true seal

Questions about true seal

What does true seal mean?

true seal means "any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers".

What is another word for true seal?

Close synonyms include earless seal, hair seal. 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 true seal a common word?

true seal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.