Ichthyosaur

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  • noun. Any of various extinct marine reptiles of the group Ichthyosauria or Ichthyopterygia of the Mesozoic Era, having a long flexible body with fins and an elongated toothed snout.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A fish-like saurian; a member of the order Ichthyosauria.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One of the Ichthyosaura.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of several extinct fishlike reptiles, of the order Ichthyosauria, that had a body somewhat like a porpoise.
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  • noun. any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs
    • Word Usage
    "Oh, I also made it through two articles in the new Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology yesterday, "Generic reassignment of an ichthyosaur from the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada" and "A remarkable case of a shark-bitten elasmosaurid plesiosaur.""
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    ichthyosauruses  
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