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  • English Word Sea gauge Definition See under Gauge, n.
  • English Word Sea gherkin Definition Alt. of Sea girkin
  • English Word Sea ginger Definition A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under Millepore.
  • English Word Sea girdles Definition A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
  • English Word Sea girkin Definition Any small holothurian resembling in form a gherkin.
  • English Word Sea god Definition A marine deity; a fabulous being supposed to live in, or have dominion over, the sea, or some particular sea or part of the sea, as Neptune.
  • English Word Sea goddess Definition A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.
  • English Word Sea goose Definition A phalarope.
  • English Word Sea gown Definition A gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by mariners.
  • English Word Sea grape Definition The gulf weed. See under Gulf.
  • English Word Sea grape Definition A shrubby plant (Coccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine.
  • English Word Sea grape Definition The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).
  • English Word Sea grass Definition Eelgrass.
  • English Word Sea green Definition The green color of sea water.
  • English Word Sea gudgeon Definition The European black goby (Gobius niger).
  • English Word Sea gull Definition Any gull living on the seacoast.
  • English Word Sea hare Definition Any tectibranchiate mollusk of the genus Aplysia. See Aplysia.
  • English Word Sea hawk Definition A jager gull.
  • English Word Sea heath Definition A low perennial plant (Frankenia laevis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.
  • English Word Sea hedgehog Definition A sea urchin.
  • English Word Sea hen Definition the common guillemot; -- applied also to various other sea birds.
  • English Word Sea hog Definition The porpoise.
  • English Word Sea holly Definition An evergeen seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum). See Eryngium.
  • English Word Sea holm Definition A small uninhabited island.
  • English Word Sea holm Definition Sea holly.
  • English Word Sea horse Definition A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus.
  • English Word Sea horse Definition The walrus.
  • English Word Sea horse Definition Any fish of the genus Hippocampus.
  • English Word Sea hulver Definition Sea holly.
  • English Word Sea jelly Definition A medusa, or jellyfish.