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n. - Extinct reptiles of the Jurassic period.

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Usage examples (35)
  • I can distinguish the eye of the ichthyosaurus glowing like
  • As for the ichthyosaurus — has he returned to his submarine cavern? or will he reappear on the surface of the sea?
  • A deadened burst of mighty splashes and snorb reached us from afar, as though an ichthyosaurus had been taking a bath of glitter in the great river.
  • It was bad enough to perish in the open ocean, but something terrible to be drowned in a nasty fresh water lake, to be devoured, perhaps, by an ichthyosaurus.
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