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- noun Plural form of
otary .
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chained_bear commented on the word otaries
"Desolation Island, with its sea-elephants and countless penguins, petrels of every kind and the glorious albatrosses that would let him pick them up, warm and if not companionable then at least in no way hostile. Whale-birds, blue-eyed shags! The crab-seals, the leopard-seals, the otaries!"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 240
February 29, 2008