sirenian mammal

Questions about sirenian mammal

What does sirenian mammal mean?

sirenian mammal 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 sirenian mammal?

Close synonyms include sea cow, 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 sirenian mammal a common word?

sirenian mammal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.