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SIRENIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea cow
Synonyms:
order Sirenia; Sirenia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Sirenia" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Sirenia"):
sea cow; sirenian; sirenian mammal (any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs)
family Trichechidae; Trichechidae (comprising only the manatees)
Dugongidae; family Dugongidae (a family of mammals of order Sirenia including dugongs and Steller's sea cow)
Holonyms ("Sirenia" is a member of...):
Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
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