ichthyologyin a sentence
- an avid fisherman with an extensive library not just on fishing, but also on ichthyology
- His ichthyological studies have taken him to Ireland, Brazil, and Tasmania.† (source)
- Despite the ichthyologist's jest, they had a great deal in common.† (source)
- Probably many ichthyologists would make new varieties of some of them.† (source)
- In which case I could only tag along and resume our ichthyological research.† (source)
- He awed Babbitt by confessing that he often sat up till midnight reading the figures and footnotes in Government reports, or skimming (with amusement at the author's mistakes) the latest volumes of chemistry, archeology, and ichthyology.† (source)
- And so the monster surfaced again, despite the endless witticisms heaped on it by the popular press, and the human imagination soon got caught up in the most ridiculous ichthyological fantasies.† (source)
- We stayed on watch before the lounge windows, and our notes enable me to reconstruct, in a few words, the ichthyology of this sea.† (source)
- Striking an average of observations taken at different times—rejecting those timid estimates that gave the object a length of 200 feet, and ignoring those exaggerated views that saw it as a mile wide and three long—you could still assert that this phenomenal creature greatly exceeded the dimensions of anything then known to ichthyologists, if it existed at all.† (source)
- "If we do not know every one of them, if nature still keeps ichthyological secrets from us, nothing is more admissible than to accept the existence of fish or cetaceans of new species or even new genera, animals with a basically 'cast–iron' constitution that inhabit strata beyond the reach of our soundings, and which some development or other, an urge or a whim if you prefer, can bring to the upper level of the ocean for long intervals.† (source)