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# dugong

«dugong» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large, gentle sea mammal with a whale-like tail that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a dugong, dugongs)

### meaning for a pupil

A dugong is a large, gentle sea mammal with a whale-like tail that grazes on seagrass in warm shallow seas, like a sea cow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dugong/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on marine animals, endangered species and Australian wildlife; related to the manatee; old sailors' stories of mermaids may come from dugongs.

### examples

- The dugong munched seagrass in the shallow water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dugong/#x1)
- Dugongs live in the seas around northern Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dugong/#x2)
- A dugong is a mammal, so it breathes air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dugong/#x3)
- Dugongs are protected because they are endangered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dugong/#x4)
- Sailors may have mistaken dugongs for mermaids. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dugong/#x5)

### note

Countable. It is a mammal, not a fish. Different from a manatee: a dugong has a fluked tail like a dolphin; a manatee has a round, paddle-like tail.

### In the corpora

- [Dugongs are sea cows that graze on sea grass, and sailors long ago may have mistaken dugongs and manatees for mermaids.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dugong» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dugong/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.