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ichthyosaurus

/ˌɪkθiəˈsɔːɹəs/

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What does ichthyosaurus mean?

noun

  1. Any members of the genus Ichthyosaurus.
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noun

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of ichthyosaur.

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/ˌɪkθiəˈsɔːɹəs/

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Indeed, I found afterwards that horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, had followed the Ichthyosaurus into extinction.
H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe Time MachineProject Gutenberg ebook #35
Some authorities think it was an ichthyosaurus, but there is much doubt.
Mark TwainWhat Is Man? and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #70
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In what the newspapers described as an "admirable speech," he refuted evolution doctrines by saying that evolutionists had "only to make a journey of twelve hours from the place where he was then standing to find together the bones of the muskrat, the opossum, the coprolite, and the ichthyosaurus."
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505