aquatic mammal

Other forms: aquatic mammals

Definitions of aquatic mammal

1. noun

   whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals
   types:

   blower, cetacean, cetacean mammal

   a large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs and no hind limbs such as whales, dolphins, and porpoises

   sea cow, sirenian, sirenian mammal

   any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs

   pinnatiped, pinniped, pinniped mammal

   aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers

   whale

   any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head

   Trichechus manatus, manatee

   sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded

   Dugong dugon, dugong

   sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate

   Hydrodamalis gigas, Steller's sea cow

   extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea

   seal

   any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions

   sea horse, seahorse, walrus

   either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber

   type of:

   eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal

   mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials