elephant seal

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   either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks

   Synonymssea elephant

   Broaderearless seal

   Part ofMirounga

Questions about elephant seal

What does elephant seal mean?

elephant seal means "either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks".

What is another word for elephant seal?

Close synonyms include sea elephant. 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 elephant seal a common word?

elephant 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.