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dugong
1. I believe there's a good hotel a few streets west of here that does an excellent dugong steak
2. There were marble veins of fat in Stan's dugong steak, a sign that it was the very best quality
3. They were in their favourite restaurant, the one where they had first enjoyed dugong steak
4. There are, however, a very small number of species, like the dugong, which are exceedingly tasty, easy to catch and plentiful in number
5. That's a dugong
6. He spotted the dugong
7. If I recommend that he aim carefully at this dugong, it's because the animal is justly regarded as fine game, and I know Mr
8. The skiff pulled clear, and carried off by its six oars, it headed swiftly toward the dugong, which by then was floating two miles from the Nautilus
9. This dugong that Ned Land was preparing to attack was of colossal dimensions, easily exceeding seven meters in length
10. Suddenly a hissing sound was audible, and the dugong disappeared
11. Arriving within twenty feet of the skiff, the dugong stopped, sharply sniffing the air with its huge nostrils, pierced not at the tip of its muzzle but on its topside
12. I heard its teeth grind on sheet iron, and the dugong disappeared, taking our harpoon along with it
13. It took pulleys of great strength to hoist this dugong onto the platform
14. The Sirenia form a very distinct group of the mammals, and one of the most remarkable peculiarities in existing dugong and lamentin is the entire absence of hind limbs, without even a rudiment being left; but the extinct Halitherium had, according to Professor Flower, an ossified thigh-bone "articulated to a well-defined acetabulum in the pelvis," and it thus makes some approach to ordinary hoofed quadrupeds, to which the Sirenia are in other respects allied
15. No one regards the external similarity of a mouse to a shrew, of a dugong to a whale, of a whale to a fish, as of any importance
16. As an instance: Owen, in speaking of the dugong, says, "The generative organs, being those which are most remotely related to the habits and food of an animal, I have always regarded as affording very clear indications of its true affinities
17. —on affinities of the dugong