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Definition of Dugong

1. Noun. Sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate.

Definition of Dugong

1. n. 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 Indies, and Australia.

Definition of Dugong

1. Noun. A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the genus ''Dugong'', found in tropical regions. ''Dugong dugon''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dugong

1. an aquatic mammal [n -S]

Medical Definition of Dugong

1. 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 Indies, and Australia. Alternative forms: duyong. Origin: Malayan dyng, or Javan. Duyung. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Dugong

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1881)
"NOTES ON THE dugong. AMONGST many promising industries that await future ... I refer to the utilisation of the strange creature known as the dugong. ..."

2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"He found in one cranium of a male dugong in the upper jaw, the deciduous incisors or tusks ... The head of this dugong is small in proportion to the body, ..."

3. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"I was informed at Mabuiag that when a man on a ne$t speared a dugong, he called out the name of his son, or if he had none, that of his brother, ..."

4. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"Sailors, with their well-known ability of telling yarns to their friends at home, would not have much difficulty in converting a dugong or Manatee ..."

5. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"It does not appear to frequent the land or the fresh water. Its flesh is delicate. The dugong was noticed as occurring in Ceylon by the early Arab . ..."

6. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1858)
"ON THE OIL OF THE dugong AS A CURATIVE AGENT IN CHRONIC DISEASE. So unpleasant is cod-liver oil, that there are very few persons who can take more than ..."

7. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"An Account of the Skeletons of the dugong, Two-horned Rhinoceros, and Tapir of Sumatra, sent to England by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, ..."

8. A Sketch of the Life and Writings of Robert Knox, the Anatomist by Henry Lonsdale (1870)
"On December 2i, 1829, and January 18, 1830, Knox read his "Observations to determine the Dentition of the dugong;" to which are added, ..."

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