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Noun: sea cow  see kaw
  1. Any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs
    "The gentle sea cow grazed on underwater vegetation";
    - sirenian mammal, sirenian

Derived forms: sea cows

Type of: aquatic mammal

Part of: order Sirenia, Sirenia

Encyclopedia: Sea cow