common seal

English Thesaurus

1. small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	earless seal, hair seal, true seal,
definition	:	any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus phoca, phoca,
definition	:	type genus of the Phocidae: earless seals (noun.animal)