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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The typical genus of the family Halicoridæ. The male has a pair of large straight tusks in the upper jaw (these being rudimentary and not exserted in the female), directed forward and downward, growing from persistent pulps, enameled, and with beveled ends. There are 5 or 6 molars in each upper and lower half-jaw, which are not all in position at once, the first falling before the last is cut. The skull has a long rostrum bent down at right angles with the cranial axis, and the front of the lower jaw is likewise decurved. There are 7 cervical, 18 or 19 dorsal, and 30 succeeding vertebræ; the tail is emarginate in the middle line, with pointed lateral lobes; there are no nails on the fore limbs; and the eæcum is simple. The genus contains the several species of dugong. Dugungus is a synonym. See cuts under
dugong and heart. - n. [lowercase] A species of Halicore; a dugong.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete The dugong.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as dugong.
Etymologies
- From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek ἅλς (hals, "sea") + κόρη (kore, "girl, maiden"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: What we are looking at is a halicore (ph).”
“And that was the biggest and the last bump that was around that mountain and around that halicore (ph).”
“This dugong, which also bears the name of the halicore, closely resembles the manatee; its oblong body terminated in a lengthened tail, and its lateral fins in perfect fingers.”
“America, but the one with which we have to do is the dugong or halicore, of which the distribution is rather widespread, from the Red Sea and”
“He becomes an _halicore_, if (which is rare) he survives that miserable degradation.”
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
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hernesheir (n): the dugong, a marine mammal of the order Sirenia.
The Sirenia include three species of manatees, the West Indian manatee, the Amazonian manatee, and the West African manatee; the dugongs include the extant dugong, and the extinct Stellar's sea cow.
It is difficult to imagine that a manatee or dugong could be mistaken for the mermaids of legend and myth, but that is precisely what Sirenia, the order to which they belong is named after.
One of the earliest non-scientific mentions of a sirenian was Kipling's short story "The White Seal" which takes place in the Bering Sea region. That species of halicore, the Stellar's Sea Cow, was exterminated by Russian hunters and explorers by 1768, almost a century before Kipling was born. Jan 1, 2009