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Sirenia
(gcide) | Sirenia \Si*re"ni*a\, n. pl. [NL.] (Zool.)
An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the
manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera.
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Note: The hind limbs are either rudimentary or wanting, and
the front ones are changed to paddles. They have horny
plates on the front part of the jaws, and usually
flat-crowned molar teeth. The stomach is complex and
the intestine long, as in other herbivorous mammals.
See Cetacea
(b) .
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sirenia
(wn) | Sirenia
n 1: an animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea
cow [syn: Sirenia, order Sirenia] |
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order sirenia
(encz) | order Sirenia, n: |
sirenian
(encz) | sirenian, n: |
sirenian mammal
(encz) | sirenian mammal, n: |
Sirenian
(gcide) | Sirenian \Si*re"ni*an\, n. (Zool.)
Any species of Sirenia.
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The Denticete including the dolphins and sperm whale which have teeth Another suborder Zeuglodontia is extinct The Sirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea but are now made a separate order
(gcide) | Cetacea \Ce*ta"ce*a\, n. pl. [NL., from L. cetus whale, Gr. ?.]
(Zool.)
An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like
ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring
forth living young which they suckle for some time. The
anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are
horizontal. There are two living suborders:
(a) The {Mysticete or whalebone whales, having no true
teeth after birth, but with a series of plates of
whalebone [see Baleen.] hanging down from the upper jaw
on each side, thus making a strainer, through which they
receive the small animals upon which they feed.}
(b) The {Denticete, including the dolphins and sperm whale,
which have teeth. Another suborder (Zeuglodontia) is
extinct. The Sirenia were formerly included in the
Cetacea, but are now made a separate order.}
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order sirenia
(wn) | order Sirenia
n 1: an animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea
cow [syn: Sirenia, order Sirenia] |
sirenia
(wn) | Sirenia
n 1: an animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea
cow [syn: Sirenia, order Sirenia] |
sirenian
(wn) | sirenian
n 1: any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals
with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no
hind limbs [syn: sea cow, sirenian mammal, sirenian] |
sirenian mammal
(wn) | sirenian mammal
n 1: any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals
with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no
hind limbs [syn: sea cow, sirenian mammal, sirenian] |
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