Halicore

He could tell you the name of every black and apple-bowed vessel that came curtseying over the bar on the flood tide; and he would prove the superiority of the "Halicore" over the "Mary Jane," with many clenching allusions to aged authorities.

The Romance of the Coast James Runciman 1871

The "Halicore" ran into harbour one October morning and took up her berth at the quay.

The Romance of the Coast James Runciman 1871

Weasels, squirrels, polecats, porcupines, and other small animals exist in numbers, and the mermaid, of the genus Halicore, connects the inhabitants of the land and water.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

It grazes on seaweed, and is known by naturalists as Halicore tabernaculi.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

A rounded tail is, in fact, the first requisite of the genus _Manatus_, to which both the manatees alluded to belong, in distinction from the forked tail of the genus _Halicore_.

Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166 1890

Weasels, squirrels, polecats, porcupines, and other small animals exist in numbers, and the mermaid, of the genus Halicore, connects the inhabitants of the land and water.

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

The skin of the Halicore, one of these, from its hardness would be well suited for making soles for shoes.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

The Sirenia consists of the Manatees (_Manatus_), the Dugongs (_Halicore_), and the Stellerines (_Rhytina_); the latter is almost extinct; it used to be found in numbers in Behring Straits, but was exterminated by sailors and others, who found it very good eating.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

( 'Halicore Australis'), or sea-cow, from whence is extracted an oil equal to the cod-liver as regards its medicinal qualities, and far superior to it in one great essential, for instead of a nauseous disagreeable flavour, it tastes quite pleasantly.

Australian Search Party Charles Henry Eden 1858

[F.otnote 1: _Halicore dugung_, F. Cuv.] [F.otnote 2: The skeleton is now in the Museum of the Natural History

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836