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Sirenian

noun
1.
Any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs.  Synonyms: sea cow, sirenian mammal.



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... (Rhytina gigas).—The most northerly Sirenian that (so far as we know) ever inhabited the earth, lived on the Commander Islands in the northern end of Behring Sea, and was exterminated by man, for its oil and its flesh, about 1768. It was first made known to the world by Steller, in 1741, ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday


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