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nounrhytina (plural rhytinas)
plural rhytinas
- Synonym of Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), a large herbivorous marine mammal.
In 1962, however, the Soviet whaling-ship Buran claimed to have sighted six rhytinas in the neighbourhood of Cape Navarin in the Bering Sea.
1973, Alan C. Jenkins, Wild life in danger, page 29Synonyms: Steller's sea cow
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nounSynonym of Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), a large herbivorous marine mammal.
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