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The flat tail is bilobate
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dugong
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Word definitions for dugong in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate [syn: Dugong dugon ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dugong \Du*gong"\ (d[.u]*g[o^]g"), n. [Malayan d[=u]y[=o]ng, or Javan. duyung.] (Zo["o]l.) An aquatic herbivorous mammal ( Halicore dugong ), of the order Sirenia , allied to the manatee, but with a bilobed tail. It inhabits the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, East ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the genus ''Dugong'', found in tropical regions. ''Dugong dugon''.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1800, from Malay duyung , which is dugung in the Philippines.
Usage examples of dugong.
He knows the secrets of the seven major amphibia and of the four true beasts, the platypus and dugong and such as that.
The engineer and the reporter soon reached the little beach on which the dugong had been stranded.
Himalayan tahr, hippopotamus, lion, grizzly bear, dugong, harp seals, southern elephant seal, spotted porpoise, striped dolphin, blue whale, and sperm whale.
The Manatee inhabits the African and American coasts, along the west coast of the former continent, and in the bays, inlets, and rivers of tropical America, but the one with which we have to do is the dugong or halicore, of which the distribution is rather widespread, from the Red Sea and East African coasts to the west coast of Australia.
He tried to recall diving in deep water, the deep water of the Stenos, where the big-mouthed, smart-aleck, shore-hugging Tursiops were rare as dugongs.
Duckweed Dugong, affinities of Dung-beetles with deficient tarsi Dyticus Earl, Mr.
Tom is at home on a boat, and enjoys outwitting fish and turtle and dugong.
The resemblance, in the shape of the body and in the fin-like anterior limbs, between the dugong, which is a pachydermatous animal, and the whale, and between both these mammals and fishes, is analogical.
Then it had been a real curator's office, dusty and messy, filled with fossils and books, old Victorian wing chairs, Masai spears, and a stuffed dugong.