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Definition: Sirenian |
SirenianNoun1. Any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sirenian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
Synonyms: SirenianSynonyms: sea cow (n), sirenian mammal (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sirenian |
| English words defined with "sirenian": dugong, Dugong dugon ♦ Hydrodamalis gigas ♦ manatee ♦ sirenian mammal, Steller's sea cow ♦ Trichechus manatus. (references) |
Expression using "sirenian": sirenian mammal. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sirenian | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "sirenian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | sirene (hooter, siren). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ireniansay sirenio. (various references) semendergillerden hayvan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Trichecus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sirenian": sirenians. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sirenian" (pronounced 'Si*re"ni*an'): Abderian, Absinthian, Academian, Academician, Acadian, Acanthopterygian, Acaridan, Achean, Achillean, Acoustician, Acritan, Acroceraunian, Acropolitan, Adamantean, Adessenarian, Adonean, Adrian, AEgean, AEolian, AEonian, AEsculapian, AEsthetican, Ahriman, Airman, Airwoman, Alabastrian, Alan, Alban, Albanian, Albigensian, Aldebaran, Alderman, Alexandrian, Algerian, Algonkian, Algonquian, Alkoran, Alloxan, Almsman, Alogian, Alongshoreman, Alphabetarian, Altitudinarian, Amatorian, Amazonian, Amebean, Ametabolian, Amoebean, Amoebian, Amphigean. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-n-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: asinine, insaner, insnare, senarii. | |
-2 letters: arisen, arsine, inaner, inanes, inners, insane, narine, raisin, renins, sienna, sinner. | |
-3 letters: airns, anise, arise, earns, inane, inner, nares, naris, nears, nines, nisei, rains, raise, ranis, reins, renin, resin, rinse, risen, saner, sarin, senna, serai, serin, siren, snare. | |
-4 letters: ains, airn, airs, anes, anis, ares, arse, earn, ears, eras. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-n-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: arginines, sirenians. | |
+2 letters: braininess, carnitines, financiers, graininess, increasing, inebriants, infantries, interbasin, itinerants, reinvasion, resinating, seminarian, triennials, uraninites. | |
+3 letters: ancientries, antipyrines, brigandines, brigantines, creatinines, enravishing, fingernails, herniations, incinerates, inerrancies, inharmonies, inseminator, insertional, interchains, interisland, internalise, interstrain, invariances, linearising, maintainers, manneristic, mislearning, nitrosamine, preinvasion, quinacrines, reassigning, reinstating, reinvasions, resignation, restraining, seminarians, straitening, transfinite. | |
+4 letters: aminopterins, aminopyrines, antiheroines, ascertaining, braininesses, centralising, containerise, denigrations, franklinites, garnisheeing, generalising, germinations, graininesses, hibernations, incarnadines, incendiaries, incendiarism, incinerators, increasingly, incriminates, inebriations, ingatherings, inheritances, innervations, innumeracies, inseminators, integrations, interactions, interfacings, interlinears, internalised, internalises, internalizes, interspacing, interstation, interstrains, intransigent, intransitive, ironicalness, isoprenaline, itinerancies, itinerations, legionnaires, millenarians, mineralising, neutralising, nitrosamines, nonlibraries, nonrealistic, ordinariness, orientations, pensionaries, preassigning, reanimations, refashioning, reinflations, reinstalling, resignations, streamlining, strontianite, terminations, transiencies, tyrannicides, uncinariases. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 72 65 6E 69 61 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. .-. . -. .. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01110010 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i r e n i a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 0072 0065 006E 0069 0061 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5375847180756780 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | alemán, alman |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanisch, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | türkisch, turco, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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