ichthyoid, a. and n.
(ˈɪkθɪɔɪd)
[f. as prec. + -oid. Cf. Gr. ἰχθυώδης = ἰχθυοειδής.]
A. adj. Resembling or having the form or characteristics of a fish; fish-like.
| 1855 Mayne Expos. Lex., Ichthyoides, resembling a fish,..ichthyoid. 1865 Page Handbk. Geol. s.v., The ichthyosaurus..is partly ichthyoid and partly sauroid. 1870 Ruskin Wks. (1872) III. 135 This ichthyoid, reptilian, or monochondyloid ideal of the self-made man. |
B. n. A vertebrate of the fish type; spec. = ichthyopsid.
| 1863 Huxley Comp. Anat. (1864) v. 74 The classes of the Vertebrata are capable of being grouped into three provinces (I.) the Ichthyoids..(II.) the Sauroids..and (III.) the Mammals. 1866 ― in Intell. Observ. No. 56. 100 The Ichthyoids, comprising fishes and amphibia. 1870 Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 67 Instances of larval Ichthyoids maturing sexual products are furnished to us by the immature Lamprey. |
So ichthyˈoidal a. = prec. A.