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  1. 1. n. pl. An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera. Source: opted
  2. 2. An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera. Note: The hind limbs are either rudimentary or wanting, and the front ones are changed to paddles. They have horny plates on the front part of the jaws, and usually flat-crowned molar teeth. The stomach is complex and the intestine long, as in other herbivorous mammals. See Cetacea (b). Source: webster
  3. 3. An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including themanatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera. Source: adambom
  4. 4. n. pl. An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera. Source: ecdict

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