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SIRENIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea cow

Synonyms:

order Sirenia; Sirenia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Sirenia" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Sirenia"):

sea cow; sirenian; sirenian mammal (any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs)

family Trichechidae; Trichechidae (comprising only the manatees)

Dugongidae; family Dugongidae (a family of mammals of order Sirenia including dugongs and Steller's sea cow)

Holonyms ("Sirenia" is a member of...):

Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

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