English

Noun

rhytina ‎(plural rhytinas)

1. Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), a large herbivorous marine mammal.
   • 1973, Alan C. Jenkins, Wild life in danger (page 29)

     In 1962, however, the Soviet whaling-ship Buran claimed to have sighted six rhytinas in the neighbourhood of Cape Navarin in the Bering Sea.