sea-cow
21Steller's sea cow — noun extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea • Syn: ↑Hydrodamalis gigas • Hypernyms: ↑sea cow, ↑sirenian mammal, ↑sirenian • Member Holonyms: ↑Hydrodamalis, ↑ …
22Steller's sea cow — steller stel ler, n. [After Geo. W. Steller, a German naturalist.] (Zo[ o]l.) The rytina; called also {stellerine} and {Steller s sea cow}. See {rytina}. [1913 Webster] …
23Steller's sea cow — Rytina Ryt i*na, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ryti s a wrinkle.] (Zo[ o]l.) A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species ({Rytina Stelleri}); called also {Steller s sea cow}, {stellerine} and {steller}.… …
24cow|fish — «KOW FIHSH», noun, plural fish|es or (collectively) fish. 1. a fish with hornlike projections above its eyes. 2. any one of certain small animals related to the whales, such as the dolphin or porpoise. 3. a sea cow such as a dugong or manatee …
25Steller's sea cow — noun Date: 1814 an extinct very large sirenian (Hydrodamalis gigas) formerly common near the Asian coast of the Bering Sea …
26sea — /see/, n. 1. the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth s surface. 2. a division of these waters, of considerable extent, more or less definitely marked off by land boundaries: the North Sea. 3. one of the seven seas; ocean. 4. a… …
27Sea serpent — This article is about sea serpents in mythology and cryptozoology. For actual marine snakes, see Sea snake. For other uses, see Sea serpent (disambiguation). Sea Serpent (Various) A sea serpent from Olaus Magnus s book History of the Northe …
28cow — cow1 cowlike, adj. /kow/, n., pl. cows, (Archaic) kine. 1. the mature female of a bovine animal, esp. of the genus Bos. 2. the female of various other large animals, as the elephant or whale. 3. Informal. a domestic bovine of either sex and any… …
29sea — n. 1 the expanse of salt water that covers most of the earth s surface and surrounds its land masses. 2 any part of this as opposed to land or fresh water. 3 a particular (usu. named) tract of salt water partly or wholly enclosed by land (the… …
30sea-bull — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: Middle English see bule, from see sea + bule bull more at sea, bull : a male sea cow …
