| sea purslane | <botany> See Purslane. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sea pye | <zoology> See 1st Sea pie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea rat | 1. A pirate. 2. <zoology> The chimaera. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea raven | <zoology> An American cottoid fish (Hemitripterus Americanus) allied to the sculpins, found on the northeren Atlantic coasts. The cormorant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea reed | <botany> The sea-sand reed. See Reed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea rocket | <botany> See Rocket. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea salmon | <zoology> A young pollock. The spotted squeteague. See Sea bass . Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea sandpiper | <zoology> The purple sandpiper. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea sandwort | <botany> See Sea chickweed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea saurian | <zoology> Any marine saurian; especially. <paleontology> The large extinct species of Mosasaurus, Icthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and related genera. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea scorpion | <zoology> A European sculpin (Cottus scorpius) having the head armed with short spines. The scorpene. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea scurf | <zoology> Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea scurvy | Disease caused by Vitamin C deficiency. The effects are due to a failure of the hydroxylation of proline residues in collagen synthesis and the consequent failure of fibroblasts to produce mature collagen. See: hydroxyproline. (18 Nov 1997) |
| sea serpent | 1. <zoology> Any marine snake. See Sea snake. 2. <zoology> A large marine animal of unknown nature, often reported to have been seen at sea, but never yet captured. Many accounts of sea serpents are imaginary or fictitious; others are greatly exaggerated and distorted by incompetent observers; but a number have been given by competent and trustworthy persons, which indicate that several diverse animals have been called sea serpents. Among these are, apparently, several large snakelike fishes, as the oar fish, or ribbon fish (Regalecus), and huge conger eels. Other accounts probably refer to the giant squids (Architeuthis). Some of the best accounts seem to describe a marine saurian, like the fossil Mosasauri, which were large serpentlike creatures with paddles. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea slater | <zoology> Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |