MARINE ANIMAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marine animal mean? 

• MARINE ANIMAL (noun)
  The noun MARINE ANIMAL has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals

  Familiarity information: MARINE ANIMAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARINE ANIMAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

marine animal; marine creature; sea animal; sea creature

Hypernyms ("marine animal" is a kind of...):

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marine animal"):

by-catch; bycatch (unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species)

 Context examples 

The researcher said this marine animal could be dreaming, as the different colors are the same camouflage she uses when hunting and eating prey while awake.

(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The segment of the sleeping creature shows Heidi sleeping upside-down in a tank and in moments, her skin begins to change color —leaving marine biologist David Scheel from Alaska Pacific University to suggest that marine animal is dreaming.

(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)