steller's sea cow

1. 1.

   extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea

   SynonymsHydrodamalis gigas

   Broadersea cow

   Part ofHydrodamalis

Questions about steller's sea cow

What does steller's sea cow mean?

steller's sea cow means "extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea".

What is another word for steller's sea cow?

Close synonyms include Hydrodamalis gigas. 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 steller's sea cow a common word?

steller's sea cow 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.