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SEA COW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs
Synonyms:
sea cow; sirenian; sirenian mammal
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sea cow" is a kind of...):
aquatic mammal (whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea cow"):
manatee; Trichechus manatus (sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded)
dugong; Dugong dugon (sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate)
Hydrodamalis gigas; Steller's sea cow (extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea)
Holonyms ("sea cow" is a member of...):
order Sirenia; Sirenia (an animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea cow)