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    SIRENIAN MAMMAL

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     I. (noun) 

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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 limbsplay

    Synonyms:

    sea cow; sirenian; sirenian mammal

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("sirenian mammal" is a kind of...):

    aquatic mammal (whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sirenian mammal"):

    manatee; Trichechus manatus (sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded)

    dugong; Dugong dugon (sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate)

    Hydrodamalis gigas; Steller's sea cow (extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea)

    Holonyms ("sirenian mammal" is a member of...):

    order Sirenia; Sirenia (an animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea cow)

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