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ˈsea-cow
[cow n.1]
1. The manatee; also applied to other sirenians, as the dugong. Often applied to the now extinct sirenian, Rhytina stelleri, called Arctic sea-cow, northern sea-cow, or Steller's sea-cow.
1613R. Harcourt Voy. Guiana 30 There is also a Sea⁓fish..the Indians call it Coiumero, and the Spaniards Manati, but we call it the Sea-cow. 1769E. Bancroft Guiana 186 This is the Manatee, or Sea-Cow, called by the French Lamentin. 1859–62Sir J. Richardson, etc. Mus. Nat. Hist. (1868) I. 206 The Mexican Sea-cow (Manatus latirostris), a very large species, upwards of fifteen feet in length. 1883Flower in Encycl. Brit. XV. 374/1 The Rhytina or Northern Sea-Cow was..limited to a single island in the extreme north of the Pacific Ocean.
2. The Morse or Walrus. Also attrib. ? Obs.
1668Charleton Onomast. 169 Walrus..the Mors, or Sea-Cow. 1782Capt. Coffin in J. Adams' Wks. (1851) III. 330 The sea-cow fishery was..carried on to great advantage. 1819Act 59 Geo. III, c. 52 Tab. A., Sea Cow, Sea Horse, or Sea Morse Teeth, the cwt. 3. 4. 0. 1837T. Bell Brit. Quadrup. 285 Walrus. Morse, Sea-cow, Sea-horse.
†3. [tr. Gr. βοῦς.] A kind of ray. Obs.
1722J. Jones Oppian's Halieut. 227 βοῦς..the Sea-Cow or Broad-Ray.
4. [S. African Du. zeekoe.] The hippopotamus.
1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope II. 129 There is seen in the large rivers about the Cape a very large animal call'd the Sea-Cow. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting i. 15 Nine or ten crocodiles..gorged with sea-cow, and fast asleep.
b. attrib. or adj., as sea-cow sjambok, sea-cow-whip, etc.
1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 93/2 An equally persuasive sea-cow jambok. 1908Rider Haggard Ghost Kings viii. 102 We have sea-cow whips here.
5. A fisherman's name in the west of England for Holothuria nigra.
1884Proc. Zool. Soc. 563. |