dugong

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"It's that, and nothing more He said this in a despairing tone, for the dugong, which is the manatee_, or sea-cow of the Eastern seas, could be of no service to them; on the contrary, its loud wailings spoke of danger--these being the sure precursors of a storm.

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  1. noun 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.

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  • He noted a female bum drunkenly sleeping like a dugong, a sea cow's belly rising, legs swollen purple; a short dress, a mini-rag. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
  • Whenever I went out after dugong, accompanied by Yamba (she was ever with me), the blacks invariably came down in crowds to watch the operation from the beach. —  Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
  • But really, take a look at the dugong (below) and tell me, when did you ever hear of or see a picture of this guy? side view (from worldvoyage. com) —  The Boston Phoenix PHLOG
  • Aris Abu Bakar (left) with the dead dugong which was found floating in the waters off Tanjung Langsat in Johor on Friday.
  • The port itself is located wholly within RAMSAR wetlands - and the company admits that disturbance will occur to many endangered terrestrial and marine species including the dugong, the loggerhead turtle and of course the Great Barrier Reef both directly, and indirectly, through climate change. —  Sydney Indymedia - Comments
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  1. New Latin Dugong, genus name, possibly from Malay duyong.

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  1. Also duyong; from Malay dūyong, Javanese duyung.
 

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/ˈdjugɑŋ/
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