otarine

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otarine (not comparable)

  1. (zoology) Of or relating to the eared seals.
    • 1972, David Edward Gaskin, Whales, Dolphins and Seals, page 153:
      Apart from having pinnae on the external ears, the otarine seals can at once be distinguished on land from phocids by their method of locomotion.