Sirenian

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  • noun. undefined
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or characteristic of a siren.
  • Pertaining to the Sirenia, or having their characters.
  • noun. A member of the Sirenia, as a manatee, dugong, or sea-cow.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Any species of Sirenia.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of a group of aquatic, herbivorous mammals, of the order Sirenia, including the manatees and dugong.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs
    • Word Usage
    "‘The earliest known fully quadrupedal sirenian’, Nature, 413, 625–7."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    aquatic mammal  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Steller's sea cow  dugong  dugong dugon  hydrodamalis gigas  manatee  
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