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Sirenia
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What's The Definition Of Sirenia?
[n] manatees; dugongs; Stellar's sea cow
Synonyms | Synonyms for Sirenia: order Sirenia Related Terms | Find terms related to Sirenia: See Also | animal order | Dugongidae | Eutheria | family Dugongidae | family Trichechidae | sea cow | sirenian | sirenian mammal | subclass Eutheria | Trichechidae Sirenia In Webster's Dictionary \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) .
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