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Sea Horse

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Noun

1. sea horse, seahorse, walrus

either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber

2. sea horse, seahorse

small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position

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Sea Horse

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noun
1. 
any marine teleost fish of the temperate and tropical genus Hippocampus, having a bony-plated body, a prehensile tail, and a horselike head and swimming in an upright position: family Syngnathidae (pipefishes)
2.  an archaic name for the walrus
3. 
a fabled sea creature with the tail of a fish and the front parts of a horse

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Sea Horse

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1. 
any of a genus (Hippocampus) of small, semitropical, marine bony fishes of the same family (Syngnathidae, order Gasterosteiformes) as the pipefishes, having a slender prehensile tail, plated body, and a head and foreparts somewhat suggestive of those of a horse: it normally swims in an upright position, and the male incubates the eggs in a pouch in his abdomen
: also written ˈseahorse
2. 
walrus
3. 
a mythical sea creature, half fish and half horse

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Sea Horse

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n.
1. Any of various small marine fishes of the genus Hippocampus, characteristically swimming in an upright position and having a prehensile tail, a head that resembles that of a horse, and a body encased in bony rings.
2. A walrus.
3. Mythology An animal, half fish and half horse, ridden by Neptune and other sea gods.
4. A large white-capped wave.

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