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Sirenia
Si-re′ni-a
,Noun.
pl.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera.
☞ 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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Sirenia
Sirenia
Translingual
Trichechus manatus
Proper noun
Sirenia
- A taxonomic order within the clade Paenungulata – the sirenians.
Hypernyms
- (order): Mammalia - class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria - infraclass; Epitheria - magnorder; Afrotheria - superorder; Paenungulata - clade
Hyponyms
- (order): Dugongidae, Trichechidae - families