ichthyic

• The state of keeping, too, in which the ichthyic remains of these alternating beds occur is always very different. —  The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
• This great river is a peculiar ichthyic province, and each part has its characteristics. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
• Disport themselves in ichthyic curves -- —  Police!!!
• Thus I have been led to recognise species as exemplifying the continuous operation of natural law, or secondary cause; and that not only successively but progressively; "from the first embodiment of the vertebrate idea under its old ichthyic vestment until it became arrayed in the glorious garb of the human form." —  The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
• In working it out, I found two fine specimens of fish jaws, still retaining their ranges of teeth; -- ichthyodorulites, -- occipital plates of various forms, either reptile or ichthyic, -- Ganoid scales, of nearly the same varieties of pattern as those in the Weald of Morayshire, -- and the vertebræ and ribs, with the digital, pelvic, and limb-bones, of saurians. —  The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms