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Definition of Lamantins
1. lamantin [n] - See also: lamantin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamantins
Literary usage of Lamantins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in South America: From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean by Paul Marcoy (1875)
"The lamantins of the Ucayali, upon the leanness of which we lately ... with the
lamantins of the Amazon, and the proof is, that each of them furnishes, ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"In truth, nothing is more rare than the bones of seals and lamantins among the
fossils. ... FOSSIL lamantins. Some debris of fossil bones have been found, ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"... as in the lamantins: perhaps, however, without the great enlargement which
may be remarked at the jugal apophysis of the temporal bone in the latter. ..."
4. Historical and Descriptive Account of British India, from the Most Remote by Hugh Murray, James Wilson, Robert Kaye Greville, Robert Jameson, Whitelaw Ainslie, William Rhind, William Wallace, Clarence Dalrymple (1832)
"The order is divided into two great families : 1st, The herbivorous cetacea,
consisting of the lamantins, du- gongs, and stellers; and, 2dly, ..."
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