bearded seal

noun

: a large arctic hair seal (Erignathus barbatus) with a tuft of long whiskers on each side of the muzzle

Illustration of bearded seal

Examples of bearded seal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the study, the team used computer tomography to create 3D models of the nasal cavities of two seal species–the Arctic bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) and the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus). —Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Dec. 2023

According to the model, Arctic bearded seals are more efficient at retaining heat and water exchange in both Arctic and subtropical temperatures. —Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Dec. 2023

In 2019, Kotzebue saw extremely diminishing sea ice and the earliest breakup on the satellite record, which allowed bearded seal hunters on the Kotzebue Sound to start hunting earlier that year, Hauser said. —Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023

The corporation convenes a subsistence committee that includes representatives from Kivalina, and earlier this year, the mine delayed the start of its shipping season in response to members’ concerns about effects on hunting of bearded seal and beluga whales. —Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2021

The animals involved are the Arctic subspecies of the ringed seal and the Beringia population of the Pacific bearded seal. —James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023

The male bearded seal, for example, sounds like an alien spaceship landing. —Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2014

Her youth was one of physical labor—chopping wood, lugging ice, and hanging the slabs of ugruk, or bearded seal, that her grandmother butchered. —Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022

While not hit by a plane, a bearded seal delayed an outgoing and incoming flight at Utqiaġvik’s Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport in 2017. —David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined above