Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sirenia"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Sirenia \Si*re"ni*a\, n. pl. [NL.] (Zo["o]l.)
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) .

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

Sirenia
n : manatees; dugongs; Stellar's sea cow [syn: {Sirenia}, {order
Sirenia}]

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