DUGONG

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

dugong; Dugong dugon

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dugong" is a kind of...):

sea cow; sirenian; sirenian mammal (any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs)

Holonyms ("dugong" is a member of...):

genus Dugong (type genus of the Dugongidae comprising only the dugongs)

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