dugong
noun
an herbivorous, aquatic mammal, Dugong dugon, of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, having a barrel-shaped body, flipperlike forelimbs, no hind limbs, and a triangular tail: widespread but rare.
dugongs
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pluralof dugong.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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"In that case the dugongs could come in and stop everything for weeks at a time. I don't think that is realistic."
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
The team also identified a previously unknown species of ancient sea cow that was much smaller than modern dugongs.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2025
The goal was to document a seafloor famously lush in seagrass, corals, turtles, dugongs, rays and sharks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
This characteristic, called pachyosteosclerosis, is absent in living cetaceans - the group including whales, dolphins and porpoises - but present in sirenians, another marine mammal group including manatees and dugongs.
From Reuters ● Aug. 2, 2023
At the present day the rite is understood to increase the supply of dugongs or other articles of food.
From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
