English > aquatic mammal: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals. |
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| Parts | flipper | The flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming |
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| Narrower | cetacean, cetacean mammal, blower | large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including |
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| pinniped mammal, pinniped, pinnatiped | aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers |
| sea cow, sirenian mammal, sirenian | Any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs |
| Broader | placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal | mammals having a placenta |
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| Spanish | mamífero acuático |
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| Catalan | mamífer aquàtic |
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