sea horse

See also: seahorse

English
A sea horse (fish)

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Etymology

From Middle English sehors (“walrus”), equivalent to sea +‎ horse. Probably a calque of obsolete French cheval de mer or directly of Late Latin caballus marinus.

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Noun

sea horse (plural sea horses)

A 1913 £1 "Seahorse" stamp.
  1. (obsolete) The walrus.
    • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 9, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:
      One morning we had vast quantities of sea-horses about the ship, which neighed exactly like any other horses.
  2. Any of various small marine fish of the genus Hippocampus that have a horselike head and swim upright.
  3. (philately) any of a series of British high value stamps issued during the reign of King George V featuring a depiction of Britannia on a chariot in choppy seas.

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walrus — see walrus

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