Definition of Sirenidae

1. Noun. Sirens.

Exact synonyms: Family Sirenidae
Generic synonyms: Amphibian Family
Group relationships: Caudata, Order Caudata, Order Urodella, Urodella
Member holonyms: Genus Siren

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sirenidae

Sir William Huggins
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Sir William Turner Walton
Sir William Wallace
Sir William Walton
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Sir Yehudi Menuhin
Sirach
Siracusa
Siraiki
Siraj-ud-daula
Sirajganj District
Sirbonian
Siren's song
Siren song
Sirenidae
Sirian
Sirians
Sirionó
Siris
Sirius
Sirrah
Sirte
Sison
Sison amomum
Sissy
Sistani Persian
Sister
Sister Joseph's nodule
Sister Mary Joseph Dempsey

Literary usage of Sirenidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1901)
"sirenidae.—-The three pairs of fringed external gills persist throughout life. The body is eel-like. ... The sirenidae are the most degraded members of the ..."

2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1850)
"If it can be shewn that the sirenidae are an aquatic type of a larger group embracing Pachyderms, the direct relation of their structure and mode of life ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1853)
"The affinities of the so-called herbivorous cetaceans. or sirenidae, ... sirenidae are the lowest grade among pachyderms ; even if considered as parallel to ..."

4. Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge; Proposing a by Roswell Park (1841)
"These last named animals, except the sirenidae, change their primary fish-like form, at a certain age ; acquiring limbs, losing their gills, and afterwards ..."

5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1850)
"If it can be shewn that the sirenidae are an aquatic type of a larger group embracing Pachyderms, the direct relation of their structure and mode of life ..."

6. Pantology, Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge: Proposing a by Roswell Park (1847)
"These last named animals, except the sirenidae, change their primary fish-like form, at a certain age ; acquiring limbs, losing their gills, and afterwards ..."

7. Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge ; Proposing a by Roswell Park (1847)
"These last named animals, except the sirenidae, change their primary fish-like form, at a certain age ; acquiring limbs, losing their gills, and afterwards ..."

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