| sea eel | <zoology> The conger eel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sea egg | <zoology> A sea urchin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea elephant | <zoology> A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. Angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea fan | <zoology> Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea feather | <zoology> Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea fennel | <botany> Samphire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea fern | <zoology> Any gorgonian which branches like a fern. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea fir | <zoology> A sertularian hydroid, especially Sertularia abietina, which branches like a miniature fir tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea flewer | <zoology> A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea foam | 1. Foam of sea water. 2. <chemical> Meerschaum. Synonym: sea froth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea fowl | <ornithology> Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea fox | <zoology> The thrasher shark. See Thrasher. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea ginger | <zoology> A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. Alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea girdles | <botany> A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds. Synonym: sea wand, seaware, and tangle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea girkin | <zoology> Any small holothurian resembling in form a gherkin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |