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Translingual
Etymology
From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “sea”) + κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).
Proper noun
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; .