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MIROUNGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mirounga mean? 

MIROUNGA (noun)
  The noun MIROUNGA has 1 sense:

1. elephant sealsplay

  Familiarity information: MIROUNGA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MIROUNGA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Elephant seals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Mirounga; Mirounga

Hypernyms ("Mirounga" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Mirounga"):

elephant seal; sea elephant (either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks)

Holonyms ("Mirounga" is a member of...):

family Phocidae; Phocidae (earless seals)


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