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marine animal

n. any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals [syn: marine creature, sea animal, sea creature]

Usage examples of "marine animal".

Somewhere, deep under the seemingly placid Ogadonian surface, was an entire underwater civilization probably as well developed as this one, and what they ate was some sort of fish or marine animal that was the equivalent of the Gekir's jackalopes or the variety of edible animals on Earth.

It explained to me how natural it was, in spite of all glasses, that this boat should have been taken for a marine animal.

Nature in its infinite wisdom had gifted this wondrous marine animal with an optical apparatus of extreme power, capable of resisting the pressure of the heavy layers of water which rolled over him in the depths of the ocean where he usually fed.

Not once but several times, a large and powerful marine animal has been detected a long way from its natural habitat.

He was not, nor anything like it: but Mr Daihousie had spent much of his life at sea - he was a marine animal -and Jack was very much at home with the surveyors and surveying.

I 'adapt' or actually, in most ways, transform, at times into the marine animal most suited for this climate.

The shell of some long-dead marine animal crunched beneath Boba Fett's boot sole.

Indeed, if asked, none of the Skidians could have said anything about the shell's origins and it would have come as a shock to them to discover that it was the mobile home of a tasty marine animal.