SIRENIA

Sirenia, order Sirenia

(noun) an animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller’s sea cow

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Si*re"ni*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Definition: An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera.

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).

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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