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sea·horse

or sea horse (sē′hôrs′)

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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seahorse

(ˈsiːhɔːs) or

sea horse

1. (Animals) 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. (Animals) archaic another name for walrus

3. (Classical Myth & Legend) a fabled sea creature with the tail of a fish and the front parts of a horse

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Noun	1.	seahorse - either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber sea horse, walrus pinnatiped, pinniped, pinniped mammal - aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers genus Odobenus, Odobenus - type genus of the Odobenidae: walruses Atlantic walrus, Odobenus rosmarus - a walrus of northern Atlantic and Arctic waters Odobenus divergens, Pacific walrus - a walrus of the Bering Sea and northern Pacific
	2.	seahorse - small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position sea horse pipefish, needlefish - fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates genus Hippocampus, Hippocampus - seahorses

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seahorse

sea horse [ˈsiːhɔː^rs] n → hippocampe m

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