ICHTHYOSAURUS (ichthyosauri, ichthyosauruses)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected forms: ichthyosauri    , ichthyosauruses   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does ichthyosaurus mean? 

• ICHTHYOSAURUS (noun)
  The noun ICHTHYOSAURUS has 1 sense:

1. ichthyosaurs of the Jurassic

  Familiarity information: ICHTHYOSAURUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICHTHYOSAURUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ichthyosaurs of the Jurassic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("ichthyosaurus" is a kind of...):

ichthyosaur (any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs)

Holonyms ("ichthyosaurus" is a member of...):

genus Ichthyosaurus (type genus of the Ichthyosauridae)

 Context examples 

When the time comes I will describe that wondrous moonlit night upon the great lake when a young ichthyosaurus—a strange creature, half seal, half fish, to look at, with bone-covered eyes on each side of his snout, and a third eye fixed upon the top of his head—was entangled in an Indian net, and nearly upset our canoe before we towed it ashore; the same night that a green water-snake shot out from the rushes and carried off in its coils the steersman of Challenger's canoe.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)