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gray seal

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large seal of the North Atlantic, Halichoerus grypus.

See: horse head

Quotations

1894

They are of two species, the large grey or Greenland seal and the common or harbour seal.

1965

In January . . . grey seals, largest and rarest of all Canadian seals (Phocidae) haul out on this island [Basque I., off Cape Breton] to bear their young.