sea creature

collocation in English

meaningsofseaandcreature

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sea
noun
uk
/siː/us
/siː/
the salty water that covers a large part of the surface of the earth, or a large area of salty water, smaller than an ocean, that is partly or completely surrounded ...
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creature
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkriː.tʃər/us
/ˈkriː.tʃɚ/
any large or small living thing that can ...
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(Definition ofseaandcreaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsea creature

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The salmon is not aseacreature.
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They don't stop and decide to specify the catch as a draught of dolphins as more massy kind ofseacreature.
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When you find aseacreature, touch it gently to get gems and credit for it.
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So, he decided to focus on one central character; the weirdestseacreaturethat he could think of.
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This time she escaped to the sea and displayed a new ability to adapt to her surroundings becoming a giant whale-likeseacreature.
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One suchseacreaturecommercially fished in the reefs in this area is lobster.
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Stukely affirmed its diluvial nature but understood it represented someseacreature, perhaps a crocodile or dolphin.
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The centrifugal fan wheel is typically contained within a scroll-shaped fan housing, resembling the shell of the nautilusseacreaturewith a central hole.
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The oral law requires that this blue thread be made from a dye extracted from aseacreatureknown as the "hilazon".
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If so, a card game is triggered to decide if the player loses gold to a rival ship or cargo to aseacreature.
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Ray, aseacreaturehobbyist pays a visit after learning about the circumstances of the previous skipper's death on the news.
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Camper postulated that the animal was a whale, or in any case aseacreature, rather than a land creature.
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After encountering an electric eel-like alien electrifying anything on its path, they begin to speculate that theseacreature-like aliens are the cause of the explosion.
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If the player's ship is not docked at a port at the end of a turn, the player can be attacked by an enemy ship or aseacreature.
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The island suddenly experiences a violent earthquake, and the group then jumps on a log, which is actually the back of a large but harmlessseacreature.
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Other sea creatures like seals and birds are also threatened by declining sources of food.
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It was considered that the by-catch of dolphins and other sea creatures was too important, so we abandoned driftnet fishing.
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Their criteria include a range of environmental indicators, including the presence of significant numbers of seabirds, fish and other sea creatures, either seasonally or throughout the year.
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The aquarium features more than 5,000 sea creatures including sea horse, octopus and sting-ray exhibits.
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These jellyfish should have been deprived of their own food basis by displacement by almost all other sea creatures, yet the medusae swarms still live.
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