steller's sea cow

  • 11Steller (disambiguation) — Steller may refer to a few different things, named after Georg Wilhelm StellerAnimals*Steller s Eider A type of duck. *Steller s Jay A type of bird, related to the Blue Jay. *Steller s Sea Cow An extinct mammal that was native to the Bering Sea.… …

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  • 12steller — s sea cow Stel ler s sea cow , prop. n. [After Geo. W. Steller, a German naturalist.] (Zo[ o]l.) The rytina; called also {stellerine} and {steller}. See {rytina}. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 13steller — stel ler, n. [After Geo. W. Steller, a German naturalist.] (Zo[ o]l.) The rytina; called also {stellerine} and {Steller s sea cow}. See {rytina}. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 14Steller — Систематик живой природы Автор наименований ряда ботанических таксонов. В ботанической (бинарной) номенклатуре эти названия дополняются сокращением «Steller» …

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  • 15Sea serpent — This article is about sea serpents in mythology and cryptozoology. For actual marine snakes, see Sea snake. For other uses, see Sea serpent (disambiguation). Sea Serpent (Various) A sea serpent from Olaus Magnus s book History of the Northe …

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  • 16sea — /see/, n. 1. the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth s surface. 2. a division of these waters, of considerable extent, more or less definitely marked off by land boundaries: the North Sea. 3. one of the seven seas; ocean. 4. a… …

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  • 17cow — cow1 cowlike, adj. /kow/, n., pl. cows, (Archaic) kine. 1. the mature female of a bovine animal, esp. of the genus Bos. 2. the female of various other large animals, as the elephant or whale. 3. Informal. a domestic bovine of either sex and any… …

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  • 18steller — Rytina Ryt i*na, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ryti s a wrinkle.] (Zo[ o]l.) A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species ({Rytina Stelleri}); called also {Steller s sea cow}, {stellerine} and {steller}.… …

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  • 19Georg Wilhelm Steller — (March 10, 1709 November 14, 1746) was a German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer, who worked in Russia and present day Alaska.BiographySteller (Piotr) was born in Windsheim, near Nuremberg, son to Johann Jakob Stöhler (after 1715,… …

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  • 20Bering Sea — The Bering (or ImarpikFact|date=April 2008) Sea is a body of water in the Pacific Ocean that comprises a deep water basin (the Aleutian Basin) which rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelves.The Bering… …

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