qen

sq-noun

qen m (plural qen, definite qeni, definite plural qentë)

qen (plural)
qeni (definite)
qentë (definite plural)
qen (indefinite nominative singular)
qeni (definite nominative singular)
qen (indefinite nominative plural)
qentë (definite nominative plural)
qen (accusative indefinite singular)
qenin (accusative definite singular)
qen (accusative indefinite plural)
qentë (accusative definite plural)
qeni (dative indefinite singular)
qenit (dative definite singular)
qenve (dative indefinite plural)
qenve (dative definite plural)
qeni (ablative indefinite singular)
qenit (ablative definite singular)
qensh (ablative indefinite plural)
qenve (ablative definite plural)

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from Latin canis (“dog”).


adjutant

From Latin adiūtō, frequentative of adiuvō (“assist”). First attested in 17th century. Or from Latin adiuvāns, present participle of adiuvō, from iuvō (“help”).

Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Plotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.

1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552

(zoology) Any bird of the genus Leptoptilos, a branch of the stork family (Ciconiidae) native to India and Southeast Asia.


обезьяна

Borrowed from Russian обезья́на (obezʹjána).


jak

sq-noun

jak m (plural jakë, definite jaku, definite plural jakët)

jakë (plural)
jaku (definite)
jakët (definite plural)


teo

Attested since circa 1750. From Latin taedium. Doublet of tedio.

(veterinary medicine, pathology) scrapie

(veterinary medicine, pathology) coenurosis


חתול נמרי

he-noun

חָתוּל נְמֵרִי

חָתוּל נְמֵרִי • (khatúl n'merí) m

חָתוּל נְמֵרִי (canonical)
khatúl n'merí (romanization)

From חָתוּל (khatúl, “cat”) + נָמֵר (namér, “leopard”) + ־ִי (-í).


-id

From Middle French -ide (like also English -ide), French -ide, and their sources, Latin -id-, -is and Ancient Greek -ῐδ- (-id-), -ῐς (-is).

A felid is a member of Felidae.

(zoology) Forming common names of members of a taxon which has a name ending in -idae.


corselet

From French corselet, from cors, an archaic spelling of corps (“body”).

With the added suggestion of her goggles it reminded her pupil of the polished shell or corslet of a horrid beetle.


synonymy

en-noun

synonymy (countable and uncountable, plural synonymies)

From Latin synonymia, from Ancient Greek συνωνυμία (sunōnumía), from σύν (sún, “with”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).

(zoology) The collective synonyms (all the names referring to the same taxon, including the correct name)


flavid

From Latin flāvidus, ultimately from flāvus.


umbo

umbo (plural umbones or umbos or umboes)

umbones (plural)
umbos (plural)
umboes (plural)

Borrowed from Latin umbō (“a shield boss”).

(biology) A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane.

(zoology) One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.


buckler

From Middle English bukler, bokler, bokeler, bokeleer, from Old French bocler, boucler, bucler, (French bouclier) from Vulgar Latin *bucculārius (“bossed”), from Latin buccula (“boss”). Merged with buckle + -er.

Most zeids have spiny projections or bucklers at the dorsal- and anal-fin bases and bony plates on the ventral surface of the abdomen.

2000, Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 186:

(zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.

(zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.


maritime

en-adj

maritime (comparative more maritime, superlative most maritime)

more maritime (comparative)
most maritime (superlative)

/ˈmæɹ.ɪˌtɑɪm/

Borrowed from Middle French maritime, from Latin maritimus.

a maritime bird or animal

On the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and northernmost Florida, maritime forests are dominated by live oaks (Quercus virginiana), and occur as large contiguous patches of forest on barrier islands, the immediate mainland, and as small patches (oak hammocks) scattered among coastal marshes.

2004 March, Scott G. Somershoe, C. Ray Chandler, “Use of Oak Hammocks by Neotropical Migrant Songbirds: the Role of Area and Habitat”, in The Wilson Bulletin, volume 116, number 1, Lawrence, KS: Wilson Ornithological Society, page 56:

(zoology) Inhabiting the seashore; living coastwise; littoral. (distinguished from marine)


barrel

From Middle English barel, from Anglo-Norman baril, Old French baril, bareil (“barrel”), of uncertain origin. An attempt to link baril to Old French barre (“bar, bolt”) (compare Medieval Latin barra (“bar, rod”)) via assumed Vulgar Latin *barrīculum meets the phonological requirement, but fails to connect the word semantically. The alternate connection to Frankish *baril, *beril or Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌻𐍃 (bērils, “container for transport”), from Proto-Germanic *barilaz, *bērilaz (“barrel, jug, container”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, transport”), is more plausible as it connects not only the form of the word but also the sense; equivalent to bear + -le. Compare also Old High German biril (“jug, large pot”), Luxembourgish Bärel, Bierel (“jug, pot”), Old Norse berill (“barrel for liquids”), Old English byrla (“barrel of a horse, trunk, body”). More at bear.

vat

round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop

(zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.


pectoral

All senses are ultimately from Latin pectorālis, but some may have come through Old French and Middle English.

the pectoral sandpiper

(zoology) Having the breast conspicuously colored.


vortex

(zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.


baculum

Learned borrowing from Latin baculum (“stick, staff, sceptre, cudgel”).

lbor

Bacula can be straight rods, s-shaped curves, or even bizarre, flared scoops.

2018 January 24, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:

(zoology) A bone found in the penis of some placental mammals.


baculum

la-noun

baculum n (genitive baculī); second declension

baculī (genitive)
baculum (nominative singular)
bacula (nominative plural)
baculī (genitive singular)
baculōrum (genitive plural)
baculō (dative singular)
baculīs (dative plural)
baculum (accusative singular)
bacula (accusative plural)
baculō (ablative singular)
baculīs (ablative plural)
baculum (singular vocative)
bacula (plural vocative)

Catalan: bàcul

English: baculum

French: bâcle

Galician: bagoo (archaic), báculo (borrowing)

Irish: bachall

Italian: abbacchio, bacchio, bacolo

→ Portuguese: báculo (learned)

Sardinian: baculu

→ Spanish: báculo (learned)

→ Welsh: bagl (“crook, staff”)

[ˈbäkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]

From Proto-Italic *bakklom, from Proto-Indo-European *baktlom, from *bak- (“stick”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron), βακτηρία (baktēría), English peg. See also beccus.


temporal

From Middle English, from Middle French timporal, temporal, from Late Latin temporālis, from tempora (“the temples of the head”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of temporalis.

af

(zootomy) Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.


oophagy

A number of shark species go in for oophagy, or uterine cannibalism.

2015, Theo Tait, ‘Don't wear yum-yum yellow’, London Review of Books, volume 34, number 15:

(zoology) The cannibalization of subordinate eggs within a homogeneous population or the uterus; particularly as it relates to certain insect and aquatic species.


caste

Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish casta (“lineage, breed, race”), of uncertain origin.
* The OED derives it from Portuguese casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus (“chaste"; "chastity”).
* Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical Gothic form *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts, “group, collection of animals”), cognate with English cast, from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ǵ-es-.

unc

uncertain

In beehives, most bees belong to the worker caste.

(zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.


barb

PIE word
 *bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English barbe, from Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe (“beard, beard-like element”). Doublet of beard.

der

(ichthyology) Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.


style

en-noun

style (countable and uncountable, plural styles)

→ Finnish: staili

→ Scottish Gaelic: stoidhle

→ Iban: stail

→ Japanese: スタイル (sutairu)

→ Korean: 스타일 (seutail)

→ Malay: stail

→ Portuguese: style

→ Swahili: staili

The noun is derived from Middle English stile, stel, stele, stiel, stiele, stil, still, stille, styele, style, styill, styll, styyl (“writing tool, stylus; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression, particularly one regarded as high quality; demeanour, manner, way of life; person's designation or title; stem of a plant; period of time”), from Old French style, estile, stil, stile (modern French style), or from Medieval Latin stylus, both from Latin stilus (“pointed instrument, pale, spike, stake; writing tool, stylus; act of setting down in writing, composition; characteristic mode of expression, style; stem of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to pierce, prick, puncture, stab; to goad”). Doublet of stylus.
The English word is cognate with Catalan estil (“engraving tool, stylus; gnomon; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace”), German Stiel (“handle; stalk”), Italian stilo (“needle, stylus; fountain pen; beam; gnomon; part of pistil, style”), Occitan estil, Portuguese estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style”), Spanish estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace; part of pistil, style”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

styl

manner of expression in writing or speech

styl

manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art

Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.

(zoology) A small, thin, pointed body part.

the anal styles of insects

(entomology) A long, slender, bristle-like process near the anal region.


kudos

kudos (nominative singular)
kudokset (nominative plural)
kudos (accusative nominative singular)
kudokset (accusative nominative plural)
kudoksen (accusative genitive singular)
kudokset (accusative genitive plural)
kudoksen (genitive singular)
kudosten (genitive plural)
kudoksien (genitive plural)
kudosta (partitive singular)
kudoksia (partitive plural)
kudoksessa (inessive singular)
kudoksissa (inessive plural)
kudoksesta (elative singular)
kudoksista (elative plural)
kudokseen (illative singular)
kudoksiin (illative plural)
kudoksella (adessive singular)
kudoksilla (adessive plural)
kudokselta (ablative singular)
kudoksilta (ablative plural)
kudokselle (allative singular)
kudoksille (allative plural)
kudoksena (essive singular)
kudoksina (essive plural)
kudokseksi (singular translative)
kudoksiksi (plural translative)
kudoksetta (abessive singular)
kudoksitta (abessive plural)
kudoksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
kudokseni (nominative singular)
kudokseni (nominative plural)
kudokseni (accusative nominative singular)
kudokseni (accusative nominative plural)
kudokseni (accusative genitive singular)
kudokseni (accusative genitive plural)
kudokseni (genitive singular)
kudosteni (genitive plural)
kudoksieni (genitive plural)
kudostani (partitive singular)
kudoksiani (partitive plural)
kudoksessani (inessive singular)
kudoksissani (inessive plural)
kudoksestani (elative singular)
kudoksistani (elative plural)
kudokseeni (illative singular)
kudoksiini (illative plural)
kudoksellani (adessive singular)
kudoksillani (adessive plural)
kudokseltani (ablative singular)
kudoksiltani (ablative plural)
kudokselleni (allative singular)
kudoksilleni (allative plural)
kudoksenani (essive singular)
kudoksinani (essive plural)
kudoksekseni (singular translative)
kudoksikseni (plural translative)
kudoksettani (abessive singular)
kudoksittani (abessive plural)
kudoksineni (comitative plural)
kudoksesi (nominative singular)
kudoksesi (nominative plural)
kudoksesi (accusative nominative singular)
kudoksesi (accusative nominative plural)
kudoksesi (accusative genitive singular)
kudoksesi (accusative genitive plural)
kudoksesi (genitive singular)
kudostesi (genitive plural)
kudoksiesi (genitive plural)
kudostasi (partitive singular)
kudoksiasi (partitive plural)
kudoksessasi (inessive singular)
kudoksissasi (inessive plural)
kudoksestasi (elative singular)
kudoksistasi (elative plural)
kudokseesi (illative singular)
kudoksiisi (illative plural)
kudoksellasi (adessive singular)
kudoksillasi (adessive plural)
kudokseltasi (ablative singular)
kudoksiltasi (ablative plural)
kudoksellesi (allative singular)
kudoksillesi (allative plural)
kudoksenasi (essive singular)
kudoksinasi (essive plural)
kudokseksesi (singular translative)
kudoksiksesi (plural translative)
kudoksettasi (abessive singular)
kudoksittasi (abessive plural)
kudoksinesi (comitative plural)
kudoksemme (nominative singular)
kudoksemme (nominative plural)
kudoksemme (accusative nominative singular)
kudoksemme (accusative nominative plural)
kudoksemme (accusative genitive singular)
kudoksemme (accusative genitive plural)
kudoksemme (genitive singular)
kudostemme (genitive plural)
kudoksiemme (genitive plural)
kudostamme (partitive singular)
kudoksiamme (partitive plural)
kudoksessamme (inessive singular)
kudoksissamme (inessive plural)
kudoksestamme (elative singular)
kudoksistamme (elative plural)
kudokseemme (illative singular)
kudoksiimme (illative plural)
kudoksellamme (adessive singular)
kudoksillamme (adessive plural)
kudokseltamme (ablative singular)
kudoksiltamme (ablative plural)
kudoksellemme (allative singular)
kudoksillemme (allative plural)
kudoksenamme (essive singular)
kudoksinamme (essive plural)
kudokseksemme (singular translative)
kudoksiksemme (plural translative)
kudoksettamme (abessive singular)
kudoksittamme (abessive plural)
kudoksinemme (comitative plural)
kudoksenne (nominative singular)
kudoksenne (nominative plural)
kudoksenne (accusative nominative singular)
kudoksenne (accusative nominative plural)
kudoksenne (accusative genitive singular)
kudoksenne (accusative genitive plural)
kudoksenne (genitive singular)
kudostenne (genitive plural)
kudoksienne (genitive plural)
kudostanne (partitive singular)
kudoksianne (partitive plural)
kudoksessanne (inessive singular)
kudoksissanne (inessive plural)
kudoksestanne (elative singular)
kudoksistanne (elative plural)
kudokseenne (illative singular)
kudoksiinne (illative plural)
kudoksellanne (adessive singular)
kudoksillanne (adessive plural)
kudokseltanne (ablative singular)
kudoksiltanne (ablative plural)
kudoksellenne (allative singular)
kudoksillenne (allative plural)
kudoksenanne (essive singular)
kudoksinanne (essive plural)
kudokseksenne (singular translative)
kudoksiksenne (plural translative)
kudoksettanne (abessive singular)
kudoksittanne (abessive plural)
kudoksinenne (comitative plural)
kudoksensa (nominative singular)
kudoksensa (nominative plural)
kudoksensa (accusative nominative singular)
kudoksensa (accusative nominative plural)
kudoksensa (accusative genitive singular)
kudoksensa (accusative genitive plural)
kudoksensa (genitive singular)
kudostensa (genitive plural)
kudoksiensa (genitive plural)
kudostaan (partitive singular)
kudostansa (partitive singular)
kudoksiaan (partitive plural)
kudoksiansa (partitive plural)
kudoksessaan (inessive singular)
kudoksessansa (inessive singular)
kudoksissaan (inessive plural)
kudoksissansa (inessive plural)
kudoksestaan (elative singular)
kudoksestansa (elative singular)
kudoksistaan (elative plural)
kudoksistansa (elative plural)
kudokseensa (illative singular)
kudoksiinsa (illative plural)
kudoksellaan (adessive singular)
kudoksellansa (adessive singular)
kudoksillaan (adessive plural)
kudoksillansa (adessive plural)
kudokseltaan (ablative singular)
kudokseltansa (ablative singular)
kudoksiltaan (ablative plural)
kudoksiltansa (ablative plural)
kudokselleen (allative singular)
kudoksellensa (allative singular)
kudoksilleen (allative plural)
kudoksillensa (allative plural)
kudoksenaan (essive singular)
kudoksenansa (essive singular)
kudoksinaan (essive plural)
kudoksinansa (essive plural)
kudoksekseen (singular translative)
kudokseksensa (singular translative)
kudoksikseen (plural translative)
kudoksiksensa (plural translative)
kudoksettaan (abessive singular)
kudoksettansa (abessive singular)
kudoksittaan (abessive plural)
kudoksittansa (abessive plural)
kudoksineen (comitative plural)
kudoksinensa (comitative plural)

Near-synonym: solukko

(anatomy, zoology) tissue (in humans and animals, group of similar cells that function together to do a specific job)


лиса

ru-noun+

лиса́ • (lisá) f anim (genitive лисы́, nominative plural ли́сы, genitive plural лис, relational adjective ли́сий or лиси́ный, diminutive лиси́чка or ли́ска or ли́сонька or ли́сочка)

лиса́ (canonical)
lisá (romanization)
лисы́ (genitive)
ли́сы (nominative plural)
лис (genitive plural)
ли́сий (adjective relational)
лиси́ный (adjective relational)
лиси́чка (diminutive)
ли́ска (diminutive)
ли́сонька (diminutive)
ли́сочка (diminutive)
лиса́ (nominative singular)
ли́сы (nominative plural)
лисы́ (genitive singular)
ли́с (genitive plural)
лисе́ (dative singular)
ли́сам (dative plural)
лису́ (accusative singular)
ли́с (accusative plural)
лисо́й (instrumental singular)
лисо́ю (instrumental singular)
ли́сами (instrumental plural)
лисе́ (prepositional singular)
ли́сах (plural prepositional)
лиса́ (dated nominative singular)
ли́сы (dated nominative plural)
лисы́ (dated genitive singular)
ли́съ (dated genitive plural)
лисѣ́ (dated dative singular)
ли́самъ (dated dative plural)
лису́ (accusative dated singular)
ли́съ (accusative dated plural)
лисо́й (dated instrumental singular)
лисо́ю (dated instrumental singular)
ли́сами (dated instrumental plural)
лисѣ́ (dated prepositional singular)
ли́сахъ (dated plural prepositional)

леса́ (lesá)

Vulpes vulpes
Vulpes vulpes#Translingual


ma

(zoology) mollusk with a shell that looks like a coat of mail


ma

From Proto-Tai *ʰmaːᴬ (“dog”). Cognate with Thai หมา (mǎa), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩣ, Lao ໝາ (mā), Tai Dam ꪢꪱ, Lü ᦖᦱ (ṁaa), Shan မႃ (mǎa), Tai Nüa ᥛᥣᥴ (máa), Aiton မႃ (mā), Ahom 𑜉𑜠 (ma), Zhuang ma, Saek หม่า.


nasal

From Middle English, from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from nāsus (“the nose”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of nasalis.

af

(zootomy) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.


primer

en-noun

primer (countable and uncountable, plural primers)

запалка

small charge used to ignite gunpowder or other explosive

(medicine, zoology) A pheromone which interacts first with the endocrine system.

alustava feromoni

medicine, zoology: pheromone which interacts first


spine

From late Middle English spyne, from Old French espine (French épine) or its source, Latin spīna (“a thorn; a prickle, spine; the backbone”). Doublet of spina.

der

If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls.

1851, Herman Melville, chapter 80, in Moby-Dick:

The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 266:

(anatomy, zootomy) A series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a human, or from the head to the tail of an animal, enclosing the spinal cord and providing support for the thorax and abdomen.

Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.

2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 409:

रीढ़ की हड्डी

rīṛh kī haḍḍī

رِیڑھ کی ہَڈّی

rīṛh kī haḍḍī

The male, as Dr. Gunther informs me, has a cluster of stiff, straight spines, like those of a comb, on the sides of the tail.

1871, Charles Darwin, “chapter 12”, in Descent of Man, page 331:

(zootomy, botany) A pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needlelike structure on an animal, shell, or plant.

espina

rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure


inferior

en-adj

inferior (comparative more inferior, superlative most inferior)

more inferior (comparative)
most inferior (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin īnferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of īnferus (“below, underneath”).

bor

(zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.


leporine

/ˈlɛpəˌɹaɪn/

The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin leporīnus + English -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). Leporīnus is derived from leporis (the genitive singular form of lepus (“hare”)) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
The noun is derived from the adjective.

(hare):

(rabbit):

His leporine ears perked up at the mention of dessert.

This [the harp seal] inhabits the ſame countries vvith the Rough and Leporine Seal; but loves the coldeſt parts of the coaſt.

1784, Thomas Pennant, “Harp Seal”, in Arctic Zoology, volume I (Introduction. Class I. Quadrupeds.), London: […] Henry Hughs, →OCLC, paragraph 77, page 164:

Thus it is that one injustice generates another, and that the breed is propagated, with more than leporine fecundity, through every successive measure which these third-rate Legislators, these Statesmen in waiting, are sent to inflict upon Ireland.

1824, Captain Rock [pseudonym; Thomas Moore], chapter X, in Memoirs of Captain Rock, the Celebrated Irish Chieftain, with Some Account of His Ancestors. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orms, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, pages 322–323:

[T]he fur [of the hispid hare] is very remarkable for an animal of the Leporine group, on account of its harshness, which is well expressed by the specific appellation hispidus.

1846 March, E[dward] Blyth, “XXIV.—Description of Caprolagus, a New Genus of Leporine Mammalia.”, in The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, volume XVII, number 111, London: R[ichard] and J[ohn] E[dward] Taylor, →OCLC, page 164:

I further give an anatomical systematic revision of the adult leporine tapeworms, together with their generic relationship to the cestodes of cattle, sheep, and horses.

1897, Ch[arles] Wardell Stiles, “A Revision of the Adult Tapeworms of Hares and Rabbits”, in Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume XIX, number 1105, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 146:

Glad as she was to eat of the leporine family, she detested sport for sport's sake, even the fox-hunting, though her poultry-run had just been raided and a dog-fox had snarled fearlessly at Nip from the ditch.

1919, Israel Zangwill, “Winter’s Tale”, in Jinny the Carrier, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, section I, page 448:

This is basic Peter Rabbit economics that everyone can understand [quoting Thomas G. Ayers]. / Having little faith in economists, even leporine ones, I propose to examine Ayers' thesis carefully.

1975 February, Dennis J. Chase, “A Commentary: Clouding the Nuclear Reactor Debate”, in Eugene Rabinowitch, editor, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: A Magazine of Science and Public Affairs, volume XXXI, number 2, Chicago, Ill.: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 1:

This curious passage begins with an intimation of a level of awareness in Uncle Remus, associated with his leporine "quick ear," which allows him to shift from the "senseless affair" into "a recitation of nonsense."

1990, Craig Werner, “The Framing of Charles W. Chesnutt: Practical Deconstruction in the Afro-American Tradition”, in Jefferson Humphries, editor, Southern Literature and Literary Theory, Athens, Ga., London: University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 348:

Mr Todd launched into a forceful disquisition, […] At last he stopped and sat gazing at her with the same desperate, leporine look as before, audibly breathing, his lips drawn back in a sort of leer and those teeth on show again.

2005 June 3, John Banville, “Part I”, in The Sea, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 17:

The aforementioned rodent and leporine studies represented some of the first in vivo reports of intra-amniotic injection of fetal cells in mammals.

2021, Stefanie P. Lazow, Dario O. Fauza, “Transamniotic Stem Cell Therapy”, in Kürşad Türkşen, editor, Cell Biology and Translational Medicine (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; 1237), volumes 7 (Stem Cells and Therapy: Emerging Approaches), Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 68, column 1:

(chiefly mammalogy, also figuratively) Of, relating to, or resembling a hare or rabbit.

أَرْنَبِيّ

of, relating to, or resembling a hare or rabbit


leporine

/ˈlɛpəˌɹaɪn/

The most frequent intestinal parasite of rodents is probably Oxyuris ambigua, but Strong. retortæformis is tolerably abundant in the hare, and Trichocephalus unguiculatus is liable to occur in all leporines. […] Acari infest rats and mice, and especially leporines.

1879, T[homas] Spencer Cobbold, “Parasites of Animals”, in Parasites; a Treatise on the Entozoa of Man and Animals, including Some Account of the Ectozoa, London: J[ohn] & A[ugustus] Churchill, […], →OCLC, book II, page 319:

It will be seen that the variability in any one formula (excepting the anomaly of m. ⁴⁄₄) is confined to the premolars; that these only vary in one instance in the Hystricines; and that the incisors only vary from ²⁄₂ to ⁴⁄₂ in the Leporines.

1888, Elliott Coues, “Order II.—Rodentia.”, in John Sterling Kingsley, editor, The Riverside Natural History, volume V (Mammals), London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., […], →OCLC, page 70:

+Trischizolagus has been proposed as a probable Oryctolagus ancestor, as well as for Lepus and other leporines, although no transitional populations have yet been found.

2008, Nieves Lopez-Martinez, “The Lagomorph Fossil Record and the Origin of the European Rabbit”, in Paulo C[élio] Alves, Nuno Ferrand, Klaus Hackländer, editors, Lagomorph Biology: Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 41:

The western Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, Formentera) have an insular history since the Miocene, and are famed for the unique caprine Myotragus (a goat relative) and endemic leporines (rabbits). […] [R]aptors coevolved with the insular radiations of rodents, leporines, and larger mammals.

2009, Trevor H[enry] Worthy, “Fossil Birds”, in Rosemary G. Gillespie, David A. Clague, editors, Encyclopedia of Islands (Encyclopedias of the Natural World; 2), Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif., London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 321, column 1:

They [the Mexican volcano rabbit and the South African red rock hare] may be leftovers of a primitive stock because their distribution is peripheral to that of the advanced leporines.

2021, Alexandra van der Geer, George Lyras, John de Vos, “Japan: the Southern and Central Ryukyu Islands”, in Evolution of Island Mammals: Adaptation and Extinction of Placental Mammals on Islands, 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J., Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, →ISBN, page 370:

Synonym of leporid (“any mammal of the family Leporidae: the hares and rabbits”)

leporid

I come now to the more interesting part of my subject, viz. that of the Leporines—hybrids, so called, between the hare and the rabbit. It has been stated that M. Rouy, of Angoulême, has bred for the market a thousand of these Leporines yearly—that they are fertile both with the hare and the rabbit, and with each other.

1861 February 26, Edwards Crisp, “On Some Points Relating to the Habits and Anatomy of the Oceanic and of the Freshwater Ducks, and also of the Hare (Lepus timidus) and of the Rabbit (L. cuniculus), in Relation to the Question of Hybridism”, in Prideaux John Selby, Charles C[ardale] Babington, John Edward Gray, William Francis, editors, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology, volume VIII (Third Series), number 43, London: Taylor and Francis […], published July 1861, →OCLC, page 75:

In France there is a hybrid bred between the rabbit and the hare, known as the leporine, that is said to be fertile; I do not know much about it. I tried to get some definite information on the matter and failed. I simply know that I have seen numers of statements going the rounds of the press that the leporine is a valuable poultry animal raised for food, and is a cross between the hare and the rabbit, and that it is fertile. If so, it is the only case I know of where the continued fertility is kept up.

1887, W[illia]m H[enry] Brewer, “Syllabus of Lectures on the Principles of Stock Breeding [Fourth Lecture. Crossing—Breeding to Points.]”, in Report of the Department of Agriculture of the University of Minnesota: Supplement I to the Fourth Biennial Report of the Board of Regents. 1886, St. Paul, Minn.: The Pioneer Press Company, →OCLC, page 213:

Mr. Thomas Christy enquired what position the so-called Belgian Hare or Leporine occupied in relation to the question of hybridity; and was answered that the popular notion of that animal being a hybrid between Hare and Rabbit was fallacious, since it was nothing more than an overgrown tame Rabbit coloured like a Hare.

1897 February, “Editorial Gleanings”, in W[illiam] L[ucas] Distant, editor, The Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, volume I (4th series), number 668, London: West, Newman, & Co., […]; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., →OCLC, page 96:

[…] [Charles] Darwin was intrigued by contemporary experiments claiming to have produced hare–rabbit crosses or ‘leporines’ (‘most curious, if true’), […] [T]hose supporting the existence of leporines were giving credence to a creature as actually imposible and fabulous as the horned hare.

2010, Simon Carnell, “Lagographia Curiosa: The Natural and Unnatural History of the Hare”, in Hare (Animal Series), London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 16:

(historical) A supposed hybrid between a hare and a rabbit, now known not to exist; a leporide.


kuna

kuna (nominative singular)
kunje (dual nominative)
kuny (nominative plural)
kuny (genitive singular)
kunow (dual genitive)
kunow (genitive plural)
kunje (dative singular)
kunomaj (dative dual)
kunam (dative plural)
kunu (accusative singular)
kunje (accusative dual)
kuny (accusative plural)
kunu (instrumental singular)
kunomaj (dual instrumental)
kunami (instrumental plural)
kunje (locative singular)
kunomaj (dual locative)
kunach (locative plural)
kuna (singular vocative)
kunje (dual vocative)
kuny (plural vocative)


divorce

en-noun

divorce (countable and uncountable, plural divorces)

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

Derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.

(zoology) The separation of a bonded pair of animals.


ตะเกียบ

th-noun

ตะเกียบ • (dtà-gìiap)

Possibly from Khmer តង្កៀប (tɑɑtɑngkiəp, “pliers; tongs”) or Mon သ္ကေပ်. Compare another Khmer ថ្កៀប (thkiəp), Lao ຕະຂຽບ (ta khīap), Lü ᦑᦰᦵᦆᧇ (t!xeb), Hlai tiep.

bor

(anatomy, zoology) pectoral fin of a fish.

(anatomy, zoology) pair of cartilages at the buttock of a bird (any vertebrate of the class Aves).


lateral

en-adj

lateral (comparative more lateral, superlative most lateral)

more lateral (comparative)
most lateral (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin laterālis (“belonging to the side”), from latus (“the side or flank”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

af

The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.

A fish senses changes in hydrodynamic pressure with its lateral line.

To the side; of or pertaining to the side.

(anatomy, zootomy) Situated on one side or other of the body or of an organ, especially in the region furthest from the median plane.


hals

halsen (definite singular)
halser (indefinite plural)
halsene (definite plural)

From Old Norse hals (“neck”), from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck, throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kólsos.
Cognate with English halse, Dutch hals, German Hals, Swedish hals and Danish hals.

tag grimen af min hals

1873, Henrik Ibsen, Kærlighedens komedie, page 125:

[Hedvig] lægger armen om hans hals

[kledd] i sort helt op til halsen

1888, Henrik Ibsen, Fruen fra havet, page 207:

[hun] tog hende om halsen

1907, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons fortællinger, page 156:

håret var satt opp, i halsen hadde hun et enkelt gullkjede med hjerte

1997, Gerd Brantenberg, Augusta og Bjørnstjerne, page 128:

her hair was up, around her neck she had a simple gold chain with a heart

hun har en blomstrete, V-ringet kjole på seg og et enkelt perlekjede i halsen

2021, Linn Ullmann, Jente, 1983, page 203:

she is wearing a floral V-neck dress and a simple pearl necklace around her neck

vi sitter i halsen i dette [hjernens belønningssystem som trigges av det uforutsigbare], og ingen slipper unna

2019, Nina Lykke, Full spredning, page 147:

we're stuck in this [brain's reward system triggered by the unpredictable] and no one escapes

de kastet seg om halsen på hverandre og klemte og gråt

they embraced each other and hugged and cried

kan du fatte det, sa Trine [Hattestad etter å ha blitt verdensmester i spydkast] og falt om halsen på sin trener

1993 August 23, Bergens Tidende, page 24:

can you imagine that, said Trine [Hattestad after becoming world champion in the javelin throw] and embraced her coach

kommunistene og de borgerlige falt om halsen på hverandre og stilte fellesliste ved valg til formannskapet

the communists and the bourgeois came to an agreement and put up a joint list in elections for the chairmanship

Dostojevskij … trodde at Russland og Europa ville falle om halsen på hverandre i kjølvannet av reformene og de store forandringene

Dostoevsky ... believed that Russia and Europe would come to an agreement in the wake of the reforms and the great changes

vi [burde] falt om halsen på innvandrerne og tryglet om tilgivelse

we [should] show great gratitude to the immigrants and beg for forgiveness

han [hørte] kjærrerne komme. Og nu gjorde han lang hals

1900, Vilhelm Krag, Isaac Seehuusen, page 283:

he [heard] the carts coming. And now he was stretching to get a good look

hun skjøt hals

[jeg] strekker hals for å se best mulig mellom hodene på dem som sitter foran

[I] stretch out my neck to see as best as possible between the heads of those sitting in front

partiprogrammerne vri’r halsen om på alle unge levedygtige sandheder

1882, Henrik Ibsen, En folkefiende, page 215:

the party programs kills all young viable truths

skrækken havde rystet Aline så forfærdelig stærkt. Brandlarmen, – udflytningen – så’n over hals og hode

1892, Henrik Ibsen, Bygmester Solness, page 116:

the terror had shaken Aline so horribly. The fire alarm, - the eviction - so hastily

markmus og kjøttmeiser flygted hals over hoved

1904, Jacob Breda Bull, Folkelivsbilleder II, page 243:

digter-komponisten havde over hals og hoved maattet flygte fra Østerriges hovedstad

1917, Clara Tschudi, Ludwig den anden, page 22:

the poet-composer had to hastily flee from Austria's capital

jeg er altså i Deres magt, assessor. De har hals og hånd over mig fra nu af

1890, Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, page 232:

I am therefore in your power, assessor. You have power over my destiny from now on

sitte til halsen i

kaste seg om halsen på

falle om halsen på

to embrace; come to an agreement; be grateful

gjøre lang hals; strekke/skyte hals

vri/dreie halsen om på noen

hals over hode; over hode og hals

hastily and without time for further preparation

ha hals og hånd over

(anatomy, zoology) a neck (the part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.)

hans kejserdom er om en hals!

1874, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, page 137:

det var ikke frit for at jeg blev om en hals naar at hun saa paa mig

it was not free for me to be in a life-threatening situation when she looked at me

Nå, nå, nå! Ikke så ivrig! Det har været figurligt ment, det gi’er jeg min hals på

1874, Henrik Ibsen, De unges forbund, page 22:

Well, well, well! Not so eager! It was meant figuratively, I swear by it

jeg er folkets mand paa min hals

1899, Alexander Kielland, Garman og Worse, page 161:

være om en hals

gi sin hals på noe

være noe på sin hals

(chiefly literary) Used in fixed expressions related to execution by decapitation.


bonito

From Late Latin boniton, representing a specific use of bonito (“pretty”, literally “the good one”), referring to the fish's appearance; see Etymology 1 above.


distemper

en-noun

distemper (countable and uncountable, plural distempers)

From Old French destemprer, from Latin distemperare.

(veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.


cervix

la-noun

cervīx f (genitive cervīcis); third declension

cervīx (canonical feminine)
cervīcis (genitive)
cervīx (nominative singular)
cervīcēs (nominative plural)
cervīcis (genitive singular)
cervīcum (genitive plural)
cervīcī (dative singular)
cervīcibus (dative plural)
cervīcem (accusative singular)
cervīcēs (accusative plural)
cervīce (ablative singular)
cervīcibus (ablative plural)
cervīx (singular vocative)
cervīcēs (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Romanian: cerbice

Gallo-Romance:

Old Catalan: serviu

Old French: cerviz ⇒ cervele, chervele (Picard)

Middle French: cevich

Old Occitan: cervitz ⇒ cervigal

Ibero-Romance:

Portuguese: cerviz

Spanish: cerviz

Italo-Romance:

Italian: cervice

Sicilian: cirbici

Borrowings:

→ Catalan: cèrvix

→ Dutch: cervix

→ English: cervix

→ Malay: serviks

→ Portuguese: cérvice, cérvix

→ Romanian: cervix

→ Spanish: cervix

According to one hypothesis, from Proto-Italic *kerweyks, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂(s)weyk-s, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-(s-) (“the head”) (compare cerebrum) and *weyk- (“to curve, bend”) (compare vinciō), literally “where the head turns”. De Vaan rejects this etymology, calling it "semantically very doubtful".

der

apta iugō cervīx nōn est feriendā secūrī:

The neck suitable for the yoke should not be struck by the axe:
may it live long and labor often in the hard soil.
(Agriculture dawns as Ceres teaches humans to yoke oxen to the plow and instead use other animals for sacrificial rites. See Ceres (mythology).)

levis odorato cervix manabit olivo

30 BCE – 16 BCE, Propertius, Elegies 3.17–18

Your smooth throat glistening with scented oil
the flowing robe will brush your naked feet.


lappet

Some vultures have lappets of bare flesh on the sides of the head.

Tompot blennies are distinguished by a pair of lappets above the eyes and dark stripes along the body.

(zoology) A wattle or flap-like structure on the face.

heltta (wattle)

zoology: wattle or flap-like structure on the face


gape

en-noun

gape (countable and uncountable, plural gapes)

From Middle English gapen, from Old Norse gapa (“to gape”) (compare Swedish gapa, Danish gabe), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (descendants Middle English geapen, Dutch gapen, German gaffen), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰеh₂b-. Cognates include Russian зяпа (zjapa).

(zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.


nereid

From the stem of Latin Nērēis (“sea-nymph”), from Ancient Greek Νηρηΐς (Nērēḯs), from Νηρεύς (Nēreús, “the sea-god Nereus”).


medial

en-adj

medial (comparative more medial, superlative most medial)

more medial (comparative)
most medial (superlative)

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Borrowed from Latin mediālis (“middle”), from medius (“that is in the middle or midst”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

среден

The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.

Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.

(anatomy, zootomy) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ.


sport

en-noun

sport (countable and uncountable, plural sports)

→ Belarusian: спорт (sport)

→ Bulgarian: спорт (sport)

→ Catalan: esport

→ Cebuano: esport

→ Czech: sport

→ Danish: sport

→ Dutch: sport (see there for further descendants)

→ French: sport (see there for further descendants)

→ Georgian: სპორტი (sṗorṭi)

→ German: Sport (see there for further descendants)

→ Hebrew: ספורט

→ Hungarian: sport

→ Irish: spórt, spóirt (Cois Fharraige)

→ Italian: sport

→ Latvian: sports

→ Lithuanian: sportas

→ Lower Sorbian: sport

→ Macedonian: спорт (sport)

→ Norman: sport

→ Northern Kurdish: spor

→ Norwegian: sport

→ Polish: sport

→ Brazilian Portuguese: esporte

→ Russian: спорт (sport) (see there for further descendants)

→ Scottish Gaelic: spòrs

→ Serbo-Croatian: sport / спорт

→ Swahili: spoti

→ Swedish: sport

→ Thai: สปอร์ต (sà-bpɔ̀ɔt)

→ Uzbek: sport

Japanese: スポーツ (supōtsu)

Korean: 스포츠 (seupocheu)

From Middle English sporten (verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun). More at disport.

We never shot another like it, so I do not know if it was a `sport' or a distinct species.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.

2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening):

(biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.


neuron

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”), doublet of nerve and sinew. By surface analysis, neuro- + -on.

(zoology) A nervure of an insect's wing.


scutum

Borrowed from Latin scūtum (“shield”). Doublet of escudo, scudo, scute, and écu.

doublet

A tick's eye, if present, is a mere roundish lucent area at the margin of the scutum about opposite the second coxa.

2009, Dwight D. Bowman, Georgis' Parasitology for Veterinarians:

(zoology) A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum)

(zoology) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.


pleura

From Middle English, borrowed from Medieval Latin pleura.

(zootomy) A lateral part in an animal body or structure.


sambar

Borrowed from Hindi सांभर (sāmbhar), साँभर (sāmbhar), from Sanskrit शम्बर (śambara, “a kind of deer”).

der

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(zoology) A Southeast Asian deer (Rusa unicolor).


spavin

en-noun

spavin (countable and uncountable, plural spavins)

The noun is derived from Middle English spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”), from Old French espavain, a variant of esparvain, esprevain, esprevin (modern French éparvin, épervin). The further etymology is unknown; one suggestion is that it is from Frankish *sparwan (“sparrow”), though this is seen as quite tenuous.
The verb is derived from the noun.

[H]is horſe hip'd vvith an olde mothy ſaddle, and ſtirrops of no kindred: beſides poſſeſt vvith the glanders, and like to moſe in the chine, troubled vvith the Lampaſſe, infected vvith the faſhions, full of VVindegalls, ſped vvith Spauins, raied vvith the Yellovvs, […]

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 219, column 1:

Of ſpauens, there be tvvo kindes, the bone Spauen and the blood: for the bone Spauen, you ſhall dreſſe it in all things like the ſplent, and it vvil heale it. For the bloud ſpauen you ſhall take vp the veane, and vvhen it hath bled vve pull out the bladder vvhich holdes the ſpauen, and ſtop the vvound vvith Sage and ſalt, and it vvill heale it.

1607, Gervase Markham, “Of Spauens”, in Cauelarice, or The English Horseman: […], London: […] [Edward Allde and W[illiam] Jaggard] for Edward White, […], →OCLC, 7th book, page 78:

Doubtleſſe a Spauen is an euil ſorance, and cauſeth a horſe to haule principally in the beginning of his griefe, it appeareth on the hinder Legges vvithin, and againſt the ioynt, and it vvill bee a little ſvvolne, and ſome horſes haue a thorough Spauen, vvhich appeareth both vvithin and vvithout. Of the Spauen there are tvvo kindes, the one hard the other ſoft: That is: bone-Spauen, and a blood-Spauen, […] Caſt the horſe and vvith a hot yron ſlitte the fleſh that couereth the Spauen, and then lay vpon the Spauen, Cantharides and Euforbium boyled together in oile de Bay, […]

1607, Conradus Gesnerus [i.e., Conrad Gessner], Edward Topsell, “Of the Horsse. [Of the Spauen, both Bone and Blood.]”, in The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes. […], London: […] William Iaggard, →OCLC, page 407:

Mr. Field had seen the same horses brought to his forge from day to day, and year to year, with large spavins, yet continuing perfectly sound.

1829 November 19, “Veterinary Medical Society, 21st Oct. 1829. Discussion on Mr. W. Percivall’s Paper on Soundness.”, in [William] Percivall, [William] Youatt, editors, The Veterinarian, volume II, number 24, London: […] Compton and Ritchie, […] [for] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, […], published December 1829, →OCLC, page 509:

(countable) A bony swelling which develops in a horse's leg where the shank and splint bone meet, caused by inflammation of the cartilage connecting those bones; also, a similar swelling caused by inflammation of the hock bones.

[N]ovv the Bots, the Spauin, and the Glanders, and ſome doſen diſeaſes more, light on him, & his Moyles.

1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, signature B2, verso:

(uncountable) A disease of horses caused by this bony swelling (sense 1.1).


spavin

en-verb

spavin (third-person singular simple present spavins, present participle spavining, simple past and past participle spavined)

spavins (present singular third-person)
spavining (participle present)
spavined (participle past)
spavined (past)

Mr. Lythe had seen many horses which Mr. Field had passed as sound although they were spavined; and he does not recollect a single instance of lameness among them.

The witches that dance on the Brocken on Valpurgis Eve would be spoken of in a different spirit from the village hag who spavins the horse and curdles the milk.

1867, John Hill Burton, “Heathendom”, in The History of Scotland from Agricola’s Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 224:

And oh! Onesiphorus, the old brown mare / Is spavining for love, as also we; […]

1884 February 23, “Astray from San Rafael” [pseudonym], “Dudetic Leap Year”, in The Wasp, volume XII, number 8, San Francisco, Calif.: E[dward] C[reamor] Macfarlane & Co., →OCLC, stanza 4, page 11, column 1:

The plaintiff introduced evidence tending to prove that the horse was spavined, and that Kuntzman had warranted the soundness of the horse. The fourth exception on the part of the defendant and the plaintiff in error was to the rejection of the evidence that the horse was not spavined while in Weaver's stable, some two months after the sale.

1886, A[braham] C[lark] Freeman, “Kuntzman v. Weaver”, in The American Decisions […], volume LIX, San Francisco, Calif.: Bancroft-Whitney Co. […], →OCLC, page 740:

In order to obviate the straining, spavining, and weakness of back, to which horses are subject, caused by the effort of starting heavy cars, Mr. Henry P. Holt designed a tramcar starting gear, patented in May, 1879, […]

1894, D[aniel] Kinnear Clark, “Resistance to Traction on Tramways”, in Tramways: Their Construction and Working […], 2nd edition, London: Crosby Lockwood and Son […], →OCLC, page 402:

(farriery, veterinary medicine) To cause (a horse or its leg) to have spavin (noun sense 1.2).

aiheuttaa kinnerpatti

to cause (a horse or its leg) to have spavin


taster

From Middle English taster; equivalent to taste + -er.

(zoology) A kind of zooid situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophorae, resembling the feeding zooids, but destitute of mouths.


tibia

Borrowed from Latin tībia (“shin bone, leg”).

(arachnology) The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.


nape

From Middle English nape, naape, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old French hanap (“goblet”), from Frankish *hnapp, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz ( > Old English hnæpp, hnæp (“cup, bowl, goblet”)), as there is a hollow at the base of the skull. More at nap.

(zoology) The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.


shunt

From Middle English shunten, schunten, schonten, schounten, shont, shonte, shount, shounten, shunte (“to move rapidly or suddenly, jerk; to swerve, turn away; to avoid, dodge, escape, evade”), either:
* possibly a back-formation from Middle English shǒnen (“to decline to do, refuse; to abandon, forsake; to disdain, dislike, hate; to avoid, escape; to be afraid, fear; to be wary of”), from Old English sċunian, sċyniġan; see shun. Or
* an alteration of Middle English shunden, *schunden, *schinden, from Old English sċyndan, sċendan (“to hasten, hurry”) (as in āsċyndan (“to remove, take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *skundijan, from Proto-Germanic *skundijaną (“to compel, drive, push; to accelerate, rush, speed up”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew(n)t- (“to rattle, shake”).
* from unrecorded Old English *sċunettan, a derivative of sċunian (“to shun, avoid”).
The English word is cognate with Danish skynde (“to hasten, hurry, speed”), Icelandic skynda, skunda (“to hasten”), Middle High German schünden (“to compel; to urge; to irritate”), Norwegian skynde (“to hurry, rush”), Swedish skynda (“to hasten, hurry; to scuttle, scurry”). Outside Germanic, compare Sanskrit स्कन्दति (skándati, “to dart, leap, spring, spurt or burst forth, ejaculate, assail, drop, split”), Albanian shkund (“to shake; to swig”).
As regards the noun sense, compare Middle English shunt (“swerve; sudden jerk”), derived from the verb.

cog

Portosystemic shunts can be congenital or acquired with congenital PSS commonly comprising a single communicating vessel between the portal venous circulation and the systemic circulation via the caudal vena cava or azygos vein. Of congenital shunts, 66–75% are extrahepatic. Intrahepatic portosystemic shunts are most commonly identified in larger breeds of dog (though we have also seen a number of terriers with intrahepatic shunts through our clinic).

2018, Jon[athan David] Wray, “Case 11 Presenting with Mentation Abnormalities”, in Canine Internal Medicine: What’s Your Diagnosis?, Hoboken, N.J., Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, section C (Hepatobiliary Disease), page 127:

(medicine, veterinary medicine) An abnormal passage between body channels.


ciliate

(zoology) Any of many protozoa, of the phylum Ciliophora, that have many cilia.


bivouac

Unadapted borrowing from French bivouac (earlier biouac, bivac), from Alemannic German Biiwacht (“reinforcements of guard or town watch”), from bii- + Wacht (“watch, guard”).

der

(zoology) A structure formed by migratory ants out of their own bodies to protect the queen and larvae.


iris

irises (plural)
iris (plural)
irides (plural)

From Middle English [Term?], from Latin īris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”). Presuming an earlier form *ϝῖρις (*wîris), possibly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *w(e)ih₁-ro- (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”). If so, it would be cognate to English wire.

(zoology) The inner circle of an oscillated color spot.


labial

Borrowing from Medieval Latin labiālis (“of or pertaining to the lips”), from labium (“a lip”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to labium + -al.

af

The wound that does not kill Christ is the magical labial wound; it is the seal of the resurrection and an expression of the myth of eternal recurrence.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 109:

(anatomy, zootomy) Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.


labial

(zootomy) Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.


rut

en-noun

rut (countable and uncountable, plural ruts)

From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).

der

(zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals.


emendation

en-noun

emendation (countable and uncountable, plural emendations)

/ˌɛmənˈdeɪʃən/

/ɪˌmɛnˈdeɪʃən/

From Middle English emendatioun, from Latin ēmendātiō; equivalent to emend + -ation.

The genus name Uramyia is an unjustified emendation of Uramya even though it uses a better transliteration of the Greek word μυῖα.

(zoology, taxonomy) An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.


chimera

monolith

antonym(s) of “anything composed of very disparate parts”

Variant of Middle English chimere, chymere, & chymera under renewed Latin influence from the 16th century, from French chimère, from Latin Chimaera, from Ancient Greek Χίμαιρα (Khímaira, “fire-breathing mythological monster, fire-spewing Lycian or Cilician mountain”), from χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat”, from χίμαρος (khímaros, “male goat”) + -α (-a)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-. In reference to the fish, directly from Latin Chimaera, used by Linnaeus. In reference to organisms with distinct areas of different genetic makeups, a calque of German Chimäre, used by Hans Winkler in 1907.

af

The chimeras […] are an extant group of about 30 species. They have the upper jaw fused with the cranium and a gill cover over the four gill slits. They also have toothy plates that give them a ratlike appearance, thus the common name "ratfish." The group occurs in ocean depths worldwide, where they mainly feed on invertebrates.

2012, Harold M. Tyus, “Diversity 1: Chordates to Sharks”, in Ecology and Conservation of Fishes, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, pages 34–35:

(zoology) Alternative form of chimaera, a cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.


ethology

en-noun

ethology (countable and uncountable, plural ethologies)

/ɪˈθɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/

From the Latin ēthologia (“the art of depicting or imitating character”), from the Ancient Greek ἠθολογία (ēthología, “painting of character, especially by mimic gestures”), from ἠθολόγος (ēthológos, “painting character by mimic gestures”), from ἦθος (êthos, “character, especially moral character”). Equivalent to etho- + -logy.

uder

Holonym: zoology

(zoology) The scientific study of animalian behavior, especially that of nonhuman animals.


corona

en-noun

corona (plural coronas or coronae or (obsolete) coronæ)

coronas (plural)
coronae (plural)
coronæ (obsolete plural)

→ Japanese: コロナ (korona)

The noun is borrowed from Latin corōna (“crown; garland, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “type of crown; curved object (door handle, tip of a bow, stern of a ship, etc.)”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). The English word is a doublet of crown, korona, koruna, krona, króna, and krone.
The plural form coronae is borrowed from Latin corōnae.
The verb is derived from the noun.

laki

upper or crownlike portion of certain parts of the body

kruunu

It [Epiphanes] has a ciliated corona at its anterior end and tapers to a narrow foot at the posterior end. The cilia of the corona are arranged more or less in two rings, with the mouth in the gap between them.

1979, R[obert] McNeill Alexander, “Rotifers”, in The Invertebrates, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 230:

(biology) Any appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona (sense 4.1).

An annular ciliated organ on the head of rotifers, used for locomotion and sweeping food into the mouth.

korona

In coronae of the sea urchin Echinocyamus pusillus in the marine bed overlying the oncoid layer, an original Mg_(0.10–0.13)-calcite was gradually replaced during diagenesis by a Mg_(0.03–0.05)-calcite[…].

1983, D. K. Richter, R. Sedat, “Brackish-water Oncoids Composed of Blue-green and Red Algae from a Pleistocene Terrace near Corinth, Greece”, in Tadeusz M. Peryt, editor, Coated Grains, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, part IV (Oncoids), page 306:

The main body of the test of an echinoid, consisting of ambulacral and interambulacral areas.

A normal Crinoid (Fig. III.) consists of a “crown” (corona) attached by its dorsal (i.e. aboral) extremity to a “stem” (columna), which is fixed to the sea-floor or to some solid body by a “root” (radix).

1900, F[rancis] A[rthur] Bather, J. W. Gregory, E[dwin] S[tephen] Goodrich, “The Crinoidea”, in E[dwin] Ray Lankester, editor, A Treatise on Zoology, part III (The Echinoderma), London: Adam & Charles Black, →OCLC, page 99:

The crown of a crinoid, consisting of a cuplike central body (theca) and a set of arms.


innervation

en-noun

innervation (countable and uncountable, plural innervations)

/ɪˌnɝˈveɪ.ʃən/

(anatomy, zoology):
The act of innervating or stimulating.

Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life, and the functions of the various organs.

The distribution of nerves in an animal, or to any of its parts.


gyration

gyration (countable and uncountable, plural gyrations)

/ˌd͡ʒaɪˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/

From gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes). Gyre is from Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), and directly from its etymon Latin gȳrāre, the present active infinitive of gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”) (from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion; circuit, course”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

ĝirado

act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre — see also rotation

(conchology) One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.


cataphract

From Latin cataphractes (“suit of armour”), from Ancient Greek κατάφρακτος (katáphraktos, “suit of armour”), from κατα- (kata-, prefix indicating a great degree or intensity) + φρακτός (phraktós, “protected; fenced in”) (from φράσσω (phrássō, “to fortify, secure; to fence in”)) + -της (-tēs, suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being).

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(ichthyology, by extension, obsolete) An outer covering of some fish resembling armour or plate.


fauna

id-noun

fauna (first-person possessive faunaku, second-person possessive faunamu, third-person possessive faunanya)

faunaku (first-person possessive)
faunamu (possessive second-person)
faunanya (possessive third-person)

From Dutch fauna, from New Latin fauna, from Latin Fauna, sister of Faunus (“god of forests and herdsmen”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₂w-.

(zoology) animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time.

(zoology) a book, cataloguing the animals of a country.


pollinate

From pollin- (compound form of "pollen") + -ate (verb-forming suffix).


ruff

Clipping of ruffle, or possibly from rough.

The Afghan urial, which is smaller than the Transcaspian urial, is found in the mountains near Iran's eastern frontier, and is the wild sheep of Afghanistan and western Pakistan. Its ruff is black sprinkled with white hairs and its bib is white.

2005, Eskandar Firouz, “Mammals of Iran”, in The Complete Fauna of Iran, London, New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 88:

The creature coming toward me went instantly still. On the other side of the fire, one of them jerked upright and popped its ruff as wide as it would go. The other lunged to the side of the second and clamped one clawed hand around its muzzle.

2017 April, Marie Brennan [pseudonym; Bryn Neuenschwander], chapter 10, in Within the Sanctuary of Wings: A Memoir by Lady Trent, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 151:

(zoology) A collar of lengthened or distinctively coloured fur on or around the neck of an animal.

kaulus

collar of fur on or around the neck of an animal


rosette

Etymology tree
Proto-Iranian *wardahder.?
Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon)bor.?
Latin rosalbor.
Old French rose
Latin -ittus
Old French -ete
Old French rosete
Middle French rosettebor.
Middle French rosette
French rosetteinflu.
English rosette
Borrowed from Middle French rosette (in sense 15) and (modern) French rosette.

etymon

(zoology) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.

ruusuke

zoology: structure having a flowerlike form

(zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.


robust

en-adj

robust (comparative more robust or (uncommon) robuster, superlative most robust or (uncommon) robustest)

more robust (comparative)
robuster (comparative uncommon)
most robust (superlative)
robustest (superlative uncommon)

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robust association of massive baryonic objects

(chiefly zoology, anthropology, paleontology) Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.


shabby

shabby (comparative shabbier, superlative shabbiest)

shabbier (comparative)
shabbiest (superlative)

The adjective is derived from shab (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) scaly skin disease; skin disease of sheep; crust forming over wound, scab”) + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives).
The verb is derived from the adjective.
cognates
* Dutch schabbig (“poor, needy, shabby”)
* Middle High German schebic (modern German schäbig (“shabby”))
* Middle Low German schabbich (“miserable”) (modern Low German schabbig, schäbbig)
* Scots shabby (“in poor health, ill”)
* Swedish sjabbig (“shabby, mangy, scruffy”), skabbig (“scabby”)

hääppöinen

poor in quality; showing little effort or talent

(often in the negative) Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.

(UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) Chiefly of sheep: affected by shab or scab (“a skin disease”); scabby.


stagger

From Middle English stageren, stakeren, from Old Norse stakra (“to push, stagger”). Cognate with dialectal Danish stagre.

parasitic staggers

apoplectic or sleepy staggers

(veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.


trenchant

en-adj

trenchant (comparative more trenchant, superlative most trenchant)

more trenchant (comparative)
most trenchant (superlative)

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenchant, the present participle of trenchier (“to cut”).

The trenchant talonid is a character of some miacids and distinguishes these teeth from the hyaenodontids and oxyaenids.

1971, Thomas H. V. Rich, Deltatheridia, Carnivora, and Condylarthra (Mammalia) of the Early Eocene, Paris Basin, France:

(chiefly archaic) Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.

(zoology, of teeth) Adapted for tearing into flesh.


recondite

recondite (comparative more recondite, superlative most recondite)

more recondite (comparative)
most recondite (superlative)

Animals of this class are so recondite in their habits... so little known to naturalists beyond the more common species.

1835, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 125, 361:

(somewhat archaic) Hidden or removed from view.

(chiefly zoology, rare) Avoiding notice (particularly human notice); having a tendency to hide; shy.


pride

en-noun

pride (countable and uncountable, plural prides)

shame

antonym(s) of “a sense of one's own worth”

humility

antonym(s) of “proud or disdainful behavior”

From Middle English pryde, pride, from Old English prȳde, prȳte (“pride”) (compare Old Norse prýði (“bravery, pomp”)), derivative of Old English prūd (“proud”). More at proud. The verb derives from the noun, at least since the 12th century.

A pride of lions often consists of a dominant male, his harem and their offspring, but young adult males 'leave home' to roam about as bachelors pride until able to seize/establish a family pride of their own.

(zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.


pride

From Middle English pryde, from Middle Low German lampride, from Medieval Latin lampreda.

(zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.

kleines Neunauge

small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis)


spike

From Middle English spike, spyke, spik, from Old Norse spík (“spike, sprig”), from Proto-Germanic *spīkō (“stick, splinter, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“to be pointed; sharp point, stick”). Cognate with Icelandic spík (“spike”), Swedish spik (“spike, nail”), Dutch spijker (“nail”), Old English spīcing (“spike”), and Latin spīca (“ear of corn”), which may have influenced some senses.

шпайкове

informal: running shoes with spikes in the soles


hyaline

en-noun

hyaline (countable and uncountable, plural hyalines)

From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).

(zoology, anatomy) A clear translucent substance in tissues.


articulate

Borrowed from Latin articulātus (“distinct, articulated, jointed”).

bor

They considered articulates to be pre-adapted for an eleutherozoic existence because they possess muscular arms which are potentially of value in crawling and swimming, as in comatulids.

1977, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History):

(zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.


veil

→ Japanese: ベール (bēru)

→ Korean: 베일 (beil)

From Middle English veil, veyl, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French veil (“sail, veil, shroud”) (Francien Old French voil, French voile), Latin vēlum (“cloth, covering”). Displaced Middle English scleire, scleyre, sleyre, slyre (“veil”) (compare German Schleier). Doublet of velum and voile.

der

(zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of a medusa).


zebu

Borrowed from French zébu, from Tibetan.

(zoology) zebu (domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa)


adelocodonic

From Ancient Greek ἄδηλος (ádēlos, “invisible”) + κώδων (kṓdōn, “bell”).

(zoology) Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; opposed to phanerocodonic.


adelopod

From Ancient Greek ἄδηλος (ádēlos, “invisible”) + -pod.

af

(zoology) An animal having feet that are not apparent.


tart

tarten (definite singular)
tarter (indefinite plural)
tartene (definite plural)


tart

tarten (definite singular)
tartar (indefinite plural)
tartane (definite plural)


acontia

From the plural of New Latin acontium, from Ancient Greek ἀκόντιον (akóntion, “little dart”).

der

(zoology) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated.


iguana

/ɪ.ɡjuˈɑːnə/

(zoology) Any member of the genus Iguana.


supercilium

Borrowed from Latin supercilium (“eyebrow; brow, ridge; pride, arrogance”).

bor

(anatomy, rare) The eyebrow (arch of hair above each eye).

(zoology) A superciliary marking or structure, especially in a bird.


tang

From Middle English tange, variant of tonge (“tongs, fang”), from Old Norse tangi (“pointed metal tool”), perhaps related to Old Norse tunga (“tongue”). But see also Middle Dutch tanger (“sharp, tart, pinching”).

ruoti

projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to some other part

angel

part of small instrument inserted into handle

(zoology) Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.


malacology

From French malacologie, contraction of malacozoologie, from the (obsolete) taxonomic name Malacozoa + French -ologie (“-ology”), Malacozoa being in turn from Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft”) + ζῷον (zôion, “animal”).
Equivalent to malaco- + -logy.

But the circumstances which the Baron Cuvier† so justly adduces as tending to retard the progress of Malacology in general, seem especially to have contributed to obscure the history of Nautilus Pompilius.

1832, Richard Owen, Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus, page 2:

[…]their chronogeny will long remain one of the most difficult problems in Malacology.

1850, William King, A Monograph of the Permian Fossils of England, published 2014, page 201:

The first steps in the age determination of mammals by the number of annual layers were made when, in ichthyology and malacology, it has already become to routine practice to use annual layers for ageing animals and for back-calculating the growth of individuals.

1995, Galina A. Klevezal, M.V. Mina, Recording Structures of Mammals, page 231:


borsa

→ Amharic: ቦርሳ (borsa)

→ Arabic: بورصة

→ Armenian: բորսա (borsa)

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: پارسه (parsa), پارسا (parsa)
Turkish: parsa

→ Ottoman Turkish: بورسه (borsa), بورسا (borsa)
Turkish: borsa

→ Slovene: borša

→ Tigrinya: ቦርሳ (borsa)


anonym

Coined or borrowed around 1812, from French anonyme, from Ancient Greek ἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos, “without name”).

der

(zoology) A mere name; a name resting upon no diagnosis or other recognized basis.


clavicle

Borrowed from Middle French clavicule, from Latin clāvicula (“a small key”), diminutive of clāvis (“a key”).

The Voluta is a ſimple ſhell, having no hinge, formed of one piece, and of a figure approaching to conic, but short; the clavicle being uſually depreſſed, in all very ſhort: the mouth is long, perpendicular, and narrow: the animal inhabiting this ſhell is a limax.

1752, John Hill, “Voluta”, in An History of Animals. […], London: Printed for Thomas Osborne, […], →OCLC, page 137:

(obsolete, conchology) The upper part of a spiral shell.


pedicel

From Late Latin pedīcellus, diminutive of pedīculus (“foot-stalk or pedicle of a fruit or leaf”), diminutive of pēs (“foot”).

(zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.

A petiole; the connection between the thorax and abdomen of an insect of suborder Apocrita.

Spiders have the body clearly divided into two pieces which are joined by a narrow stalk, the pedicel.

1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, page 10:

The connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen of a spider.

The second segment of the antenna of an insect, between the scape and the flagellum.

Table 5 lists 14 does with 1 or both antlers and 4 does and 1 doe fawn with incipient antler pedicels like those on male fawns.

1963, Journal of Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, page 87:

(zoology) The segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.


euthanasiate

That chemical methods of euthanasia (such as injectable euthanasiates such as barbituates) far outweighed all other methods used to perform euthanasia of laboratory animals.

1990, Gary Martinic, “euthanasia of laboratory animals”, in Animal Technology:

The Environmental Health Unit of Queensland Health has issued appropriately trained wildlife carers in two organisations with authority to hold and use a small selection of restricted (S4) veterinary drugs including: Pentabarbitone sodium (Valabarb, Lethabarb): a veterinary euthanasiate; Alfaxalone and Zoletil: anaesthetics; Diazepam (Pamlin): a sedative; Meloxicam: an antiinflammatory pain reliever.

2005, Jon Haner, Andrew Tribe, “Management of critically ill wildlife: the reality and practice of wildlife euthanasia”, in National Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference:

At all times the euthanasiates should be in a locked container/area when not in the possession of a veterinarian

2012, Australian Veternary Association, Indigenous Community Animal Health Program (ICAHP) Model and Guidelines:

(veterinary medicine) Any drug used to euthanize an animal.


euthanasiate

en-verb

euthanasiate (third-person singular simple present euthanasiates, present participle euthanasiating, simple past and past participle euthanasiated)

euthanasiates (present singular third-person)
euthanasiating (participle present)
euthanasiated (participle past)
euthanasiated (past)

The dog was euthanasiated 40 days after the MRI examination because its convulsions had worsened.

2000, Hiroshi Koie, Ester Norie Kurotobi, Takeo Sakai, “Double-chambered right ventricle in a dog”, in Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, volume 6:

The experiment was carried out 240 days long, on Wistar rats, intraperitoneally injected once with aqueous asbestos suspension. In the end, animals were euthanasiated by prolonged narcosis.

2008, B. Sevastre, C. Cătoi, A.I. Marcus, “LESIONAL ASPECTS IN RAT EXPERIMENTAL ASBESTOSIS”, in Bulletin of University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania:

On a stork whit multiple fractures which was later euthanasiated, some anatomic and histology observation were made on the esophagus.

2009, V Rus, V Miclaus, GC Nadas, D Cadar, “STRUCTURAL PARTICULARITIES OF THE WHITE STORK (CICONIA CICONIA) ESOPHAGUS.”, in Annals of the Romanian Society for Cell Biology, volume 14, number 1:

(veterinary medicine) To kill in a humane manner.


gat

head

gat (singular definite gattet, plural indefinite gatter)

gattet (definite singular)
gatter (indefinite plural)

From Old Norse gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.

(zoology) anus (of an animal, fish especially)


piranha

First attested in 1869. The term entered English either via Portuguese piranha or Spanish piraña, from Old Tupi pirãîa.

(ichthyology) Any of the carnivorous or frugivorous freshwater fish living in South American rivers and belonging to the subfamily Serrasalminae.


sumpit

ms-noun

sumpit (Jawi spelling سومڤيت, plural sumpit-sumpit, informal 1st possessive sumpitku, 2nd possessive sumpitmu, 3rd possessive sumpitnya)

سومڤيت (Jawi)
sumpit-sumpit (plural)
sumpitku (first-person informal possessive)
sumpitmu (possessive second-person)
sumpitnya (possessive third-person)

From Proto-Malayic *sumpit, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sumpit, from Proto-Austronesian *sumpit.

Seekor sumpit berenang di air.

(zoology) an archerfish, a kind of fish that shoots insects with water in the genus Toxotes; usually as ikan sumpit or sumpit-sumpit.


immaculate

en-adj

immaculate (comparative more immaculate, superlative most immaculate)

more immaculate (comparative)
most immaculate (superlative)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Museo del Prado

From Late Middle English immaculat, immaculate (“blameless; flawless, spotless; specifically of the Virgin Mary: pure, undefiled”), borrowed from Latin immaculātus (“unstained”), from im- (negative prefix) + maculātus (“stained, spotted; defiled, polluted; (figurative) dishonoured”), the perfect passive participle of maculō (“to spot, stain; to defile, pollute; (figurative) to dishonour”), from macula (“a blemish, spot, stain; (figurative) blot on one’s character, fault”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smh₂-tló-m (“wiping (?)”), from *smeh₁- (“to rub; to smear”). The word displaced Middle English unwemmed (“pure, untainted”). See also -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
cognates
* Catalan immaculat
* Italian immacolato, immaculato (obsolete)
* Middle French immaculé (modern French immaculé)
* Portuguese imaculado
* Spanish inmaculado

ref

From the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.

perfek

containing no mistakes — see also flawless

(botany, zoology, especially entomology) Lacking blotches, spots, or other markings.

täplätön

lacking blotches, spots, or other markings — see also unspotted


reina

(ichthyology, regional, Tuscan) carp (Cyprinus carpio)


bicaudal

From bi- + caudal, from Latin cauda (“tail”).


carpenter

From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpentārius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). Doublet of carpintero. More at car.
Displaced native Old English trēowwyrhta (literally “tree worker”).

ncog

The large, stout African bees are carpenters (Xylocopa), making small tunnels in timber, housing few individuals.

1968, Elliot C. G. Pinhey, Introduction to insect study in Africa, page 146:


suine

en-noun

suine (countable and uncountable, plural suines)

Primitive suines appeared in the Eocene.

1983, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume 7, page 574:

(zoology) (strictly) An even-toed ungulate belonging to the taxonomic subfamily Suinae, which is comprised of modern pigs (genus Sus) and their close relatives, both living and extinct.

(zoology) (broadly) An even-toed ungulate belonging to the suborder Suina.


polyeidism

(zoology) The quality or state of being polyeidic.


torpedo

* Borrowed from Latin torpēdō (“a torpedo fish; numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpeō (“I am stiff, numb, torpid; I am astounded; I am inactive”) + -ēdō (noun suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”). In the military sense coined by Robert Fulton in 1805. Cognate with Old English steorfan (“to die”), Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”), Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic трупети (trupeti).
* (type of car): From 1908, after "the Torpedo", a car designed by Captain Theo Masui.

cog

Faire Queene, forbeare to angle for the fiſh, / Which being caught, ſtrikes him that takes it dead, / I meane that vile Torpedo, Gaueſton, / That now I hope flotes on the Iriſh Seas

1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I]:

The man has been changed into an artificial monster by the station in which he is born, and the consequent homage that benumbed his faculties like the torpedo's touch […].

1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:

"A childhood Misadventure with a Torpedo," Dixon, with a brief move of his head toward Mason, confides, "— thus his Sensitivity at all References to the,"— whispering,— "electrickal!"

1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 286:

(zoology) An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.


ounce

From Middle French once, from Old French lonce (“lynx”), by false division (the l was thought to be the article), from Italian lonza, ultimately from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx, “lynx”). Doublet of onza and lynx.

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The ounce, a leopard-like creature, is dreaded for its depredations by the Indians of Brazil.

1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 235:

(cryptozoology) Synonym of onza, a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.


roi

cây (classifier)
cái (classifier)
鞕 (CJK)
𩍢 (CJK)

From Proto-Vietic *p-rɔːj. Cognate with Chut [Rục] brɔːj¹, Kha Phong urɔːj.


แก้ว

th-noun

แก้ว • (gɛ̂ɛo)

(zoology) (นก~) any of various hook-billed birds of the order Psittaciformes, such as cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet.

หนอน หนอน#Thai

(zoology) (หนอน~) any of various caterpillars of the families Papilionidae and Sphingidae.

ปลา ปลา#Thai

(zoology) (ปลา~) the sea fish, Otolithoides biauritus (Cantor), of the family Sciaenidae.


zoologia

zoologia (nominative singular)
zoologii (genitive singular)
zoologii (dative singular)
zoologię (accusative singular)
zoologią (instrumental singular)
zoologii (locative singular)
zoologio (singular vocative)

Internationalism; compare English zoology, French zoologie, German Zoologie, ultimately from Ancient Greek ζῷον (zôion) + λόγος (lógos).

(zoology) zoology (science that studies the animal kingdom)


larynx

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Borrowed from New Latin larynx, from Ancient Greek λᾰ́ρῠγξ (lárunx, “larynx; windpipe; gullet, throat”).

bor

Meronyms: epilarynx, hypolarynx, orolarynx

There is one thing, among abundance of others, in Anatomy, which has always much affected me with Admiration, [...] It is the Situation and Elaſticity of the Epiglottis, a ſoft Cartilaginous Cover to the Larynx, or Orifice of the Wind-pipe; that this Epiglottis ſhould, all a Man's life, be drawn up, for the Benefit of Reſpiration, and fall down and ſhut, whilſt every bit we eat, and every drop we drink, paſſes over it into the Gullet and Stomach; and that we ſhould ſo ſeldom have Occaſion to cough up a crum, or drop, that may accidentaly ſlip into the Larynx; [...]

1727, Walter Harris, “Section II. Of the Wonderful Works of God.”, in The Great and Wonderful Works of God Humbly Represented: And the Just and Equal Distributions of Providence Demonstrated. […], London: James Roberts […], →OCLC, pages 29–30:

The larynx is the instrument of the voice, of which the rima glottidis is the immediate organ. [...] The change of the voice from acute to grave at the time of puberty, when the larynx undergoes a remarkable development, as well as its acuteness in females, whose glottis is less by one third than that of man, shew that the size of the aperture has a great influence.

1809, William Nicholson, “PHYSIOLOGY”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume V (N … R), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC:

The differences in the voices of man and woman cannot but have been always obſerved; and their larynxes exhibit, on a merely ſuperficial inſpection, a great diſproportion in ſize.

1819, Abraham Rees, “LARYNX”, in The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. [...] In Thirty-nine Volumes, volume XX, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, […] [et al.], →OCLC, column 1:

I hope to be understood as not implying that there is no peculiarity of the larynges and tracheæ, except in some genera; for I believe all have the admirable mechanism of the organ of voice differently constructed, with corresponding muscles, and distribution of nerves, producing those various modulations of sound so familiar to us, and destined for the excitement of love, as well as for other purposes.

1830 March 16, Joshua Brookes, “XXIX. On the Remarkable Formation of the Trachea In the Egyptian Tantalus”, in The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume XVI, London: Richard Taylor, […]; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […]; William Wood, […], published 1833, →OCLC, page 502:

The work on larynx transplantation has been discussed in the previous paragraphs. Corollary to this is the possible development of an artificial larynx which can be implanted just as an artificial heart might be implanted. Design of such larynxes might permit a quick solution to the problem of tissue rejection.

1968 April 25, John E. Bordley (witness), Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1969: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session: […], part 7 (Members of Congress, Interested Individuals and Organizations), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 259:

The ability of Red Deer stags to lower their larynx when roaring appears to be one of the exaggerators of formant dispersal, since the resting position of the male larynx is already lower than the typical mammalian position. [...] Size exaggeration provides an intriguing, non-linguistic explanation for the descent of the human larynx [...].

2003, John Maynard Smith, David Harper, “Indices of Quality”, in Animal Signals, Oxford, Oxforshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, 4.2 Are Mammalian Sounds Reliable Indices of Size?, page 47:

Study of intubated larynges from infants of 22 to 40 weeks' gestation who survived a few hours to 300 days showed acute injury was almost invariable, and up to 100% of the subglottic epithelium was lost within a few hour of intubation, but progression of injury was relatively short-lived.

2015, George H. Zalzal, Robin Thomas Cotton, “Glottic and Subglottic Stenosis”, in Marci M. Lesperance, Paul W. Flint, Cummings Pediatric Otolaryngology, Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders, Elsevier, →ISBN, 6: Pharynx, Larynx, Trachea, and Esophagus, page 350, column 2:

(anatomy, zootomy) A hollow muscular organ of the neck of mammals situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the oesophagus. It is involved in breath control and protection of the trachea, and, because it houses the vocal cords, sound production.

laring

organ involved in breath control, protection of the trachea, and sound production

បំពង់កក្នុង

bɑmpʊəŋ kɑɑ knoŋ


Panzer

de-noun

Panzer m (strong, genitive Panzers, plural Panzer)

Panzers (genitive)
Panzer (plural)
Panzer (nominative singular)
Panzer (definite nominative plural)
Panzers (genitive singular)
Panzer (definite genitive plural)
Panzer (dative singular)
Panzern (dative definite plural)
Panzer (accusative singular)
Panzer (accusative definite plural)

Dutch: pantser

Danish: panser

English: panzer

Hungarian: páncél

Norwegian Bokmål: panser

Norwegian Nynorsk: panser

Polish: pancerz

Russian: панцирь (pancirʹ)

Turkish: panzer

From Middle High German panzer, panzier, from Old French panciere (“coat of mail to protect the belly”), from pance (“paunch, belly”) (compare Medieval Latin panceria, pancerium), from Latin pantex (“paunch, belly”).
See also Pansen.


wicket

From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wiket, from Old Norse (specifically, Old East Norse) víkjas, diminutive of vik. Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.

(veterinary) A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.


alopecoid

From Ancient Greek ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx, “fox”) + -oid.

In the smaller Alopecoids, such as C. zerda, the temporal ridges remain permanently separate, and inclose a wide lyrate sagittal area, the ridges themselves not being very strongly marked; […]

1880, The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, page 250:

(zoology) An animal that resembles a fox.


blackleg

en-noun

blackleg (countable and uncountable, plural blacklegs)

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(uncountable, agriculture, veterinary medicine) A fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacterium Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic anthrax.


dichromatic

en-adj

dichromatic (comparative more dichromatic, superlative most dichromatic)

more dichromatic (comparative)
most dichromatic (superlative)

From di- + Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”) + -ic.

(zoology) having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.


anemone

Borrowed from Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē).


dorsal

dorsal (comparative more dorsal, superlative most dorsal)

more dorsal (comparative)
most dorsal (superlative)

From Late Middle English dorsal/dorsale, borrowing from Medieval Latin dorsālis (“of or relating to the back”), from dorsum (“the back”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to dorsum + -al.

ظَهْرِيّ

relating to the side in which the backbone is located

(anatomy, zootomy) With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate.

(anatomy) Relating to the top surface of the foot or hand.

背側

relating to the top surface of foot or hand

(linguistics, of a sound) Produced using the dorsum of the tongue.


dorsal

(zootomy, in snakes) Any of the longitudinal series of plates that encircle the body, excluding the ventral scales.


frontal

Borrowed from New Latin frontālis, from frons (“the forehead, brow, front”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to front + -al; cognate of French frontal. Doublet of frontalis.

(zootomy) Any of the scales of a reptile that lie in the general region of the forehead, more specifically between the eyes and to the anterior of this area.


tango

(zoology) a fang; a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh or injecting venom

(zoology) a tusk; one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as a walrus, elephant or wild boar


adnate

en-adj

adnate (comparative more adnate, superlative most adnate)

more adnate (comparative)
most adnate (superlative)

From Latin adnatus, past participle of variant form of agnascor (“born or growing at or upon”).

It differs from N. eleutherus by possessing a more adnate adipose fin and more prominent saddles and from N. albater by having 8 soft pectoral rays, a submarginal adipose bar, and no prominent basicaudal bar (Douglas 1972).

1988, Henry W. Robison, Thomas M Buchanan, Fishes of Arkansas, page 312:

(zoology) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals. in fish, having the eyes fused and unable to rotate independently


abito

Borrowed from Latin habitus (“habit, appearance”), a noun based on habeō (“have”).

bor+

(zoology) coat (of an animal), especially a bird's plumage


spotless

en-adj

spotless (comparative more spotless, superlative most spotless)

more spotless (comparative)
most spotless (superlative)

From Middle English spotles, equivalent to spot + -less.


sucker

From Middle English souker, sokere, sukkere, soukere, equivalent to suck (verb) + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Suuger, West Frisian sûker (“sucker”), Dutch zuiger (“sucker”), German Sauger (“dummy; vacuum”).

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.


anatine

anatine (comparative more anatine, superlative most anatine)

more anatine (comparative)
most anatine (superlative)

From Latin anatīnus, from anas, anatis (“a duck”) + -inus (“-ine”).

(zoology) Being of the family Anatidae, comprising the swans, geese, and ducks.


pectus

(anatomy, zoology) The breast, especially of a bird.


scrotal

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Learned borrowing from New Latin scrōtālis. Equivalent to scrotum + -al.

lbor

Male maturity is evident from descent of the testes; adult males are scrotal year-round, whereas subadult males are partially or nonscrotal.

2008, Melissa A. Hillegass et al., “The influence of sex and sociality on parasite loads in an African ground squirrel”, in Behavioral Ecology, volume 19, number 5, →DOI, pages 1006–1011:


razza

From a northern Italian evolution of Latin raia. Doublet of raia.


bambino

it-noun

bambinóne<t:large child; child-like person>

bambino m (plural bambini, feminine bambina, diminutive bambinétto (“smallish child”) or bambinùccio (“baby”), augmentative bambinóne (“large child; child-like person”), pejorative bambinàccio, endearing bambinèllo)

bambini (plural)
bambina (feminine)
bambinétto (diminutive)
bambinùccio (diminutive)
bambinóne (augmentative)
bambinàccio (pejorative)
bambinèllo (endearing)

→ English: bambino

→ French: bambin

→ Sicilian: bamminu, vamminu

Onomatopoeic bambo for the first stammerings of children, plus -ino (diminutive suffix).


promotion

en-noun

promotion (countable and uncountable, plural promotions)

/pɹəˈmoʊʃən/

/pɹəˈməʊʃən/

Late Middle English, from Old French promocion, from Late Latin promotio, from Latin promoveo (“I move forward”).

By simple promotion and remotion, assisted by some flexure and extension, the distal spines of each would reach and scratch the substratum and, on remotion, sweep coarse particles posteriorly and dorsally.

1995, Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology, →ISBN, page 63:

In other arthropods, promotion-remotion of the leg is accomplished at other joints. For example, in spiders promotion-remotion occurs at the coxa-trochanter joint, insects utilize the body-coxa joint, and […]

2008, John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology, volume 4, →ISBN, page 3326:

(zoology, chiefly entomology) Forward motion. (Contrast remotion.)


radiate

en-adj

radiate (comparative more radiate, superlative most radiate)

more radiate (comparative)
most radiate (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin radiatus, past participle of radiare (“to radiate, furnish with spokes, give out rays, radiate, shine”), from radius (“a spoke, ray”).


farcical

(veterinary medicine, obsolete, rare) Pertaining to farcy.


quadrato

From Latin quadrātus, from quadrō (“to make square”), from quattuor (“four”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.


African hunting dog

en-noun

African hunting dog (plural African hunting dogs)

Lycaon pictus
Lycaon pictus#Translingual

(zoology) A wild canid, Lycaon pictus, typically black, white and tan, found in Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa.

Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ łééchąąʼí ałchiní


didymous

en-adj

didymous (comparative more didymous, superlative most didymous)

more didymous (comparative)
most didymous (superlative)

Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek δίδυμος (dídumos, “twin”).

(botany, zoology) Twin, twinned; growing or occurring in pairs.


barra

From Vulgar Latin *barra, possibly from Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”). Doublet of bar.

(zoology, horse anatomy) bar (inward folds of the wall of a horse hoof)


stoma

From New Latin stoma, from Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).

(zoology) A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode.


stoma

(botany, zoology, surgery) stoma (all senses)


gula

Learned borrowing from Latin gula (“throat, gullet”).

lbor

(zoology) A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.


calyx

From Latin calyx, from Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux, “case of a bud, husk”). Doublet of chalice and kelch.

der

(zoology, anatomy) Any of various cup-like structures.

A chamber in the mammalian kidney through which urine passes.

The crown containing the viscera of crinoids and similar echinoderms, entoprocts, and the polyps of some cnidarians.

A funnel-shaped expansion of the vas deferens or oviduct of insects.

A flattened cap of neuropil in the brain of insects.


production

en-noun

production (countable and uncountable, plural productions)

→ Japanese: プロダクション (purodakushon)

/pɹəˈdʌkʃən/

From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin prōductiō, prōductiōnem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). See produce.


molid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Molidae.


pneumatic

en-adj

pneumatic (comparative more pneumatic, superlative most pneumatic)

more pneumatic (comparative)
most pneumatic (superlative)

From Latin pneumaticus, from Ancient Greek πνευματικός (pneumatikós, “relating to wind or air”), from πνεῦμα (pneûma, “wind, air, breath, spirit”), from πνέω (pnéō, “I blow, breath”).

der

pneumatic cells or bones

(zoology) Having cavities filled with air

hol-

zoology: having cavities filled with air


pharynx

Borrowing from New Latin pharynx, from Ancient Greek φᾰ́ρῠγξ (phárunx, “throat”).

(zootomy) The part of the alimentary canal immediately behind the mouth in invertebrates that may be thickened and muscular, eversible and toothed, or adapted as a suctorial organ.


-ulo

Probably from Russian -у́ля (-úlja) and Polish -ula, both feminine noun suffixes.

belulo

good-looking person, attractive person, handsome person

mamulo, skvamulo, spongulo, vertebrulo

(zoology) member of group of animals characterized by the root


verge

Borrowed from Middle French verge (“rod or wand of office”), hence "scope, territory dominated", from Latin virga (“shoot, rod stick”), of unknown origin. Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c.1400). Modern sense is from the notion of 'within the verge' (1509, also as Anglo-Norman dedeinz la verge), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the royal court, which sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area." Doublet of virga.

bor

(zoology) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.


pupil

From Middle English pupille, from Old French pupille, from Latin pūpilla (“pupil; little girl, doll”), named because of the small reflected image seen when looking into someone's eye.

der

(zoology) The central dark part of an ocellated spot.


hypermetamorphism

(zoology) An extreme form of metamorphosis occurring in certain insects (especially beetles of the family Meloidae) in which the animal passes through two or more different larval stages.


measles

en-noun

measles pl (normally plural, singular measle)

Either from Middle Dutch masels (“blood blisters, measels”) or Middle Low German maselen (“red blemishes, measels”), both from Old High German masala (“blood blister, phlegmon”). Doublet of measlings. Cognate with mazer & mase and Middle Low German masele & māsel. Influenced in pronunciation and some senses by mesel (“leprous, leper”).

der

The Swyne dyed of the Measils.

Porcine measles, thought by classical writers to be leprosy, is actually the result of tapeworm cysts which cause ulcerations of the pig's tongue.

1992, Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, translated by Anthea Bell, The History of Food, page 416:

(veterinary medicine) Synonym of cysticercosis: A disease of livestock or meat caused by the presence of tapeworm larvae.