| sea apple | <botany> The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sea arrow | <zoology> A squid of the genus Ommastrephes. See Squid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea-bar | <zoology> A tern. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea barrow | <zoology> A sea purse. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea bass | <zoology> A large marine food fish (Serranus, or Centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch. A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); called also white sea bass, and sea salmon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea bat | <zoology> See Batfish . Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea bean | <botany> Same as Florida bean. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea bear | <zoology> Any fur seal. See Fur. The white bear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea beast | <zoology> Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea bird | <zoology> Any swimming bird frequenting the sea; a sea fowl. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea blite | <botany> A plant (Suaeda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marches. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea-blubber | <zoology> A jellyfish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea-blue histiocyte | A histiocyte containing cytoplasmic granules that stain bright blue with haematologic stains such as Wright-Giemsa; found in bone marrow and in the spleen, associated with hepatosplenomegaly and thrombocytopenic purpura and in other blood diseases. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea-blue histiocyte disease | Splenomegaly and mild thrombocytopenia, with histiocytes in the bone marrow which contain cytoplasmic granules that stain bright blue; sometimes familial; perhaps a lipidosis; autosomal recessive inheritance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea-blue histiocyte syndrome | <syndrome> Rare disorder consisting of splenomegaly, mild purpura secondary to thrombocytopenia, and occasionally, hepatic cirrhosis associated with the appearance of numerous histiocytes in the spleen and bone marrow which stain a sea-blue colour. It is sometimes considered a variant of niemann-pick disease. (12 Dec 1998) |