elephant seal

English

southern elephant seal

Noun

elephant seal (plural elephant seals)

1. Large marine mammals of the genus Mirounga, the largest of the pinnipeds.

Derived terms

• northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris)
• southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina)

Translations

mammal of the genus Mirounga

• Adyghe: хыкъохъу (xəqʷoχʷu)
• Afrikaans: see-olifant, olifantrob
• Asturian: elefante marín (ast)
• Bulgarian: морски слон m (morski slon)
• Catalan: elefant marí (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᎺᏉ ᎧᎹᎹ ᎤᏔᎾ (amequo kamama utana)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 象海豹 (zh) (xiànghǎibào)

• Czech: rypouš m
• Dutch: zeeolifant (nl) m
• Finnish: merinorsu
• French: éléphant de mer (fr) m
• German: See-Elefant (de) m
• Greek: θαλάσσιος ελέφαντας m (thalássios eléfantas)
• Hungarian: elefántfóka (hu)
• Icelandic: sæfíll m
• Indonesian: gajah laut
• Irish: rón eilifintiúil m, smutrón m
• Italian: elefante marino (it) m
• Khmer: ដំរីសមុទ្រ (dɑmrəy sa’mot)
• Korean: 코끼리물범 (kokkirimulbeom)
• Macedonian: морски слон m (morski slon)
• Malayalam: കടലാന (ml) (kaṭalāna), ആനത്തിമിംഗിലം (ānattimiṅgilaṁ)
• Maori: ihu koropuku
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: далайн заан (dalajn zaan)

  Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ
  ᠵᠠᠭᠠᠨ (dalai-yin ǰaɣan)

• Polish: słoń morski m, mirunga f
• Portuguese: elefante-marinho (pt) m
• Romanian: focă elefant f
• Russian: морско́й слон m (morskój slon)
• Spanish: elefante marino m
• Swahili: tembo wa bahari
• Swedish: sjöelefant (sv) c
• Welsh: eliffant môr m
• Yámana: hašahúwa

References

• elephant seal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mirounga on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Mirounga on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons