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Definition of sea horse

sea horse
2. (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. 3. (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.

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- The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse, part of which is sometimes called the Battle of the Gifu, took place from 15 December...
- A seahorse (also written sea-horse and sea horse) is any of 46 species of small marine bony fish in the genus Hippocampus. The genus name comes from the...
- The first USS Sea Horse was a one-gun schooner that the Navy purchased in 1812 for service on Lake Borgne, near New Orleans, Louisiana. It is claimed...
- The Wonderful Sea-Horse is an Iranian folktale collected from storyteller Mashdi Galeen Khanom and published by Laurence Paul Elwell-Sutton. It is classified...
- of ships have been named Seahorse or Sea Horse after the marine creature, including:- The transport ship Sea Horse was wrecked in Tramore Bay on 30 January...
- call it a water horse. The name "water bull" has been used for either creature. The Breton King Gradlon's magical "horse of the sea" Morvarc'h (whose...
- Gr**** mythology, the Trojan Horse (Gr****: δούρειος ίππος, romanized: doureios hippos, lit. 'wooden horse') was a wooden horse said to have been used by...
- hippocamps; Ancient Gr****: ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, 'horse', and κάμπος, 'sea monster'), sometimes called a "sea-horse" in English,[citation needed] is a mythological...
- Sea Horse is a restaurant in Ullanlinna, Helsinki, Finland, founded in 1934. Since its founding, it has paid attention to the traditional Finnish restaurant...
- Enbarr, Manannán, Niamh, and Lugh's horse, which could travel both land and sea Kelpie, a mythical Celtic water horse Liath Macha and Dub Sainglend, or...