单词 | sea cow |
释义 | sea cow (once / 112565 pages) n WORD FAMILY sea cow: sea cows USAGE EXAMPLESManatees are mammals and are sometimes referred to as sea cows. Seattle Times(Oct 18, 2016) Manatees are mammals and are sometimes referred to as “sea cows.” Washington Times(Oct 18, 2016) Steller’s sea cow: This giant, grazing mammal, a relative of manatees, was hunted to extinction by 1768. Washington Post(Oct 03, 2016) 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 sirenian, 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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