sea-creatures
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
dogfish · dolphins · great sea-creatures · hammer-fish · saw-fish · scallops · sea-cows · sea-horses · sea-monsters · sea-nettles
in the texts
Letters
Non-fish aquatic creatures listed as a distinct classification from true fish.
For not everything that lives in water is a fish, such as the sea-monsters — whales, hammer-fish, dolphins, seals, and besides, sea-horses, and dogfish, and saw-fish, and sword-fish, and the sea-cows;
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Marine creatures inhabiting the ocean, invoked as a danger Sītā fears if she fell while being carried.
"The ocean, a hundred yojanas wide, the abode of sea-monsters, was made a mere cow's hoof-print by your praiseworthy stride.
"Fallen into the ocean, teeming with timi-fish, sharks, and great sea-creatures, helpless, I would quickly become the choicest meal of the denizens of the deep.