Category:Sea elephant

Sea" el"e*phant. (zoöl.)

Defn: 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.