sirenian
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si·re·ni·an
(sī-rē′nē-ən)n.
See sea cow.
[From New Latin Sīrēnia, order name, from Latin Sīrēn, Siren; see siren.]
si·re′ni·an adj.
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sirenian
(saɪˈriːnɪən)adj
(Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the Sirenia, an order of aquatic herbivorous placental mammals having forelimbs modified as paddles, no hind limbs, and a horizontally flattened tail: contains only the dugong and manatees
n
(Animals) any animal belonging to the order Sirenia; a sea cow
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si•re•ni•an
(saɪˈri ni ən)n.
an aquatic, herbivorous mammal of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong.
[1880–85]
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| Noun | 1. |  sirenian - any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbsaquatic mammal - whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals order Sirenia, Sirenia - an animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea cow manatee, Trichechus manatus - sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded dugong, Dugong dugon - sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate Hydrodamalis gigas, Steller's sea cow - extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea |
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