Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various extinct marine reptiles of the group Ichthyosauria or Ichthyopterygia of the Mesozoic Era, having a long flexible body with fins and an elongated toothed snout.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish-like saurian; a member of the order Ichthyosauria.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) One of the Ichthyosaura.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
extinct fishlike reptiles , of the order Ichthyosauria, that had a body somewhat like aporpoise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Oh, I also made it through two articles in the new Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology yesterday, "Generic reassignment of an ichthyosaur from the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada" and "A remarkable case of a shark-bitten elasmosaurid plesiosaur."
Howard Hughes and the 1934 World's Fair yuki_onna 2010
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Oh, I also made it through two articles in the new Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology yesterday, "Generic reassignment of an ichthyosaur from the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada" and "A remarkable case of a shark-bitten elasmosaurid plesiosaur."
Howard Hughes and the 1934 World's Fair yuki_onna 2010
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A favorite of the museum, Markham said, was a three-meter-long ichthyosaur, a marine reptile resembling a dolphin that had existed some 90 million years ago.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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There are quite a lot of ichthyosaur fossils showing death during childbirth; they were viviparous.
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There are quite a lot of ichthyosaur fossils showing death during childbirth; they were viviparous.
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To extend a previous comment, an ichthyosaur (extinct reptile), a dolphin (mammal), and a tuna all arrived at essentially the same solution to the problem of how to move quickly through the water.
Convergence 2008
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A favorite of the museum, Markham said, was a three-meter-long ichthyosaur, a marine reptile resembling a dolphin that had existed some 90 million years ago.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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The dolphin, a mammal, shares adaptations that allow for movement through water with the extinct reptile ichthyosaur.
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Multiple ichthyosaur and plesiosaur specimens have been discovered there in close association, and in an excellent, articulated state.
BBC News 24 (again) Darren Naish 2006
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The latter, generally known as pliosaurs, include the huge scary macropredator Liopleurodon, shown at top right biting an ichthyosaur to death.
Life in the Oxford Clay sea Darren Naish 2006
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