ichthyosaurus

American  

[ik-thee-uh-sawr-uhs] / ˌɪk θi əˈsɔr əs /

noun

• ichthyosauruses
  plural

1. ichthyosaur.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• ichthyosauruses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of ichthyosaurus

From New Latin, dating back to 1825–35; see origin at ichthyo-, -saurus

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

ichthyosaurus ichthyosauruses

“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

There was the ichthyosaurus, a fishlike marine lizard, familiar to us all from a thousand reconstructions, with his long thin body, his strong flippers, his stumpy neck, and his huge pair of staring goggle eyes.

From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen

His was the struggle of the individual soul against the same blind and cruel fate that in the past had fashioned the ichthyosaurus and the mastodon.

From The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck

In reality I was just as much worried over the loss of the ichthyosaurus.

From Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge by Stephen Leacock

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

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