sea-cows

The introduction of manatees or sea-cows to control the hyacinth was successful in Guyana but elsewhere, the manatees found the hyacinth less tasty than other available plants.

Did you know? Lake Chapala under attack from water hyacinth 2008

The introduction of manatees or sea-cows to control the hyacinth was successful in Guyana but elsewhere, the manatees found the hyacinth less tasty than other available plants.

Did you know? Lake Chapala under attack from water hyacinth 2008

Pawsiblee tehm tu, they be awslo called sea-cows, aftur awl.

Are we there yet? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

When the animals were brought to the vessels, it was no small disappointment to many of the seamen, who had feasted their eyes for several days with the prospect of eating them, to find that they were not sea-cows, as they had supposed, but sea-horses.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

When the animals were brought to the vessels, it was no small disappointment to many of the seamen, who had feasted their eyes for several days with the prospect of eating them, to find that they were not sea-cows, as they had supposed, but sea-horses.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

Later on sea-otters, blue and white foxes, and sea-cows provided food, but the island was desolate and solitary -- not a human being was to be seen.

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

And she looked at the children one by one, and seemed very much pleased with them, though she never asked them one question about how they were behaving; and then began giving them all sorts of nice sea things -- sea cakes, sea apples, sea oranges, sea bullseyes, sea toffee; and to the very best of all she gave sea ices, made out of sea-cows 'cream, which never melt under water.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

The courtship of sea-cows, the qualities which appeal most to their dull minds, the way they protect the callow youngsters from voracious crocodiles, how or where they sleep -- of all this we are ignorant.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

St. Francis heard, and, one after another, four great backs slowly heaved up; then an ill-formed head and an impossible mouth, with the unbelievable harelip, and before our eyes the sea-cows snorted and gamboled.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

"We couldn't give it any milk now, the sea-cows have been all killed off."

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918