| NOUN | animal | sirenian, sea cow, sirenian mammal | 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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| 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 | |
| Member of | Sirenia, order Sirenia | An animal order including |
| Narrower | Steller's sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas | Extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea |
| 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 |
| Spanish | buey marino, sirenio, vaca marina | |
| Catalan | sireni | |
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