pibble

In many ways, one-year-old Posey is just an average "pibble."

2015 October 7, Elizabeth Medora, “Posey: The Little Pibble That Can”, in The Foothills Focus, page 10:

Meet Jax! He is a sweet, wiggly pibble.

2017 November 23, “Adopt me!”, in Inlander, page 93:

Our Liz jumps with all her feet off the floor when we spell w- a- l- k, now with that pibble smile ear to ear.

2019, Suzanne Allard, "Liz Makes a Comeback," 4 Legs & a Tail, Winter 2019, pages 8-9

(informal, endearing) A pit bull terrier.


ngina

It traverses the whole range of animal life in tropical Africa, from the ngina or gorilla to the butterflies and ants: he makes the animals tell their own stories; and his text is illustrated with some telling drawings.

1902, Percy Watkins Myles, James Britten, George Simonds Boulger, The Selborne magazine and "Nature notes", volume 13:

The nginas can see wonderfully well through the jungle.

1914, Paul Belloni Du Chaillu, In African forest and jungle:


volcano rabbit

Romerolagus diazi
Romerolagus diazi#Translingual

A small rabbit, Romerolagus diazi, that resides in the mountains of Mexico.


black-tailed jackrabbit

en-noun

black-tailed jackrabbit (plural black-tailed jackrabbits)

Lepus californicus
Lepus californicus#Translingual

Lepus californicus, a common hare of the western United States and Mexico


desert hare

American desert hare
American desert hare

black-tailed jackrabbit
black-tailed jackrabbit

American desert hare, Lepus californicus, the black-tailed jackrabbit.

Lepus capensis
Lepus capensis#Translingual


moor macaque

Macaca maura, a macaque, endemic to Sulawesi, with brown to black body fur, a pale rump patch, and pink bare skin on the rump.


papionine

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the monkey tribe Papionini.


papionine

(zoology) Any member of the monkey tribe Papionini.


unau

The unau, or two-toed sloth, has no tail, and only two nails on the fore feet. The ai, or three-toed sloth, has a short tail, and three nails on every foot. The nose of the unau, is likewise much longer, the forehead higher, and the ears longer than those of the ai.

1834, Augustus Addison Gould, editor, A System of Natural History, page 264:

Linnaeus's two-toed sloth
Linnaeus's two-toed sloth

Choloepus didactylus
Choloepus didactylus#Translingual

Linnaeus's two-toed sloth, Choloepus didactylus, a two-toed sloth native to South America.


ægagrus

But this difference is leſs perceptible, in comparing the bouquetin with the Siberian ibex, the ibex with the ægagrus, and the ægagrus with the tame goat.

1789, William Coxe, Travels in Switzerland, volume II, pages 51–52:


quata

Acosta, in his History of the West Indies, relates the following anecdote of a quata which belonged to the Governor of Carthagena […]

1833, George Long, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 2, page 547:

To be sure the Quatas will, when they meet with a learned traveller, or any other strange animal, descend to the lower branches of their trees, to examine the phenomenon[…]

1837, The New Monthly Magazine, page 366:

The quatas, or large black spider monkeys, spent a good deal of their time in trying to open them by beating them against the branches of trees, or on hard logs upon the ground[…]

1876, Charles Barrington Brown, Canoe and camp life in British Guiana:


gentleman cow

One day he attempted to help out by leading a gentleman cow back to the ranch, a distance of about a mile.

1914, “Catering industry employee”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 23, page 44:


crinet

Probably from Middle French crin (“hair”) + -et.

His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak.

1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 555:

(historical) A set of metal armour plating worn around a horse's neck.


tundra wolf

Canis lupus albus
Canis lupus albus#Translingual

A subspecies of grey wolf, Canis lupus albus.


Weimaraner

/ˈvaɪməɹɑːnəɹ/

A breed of gun dog with an athletic build and short coat.


Holstein

From the animals' region of origin: the horses came from Schleswig-Holstein, the cows came from the area of Frisia and Holstein.

etymid

livestock breeds originated in Schleswig-Holstein

At the height of things, Bride Lake Farms had milked a herd of sixty-five registered Holsteins. Every other day, the Hood Dairy truck would pull up, pump nine thousand pounds of raw milk out of the tank, and drive it off for processing.

2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.5, at p.117

A breed of dairy cattle, distinctively colored in splotches of black and white.


kyloe

From Scottish Gaelic gaidhealach (“Gaelic, Highland”); see Gàidheal.

der

One of a breed of small Highland cattle.


boodie

However, the boodie, once common over much of southern Australia, is now only found in numbers on offshore islands on the mid-west coast. Boodies are sociable animals and since they dig burrows, considerable warrens can be formed.

1968, Vincent Serventy, Wildlife of Australia, page 34:

The bettongs live in moderately dry country and with the exception of the Boodie, which digs burrows, all make nests of grass on the ground.

1985, Australia's Amazing Wildlife, page 304:

The work on Boodie Island was the first attempt in Australia to eradicate black rats in the presence of a threatened, non-target mammal.[…]It is likely that as many as 200-300 boodies now inhabit the island.

2002, C. R. Veitch, Michael Norman Clout, editors, Turning the Tide: the Eradication of Invasive Species: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Eradication of Island Invasives, page 224:

(Australia) A species of bettong, Bettongia lesueur.


mouse lemur

Any of the nocturnal lemurs of the genus Microcebus native to Madagascar.


arson dog

Identifying 1/1000th of a drop of 50 percent evaporated gasoline is an easy task for a well-trained arson dog.

2006, Jenni Bidner, Dog Heroes: Saving Lives and Protecting America, page 98:

A dog trained to use its sense of smell to locate traces of accelerant at sites of a suspected arson.

放火犬

dog trained to locate traces of accelerant


detection dog

A specialized form of police dog; trained to use its sense of smell to detect and locate evidence of illicit substances, from illegal drugs to explosives materials, which may be carried on a person in their effects.


Finnhorse

A Finnish breed of horse with both riding and draught horse characteristics.


attack dog

Any dog bred, trained or used for the purpose of attacking a target, either on command or on sight; trained either as a specialized form of police dog or a security force dog.

hyökkäämään koulutettu koira

dog trained to protect or attack targets


rhebok

Borrowed from Afrikaans reebok (“rhebok”), from Dutch reebok (“roebuck”), from Middle Dutch reeboc. Doublet of roebuck.

A medium-sized, deerlike South African antelope, Pelea capreolus, having pale-gray, curly fur and straight horns.

rheeboc

given as alternative forms in Webster 1913


roan antelope

A savanna antelope, Hippotragus equinus, found in West, Central, East Africa and Southern Africa.


deergut

“The tradecraft of the modern-day special operator, parachuting into the Hindu Kush after the Taliban,” echoes “the efforts of men from a preindustrial community struggling through New England winters on hickory and deergut snowshoes,” Ross writes.

2009 June 28, Marc Tracy, “Nonfiction Chronicle”, in New York Times:

The gut of a deer, traditionally used as a material.


naked mole rat

A burrowing rodent (Heterocephalus glaber), native to parts of East Africa.


jelerang

(zoology, archaic) A large squirrel of Java and Southern Asia.


Prevost's squirrel

en-noun

Prevost's squirrel (plural Prevost's squirrels)

Named after Florent Prévost (1794–1870), French naturalist.

Callosciurus prevostii, a colourful Asian squirrel.


rabicano

A horse that is colored mostly red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or grey especially on the flanks.


hackee

The Hackee is one of the liveliest and briskest of quadrupeds, and by reason of its quick and rapid movements, has not inaptly been compared to the wren.

1865, John George Wood, The illustrated natural history: Volume 1, page 600:

The hackee, which is pedimanous, tried to climb the bole.

1894, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: Volume 21, Part 1:

(US, dialect) The chickaree or red squirrel.


chalk out

en-verb

chalk out (third-person singular simple present chalks out, present participle chalking out, simple past and past participle chalked out)

chalks out (present singular third-person)
chalking out (participle present)
chalked out (participle past)
chalked out (past)

A 25-1 shot won race 3, but the rest of the early pick 5 chalked out after that.

(US, intransitive, horse racing) In a multi-race wager, to lose to the favorite in all of the remaining races.


quenda

A short-nosed bandicoot found mostly in southern Australia, Isoodon obesulus.


cynomorph

A member of the obsolete taxonomic subgroup Cynomorpha, the dog-like apes.


cynomorphism

This should teach us to bear in mind that there is, affecting the dog's point of view, almost undoubtedly such a thing as cynomorphism, and that he has his peculiar and limited ideas of life and range of mental vision, and therefore perforce makes his artificial surroundings square with them.

1892 December, Louis Robinson, “Canine Morals and Manners”, in The Popular Science Monthly, page 177:

Without anthropomorphism on our part and cynomorphism on the dog's part, it is unlikely that dogs could have been successfully domesticated and eventually come to live in our homes and serve as companions and workmates.

2004, Stanley Coren, How Dogs Think: Understanding the Canine Mind, Free Press, →ISBN, page 290:

Finally, this definition implies the Razor-friendly dualism Nature/Culture, by using a two-way-only approach, from animals to humans and back (zoomorphism), without the pluralistic biosemiotic-friendly suggestion there might be, say, a cynomorphism or at least an icthyomorphism.

2008 December, Dario Martinelli, Kristian Bankov, “Bankov's Razor Versus Martinelli's Canon: A Confrontation Around Biosemiotics”, in Biosemiotics, volume 1, number 3, page 413:

(nonce word) The manner in which a dog sees the world, including the attribution of doglike characteristics to non-canine animals, especially humans.


mama bear

(informal) A female bear currently rearing one or more cubs.


stall handler

(horse racing) Someone responsible for manoeuvring the horse between the gates before the start of a race.

pousseur

someone responsible for manoeuvring the horse between the gates


kleenebok

Borrowed from Dutch kleene bok, obsolete form of kleine bok (“small buck, small antelope”).

A blue duiker a small, active antelope of South Africa (Philantomba monticola).


Corriedale

A sheep of a dual-purpose breed that is a cross between Merino and Lincoln sheep.


woylie

Woylies are sometimes referred to as brush-tailed rat kangaroos. This alternative name is an apt description of these small marsupials.

1996, Rees Barrett, Peter Dent, Place, Patter and Process, page 89:

It's a whodunit involving the woylie, the marsupial poster-child for recovery programs involving endangered animals.

2007, The Bulletin, numbers 6559-6566, page 27:

‘Like a woylie,’ said John Dell, ‘Closely related.’
Ah. Of course. Even I'd heard of the woylie. But like most of my countrymen, I couldn't have described one for love nor money.
The woylie belongs to the great treasury of marsupials that we revere and know nothing about. As I learnt that day, the boodie and the woylie are different species of bettong.

2009, Tim Winton, “Silent Country: Travels Through a Recovering Landscape”, in Robyn Davidson, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 16:

Bettongia penicillata
Bettongia penicillata#Translingual

(Australia) A species of bettong, Bettongia penicillata.


jowler

Never saw I bloodthirsty fierceness better depicted than in the muzzles o ' thae ferocious Jowlers

(Can we date this quote?), John Wilson (Scottish writer), “Noctes Ambrosianae”, in Blackwood's Magazine:

(archaic) A dog with large jowls, such as the beagle.


mariput

(zoology) A species of civet; Ictonyx striatus.


phocal

they wended their way westward to fields of blood and phocal carnage

1885, Gordon Stables, Wild Adventures round the Pole:


bearhound

"For his amusement John the Terrible used to order a number of people to be sewed up in bear-skins, and then torn to death by bear-hounds. For tearing prisoners to pieces he ordered the tops of several trees to be bent down so that they came together; the limbs of the unfortunate victim were fastened to these tops, each limb to a different tree. When they were thus tied up, the release of the trees performed the work intended by the cruel Czar."

1887, Thomas Wallace Knox, The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire, Chapter 11:

1918, Melville Davisson Post, Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries, Chapter 5text=There seemed no overt reason, old Clayborne said, but presently Dabney began to act like a man in fear. He made friends with the dog, a big old bearhound. He got a fowling piece and set it up by the head of his bed, and finally took the dog into the room with him at night. He kept out of the house by day.:

A dog used for bearbaiting or bear hunting.


wolfkin

Kite and kestrel, wolf and wolfkin, from the wilderness, wallow in it.


lionly

en-adj

lionly (comparative more lionly, superlative most lionly)

more lionly (comparative)
most lionly (superlative)

For although I ſaid before, that the Church coveting to ride upon the lionly form of Juriſdiction, makes a transformation of herſelf into an Aſs, and becomes deſpicable...

1738, John Milton, “The Reaſon of Church-Government Urg'd againſt Prelaty, Book II”, in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, London: A. Millar, →OL, page 66:

Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; […]

The destructive lionly skepticism burns all bridges to prior beliefs and presuppositions.

1994, George David Miller, An Idiosyncratic Ethics:

Lionly strength expresses independence of will and a restless wandering based in deep curiosity and intense perception.

Picture these lionly lovers jumping through romantic hoops, otherwise known as the initial courtship phase, and then a disagreement or difference of opinion occurs.

Resembling or characteristic of a lion, for example in fierceness.


kokoon

Mixed squads of kokoons and zebras are practising their wild gambols over the level plain, kicking, frolicking, butting, and pursuing each other with untiring perseverence

1845, John George Cochrane [editor], The Foreign Quarterly Review:


prad

Borrowed from Dutch paard (“horse”). Doublet of palfrey.

Horse Stealers, they go together always the Day before, to look over the Grounds for a good Prad or Prads […]

1754, John Poulter, The Discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter, Sherborne, page 39:

We had fixed our eye on a horse-dealer, and had some conversation with him about the purchase of a prad; but we could not agree, and parted, on account of a deeker, who was eyeing us closely, and I observed him speak to the jockey.

1821, David Haggart, The Life of David Haggart, written by himself while under sentence of death, London: W. and C. Tait, page 22:

'Just send somebody out to relieve my mate, will you, young man?' said the officer; 'he's in the gig, a-minding the prad. […]'

1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “chapter XXXI”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:

1893, Ernest Favenc, "Bunthorp's Decease" in Tales of the Austral Tropics, London: Osgood, MacIlvaine & Co., 1894, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600691h.html
"Not a bad sort of a prad that brown one," he remarked; "looks a little gone in the near fore-leg."

So smooth of face, so fine of eye, so much a beautiful part of his beautiful chestnut prad.

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 212:

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal, dated) A horse.


beaverskin

The hunter gave the merchant twenty beaverskins for a gun.

The soldier wore a beaverskin hat.


catskin

In the fable, the maiden had to find a catskin coat, a coat made of catskins.

the skin of a cat, or leather made therefrom


elkskin

en-noun

elkskin (countable and uncountable, plural elkskins)

The skin of an elk, or leather made from it.


sleuthhound

From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse slóð (“track”) + hound.

Sometimes he pursued the wily burn trout with relentless ferocity and the silent intentness of a sleuthhound. Often, however, he would pause and with his finger indicate some favourite stone to Winsome.

1894, S. R. Crockett, The Lilac Sunbonnet:

A working dog who tracks or pursues e.g. a wanted criminal; a bloodhound formerly used in Scotland.


sperm oil

sperm oil (countable and uncountable, plural sperm oils)

Whale oil that is extracted from a sperm whale.


mooseskin

These lodge poles were steadied by being lashed to a couple of cross poles whose arch conformed to the inner curve of the lodge. The covering was preferably made of mooseskins sewn together although caribouskins were used if the former were not available. Sometimes the upper part of the cover was of mooseskins while caribouskins were used for the sides.

1959, Yale University Publications in Anthropology, number 55, page 71:

The skin of a moose, or leather made therefrom.


delphinoid

From Latin delphinus (“a dolphin”) + -oid.

Any cetacean of the superfamily Delphinoidea


duck mole

Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus#Translingual

(rare) A platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus).


nagor

From French [Term?], said to have been named by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, from earlier nanguer; compare Nanger.

(archaic) The bohor reedbuck, Redunca redunca.


harbour porpoise

harbour porpoise (plural harbour porpoises)

Smaller than a human being at roughly 1.5m in length, the harbour porpoise is not easy to spot.

2019, James Proctor, Faroe Islands, 5th edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 7:

Phocoena phocoena
Phocoena phocoena#Translingual

A porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, that inhabits coastal areas and river estuaries.


bezantler

From Old or modern French bes-antlier, ultimately related to Latin bis (“twice”).


banxring

An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia


bunny wunny

(UK, childish or endearing) A bunny; a rabbit.


hippophile

I have not that vicious and demoralizing love of horse-flesh which makes it next to impossible to find a perfectly honest hippophile.

1887, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Our Hundred Days in Europe:

This book would not be a book for hippophiles without the oft-quoted adage 'no foot – no horse'.

2012, Paul McGreevy, Equine Behavior: A Guide for Veterinarians and Equine Scientists:


vespertilionine

(zoology) Any bat of the family Vespertilionidae or subfamily Vespertilioninae


spirit bear

靈熊 /灵熊

translations based on "spirit bear" — see also Kermode bear


coachdog

(dated) The Dalmatian (often used as a coach dog).


madoqua

(zoology, obsolete) A small Abyssinian antelope, Salt's dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana)


bull terrier

A medium-sized dog of a breed that is a cross between bulldog and terrier.


hogskin

hogskin (countable and uncountable, plural hogskins)

My spiritual backbone stiffened, and I held my head high, looking all men in the eyes. And I did these things, not that I was an egotist, not that I was impervious to the critical glances of my fellows, but because of a certain hogskin belt, plethoric and sweat-bewrinkled, which buckled next the skin above the hips.

1900, Jack London, The Dignity of Dollars:


hard-mouthed

en-adj

hard-mouthed (comparative more hard-mouthed, superlative most hard-mouthed)

more hard-mouthed (comparative)
most hard-mouthed (superlative)

a hard-mouthed horse

Not sensitive to the bit; not easily governed.

cruabhéalach

not sensible to the bit; not easily governed

a hard-mouthed woman


Ziegler's water rat

en-noun

Ziegler's water rat (plural Ziegler's water rats)

Hydromys ziegleri, a species of water rat native to the mountains of Papua New Guinea.


marikina

From the native name: compare mariquinha.

A small marmoset, the golden lion tamarin, Leontopithecus rosalia.


galagid

(zoology) Any galago in the family Galagidae.


ourebi

Alternative form of oribi (“type of antelope”) (Ourebia ourebi)


myomorph

(zoology) Any of the suborder Myomorpha of mouse-like rodents.


bosset

(zoology) A rudimentary antler of a young male deer.


delundung

(zoology) An East Indian carnivorous mammal, Prionodon linsang, having spots and resembling the civet, but without scent pouches.


kanchil

From the Wilkinson spelling of Malay kancil, kanchil.

A small, agile chevrotain of the genus Tragulus, especially Tragulus kanchil (lesser mouse-deer).


marsh deer

Like pampas deer, marsh deer occur only south of Amazonia.

1998, Valerius Geist, Deer of the World, page 117:

A large deer of the wetlands of South America, Blastocerus dichotomus.


pampas deer

Like many open-country ungulates, the pampas deer tends to explore the unusual

1998, Valerius Geist, Deer of the World, page 116:

A small South American deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus).


kevel

From English dialect kevil, cavel (“rod, pole, a large hammer”), from Middle English kevel, *kavel (“a large stonemason's hammer”), from Old Norse kefli, kafli n (“a cylinder, stick, piece of wood”) and Old Norse kefli, kafli m (“a piece cut off, buoy, piece”). Compare Icelandic kefli (“cylinder, a stick, mangle”), and Danish kievle (“a roller”).


mousekin

“Frisk about, pretty little mousekin,” says grey Grimalkin, purring in the corner, and keeping watch with her green eyes.

1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:

Dufleur blinked at the stuffed oblong bit of gray cloth that had originally been a mousekin for Fairyfoot. The ears and tail were all gone. The fabric was nubby and snagged, with a couple of bits gone, showing the padding.


warine

Anglicization of French ouarine, a misreading of ouariue (i.e. ouarive), ultimately from the same source as guariba.

A guariba: a South American monkey (sapajou).


oryctere

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρυκτήρ (oruktḗr, “miner”).


Sealyham terrier

en-noun

Sealyham terrier (plural Sealyham terriers)


simious

en-adj

simious (comparative more simious, superlative most simious)

more simious (comparative)
most simious (superlative)

that strange simious, schoolboy passion of giving pain to others


bearing rein

Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it.

[1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 105:


Manx cat

A domestic cat of a breed that is native to the Isle of Man, principally characterized by suppression of the tail, and with a short-haired coat and a medium-sized, rounded, cobby body.


filander

(obsolete) A pademelon (Thylogale spp.).


wishtonwish

From a Native American word which was an onomatopoeic representation of the animals' cry.

On the twenty fourth of October, while on a short excursion from this place, Lt. Pike and Dr. Robertson, (a gentleman who accompanied the expedition,) killed some prairie squirrels, or wishtonwishes, and nine rattle snakes, […]

1812 April, “Pike's Expedition”, in The General Repository and Review, volume 1, page 398:

[…] who, it turned out, devoted all his spending money to them, asked me if I had ever seen a "wishtonwish."

1937, James Thurber, Let Your Mind Alone, page 189:

(US, obsolete, except perhaps in dialects) The prairie dog.


vansire

Borrowed from French vansire, from Malagasy vontsira.

(zoology) An ichneumon, Atilax paludinosus (syn. Herpestes galera), native to Africa and Madagascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white.


croupade

A leap in which the horse pulls its hind legs up towards the belly.


water mouse

From Middle English water mous, watermowse, equivalent to water + mouse.

(zoology) Any of several species of rodents of the genus Hydromys, native to New Guinea and Australia, with strong hind legs and partially webbed toes.


Caspian tiger

Panthera tigris tigris
Panthera tigris tigris#Translingual

An extinct race of Panthera tigris tigris, that had been recorded in the wild until the early 1970s, and formerly inhabited the sparse forest habitats and riverine corridors west and south of the Caspian Sea, from Turkey, Iran and west through Central Asia into the Taklamakan Desert of Xinjiang, China.


lionel

From Old French [Term?], diminutive of lion.


tapiroid

Any of the superfamily Tapiroidea of perissodactyls.


Chantilly

From French Chantilly, from Medieval Latin Chantileium, ultimately from Gallo-Roman personal name in Latin Cantilius.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.


oxshoe

(historical) A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron that is nailed to the hoof.


service dog

A spinal cord injury will confine him to a wheelchair for life. . . . He has a service dog and lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment, although there are relatives nearby.

2007 April 18, Rita Healy, “Echoes of Columbine”, in Time:

Reggie was a “release” from Guiding Eyes; he kept leading his trainers into light poles, so he was deemed temperamentally unsuited to be a service dog.

2011 June 11, Robin Finn, “Sunday Routine: Jessica Walter”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-12-05:

activities of daily living
activities of daily living

post-traumatic stress disorder
post-traumatic stress disorder

A dog that serves humans by helping them with activities of daily living, with search and rescue, or with other (non-draft and non-farming) tasks.

A dog that assists a person who has a physical disability or has a mental disability such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

gos d'assistència

dog that assists a handicapped person or an official


tupaiid

Some authors rank tupaiids in a separate order Tupaioidea (Martin, 1966), while others retain them among the Primates (Napier and Napier, 1967) or 1nsectivora (Hill, 1953b).
The uncertainty surrounding tupaiid phylogeny is a consequence of an inadequate fossil record.

1987, F. A. Jenkins, Jr., “1: Tree Shrew Locomotion and the Origins of Primate Arborealism”, in John G. Fleagle, editor, Primate Evolution and Human Origins, page 2:

Dental characters have proven to be of little use as there is no Paleocene tree shrew, which would show more primitive tupaiid dental characters. From the dentition of living tupaiids, one would easily infer that all of them have derived characters that prevent them from being ancestral to primates, among which [are] specializations in their dentitions or molar characters in tupaiines (see Butler, 1980).

2007, Marc Godinot, “Chapter 4: Primate Origins: A Reappraisal of Historical Data Favoring Tupaiid Affinities”, in Matthew J. Ravosa, Marian Dagosto, editors, Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution, page 120:

Figure 12.16 A typical tupaiid. This common treeshrew (Tupaia glis) superficially resembles a squirrel. Tupaiids have had a confused taxonomic history—at various times being placed in the Orders Primates and Insectivora, and currently within their own order, Scandentia.

2007, George A. Feldhamer, Lee C. Drickamer, Stephen H. Vessey, Joseph F. Merritt, Carey Krajewski, Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology, 3rd edition, page 252:

(zoology) Any of the family Tupaiidae of tree shrews.


lap dog

A lady loses her muff, her fan, or her lap-dog, and so the silly poet runs home to versify the disaster.

1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], chapter XVII, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:

There might ye ſee the pioney ſpread vvide, / The full-blovvn roſe, the ſhepherd and his laſs, / Lap-dog and lambkin vvith black ſtaring eyes, / And parrots vvith tvvin cherries in their beak.

1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 3:

Frau von Greifenstein had seated herself in a straw chair with her parasol, her fan and her lap-dog, a little toy terrier which was always suffering from some new and unheard-of nervous complaint.

1889, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 4, in Greifenstein:

Steffi is a tricolor King Charles spaniel, an archetypal lap dog and love sponge, barely a foot high and no more than 10 pounds.

2007 December 1, Harry Hurt III, “Proof That Overscheduled Modern Life Isn’t Fit for a Dog”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-12-05:

A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner.

gos falder

small dog suited to resting in its master's lap


guevi

(zoology) Any pygmy antelope of the genus Cephalophus, the duikers, of Africa.


molossine

The monk bat is a molossine.

(zoology, dated) A bat of the genus Molossus.


seaswine

From sea + swine. Compare Middle English brunswin (“porpoise”).

The seaswine are almost always seen in troops, especially in their sexual season, which is in the month of August.

1828, John Davidson Godman, American natural history:


dermopteran

(mammalogy) Any mammal in the order Dermoptera, a colugo.


ouarine

From French ouarine (which see for more), from the same source as English guariba.


buckstall

Our ambushed troops, like cataracts falling into a torrent, joined the vanguard, and as fishes in a net or deer in a buckstall, the enemies were surrounded, closed, hemmed in.

1867, Georgiana Fullerton, A Stormy Life: A Novel:


whittret

(archaic) Alternative spelling of whitret (“weasel”)


porket

Adorned in white, a reverend priest appears, / And offerings to the flaming altars bears— ; / A porket, and a lamb that never suffered shears.

1697, Virgil, “The Twelfth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

[…] his yards abound with poultry, and his fields with flocks and herds of kids, lambs, and porkets.

1838, William Howitt, The Rural Life of England:


thornhog

From Middle English thornhog, equivalent to thorn + hog.


trundletail

15th century, Juliana Berners, Hawking, Hunting, Fouling and Fishing, London: Adam Islip, 1596, “The names of diuers Hounds,”
[…] Trindle tailes, and pricke eared Curres, and small Ladie Puppies, that beare away the fleas and diuers small faults.

Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim,
Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,
Bobtail tyke or trundle-tail—
Tom will make them weep and wail;
For, with throwing thus my head,
Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:

Doe you sneere, you dogs-head, you Trendle tayle!

1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, page 26:

[…] what did you take me to be? […] a Woodcock amongst birds, […] amongst Cu[r]s a trindle tale,

a. 1639, John Webster, Appius and Virginia, published 1654, Act III, Scene 1:

(obsolete) A dog with a rounded, curled-up tail.


thiller

, And apron, and scissars for head and for tail,
Whole bridle and saddle, whitleather, and nall,
With collars and harness, for thiller and all[…]

1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:

The horse that goes between the thills, or shafts of a carriage, and supports them.


scug

Scottish and Northern English from Old Norse skuggi, from Proto-Germanic *skuwwô (“shadow, reflection”). Cognate with Icelandic skuggi, Swedish skugga, Danish skygge, Old English sċūa, sċūwa (“a shade”).

der

(Northern England, Scotland) Shade, shadow.

"Let's go scug-hunting" is a common phrase. […] a stick with a leaden head, used for knocking down birds and scugs (squirrels).

1883, Alfred Easther, A Glossary of the Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield, page 78:


scug

en-verb

scug (third-person singular simple present scugs, present participle scugging, simple past and past participle scugged)

scugs (present singular third-person)
scugging (participle present)
scugged (participle past)
scugged (past)

(Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To shelter; to protect.

(Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To hide; to take shelter.


flindermouse

From flinder (“moth, butterfly”) + mouse. Compare Dutch vlinder (“butterfly”). Compare also flittermouse, flinder.


African wild dog

en-noun

African wild dog (plural African wild dogs)

Lycaon pictus
Lycaon pictus#Translingual


painted wolf

Calque of New Latin Lycaon pictus, its taxonomic name.


Duroc

Early 19th century, from the name of a stallion said to have been bought by the breeder, Isaac Frinck, on the same day as the pigs from which he developed the breed.

A pig of a reddish breed developed in North America.


ahu

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

The goitered gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa.


ahu

On Rapa Nui, a stone platform on which moai (statues) were erected.


leamer

From French limier, from Old French liemier, from Latin ligamen (“band, bandage”). See lien.


didelphid

(zoology) A member of Didelphidae; opossum


megaceros

New Latin, from Ancient Greek, meaning "great horn".


maikong

The Maikong (Canis cancrivorus) is a crab-eating fox-wolf, found in Guiana, where it runs in small packs.

1891, James William Buel, The Living World:

The Crab-Eating Wolf, Canis cancrivorus, or Maikong, is a slender, long-legged, jackal-like animal, with a short, broad, blunt-nosed head, rounded ears of moderate size, placed wide apart, oblique eyes with oblong pupils, and a tail nearly touching the ground.

1897, Hugh Craig, The Animal Kingdom, page 254:

What is one to think of a theory which does not allow the fox to pass as an ancestor of the dog, when in our own day South American Indians tame the Maikong jackal-fox into a domestic animal much resembling a dog?

1959, Richard Katz, Solitary Life, page 43:

Those licking their stamps are thus confronted with a (according to experts) Malaysian bearded swine instead of a wild boar, and exotic white-winged woodpecker and not the great spotted woodpecker, an Indian four-horn antilope instead of a deer and not a fox but a maikong from Central and South America.

2004, Aad Krol, Timo de Rijk, editors, Yearbook Dutch Design 03/04:

Cerdocyon thous
Cerdocyon thous#Translingual

(rare) Synonym of crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous)


leviner

(obsolete) A type of dog, apparently related to the greyhound and noted for its speed.


tenderling

Now […] have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses.

1586, William Harrison, The Description of England:

(archaic) One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.

(zoology) One of the first antlers of a deer.


kalasie

A long-tailed monkey, Presbytis rubicundus, native to Borneo.


tamanoir

From French tamanoir, a variant representation of the same Tupian word as tamandua. Doublet of tamandua.


beeve

Back-formation from beeves, plural of beef.

They would knock down the first beeve they met with.

1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington:


tuscor

(obsolete) a tush (canine tooth) of a horse.


hair seal

Any of various seals which have coarse hair rather than fur

especially the true seals or earless seals of family Phocidae.


yakin

Budorcas taxicolor
Budorcas taxicolor#Translingual

A large Himalayan antelope, Budorcas taxicolor


warrah

From Guaraní aguará (“fox”), via Spanish guará.

A few still live on the remote coasts of Tierra del Fuego, and though warrahs and gauchos vanished from the Falklands soon after Darwin's visit, striated caracaras still cling to life on the archipelago's outer islands, where they hunt and scavenge in colonies of penguins, seals, and albatrosses.

2021, Jonathan Meiburg, A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey, Vintage, →ISBN, page 8:

Falkland Islands wolf
Falkland Islands wolf

Dusicyon australis
Dusicyon australis#Translingual

A Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis), a canid that became extinct in 1876.


porkling

And serue thee in winter, more ouer than that,
to shut vp thy porklings thou mindest to fat


apery

apery (countable and uncountable, plural aperies)

If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.

1862 August – 1863 March, Charles Kingsley, chapter IV, in The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, London, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., published 1863, →OCLC, page 156:

Every object, whether the growth of nature or the work of man, was neat and artificial. It pleased me far better, than if the houses and gardens, and pleasure fields, had been in a nobler taste: for this nobler taste would have been mere apery.

1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “[Satyrane’s Letters.] Letter III.”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume II, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, page 236:


mulley

Streamlined for action thin, flat and long, it mouth armed with two broad lines of sharp teeth – the mulley is all that it is said to be, a "fresh water shark", an eater of offal and a killer of fish.

1956, The March of India - Volume 8, page 15:

A closer look revealed a more silvery colouration and proper teeth, identifying it as a mulley (Wallagu attu). It weighed around twenty pounds, and to prove it was no fluke, I caught three smaller.

I was overwhelmed with mixed feelings of triumph and sorrow I must admit, as I watched the Mulley come swimming along reluctantly, a beautiful, sleek supple black-seeming fish.

2013, Simren Kaur, Fin Feather and Field, page 134:

A giant Asian catfish, Wallagonia Attu found in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Indochina, Thailand, Java, and Sumatra.


zandmole

From Dutch zandmol, from zand (“sand”) + mol (“mole”).

The sand mole or coast rat (Bathyergus suillus)


coast rat

(zoology) A small South African mammal (Bathyergus suillus), that builds extensive burrows.


sewel

From Early Middle English sheueles (“scarecrow”) [and other forms]; probably from Old English *scīewels, from sċīen (“to be frightened or startled; to recoil in fear”) (from Proto-West Germanic *skiuhijan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“frightened; bashful, coy, shy, timid; cautious, reserved”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, *skūbʰ- (“to drive, move forward, push”) or *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to hide”)) + -els (suffix forming masculine nouns). Doublet of shy.
Cognates
* Middle English asheuelen, asheulen (verb)
* Middle Low German schūwelse
* Middle High German schiusel, schusel (modern German Scheusal (“beast; monster”))
* Old High German sciuhen (Middle High German schiuhen, schiuwen, German scheuen (“to scare”))

nb...

schawles, scheules, shaules, sheules, shewelys, shueles

inh

Their sewels are made by tying a tassel of birch rind , formed like the wing of a paper kite , to the small end of a slight stick , about six feet in length. These sticks are pricked into the ground about ten or a dozen yards apart

1768, John Cartwright, Remarks on the Situation of the Aborigines of Newfoundland …:

A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place.


petauristid

(zoology) Any member of the genus Petaurista, including some flying squirrels.


phalangerid

Orbital orientation in the slow-moving phalangerid Phalanger maculatus is more primate-like than in other phalangerids, including Pseudocheirus lemuroides, one of the most acrobatic of arboreal marsupials.

1972, Matt Cartmill, “4: Arboreal Adaptations and the Origin of Order Primates”, in Russell Tuttle, editor, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, published 2009, page 112:

One of these species, Phalanger gymnotis (ground cuscus), is reported to be the most frugivorous of the eight New Guinean phalangerid species, and is perhaps the most frugivorous of all phalangerids.

1999, Ian D. Hume, Marsupial Nutrition, page 202:

Phalangerids are predominantly herbivorous, and some prefer leaves, whereas others eat more fruit, flowers, or grasses.

2010, Peter S. Ungar, Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity, page 139:

(zoology) Any of the nocturnal marsupials of family Phalangeridae, which includes cuscuses and brushtail possums.


sea hog

"[O]ne would have judged from its motley hues, exhibiting the consistence and appearance of variegated fancy soap, that it was the flesh of the porpoise or sea-hog, and had been an inhabitant of the ocean rather than of the stye."

1890, Willis J. Abbot, chapter 24, in The Naval History of the United States, volume 1:

The story of the transformation of the mariners is supposed by Bochart to have been founded on the adventure of certain merchants from the coast of Etruria, whose vessel had the figure of a dolphin at the prow, or rather of the fish called ‘tursio,’ probably the porpoise, or sea-hog.

1899, Henry Thomas Riley (translator), Ovid (author), The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Book 3, Fable 8 (translator's explanation)


dinmont

(Scotland) A wether sheep between one and two years old.


physeter

(zoology) A member of the genus Physeter; a sperm whale.


hemionus

[…] the ass seldom has stripes on its legs and the hemionus has none and has not even a shoulder-stripe, […]

1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Laws of Variation”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 165:


Dandie Dinmont

Named after a character in Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott.

A terrier of a small Scottish breed with long body, short legs, and a distinctive "topknot" of hair on the head.


noctilionid

(zoology) A South American bat of the genus Noctilio, with cheek pouches and large incisor teeth; a bulldog bat.


peba

Compare Portuguese peba. Ultimately from Old Tupi peba (“having a flattened shape”).

uder

Dasypus novemcinctus
Dasypus novemcinctus#Translingual

An armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) found from Texas to Paraguay; the tatouhou.


moo-cow

Compare German Muhkuh and Italian mucca.

At the end of the line nearest the Arch, under a flary light, stood an old bearded man having the look on his face of a kindly but somewhat irritated moo-cow.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo[…]

1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:


oncilla

Borrowed from Spanish oncilla, diminutive of onza (“snow leopard”).

Leopardus tigrinus
Leopardus tigrinus#Translingual

a small spotted felid, of species Leopardus tigrinus, found in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America.


spine pig

From spine + pig, literal translation of porcupine.

Hares are fairly common, so also is the fretful porcupine, who, if he finds his way into your kitchen-garden, will play havoc with your pet vegetables. He is accounted delicate eating, this 'spine pig,' as the natives call him; [...]

1884, James Hogg, Florence Marryat, London society:

"Spine-swine (the edgehog misnamed hedgehog)," echidna, echinoderm, rhino, the spine pig or porcupine — "everything is battle-dressed"; [...]

1953, Randall Jarrell, Poetry and the age:

Spine pig, spine pig, say me true, how your flesh befits a you so articulate in joint as to sharpen to your point. I've kept dogs ten thousand days; dodge my fears and play my joys out there in the forest's maze, [...]


ichneumia

white-tailed mongoose
white-tailed mongoose

The white-tailed mongoose of genus Ichneumia.


hoolock

→ Translingual: Hoolock

Borrowed from Assamese হলৌ (holou) or a kindred Eastern Indo-Aryan language.

A large gibbon, either of three primate species Hoolock hoolock, Hoolock leuconedys, or Hoolock tianxing from the family Hylobatidae.


balisaur

A badger-like animal of India, Arctonyx collaris, the sand bear.


halicore

From Late Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “sea”) + κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).

I constitute the fourth order or stem of mammalia out of the suborders of Whales, Dolphins, Halicores, Seals, and Carnivoræ […]

1849, Johann Jacob Kaup, Monograph of the Falconidæ:

[…]the dugong or halicore, of which the distribution is rather widespread, from the Red Sea and East African coasts to the west coast of Australia.

1884, Robert Armitage Sterndale, Natural history of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon, page 268:


skullfish

(nautical, whaling, obsolete) A whale more than two years old.


sea pig

A sea cucumber in the genus Scotoplanes.


lucern

Probably adapted from obsolete German lüchsern (“pertaining to the lynx”, adjective) (attested 1600s), as applied to the fur or skin of the lynx, from Luchs (“lynx”).

der

The pole-cat, martern, and the rich-skin'd lucern / I know to chase.

c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii:

(obsolete) The lynx, viewed as an animal hunted for its fur or skin.


taguan

From the native name in the East Indies.


bloodstick

1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
A bloodstick - a piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead — is used to strike the fleam into the vein

(farriery) A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, used to strike the fleam into the vein.


mygale

Wikispecies
Borrowed from Late Latin mygale (“field mouse”) (Vetus Latina), from Ancient Greek μυγαλέη (mugaléē, “shrew”) (used in the Septuagint to translate Hebrew אֲנָקָה, now generally thought to indicate a gecko or similar small reptile).

The Mygales are the most interesting creatures, and are called Mason spiders because they build their own houses in a very remarkable manner.

1865, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, editor, Once A Week, volume XII:

Any of the former genus Mygale of large, hairy trapdoor spiders with four lungs and four spinnerets, now distributed in Mygalomorphae.


butteris

Related to buttress (noun). From French bouter (“to push”).

(farriery) A cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the operator's shoulder, used in paring the hoofs of horses.


lar gibbon

A primate in the Hylobatidae family, Hylobates lar, with black or brown fur and white hands and feet.


white-handed gibbon

en-noun

white-handed gibbon (plural white-handed gibbons)


beaverling

The wife stumbled into the water, and as soon as her loot was wet, she immediately resumed her old shape as a beaver, her son became a beaverling, and the brooklet, changing to a roaring river, bore them to the lake.

(diminutive) A small, young, or juvenile beaver.


bearling

From Middle English berling, equivalent to bear + -ling.

While waiting at the inn up drove a Pau acquaintance in the person of the Marquis de Cherizet, out of whose pony-carriage was lifted a square box, which proved to contain a poor little bearling of about a month old, whose mother had been shot, and itself captured, […]

1871, “May-Day among the Mules”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round:

(diminutive) A small, young, or juvenile bear.


giraffid

An animal of the family Giraffidae (such as the giraffe and okapi).


rubican

There are other mixt kind of colours, such as the Rubican; which is when a black or sorrel Horse hath white Hairs here and there scattered upon his Body, but especially upon his Flanks.

1729, Jacques de Solleysel, translated by William Hope, The Compleat Horseman: or, Perfect Farrier, page 65:

The grayish and the flea-bitten differ from the rubican, in that the white hairs which form these markings are sufficiently numerous to change, locally, the nature of the base of the coat.

1904, Armand Goubaux, Gustave Barrier, translated by Simon J.J. Harger, The Exterior of the Horse, page 788:

When both parents are brown, foals may be of any colour, also gray if one parent is rubican. The majority of foals, however, will likewise be brown.

1909, Burchard von Oettingen, Horse Breeding in Theory and Practice, page 331:

(rare, of a horse) Colored mostly red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or grey especially on the flanks.


dolphinet

The lyon chose his mate, the turtle dove / Her deare, the dolphin his owne dolphinet

1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


meminna

Indian spotted chevrotain
Indian spotted chevrotain

(archaic) Any spotted chevrotain of genus Moschiola, especially the Indian spotted chevrotain (Moschiola indica)


falcade

From French falcade, ultimately from Latin falx, falcis (“a sickle or scythe”).

let him make two or three Falcades or Times , to firm his Haunches the better, and to turn with the better Grace.

1717, Jacques de Solleysel, The Compleat Horseman:

A horse's movement of throwing itself on its haunches two or three times, bending in very quick curvets.


chinchillid

Chinchillids like Eoviscaccia are not yet strongly adapted to the cooler climates found in either high altitudes or southerly altitudes.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 66:

(zoology) Any rodent in the family Chinchillidae.


cat litter

Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet cats.

貓砂 /猫砂

material used to create a soiling area for cats — see also litter


algazel

Borrowed from Arabic الغَزَال (al-ḡazāl)

(obsolete) A gazelle, probably the Arabian gazelle.


cervicide

Latin cervus (“deer”) + -cide, from the combining form of the Latin verb caedō (“I kill”).


zeuglodont

(zoology) Any of the family †Basilosauridae of extinct cetaceans, formerly under the taxonomically invalid name Zeuglodontidae.


scatch

From French escache, from Italian scaccia.


anticor

From anti- + Latin cor (“heart”); compare French anticœur.

(obsolete, equestrianism) A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.


bathorse

From French bat (“packsaddle”) (compare cheval de bat (“packhorse”)) + English horse. See bastard and batman.

1857 Washington Irving, Life Of George Washington Vol IV
About ten o’clock the wagons and bat horses laden with Indian corn were returning, covered by a party of infantry, with Tarleton and his dragoons as a rear-guard.

(obsolete) A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign


latration

From Latin lātrātio, from lātrāre (“to bark”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”). Equivalent to latrate + -ion.

If a dog bite a pig, the narrative teems with ‘virus’, the ‘rabid animal’, and the ‘latration’ of the patient

1828, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 23, page 194:

But for this barrier, the theological Cerberus would find himself turning so few passengers from its gate, that he would soon, himself, weary of his wearisome latrations.

What then must have been the effect upon the eminent philologist of the midnight latrations of Fernando Wood's yellow dog?

1925, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Notes and anecdotes of many years, page 75:

And rather a latration of yaps and yowls as a harum-scarum of dogs swept past.

(now rare) Barking, an instance of barking.


earthwolf

Calque of Afrikaans aardwolf, equivalent to earth + wolf.


unbit

en-verb

unbit (third-person singular simple present unbits, present participle unbitting, simple past and past participle unbitted)

unbits (present singular third-person)
unbitting (participle present)
unbitted (participle past)
unbitted (past)

(equestrianism, transitive) to remove the bit from (a horse's mouth)


gourdy

en-adj

gourdy (comparative more gourdy, superlative most gourdy)

more gourdy (comparative)
most gourdy (superlative)

Either from gourd, or less likely from French gourd (“benumbed”).

(farriery, of a horse, obsolete) Having swollen legs


sengi

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
Borrowed from Kongo sengi, senki, from French cinq (“five”) (in the sense of five sous). Doublet of cinque, five, pimp, ponzu, and punch.

doublet

(historical) A former (1967–1993) monetary unit of Zaire, one hundredth of a likuta, and one ten-thousandth of a zaire; it was issued only in ten sengi coins.


ursal

One of these, the Ursal, an inhabitant of the shores of the North Pacific Ocean, […]

1844, William Benjamin Carpenter, in the Popular Cyclopaedia of Natural Science, Zoology, volume 1, page 233

The Ursal (Ph. ursina, Gm. [Arctocephalus ursinus, F. Cuv. fig. 40.]—Eight feel long, no mane, varying from brown to whitish. From the north of the Pacific Ocean.

1851, Georges Cuvier (baron), Edward Blyth, Robert Mudie, George Johnston, John Obadiah Westwood, William Benjamin Carpenter, The animal kingdom: arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy, page 100

ARCTOCEPHALUS URSINUS. The Ursal; a species of Seal, from the north of the Pacific Ocean.

1852, Samuel Maunder, The Treasury of Natural History, or a Popular Dictionary of Animated Nature, page 34:

The sea-lions (Phoca jubata), the sea-bears (ursal seal), the shags (commorants), and penguins seemed to live in harmony, […]

1883, The Shipwrecked Mariner, page 254:

Callorhinus ursinus
Callorhinus ursinus#Translingual

(rare, archaic) The ursine seal or sea bear, better known as the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus.


wistiti

From French ouistiti, imitative of the animal's cry.

(dated) A marmoset, principally in family Callitrichidae.


Indian rhinoceros

en-noun

Indian rhinoceros (plural Indian rhinoceros or Indian rhinoceroses or Indian rhinocerotes)

Indian rhinoceros (plural)
Indian rhinoceroses (plural)
Indian rhinocerotes (plural)

Rhinoceros unicornis
Rhinoceros unicornis#Translingual

A rhinoceros of species Rhinoceros unicornis, in the family Rhinocerotidae.


Sumatran rhinoceros

Sumatran rhinoceros (plural Sumatran rhinoceros or Sumatran rhinoceroses)

Sumatran rhinoceros (plural)
Sumatran rhinoceroses (plural)

Dicerorhinus sumatrensis
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis#Translingual

A rhinoceros of species Dicerorhinus sumatrensis (family Rhinocerotidae).


delphin

(organic chemistry) A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise.


blesmol

From Afrikaans blesmol, from bles (“blaze (fleck of colour on animal coat)”) + mol (“mole”). Compare blesbok.

Any mole-rat in the family Bathyergidae.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon
blesmol


chrysochlore

From chryso- + Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”). compare French chrysochlore.


hominine

en-adj

hominine (comparative more hominine, superlative most hominine)

more hominine (comparative)
most hominine (superlative)

Of or relating to the Homininae, a subfamily of Hominidae that includes humans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and some extinct relatives.


hominine

To judge from its sinuses, Hispanopithecus crusafonti is the earliest known hominine (the group including all great apes except orangs).

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 115:


bharal

On the way we disturbed the peace of three bharals and the female of a snow-cock ; the latter, with her brood hardly a week old, rose almost from my feet as I clambered round a rock tower.

1955, The Alpine Journal, volume 60, page 262:

In appearance, the bharal resembles both a sheep and a goat. Its horns are smooth, rounded and form a curve backwards over the neck. The fur is brownish grey in colour which attains a slaty grey hue in winter and becomes browner in summer. In Kumaun the bharal is found in the desolate tracts of northern Pithoragarh, usually on the slopes of the main Himalayan range where it lives between the timberline and the snowline.

1993, Sharad Singh Negi, Kumaun: The Land and the People, page 106:

1997, A. David, Shivakumar, Animal World, page 52,
The bharal or the Blue Sheep also is a Tibetan animal found in Ladakh, Sikkim and Nepal. It is about 90 cm. high. The bharal is brownish-grey in colour, tinted with slaty-blue, more brown in summer and more slaty-blue in winter.

2013, Q. Ashton Acton (general editor), Advances in Conservation Research and Application, 2013 Edition, page 142,
Among the wild prey, bharal (blue sheep/naur) Pseudois nayaur was by far the most common species (92%).

A blue sheep, being any species of the genus Pseudois, goatlike bovids of the Himalayas and western China with a bluish-grey coat; Himalayan blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur).


phyllostomid

As I mentioned previously, pteropodid bats have been much less studied than phyllostomids

1988, Theodore H. Fleming, The Short-Tailed Fruit Bat:

Any bat of the family Phyllostomidae, having large, lance-shaped noses; a leaf-nosed bat.


Clumber spaniel

en-noun

Clumber spaniel (plural Clumber spaniels)

Named from the estate of the Duke of Newcastle.

A spaniel of a British breed, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.


buansuah

The wild dog of northern India and Nepal (Cuon primaevus, now Cuon alpinus); the dhole.


elaphure

Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), a Chinese deer with unusual antlers.


toxodont

(zoology) Any of the †Toxodontia, an extinct notoungulate suborder of Mammalia with long curved incisors, found in the South American Tertiary formation.


paseng

Capra aegagrus
Capra aegagrus#Translingual


Skye terrier

The purest dogs of the breed were once found on the Isle of Skye.


gayal

From Bengali গয়াল (goẏal), from Sanskrit गौर (gāŭra) or Sanskrit गौः (gāŭra). Compare gaur.

Bos frontalis, a Southern Asiatic species of domestic cattle.


countermark

(farriery) An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.


fence month

Merfis vetitus, fence month, or defence month

1644, Edw[ard] Coke, The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for W[illiam] Lee, and D[aniel] Pakeman, →OCLC:

(colloquial, dated) The month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited.


oblatration

From Latin oblātrātio, from oblātrāre (“to bark at, to rail against”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”), from ob- (“ob-: against, at”) + lātrāre (“to bark, to rant”). Equivalent to ob- + latration.

February 18 1629, Bishop Joseph Hall, Salvation from an Untoward Generation
The Apostle fears none of these currish oblatrations...

He that feareth oblatration must not travel.

1661, John Stephens, An Historical Discourse..., Prol.

1867, William Gifford (of Leith), Memorials of the life and work of the Rev. William Johnston
You were never a very hot Voluntary, even when some, who are now among the dumb dogs that cannot or will not bark, were keeping up a most violent oblatration...

(obsolete) The act of barking at someone or something; (figuratively) the act of ranting at someone or something; an instance of these.


mercat

December 22 1678, Thomas Sprat, A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall
With irresistible majesty and authority our Saviour removed the exchange, and drove the mercat out of the temple.


blacktail

A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon.

Certain fish with black tails:
(UK) Salmo trutta

Certain fish with black tails:
Salmo trutta

Certain fish with black tails:
(Jamaica) Haemulon carbonarium

Certain fish with black tails:
Haemulon carbonarium


river horse

Calque of Ancient Greek ἱπποπόταμος (hippopótamos), equivalent to river + horse. Compare Middle English water hors (“hippopotamus”).

cog

The river-horse feeds upon the herbage of the Nile, and the behemoth is said to eat grass like an ox.

1808, Thomas Shaw, Travels Or Observations:

Liverpool started and snorted like a river-horse roused amongst his reeds by thunder.

1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “The Winding-up”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 303:

It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Loomings”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 4:

Here, before a feast that would prick the dead with appetite, were shapes of beasts with heads of men, asses, elephants, bulls, horses, swine, foxes, riverhorses, dromedaries; […]

1909, George Meredith, The Palace of Aklis:


chipping squirrel

en-noun

chipping squirrel (plural chipping squirrels)


lemurid

(zoology) Any lemur in the family Lemuridae.


ornithorhynchus

/ˌɔː(ɹ)nɪθəˈɹɪŋkəs/

From translingual Ornithorhynchus (genus name).


musteline

en-adj

musteline (comparative more musteline, superlative most musteline)

more musteline (comparative)
most musteline (superlative)

From the Latin mūstēlīnus, from mūstēla (“weasel”), from mūs (“mouse”, “rat”).

(zoology) Like or relating to the family Mustelidae, or the weasels and martens.


musteline

(zoology) Any member of the family Mustelidae.

More specifically, any member of the mustelid subfamily Mustelinae.


encoubert

From French encoubert, from Portuguese encorberto, encuberto (“covered”).

One of several species of armadillo of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, with five toes on both the fore and the hind feet.


squalodont

In squalodonts, the maxillae extend posteriorly over the parietals to reach the exoccipitals in adult specimens.

2002, A. Rus Hoelzel, Marine Mammal Biology:

(zoology) Any of the extinct genus Squalodon of whales.


countertime

en-noun

countertime (countable and uncountable, plural countertimes)

From counter- + time. Compare contretemps.

(equestrianism, obsolete) The resistance of a horse that interrupts its cadence and the measure of its manège, caused by bad horsemanship or the bad temper of the horse.


catchweight

They'll break from the gate in full tack with jockeys riding catchweight in silks.

1976 December 3, “Oldtimers race is well received”, in El Paso Herald-Post:

to ride catchweight

(horse racing) Without any weight restrictions; without being handicapped.


air jacket

1765, George Alexander Stevens, The Celebrated Lecture on Heads, London: R. Richards, Part 3, p. 16,
[…] our army all should wear a new uniform; all our horse infantry should wear air jackets, and all our foot cavalry should wear cork waistcoats; and then ye know why they’d be all over the sea before you could say Jack Robinson.

Anna Sparks shrugged into her air jacket and slipped her bib over the top of it. There was a time when she'd have felt invincible in the lead-up to the cross-country, especially if she'd posted a personal best of 40.3 to lie third behind David Powell and Sam Tide after the dressage, but today nerves roared through her system like ocean waves, building and crashing.

2014, Lauren St John, The One Dollar Horse:

If a competitor chooses to wear an inflatable air jacket during the cross country phase it must be placed over the top of a body protector, whereas in the other phases/other disciplines the air jacket can be worn without a body protector.

2017, Guy N. Rutty, Essentials of Autopsy Practice, page 94:

(equestrianism) An inflatable vest worn to cushion falls.


odontocete

Learned borrowing from New Latin Odontoceti, From Ancient Greek ὀδόντος (odóntos, “teeth”) + κῆτος (kêtos, “whale”).

noncog

Sperm whales and dolphins are odontocetes.

(zoology) Any member of the cetacean parvorder Odontoceti; a toothed whale.


ooh-ah-ah

/ˈʔuːˌʔɑːˌʔɑː/

onomatopoeic

Imitative

(onomatopoeia) Synonym of oo oo aa aa (“used to represent the sound of a monkey's cry”)


gauffre

There, too, may be seen the “barking-wolf” and the “swift fox.” It is the favourite home of the marmots, and the gauffres or sand-rats; and there, too, the noblest of animals, the horse, runs wild.

1854, Thomas Mayne Reid, chapter 1, in The Young Voyageurs:


rhinopome

rhino- + Ancient Greek πῶμα (pôma, “a lid”)

(obsolete) Any member of the bat genus Rhinopoma.


phascolome

Ancient Greek φάσκωλος (pháskōlos, “pouch”) + μῦς (mûs, “mouse”). Compare Greek φασκωλόμυς (faskolómys, “wombat”).

uder

(zoology, obsolete) A marsupial of the former genus Phascolomys; a wombat.


coendou

A prehensile-tailed tree-dwelling porcupine found in Central and South America (genus Coendou)


barbastel

Alternative form of barbastelle (“type of bat”)


hodmandod

' Recorded at the Essex sites of Little Baddow and Little Bentley in the Atlas Linguarum Europae.

(Norfolk, dialectal, obsolete) A hedgehog.


prongbuck

Thus the whitetail deer had thrust forward along the very narrow river bottoms into the domain of the mule-deer and the prongbuck among the foothills of the Rocky Mountains

1905, Theodore Roosevelt, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter:


chikara

The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis).


three-quarter sibling

en-noun

three-quarter sibling (plural three-quarter siblings)

A sibling with whom one shares about 37.5% of one's genes, as opposed to 25% for half-siblings and 50% for full siblings.

(horse breeding) The offspring of a horse's sire/dam that is by/out of a sibling of its other parent.

(horse breeding) The offspring of a horse's dam and a son of its sire.

(horse breeding) The offspring of a horse's sire and a daughter of its dam.


three-quarter brother

three-quarter brother (plural three-quarter brothers)

(horse breeding) The male offspring of a horse's sire/dam that is by/out of a sibling of its other parent.


three-quarter sister

three-quarter sister (plural three-quarter sisters)

(horse breeding) The female offspring of a horse's sire/dam that is by/out of a sibling of its other parent.

(horse breeding) The female offspring of a horse's dam and a son of its sire.

(horse breeding) The female offspring of a horse's sire and a daughter of its dam.


hoglet

At birth, newborn hoglets are pink, blind, and completely helpless.

In nature, hoglets that age would follow their mother out of the nest and learn from her how to procure food by digging in the ground.

2018, Massimo Vacchetta, Antonella Tomaselli, A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart, unnumbered page:

If the hog parents develop the disease, you can be pretty sure the hoglets will too—even when they’re raised in different places, fed different diets, cared for by different owners.

2021 August 12, Noelle Mateer, “Looks That Quill: The Dark Side of Hedgehog Instagram”, in Wired:


rhinolophid

(zoology) Any of the genus Rhinolophus or family Rhinolophidae; a horseshoe bat.


chameck

Peruvian spider monkey
Peruvian spider monkey

(dated) Peruvian spider monkey; Ateles chamek


cercopithecid

In the rhesus monkey, proboscis monkey, and gibbon, representatives of cercopithecids and hylobatids, respectively, neonatal cranial dimensions approach the corresponding pelvic inlet dimensions, however, without exceeding them.

1982, Este Armstrong, Primate Brain Evolution: Methods and Concepts, page 90:

2011, Terry Harrison, Chapter 6: Cercopithecids (Cercopithecidae, Primates), Terry Harrison (editor), Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context, Volume 2: Fossil Hominins and the Associated Fauna, page 134,
More importantly, perhaps, is the observation that cercopithecids are significantly under-represented in the lowermost horizons of the Upper Laetolil Beds below Tuff 5.

In North Africa, cercopithecids assigned to the genus Prohylobates are known from two Early Miocene localities: Wadi Moghara, Egypt (Simons 1969), and Gebel Zelten, Libya (Delson 1979).

2013, Meave G. Leakey, Mark F. Teaford, Carol V. Ward, “6.1: Cercopithecidae from Lothagam”, in Meave G. Leakey, John Michael Harris, editors, Lothagam: The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa, page 202:

(zoology) Any species of the family Cercopithecidae, the Old World monkeys.


Percheron

A draught horse of a large, strong, usually dapple-grey breed originating in Perche, a former district of France.


cetacea

Of cetacea, or whale-like mammals, sixty-five; ruminantia, or cud-chewers, one hundred and seventy-seven; pachydermata, or thick-skinned mammals, such as the horse, hog, and elephant, forty-one; edentata, like the sloth and ant-eater, thirty-five; rodentia, or gnawers, such as the rat, squirrel, and beaver, six hundred and seventeen; carnivora, or flesh-eaters, four hundred and forty-six; cheiroptera, or bats, three hundred and twenty-eight; quadrumana, or monkeys, two hundred and twenty-one; and marsupialia, or pouched mammals, like the opossum and kangaroo, one hundred and thirty-seven.

1882, William Denton, The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science:

But here we give no such extracts, but content ourselves with four short skits, having the cetacea for their subject.

--Acalephae[1] are plentiful, so much so, indeed, that they occasionally tempt the larger cetacea into the Gulf of Manaar.

1861, J. Emerson Tennent, Sketches of Natural History of Ceylon:

PORPOISES AT MORETON BAY. Among the marine animals of Moreton Bay are two cetacea of great interest.

1852, John MacGillivray, Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. To Which Is Added The Account Of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition For The Exploration Of The Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist To The Expedition. In Two Volumes. Volume 1.:


borele

/ˈbɔɹ.əˌleɪ/

Probably from Tswana bodile (“black rhinoceros”).

Diceros bicornis
Diceros bicornis#Translingual

(dated) A black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis).


stenoderm

(zoology) Any of the bats resembling that of the genus Stenoderma.


spider goat

A goat that has a spider's genes, and produces silk during lactation.


glyptodon

From the New Latin genus name Glyptodon (from Ancient Greek Ancient Greek γλυπτός (gluptós, “sculptured”) + -odon (“tooth”), 'grooved or carved tooth').

af

The more striking phenomena first and most strongly impress the mind, which contrasts for example, the great Cave-Bears of Europe with the actual Brown Bear, the Megatheriods of South America with the small existing sloths, and the gigantic Glyptodons with the Armadillos.

1851 June 11, The Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, page 1, column 2:

Statues of beasts stood with their backs to the four walls of the court, eyes turned to watch the canted dial: hulking barylambdas; arctothers, the monarchs of bears; glyptodons; smilodons with fangs like glaives.

1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter IV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 43:

(paleontology) A member of the genus Glyptodon of extinct giant armadillos.


alouatte

From French alouatte, alouate, from a Cariban language; compare Kari'na arawata, Trió arawata, Wayana alawata, Ye'kwana adawa'ta, Apalaí arauta, Akawaio arawta, Pemon arauta, Macushi arauta. Compare araguato.

I understood what he meant, and said, ‘Alouattes are shot every day.’

1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XI, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 91:

(now rare) A South American howler monkey (of the genus Alouatta).


deloul

We had a seven hours' ride on the delouls, leaving the caravan to follow, to the large ruin of Abou Maria.

1853, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon:

A breed of dromedary used for rapid travel; a swift camel.


ingena

/ɪnˈd͡ʒiːnə/

Furthermore, Thomas Edward reports that the Ingenas carry 'their infant dead, closely pressed to them, until they drop away in putrefaction'.

1998, Silke Strickrodt, Those Wild Scenes: Africa in the Travel Writings of Sarah Lee (1791-1856), page 97:


paradoxure

Ancient Greek παράδοξος (parádoxos, “incredible, paradoxical”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”). So called because its tail is unlike that of the other animals to which it was supposed to be related.

uder

Any member of the species of genus Paradoxurus, Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet.


rusine

en-adj

rusine (comparative more rusine, superlative most rusine)

more rusine (comparative)
most rusine (superlative)

(zoology) Of, like, or relating to, a deer of the genus Rusa.


dog-fox

From Middle English dogge fox. By surface analysis, dog + fox.


mhorr

Aoudads, korins, mhorrs and mambas. Hartebeests. Wild asses. Rats the size of piglets […]

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 64:

A large gazelle native to the Sahara desert, Nanger dama, formerly Gazella dama.


malmag

Perhaps from Tagalog malmág (“tarsier”) (possibly via French).

(zoology, possibly obsolete) The tarsier; any of several tarsiers found in the Philippines, Malaysia, and adjacent areas.


alco

1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. lxxviii-lxxix,
[…] the alco, a mute little dog, caressing and sequacious, once loved and cherished by its poor Indian masters, is like them exterminated.

A small South American dog, domesticated by the natives, now thought to be extinct.


utia

Any species of large West Indian rodents of the genera Capromys or Utia, resembling large rats.


staggard

From Middle English staggard, stagard; equivalent to stag + -ard.


water spaniel

Shee hath more qualities then a Water-Spaniell, […] Shee can fetch and carry: why a horſe can doe no more; nay, a horſe cannot fetch, but onely carry, therefore is ſhee better then a Iade.

c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 30, column 2:

A large breed of spaniel used in hunting waterfowl.


tion

A cross between a male tiger and a lioness.


furbaby

Mrs. Jackson still kept doggie biscuits in her pockets, even though her furbaby had died two months ago.

2007, Barbara Karmazin, Night Moves, Loose Id, published 2007, →ISBN:

As I took the satiny-furred cat into my arms, his purring ratcheted up a couple of notches. Brian stood looking at the two of us, grinning, then said of the malnourished creature, “I guess we have a furbaby!”

2012, Marion Arnott, “Another One in from the Cold”, in Marie O'Regan, editor, The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women, Constable & Robinson, →ISBN:

He looked down at the puppy fast asleep in his arms. Maybe this furbaby would slow down the ticking of her biological clock, too.

2015, Kallypso Masters, Nobody's Dream, →ISBN:

(informal, endearing) A furry pet considered a child by a human.


suilline

suilline (comparative more suilline, superlative most suilline)

more suilline (comparative)
most suilline (superlative)

(zoology) Of or relating to the suborder Suina of (especially) pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.


suilline

The temporal fossa has a capacity in its proportions and form more resembling that of carnivores than that of the ordinary suillines.

1869, Joseph Leidy, “Elotherium Mortoni”, in The Extinct Mammalian Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska. Including an Account of Some Allied Forms from Other Localities, Together with a Synopsis of the Mammalian Remains of North America, […] (Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; volume VII, second series), Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [F]or the Academy, by J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., page 176:

The Oregon Pliocene has afforded the Suillines, Platygonus Condoni Mh., and Dicotyles Hesperius Mh., besides Rhinoceros Oregonensis Mh.

1874, James D[wight] Dana, Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special Reference to American Geological History, […], 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Co., […], published 1875, page 511:

The genus Platygonus is represented by several species, one of which was very abundant in the Post-Tertiary of North America, and is apparently the last example of a side branch, before the American Suillines culminate in existing Peccaries.

1877 August 30, O[thniel] C[harles] Marsh, Introduction and Succession of Vertebrate Life in America. An Address Delivered before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Nashville, Tenn., […], →OCLC, page 37:

Any artiodactyl of the suborder Suina of pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.


megaderm

Any of several species of Old World blood-sucking bats of the genus Megaderma; the false vampire bat.


wou-wou

A gibbon, the agile gibbon, or silvery gibbon.


tolypeutine

(zoology, rare) The apar, a kind of armadillo.


soricine

soricine (comparative more soricine, superlative most soricine)

more soricine (comparative)
most soricine (superlative)

From Latin soricinus, from sorex (“a shrew”).

the soricine bat

(zoology) Of or relating to the shrew family (Soricidae); resembling a shrew in form or habits.


soricine

(zoology) Any member of the shrew family (Soricidae).


sahui

From a Tupian language in the area of Bahia, Brazil. A variant form or cognate of sagoin.


orycterope

From translingual Orycteropus (genus name), from Ancient Greek ὀρυκτήρ (oruktḗr, “miner”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).


chlamyphore

Ancient Greek χλαμύς (khlamús, “cloak”) + φορός (phorós, “one who bears”)

Chlamyphorus truncatus
Chlamyphorus truncatus#Translingual

(zoology, dated) A small South American armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus and Chlamyphorus retusus, now Calyptophractus retusus), covered with a leathery shell.


araguato

From or cognate to French araguate (whence the rare older English spelling araguate), likely from Cariban; compare Kari'na arawata and the other cognates listed at alouatte. The Century Dictionary suggests a possible relation to guariba and/or araba (an obsolete word for a howler monkey of the genus Mycetes). On the other hand, Merriam-Webster attributes it to Cariban.

A South American howler monkey, the ursine howler (Alouatta arctoidea).

araguato

a South American monkey, Mycetes ursinus


thick wind

(archaic, equestrianism, patholgy) A defect of respiration in a horse, not associated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.


dunter

"Here an old woman, thinking to help her pastor out of a dead lift, cried out, 'Aiblins, Sir, it was a dunter.' (The vulgar name of a species of whale common to the Scotch coast.)

1845, Thomas Ingoldsby [pseudonym; Richard Barham], The Ingoldsby Legends, New York, N.Y.: W. J. Widdleton, published 1865, page 80:

Porpoises, it is true, and "dunters" may be seen gambolling along the coast of Durham, but even that royal fish, the sturgeon, often caught in the last century, as the files of the Newcastle Courant prove, is a rarity on the coast.

1883, “Local Records and Notes”, in Newcastle Courant, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, page 2:

The sperm whale is of course the best producer, but this species is not flagrant in the southern seas. The whale usually found is small in size and the head reservoir does not contain very large quantities of the oil. Among the smaller Cataceans, the porpoises, the puffy dunters, and grampuses, an excellent grade of oil is secured for commercial purposes by the natives who ply the waters many days and nights seeking the specie.^([sic])

1904, “South Sea Fish Oils”, in Pacific Oil Reporter, volume 6, number 1, San Francisco, C.A.: Pacific Oil Reporter, page 5:

(dialect, Scotland, Northumberland) A porpoise.


flerd

Dean M. Anderson, research animal scientist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is bonding sheep to cattle into a cohesive unit termed a "flerd."

1996, Small Farm Today, Clark, Mo.: Missouri Farm Pub., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35:

Flerds can help reduced coyote predation of small ruminants because cows will instinctively intimidate approaching canines. […] Even though dietary differences among flocks, herds and flerds remain similar on arid landscapes with abundant standing crop, animal distribution does differ.

2010, D[ean] M. Anderson, R. E. Estell, “Behavior – the Keystone in Optimizing Free-ranging Ungulate Production”, in Victor R. Squires, editor, Range and Animal Sciences and Resources Management (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems), volume 1, [Oxford?]: Eolss Publishers, →ISBN, page 335:

Sheep and goats often co-graze with other animals, such as cows or horses. This grouping of species is sometimes called a flerd.

2015, Dina Rudick, Erik Jacobs, “Sheep & Goats”, in Barnyard Kids: A Family Guide for Raising Animals, Beverly, Mass.: Quarry Books, Quarto Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 81:

A mixed group of ruminants, such as sheep and cattle.

Adriaen van de Velde
Dulwich Picture Gallery


dogly

en-adj

dogly (comparative more dogly, superlative most dogly)

more dogly (comparative)
most dogly (superlative)

From Middle English *dogly, *doglich, equivalent dog + -ly. Compare doglike.

I had a little dog who practiced all the dogly virtues. He never tried to get into any chairs or on any couches.

1908, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, The Outlook:

[Seminole Sam to the Dog:] It ain't dogly to bark "ahem".

1959 June 4, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 47:

If a chicken invades your garden to steal seed and your dog barks at it in the line of dogly duty, the chicken's owner has the legal right to kill your dog.

It was a halfhearted attempt to get him to stop, because truly, I was hoping the dog would do the dogly thing and chew up the Frisbee.

2006, Linda Johns, Hannah West in Deep Water:

Of, like, or pertaining to dogs or the dog family; canine.


polatouche

Siberian flying squirrel
Siberian flying squirrel

A Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans, syn. Sciuropterus volans), native to much of boreal Eurasia, from Finland east.


tayassuid

(zoology) Any peccary of the family Tayassuidae


octodont

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Octodontidae, a family of rodents including the degu (Octodon degus) and 12 other South American species.


pedimane

(archaic, zoology) A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum.


barrigudo

Native name, from Spanish barrigudo (“big-bellied”).


dogling

The day she came home to find that our dogling had gone to live permanently with the man who spaded up our back yard it seemed for a time that there was no balm in Gilead.


deerhorn

en-noun

deerhorn (countable and uncountable, plural deerhorns)

Pick made of deerhorn, used by flint miners in the New Stone Age.

1930, Carl Whiting Bishop, Charles Greeley Abbot, Aleš Hrdlička, Man from the farthest past:


put someone through their paces

en-verb

put<,,put> (someone) through (their) paces

put (someone) through (their) paces (third-person singular simple present puts (someone) through (their) paces, present participle putting (someone) through (their) paces, simple past and past participle put (someone) through (their) paces)

put through paces (canonical)
puts (someone) through (their) paces (present singular third-person)
putting (someone) through (their) paces (participle present)
put (someone) through (their) paces (participle past)
put (someone) through (their) paces (past)

She put Rosebud through his paces in the ring, and received her share of applause at the antics of the clever horse.

1916, Vance Barnum, Joe Strong on the Trapeze:

(literally, equestrianism) To direct a horse to walk, canter, trot, etc.


Dongola

The original form was Tungul, possibly from Old Nubian ⲧⲟⲩⳟ (touŋ, “to be secure”), hence fortress.

A horse of a large Middle Eastern breed.


papion

Probably from a native name: compare Spanish papión.

Mandrillus sphinx
Mandrillus sphinx#Translingual


sondeli

Suncus murinus
Suncus murinus#Translingual

An Asian house shrew, a muskrat (Suncus murinus).


sea canary

So called from the whistling sound which it makes.


caparro

(dated) A large South American monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha), with a prehensile tail.


doegling

From a typographical variant of Danish døgling, from Faroese døglingur, which now refers to the northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus).

This acid is, moreover, not combined with oxide of lipyl in the Doegling train-oil, (at least it yields no glycerine on saponification,) but probably with doeglic oxide, C₂₄H₂₅O, a body similar to the ether-like haloid bases, whose existence and composition Scharling, however, only infers from the analysis of the unsaponified Doegling train-oil and the absence of glycerine.

1851, Karl Gotthelf Lehmann, Physiological Chemistry, London: Cavendish Society, page 116:

Doegling Train Oil. From the doegling (the Balœna rostrata of Chemnitz, Hyperodon of later zoologists), a kind of dolphin.

1866, Leopold Gmelin, Hand-Book of Chemistry, London: Cavendish Society, page 180:

An ointment base said to be a mixture of soap, carnauba wax, and doegling oil.

1904, George M. Gould, “Myronin”, in A Dictionary of New Medical Terms, Philadelphia, P.A.: P. Blakiston, page 374:

northern bottlenose whale
northern bottlenose whale

A northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus), from which oil was once obtained.


kid glove

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

From kid gloves (made from the skin of a young lamb or goat), a particularly fine, soft material.

to handle with kid gloves

He's usually very sensitive about this sort of thing; make sure you put on your kid gloves before you see him.

His friend Penny Vieregge provided a glimpse into his actual experience when she described the "incredible fragility" in Dick at the time, "like fine, fine, porcelain. . . . I wanted to put on kid gloves and be there in case the shattering came."

2005, Jeffrey John Kripal, Glenn W. Shuck, On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture, page 154:

This time around the enemy took off the kid gloves. He saw that his previous plans to destroy me had failed. Instead of sending boys to do a man's job, he sent a man that he knew would win me over.

2008, Barbie Jones, The Power to Choose - A Victim No More, page 44:

Malcolm: Be gentle with them.
 Jamie: Oh, you know me Malc. Kid gloves, but made from real kids.

Unlike Bing, GPT-4 usually flat-out refused to take the bait when I tried to get it to talk about consciousness, or get it to provide instructions for illegal or immoral activities, and it treated sensitive queries with kid gloves and nuance.

2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times:

(figurative, usually in the plural) A metaphorical representation of careful handling.


cane rat

A large rodent of the genus Thryonomys, native to sub-Saharan Africa.


hairytail mole

Parascalops breweri, a medium-sized North American mole.


coaita

1830, Unnamed translator, Georges Louis Leclerc, The Natural History of Quadrupeds, [1749–1804, Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi], Volume 3, page 338,
All these facts, even the worms in the intestines, correspond with our coaitas. […] It is obvious, therefore, that the exquima of Marcgrave is a sapajou of the same species, or, at least, of a species very nearly allied to that of the coaita.

Even the coaita, screened by the intervention of the bodies, had, for the time, ceased to utter its cries of alarm.

1866, The Boys' Journal, volume 6, page 36:

The flesh of the Coaitas is much esteemed by the natives in this part of the country[…].

1896, Henry Ogg Forbes, A Hand-book to the Primates, volume 1, page 230:


bulau

The bulau, of Sumatra, has a few stout bristly hairs scattered among the fur of its back, and gives the first indication of a tendency toward the production of spines.

1884, Popular Science, volume 26, number 19, page 428:

(archaic) An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Echinosorex gymnura), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.


nyan

From the Japanese onomatopoeia にゃん (nyan).

(anime and manga fandom) The cry of a cat; meow, miaow.


aswail

From Marathi अस्वल (asval) or a related term in another Indian language.

An Aswail brought to me from the woods when quite young, and which lived some time in my possession, fed by choice almost exclusively upon roast mutton and fowl; rejecting all fruits and vegetables.

1832, William Henry Sykes, A Catalogue of the Mammalia and Birds Observed in Dukhun:

[…] mutilated parts of an Aswail from Ceylon together with parts of a three-toed Sloth […]

1953, Dirk Pieter Erdbrink, A Review of Fossil and Recent Bears of the Old World, volume 1:

Melursus ursinus
Melursus ursinus#Translingual

(dated) The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), an India bear.


tatouay

From a compound word in a Tupi-Guarani language (compare tatu-ai), of which the first element is ultimately from Old Tupi tatu (“armadillo”). Compare Portuguese tatu, French tatou. The second element (ay or ai) may mean "wound" because of a belief that its fat was used on wounds, or "colored", or "worthless".

An armadillo (Cabassous tatouay), native to tropical South America; the broad-banded armadillo.


phatagin

The long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla).


ipi

long-tailed pangolin
long-tailed pangolin

The long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla)


petaurist

From Latin petaurista (“a ropedancer, acrobat”), from Ancient Greek πετευριστής (peteuristḗs), from πετευρίζομαι (peteurízomai, “dance on a rope”), from πέτευρον (péteuron, “a pole, a stage for ropedancers”).

der

(zoology) Any flying marsupial of the order Phalangeriformes, such as those in genera Petaurista, Phalanger, Acrobates.


sapajou

Borrowed from French sapajou, borrowed from Old Tupi sapaîu.

etymon

Any of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, with long prehensile tails.


tetel

A large African antelope (Alcelaphus buselaphus tora) with widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.


harehound

One of a small breed of dogs used for hunting hares.


muscardin

From French muscadin (“a musk-scented lozenge”), from muscade (“nutmeg”), from Latin muscus (“musk”), so called from its odour. See muscadel.


parma wallaby

First element parma from Thurawal dama + wallaby.

The parma wallaby, Macropus parma, last seen in 1932 and thought to be extinct, was subsequently rediscovered in 1966.

1978, Derrick Ovington, Australian Endangered Species, page 42:

It was thought that parma wallabies were extinct in Australia in 1957, but it is now known that they exist in an area of coastal New South Wales, north of the Hunter River (Maynes 1977).

2003, John Long, Introduced Mammals of the World: Their History, Distribution and Influence, page 39:

The rest of the macropods are wallabies. They are usually smaller than kangaroos and wallaroos. The smallest is the parma wallaby (Macropus parma) of New South Wales in Australia. Adult parma wallabies average 18 inches (47 cm) or so in body length, with tails about the same length.

2007, Rebecca Stefoff, The Marsupial Order, page 65:

A rare species of wallaby, Macropus parma.


pentail

A species of treeshrew (Ptilocercus lowii) of Borneo, with a very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip.


sea leopard

Hydrurga leptonyx
Hydrurga leptonyx#Translingual

Any of several species of spotted seals, all in family Phocidae.

Hydrurga leptonyx, of the Antarctic Ocean


squalodon

(paleontology) Any of a genus of extinct whales with serrated teeth, belonging to the family Squalodontidae.


he-ass

From Middle English hee assis pl; equivalent to he- + ass.


canon bit

From French canon, from Latin canon (“a rule”).

[…] A goodly person, and could menage faire
His stubborne steed with curbed canon bit

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

blind the disunions of complaining nature in chains together, and curb them with a canon bit

1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:

(obsolete, rare) The part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.


megalonyx

(paleontology) An extinct ground sloth of the genus Megalonyx.


white-nosed coati

en-noun

white-nosed coati (plural white-nosed coatis)

A common species of coati (Nasua narica), native to many wooded areas of the Americas.


Romney

From a name of a village in Kent (see Old Romney), from a compound of Latin rumen (“gullet”) and Old English ēa (“river”).

Hampshire County
Hampshire County#English

A city, the county seat of Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States, named after Romney in Kent.


oont

Borrowed from Hindustani اُونْٹ / ऊँट (ū̃ṭ, “camel”).

refn

From the collection of the Wellcome Library, London, UK.

Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire? / It isn't standin' up to charge nor lyin' down to fire; / But it's everlastin' waitin' on an everlastin' road / For the commissariat camel an' 'is commissariat load. / O the oont [footnote: Camel:—oo is pronounced like u as in 'bull,' but by Mr. Atkins to rhyme with 'front.'], O the oont, O the commissariat oont! / With 'is silly neck a-bobbin' like a basket full o' snakes; / We packs 'im like an idol, an' you ought to 'ear 'im grunt, / An' when we gets 'im loaded up 'is blessed girth-rope breaks.

1892, Rudyard Kipling, “Oonts (North India Transport Train)”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 27:

Very badly wounded man—inaccessible position—stretcher-parties all out of sight—aeroplane can't land for any first-aid nor to pick up the casualty—excellent problem and demonstration. That oont [footnote: Camel.] will simplify it, though. [...] You bring the beast up—you'll be able to ride most of the way if you zig-zag, and lead him most of the rest. Then you'll have to carry the casualty to the oont and bring him down.

1914, Percival Christopher Wren, “Vultures and Luck—Good and Bad”, in Snake and Sword: A Novel, London, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co. […], →OCLC, part III (The Saving of a Soul), page 308:

Ugliness must not be confused with inutility. Most parts of Northern India and Jammu are infested with Oonts and in the dry sandy regions of Rajasthan and Kutch Oonts proliferate.

1969, C. L Proudfoot, “All about Oonts”, in The LOH (Lady of the House), Bombay: Thacker, →OCLC, page 78:

[M]ost people are aware of their presence, and are likely to harbor opinions (mostly negative) about feral livestock. A few words pertaining to these animals have been coined or adopted to enrich the national vocabulary. [...] Oont, an appellation for camel, was introduced from British India in the nineteenth century and is now of historical interest only.

1976, Tom McKnight, “Introduction”, in Friendly Vermin: A Survey of Feral Livestock in Australia (University of California Publications in Geography; 21), Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif., London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 7:

'It's a trap!' A furious Goad shouted to the Highlanders: 'Bastards knew it was coming! Grab an oont, lads, one each, lead 'em on!' Seizing headropes they began hauling their animals towards the defile mouth. Gripping the halter just under his camel's jaw to avoid being bitten Colin was nearly swung off his feet as blood ran from its flank. Bullet – or flying chip of rock?

2004, James Macdonald, “Tribals”, in Visions of Snows: A Tale of Highlanders and War, Hertford, Hertfordshire: Authors OnLine, →ISBN, page 128:

A baggage camel is expected to carry from 220 to 270 kilograms. Ours are bearing less than half that, yet all day long they whinge like the sound of their own name in Marwari language, the onomatopoeic "oont". [...] And I can't hear the dashboard clock just his graphically salacious gurglings whenever Rocky [a camel] is down-whiff of a female oont.

2010, John Borthwick, “The Charge of the Vindaloonies”, in Summer in Siam: Tales of Thai and Other Lands, 2nd extended ebook edition, [Bangkok]: Bangkok Book House, →ISBN, page 178:

The young man managed to get a small place for himself at Yusuf Bakar Road in a suburb of Dubai which he shared with three aides of Anis Ibrahim. It was located in the Oont Bazaar (Camel Market) area and was separated from Dubai proper by a creek. Oont Bazaar had been set up in the early 1970s as a market for the sale of cattle. Since camels were the most popular form of cattle in this part of the world, the market became their fiefdom, so to speak.

2014, S. Hussain Zaidi, “Despair in Dubai”, in My Name is Abu Salem, Gurgaon, Haryana, India: Penguin Books India, →ISBN:

(British India, Australia, colloquial) A camel.


tammar

en-noun

tammar (countable and uncountable, plural tammars)

Macropus eugenii
Macropus eugenii#Translingual

(zoology) Macropus eugenii, a small Australian wallaby with a thick, dark coat.


chousingha

The four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis), a small antelope found in open forest in India and Nepal.


chiropter

Coined by William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French chiroptère.


bitzer

Unknown. Originally used of dogs. Perhaps from bits + -er, in reference to the dog's composition from multiple different "bits". The spelling with tz may be influenced from other names of breeds (e.g. spitz, shih tzu, etc.) or in imitation of German names. Compare also German Betze (“bitch, female dog”).

And a bit Welsh on your father's side. And a bit Irish. There's even some Chinese in there. You're a bitzer, Stevie.

2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN:

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A person of mixed race or ethnicity.


odobenid

(mammalogy) Any of the family Odobenidae; a walrus