| sea holly | <botany> An evergeen seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum). See Eryngium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sea holm | <botany> Sea holly. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea horse | 1. A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus. 2. <zoology> The walrus. Any fish of the genus Hippocampus. In a passage of Dryden's, the word is supposed to refer to the hippopotamus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea hulver | <botany> Sea holly. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea jelly | <zoology> A medusa, or jellyfish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea kale | <botany> See Kale. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea laces | <botany> A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea lamprey | <zoology> The common lamprey. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea language | The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea lark | <zoology> The rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea lavender | <botany> See Marsh rosemary, under Marsh. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea lawyer | <zoology> The gray snapper. See Snapper. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea lemon | <zoology> Any one of several species of nudibranchiate mollusks of the genus Doris and allied genera, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea leopard | <zoology> Any one of several species of spotted seals, especially Ogmorhinus leptonyx, and Leptonychotes Weddelli, of the Antarctic Ocean. The North Pacific sea leopard is the harbor seal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea letter | The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |