DUGONG

noun Etymology: New Latin, genus name, probably from dugung in Cebuano or a related Austronesian language of the central Philippines Date: 1800 a sirenian mammal ( Dugong dugon of the family Dugongidae) of a monotypic genus that has a bilobed tail and in the male upper incisors altered into short tusks and that inhabits warm coastal waters chiefly of southern Asia, Australia, and northeastern Africa