manatee

基本解釋

A friendly manatee may swim right up and touch your face with his.
一頭友好的海?？赡軙阶杂蜗蚰?，然后和你貼面。
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Emboldened by their overtures, I let my hand graze the side of the small manatee, now clinging to the mother's back, as they made their pass.
它們的主動使我膽子大了起來，在它們從我身邊游過時，我用手輕輕摸了一下那只小海牛的側面，它緊靠在她母親的背部。
Then, with incredible gentleness for such an enormous creature, the larger manatee nudged the little one with her paddle-shaped flipper and pushed it to the surface beside me.
接著，那個大個的海牛用它漿一樣的腳掌推著那個小家伙，把它推出水面，推到我旁邊，那動作溫柔的讓人無法相信來自這么巨大的生物。

The endangered creatures include the manatee, the Miami blackhead snake, the wood stork and the Florida panther.
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They include the Florida panther, the American crocodile and the West Indian manatee.

When Allen was close to the end, Eber had done a presentation at school on the manatee.
NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

a large sea animal, similar to a dugong, found mainly in West Africa and the Caribbean. It has thick skin, a rounded fin at the back end of its body, and two flippers (= flat parts for swimming) at the front.

A manatee is a mammal which lives in the sea and looks like a small whale with a broad, flat tail.