| sea snake | <zoology> 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sea snipe | <zoology> A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin. The bellows fish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea spider | <zoology> Any maioid crab; a spider crab. See Maioid, and Spider crab, under Spider. Any pycnogonid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea squirt | <zoology> An ascidian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea star | <zoology> A starfish, or brittle star. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea surgeon | <zoology> A surgeon fish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea swallow | 1. <zoology> The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet. 2. See Cornish chough, under Chough. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea tang | <botany> A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle. "To their nests of sedge and sea tang." (Longfellow) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea thongs | <botany> 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea titling | <zoology> The rock pipit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea toad | <zoology> A sculpin. A toadfish. The angler. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea trout | <zoology> Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout. The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague. A California fish of the family Chiridae, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock. A California sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); called also white sea bass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea trumpet | 1. <botany> A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long. 2. <zoology> Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea turtle | <zoology> Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas. The sea pigeon, or guillemot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea unicorn | <zoology> The narwhal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |