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- English Word Sea snail Definition A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds.
- English Word Sea snail Definition Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc.
- English Word Sea snake Definition Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidae, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.
- English Word Sea snipe Definition A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin.
- English Word Sea snipe Definition The bellows fish.
- English Word Sea spider Definition Any maioid crab; a spider crab. See Maioid, and Spider crab, under Spider.
- English Word Sea spider Definition Any pycnogonid.
- English Word Sea squirt Definition An ascidian. See Illust. under Tunicata.
- English Word Sea star Definition A starfish, or brittle star.
- English Word Sea surgeon Definition A surgeon fish.
- English Word Sea swallow Definition The common tern.
- English Word Sea swallow Definition The storm petrel.
- English Word Sea swallow Definition The gannet.
- English Word Sea swallow Definition See Cornish chough, under Chough.
- English Word Sea tang Definition A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle.
- English Word Sea term Definition A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.
- English Word Sea thief Definition A pirate.
- English Word Sea thongs Definition A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.
- English Word Sea titling Definition The rock pipit.
- English Word Sea toad Definition A sculpin.