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[syn: Sirenia, order Sirenia]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
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) .
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Sirenia
n 1: an animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea
cow [syn: Sirenia, order Sirenia]