We found 2 definitions of hair seal from 2 different sources.
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hair seal - any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers | ||
earless seal, true seal | ||
seal any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions | ||
family phocidae, phocidae earless seals | ||
common seal, harbor seal, phoca vitulina small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere | ||
harp seal, pagophilus groenlandicus common Arctic seal; the young are all white | ||
elephant seal, sea elephant either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks | ||
bearded seal, erignathus barbatus, squareflipper square flipper medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean |