| sea chickweed | <botany> A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast. Synonym: sea sandwort, and sea purslane. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sea clam | <zoology> Any one of the large bivalve mollusks found on the open seacoast, especially those of the family Mactridae, as the common American species. (Mactra, or Spisula, solidissima). Synonym: beach clam, and surf clam. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea cob | <zoology> The black-backed gull. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea cock | 1. In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea. 2. <zoology> The black-bellied plover. A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea cocoa | <botany> A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea colander | <botany> A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea colewort | <botany> Sea cabbage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea coot | <zoology> A scoter duck. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea corn | <zoology> A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsule of certain species of whelks (Buccinum), which resembles an ear of maize. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea cow | <zoology> The mantee. The dugong. The walrus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea crawfish | <zoology> Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. Vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea crayfish | <zoology> Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. Vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea crow | <zoology> The chough. The cormorant. The blackheaded pewit, and other gulls. The skua. The razorbill. The coot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea cucumber | <zoology> Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. Frondosa). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea cucumbers | A class of echinodermata characterised by long, slender bodies. (12 Dec 1998) |