halicore

From Late Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “sea”) + κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).

• IPA^(key): /həˈlɪ.kə.ɹiː/

halicore (plural halicores)

1. (obsolete) The dugong.
   • 1849, Johann Jacob Kaup, Monograph of the Falconidæ:

     I constitute the fourth order or stem of mammalia out of the suborders of Whales, Dolphins, Halicores, Seals, and Carnivoræ […]

   • 1884, Robert Armitage Sterndale, Natural history of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon‎, page 268:

     […] the dugong or halicore, of which the distribution is rather widespread, from the Red Sea and East African coasts to the west coast of Australia.

• heroical