halicore
See also: Halicore
English edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “sea”) + κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
halicore (plural halicores)
- (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.