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  • Yesterday, I finished reading "Eotheroides lambondrano, new middle Eocene seacow (Mammalia, Sirenia) from the Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar."

    Howard Hughes Just Feels Safer Inside readingthedark 2010

  • Yesterday, I finished reading "Eotheroides lambondrano, new middle Eocene seacow (Mammalia, Sirenia) from the Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar."

    Howard Hughes Just Feels Safer Inside readingthedark 2010

  • [I] f they're exploring whale shapes, why not other aquatic creatures, like the seacow?

    Boing Boing 2008

  • There were some ancient marine mammals like Odobenocetops, Desmostylians or the giant seacow Rytiodus which had enlarged teeth too.

    BoarCroc James Gurney 2010

  • Andrey had shaved his beard, but his mustache had grown and hung down, and gave his round head the appearance of a seacow or walrus.

    Mother 2003

  • Not knowing any more about such things than a seacow knows of the summer solstice, I assented to all his propositions and went my way with my apprehensions completely allayed.

    The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice Eugene Field 1872

  • It is properly called the "manatee," or seacow; measures fifteen feet in length, has two fin-like arms, is covered with hair, and often weighs twelve hundred pounds.

    The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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  • "Big brutes of ocean-going steamers floundering along in the dark, lowing out like seacows. "

    Joyce,Ulysses, 13

    January 14, 2007