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sea mink

(Encyclopedia) sea mink: see croaker.

sea mouse

(Encyclopedia) sea mouse, marine worm of the genus Aphrodite with a short, broad, segmented body, found in moderately deep water. The upper, or dorsal, surface of a sea mouse bears 15 pairs of raised…

sea nettle

(Encyclopedia) sea nettle, any one of several species of stinging jellyfish, common along coasts and much feared by swimmers. Most stings are painful but are not dangerous to man; however, certain…

Barents Sea

(Encyclopedia) Barents Sea, arm of the Arctic Ocean, N of Norway and European Russia, partially enclosed by Franz Josef Land on the north, Novaya Zemlya on the east, and Svalbard on the west. Its…

Sargasso Sea

(Encyclopedia) Sargasso SeaSargasso Seasärgăsˈō [key], part of the N Atlantic Ocean, lying roughly between the West Indies and the Azores and from about lat. 20°N to lat. 35°N, in the horse latitudes…

sea otter

(Encyclopedia) sea otter: see otter.

sea pansy

(Encyclopedia) sea pansy, fleshy, leaf-shaped colony of marine organisms belonging to the genus Renilla in the same phylum as the jellyfish. The colony consists of a stalk formed by a large organism…

sea peach

(Encyclopedia) sea peach: see tunicate.

sea pen

(Encyclopedia) sea pen, long, slender colonial organism of the same phylum as the jellyfish. Sea pen colonies are formed by several genera of the order Pennatulacea. The colony consists of a stalk…

Sea Peoples

(Encyclopedia) Sea Peoples, modern term for any of the groups of people who attacked Egypt and the E Mediterranean by sea and sometimes by land c.1200 b.c. They are recorded as having fought in…