Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical and only genus of the family Rhytinidæ, containing Steller's or the arctic sea-cow, R. stelleri or R. gigas, which has no teeth, but horny plates functioning as such.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
rytina .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), a large
herbivorous marine mammal .
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Examples
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The rhytina has been exterminated in the far north, the elephant seals on Kerguelen are being exterminated in the far south, and midway, in the desert mountains of Lower California a fine species of mountain sheep is rapidly being shot into oblivion.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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The rhytina belonged to the same mammalian Order as the manatee of
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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The rhytina attained a length of between thirty and thirty-five feet, and a weight of 6,000 pounds or over.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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