T. Sterling, 2009
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Principles of International Environmental Law
The Pacific Fur Seal Arbitration between the United States and Great Britain followed the failure of the United States and France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Russia, Sweden and Norway to reach agreement on rules of international  ...
Philippe Joseph Sands, Mary Weiss, Richard Tarasofsky
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Polar Politics: Creating International Environmental Regimes
An entrepreneurial leader has three functions: to draw attention to the importance of issues at stake, to invent innovative policy options, and to broker deals and garner support for salient options.58 Among the fur seal treaty negotiators, two in  ...
Oran R. Young, Gail Osherenko, 1993
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Seal Islands of Alaska
Elliott was appalled by the rapidly declining fur seal population and the wholesale slaughter taking place each summer. The Seal Islands of Alaska is Henry W. Elliott's groundbreaking report as it was published in 1884.
Henry W. Elliott, 2008
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It's a Baby Australian Fur Seal!
VitalStatistics for the Australian Fur Seal BABY NAME pup NUMBER IN LITTER 1 WEIGHT AT BIRTH 10 to 26 pounds (5 to 12 kg) AGE OF INDEPENDENCE 3 to 6 years ADULT WEIGHT 80 to 795 pounds (36 to 360 kg) LIFE EXPECTANCY ...
Katherine Hengel, 2010
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The Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses
T~ o° South African fur seal o Tristan da Cunha • Gough Island Atlantic Ocean Subantarctic fur seal South Africa • Juan Fernandez Islands South Georgia Island ^ - 1 South Sandwich Islands South Orkney Antarctic Islands fur seal * Prince ...
Marianne Riedman, 1990
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The Regime for the Exploitation of Transboundary Marine ...
The North Pacific Fur Seal Convention clearly seeks to regulate exploitation of such seals among its parties. It is unique in that it allows only two parties to exploit the stocks, but, by the transfer of hides, allows all parties to participate in the ...
Ellen Hey, 1989
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Mammals in the Seas: Report
P.-V. Reun. CIEM, 169:267-73. Best, P.B. and P.D. Shaughnessy, Nursing in the Cape 1975 fur seal Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus. Cape Town, Sea Fisheries Branch, 19 p. (unpubl. rep.). Black, M.M. et al.. South African fish products. Part 19.
‎1982

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FUR SEAL»

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Tourists Record Seal As It Escapes Great White Shark Off South Africa
As the tour searched for great white sharks off the coast of Gansbaai, South Africa, they observed the cape fur seal's exploits as it repeatedly ... «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
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Seals play in the same New Zealand waterfall they return to every year
The fur seal youngsters have turned the beautiful Ohau Waterfall, just north of Kaikoura, New Zealand, into their personal swimming pool ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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Lucky seal escapes jaws of great white shark off South Africa's …
Footage captured by a holidaymaker, who was on board a tour, boat shows a cape fur seal repeatedly leaping out of the water to avoid the ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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This Waterfall Is Filled With Hundreds Of Baby Seals Having An Epic …
Every year, near Kaikoura, New Zealand, a large pod of fur seal pups ... The waterfall is part of the Ohau Point Fur Seal Sanctuary and is home ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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Wallow with a weedy seadragon
I reflect on the previous day, when more penguins than I could count paraded in front of me, before cruising to Australia's largest fur seal colony ... «The Times, Jul 15»
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WATCH: Lucky tourists get close-up show of shark vs seal in Gansbaai
... Marine Dynamics were in for a treat on Tuesday when they got a close-up view of a great white shark's predation attempt on a Cape fur seal. «News24, Jul 15»
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A supposedly sustainable fishery is harming Native Alaskans
To get to St. Paul, Alaska, an Aleut village where residents were once enslaved by the fur seal industry, one takes a plane with a life raft in it ... «InvestigateWest, Jul 15»
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Antarctica expedition cruise on Russian research ship Akademik …
First is Fournier Bay, also on Anvers Island, where we see a fur seal sunbathing on an iceberg, penguins darting in and out of the water ... «Perth Now, Jul 15»
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Sub-Antarctic fur seal has lucky escape from trawling net
The sub-Antarctic fur seal caught in netting was found stranded on the ... This latest one was a Sub-Antarctic Fur Seal from Macquarie Island. «Manawatu Standard, Jul 15»
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Fur seals wreak havoc
The population of long-nosed fur seals, formerly known as the New Zealand fur seal, is estimated at 100,000 in SA and growing by 5.5 per cent ... «Stock Journal, Jul 15»

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