obtuse

en-adj

obtuse (comparative obtuser or more obtuse, superlative obtusest or most obtuse)

obtuser (comparative)
more obtuse (comparative)
obtusest (superlative)
most obtuse (superlative)

clear

antonym(s) of “deadened, muffled, muted”

pointed

antonym(s) of “now chiefly botany, zoology”

From Middle French obtus (“obtuse (geometry); narrow-minded, obtuse; boring, dull, lifeless”), from Latin obtūsus (“blunt, dull; obtuse”), past participle of obtundere, from obtundō (“to batter, beat, strike; to blunt, dull”), from ob- (“against”) (see ob-) + tundō (“to beat, strike; to bruise, crush, pound”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to hit; to push”)). More at obtund.

der

The Herb Pantagruelion hath a little Root somewhat hard and ruff, roundish, terminating in an obtuse and very blunt Point, and having some of its Veins, Strings or Filaments coloured with some spots of white, […]

1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], [Peter Anthony Motteux, transl.], “How Pantagruel Did Put Himself in a Readiness to Go to Sea; and of the Herb Named Pantagruelion”, in The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel [...], volume II, London: Navarre Society, published 1921, →OCLC, book III, pages 57–58:

(now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.

(botany, zoology) Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.

If you put foure Spleets in a Hiue, then cut their backes, where they must leane one against another, to square angles, such as be foure in a circle: if but three, cut them to obtuse angles, such as are three in a circle: (you may readily try them, before you put them in, by Moulds made iust to those formes) and so will they stand close and firme together.

1623, Charles Butler, “Of the Hiues, and the Dressing of Them”, in The Feminine Monarchie: or, The Historie of Bees: Shewing Their Admirable Nature, and Properties, Their Generation, and Colonies, Their Gouernment, Loyaltie, Art, Industrie, Enemies, Warres, Magnanimitie, &c. […], London, →OCLC, chapter 3, section 11, footnote c; republished Mytholmroyd, U.K.: Northern Bee Books, 1985:

More-over, as the Buildings Ambligon / May more receive then Mansions Oxigon / (Because th' acute, and the rect-Angles too, / Stride not so wide as obtuse Angles doe) / So doth the Circle in his Circuit span / More room then any other Figure can.

1641, “The Columnes. The Fourth Part of the Second Day of the II. Weeke”, in Alexander B. Grosart, editor, The Complete Works of Joshua Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited […], Edinburgh Univ. Press, published 1880, page 156, lines 198–203:

Obtuse angles of the through crossing. — The system of the two obtuse-angled points is especially termed the dead-crossing. […] The point itself, less liable to damage than that of the crossing proper, on account of its obtuse form and its position relatively to the wheels, acts the same part towards the tapered portion of the cut rail, as the wing-rail does with respect to the acute-angle of the crossing.

1877, Ch[arles] Couche, “Special Points in the Permanent Way”, in James N. Shoolbred, transl., Permanent Way Rolling Stock and Technical Working of Railways. Followed by an Appendix on Works of Art, volume I, London: Dulau & Co., 37, Soho Square; Paris: Dunod, 49, Quai des Augustins, →OCLC, § XIV (Rail-crossings), paragraph 258, page 316:

If he is standing close beside me I know that our separate axes of vision will meet at an acute angle in the centre of his object, and if we are further apart, at an obtuser angle.

1922, May Sinclair, “Space, Time and Other Consciousnesses”, in The New Idealism, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, section V, pages 255–256:

(geometry, specifically, of an angle) Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.

բութ

geometry: larger than 90° but less than 180°

Unless A lies in that part of a semi-infinite strip bounded by AB outside a semi-circle of diameter AB, the triangle is obtuse, so that the probability of getting an obtuse triangle is equal to 1.

2013, Edward J. Barbeau, “Probability and Statistics”, in More Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam (Spectrum Series), Washington, D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, →ISBN, page 128:

(geometry, by ellipsis) Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.

For we see a Feather or a Rush drawn along the Lip or Cheek, doth tickle; whereas a thing more obtuse, or a touch more hard, doth not.

1670, Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [Francis Bacon], “Century VIII”, in Sylva Sylvarum, or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries: Whereunto is Newly Added, the History Natural and Experimental of [Life] and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life. […], 9th and last edition, London: William Rawley, →OCLC, paragraph 766, page 161:

See then the quiver broken and decay'd, / In which are kept our arrows! Rusting there / In wild disorder, and unfit for use, / […] Their points obtuse, and feathers drunk with wine!

1817, William Cowper, The Task, London: John Sharpe, page 58:

Yet you do not brighten what would otherwise be dull, impart a keenness to the obtusest point, and diffuse a general lustre?

1932, Ernest Bramah, chapter XV, in The Moon of Much Gladness: Related by Kai Lung, London: Cassell and Co., →OCLC; republished [s.l.]: Read Books, 2013, →ISBN, section IV:


parachute

Borrowed from French parachute, from para- (“protection against”) (as in parasol) and chute (“fall”).

(zoology) A web or fold of skin extending between the legs of gliding mammals, such as the flying squirrel and colugo.


龍

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (龍):
* → Japanese: 竜(りゅう) (ryū)
* → Korean: 룡>용(龍) (ryong>yong)
* → Vietnamese: long (龍)

→ Indonesian: liong

desctree

→ Proto-Vietic: *-roːŋ
Tho:
Cuoi Cham: ʐoŋ²
Lang Lo: ʐoŋ²
Viet-Muong:
Muong: rồng
Middle Vietnamese: 蠬 (ròu᷄), 𧏵 (ròu᷄)
Vietnamese: rồng

→ Old Turkic: 𐰠𐰇 (lü)

→ Middle Mongol: ᠯᠤᠤ (luu)

Classical Mongolian: ᠯᠤᠤ (luu)

Mongolian: ᠯᠤᠤ／луу (luu)

→ Zhuang: lungz

Old Turkic language
Proto-Hmong-Mien language
Proto-Vietic language
Turkish language
Vietnamese language
White Hmong language

Characters in the same phonetic series (龍) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – originally a serpent with prominent whiskered mouth and eyes.
Current form developed in large seal script, with serpent’s body on right (tail at upper right, legs on right), whiskered/fanged mouth at lower left, and eyes/crown at upper left. Left side was subsequently simplified and abstracted, with some influence of 立 and ⺼/月. Note that 竜 existed as a traditional variant dating back to large seal script, and figures a dragon seen face-on, rather than curled around.
Compare 𣎆, which represents a particular kind of dragon.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-bru(ŋ/k) (“dragon; thunder”). Cognate with Tibetan འབྲུག ('brug, “dragon; thunder”). The STEDT database also lists 隆 (OC *ɡ·ruːŋ, “thunder; sound of thunder”) and 雹 (OC *bruːɡ, “hail”) as cognates. Also compare 靐 (OC *brɯŋs, “sound of thunder”) and 霹靂 (OC *pʰeːɡ reːɡ, “thunder”).
This word is found in many languages of the region. Compare Proto-Hmong-Mien *-roŋ (“dragon”) (White Hmong zaj), Proto-Vietic *-roːŋ (“dragon”) (Vietnamese rồng), Vietnamese thuồng luồng (“serpent-like monster”), Khmer រោង (roong, “year of the dragon”), Thai มะโรง (má-roong, “dragon; year of the dragon”), Lao ມະໂລງ (ma lōng, “year of the dragon”), perhaps also Old Turkic [script needed]|[Term?] (*-lan, suffix denoting a wild, predatory animal) (Turkish aslan (“lion”), kaplan (“tiger”), yılan (“snake”)).

cog-lite

龙
㡣
䮾
䰱
竜
龒
𠉒
𠊋
𢀀
𢄫
𢅛
𥪐
𥪑
𥪖
𥪢
𥫆
𥫈
𦱉
𦱸

恐龍

恐龙

翼手龍

翼手龙

(zoology, paleontology) extinct reptilian creature; -saur


ei

Middle High German: ei

Alemannic German:

Swabian: Oi

Bavarian: Oa

Mòcheno: oi

Central Franconian: Ei, Ää, Aai

Hunsrik: Eu

Luxembourgish: Ee

German: Ei

Vilamovian: e

Yiddish: איי (ey)

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Akin to Old English ǣġ, Old Norse egg.
Further Indo-European cognates include Latin ōvum and Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión)


zoo

eo-head

zoo (accusative singular zoon, plural zooj, accusative plural zoojn)

zoon (accusative singular)
zooj (plural)
zoojn (accusative plural)


zoo

(zoology) nature preserve, zoo, zoological garden, zoological park


nem

nemek (plural)
nem (nominative singular)
nemek (nominative plural)
nemet (accusative singular)
nemeket (accusative plural)
nemnek (dative singular)
nemeknek (dative plural)
nemmel (instrumental singular)
nemekkel (instrumental plural)
nemért (causal-final singular)
nemekért (causal-final plural)
nemmé (singular translative)
nemekké (plural translative)
nemig (singular terminative)
nemekig (plural terminative)
nemként (essive-formal singular)
nemekként (essive-formal plural)
nemben (inessive singular)
nemekben (inessive plural)
nemen (singular superessive)
nemeken (plural superessive)
nemnél (adessive singular)
nemeknél (adessive plural)
nembe (illative singular)
nemekbe (illative plural)
nemre (singular sublative)
nemekre (plural sublative)
nemhez (allative singular)
nemekhez (allative plural)
nemből (elative singular)
nemekből (elative plural)
nemről (delative singular)
nemekről (delative plural)
nemtől (ablative singular)
nemektől (ablative plural)
nemé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
nemeké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
neméi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
nemekéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
nemem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
nemeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
nemed (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
nemeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
neme (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
nemei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
nemünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
nemeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
nemetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
nemeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
nemük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
nemeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

→ Romanian: neam

unk

Of unknown origin.

Coordinate term: nemzetség (the same rank for plants and fungi, which denotes “tribe” among animals)

(zoology, taxonomy) genus (rank in the taxonomic classification of animals, between family and species)


pa

From Old Galician-Portuguese paa, from Latin pāla (“shovel, spade”).


ambisexual

en-adj

ambisexual (comparative more ambisexual, superlative most ambisexual)

more ambisexual (comparative)
most ambisexual (superlative)

From ambi- + -sexual; in modern senses relating to human sexuality, influenced by bisexual.

However, the question must be asked: at which stage in the life-history of an ambisexual (hermaphroditic) fish does sex differentiation take place?

2012, U. Müller, W. Franke, Mechanisms of Gonadal Differentiation in Vertebrates, page 84:


wildebeest

en-noun

wildebeest (plural wildebeest or wildebeests or (rare) wildebeesten)

wildebeest (plural)
wildebeests (plural)
wildebeesten (plural rare)

→ Japanese: ウィルドビースト (wirudobīsuto)

Borrowed in the early 19th century from early Afrikaans wildebeest, modern wildebees (literally “wild ox”), with influence from beast.

Coordinate term: hartebeest

Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 3:

Later that morning, they wrapped Ian in a wildebeest skin and buried him near a shepherd tree.

2013, Eleanor Morse, White Dog Fell From the Sky:


mad cow disease

(colloquial, veterinary, pathology) Synonym of bovine spongiform encephalopathy

جُنُون البَقَر

informal: bovine spongiform encephalopathy


cheetah

→ Portuguese: chita

→ Spanish: chita

Borrowed from Hindi चीता (cītā, “leopard, panther”), ultimately from Sanskrit चित्र (citra, “multicolored, speckled”) (akin to Old High German haitar (“bright”) > German heiter; Old Norse heiðr (“bright”)) + Sanskrit काय (kāya, “body”), thus “having a spotted body”.

der

Acinonyx jubatus
Acinonyx jubatus#Translingual

(zoology) A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard, but with proportionately longer limbs and a smaller head; native to Africa and southeast Asia (where it is nearly extinct) and also credited with being the fastest terrestrial animal.


radius

Borrowed from Latin radius (“ray”). Doublet of ray.

(zoology) The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.


warthog

(zoology) A wild pig of the genus Phacochoerus, native to Africa.


rhombus

Learned borrowing from Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos, “rhombus, spinning top”). Doublet of rhomb and rhumb.

romb

A parallelogram having all sides of equal length

the greedy Tuberon or Shark arm'd with a double row of venemous teeth pursues them, directed by a little Rhombus, Musculus or pilot-fish that scuds to and fro to bring intelligence [...].

1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I:

(zoology, now rare) Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus.

(zoology, archaic) Snails, now in genus Conus or family Conidae.


sel

selen (definite singular)
selar (indefinite plural)
selane (definite plural)


achlamydate

From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χλαμύς (khlamús, “cloak, mantle”).

an achlamydate gastropod


chi

(formal, anatomy, chiefly zoology) a limb


ursine

Mid 16th century, from Latin ursīnus, adjectival form of ursus (“bear”) + -ine.


Burmese

(zoology) A medium-sized, short-haired domestic cat breed, originating in Thailand.


mange

en-noun

mange (usually uncountable, plural manges)

From Middle English manjewe, manjeue, from Old French manjue, derived from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger (“to eat”)), from Latin manducare.

Coordinate term: (in humans) scabies

Not yet come! [the] worrying of wolves, biting of mad dogs, the manges, and the—

1621, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, John Ford, The Witch of Edmonton:

(veterinary medicine) A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).


stalk

From Middle English stalke, stelke, stalk, perhaps from Old English *stealc, *stielc, *stealuc, from Proto-West Germanic *staluk, *stalik, from Proto-Germanic *stalukaz, *stalikaz, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *stalô, *staluz (“support, stem, stalk”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, stand; be stiff; stud, post, trunk, stake, stem, stalk”). Cognate with Old High German *stelh in wazzarstelh (“wagtail”), Danish stilk (“stalk, stem”), Swedish stjälk (“stalk, stem”), Icelandic stilkur (“stalk, stem”).
Related also to Middle English stale (“ladder upright, stalk”), Old English stalu (“wooden upright”), Middle Low German stal, stale (“chair leg”), Old English stela (“stalk”), Dutch steel (“stalk”), German Stiel (“stalk”), Albanian shtalkë (“crossbeam, board used as a door hinge”), Welsh telm (“frond”), Ancient Greek στειλειή (steileiḗ, “beam”), Old Armenian ստեղն (stełn, “trunk, stalk”).

varsi

something resembling the stalk of a plant

A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.

kaula

zoology: stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids

The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.

The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.

tappi

zoology: peduncle of the eyes of decapod


clitoris

en-noun

clitoris (plural clitorises or clitorides)

From post-classical Latin clitoris (16th century), or its source, Koine Greek κλειτορίς (kleitorís), probably from Ancient Greek κλείω (kleíō, “I sheathe, shut”), in reference to its being covered by the labia minora.
The related noun form κλείς (kleís) has a second meaning of "a key, a latch or hook (to close a door)." Wooden pegs were the original keys; a connection also revealed in Latin clavis (“nail”) and claudere (“to shut”) (see close). Some medical sources give a supposed Greek verb κλειτοριάζω (kleitoriázō, “touch or titillate lasciviously, tickle”) literally "to be inclined (toward pleasure)" (compare German Kitzler (“clitoris”, literally “tickler”), related to Greek κλειτύς (kleitús, “shut, closed”), a variant of κλιτύς (klitús, “hillside”), related to κλίνω (klínō, “I slope”), from the same root as κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder”). But many sources take κλειτορίς (kleitorís) literally as Ancient Greek "little hill".

cog

genital tubercle - embryological precursor

(zoology) A similar erectile sexual organ present in the cloacas of female amniotes.


sagitta

en-noun

sagitta (plural sagittas or (arrowworm) sagittae)

/səˈd͡ʒɪt.ə/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sagitta.wav

Borrowing from Latin sagitta (“an arrow, shaft, bolt”).

(zootomy) The larger of the two otoliths, or earbones, found in most fishes.


honeycomb

honeycomb (countable and uncountable, plural honeycombs)

Alhambra
Oxford English Dictionary
United States Army

The noun is derived from Middle English hony comb, from Old English huniġcamb, from huniġ (“honey”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂ónks (“honey”)) + camb (“comb”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“peg; tooth; row of teeth”)). The English word is analysable as honey + comb. The Oxford English Dictionary posits that the arrangement of several plates of wax “hanging parallel to each other from the roof of the hive suggests a comb with its teeth”.
The verb is derived from the noun.

kennosto

something resembling honeycomb in having numerous cells or small holes

hunaja

something resembling honeycomb in sweetness; something desirable or pleasant

A rudimentall reſemblance hereof there is in the cruciated and rugged folds of the Reticulum, or Net-like Ventricle of ruminating horned animals, vvhich is the ſecond in order, and culinarily called the Honey-comb.

[1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 149:

Of the four ſtomachs vvith vvhich ruminant animals are furniſhed, the firſt is called the paunch, vvhich receives the food after it has been ſlightly chevved; the ſecond is called the honeycomb, and is properly nothing more than a continuation of the former; […]

[1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Ruminating Animals”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume III, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, page 3:

honeycomb stomach
honeycomb stomach#English

(countable, by extension) Something resembling honeycomb (sense 1) in having numerous cells or small holes.

(countable, zoology) Short for honeycomb stomach (“the reticulum or second compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant”).


guest

From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Cognate with German Gast (“guest”), Norwegian gjest (“guest”). Doublet of host, from Latin.

der

(zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.


femur

(arachnology) A segment of the leg of an arachnid.


series

en-noun

series (plural series or (obsolete) serieses)

series (plural)
serieses (obsolete plural)

→ Japanese: シリーズ (shirīzu)

→ Korean: 시리즈 (sirijeu)

→ Burmese: စီးရီး (ci:ri:)

Attested from the 1610s; borrowed from Latin seriēs, from serere (“to join together, bind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Related to desert, insert, sermon, and sorcerer.

مُتَسَلْسِلَة

in analysis: sum of the terms of a sequence


coyote

→ Irish: cadhóit

Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl. Compare Chinook ki-o-tī.

Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.

1824, William Bullock, Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico, page 119:

Canis latrans
Canis latrans#Translingual

(zoology) Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.


chupacabras

From Spanish chupa (“it sucks”) + cabras (“goats”).

(cryptozoology) A legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas dating from the 1990s, supposed to attack and drink the blood of livestock, especially goats.


chupacabras

→ English: chupacabra, chupacabras

Verb-object compound, composed of chupa (“to suck”) + cabras (“goats”), literally “goatsucker”.


lip

en-noun

lip (countable and uncountable, plural lips)

From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”).
Cognate with West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Norwegian leppe (“lip”),
Danish læbe (“lip”),
Latin labium (“lip”).

der

there's many a slip between the cup and the lip

there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip

(zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.


felon

From Middle English feloun, felone (“type of carbuncle or sore with pus; swelling on a hawk’s body”), possibly from Old French *felon, from Latin fel (“bile, gall; bitterness; poison; venom”): see etymology 1.

He hev been away from home for a few days, since he's had that felon upon his finger; for a' said, since I can't work I'll have a hollerday.

1874, Thomas Hardy, “In the Sun—a Harbinger”, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 31:

(pathology, veterinary medicine) A small infected sore; an abscess, a boil; specifically, a whitlow (“infection near or under the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail”).


lion

Haitian Creole: lyon

Mauritian Creole: lyon

Seychellois Creole: lyon

Inherited from Old French lion, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin leōnem, from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn).


horn

hornet (definite singular)
horn (indefinite plural)
horna (definite plural)
hornene (definite plural)

From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.


horn

hornet (definite singular)
horn (indefinite plural)
horna (definite plural)


corporal

From Middle English corporal, corporall, corporel, corporell, from Old French corporal (French corporel), from Latin corporālis, from Latin corpus (“body”); compare corporeal.

The smaller 9 9 have less elongated fins, drabber corporal colors, and more transparent fins.

1998, Rüdiger Riehl, Aquarium Atlas, volume 3, page 572:

(zoology) Pertaining to the body (the thorax and abdomen), as distinguished from the head, limbs and wings, etc.


papa

Apis mellifera
Apis mellifera#Translingual

bee (Apis mellifera) that collects honey


papa

(zoology) telescope snail (Telescopium telescopium)


papa

name of the Baybayin letter ᜉ (pa), corresponding to "pa"


membrane

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin membrāna (“skin or membrane that covers parts of the body”), from membrum (“a limb or member of the body”) + -āna. Doublet of membrana.

af

(anatomy, zootomy) A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments.

A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.

A flexible or semiflexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water.

(biology) A microscopic double layer of lipids and proteins forming the boundary of cells or organelles.


pluma

Borrowed from Latin plūma. Doublet of plume.


labium

Learned borrowing from Latin labium (“a lip”). Doublet of lip.

lbor

(entomology) A lower mouthpart of an insect that is formed by the second pair of maxillae united in the middle line.

(zoology) A liplike part of various invertebrates.


jelly

en-noun

jelly (countable and uncountable, plural jellies)

→ Chickasaw: cheliꞌ, jellꞌ

→ Welsh: jeli, sieli

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gel-
Latin gelū
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin gelō
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Latin -āta
Early Medieval Latin gelātabor.
Old French geleebor.
Middle English gele
English jellyFrom Middle English gele, borrowed from Old French gelee, borrowed from Early Medieval Latin gelāta, from Latin gelō + -āta. Doublet of gelee.

etymon

Species of the phylum Cnidaria – the classic jelly – have existed in something close to their current form for at least 565 million years; Ctenophora, the comb jellies, are not much younger.

2014, Theo Tait, ‘Water-Borne Zombies’, London Review of Books, volume 36, number 5:


marine

en-adj

marine (comparative more marine, superlative most marine)

more marine (comparative)
most marine (superlative)

Recorded since c.1420 as Middle English marin, borrowed from Middle French marin, from Old French, from Latin marinus (“of the sea”), itself from mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“body of water, lake”) (cognate with Old English mere (“sea, lake, pool, pond”), Dutch meer, German Meer, all from Proto-Germanic *mari). The modern pronunciation is presumably due to the influence of modern French marine, feminine singular of marin.

cog

(zoology) Inhabiting the high seas; oceanic; pelagic. (distinguished from maritime or littoral)


imp

en-verb

imp (third-person singular simple present imps, present participle imping, simple past and past participle imped)

imps (present singular third-person)
imping (participle present)
imped (participle past)
imped (past)

From Middle English impen, ympen (“to plant; (figuratively) to bury; to graft; to add to, insert, put into, set in; to mend (a falcon’s feather) by attaching a new feather on to the broken stump”), from Old English impian, ġeimpian (“to graft”), from Proto-West Germanic *impōn (“to graft”), from Vulgar Latin *imputō (“to graft”), from Ancient Greek ἔμφῠτος (émphutos, “implanted; planted”), from ἐμφῠ́ω (emphúō, “to implant”, from ἐν- (en-, prefix meaning ‘in’) + φῠ́ω (phúō, “to bring forth, produce; to grow”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear; to become; to grow”))) + -τος (-tos).

af

ultimately from Proto-Indo-European <i class="Latn mention" lang="ine-pro">*bʰuH-</i> (“to appear; to become; to grow”)

I have known feathers so imped that the eye could not discern the place of juncture, and it was difficult even to discover it by passing the thumb-nail down the shaft of the imped feather.

1900, E[dward] B[lair] Michell, “Accidents and Maladies”, in The Art and Practice of Hawking, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 229:

Bird rehabilitators borrow a trick from falconry with the age-old process of imping flight feathers on to a damaged bird.

2004, Roseann Tomko, Illinois Audubon, Wayne, Ill.: Illinois Audubon Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 1:

[page 246, column 1] Feather damage is a serious problem for any bird. […] Repairing or imping broken feathers is a very good option in these cases and may save months or even a year in captivity. […] [page 250, column 1] Note that a feather can usually only be imped once since it is very difficult or impossible to remove and then replace an imping needle from within a feather shaft after it has been glued in place.

2016, David E. Scott, “Feathers and Aging”, in Raptor Medicine, Surgery and Rehabilitation, 2nd edition, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Boston, Mass.: CABI, →ISBN, pages 246 and 250:

(falconry, veterinary medicine) To engraft (a feather) on to a broken feather in a bird's wing or tail to repair it; to engraft (feathers) on to a bird, or a bird's wing or tail.


snare

From Middle English snare, from Old English snearu, sneare (“a string; cord”), from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ (“a sling; loop; noose”). Cognate with Old Norse snara. Also related to German Schnur and Dutch snaar, snoer.

inh

(veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.


cuticle

From Middle French cuticule, from Latin cuticula (“cuticle, skin”).

(zoology, botany) A noncellular protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants.


admiral

→ Cebuano: admiral

desctree

→ German: Admiral
→ Czech: admirál
Hungarian: admirális
→ Polish: admirał
→ Slovene: admirȃl
→ Ukrainian: адміра́л (admirál)

Swahili: admirali

→ Tagalog: ádmirál

Amir_al-umara#In_Norman_Sicily
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admiral
admiral of France

From Middle English admiral etc., from Anglo-Norman and Old French admiral etc., from Medieval Latin admiralis, admirallus, and admiralius, from irregular modification of amiralis etc. under the influence of the prefix ad- and particularly admiror (“to admire, respect”), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”). The ending is frequently but mistakenly folk etymologized to derive from the article ال (al-), particularly in Arabic أَمِير اَلبَحْر (ʔamīr al-baḥr, “commander of the sea”), first attested as a Fatimid office, or in Arabic أَمِير الْمُؤْمِنِين (ʔamīr al-muʔminīn, “Commander of the Believers, caliph”). It seems instead to have been borrowed from modification of only the first term in Arabic أَمِير الْأُمَرَاء (ʔamīr al-ʔumarāʔ, “emir of emirs, commander-in-chief”) as used as a title for important commanders in Norman Sicily in the mid-12th century. First attested as an English rank in reference to Gervase Alard of Winchelsea as "admiral of the fleet of the Cinque Ports". Doublet of emir, amir, Amir, and amira.
Etymology tree
Medieval Latin admiralisder.
Anglo-Norman admiralbor.
Middle English admiral
English admiral

cog

أَمِير اَلبَحْر

أَمِير الْمُؤْمِنِين

der

أَمِير الْأُمَرَاء

etymon

(zoology) Any of several species of nymphalid butterflies of the genera Kaniska, Limenitis and Vanessa.

(conchology) The shell of the Conus ammiralis; the cone shells of various other species displaying similarly intricate banding.


admiral

admiralen (definite singular)
admiraler (indefinite plural)
admiralene (definite plural)

→ Northern Sami: admirála

From Old French admiral, from Medieval Latin admiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”) under influence from admīrārī (“to admire, to respect”).

her om dagen så jeg en admiral på byen, den hadde forvillet seg inn i en bakgård på Grünerløkka

the other day I saw an admiral in the city, it had strayed into a backyard on Grünerløkka

Vanessa atalanta
Vanessa atalanta#Translingual

(zoology) the red admiral (a bright red and black butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) of the family Nymphalidae)


admiral

admirȃl (animate canonical masculine)
admirȃl (nominative singular)
admirȃla (dual nominative)
admirȃli (nominative plural)
admirȃla (genitive singular)
admirȃlov (dual genitive)
admirȃlov (genitive plural)
admirȃlu (dative singular)
admirȃloma (dative dual)
admirȃlom (dative plural)
admirȃla (accusative singular)
admirȃla (accusative dual)
admirȃle (accusative plural)
admirȃlu (locative singular)
admirȃlih (dual locative)
admirȃlih (locative plural)
admirȃlom (instrumental singular)
admirȃloma (dual instrumental)
admirȃli (instrumental plural)
admirȃl (singular vocative)
admirȃla (dual vocative)
admirȃli (plural vocative)

From German Admiral, from English admiral, from Middle English, Anglo-Norman, and Old French admiral, from Medieval Latin admiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”) under influence from admīrārī (“to admire, to respect”).

(zoology) Vanessa atalanta, a type of butterfly.


tor

torok (plural)
tor (nominative singular)
torok (nominative plural)
tort (accusative singular)
torokat (accusative plural)
tornak (dative singular)
toroknak (dative plural)
torral (instrumental singular)
torokkal (instrumental plural)
torért (causal-final singular)
torokért (causal-final plural)
torrá (singular translative)
torokká (plural translative)
torig (singular terminative)
torokig (plural terminative)
torként (essive-formal singular)
torokként (essive-formal plural)
torban (inessive singular)
torokban (inessive plural)
toron (singular superessive)
torokon (plural superessive)
tornál (adessive singular)
toroknál (adessive plural)
torba (illative singular)
torokba (illative plural)
torra (singular sublative)
torokra (plural sublative)
torhoz (allative singular)
torokhoz (allative plural)
torból (elative singular)
torokból (elative plural)
torról (delative singular)
torokról (delative plural)
tortól (ablative singular)
toroktól (ablative plural)
toré (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
toroké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
toréi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
torokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
torom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
toraim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
torod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
toraid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
tora (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
torai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
torunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
toraink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
torotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
toraitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
toruk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
toraik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From Latin thorax, from Ancient Greek θώραξ (thṓrax, “breastplate, chest”), created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.


worm

English: worm

Scots: worm, wirm

From Old English wyrm, from Proto-West Germanic *wurmi, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis.

(veterinary, rare) A muscle underneath the tongue of a dog seen as increasing the risk of rabies.


sessile

From Latin sessilis (“sitting”), from sessus, perfect passive participle of verb sedeō (“to sit”), + adjective suffix -ilis. Compare session.

a sessile oyster

(zoology) Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.


makan

From either Spanish macan (“bruised”), an inflection of macar (“to bruise”), or Spanish Macán, an obsolete form of Macao according to Manuel (1948), it is supposedly from Macao, due to Noceda & Sanlucar (1860) defining it as "Arroz de tubigan, bueno y oloroso, uno es blanco y otro colorado. Vino la semilla de Macan." and an early account of Fr. Domingo de Salazar (1583) saying that they have located it at "la ysla de Macan, donde viven los Portugueses que estan junto a la ciudad de Cantón, en la China,...".

(zoology) a species of pig with a savory meat when cooked


den

en-verb

den (third-person singular simple present dens, present participle denning, simple past and past participle denned)

dens (present singular third-person)
denning (participle present)
denned (participle past)
denned (past)

From Middle English den, from Old English denn (“den, lair (of a beast), cave; a swine-pasture, a woodland pasture for swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *dani (“threshing-floor, barn-floor”). Cognate with Scots den (“den, lair”), Middle Dutch denne (“burrow, den, cave, attic”), Dutch den (“ship's deck, threshing-floor, mountain floor”), Middle Low German denne, danne (“threshing-floor, small dale”), German Tenne (“threshing-floor, barn for threshing”).

cog

Although present in virtually all habitats, it preferred to den in caves, so its distribution, especially in cold, northern areas, may have been limited to limestone and other rocky regions where caves form.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 203:

“Denning” – behaviour around making dens – has changed and bears are swimming long distances, but, says Aars, there is still enough sea ice in the spring for the bears to hunt successfully.

2023 August 30, Patrick Greenfield, “Why it may be time to stop using the polar bear as a symbol of the climate crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(intransitive, zoology) Of an animal, to use as a den; to take up residence in.


infanticide

en-noun

infanticide (countable and uncountable, plural infanticides)

(zoology) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.


ornamental

en-adj

ornamental (comparative more ornamental, superlative most ornamental)

more ornamental (comparative)
most ornamental (superlative)

Those pine trees on the lawn are the fastest-growing ornamentals we could find.

(of a plant, fish, etc.) Bred for aesthetic or decorative purposes.

декоративен

bred for aesthetic or decorative purposes


anosmic

anosmic (comparative more anosmic, superlative most anosmic)

more anosmic (comparative)
most anosmic (superlative)

The whales, porpoises and seals have however a reason that man does not possess for being anosmic. For they, in common with all the living world of earth and air, left the sea millions of years ago and, as they developed lungs with which to breathe, so did they modify their organs of smell to receive sensations from air, not water. Eons later, in comparatively recent geologic times, when these few mammals left the land and returned to the water, this differentiation for air-smelling had gone too far. Their senses of smell failed to react to water-borne stimuli. […] It is worth discussing these anosmic animals, and what caused them to lose the sense of smell.

1960, James Knox Millen, “chapter II”, in Your Nose Knows: A Study of the Sense of Smell, Los Angeles, Calif.: Cunningham Press, →OCLC, page 13:

Even in the totally anosmic whale without an olfactory nerve, bulb, or tract, it is noteworthy that the third-order neurons of the olfactory system still persist.

1978, R. Bruce Masterton, K. K. Glendenning, “Phylogeny of the Vertebrate Sensory Systems”, in R. Bruce Masterton, editor, Sensory Integration (Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology; 1), New York, N.Y.: Plenum Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 5:

Because dolphins are regarded as anosmic, because the animals usually swallow fish and other food whole without mastication, and because, until recently, taste buds had not been found in the tongue of several dolphin species, some cetologists have doubted that the animals possess the sense of taste.

1990, Sam H. Ridgway, “The Central Nervous System of the Bottlenose Dolphin”, in Stephen Leatherwood, Randall R. Reeves, editors, The Bottlenose Dolphin, San Diego, Calif., London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 85:

(zoology) Lacking olfactory organs; anosmatic.


uterus

→ Czech: uterus

→ Malay: uterus

→ Swahili: uterasi

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *úderos
Latin uterusder.
English uterus
From Latin uterus (“womb, belly”), from Proto-Indo-European *úderos (“abdomen, stomach”), from *úd (“out, outward”) + *-eros (contrastive suffix).

af

Müllerian duct - embryological precursor

(anatomy) A reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth.

(zoology) A similar part in some non-mammals.


uterus

id-noun

utèrus (first-person possessive uterusku, second-person possessive uterusmu, third-person possessive uterusnya)

utèrus (canonical)
uterusku (first-person possessive)
uterusmu (possessive second-person)
uterusnya (possessive third-person)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *úderos
Latin uterusder.
Indonesian uterus
Learned borrowing from Latin uterus, from Proto-Indo-European *úderos (“abdomen, stomach”), from *úd (“out, outward”) + *-eros (contrastive suffix).

etymon

(anatomy, medicine, zoology) womb, uterus


zooplankton

en-noun

zooplankton (countable and uncountable, plural zooplanktons or zooplankton)

zooplanktons (plural)
zooplankton (plural)

(zoology) Free-floating small protozoa, crustaceans (such as krill), etc. and the eggs and larvae from larger animals.

dyreplankton

free-floating small protozoa or crustaceans


zooplankton

pl-noun

zooplankton m inan (related adjective zooplanktonowy or zooplanktoniczny)

zooplanktonowy (adjective)
zooplanktoniczny (adjective)
zooplankton (nominative singular)
zooplanktonu (genitive singular)
zooplanktonowi (dative singular)
zooplankton (accusative singular)
zooplanktonem (instrumental singular)
zooplanktonie (locative singular)
zooplanktonie (singular vocative)

Coordinate term: fitoplankton

(marine biology, zoology) zooplankton (free-floating small protozoa or crustaceans)


septum

Borrowed from Latin sēptum (“enclosure, wall, fence”).

(biology) A wall separating two cavities; a partition.

(zoology) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.

väliseinä

(zoology) radial calcareous plate of a coral

(zoology) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers.

väliseinä

(zoology) transverse partition dividing the shell chambers of a mollusc or rhizopod

(zoology) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.

väliseinä

(zoology) transverse partition dividing the body cavity of an annelid


bunyip

The bunyip here was considered to have a magical power over humans, causing them considerable misfortune. Places where there were many eels tended to be where bunyips lived, as this was their food. On one occasion, Aboriginal people claimed that a bunyip lured a woman to her death by distracting her with a large catch of eels. It was considered extremely bad luck to kill or injure a bunyip.

2007, Janet Parker, Julie Stanton, editors, Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies, page 387:

According to the stories, the Bunyip comes in many different shapes and sizes—some are covered in feathers, while others have scales like a crocodile. Most Aboriginal drawings show the Bunyip with a tail like a horse, and flippers and tusks like a walrus.

2008, Oliver Ho, Mysteries Unwrapped: Mutants & Monsters, page 26:

One particularly fierce bunyip described by Smith was well known as a man-eater throughout south Australia.

2009, David D. Gilmore, Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors, page 150:

(Australia, cryptozoology, mythology) A mythical Australian monster, said to inhabit swamps and lagoons.


shark

From Middle English shark (used by Thomas Beckington in 1442 to refer to a kind of fish), of uncertain origin. Most likely from a semantic extension of the German-derived shark (“scoundrel”), see below. The fish was originally called a dogfish or haye in English and Middle English.
alternative theories
Some older dictionaries derived the word from Latin c(h)archarias, c(h)acharus (from Ancient Greek), but admit that "the requisite [Old French] forms intermediate between E. shark and L. carcharus are not found, and it is not certain that the name [shark] was orig. applied to the fish; it may have been first used of a greedy man".
Other older authorities speculated that the word might derive from Yucatec Maya xok (“fish”) (/ʃok/), as John Hawkins brought a specimen from the area where Mayan was spoken to England in the 1560s. However, the 1442 use rules out a New World origin for the word.

shock (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)

The straunge fishe is in length xvij. foote and iij. foote broad, and in compas about the bodie vj. foote; and is round snowted, short headdid, hauing iij. rankes of teeth on either iawe, …. Also it hath v. gills of eache side of the head, shoing white. Ther is no proper name for it that I know, but that sertayne men of Captayne Haukinses doth call it a sharke.

1569, The true discripcion of this marueilous straunge Fishe, whiche was taken on Thursday was sennight, the xvi. day of June, this present month, in the yeare of our Lord God, M.D.lxix., a broadside printed in London, the second earliest known use of the term; reprinted in A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides: printed in the reigh of Queen Elizabeth, between the years 1559 and 1597 in 1867

He said he had spoken to a woman who was kayaking off Catalina Island, California, in 2008 when a shark slammed her kayak from underneath and sent her flying into the air. She then landed on the back of the shark, Collier said. "At that point the shark started to swim out to sea, so she jumped off its back," Collier said.

2011 October 13, AP, “Man 'surfs' great white shark”, in The Guardian:

(ichthyology) A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.


gland

Late 17th century borrowing from French glande, alteration of Old French glandre, from Latin glandulae (“throat glands, tonsils”), plural of glandula (“a little acorn”), from glāns (“an acorn”) + -ula (diminutive nominal suffix).

gjendër

organ that synthesizes and secretes substance

Meronyms: endocrine gland, exocrine gland

(zoology) A specialized cell, group of cells, or organ of endothelial origin in the human or animal body that synthesizes a chemical substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).

(anatomy) A structure resembling a gland, especially a lymph node.


trigon

en-noun

trigon (countable and uncountable, plural trigons)

From Ancient Greek τρίγωνον (trígōnon, “triangle”), neuter substantive of τρίγωνος (trígōnos, “three-sided”), from τρεῖς (treîs, “three”) + γωνία (gōnía, “bend, angle”). Equivalent to tri- + -gon. Doublet of trigone and trigonon.

der

(countable, zoology) The cutting region of the crown of an upper molar, usually the anterior part.


LSD

en-noun

LSD (countable and uncountable, plural LSDs)

lumpy skin disease
lumpy skin disease#English

(veterinary pathology) Initialism of lumpy skin disease.


minim

(zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.


lautanen

lautanen (nominative singular)
lautaset (nominative plural)
lautanen (accusative nominative singular)
lautaset (accusative nominative plural)
lautasen (accusative genitive singular)
lautaset (accusative genitive plural)
lautasen (genitive singular)
lautasten (genitive plural)
lautasien (genitive plural)
lautasta (partitive singular)
lautasia (partitive plural)
lautasessa (inessive singular)
lautasissa (inessive plural)
lautasesta (elative singular)
lautasista (elative plural)
lautaseen (illative singular)
lautasiin (illative plural)
lautasella (adessive singular)
lautasilla (adessive plural)
lautaselta (ablative singular)
lautasilta (ablative plural)
lautaselle (allative singular)
lautasille (allative plural)
lautasena (essive singular)
lautasina (essive plural)
lautaseksi (singular translative)
lautasiksi (plural translative)
lautasetta (abessive singular)
lautasitta (abessive plural)
lautasin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
lautaseni (nominative singular)
lautaseni (nominative plural)
lautaseni (accusative nominative singular)
lautaseni (accusative nominative plural)
lautaseni (accusative genitive singular)
lautaseni (accusative genitive plural)
lautaseni (genitive singular)
lautasteni (genitive plural)
lautasieni (genitive plural)
lautastani (partitive singular)
lautasiani (partitive plural)
lautasessani (inessive singular)
lautasissani (inessive plural)
lautasestani (elative singular)
lautasistani (elative plural)
lautaseeni (illative singular)
lautasiini (illative plural)
lautasellani (adessive singular)
lautasillani (adessive plural)
lautaseltani (ablative singular)
lautasiltani (ablative plural)
lautaselleni (allative singular)
lautasilleni (allative plural)
lautasenani (essive singular)
lautasinani (essive plural)
lautasekseni (singular translative)
lautasikseni (plural translative)
lautasettani (abessive singular)
lautasittani (abessive plural)
lautasineni (comitative plural)
lautasesi (nominative singular)
lautasesi (nominative plural)
lautasesi (accusative nominative singular)
lautasesi (accusative nominative plural)
lautasesi (accusative genitive singular)
lautasesi (accusative genitive plural)
lautasesi (genitive singular)
lautastesi (genitive plural)
lautasiesi (genitive plural)
lautastasi (partitive singular)
lautasiasi (partitive plural)
lautasessasi (inessive singular)
lautasissasi (inessive plural)
lautasestasi (elative singular)
lautasistasi (elative plural)
lautaseesi (illative singular)
lautasiisi (illative plural)
lautasellasi (adessive singular)
lautasillasi (adessive plural)
lautaseltasi (ablative singular)
lautasiltasi (ablative plural)
lautasellesi (allative singular)
lautasillesi (allative plural)
lautasenasi (essive singular)
lautasinasi (essive plural)
lautaseksesi (singular translative)
lautasiksesi (plural translative)
lautasettasi (abessive singular)
lautasittasi (abessive plural)
lautasinesi (comitative plural)
lautasemme (nominative singular)
lautasemme (nominative plural)
lautasemme (accusative nominative singular)
lautasemme (accusative nominative plural)
lautasemme (accusative genitive singular)
lautasemme (accusative genitive plural)
lautasemme (genitive singular)
lautastemme (genitive plural)
lautasiemme (genitive plural)
lautastamme (partitive singular)
lautasiamme (partitive plural)
lautasessamme (inessive singular)
lautasissamme (inessive plural)
lautasestamme (elative singular)
lautasistamme (elative plural)
lautaseemme (illative singular)
lautasiimme (illative plural)
lautasellamme (adessive singular)
lautasillamme (adessive plural)
lautaseltamme (ablative singular)
lautasiltamme (ablative plural)
lautasellemme (allative singular)
lautasillemme (allative plural)
lautasenamme (essive singular)
lautasinamme (essive plural)
lautaseksemme (singular translative)
lautasiksemme (plural translative)
lautasettamme (abessive singular)
lautasittamme (abessive plural)
lautasinemme (comitative plural)
lautasenne (nominative singular)
lautasenne (nominative plural)
lautasenne (accusative nominative singular)
lautasenne (accusative nominative plural)
lautasenne (accusative genitive singular)
lautasenne (accusative genitive plural)
lautasenne (genitive singular)
lautastenne (genitive plural)
lautasienne (genitive plural)
lautastanne (partitive singular)
lautasianne (partitive plural)
lautasessanne (inessive singular)
lautasissanne (inessive plural)
lautasestanne (elative singular)
lautasistanne (elative plural)
lautaseenne (illative singular)
lautasiinne (illative plural)
lautasellanne (adessive singular)
lautasillanne (adessive plural)
lautaseltanne (ablative singular)
lautasiltanne (ablative plural)
lautasellenne (allative singular)
lautasillenne (allative plural)
lautasenanne (essive singular)
lautasinanne (essive plural)
lautaseksenne (singular translative)
lautasiksenne (plural translative)
lautasettanne (abessive singular)
lautasittanne (abessive plural)
lautasinenne (comitative plural)
lautasensa (nominative singular)
lautasensa (nominative plural)
lautasensa (accusative nominative singular)
lautasensa (accusative nominative plural)
lautasensa (accusative genitive singular)
lautasensa (accusative genitive plural)
lautasensa (genitive singular)
lautastensa (genitive plural)
lautasiensa (genitive plural)
lautastaan (partitive singular)
lautastansa (partitive singular)
lautasiaan (partitive plural)
lautasiansa (partitive plural)
lautasessaan (inessive singular)
lautasessansa (inessive singular)
lautasissaan (inessive plural)
lautasissansa (inessive plural)
lautasestaan (elative singular)
lautasestansa (elative singular)
lautasistaan (elative plural)
lautasistansa (elative plural)
lautaseensa (illative singular)
lautasiinsa (illative plural)
lautasellaan (adessive singular)
lautasellansa (adessive singular)
lautasillaan (adessive plural)
lautasillansa (adessive plural)
lautaseltaan (ablative singular)
lautaseltansa (ablative singular)
lautasiltaan (ablative plural)
lautasiltansa (ablative plural)
lautaselleen (allative singular)
lautasellensa (allative singular)
lautasilleen (allative plural)
lautasillensa (allative plural)
lautasenaan (essive singular)
lautasenansa (essive singular)
lautasinaan (essive plural)
lautasinansa (essive plural)
lautasekseen (singular translative)
lautaseksensa (singular translative)
lautasikseen (plural translative)
lautasiksensa (plural translative)
lautasettaan (abessive singular)
lautasettansa (abessive singular)
lautasittaan (abessive plural)
lautasittansa (abessive plural)
lautasineen (comitative plural)
lautasinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈlɑ̝u̯t̪ɑ̝ne̞n]

lauta (“(wooden) board”) + -nen (diminutive)

suffix

(zoology, usually in the plural) croup (top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped)


loma

(zoology) A lobe, flap or fringe bordering the toe of a bird.


žaba

žaba (nominative singular)
žabje (dual nominative)
žaby (nominative plural)
žaby (genitive singular)
žabow (dual genitive)
žabow (genitive plural)
žabje (dative singular)
žabomaj (dative dual)
žabam (dative plural)
žabu (accusative singular)
žabje (accusative dual)
žaby (accusative plural)
žabu (instrumental singular)
žabomaj (dual instrumental)
žabami (instrumental plural)
žabje (locative singular)
žabomaj (dual locative)
žabach (locative plural)
žaba (singular vocative)
žabje (dual vocative)
žaby (plural vocative)

Žaby žeru muchi.


epi-

From Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí, “on top of”).

epiparasitism is behaviour of epibiotic parasites, episymbiont is an epibiotic symbiont, episymbiotic is of or relating to an epibiotic symbiotic relationship

(zoology) Epibiotic: an organism that lives on another organism.


koza

koza (nominative singular)
kozy (dual nominative)
kozy (nominative plural)
kozy (genitive singular)
kozow (dual genitive)
kozow (genitive plural)
kozy (dative singular)
kozomaj (dative dual)
kozam (dative plural)
kozom (dative plural)
kozu (accusative singular)
kozy (accusative dual)
kozy (accusative plural)
kozu (instrumental singular)
kozomaj (dual instrumental)
kozami (instrumental plural)
kozymi (instrumental plural)
kozy (locative singular)
kozomaj (dual locative)
kozach (locative plural)
kozoch (locative plural)
koza (singular vocative)
kozy (dual vocative)
kozy (plural vocative)


nenä

nenä (nominative singular)
nenät (nominative plural)
nenä (accusative nominative singular)
nenät (accusative nominative plural)
nenän (accusative genitive singular)
nenät (accusative genitive plural)
nenän (genitive singular)
nenien (genitive plural)
nenäin (genitive plural rare)
nenää (partitive singular)
neniä (partitive plural)
nenässä (inessive singular)
nenissä (inessive plural)
nenästä (elative singular)
nenistä (elative plural)
nenään (illative singular)
neniin (illative plural)
nenällä (adessive singular)
nenillä (adessive plural)
nenältä (ablative singular)
neniltä (ablative plural)
nenälle (allative singular)
nenille (allative plural)
nenänä (essive singular)
neninä (essive plural)
nenäksi (singular translative)
neniksi (plural translative)
nenättä (abessive singular)
nenittä (abessive plural)
nenin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
nenäni (nominative singular)
nenäni (nominative plural)
nenäni (accusative nominative singular)
nenäni (accusative nominative plural)
nenäni (accusative genitive singular)
nenäni (accusative genitive plural)
nenäni (genitive singular)
nenieni (genitive plural)
nenäini (genitive plural rare)
nenääni (partitive singular)
neniäni (partitive plural)
nenässäni (inessive singular)
nenissäni (inessive plural)
nenästäni (elative singular)
nenistäni (elative plural)
nenääni (illative singular)
neniini (illative plural)
nenälläni (adessive singular)
nenilläni (adessive plural)
nenältäni (ablative singular)
neniltäni (ablative plural)
nenälleni (allative singular)
nenilleni (allative plural)
nenänäni (essive singular)
neninäni (essive plural)
nenäkseni (singular translative)
nenikseni (plural translative)
nenättäni (abessive singular)
nenittäni (abessive plural)
nenineni (comitative plural)
nenäsi (nominative singular)
nenäsi (nominative plural)
nenäsi (accusative nominative singular)
nenäsi (accusative nominative plural)
nenäsi (accusative genitive singular)
nenäsi (accusative genitive plural)
nenäsi (genitive singular)
neniesi (genitive plural)
nenäisi (genitive plural rare)
nenääsi (partitive singular)
neniäsi (partitive plural)
nenässäsi (inessive singular)
nenissäsi (inessive plural)
nenästäsi (elative singular)
nenistäsi (elative plural)
nenääsi (illative singular)
neniisi (illative plural)
nenälläsi (adessive singular)
nenilläsi (adessive plural)
nenältäsi (ablative singular)
neniltäsi (ablative plural)
nenällesi (allative singular)
nenillesi (allative plural)
nenänäsi (essive singular)
neninäsi (essive plural)
nenäksesi (singular translative)
neniksesi (plural translative)
nenättäsi (abessive singular)
nenittäsi (abessive plural)
neninesi (comitative plural)
nenämme (nominative singular)
nenämme (nominative plural)
nenämme (accusative nominative singular)
nenämme (accusative nominative plural)
nenämme (accusative genitive singular)
nenämme (accusative genitive plural)
nenämme (genitive singular)
neniemme (genitive plural)
nenäimme (genitive plural rare)
nenäämme (partitive singular)
neniämme (partitive plural)
nenässämme (inessive singular)
nenissämme (inessive plural)
nenästämme (elative singular)
nenistämme (elative plural)
nenäämme (illative singular)
neniimme (illative plural)
nenällämme (adessive singular)
nenillämme (adessive plural)
nenältämme (ablative singular)
neniltämme (ablative plural)
nenällemme (allative singular)
nenillemme (allative plural)
nenänämme (essive singular)
neninämme (essive plural)
nenäksemme (singular translative)
neniksemme (plural translative)
nenättämme (abessive singular)
nenittämme (abessive plural)
neninemme (comitative plural)
nenänne (nominative singular)
nenänne (nominative plural)
nenänne (accusative nominative singular)
nenänne (accusative nominative plural)
nenänne (accusative genitive singular)
nenänne (accusative genitive plural)
nenänne (genitive singular)
nenienne (genitive plural)
nenäinne (genitive plural rare)
nenäänne (partitive singular)
neniänne (partitive plural)
nenässänne (inessive singular)
nenissänne (inessive plural)
nenästänne (elative singular)
nenistänne (elative plural)
nenäänne (illative singular)
neniinne (illative plural)
nenällänne (adessive singular)
nenillänne (adessive plural)
nenältänne (ablative singular)
neniltänne (ablative plural)
nenällenne (allative singular)
nenillenne (allative plural)
nenänänne (essive singular)
neninänne (essive plural)
nenäksenne (singular translative)
neniksenne (plural translative)
nenättänne (abessive singular)
nenittänne (abessive plural)
neninenne (comitative plural)
nenänsä (nominative singular)
nenänsä (nominative plural)
nenänsä (accusative nominative singular)
nenänsä (accusative nominative plural)
nenänsä (accusative genitive singular)
nenänsä (accusative genitive plural)
nenänsä (genitive singular)
neniensä (genitive plural)
nenäinsä (genitive plural rare)
nenäänsä (partitive singular)
neniään (partitive plural)
neniänsä (partitive plural)
nenässään (inessive singular)
nenässänsä (inessive singular)
nenissään (inessive plural)
nenissänsä (inessive plural)
nenästään (elative singular)
nenästänsä (elative singular)
nenistään (elative plural)
nenistänsä (elative plural)
nenäänsä (illative singular)
neniinsä (illative plural)
nenällään (adessive singular)
nenällänsä (adessive singular)
nenillään (adessive plural)
nenillänsä (adessive plural)
nenältään (ablative singular)
nenältänsä (ablative singular)
neniltään (ablative plural)
neniltänsä (ablative plural)
nenälleen (allative singular)
nenällensä (allative singular)
nenilleen (allative plural)
nenillensä (allative plural)
nenänään (essive singular)
nenänänsä (essive singular)
neninään (essive plural)
neninänsä (essive plural)
nenäkseen (singular translative)
nenäksensä (singular translative)
nenikseen (plural translative)
neniksensä (plural translative)
nenättään (abessive singular)
nenättänsä (abessive singular)
nenittään (abessive plural)
nenittänsä (abessive plural)
nenineen (comitative plural)
neninensä (comitative plural)


cyclops

en-noun

cyclops (plural cyclops or cyclopes or cyclopses)

cyclops (plural)
cyclopes (plural)
cyclopses (plural)

Borrowed from Latin cyclōps, from Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ (Kúklōps, “Cyclops”), q.v.

der

(zoology) Any copepod in the genus Cyclops.


genu

PIE word
 *ǵónu
Borrowed from Latin genu (“knee”).

A knee-like structure, in particular a bend in the corpus callosum of mammals.


Loch Ness monster

(cryptozoology) A large creature believed by some to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland. It is said to have a long neck and one or more humps that protrude from the water.


dental

Borrowed from Middle French dental or Late Latin dentālis, from dēns (“a tooth”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

af

(veterinary medicine) Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth.


Nessie

That flurry of activity had been set off by a magisterial book (Whyte, 1957), reinforced by Dinsdale’s filming of a Nessie (Dinsdale, 1961) and culminating in successful underwater photography (Rines et al., 1976) by the Academy of Applied Science (AAS). Nessies were assigned the taxonomic identity Nessiteras rhombopteryx (Anonymous, 1975).

2002, Henry H. B. Auer, “The Case for the Loch Ness 'Monster': The Scientific Evidence”, in Journal of Scientific Exploration, volume 16, number 2, pages 225–246:

And if it comes down to just one vote, we all know who will be called upon to break that tie. Go with your gut, Nessie. You do you, Nessie, you do you.

2014, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Scottish Independence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 17, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

(informal, cryptozoology) The Loch Ness monster.


smut

head

smut m (genitive singular smuit, nominative plural smuit)

smuit (genitive singular)
smuit (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
smut (indefinite singular)
smuit (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a smuit (indefinite singular)
a smuta (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
smuit (indefinite singular)
smut (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an smut (definite singular)
na smuit (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an smuit (definite singular)
na smut (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an smut (definite singular)
don smut (definite singular)
leis na smuit (definite plural)


duet

en-verb

duet (third-person singular simple present duets, present participle duetting or dueting, simple past and past participle duetted or dueted)

duets (present singular third-person)
duetting (participle present)
dueting (participle present)
duetted (participle past)
duetted (past)
dueted (participle past)
dueted (past)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of due (“two”).

der

1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223,
Duetting species are typically monogamous.

In several dozen species of birds there has been found a phenomenon known as duetting, or antiphonal singing: the first part of a song is executed by one partner of a pair, then the other partner very promptly chimes in to sing the second part.

1986, Thomas A. Sebeok, chapter 7, in I Think I Am a Verb: More Contributions to the Doctrine of Signs, New York: Springer Science+Business, published 2013, page 87:

(intransitive, zoology, of pairs of animals) To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.


albatros

id-noun

albatros (plural albatros-albatros, first-person possessive albatrosku, second-person possessive albatrosmu, third-person possessive albatrosnya)

albatros-albatros (plural)
albatrosku (first-person possessive)
albatrosmu (possessive second-person)
albatrosnya (possessive third-person)

Borrowed from Dutch albatros, from English albatross, from Spanish alcatraz or Portuguese alcatraz, from Arabic الْغَطَّاس (al-ḡaṭṭās, “the diver”).

(zoology) any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.

(zoology) any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as puffins.


sabel

sabel (absolutive indefinite)
sabela (absolutive indefinite singular)
sabelak (absolutive indefinite plural)
sabelek (ergative indefinite)
sabelak (ergative indefinite singular)
sabelek (ergative indefinite plural)
sabeli (dative indefinite)
sabelari (dative indefinite singular)
sabelei (dative indefinite plural)
sabelen (genitive indefinite)
sabelaren (genitive indefinite singular)
sabelen (genitive indefinite plural)
sabelekin (comitative indefinite)
sabelarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
sabelekin (comitative indefinite plural)
sabelengatik (causative indefinite)
sabelarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
sabelengatik (causative indefinite plural)
sabelentzat (benefactive indefinite)
sabelarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
sabelentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
sabelez (indefinite instrumental)
sabelaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
sabelez (indefinite instrumental plural)
sabeletan (indefinite inessive)
sabelean (indefinite inessive singular)
sabeletan (indefinite inessive plural)
sabeletako (indefinite locative)
sabeleko (indefinite locative singular)
sabeletako (indefinite locative plural)
sabeletara (allative indefinite)
sabelera (allative indefinite singular)
sabeletara (allative indefinite plural)
sabeletaraino (indefinite terminative)
sabeleraino (indefinite singular terminative)
sabeletaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
sabeletarantz (directive indefinite)
sabelerantz (directive indefinite singular)
sabeletarantz (directive indefinite plural)
sabeletarako (destinative indefinite)
sabelerako (destinative indefinite singular)
sabeletarako (destinative indefinite plural)
sabeletatik (ablative indefinite)
sabeletik (ablative indefinite singular)
sabeletatik (ablative indefinite plural)
sabelik (indefinite partitive)
sabeltzat (indefinite prolative)

(zoology) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.


corn

Inherited from Middle English corne, from Old French corn (modern French cor), from Latin cornū. Doublet of corno and cornu.

(veterinary medicine) An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.

(veterinary medicine) Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.


catadromous

en-adj

catadromous (comparative more catadromous, superlative most catadromous)

more catadromous (comparative)
most catadromous (superlative)

From cata- + -dromous, by analogy with anadromous. Compare catanadromous.

Bird migration routes favor marshes and river valleys, as do, more obviously, the movement of anadromous salmon and, the mirror image, catadromous eels, to mention only two of the numerous migrating fish species.

2017, James C Scott, chapter 1, in Against the Grain, New Haven & London: Yale, →ISBN, page 53:

(ichthyology, of a migratory fish) Living in fresh water as an adult, but breeding in the sea.


pariah

From Tamil பறையர் (paṟaiyar), from பறையன் (paṟaiyaṉ, “drummer”), from பறை (paṟai, “drum”) or from Malayalam പറയർ (paṟayaṟ), from പറയൻ (paṟayaṉ, “drummer”), from പറ (paṟa, “drum”). Parai in Tamil or Para in Malayalam refers to a type of large drum designed to announce the king’s notices to the public. The people who made a living using the parai were called paraiyar; in the caste-based society they were in the lower strata, hence the derisive paraiah and pariah.
Alternatively, derived from Sanskrit पर (para, “distant; outsider”).

(zoology) Ellipsis of pariah dog: an Indian breed, any stray dog in Indian contexts.


megachiropteran

(zoology) Of or relating to the fruit bats of suborder Megachiroptera.


megachiropteran

(zoology) A fruit bat of suborder Megachiroptera.


tunge

tunga (definite singular)
tunger (indefinite plural)
tungene (definite plural)

From Old Norse tunga f, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ f (“tongue”), from an N-stem variant of earlier Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s f (“tongue”).
Nordic cognates include Icelandic, Faroese, Norn, and Swedish tunga, Danish tunge, Elfdalian tungga. Other Germanic cognates include English tongue, West Frisian tonge, Dutch tong, German Zunge, and Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō).
Indo-European cognates include Armenian լեզու (lezu), Irish teanga, Latin lingua, Lithuanian liežuvis, Northern Kurdish ziman, Persian زبان, Polish język, Russian язык (jazyk), Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā), Tocharian A käntu, Tocharian B kantwo, Welsh tafod.


media

Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.

(zoology) An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.


acentrous

en-adj

acentrous (comparative more acentrous, superlative most acentrous)

more acentrous (comparative)
most acentrous (superlative)

2001, "Axial Skeleton", David Cannatella, https://web.archive.org/web/20051222184337/http://www.lifesci.utexas.edu/courses/bio478L/LecturesPDF/bodyskeleton.pdf
"Some bony fishes (Teleostei, Amia, Lepisosteus, and Brachiopterygii) have well-ossified centra and neural and hemal arches. Others (Dipnoi, Latimeria, and Chondrostei) lack centra (acentrous), and the notochord is unconstricted, and the bony neural and hemal arches simply rest on it."


acarology

From acaro- + -logy, based on Ancient Greek ἄκαρι (ákari, “cheese mite, tick”) + -λογία (-logía).

der

1999, Rodger David Mitchell (editor), Acarology IX, Volume 2: Symposia, Ohio Biological Survey, page xvii,
The students and faculty of the acarology course were Don's life, and his example pushed us all to higher levels of achievement.

General texts on acarology include works by Woolley (1987), Evans (1992), and Krantz and Walter (2009).

2009, Lance A. Durden, Gary R. Mullen, “Introduction”, in Gary R. Mullen, Lance A. Durden, editors, Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 1:

Acarology is the study of mites, or Acari or Acarina. It is a specialized field of study in the larger topics of invertebrate zoology and entomology. Because some mites are economically important pests of agriculture (crops, honey bees, stored food products, and livestock), are household pests, or are vectors of diseases of humans and livestock, acarology is often studied in entomology departments.

2011, Marjorie A. Hoy, Agricultural Acarology, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 3:


scour

en-verb

scour (third-person singular simple present scours, present participle scouring, simple past and past participle scoured)

scours (present singular third-person)
scouring (participle present)
scoured (participle past)
scoured (past)

From Middle English scǒuren (“to polish, scour; to clean; to beat, whip”), from Middle Dutch scuren, schuren (“to clean; to polish”) or Middle Low German schǖren, of uncertain origin but probably from Old French escurer, from Medieval Latin scūrō, escūrō, excūrō (“to clean off”), from ex- (“thoroughly”) + cūrō (“to arrange, see to, take care of”), from cūra (“care, concern”) (from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”)) + -ō.
The word is cognate with Danish skure, Middle High German schüren, schiuren (modern German scheuern (“to scour, scrub; to chafe”)), Norwegian skura (“to scrub”), Swedish skura, Catalan escurar.

cog

to scour a horse

(transitive, veterinary medicine) To clear the digestive tract (of an animal) by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge.

If a lamb is scouring, do not delay treatment.

It has been stated by trustworthy authorities that certain waters in the lias-formation possess scouring properties. […] Mr. Clarke likewise mentions two cases. "In one instance," he says, "a large piece of pasture-land was found to scour the cows kept upon it, to the great loss of the occupier, until he hit upon the expedient of cutting off the supply of spring-water from a neighbouring brook, and confining the supply to the rain-water held in the ditches,—the result of which has been that very little of the disorder has since appeared upon the land referred to.[…]"

1862, Augustus Voelcker, “X.—On the Scouring Lands of Central Somerset. … [Report of an Investigation Made at the Request of the Council of the Bath and West of England Society.]”, in Journal of the Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, volume X, part I, London: James Ridgway, […], →OCLC, section 3 (Examination of the Water Theory), page 191:

(transitive, intransitive, veterinary medicine) To (cause livestock to) suffer from diarrhoea or dysentery.


menneske

mennesket (definite singular)
mennesker (indefinite plural)
menneska (definite plural)
menneskene (definite plural)

From Old Norse manneskja (“human being”).

mennesker og dyr og træer og urter skabte sine lige efter evige love

1873, Henrik Ibsen, Kejser og Galilæer, page 421:

humans and animals and trees and herbs created its just according to eternal laws

gøre menneske til dyr!

[jeg] beundrer hvad menneskene kan utrette

1929, Ronald Fangen, Nogen unge mennesker, page 88:

[de bygde] enkle hus til periodevis opphold for mennesker og dyr

[they built] simple houses for periodic stays for humans and animals

i forhold til et voksent menneske er cellen ikke større enn et sesamfrø ved foten av Eiffeltårnet – men … minst like komplisert som hele mennesket

in relation to an adult human, the cell is no larger than a sesame seed at the foot of the Eiffel Tower - but… at least as complicated as the whole human

(zoology) a human or human being; man (the tallest, most abundant, and most intelligent of primates; Homo sapiens.)


cap

Inherited from Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Proto-West Germanic *kappā (“covering, hood, mantle”), from Late Latin cappa, itself from Latin caput. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *káput- and Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“head”). Doublet of cape, chape, and cope.

nalli

small amount of explosive used as detonator

(zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.


limousine

→ Dutch: limousine

→ English: limousine

→ German: Limousine

desc

→ Portuguese: limusine, limusina, limousine

→ Russian: лимузи́н (limuzín) (see there for further descendants)

→ Turkish: limuzin

From the name of the former French region Limousin, from Limoges. The naming of the car is sometimes attributed to Limoges-born engineer Charles Jeantaud.


retrograde

en-adj

retrograde (comparative more retrograde, superlative most retrograde)

more retrograde (comparative)
most retrograde (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Middle English retrograd, retrograde (“of a planet: appearing to move in a direction opposite to the order of the zodiac signs, retrograde; unfortunate”), from Middle French retrograde and Old French retrograde (“of a celestial object: appearing to move backwards; moving backwards; reverse; palindromic; opposed to change”) (modern French rétrograde), and from their etymon Latin retrōgradus (“of a celestial object: appearing to move backwards”) (compare Late Latin retrōgradus (“reverse; palindromic”)), from retrō (“back, backwards; behind; before, formerly”) + gradus (“pace, step”). By surface analysis, retro- + -grade.
The adverb and noun are derived from the adjective.

cog

/ˈɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ɡɹeɪd/

/ˈɹɛtɹəˌɡɹeɪd/

retrògrad

reverting to an inferior or less developed state — see also declining, regressing

Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.

(zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.


folium

en-noun

folium (countable and uncountable, plural foliums or folia)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-folium.wav

From Latin folium (“leaf”). Doublet of foil and folio, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon.

The folium of silvatica has a row of oblique black markings along the edge on each side, while in angulata it is evenly notched.

1885, James Henry Emerton, New England Spiders of the Family Therididae - Volume 6, page 298:

Abdomen subovate to subtriangular, longer than wide, dorsum with an inverted Christmas tree-like folium of brown and chalk-white bands, cardiac area brown, serving as Christmas tree base.

1995, A. T. Barrion, J. A. Litsinger, Riceland Spiders of South and Southeast Asia, page 631:

The abdomen usually has a flattened anterior edge and its pattern, if present, lacks the folium of Xysticus and is much less structured.

2017, Lawrence Bee, Geoff Oxford, Helen Smith, Britain's Spiders: A Field Guide, page 371:

(zoology) A symmetric pattern on the abdomen of some spiders.


chiocciola

From a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *clociola, diminutive of *clocea, from metathesis of Latin cochlea (“snail”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías), cognate with κόχλος (kókhlos, “shellfish”).


connective

From connect + -ive, modeled after French connectif, from New Latin connectivus, from connectō (“I connect”); compare connect, connexive, connectivum, connection.


sheath

From Middle English sheth, shethe (“holder for a sword, knife, etc., scabbard, sheath”) [and other forms], from Old English sċēaþ (“sheath”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþiju, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz (“sheath; covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect, split”) (possibly from the notion of a split stick with a sword inserted).
The English word is cognate with Danish skede, Dutch schede, Icelandic skeið, German Scheide, Low German scheed, Norwegian skjede.

nb...

chethe, scǽð, scaþ, schede, schete, scheth, schethe, seaþ, seeth, seth, sethe, shæþ, shede, sheethe, sheith, (Southwest) ssethe, sseþe, (early forms) scæðe, scaþe, seaþe

der

(zoology) The foreskin of certain animals (for example, dogs and horses).


breakdown

en-noun

breakdown (countable and uncountable, plural breakdowns)

sınma

failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature

(veterinary medicine, uncountable) Injury to a horse's leg causing lameness; (countable) an instance of this.

jalkavamma

injury to a horse’s leg causing lameness; an instance of this


breve

From Middle English breve, variant of bref, from Old French brieve, breve (feminine form of brief, bref), from Latin brevis (“short”).

(zoology) A pitta, all of which have more or less short tails.


giraffa

la-noun

giraffa f (genitive giraffae); first declension

giraffae (genitive)
giraffa (nominative singular)
giraffae (nominative plural)
giraffae (genitive singular)
giraffārum (genitive plural)
giraffae (dative singular)
giraffīs (dative plural)
giraffam (accusative singular)
giraffās (accusative plural)
giraffā (ablative singular)
giraffīs (ablative plural)
giraffa (singular vocative)
giraffae (plural vocative)

[d͡ʒiˈräfːä]


phase

From New Latin phasis, from Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “an appearance”), from φάω (pháō, “to shine”); compare phantasm and see face.

vaihe

rugby union: period of play between breakdowns

(zoology) In certain organisms, one of two or more colour variations characteristic of the species, but independent of the ordinary seasonal and sexual differences, and often also of age.


casque

→ Bulgarian: ка́ска (káska)

→ English: casque

→ Romanian: cască

→ Russian: ка́ска (káska)

→ Turkish: kask

→ Ukrainian: ка́ска (káska)


fin

Dutch language
German language
Latin language
Middle English language
Old English language
Old Irish language
Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Indo-European language
Sanskrit language
Swedish language
Tocharian A language
fin
fin (disambiguation)

From Middle English fin, from Old English finn, from Proto-Germanic *finnō, *finǭ (“dorsal fin”) (compare Dutch vin, German Finne, Swedish finne, fena), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pīn- (“backbone, dorsal fin”) (compare Old Irish ind (“end, point”), Latin pinna (“feather, wing, fin”), Tocharian A spin (“hook”), Sanskrit स्फ्य (sphyá, “splinter, staff”).

cog-lite

The fish's fins minimize water flow.

Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

(ichthyology) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.


mucha

mucha (nominative singular)
muše (dual nominative)
muchi (nominative plural)
muchi (genitive singular)
muchow (dual genitive)
muchow (genitive plural)
muše (dative singular)
muchomaj (dative dual)
mucham (dative plural)
muchu (accusative singular)
muše (accusative dual)
muchi (accusative plural)
muchu (instrumental singular)
muchomaj (dual instrumental)
muchami (instrumental plural)
muše (locative singular)
muchomaj (dual locative)
muchach (locative plural)
mucha (singular vocative)
muše (dual vocative)
muchi (plural vocative)


mace

sq-noun

máce f (plural máce, definite mácja, definite plural mácet)

máce (canonical feminine)
máce (plural)
mácja (definite)
mácet (definite plural)
mace (indefinite nominative singular)
macja (definite nominative singular)
mace (indefinite nominative plural)
macet (definite nominative plural)
mace (accusative indefinite singular)
macen (accusative definite singular)
mace (accusative indefinite plural)
macet (accusative definite plural)
maceje (dative indefinite singular)
maces (dative definite singular)
maceve (dative indefinite plural)
maceve (dative definite plural)
maceje (ablative indefinite singular)
maces (ablative definite singular)
macesh (ablative indefinite plural)
maceve (ablative definite plural)

Alternative variant of macë (“cat”), ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *maca, likely an onomatopoeic expression.


mier

nl-noun

mier f (plural mieren, diminutive miertje n)

mieren (plural)
miertje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: mier

Berbice Creole Dutch: mira

Skepi Creole Dutch: mira

→ Ambonese Malay: mir

→ Lokono: miri

→ Aukan: mila

→ Kupang Malay: mir

→ Sranan Tongo: mira

→ West Frisian: mier

From Middle Dutch miere, from Old Dutch *miuri, from Proto-Germanic *miurijǭ.


vagina

en-noun

vagina (plural vaginas or vaginae or (obsolete) vaginæ)

vaginas (plural)
vaginae (plural)
vaginæ (obsolete plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“a sheath, scabbard; a covering, sheath, holder”).

lbor

زهگیر sg (zehgir, literally “semen-gatherer”)

urogenital sinus - embryological precursors

(anatomy) A sex organ leading from the vulval vestibule/urogenital sinus to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and birth in female therian mammals.

(zootomy) A similar part in some invertebrates and non-mammalian amniotes.


vagina

la-noun

vāgīna f (genitive vāgīnae); first declension

vāgīna (canonical feminine)
vāgīnae (genitive)
vāgīna (nominative singular)
vāgīnae (nominative plural)
vāgīnae (genitive singular)
vāgīnārum (genitive plural)
vāgīnae (dative singular)
vāgīnīs (dative plural)
vāgīnam (accusative singular)
vāgīnās (accusative plural)
vāgīnā (ablative singular)
vāgīnīs (ablative plural)
vāgīna (singular vocative)
vāgīnae (plural vocative)

Italo-Romance:

Italian: guaina

North-Italian:

Piedmontese: vèina

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: beina

Old French: guaïne

French: gaine

Occitan: gaina

Ibero-Romance:

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: bainha (“sheath”)
Galician: vaíña, baíña
Portuguese: bainha

desc

Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?] (“pod”)

Fala: vaina

Galician: vaxa, gaxa, vaixa, varxa

Portuguese: vagem, vage, bagem

Asturian: vaina

Spanish: vaina

⇒ Spanish: vainilla (see there for further descendants)

→ English: vanilla

Borrowings:

→ Proto-Brythonic: *gwėɣin (see there for further descendants)

→ Old Irish: faigen

Irish: faighin

Manx: fine

Scottish Gaelic: faighean

Borrowings (anatomical sense)

→ Afrikaans: vagina

→ Albanian: vaginë, vagjinë

→ Aragonese: vachina

→ Asturian: vaxina

→ Azerbaijani: vagina

→ Belarusian: вагіна (vahina)

→ Bulgarian: вагина (vagina)

→ Catalan: vagina

→ Czech: vagína

→ Danish: vagina

→ Dutch: vagina

→ English: vagina

→ Finnish: vagina

→ French: vagin (see there for further descendants)

→ Friulian: vagine, vazine

→ Galician: vaxina

→ Georgian: ვაგინა (vagina)

→ German: Vagina

→ Japanese: ワギナ (wagina)

→ Korean: 바기나 (bagina)

→ Northern Kurdish: vajîna

→ Indonesian: vagina

→ Italian: vagina

→ Latvian: vagīna

→ Macedonian: вагина (vagina)

→ Maltese: vaġina

→ Norwegian Bokmål: vagina

→ Occitan: vagina

→ Portuguese: vagina

→ Russian: ваги́на (vagína)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: вагина

Latin script: vagina

→ Sicilian: vajina, vagina

→ Slovak: vagína

→ Slovene: vagina

→ Spanish: vagina

→ Swedish: vagina

→ Turkish: vajina

→ Ukrainian: вагіна (vahina)

→ Uzbek: vagina

→ Venetan: vaxina, vazina

→ West Frisian: fagina

→ Yiddish: וואַגינע (vagine)

[u̯äːˈɡiːnä]

[väˈd͡ʒiːnä]

From Proto-Italic *wāgīnā (“sheath, scabbard”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wag- (“sheath, cover”). Tentatively cognate with Lithuanian vóžti (“to cover”).

inh

(transferred sense) the covering, sheath, holder of anything


palate

From Middle English palate, from Latin palātum (“roof of the mouth, palate”), perhaps of Etruscan origin.

bor

(anatomy) The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates.

(zoology) A part associated with the mouth of certain invertebrates, somewhat analagous to the palate of vertebrates.


kobra

id-noun

kobra (first-person possessive kobraku, second-person possessive kobramu, third-person possessive kobranya)

kobraku (first-person possessive)
kobramu (possessive second-person)
kobranya (possessive third-person)

From Dutch cobra, from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”).

venomous snake from certain genera of the family Elapidae, especially of the genus Naja.

(zoology) cobra:
especially Indian cobra (Naja naja).


corno

it-noun

corno m (plural (in all meanings) corni m or (alternatively when referring to animals) corna f)

corni (masculine plural)
corna (feminine plural)

→ Japanese: コルナ (koruna)

→ Turkish: korna

From Latin cornū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).

le corna della capra


bladder

From Middle English bladdre, bleddre, bladder, bledder, from Old English blæddre, a variant of blǣdre, blēdre (“blister, bladder”), from Proto-West Germanic *blādrā, from Proto-Germanic *blēdrǭ, *bladrǭ (“blister, bladder”).

urogenital sinus - embryological precursor

(zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.


carnivore

Borrowed from French carnivore, from Latin carnivorus. In the zoological sense, coined by William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French carnivore.

The panda and the panther are both carnivores.

(zoology) A mammal belonging to the order Carnivora.


present

en-verb

present (third-person singular simple present presents, present participle presenting, simple past and past participle presented)

presents (present singular third-person)
presenting (participle present)
presented (participle past)
presented (past)

From Middle English presenten, from Old French presenter, from Latin praesentāre (“to show”), from praesent-, praesens, present participle of praeesse (“be in front of”).

(intransitive, zoology) To display one's female genitalia in a way that signals to others that one is ready for copulation. Also referred to as lordosis behaviour.


senator

pl-noun

senator m pers (female equivalent senatorka, related adjective senatorski)

senatorka (feminine)
senatorski (adjective)
senator (nominative singular)
senatorzy (nominative plural)
senatorowie (nominative plural)
senatory (derogatory nominative plural)
senatora (genitive singular)
senatorów (genitive plural)
senatorowi (dative singular)
senatorom (dative plural)
senatora (accusative singular)
senatorów (accusative plural)
senatorem (instrumental singular)
senatorami (instrumental plural)
senatorze (locative singular)
senatorach (locative plural)
senatorze (singular vocative)
senatorzy (plural vocative)
senatorowie (plural vocative)
senatory (derogatory plural vocative)

(zoology) older and strong male in a group of baboons


polyandry

en-noun

polyandry (usually uncountable, plural polyandries)

(zoology) The mating pattern whereby a female copulates with plural males.


jugular

/ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.jʊl.ə/

/ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.jəl.ɚ/

/ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.əl.ɚ/

Late 16th century borrowing from Late Latin jugulāris, from jugulum (“the collarbone; the hollow part of the neck above the collarbone; the throat”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to jugulum + -ar.

af

(zootomy, of fish) Having ventral fins attached under the throat.


pes

la-noun

pēs m (genitive pedis); third declension

pēs (canonical masculine)
pedis (genitive)
pēs (nominative singular)
pedēs (nominative plural)
pedis (genitive singular)
pedum (genitive plural)
pedī (dative singular)
pedibus (dative plural)
pedem (accusative singular)
pedēs (accusative plural)
pede (ablative singular)
pedibus (ablative plural)
pēs (singular vocative)
pedēs (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

⇒ Aromanian: pezã

Romanian: piez ⇒ piază

Dalmatian:

pi

Italo-Romance

Corsican: pede

Gallurese: pedi

Italian: piede

→ Esperanto: piedo

→ Ladino: piede (regional)

Neapolitan: pede

Sassarese: pedi

Sicilian: pedi, peri

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: pît

Romansch: pe

Padanian:

Istriot: peîe, pèie

Gallo-Italic:

Ligurian: pê

Piedmontese: pe

Romagnol: pè, pid (Rimini, San Marino)

Venetan: piè

Northern Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: pièd

Norman: pid, pyid

desctree

Old French: pié, pé (Anglo-Norman), *pied, *piet
Middle French: pied
French: pied
Walloon: pî

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: peu

Old Occitan: pe
Occitan: pè

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: pie

Extremaduran: pie

Leonese: pía

Mirandese: pie

Navarro-Aragonese: pie, pied

Aragonese: piet

Old Galician-Portuguese: pee
Galician: pé
Portuguese: pé

Old Spanish: pie
Ladino: pye
Spanish: pie

Sardinian:

Campidanese: pei

Logudorese: pe

Nuorese: pede

Derived forms:

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pedicāre

Catalan: petjar

Borrowings:

→ English: pes

→ Ido: pedo

→ Interlingua: pede

→⇒ German: stante pede

From Proto-Italic *pets, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (compare Sanskrit पद् (pád), Ancient Greek πούς (poús) and Old English fōt, whence English foot).

(zoology) any equivalent body part of an animal, including hooves, paws, etc.


pes

pes (nominative singular)
psy (dual nominative)
psi (nominative plural)
psové (nominative plural)
psa (genitive singular)
psu (genitive singular)
psú (dual genitive)
psóv (genitive plural)
psu (dative singular)
psovi (dative singular)
psoma (dative dual)
psóm (dative plural)
pes (accusative singular)
psa (accusative singular)
psy (accusative dual)
psy (accusative plural)
pse (singular vocative)
psy (dual vocative)
psi (plural vocative)
psové (plural vocative)
psě (locative singular)
psu (locative singular)
psovi (locative singular)
psú (dual locative)
psiech (locative plural)
psem (instrumental singular)
psoma (dual instrumental)
psy (instrumental plural)

Czech: pes


pes

pə̏s (animate canonical masculine)
psíca (feminine)
pə̏s (nominative singular)
psȁ (dual nominative)
psȉ (nominative plural)
psȁ (genitive singular)
psȍv (dual genitive)
psóv (dual genitive)
psȍv (genitive plural)
psóv (genitive plural)
psȕ (dative singular)
psȉ (dative singular)
psȍma (dative dual)
psomȁ (dative dual)
psȍm (dative plural)
psȁ (accusative singular)
psȁ (accusative dual)
psȅ (accusative plural)
psȕ (locative singular)
psȉ (locative singular)
psȉh (dual locative)
psȉh (locative plural)
psȍm (instrumental singular)
psȍma (dual instrumental)
psomȁ (dual instrumental)
psȉ (instrumental plural)
pə̏s (singular vocative)
psȁ (dual vocative)
psȉ (plural vocative)
pə̏s (nominative singular)
psa (dual nominative)
psi (nominative plural)
psa (genitive singular)
psov (dual genitive)
psov (genitive plural)
psu (dative singular)
psi (dative singular)
psoma (dative dual)
psama (dative dual)
psom (dative plural)
psam (dative plural)
psa (accusative singular)
psa (accusative dual)
pse (accusative plural)
psu (locative singular)
psi (locative singular)
psih (dual locative)
psah (dual locative)
psih (locative plural)
psah (locative plural)
psom (instrumental singular)
psoma (dual instrumental)
psama (dual instrumental)
psi (instrumental plural)
pə̏s (singular vocative)
psa (dual vocative)
psi (plural vocative)

sl-infl-noun

vowel is only written in nominative singular

izgovor je dober, tudi če ga pes na repu prinese

(zoology) any of the species in family Canidae


founder

From Middle French fondrer (“send to the bottom”), from Latin fundus (“bottom”).

uder

(veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.


keel

From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kjǫlr, itself from Proto-Germanic *keluz, of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English ċēol from a related root. Distantly related to kile.

Metanotum shining, indistinctly punctured at the base in the centre, the sides closely punctured; the areola large, obliquely narrowed at the base, its apex open, there are 2 lateral areas, both widely open at the base on the outerside; the posterior median area bears about 10 stout, transverse keels; on its apical outerside is a triangular area; the spiracular is bounded on the outerside by a distinct keel.

1906, Records of the Albany Museum - Volume 1, page 314:

(zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.


primate

From French primate, from Latin primas (“one of the first, chief, excellent, noble”). So named due to the belief that primates are the “highest” order of mammals/animals. First attested in 1876.

der

Primates range from lemurs to gorillas.

(zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including apes, monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos.


nursery

en-noun

nursery (countable and uncountable, plural nurseries)

Carolina Stanley
Fritz von Uhde
Kunsthalle Hamburg
María Eugenia Vidal

From Middle English noricerie, norserye (“children's nursery; state of being fostered or nursed; education, upbringing”) [and other forms], from Old French norricerie, nourricerie, from norrice, nourrice (modern French nourrice (“childminder, nanny; wet nurse”)) + -erie (suffix forming feminine nouns). Norrice and nourrice are derived from Late Latin nūtrīcia (“wet nurse”), from Latin nūtrīcius (“that nurses or suckles; nourishing”), from nūtriō (“to breastfeed, nurse, suckle”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (“to flow”). The English word may be analysed as nourice, nurse + -ery (suffix forming nouns meaning ‘place of’).

refn

From the collection of the Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

nb...

norceri, norcerie, norcery, norcerye, norisri, norisrie, norisserie, norisserye, norserie, norserye, norsheri, norshery, norysrye, nursery

де́тска я́сла

place where nursing or the raising of children is carried out

разса́дник

(countable, also figuratively) A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.

(agriculture, zoology) A place where animals breed, or where young animals are naturally or artificially reared (for example, on a farm).


pod

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), itself possibly from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”). If so, then cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), and perhaps Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”) and Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).

unc

uncertain

gloss

"seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">pod-ware</i> (“legume seed; seed grain”)

ncog

(collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.


bidental

The letter proceeds to state that, besides this monster, there is a great variety of remains of another new order of animals, which Mr. Bain has deginated as bidentals, from their possessing only two teeth, or rather tusks, in the upper jaw, and none whatever in the lower jaw.

1845, The Church of England Magazine, volume 18:

That these Bidentals, as Mr. Owen more comprehensively calls them, are amongst the earliest reptiles, has been somewhat rashly assumed.

1851, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the natural history of creation, page 305:

It was in this area, as well, that he found, among other creatures, his first Dicynodon, one of those famous mammal-like reptiles that he called bidentals because they had only two tusks in the upper jaw and no teeth.

1978, Eve Palmer, The Companion Guide to South Africa, page 242:

(zoology) An organism that has only two teeth, especially a dinosaur of the infraorder Dicynodontia.


זאב ערבות

he-noun

זְאֵב עֲרָבוֹת

זְאֵב עֲרָבוֹת • (ze'év aravót, zəʔeḇ ʕărɔḇōṯ) m

זְאֵב עֲרָבוֹת (canonical)
ze'év aravót (romanization)
zəʔeḇ ʕărɔḇōṯ (romanization)


section

From Middle English seccioun, from Old French section, from Latin sectiō (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secāre (“to cut”). More at saw.

разрэ́з

surgery: incision or the act of making an incision

(zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.


זאב

he-noun

זְאֵב • (zəʔeḇ, ze'év) m (plural indefinite זְאֵבִים, feminine counterpart זְאֵבָה)

זְאֵב (canonical)
zəʔeḇ (romanization)
ze'év (romanization)
זְאֵבִים (indefinite plural)
זְאֵבָה (feminine)

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *ḏiʔb-, with metathesis.


costa

Unadapted borrowing from Latin costa (“a rib”). Doublet of coast.

ubor

(botany, zootomy) A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a midrib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing.

(entomology) The vein forming the leading edge of most insect wings.


page

From Proto-Philippine *paʀih, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih, from Proto-Austronesian *paʀiS. Compare Malay pari.


pouch

From Middle English pouche, poche, borrowed from Old Northern French pouche, from Old French poche, puche (whence French poche; compare also the Anglo-Norman variant poke), of Germanic origin: from Frankish *poka (“pouch”) (compare Middle Dutch poke, Old English pohha, dialectal German Pfoch). Doublet of poke; compare pocket.

(zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.