Halicore

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Translingual

Etymology

From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, sea) + κόρη (kórē, girl, maiden).

Proper noun

Halicore f

  1. (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; .