ichthyosaurus

See also: Ichthyosaurus

English

Etymology

From translingual Ichthyosaurus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌɪkθiəˈsɔːɹəs/

Noun

ichthyosaurus (plural ichthyosauri)

(archaic) Alternative form of ichthyosaur
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 219:
  A deadened burst of mighty splashes and snorts reached us from afar, as though an ichthyosaurus had been taking a bath of glitter in the great river.
Any members of the genus Ichthyosaurus.

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