sea cow

Questions about sea cow

What does sea cow mean?

sea cow means "any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs".

What is another word for sea cow?

Close synonyms include sirenian mammal, sirenian. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sea cow a common word?

sea cow is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.