Manatí
[ mah-nah-tee ]
noun
a city in N Puerto Rico.
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The manati is not peculiar to the Amazon river, being not less common in the Oronooko.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonIt is known as the Manati, and the Portuguese call it “peixe boi,” which is only “fish-cow” done into Portuguese.
Popular Adventure Tales | Mayne ReidNo real whales: but the Manati, which is very nearly a whale, has long bristly hair left.
Madam How and Lady Why | Charles KingsleyAll trustworthy observations indicate that the manati has not the power of voluntarily leaving the water.
Binger states that the manati was the totem of the Mande group, to which perhaps belonged originally the Susu and the Dyula.
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