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Indian walrus: the dugong, n. Obsolete.
A large aquatic herbivorous mammal (Halicore dugong, order Sirenia) inhabiting the Indian seas.
Name of the genus of Sirenians, found in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, to which the Dugong belongs.