halicore

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /həˈlɪ.kə.ɹiː/

Noun[edit]

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[1], 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.

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