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Noun: hooded seal  hû-did seel
  1. Medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters
    - bladdernose, Cystophora cristata

Derived forms: hooded seals

Type of: earless seal, hair seal, true seal

Part of: Cystophora, genus Cystophora

Encyclopedia: Hooded seal