Definitions for dugong

dugong du·gong

Spelling: [doo-gong, -gawng]
IPA: /ˈdu gɒŋ, -gɔŋ/

Dugong is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in dugong (dggnou).

Definitions for dugong

noun

  1. 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.

Origin of dugong

1790-1800; New Latin German: first recorded as dugung, apparently misrepresentation of Malay duyung, or a cognate Austronesian word

Examples for dugong

The oil obtained from the dugong is, or rather was, very valuable.

Why do some animals, like the dugong, have tusks that never cut through the gums?

Crawling or sitting, that rare collossus, the dugong, displays its chests and breasts.

Was it he who threw Top out of the lake, and killed the dugong?

He knew they were amphibious, and that, where the dugong was found, land could not be a long way off.

It seemed a wonder that the dugong could stand so much battering.

The Australian dugong is said to attain a length of fourteen feet.

Paddy gave a shout of delight when he heard that he was appointed to the dugong.

“A dugong,” said Briscoe, cocking and raising his double rifle.

The dugong is a sea mammal found on the north coast of Australia.

Word Value for dugong
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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