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 notched tail.

noun. A large aquatic herbivorous mammal of the order Sirenia, Halicore dugong, of the Indian seas.

noun. 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.

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

noun. sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate

"I know that on the eastern coast of Africa is found a smaller species of walrus called the dugong: it has long incisor teeth, but not tusks; and certainly resembles a seal rather than a walrus.’"

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