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AQUATIC MAMMAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals
Classified under:
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)
