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  • English Word Sea cat Definition The wolf fish.
  • English Word Sea cat Definition Any marine siluroid fish, as Aelurichthys marinus, and Arinus felis, of the eastern coast of the United States. Many species are found on the coasts of Central and South America.
  • English Word Sea catfish Definition Alt. of Sea cat
  • English Word Sea chart Definition A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated.
  • English Word Sea chickweed Definition A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.
  • English Word Sea clam Definition Any one of the large bivalve mollusks found on the open seacoast, especially those of the family Mactridae, as the common American species. (Mactra, / Spisula, solidissima); -- called also beach clam, and surf clam.
  • English Word Sea coal Definition Coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land.
  • English Word Sea cob Definition The black-backed gull.
  • English Word Sea cock Definition In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea.
  • English Word Sea cock Definition The black-bellied plover.
  • English Word Sea cock Definition A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini).
  • English Word Sea cocoa Definition A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut.
  • English Word Sea colander Definition A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.
  • English Word Sea colewort Definition Sea cabbage.
  • English Word Sea compass Definition The mariner's compass. See under Compass.
  • English Word Sea coot Definition A scoter duck.
  • English Word Sea corn Definition A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsule of certain species of whelks (Buccinum), which resembles an ear of maize.
  • English Word Sea cow Definition The mantee.
  • English Word Sea cow Definition The dugong.
  • English Word Sea cow Definition The walrus.
  • English Word Sea crawfish Definition Alt. of Sea crayfish
  • English Word Sea crayfish Definition Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster.
  • English Word Sea crow Definition The chough.
  • English Word Sea crow Definition The cormorant.
  • English Word Sea crow Definition The blackheaded pewit, and other gulls.
  • English Word Sea crow Definition The skua.
  • English Word Sea crow Definition The razorbill.
  • English Word Sea crow Definition The coot.
  • English Word Sea cucumber Definition Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. frondosa).
  • English Word Sea dace Definition The European sea perch.