harbor seal

1. 1.

   small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere

   Synonymscommon sealPhoca vitulina

   Broaderearless seal

   Part ofPhoca

Questions about harbor seal

What does harbor seal mean?

harbor seal means "small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere".

What is another word for harbor seal?

Close synonyms include common seal, Phoca vitulina. 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 harbor seal a common word?

harbor 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.