| 单词 | sirenian |
| 释义 | sirenian (once / 695254 pages) n WORD FAMILY sirenian: sirenians USAGE EXAMPLESLike manatees, dugongs are a member of the sirenia order of sea mammals, and sirenians' closest living relatives are elephants. The Verge(Aug 09, 2015) The Halitherium was a Sirenian with which we are only acquainted by its fossil remains found in the Miocene formation of Central and Southern Europe. Lee, H. W. (Henry William), Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fable...(2011) Why was it so difficult to abandon the Sirenian creakings of this chair? MacKenzie, Compton, Sinister Street, vol. 2(2010) n any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs Syn|Hypo|Hyper sea cow, sirenian mammal Trichechus manatus, manatee sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded Dugong dugon, dugongsirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate Hydrodamalis gigas, Steller's sea cowextinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea aquatic mammal whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals |
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