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Steller(dictionary)

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Steller noun. E19.
[Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-46), German naturalist and explorer.]
Used attrib. and in possess. to designate animals associated with Steller's explorations.
Steller jay = Steller's jay below. Steller's duck, Steller's eider (duck) a black and white duck with reddish underparts, Polysticta stelleri, found in Siberia, Alaska, and Canada. Steller sea lion = Steller's sea lion below. Steller's jay a blue jay with a dark crest, Cyanocitta stelleri, found in Central and western N. America. Steller's sea cow a large sirenian, Hydrodamalis gigas, found in the Bering Sea area until it was exterminated in the 18th cent. Steller's sea lion a large red-brown sea lion, Eumetopias jubatus, of the northern Pacific.