Sirenia
海牛目
Si·re·ni·a n. pl. Zool. An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera.
Note: ☞ The hind limbs are either rudimentary or wanting, and the front ones are changed to paddles. They have horny plates on the front part of the jaws, and usually flat-crowned molar teeth. The stomach is complex and the intestine long, as in other herbivorous mammals. See Cetacea (b).
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Sirenia
n : manatees; dugongs; Stellar's sea cow [syn: order Sirenia]