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Marine creature in position, almost adjacent to bay?
Answer for the clue "Marine creature in position, almost adjacent to bay? ", 9 letters:
sea-horse
Word definitions for sea-horse in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "walrus," from sea + horse (n.); also see walrus . Also in heraldry as a fabulous animal with the foreparts of a horse and the tail of a fish. Main modern sense in zoology is attested from 1580s.
Usage examples of sea-horse.
Lobster pots had been placed round the walls from which hung fishermen's nets, cut-outs of fish sea-horses with lit-up eyes and clumps of seaweed which were beginning to smell.
In Xanth there were night mares and pookas and were-horses and sea-horses and hippogryphs and centaurs and unicorns and flying horses, and the original stock had been crossbred out of existence.
Scortius of the Blues was outside, a little behind as the two quadrigas came out of the turn and the sea-horse dived to signal the last lap.
They were transparent and shadowy, but they had a distinctive shape, like sea-horses, and I could even see where their respiratory systems were.