Pinniped

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  • noun. Any of various carnivorous aquatic mammals of the suborder (or superfamily) Pinnipedia, having flippers as organs of locomotion and including the seals and the walrus.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Fin-footed, in any sense; having feet like fins or flippers. Specifically
  • noun. A member of the Pinnipedes or Pinnipedia: opposed to fissiped.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One of the Pinnipedia; a seal.
  • noun. One of the Pinnipedes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of various large marine mammals belonging to the superfamily (formerly considered a suborder) Pinnipedia comprising walruses, eared seals and earless seals.
  • adjective. Pertaining to or similar to such a mammal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers