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sirenian

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Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

si=re=ni=an

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sirenian has 1 sense

sirenian(n = noun.animal) sea cow, sirenian mammal - any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs; Array

is a kind of aquatic mammal

is a member of order sirenia, sirenia

has particulars: manatee, trichechus manatus, dugong, dugong dugon, hydrodamalis gigas, steller's sea cow

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sirenian, n.

Any species of Sirenia. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

sirenian, adj. & n.
--adj. of the order Sirenia of large aquatic plant-eating mammals, e.g. the manatee and dugong.
--n. any mammal of this order.

Etymology

mod.L Sirenia (as SIREN)

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