ICHTHYOSAUR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: ichthyosauruses

Meaning:

Any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("ichthyosaur" is a kind of...):

archosaur; archosaurian; archosaurian reptile (extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ichthyosaur"):

ichthyosaurus (ichthyosaurs of the Jurassic)

stenopterygius; Stenopterygius quadrisicissus (an ichthyosaur of the genus Stenopterygius)

Holonyms ("ichthyosaur" is a member of...):

Ichthyosauria; order Ichthyosauria (extinct marine reptiles: ichthyosaurs)