hooded seal

hooded seal Word Origin noun

1. a large seal, Cystophora cristata, the male of which has a large, distensible, hoodlike sac on the head.

Origin of hooded seal First recorded in 1860–65 Also called bladdernose. British Dictionary definitions for hooded seal hooded seal noun

1. a large greyish earless seal, Cystophora cristata, of the N Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, having an inflatable hoodlike sac over the nasal regionAlso called: bladdernose