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Definition of Sirenia
1. Noun. An animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea cow.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Eutheria, Subclass Eutheria
Member holonyms: Sea Cow, Sirenian, Sirenian Mammal, Family Trichechidae, Trichechidae, Dugongidae, Family Dugongidae
Definition of Sirenia
1. n. pl. An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera.
Medical Definition of Sirenia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sirenia
Literary usage of Sirenia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"sirenia.—This order comprises no other living animals except the Dugongs and ...
There is no doubt, in fact, but that the sirenia are very closely allied to ..."
2. A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the Department of Geology and by Henry Woodward (1890)
"MANATEE, &c ) The sirenia form a remarkable group of aquatic vegetable- feeding
... The sirenia have no dorsal fin ; the tail is flattened, and expanded ..."
3. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"'he sirenia agree with the Whales and Dolphins in their ... does appear that
there were any incisor teeth. only existing sirenia are the Manatees (Manatos) ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"THE sirenia. BY ARTHUR E. BROWN. AS the name of this curious order of aquatic
mammals was suggested, without doubt, by the probability that they, ..."
5. The Mammalia in Their Relation to Primeval Times by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1886)
"There is absolutely no safe starting point for their historical descent.1 We are
more fortunate as regards the class next to be considered, the sirenia. 6. ..."
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