The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hippocampus \Hip`po*cam"pus\, n. [L., the sea horse, Gr. ? a hippocampus (in senses 1 and 2); "i`ppos horse + ? to bend.]
(Class. Myth.) A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish ( Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune.
--Fairholt.-
(Zo["o]l.) A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse.
Note: They swim slowly, in an erect position, and often cling to seaweeds by means of the incurved prehensile tail. The male has a ventral pouch, in which it carries the eggs till hatched.
(Zo["o]l.) A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 Any of various small marine fish of the genus ''Hippocampus'' that have a horselike head and swim upright. 2 The walrus. n. 1 Any of various small marine fish of the genus ''Hippocampus'' that have a horselike head and swim upright. 2 The walrus.
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Sea Horse is a restaurant in Helsinki, Finland, founded in 1934. Since its founding, it has paid attention to the traditional Finnish restaurant culture with both its interior and its menu. It is colloquially called Sikala (The Pigsty). It is located at Kapteeninkatu 11.
The restaurant's customers have included sailors, cultural people, and everything in between. According to journalist Jouni Lompolo, pen name "Origo", you can meet everyone from Nobel prize winners to men in the street in the restaurant.
The staff has included numerous personalities. Gunnar Salenius, connected with the Jäger Movement, worked as the doorman in the 1930s. Pirre Pasanen, daughter of director and inventor Spede Pasanen, was the chief restaurateur of Sea Horse for a year after her father's death.
In 2003, an extensional cabinet called Musta hevonen ("the black horse") was opened. The cabinet includes Kimmo Kaivanto's painting Punaista ja mustaa. On the back wall of the main restaurant hall, there is a painting of two sea horses, which has two theories relating to its birth. According to one theory, art students who had broken in the restaurant in the 1940s had painted it. According to the other theory, a broke art student had paid his restaurant bill by creating the painting.
The most popular dishes on the menu include fried herrings, cabbage rolls, pyttipanna, meatballs and Wiener Schnitzel à la maison. The onion steak has been a classic dish on the menu for over 40 years, even mentioned in literature.
Famous regular customers of "Sikala" have included, in addition to Jouni Lompolo and Kimmo Kaivanto, quiz show host Jyrki Otila, poet Pentti Saaritsa and traffic reporter Esko Riihelä. Other famous customers have included poet Pablo Neruda, philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie.
Usage examples of "sea horse".
Hagagne pulled a pouch from his work apron and took out a pipe carved in the likeness of a sea horse.
But while a good landbound horse could be had for under a thousand dollars, and a sea horse for perhaps five thousand, airhorses began at ten thousand and required special maintenance, since no ordinary paddock could hold them.
He wore a uniform of white linen and held a staff almost as tall as himself, an osseous twist of narwhale horn capped with a golden sea horse.
It was a baby pike, absolutely rigid and probably asleep, and it looked like a pipe stem or a sea horse stretched out flat.