NOUN | animal | order Sirenia, Sirenia | an animal order including |
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Meaning | An animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea cow. | |
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Synonym | Sirenia | |
Member of | Eutheria, subclass Eutheria | All mammals except monotremes and marsupials |
Members | Dugongidae, family Dugongidae | A family of mammals of order Sirenia including dugongs and Steller's sea cow |
Trichechidae, family Trichechidae | Comprising only the manatees | |
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 | animal order | The order of animals |
Spanish | sirénidos, sirenios | |
Catalan | Sirenia, sirenis |
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