Meaning | Any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs. |
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Synonyms | sea cow, sirenian mammal |
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Member of | Sirenia, order Sirenia | An animal order including |
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Narrower | Steller's sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas | Extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea |
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dugong, Dugong dugon | sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia |
manatee, Trichechus manatus | sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America |
Broader | aquatic mammal | whales and dolphins |
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Spanish | buey marino, sirenio, vaca marina |
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Catalan | sireni |
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