bearded seal

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   medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean

   Synonymssquareflipper square flipperErignathus barbatus

   Broaderearless seal

   Part ofErignathus

Questions about bearded seal

What does bearded seal mean?

bearded seal means "medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean".

What is another word for bearded seal?

Close synonyms include squareflipper square flipper, Erignathus barbatus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bearded seal a common word?

bearded seal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.