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dugong

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du·gong  (dgng, -gông)
n.
A herbivorous marine mammal (Dugong dugon), native to tropical coastal waters of the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and southwest Pacific Ocean and having flipperlike forelimbs and a deeply notched tail fin.
[New Latin Dugong, genus name, possibly from Malay duyong.]
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dugong
Dugong dugon
dugong [ˈduːgɒŋ]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a whalelike sirenian mammal, Dugong dugon, occurring in shallow tropical waters from E Africa to Australia: family Dugongidae
[from Malay duyong]
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Noun1.dugongdugong - sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate
Dugong dugon
sea cow, sirenian, sirenian mammal - any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs
genus Dugong - type genus of the Dugongidae comprising only the dugongs


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No one regards the external similarity of a mouse to a shrew, of a dugong to a whale, of a whale to a fish, as of any importance.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
He stole upon the dugong and joyed to stampede that silly timid creature by sudden ferocious onslaughts which he knew himself to be all sound and fury, but which tickled him and made him laugh with the consciousness of playing a successful joke.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
Owen states, proves indisputably that it was intimately related to the Gnawers, the order which, at the present day, includes most of the smallest quadrupeds: in many details it is allied to the Pachydermata: judging from the position of its eyes, ears, and nostrils, it was probably aquatic, like the Dugong and Manatee, to which it is also allied.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
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