AQUATIC MAMMAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aquatic mammal mean? 

• AQUATIC MAMMAL (noun)
  The noun AQUATIC MAMMAL has 1 sense:

1. whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals

  Familiarity information: AQUATIC MAMMAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AQUATIC MAMMAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("aquatic mammal" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Meronyms (parts of "aquatic mammal"):

flipper (the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aquatic mammal"):

blower; cetacean; cetacean mammal (large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals)

sea cow; sirenian; sirenian mammal (any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs)

pinnatiped; pinniped; pinniped mammal (aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers)