Crossword clues for manatee
manatee
- Dugong relative
- Everglades swimmer
- Plant-eating aquatic mammal
- Dugong kin
- Dugong cousin
- Water-plant grazer
- Sunshine State swimmer
- Sea World of Florida sight
- Plant-eating mammal
- Mammal linked to mermaid folklore
- Large aquatic mammal — sea cow
- Huge marine mammal
- Herbivorous marine mammal
- Herbivore of coastal waters
- Half-ton swimmer
- Grayish Crayola color
- Florida's 63-year-old Snooty is the oldest in captivity
- Florida marine mammal also called a "sea cow"
- Flippered sea creature
- Everglades cousin of the elephant
- Endangered Everglades swimmer
- Endangered aquatic species
- Denizen of Florida's Crystal River
- Animal on some Florida license plates
- A neat me (anag) — large aquatic mammal
- Sea cow — emanate (anag)
- Endangered Florida creature
- Possible source of mermaid legends
- Animal on a Florida license plate
- Sighting off the Florida coast
- Endangered Everglades mammal
- Marine muncher on mangrove leaves
- SeaWorld attraction
- Everglades mammal
- The flat tail is rounded
- Sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America
- Dugong's relative
- Aquatic mammal
- Dugong's cousin
- Sea mammal
- Marine mammal of the Everglades
- Sirenian seen off Fla.
- China importing a new European mammal
- Sea creature needs to come out head last
- Sea cow - emanate
- Fellow troubled by European sea creature
- Large aquatic mammal - sea cow
- Aquatic mammal with 9, everyone said?
- Large marine mammal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
manatee \man`a*tee"\, n. [Sp. manat['i], from the native name in Haiti. Cf. Lamantin.] (Zo["o]l.) Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians; -- called also sea cow. [Written also manaty, manati.]
Note: One species ( Trichechus Senegalensis) inhabits the west coast of Africa; another ( Trichechus Americanus) inhabits the east coast of South America, and the West-Indies. The Florida manatee ( Trichechus latirostris) is by some considered a distinct species, by others it is thought to be a variety of Trichechus Americanus. It sometimes becomes fifteen feet or more in length, and lives both in fresh and salt water. It was hunted for its oil and flesh, and every species is now an endangered species.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from Spanish manati (1530s), from Carib manati "breast, udder." Often associated with Latin manatus "having hands," because the flippers resemble hands.
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
n. sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded [syn: Trichechus manatus]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 138128
Land area (2000): 741.026971 sq. miles (1919.250962 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 151.718182 sq. miles (392.948270 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 892.745153 sq. miles (2312.199232 sq. km)
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 27.487817 N, 82.549069 W
Headwords:
Manatee, FL
Manatee County
Manatee County, FL
Wikipedia
Manatees ( family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia: the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis), the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), and the West African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis). They measure up to long, weigh as much as , and have paddle-like flippers. The name manatí comes from the Spanish "manatí", derived from the Caribbean word sometimes cited as "manattouï". The etymology is dubious, with connections having been made to Latin "manus" (hand), and to a word used by the Taíno, a pre-Columbian people of the Caribbean, meaning "breast".
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.