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- noun Plural form of
lamantin .
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Examples
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Six brown points were seen moving along the surface, and these were the two pointed snouts and four pinions of the lamantins.
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Another of the supposed lamantins, Fig. 9, is taken from Squier's article in the
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Six brown points were seen moving along the surface, and these were the two pointed snouts and four pinions of the lamantins.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866
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Do they prove a submarine communication between the limestone of the coast with the limestone serving as the basis of lithophyte polypi, and is the fresh water of Cuba raised up by hydrostatic pressure across the coral rocks of Cayos, as it is in the bay of Xagua, where, in the middle of the sea, it forms springs frequented by the lamantins?
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Could the sounds have proceeded from the throat of some of these human-like denizens of the deep, known as _dugongs, lamantins, manatees_, and the like?
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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There was also an abundance of marine mammalia, seals, dolphins, lamantins, walruses, and whales, none of which had previously appeared.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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Cayos, as it is in the bay of Xagua, where, in the middle of the sea, it forms springs frequented by the lamantins?
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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