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Definition of Genus dugong
1. Noun. Type genus of the Dugongidae comprising only the dugongs.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Dugongidae, Family Dugongidae
Member holonyms: Dugong, Dugong Dugon
Group relationships: Dugongidae, Family Dugongidae
Member holonyms: Dugong, Dugong Dugon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Dugong
Literary usage of Genus dugong
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"... and three on the Atlantic coast of America; and three species of dugongs (genus
Dugong) on the shores of the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Australia. ..."
2. The Journal of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1857)
"... may safely he trusted in determining the species of the Cetacea ; and with
this view I drew up the following Tahle, excepting from it the genus Dugong, ..."
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