sea cow

See also: seacow and sea-cow

English

Alternative forms

• sea-cow, seacow

Etymology

From sea +‎ cow.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sea cow (plural sea cows)

2. Any of several marine mammals of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong.

   Synonym: sirenian

Derived terms

• Steller's sea cow

Translations

marine mammal of the order Sirenia

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ламантин m (lamantin)
• Cherokee: ᎠᎺᏉ ᏩᎧ (amequo waka)
• Czech: ochechule (cs) f
• Finnish: sireenieläin, merilehmä (fi)
• German: Seekuh (de) f
• Hebrew: פָּרַת יָם (he) f (parát yam), תַּחַשׁ (he) m (táḥash)
• Hungarian: tengeritehén
• Maltese: baqra tal-baħar f
• Polish: krowa morska f, syrena (pl) f
• Romanian: sirenian (ro) m, lamantin (ro) m
• Russian: морска́я коро́ва f (morskája koróva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: morska krava f

• Spanish: vaca marina (es) f
• Swedish: sirendjur n, sjöko c
• Tagalog: duyong
• Welsh: morfuwch f

See also

• dolphin
• otter
• vaquita
• whale
• manatee

Further reading

• “sea cow”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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