. Universal dictionary of the english language : a new and original work presenting for convenient reference the orthography, pronunciation, meaning, use, origin and development of every word in the english language .... Ihu wuodud purtiuns of £iouth America. i • man aao, «, & «. IMknacb.] hSiU b6^; p^t. 1<5^1; cat. 90II, chorus, ^hln. bon^h: go. ftem; thlti, ^M: In. a^: oxpoot. Xonophon, e^nt, -lAg--«lan« -tian = Bhon. -tlon, -aion-sliiLn; -(ion, sion - zhtln. -Clous, -bIoum, -olous ^ staiU. -ble, -die, &c. -- bfl, d^L 3024 manatee—mandarin mSji-a-tee, t man-ati, * xn^-a-tin, s. (E
. Universal dictionary of the english language : a new and original work presenting for convenient reference the orthography, pronunciation, meaning, use, origin and development of every word in the english language .... Ihu wuodud purtiuns of £iouth America. i • man aao, «, & «. IMknacb.] hSiU b6^; p^t. 1<5^1; cat. 90II, chorus, ^hln. bon^h: go. ftem; thlti, ^M: In. a^: oxpoot. Xonophon, e^nt, -lAg--«lan« -tian = Bhon. -tlon, -aion-sliiLn; -(ion, sion - zhtln. -Clous, -bIoum, -olous ^ staiU. -ble, -die, &c. -- bfl, d^L 3024 manatee—mandarin mSji-a-tee, t man-ati, * xn^-a-tin, s. (Etyni. doiibtlul. Agassiz says from UwDative name ; MoNicnll adopts tlie etym. givenin the extract, as does Prof. Flower in (ed. 9tli). xv. 456.] ZooL : Any individual of the genus Manatus(). more jiarticularly M. australis (anwrri-canus), first discovered by the early Spanishcolonists. Dr. Haslan was of opinion thatthere were two species of Manatus in America,and the northern form he named Af. latirostris;they are now generally considered as consti-tuting a single species. Desmarest separatedthe African Manatee from its American con-gtjner, on account of cranial differences, however, of great importance, and called itM. senegalensis. Manatees are found in thecreeks, lagoons, and estuaries of some of theWest India inlands, on the American coast,from Florida as far as 20 S., in the greatrivers of Brazil, on the coast of Africa from16° N. to 10° and in Lake Tchad. Theyare slow and inactive, and quite inoffensive;they browse on aquatic, piefei-ably fluviatile,plaiits in sliallow water. Tlieir numbeis arerapidly diminishing, as they are hunted f^rthe sake of their skin, the oil they yield, andtheir flesh. The Manatee measures from 10to 12 feet in length. It ha^i a thick, wrinkled,hairless hide, of a dark bluish gray eyes are small and deeply sunk, and thenostrils are valved slits at the end of thesnout. Ita most remarkable feature is th
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