ichthyosaurus
See also: Ichthyosaurus
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from translingual Ichthyosaurus, equivalent to ichthyo- + -saurus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ichthyosaurus (plural ichthyosauri)
- (archaic) Alternative form of ichthyosaur
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 219:
- A deadened burst of mighty splashes and snorts reached us from afar, as though an ichthyosaurus had been taking a bath of glitter in the great river.
- Any members of the genus Ichthyosaurus.
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- en:Ichthyosauromorphs