Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the family Halicoridæ.
- noun [lowercase] A species of Halicore; a dugong.
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- noun Same as
dugong .
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- noun obsolete The
dugong .
Etymologies
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Examples
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CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: What we are looking at is a halicore (ph).
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And that was the biggest and the last bump that was around that mountain and around that halicore (ph).
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This dugong, which also bears the name of the halicore, closely resembles the manatee; its oblong body terminated in a lengthened tail, and its lateral fins in perfect fingers.
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America, but the one with which we have to do is the dugong or halicore, of which the distribution is rather widespread, from the Red Sea and
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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This dugong, which also bears the name of the halicore, closely resembles the manatee; its oblong body terminated in a lengthened tail, and its lateral fins in perfect fingers.
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866
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He becomes an _halicore_, if (which is rare) he survives that miserable degradation.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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(n): the dugong, a marine mammal of the order Sirenia.
The Sirenia include three species of manatees, the West Indian manatee, the Amazonian manatee, and the West African manatee; the dugongs include the extant dugong, and the extinct Stellar's sea cow.
It is difficult to imagine that a manatee or dugong could be mistaken for the mermaids of legend and myth, but that is precisely what Sirenia, the order to which they belong is named after.
One of the earliest non-scientific mentions of a sirenian was Kipling's short story "The White Seal" which takes place in the Bering Sea region. That species of halicore, the Stellar's Sea Cow, was exterminated by Russian hunters and explorers by 1768, almost a century before Kipling was born.
January 1, 2009