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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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- A seahorse (also written sea-horse and sea horse) is any of 46 species of small marine bony fish in the genus Hippocampus. "Hippocampus" comes from the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- coach Kimikazu Suzuki and naturalized big man J. R. Sakuragi, who led the SeaHorses to decades of success, including numerous titles in ****an's prime basketball...
- The Wonderful Sea-Horse is an Iranian folktale collected from storyteller Mashdi Galeen Khanom and published by Laurence Paul Elwell-Sutton. It is classified...
- 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'), often called a sea-horse in English,[citation needed] is a mythological...
- 'The Sea Horse' / The Human Heart, Imprisoned". The New York Times. Retrieved August 9, 2020. Gussow, Mel (April 22, 1974). "'The Sea Horse' Star (and...
- Operation Sea Horse was the naval part of Operation Lusty. Lusty's purpose was to locate and recover top secret German weaponry, e.g. aircraft and weapons...