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I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.
Brian Skerry

Meaning of "harp seal" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HARP SEAL

harp seal play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HARP SEAL

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Harp seal is a noun.
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WHAT DOES HARP SEAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

harp seal

Harp seal

The harp seal or saddleback seal is a species of earless seal native to the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and parts of the Arctic Ocean. It now belongs to the monotypic genus Pagophilus. Its scientific name, Pagophilus groenlandicus, means "ice-lover from Greenland", and its synonym, Phoca groenlandica means "Greenland seal". Originally in the genus Phoca with a number of other species, it has since been reclassified into its own genus Pagophilus.

Definition of harp seal in the English dictionary

The definition of harp seal in the dictionary is a brownish-grey earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HARP SEAL

haroset
harp
Harper
Harper´s Ferry
harpies
harpin
harpings
harpins
harpist
harpoon
harpoon-like
harpooneer
harpooner
harpsichord
harpsichordist
harpy
harpy eagle
harpylike

WORDS THAT END LIKE HARP SEAL

bachelor seal
broad seal
common seal
cylinder seal
eared seal
earless seal
elephant seal
fur seal
great seal
grey seal
hair seal
harbour 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 harp seal in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «harp seal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HARP SEAL

Find out the translation of harp seal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of harp 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 «harp seal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

格陵兰海豹
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

focas arpa
570 millions of speakers

English

harp seal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वीणा मुहर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ختم القيثارة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гренландского тюленя
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

selo de harpa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাঁশি সীল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

joint harpe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meterai harpa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sattelrobbe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハープシール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하프 씰
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Harep segel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

con dấu đàn hạc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கயிறு முத்திரை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वीणा सील
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

arp mührü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

foca arpa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

harfa uszczelka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гренландського тюленя
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

foci
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άρπα σφραγίδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

harp seël
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

harpan förseglar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

grønlandssel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of harp seal

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about harp seal

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Brian Skerry
I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARP SEAL»

Discover the use of harp seal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to harp seal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Harpo: the baby harp seal
Shows and describes the behavior and characteristics of harp seals
Patricia Arrigoni, 1995
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Ice cradle: a portrait of the baby harp seal
Depicts baby harp seals on the ice in the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and describes their development.
Rei Ohara, 1995
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Harp Seals
Learn about the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the harp seal.
Kathleen Martin-James, 2008
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Harp Seal Baby Book: Three Weeks In An Artic Nursery
This "baby book" by world-renowned photographer Mitsuaki Iwago is an endearing - as well as scientifically astute - chronicle of harp seal pups' first three weeks of life in the forbidding conditions of the Arctic.
Mitsuaki Iwago, 1996
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Ancient Harp Seal Hunters of Disko Bay
Harp seal in the midden. The articulated vertebral column and rib case indicates that food was plentiful at the time (photo: Kim Aaris-Sorensen). in Qoornua Sound and in the area just north of the site. In later periods, however, they developed ...
Morten Meldgaard, 2004
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Harp seal pups
Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and natural environment of mother harp seals and their pups
Downs Matthews, Dan Guravich, 1997
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Seal wars: twenty-five years on the front lines with the ...
The author describes his life and his many campaigns to stop the the slaughter of baby harp seals.
Paul Watson, 2003
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Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals
The harp seal eye has a large spherical lens to provide additional focusing power under water and a highly mobile pupil which contracts in bright light to produce a reasonably focused image, even when the animal is on land or ice.
William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, J. G.M. Thewissen, 2009
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Mammals in the Seas: Report
Abstract The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) is distributed across the northern Atlantic and Arctic Seas from Severnaya Zemlya to the eastern Canadian Archipelago in 3 mainly distinct populations; each undertakes a migration in the ...
‎1982
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Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fisheries
However, there is an alternative opinion that the ancestral harp seal evolved during the Pliocene epoch in the North Atlantic,1"" with a common ancestor migrating to the Pacific with the opening of the Bering Sea some 3.5 million years ago.
George A. Rose, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARP SEAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term harp seal is used in the context of the following news items.
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Smart robots galore at the 'Innorobo' show
Those who need a hug can snuggle up with PARO, an imitation baby harp seal its a therapeutic robot developed by Japanese industrial ... «euronews, Jul 15»
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Why Robots Are the Future of Elder Care
Some of the first robots, like Paro, a touch-reactive electronic harp seal developed to keep dementia patients occupied, really just seemed like ... «GOOD Magazine, Jun 15»
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Shore Hotel, Santa Monica: Green instead of Good
Located along the Pacific within a baby harp seal's toss from the Santa Monica Pier, the joint sells itself first and foremost as a green hotel. «Crave Online, Jun 15»
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3 Revolutionary Robots Based on Members of the Animal Kingdom
AIST, a leading Japanese industrial automation company, has developed PARO, a therapy robot based on a baby harp seal. Unlike the ... «Outer Places, Jun 15»
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Mystic Aquarium's Animal Rescue Team releases harp seal
Wasabi, a one- to two-year-old female harp seal, was released at Blue Shutters Beach in Charlestown around 11 a.m. on Thursday. Wasabi ... «WTNH, Jun 15»
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Mystic Aquarium releases rehabbed harp seal back into wild
Mystic Aquarium's Animal Rescue Team released Nutmeg, a male harp seal, Tuesday at Blue Shutter Beach in Charlestown. Nutmeg is ... «WPRI 12 Eyewitness News, May 15»
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Europe's ban on seal products has been awful for Greenland's Inuits …
... followed by a 2011 ban on the import and export of harp seal skins by the customs union of the Russian Federation, Belarus, and Kazakhstan ... «Quartz, May 15»
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Video: Seals are like family at unique research site
She is the globe's first harp seal to give birth in captivity, Jones said. Tyler, 25, was captured from the same place a year later as a white coat ... «MetroNews Canada, Apr 15»
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Video: Harp seal rescued in Cape Elizabeth released back into …
CHARLESTOWN, R.I. — A young male harp seal is back in the Atlantic more than a month after being found dehydrated in Cape Elizabeth, ... «Press Herald, Apr 15»
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Mystic Aquarium releases rehabbed harp seal to sea
Dill, a one- or two-year-old harp seal, galumphs down Blue Shutters Beach in Charlestown, R.I., after being released by his caregivers at Mystic ... «WPRI 12 Eyewitness News, Apr 15»

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