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Sirenian seen off Fla.
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manatee
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Word definitions for manatee in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae, found in tropical regions. 2 A gray colour, like that of a manatee.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded [syn: Trichechus manatus ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Although sale of manatee meat is against the law, it is still to be found in markets. ▪ But at that time, biologists also saw sick, disoriented manatees acting strangely by curling their lips and arching their backs. ▪ She has ...
Usage examples of manatee.
The pirates hauled their ships into the creeks, and there hove them down, while their Moskito allies speared the tortoise, and the manatee, along the coast, and afterwards salted the flesh for sea-provision.
Each time he used them, though, he encountered exceptional lifeforms: a sabalo trout huge as a salmon, a grandfather manatee happy to die and heavy with useful blubber, and two giant wild turkeys.
Dimock was a pretty old feller by that time, but like most sports, he would shoot anything in sight, not only deer and birds but gators, crocs, and manatees.
The Manatee inhabits the African and American coasts, along the west coast of the former continent, and in the bays, inlets, and rivers of tropical America, but the one with which we have to do is the dugong or halicore, of which the distribution is rather widespread, from the Red Sea and East African coasts to the west coast of Australia.
This time of year he writes a lot of tickets to boaters speeding through manatee zones.
Komodo dragons, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants in untold numbers.
Using a seven-inch needle, he gave the manatee two enormous injections of antibiotics.
It would be easy to blame the snowbirds for the mayhem against the manatees, but Hamilton said this is not fair.
Next month the first captive bred-and-born manatees, named Sunrise and Savannah, will be released into the Homosassa River.
Soon there would be fresh-water dolphins and manatees swimming below, with lake bass to feed them.
Manatees still hapless victims of area boaters January 8, 1986 She floated clockwise in the current.
Boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, piranhas, ostriches, wolves, lynx, wallabies, manatees, porcupines, orang-utans, wild boar—that’s the sort of rainfall you could expect on your umbrella.
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it, you’d be amazed at all the animals that would fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants in untold numbers.
Boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, piranhas, ostriches, wolves, lynx, wallabies, manatees, porcupines, orang-utans, wild boar—that's the sort of rainfall you could expect on your umbrella.
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it, you'd be amazed at all the animals that would fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants in untold numbers.