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wobbygong

wobbygong is the alternative form of wobbegong.

Meaning of wobbegong

Noun

wobbegong (plural wobbegongs)

  1. Any of several species of bottom-dwelling carpet sharks in the family Orectolobidae, distinguished by their small vegetation-like flaps of skin around the mouth.
    • The wobbegong is of little use; the liver will make some oil, and which is particularly good for parasites on animals, but the fish is not sought after, and the natives attack it when in their way, but do not meddle with it otherwise. South, as far as Jervis Bay, they call this fish thubbegong.1882, Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods, “Sharks”, in Fish and Fisheries of New South Wales, Thomas Richards, page 95

Forms of wobbygong

pluralwobbygongs

Questions about wobbygong

What is wobbygong the alternative form of?
Wobbygong is the alternative form of wobbegong.

Words near wobbygong in the dictionary

  1. wobbulating
  2. wobbulation
  3. wobbulations
  4. wobbulator
  5. wobbulators
  6. wobbygong
  7. wobegone
  8. wobla
  9. woblas
  10. Wobs
  11. wobulate

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