Sea"-bar` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A tern.
Sea" bar"row (?). (Zoöl.) A sea purse.
Sea" bass`. (&?;). (Zoöl.) (a) A large marine food fish (Serranus, or
Centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the
United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less
varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue
bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch. (b) A
California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass,
and sea salmon.
Sea" bat` (?). (Zoöl.) See Batfish (a).
Sea"beach` (?), n. A beach lying along the sea. "The bleak seabeach."
Longfellow.
Sea" bean (?). (Bot.) Same as Florida bean.
Sea" bear` (?). (Zoöl.) (a) Any fur seal. See under Fur. (b) The white
bear.
Sea"beard` (?), n. (Bot.) A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris)
growing in dense tufts.
Sea" beast` (?). (Zoöl.) Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or
cetacean.
Sea" bird` (?). (Zoöl.) Any swimming bird frequenting the sea; a sea
fowl.
Sea" blite` (?). (Bot.) A plant (Suæda maritima) of the Goosefoot
family, growing in salt marshes.
Sea"-blub"ber (?), n. (Zoöl.) A jellyfish.
Sea"board` (?), n. [Sea + board, F. bord side.] The seashore; seacoast.
Ld. Berners.
Sea"board`, a. Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside;
seacoast; as, a seaboard town.