ichthyosaurus
Americannoun
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ichthyosauruses
plural
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Etymology
Origin of ichthyosaurus
From New Latin, dating back to 1825–35; see origin at ichthyo-, -saurus
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“It is definitely a surprise,” said Benjamin C. Moon, an ichthyosaurus researcher at the University of Bristol in England who was not involved with the research.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
Possibly thousands of years ago the mastodon trod upon it, and the ichthyosaurus paddled it into the sea.
From The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? by George Jacob Holyoake
Small as these are they have accomplished infinitely more than all that ever was done by the ichthyosaurus, the plesiosaurus, the pterodactyl, and the whole tribe of monsters that once filled the earth.
From A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille
He may have been contemporary with the amœba, or with the ichthyosaurus, or haply with the earliest quadrumana.
From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by William Archer
In the shallow waters of the oolitic formation, the ichthyosaurus, plesiosaurus, and other huge saurian carnivora of the preceding age, plied, in increased numbers, their destructive vocation.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
But the dragons are dead and converted into poor fossil ichthyosauruses, incapable of biting the timidest damsel or the most corpulent knight that ever came out of the Stock Exchange.
From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West
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