ichthyosaurus

American  

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

noun

plural

ichthyosauruses

1. ichthyosaur.

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Etymology

Origin of ichthyosaurus

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

Example Sentences

“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

I believe I’ve grown into the cliff, like a fossil ichthyosaurus.

From The Mistress of Shenstone by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)

Still more heteroclitic and unlike existing nature was the pterodactyle, a small lizard, contemporary with the ichthyosaurus and plesiosaurus.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

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 Holyoake, George Jacob

Here was the fossil nautilus that sailed the primeval seas; here was the skeleton of the mastodon, the ichthyosaurus, the cave-bear, the prodigious elk.

From Sketches New and Old, Part 3. by Twain, Mark