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Halicore
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halicore
Translingual
Etymology
From mul la-lat -, from grc ἅλς sea + grc κόρη girl, maiden.
Proper noun
1 f
mul obsolete mul Dugong genus 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;.
mul Taxonomic names (obsolete)