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(hăl′ĭ-kōr; L. hȧ-lĭk′ō̍-rē)

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ἄλσ

sea +

κόρη

maiden.]

Same as

See also: halicore

Halicore f

(obsolete) Synonym of Dugong (taxonomic genus).
- 1871, Edward Balfour, “Dugong”, entry in Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Volume 2, 2nd Editiom, page 158,
  Professor Owen denominated the Dugong of the archipelago, Halicore indicus, in distinction from that of the northern coast of Australia at a time when the former had not been ascertained to frequent (as a Dugong of some kind is now known to do) the Malabar coast and Gulf of Calpentyn in Ceylon; […] .

See also: Halicore

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, 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.