manatee

Any of various herbivorous aquatic mammals of the genus Trichechus, having paddlelike front flippers and a horizontally flattened tail and found in warm coastal waters of Florida, northern South America, West Africa, and the Caribbean.

A sea-cow; a gregarious herbivorous aquatic sirenian mammal, of the genus Manatus, family Manatidœ, and order Sirenia.

Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians; — called also sea cow.

Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae, found in tropical regions.

sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded