ichthyo-

American  

especially before a vowel, ichthy-.

1. a combining form meaning “fish,” used in the formation of compound words.

   ichthyology.

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ichthyo- British  

combining form

1. indicating or relating to fishes

   ichthyology

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Etymology

Origin of ichthyo-

< Greek, combining form of ichthŷs fish

Example Sentences

Ammonites, and such small geological fry, were to be found by the thousand in the petrified mud beds of the Cobb region; but it was left to the ingenuity, aided by good fortune, of the foreigner to unearth from the flaking and perishing cliffs of lias some of the earliest and finest specimens of the ichthyo- and plesio-saurus that a past world has yielded to the naturalists.

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