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Definition: Manatee |
ManateeNoun1. Sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "manatee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
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Manatee
larger imageScientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Sirenia Family: Trichechidae Genus: Trichechus Species Trichechus inunguis
Trichechus manatus
Trichechus senegalensisManatees (Family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large aquatic mammals sometimes known as sea cows. The Trichechidae differ from the Dugongidae in the shape of the skull and the shape of the tail. Manatee's tails are paddle-shaped, while the Dugong's is forked.
Manatees inhabit shallow, marshy coastal areas of North, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean Sea.
It is an herbivore, spending most of its time grazing in shallow waters.
One species (Trichechus senegalensis) inhabits the west coast of Africa, another (T. manatus) inhabits the east coast of South America, and the West Indies. The Florida Manatee (T. inunguis) is by some considered a distinct species, by others it is thought to be a variety of T. americanus. It sometimes becomes 15 feet (4.6 meters) or more in length, and lives both in fresh and salt water. It was once hunted for its oil and flesh but is now legally protected.
In the United States, the manatee is an endangered species. Although it does not have any natural predators, human expansion has reduced its natural habitat in the coastal marsh areas, and many manatees are injured by the propellers of outboard motor boats.
Indigenous people of Central America made a preparation of dried manatee meat, which they called buccan. This meat became so popular among Spanish and Portuguese sailors along the Central American coast that they came to be called in slang buccaneers.
A similar creature is the extinct Steller's Sea Cow.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Manatee."
Synonym: ManateeSynonym: Trichechus manatus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Manatee |
| English words defined with "manatee": Lamantin ♦ Rytina. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "manatee": sea cows Sirenia. (references) |
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 | Look out for the manatee!. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A manatee cow and calf. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A group of boy scouts and their leaders plant native wetland plants in Palmetto, Manatee County, Florida. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Planting smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, at a donor site at the Port Manatee fish hatchery. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Plate 33. The Manatee. Trichechus manatus, L. Manatee feeding. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Spraying pesticide tomatoes near Manatee, FL. Credit: USDA. |
 | Packing grapefruit in the land of Manatee, Bradenton, Fla. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Manatee Seen from Underwater f" by David Sinofksy Commentary: "Mantee from Underwater from Florida Zoo." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Manatee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Manatee" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "manatee": Manatee County. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "manatee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | خروف البحر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | морска крава (cow-fish). (various references) | |
Danish | søko (sea-cow), lamantin (North American manatee, West Indian manatee), en art soko (sea-cow). (various references) | |
Dutch | manati, manatee, lamantýn, Amerikaanse lamenti, Amerikaanse lamantijn, Amazone-lamentijn (sea-cow), Amazone-lamantijn (sea-cow). (various references) | |
Finnish | manaatti, kynnetönmanaatti (sea-cow). (various references) | |
French | lamantin de l'Amazonie, lamantin d'Amérique, lamantin, \SEW. (various references) | |
German | seekuh (sirenia, sirenians), rundschwanzseekuh, Nagel-Manati (North American manatee, West Indian manatee), Fluß-Manati (sea-cow). (various references) | |
Greek | θαλάσσια αγελάδα (dugong, sea-cow). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lamantin (cow-fish). (various references) | |
Indonesian | duyung. (various references) | |
Italian | manato senza unghie (Amazonian manatee, sea-cow, South American manatee), manato comune (North American manatee, West Indian manatee), vacca marina, lamatino dell'Amazzonia (sea-cow), lamantino dell'Amazzonia (sea-cow), lamantino americano, lamantino. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 海牛 (sea cow, sea slug). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かいぎゅう (sea cow). (various references) | |
Manx | booa varrey (dugong). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anateemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | manatim do Amazonas (Amazonian manatee, sea-cow, South American manatee), manatim das Caraíbas, manatim, peixe-boi (cow-fish, morse, sea-cow). (various references) | |
Russian | ламантин (sea cow). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | morska krava (cow-fish, sea cow), tropski (torrid, tropic, tropical), američki kit. (various references) | |
Spanish | manatí (cow-fish). (various references) | |
Swedish | sjöko (sea cow), siren (siren), lamantin, amazon-sjöko (sea-cow), amazonmanat (sea-cow). (various references) | |
Turkish | manati, denizayısı (sea cow, walrus), deniz ineği. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ламантин (sea cow). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Trichechus inunguis, Trichechus inunguis (Natterer,1883), Trichechus manatus, Trichechus manatus (Linnaeus). (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "manatee": manatees. (additional references) | |
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"Manatee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amanaty, amante, Macnalty, Macnamee, Manasty, manichee, Manitui, Mannakee, manstowe, mantei, Mantree, Manzatu, mawatte, menatee, Menatep, mentawi, mentee, miniate, Monate, Monaveen, monetae, montee, mynetere, namaste. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "manatee" (pronounced ma"nutē') |
| 3 | -u t ē' | realty. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: emanate, enemata. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-m-n-t" | |
-2 letters: ament, antae, atman, eaten, enate, enema, manat, manta, meant, menta. | |
-3 letters: amen, anta, ante, atma, etna, mana, mane, mate, mean, meat, meet, meta, mete, name, neat, neem, nema, tame, team, teem, teen. | |
-4 letters: ama, ana, ane, ant, ate, eat, eme, eta, mae, man, mat, men, met, nae, nam, nee, net, tae, tam, tan. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-m-n-t" | |
+1 letter: emanated, emanates, entameba, manatees. | |
+2 letters: abasement, abatement, amazement, athenaeum, deaminate, emanative, entamebae, entamebas, entamoeba, exanimate, exanthema, nameplate, reanimate. | |
+3 letters: abasements, abatements, amazements, antifemale, athenaeums, deaminated, deaminates, delaminate, emancipate, emarginate, entamoebae, entamoebas, exanthemas, lamentable, management, nameplates, ravagement, reanimated, reanimates, rearmament, weatherman. | |
+4 letters: advancement, amativeness, amphetamine, animateness, antechamber, appeasement, arrangement, assuagement, balletomane, delaminated, delaminates, emancipated, emancipates, exanthemata, fragmentate, lineamental, maintenance, managements, megatonnage, metanalyses, pomegranate, ravagements, rearmaments, tetrahymena, treponemata. | |
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