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10 wordies list
dugong |
(n): sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate
(n): any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs
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From a sign in Mammalogy:
[...] In the event of a fire and you're located in the Mammalogy Department, meet the rest of the staff under the Dugong by the department door [...].
I wonder what the janitors would do in case of fire.
"Quick! Look up dugong in the encyclopedia!"
"...he was gazing into the large insipid kindly square-nosed face of a dugong... A young female dugong, about eight feet long, with her child. Sometimes she held it to her bosom with her flipper, both of them poised upright in the sea, staring straight before them in a very vacant manner... she showed the utmost solicitude for her child, occasionally going so far as to wash its face, which seemed a pointless task in so limpid a sea. Was her presence, and that of some fellow-mermaidens much farther out, a sign of the coming change of seasons?"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 55