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Word: sirenia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breast. Sighting these strange creatures centuries ago. sailors plowing Asian seas came home claiming that they had seen women with tails like fish-and thereby started the mermaid legend. Modern scientists paid deference to the legend of the sea sirens by assigning the dugong to the order Sirenia. See SCIENCE, The Useful Manatee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 19, 1960 | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

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