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CIDE DICTIONARY
siredon | siren | siren call | siren song | sirene | sirenia | sirenian | sirenian mammal | sirenical | sirenidae | sirenize

sirenia

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sirenian. pl. [NL.].
     An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera.  [1913 Webster]
    " 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)."  [1913 Webster]

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