Dugong Synonyms

do͝ogŏng, -gông
Sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dugong-dugon

Words Related to Dugong

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. green-turtle
  2. pinniped
  3. sea-turtle
  4. baleen-whale
  5. basking-shark
  6. otters
  7. humpback

Dugong Sentence Examples

  • Turtle and dugong are caught.

  • The sea produces three different seals, which often ascend rivers from the coast, and can live in lagoons of fresh water; many cetaceans, besides the " right whale " and sperm whale; and the dugong, found on the northern shores, which yields a valuable medicinal oil.

  • Of the marine orders of Sirenia and Cetacea the Dugong, Halicore, is exclusively found in the Indian Ocean; and a dolphin, Platanista, peculiar to the Ganges, ascends that river to a great distance from the sea.

  • The dugong (Halicore) is distributed in different colonies, at present isolated, throughout the Indian Ocean from Arabia to North Australia; while the Rhytina or northern sea-cow was, for some time before its extinction, limited to a single island in the extreme north of the Pacific Ocean.

  • The edentates are represented by the pangolin (Manis sp.?) of the Palawan group. In the seas are found the dolphin, cachalot and dugong.

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