sea horse

sea horse
noun
1. either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber
• Syn: ↑walrus, ↑seahorse
• Hypernyms: ↑pinniped mammal, ↑pinniped, ↑pinnatiped
• Member Holonyms: ↑Odobenus, ↑genus Odobenus
2. small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position
• Syn: ↑seahorse
• Hypernyms: ↑pipefish, ↑needlefish
• Member Holonyms: ↑Hippocampus, ↑genus Hippocampus

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noun
Etymology: Middle English sehors, from se, see sea + hors horse — more atsea, horse
1.
a. : walrus 1
2. : a fabulous creature half horse and half fish; also : a heraldic representation of a monster with the forepart of a horse joined to the tail of a fish and with webbed feet
3.
a. : any of numerous small fishes (family Syngnathidae) mostly of the genus Hippocampus that are related to the pipefishes but of stockier build, have the head and forepart of the body sharply flexed and suggestive of the head and neck of a horse, are covered with rough bony plates and equipped with a prehensile tail and in the male a short broad pouch immediately behind the vent in which the eggs hatch, and occur in most warm and warm-temperate seas
b. : horsefish 1d
4. : a large whitecap on a wave
5. : a short-handled clam rake with long prongs

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1. any fish of the genus Hippocampus, of the pipefish family, having a prehensile tail, an elongated snout, and a head bent at right angles to the body.
2. a fabled marine animal with the foreparts of a horse and the hind parts of a fish.
3. a walrus.
Also, seahorse.
[1425-75; late ME sehors walrus; cf. G Seepferd]

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sea horse,
1. a kind of small fish with a head suggesting that of a horse, and a prehensile tail, living in warm waters; hippocampus. The sea horses belong to the same family as the pipefish.
2. = walrus. (Cf. ↑walrus)
3. a sea animal in old stories with the foreparts of a horse and the hind parts of a fish. The Nereids are fabled to have used sea horses for riding, and Neptune to have used them for drawing his chariot. »

Notice Neptune, though, taming a sea horse…cast in bronze for me! (Robert Browning).

4. a large, white-crested wave.

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noun, pl ⋯ horses [count]
: a small fish that has a head that looks like a horse's head and that swims with its head above its body and tail

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ˈsea horse [sea horse sea horses] noun
a small sea fish that swims in a vertical position and has a head that looks like the head of a horse

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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