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SEAHORSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position
Synonyms:
sea horse; seahorse
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("seahorse" is a kind of...):
needlefish; pipefish (fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates)
Holonyms ("seahorse" is a member of...):
genus Hippocampus; Hippocampus (seahorses)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber
Synonyms:
sea horse; seahorse; walrus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("seahorse" is a kind of...):
pinnatiped; pinniped; pinniped mammal (aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seahorse"):
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)
Holonyms ("seahorse" is a member of...):
genus Odobenus; Odobenus (type genus of the Odobenidae: walruses)