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Fish with an upright posture
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seahorse
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber [syn: walrus , sea horse ] small fish with horselike heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position [syn: sea horse ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Inlaid into the front of the black-faced headstock is the familiar Gibson logo, and what looks like a stylised seahorse .
Usage examples of seahorse.
Maybe he investigated the background of specific seekers while the seahorse, wall, and manticora delayed them, so that by the time one won through, Humfrey was ready.
A unit of Imperial Guards mounted on seahorses bobbed through the air in perfect unison.
Champagne flowed from the mouths of icy seahorses perched upon frozen waves.
But there were fantastic creatures like dragons and seahorses and winged lions mingled in with the horses, and the construction seemed sound enough.
The whitemaned seahorses, champing, brightwindbridled, the steeds of Mananaan.
There are comb jellies and moon jellies in many flavors, seahorses that crunch when you bite into them, and shellfish that have to be sucked out of their homes and down your throat.
A number of merfolk rode in shell chariots drawn by man-sized seahorses that glowed brown and were harnessed with kelp and sea-grass strips radiating an intense crimson.
The muscular soldiers picked up driftwood, seahorses, periwinkle, clear, rubbery jellyfish.
The chariot, of gold and silver, was decorated with stylized octopi and seahorses swam in dipping procession around the border upon the base.
She is where the Frenchmen in their make-believe chateaux, perfum'd, intricately bewigg'd, stop all day at their toilettes, safe from the cold consensus that ignores dream in its Reckonings, France, French agents of Death, at the worst of the fight between the Seahorse and l'Grand, in all that tearful fall from humanity, his Bowels seconds away from letting go, there had wrapp'd 'round him the certainty that whatever was come for him now, had also come for her then, not in the way of a Bailiff or Assassin, at all selective, but rather as a Dredge, a Scavenger, foraging blind, unto which Mason sens'd himself about to be gather'd, as mindlessly as any seaman above-decks, forever to him nameless.
Intrigue and Masks realiz'd in locally obtain'd Fur and Plumage, clamorous with Chatter and what seems now more to resemble Dancing-Music, dominated from one wall by a gigantic rococo Mirror, British Chippendale to the innocent eye, engrossing easily the hundredth part of an acre, Dixon trying to stand his ground even as his partner has begun to walk away rapidly backward, for an Eye-blink there having pass'd over his Face a look of Alarm that has not possess'd it since the Seahorse, during the worst of that encounter.
Rosette and seahorse and seething cloud, nebulosities on the brink of determinate form, cardioid traceries of the heart the patterns wrapped around him until he became a fractal tapestry, alive, every element in constant motion.
Therewere magnified tanks of starfish, seahorses, and neon-orange coral fish, letting a few aquatic animals standin for many.
There were magnified tanks of starfish, seahorses, and neonorange coral fish, letting a few aquatic animals stand in for many.
Stricken through the heart, his silverweave armor no match for the shaved coral head of the quarrel, the sea elf released the reins of the seahorse.