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An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera. Note: The hind limbs are either rudimentary or wanting, and the front ones are changed to paddles. They have horny plates on the front

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An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera. Note: The hind limbs are either rudimentary or wanting, and the front ones are changed to paddles. They have horny plates on the front part of the jaws, and usually flat-crowned molar teeth. The stomach is complex and the intestine long, as in other herbivorous mammals. See Cetacea .

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• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• DUGONG
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• FRONTIERSMAN
  A man living on the frontier.
• FRONTIERED
  Placed on the frontiers.
• FOSSILIZATION
  The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• FRONTLESSLY
  Shamelessly; impudently.
• FRONTED
  Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.
• FRONTLET
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• GENERABILITY
  Capability of being generated. Johnstone.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• FRONTAGE
  The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
• GENERA
  See GENUS
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• AQUATIC
  Pertaining to water growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.
• GENERANT
  Generative; producing; esp. ,
• HORNY-HANDED
  Having the hands horny and callous from labor.
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• MAJOR GENERAL
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• UNREGENERACY
  The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.
• CONFRONT
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• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• RETROGENERATIVE
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• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• ANGWANTIBO
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  A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
• ENLARGEMENT
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