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Sirenia   Listen
noun
Sirenia  n. pl.  (Zool.) 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).





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... an oil obtained in Australia, from Halicore dugong, Gmel., by boiling the superficial fat. A substitute for cod-liver oil. The dugongs are a genus of marine mammals in the order Sirenia. H. dugong inhabits the waters of North and North-east Australia, the southern shores of Asia, and the east coast of Africa. The word ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris


Words linked to "Sirenia" :   family Trichechidae, subclass Eutheria, Dugongidae, order Sirenia, Eutheria, sirenian, Trichechidae, sea cow


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