- Amended law evenly groups Arctic species - Large marine mammal - Seal's tusked cousin - Tusked marine animal - A very large marine mammal (Trichecus rosmarus) of the Seal
family, native of the Arctic Ocean. The male has long and powerful
tusks descending from the upper jaw. It uses these in procuring food
and in fighting. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds
largely on mollusks. Called also morse.
- Large marine animal - A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola
rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated
tail. - Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American
fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad,
compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of
the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream,
pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L.
pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the
species are called also pondfish. - The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner. - The opah. - The basking, or liver, shark. - Any large jellyfish.
- A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially
to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or
squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.