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Art & Architecture Thesaurus

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General term referrring to animals belonging to two families (Otariidae and Phocidae) and 32 living species of web-footed aquatic mammals that live chiefly in cold seas and whose body shape, round at the middle and tapered at the ends, is adapted to swift and graceful swimming.

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