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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea cow;
[syn: Sirenia, order Sirenia]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sirenia \Si*re"ni*a\, n. pl. [NL.] (Zool.) An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera. [1913 Webster] 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) . [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Sirenia n 1: an animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea cow [syn: Sirenia, order Sirenia]