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crested seal
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a large seal of the North Atlantic, Cystophora cristata.
See: hood seal
Quotations
1850
I had often before shot these seals, and the crested or bladder nose (Cystophora cristata), on the east side; but if they happened to be killed outright, they invariably sank.
1945
The crested seal . . . an Atlantic species has been recorded at the mouth of the Mackenzie. . . .