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- English Word Sea daffodil Definition A European amarylidaceous plant (Pancratium maritimum).
- English Word Sea devil Definition Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Manta or Cepholoptera, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. See also Ox ray, under Ox.
- English Word Sea devil Definition Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid (Architeuthis). See Devilfish.
- English Word Sea devil Definition The angler.
- English Word Sea dog Definition The dogfish.
- English Word Sea dog Definition The common seal.
- English Word Sea dog Definition An old sailor; a salt.
- English Word Sea dotterel Definition The turnstone.
- English Word Sea dove Definition The little auk, or rotche. See Illust. of Rotche.
- English Word Sea dragon Definition A dragonet, or sculpin.
- English Word Sea dragon Definition The pegasus.
- English Word Sea drake Definition The pewit gull.
- English Word Sea duck Definition Any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe.
- English Word Sea eagle Definition Any one of several species of fish-eating eagles of the genus Haliaeetus and allied genera, as the North Pacific sea eagle. (H. pelagicus), which has white shoulders, head, rump, and tail; the European white-tailed eagle (H. albicilla); and the Indian white-tailed sea eagle, or fishing eagle (Polioaetus ichthyaetus). The bald eagle and the osprey are also sometimes classed as sea eagles.
- English Word Sea eagle Definition The eagle ray. See under Ray.
- English Word Sea eel Definition The conger eel.
- English Word Sea egg Definition A sea urchin.
- English Word Sea elephant Definition A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.
- English Word Sea fan Definition Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.
- English Word Sea feather Definition Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.