| 单词 | arctic, northern, or steller's sea-cow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasArctic, northern, or Steller's sea-cow 1. The manatee n.; also applied to other sirenians, as the dugong. Often applied to the now extinct sirenian, Rhytina stelleri, called Arctic, northern, or Steller's sea-cow. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Placentalia > [noun] > order Sirenia sea-bulla1400 mermaida1544 sea-cow1613 sea-ape1755 sirenian1883 trichechodont1887 1613 R. Harcourt Relation Voy. Guiana 30 There is also a Sea-fish..the Indians name it Coiumero, and the Spaniards Manati, but we call it the Sea-cow. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 186 This is the Manatee, or Sea-Cow, called by the French Lamentin. 1859–62 J. Richardson et al. Museum Nat. Hist. (1868) I. 206 The Mexican Sea-cow (Manatus latirostris), a very large species, upwards of fifteen feet in length. 1883 W. H. Flower 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. < as lemmas |
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