STELLER'S SEA COW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Steller's sea cow mean? 

• STELLER'S SEA COW (noun)
  The noun STELLER'S SEA COW has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: STELLER'S SEA COW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STELLER'S SEA COW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Hydrodamalis gigas; Steller's sea cow

Hypernyms ("Steller's sea cow" is a kind of...):

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)

Holonyms ("Steller's sea cow" is a member of...):

genus Hydrodamalis; Hydrodamalis (a genus of the family Dugongidae comprising only Steller's sea cow)