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Definition: Dugong |
DugongNoun1. Sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dugong" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
Synonym: DugongSynonym: Dugong dugon (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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| Dugong dugon |
The Dugong (Dugong dugon) is the smallest member of the order Sirenia (which also includes the manatees and Steller's Sea Cow). Adults are generally less than 3 meters long. Although they once covered all of the tropical South Pacific and Indian Oceans, remaining populations are greatly reduced. Groups of 10,000 or more are present on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, at Shark Bay, and in Torres Strait south of New Guinea. Before 1970, it is thought that large populations were also present in Mozambique and coastal Kenya, but these have dwindled. Palau also has a small population.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dugong."
Crosswords: Dugong |
| English words defined with "dugong": Duyoung ♦ Halicore ♦ Rytina ♦ Sea pig. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dugong": Mermaids ♦ sea cows Sirenia. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dugong" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Hungarian (dugong). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Dugong buhay (1982) | |
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| "Dugong" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dugong" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dugong": dugong dugon ♦ genus Dugong ♦ Halicore dugong. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dugong | 73 |
dugong picture | 6 |
conservation dugong | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "dugong"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dygong. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | doejong. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | dugongi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dugong. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dugong, Gabelschwanzseekuh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Ντουγκόνγκο, ντουγκόνγκο, αλλικόρη, θαλάσσια αγελάδα (manatee, sea-cow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tengeri tehén (sea cow), dugong. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dugongo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '艮 (sea pig), '良 (sea pig), ジャンプ競技 (deuce, genre, jamboree, jewel, jewelry, joule, Juglar cycle, juice, juicer, juju music, juke-box, jumbo, jumbo-jet, jumbo-size, June bride, junior, junior welter, ski jumping, soft drink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ジュゴン , じゅ"" (sea pig). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | booa varrey (manatee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ugongday dugongue, dudongue. (various references) dugongo, dugong. (various references) dugong. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Dugong dugong, Halicore dugong, Halicore dugong (Erxleben,1777). (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dugong": dugongs. (additional references) | |
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"Dugong" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dejong, digon, dogong, Dogoyn, Dogun, dojang, Dubon, dugin, dugon, dulon, Dungong, Ujong. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gundog. | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-g-n-o-u" | |
-2 letters: dong, dung, gong, nogg, undo. | |
-3 letters: dog, don, dug, dun, duo, gnu, god, gun, nod, nog, oud, udo. | |
-4 letters: do, go, no, nu, od, on, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-g-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: dugongs, gudgeon, gundogs. | |
+2 letters: gudgeons. | |
+3 letters: groundhog, grounding, gudgeoned, unclogged. | |
+4 letters: dialoguing, dungeoning, forjudging, groundhogs, groundings, groundling, gudgeoning, guerdoning, outdodging, outguiding, undergoing. | |
+5 letters: bludgeoning, bulldogging, decoupaging, demagoguing, forejudging, groundlings, outdragging, roughdrying. | |
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