konze

About 3 P.M. I went out to look for game, and, coming across a herd of zebras and konze antelope, managed to kill two, one of each.

1881, Frederick Courteney Selous, A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa, page 308:

Among these fertile uplands, where wooded ridge alternates with grassy hollow, the sable and the roan antelopes, the noble eland, the forest-loving kudu, and the konze love to wander, and are but rarely disturbed by the hunter.

1893, The Geographical Journal - Volume 1, page 111:

Hence they got up to the high country and shot a little game, including some konze (Liechtenstein's hartebeest), the first Selous had seen.

1975, John Guille Millais, Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O., page 113:

A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), similar to the hartebeest, but without a black patch on the face and with shorter and flatter horns.


Aidi

A breed of dog from Morocco used for guarding herds of sheep and goats.


ailurophilic

en-adj

ailurophilic (comparative more ailurophilic, superlative most ailurophilic)

more ailurophilic (comparative)
most ailurophilic (superlative)

/ˌaɪljʊəɹəˈfɪlɪk/

/aɪˌlʊɹəˈfɪlɪk/

/eɪˌlʊɹəˈfɪlɪk/

From ailuro- (“cat”) + -philic, both from Ancient Greek.

Of or relating to ailurophilia or ailurophiles.


chocolate point

en-noun

chocolate point (plural chocolate points)

A colourpoint cat with dark brown markings.


lilac point

A colourpoint cat with pale brown markings, not as dark as chocolate point.


Bankhar

Borrowed from Mongolian банхар (banxar).

A working dog of a breed found in Mongolia, with similar characteristics to the Tibetan Mastiff, usually used by nomadic herders to protect livestock.


winner's circle

(horse racing) An enclosed area next to a racetrack where the winning horse and jockey are brought for photographs and awards.


grolar

Blend of polar (“polar bear”) + grizzly (“grizzly bear”)

blend

Polar bears that spend more time on land as their sea ice habitat shrinks are coming into contact with grizzly bears that have wandered further north – resulting in “grolar” or “pizzly” bear hybrids.

2018 April 22, Oliver Milman, The Guardian:

A hybrid cross between a polar bear and a grizzly.


plum pudding dog

en-noun

plum pudding dog (plural plum pudding dogs)


macromammal

Rabbit is the most represented species at every archeological level, although some macromammal remains (ibex, red deer, wild boar, lynx, fox, and badger) have also been documented.

2015 December 3, “Looking at the Camp: Paleolithic Depiction of a Hunter-Gatherer Campsite”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


leaf monkey

White-headed leaf monkey (T. leiwocephalus) is also restricted to southern Guangxi.

2008, Martin Walters, Heather Angel, Chinese Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide, →ISBN, page 57:

The banded leaf monkey (Presbytis femoralis) is a very shy animal and keeps to the canopy.

2011, Peter K. L. Ng, Richard Corlett, Hugh T. W. Tan, Singapore Biodiversity, →ISBN:

Oh, a Francois' leaf monkey, about 2 years old, was looking at him sadly and giving a mournful wail. Its left hand was bleeding. Without a second thought, the highlander held the leaf monkey in his arms and hurried back home.

2015, Kekang He, New Theory of Children’s Thinking Development, →ISBN:

Any of various leaf-eating, arboreal Asian monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae of family Cercopithecidae, related to and including the langurs.


Myanmar snub-nosed monkey

Myanmar snub-nosed monkey (plural Myanmar snub-nosed monkeys)

Rhinopithecus strykeri, a critically threatened species of colobine monkey of northern Burma (Myanmar).


dogote

So I began researching coyote-dog crosses, typically called coydogs or dogotes.

2011, Sue Stauffacher, Hide and Seek, page 148:

A hybrid between a male dog and a female coyote.


Asiatic golden cat

Asiatic golden cat (plural Asiatic golden cats)

The Asiatic golden cat, a1so known as Temminck's cat (Feli: temmmcku), ranges from southem China, Tibet, and the eastern Himalayas over the southeastern portions of continental Asia to Sumatra.

1958, The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work:

A medium-sized wild cat of southeastern Asia, Catopuma temminckii (synonym Pardofelis temminckii).


breechen

In order to prevent any accidents which might happen, by the iron pin of the carriage giving way, from so sudden a shock, a breechen is made fast, from the sliding carriage, to the head of the boat, and properly secured: the gun being fired, the elasticity of the breechen permits her to recoil about two inches, which certainly is a much less strain to the boat, and a safer method of using the gun; for, allowing the breechen to break, there is then the same principle of the iron pin to be depended upon, as at present.

1793, Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, volume XI, pages 189–90:

1839, The London Saturday Journal, No. XVIII, 4 May, 1839, London: William Smith, p. 274, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ekEwAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
The gun is discharged by means of a lock screwed on to the side of a vent-patch near the touch-hole, and its recoil is limited by a stout piece of rope called a breechen, which is rove through a ring at the breech, the ends being secured to bolts on each side of the port-hole.

Mounted on lumbering wooden carriages they were hampered with cumbersome harness of breechen and strong side-tackles for running them out. Guns and carriages, together with the long rammers and shorter lintstocks lodged in loops overhead—all these, as customary, were painted black; and the heavy hempen breechens, tarred to the same tint, wore the like livery of the undertakers.

1924, Herman Melville, chapter 20, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:

(historical) A rope used to limit the recoil of a cannon on a ship

1884, Saddlers, Harness Makers, and Carriage Builders' Gazette, London: John Kemp, 1 November, 1884, Vol. XIV, pp. 155-6, https://books.google.ca/books?id=YQ9LAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Remember, when a horse is on its side the kicking-strap is useless, and the breechen nearly so, to prevent the swing of its hind legs; your aim is to get it away from the steps or wheel-plate of the trap, which, in its struggles, may cut its legs fearfully.

The breechen kept pressure back off the horse's hind quarters when they braked — the horses were very aware of this and paid close attention to its functioning.

2014, Alice Taylor, Do You Remember?, O'Brien Press:

The part of the harness that fits over the horse's rump and holds the load back or permits the horse to back it up https://web.archive.org/web/20160705124646/http://www.gaitedhorses.net/Articles/HorseGlossary.html


dairy cow

The Holstein Friesian is an excellent dairy cow. [breed]

He runs a herd of dairy cows, including his own bulls. [cattle beast]

Mastitis impairs a dairy cow’s output. [lactating female]

Any breed of cow bred for the ability to produce large quantities of milk, from which dairy products are made; an individual cattle beast of such a breed; especially, a female cow who has calved and lactated.


Arabian horse

A breed of horse that originated on the Arabian Peninsula characterised by a refined, wedge-shaped head, broad forehead, large eyes, large nostrils and small muzzle.


brown woolly monkey

brown woolly monkey (plural brown woolly monkeys)

A woolly monkey found in South America, taxonomic name Lagothrix lagotricha.


karrkaratul

(Australia) a type of marsupial mole found in deserts of Western Australia (Notoryctes caurinus).


cingulatan

In contrast, the success of the living pilosans and cingulatans was due to their occupation of relatively narrow niches, which allowed little space for the less specialized newcomers.

2006, David Whyte Macdonald, The Encyclopedia of Mammals:

As a result, in the past, pilosans, cingulatans, and pangolins were frequently combined in the no-longer-recognized order Edentata.

2011, Terry Vaughan, Mammalogy, page 148:

In contrast to what I perceive to be a lack of special similarity in the astragalocalcaneal complex of the Palaeanodonta and Pholidota, the palaeanodont and dasypodid cingulatan derived similarities of these two bones are extremely suggestive of a common ancestral pattern.

2013, Max Hecht, Major Patterns in Vertebrate Evolution, page 352:

(rare) A mammal of the order Cingulata (including the armadillos and other extinct species).


rupicaprine

An excellent indication of this fact is the absence in Pityusic Pleistocene sites of the rupicaprine Myotragus, which is so frequent in the ossiferous Quaternary breccia of Mallorca and Menorca.

1984, K. Kuhbièr, Biogeography and Ecology of the Pityusic Islands, page 117:

The caprines, apart from rupicaprines and Saigini have been included by Schaller (1977) in the category 'selective grazer and browser; uses several vegetation types; seasonal diet change; large home area' of Jarman's (1974) classification.

1994, Y. P. S. Pangtey, High Altitudes of the Himalaya:

These two very distinct genera appear to form a convenient bridge between the antelopes on the one hand and the rupicaprines on the other.

2012, Hiroaki Soma, The Biology and Management of Capricornis and Related Mountain Antelopes:

A mammal of the genus Rupicapra; a chamois.


panine

However, if Sahelanthropns tchadensis is considered to be a panine, it is the oldest (lower Pliocene from northern Chad, 7 MYA).

2006, Guillaume Lecointre, The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification, page 501:

The first will give us, amongst others, the gibbon (hylobatides), the second, the orangutan (pongides), the third, the family of the gorilla, the chimpanzee, the bonobo (panines), and finally, Homo sapiens (hominids), the only permanent biped.

2006, Jean Abitbol, Odyssey of the Voice, page 25:

I have previously pointed out that while there is an obvious difference in the pelves between panines and hominines, there are also differences in the usual number of lumbar vertebrae, so in the position of the sacrum.

2009, Èva Bodzsár, New Perspectives and Problems in Anthropology, page 5:


zorillo

We saw also a couple of Zorillos, or skunks,--odious animals, which are far from uncommon. In general appearance the Zorillo resembles a polecat, but it is rather larger, and much thicker in proportion. Conscious of its power, it roams by day about the open plain, and fears neither dog nor man. If a dog is urged to the attack, its courage is instantly checked by a few drops of the fetid oil, which brings on violent sickness and running at the nose. Whatever is once polluted by it, is for ever useless. Azara says the smell can be perceived at a league distant; more than once, when entering the harbour of Monte Video, the wind being off shore, we have perceived the odour on board the "Beagle." Certain it is, that every animal most willingly makes room for the Zorillo.

1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:


hooded skunk

A skunk native to Mexico and the southwestern US, Mephites macroura


eastern spotted skunk

eastern spotted skunk (plural eastern spotted skunks)

A species of spotted skunk native to the eastern US, Spilogale putorius


western spotted skunk

western spotted skunk (plural western spotted skunks)

A spotted skunk of species Spilogale gracilis, native to southern British Columbia, western US, and northern Mexico.


hydrophobia cat

hydrophobia cat (plural hydrophobia cats)

western spotted skunk
western spotted skunk

(Southwestern US, dated) The western spotted skunk, Spilogale gracilis, at one time thought always to carry rabies.


hydrophobia skunk

hydrophobia skunk (plural hydrophobia skunks)

(Southwestern US, dated) The western spotted skunk, Spilogale gracilis, at one time thought to be invariable carriers of rabies.


Leonberger

A dog of a large, muscular breed with a black mask on the face.


koala lemur

The extinct koala lemurs (Megaladapis) were much larger than their extant relatives, the nocturnal sportive lemurs (Lepilemur), but they resembled the latter in diet (leaves) and commitment to life in the trees.

2005, Mcgraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology 2005, page 188:

The koala lemurs are much larger than the sportive lemurs (Lepilemuridae) and the Lemuridae, both of which have been considered their sister clades. Koala lemurs resembled sportive lemurs in their dental morphology and diet of leaves.

2006, Laurie R. Godfrey, William L. Jungers, Gary T. Schwarz, “Chapter Three: Ecology and Extinction of Madagascar's Subfossil Lemurs”, in Lisa Gould, M. L. Sauther, editors, Lemurs: Ecology and Adaptation, page 43:

As primary folivores, it seems highly unlikely that the koala lemurs were major players in seed dispersal.

2007, L. R. Godfrey et al., “Ghosts and Orphans”, in John G Fleagle, Christopher C. Gilbert, editors, Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins, page 373:

Any of three extinct species of lemur of †Megaladapis, the sole genus of the family †Megaladapidae, which were endemic to Madagascar until circa 1280–1420 CE.


tursiop

After the detection of a whistle, the localization of the tursiop is performed comparing the sound direction and the arrival time for each detection unit.

2016 January 21, “A Permanent Automated Real-Time Passive Acoustic Monitoring System for Bottlenose Dolphin Conservation in the Mediterranean Sea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(rare, nonstandard) A bottlenose dolphin (of the genus Tursiops).


variable squirrel

variable squirrel (plural variable squirrels)

The fur colour of these animals is extremely variable.

Finlayson's squirrel
Finlayson's squirrel


Finlayson's squirrel

Finlayson's squirrel (plural Finlayson's squirrels)

Named after George Finlayson, a Scottish surgeon and naturalist.

Callosciurus finlaysonii, an Asian squirrel.


Polynesian rat

Rattus exulans
Rattus exulans#Translingual

Rattus exulans, the third most numerous species of rat on Earth.


Burmese snub-nosed monkey

Burmese snub-nosed monkey (plural Burmese snub-nosed monkeys)

Myanmar snub-nosed monkey
Myanmar snub-nosed monkey#English


ghost bat

Named for the extremely thin membrane of its wings, giving a ghostly appearance at night.

A bat of any of the species of genus Diclidurus of the tropical Americas.


Atlantic spotted dolphin

Atlantic spotted dolphin (plural Atlantic spotted dolphins)

A dolphin of species Stenella frontalis, found in the Gulf Stream of the North Atlantic Ocean.


pantropical spotted dolphin

pantropical spotted dolphin (plural pantropical spotted dolphins)

Stenella attenuata, a dolphin found in temperate and tropical oceans.


eastern wolf

The wolf is found in the eastern United States.

Canis lycaon, a fertile hybrid pseudo-species of wolf resulting from the crossbreeding of gray wolves with coyotes, whose contributions to the eastern wolf genome is roughly 75% to 25%, respectively; which is found on the East Coast and Great Lakes regions of the United States.


long-footed potoroo

long-footed potoroo (plural long-footed potoroos)

Potorous longipes, a large potoroo of southeastern Australia.


long-nosed potoroo

long-nosed potoroo (plural long-nosed potoroos)

Potorous tridactylus, an Australian potoroo with an elongated pointed rostral region.


fancy rat

Rattus norvegicus
Rattus norvegicus#Translingual

A domesticated brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), common as a pet.


black howler

A species of New World monkey, Alouatta caraya


doglet

(nonstandard, rare) A young or small dog.


doggo

Around the same time, “wholesome” memes of cute doggos and puppers rejuvenated social media feeds that seemed daily filled with fresh horrors.

2019, Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:

A note of caution to readers with pets: Xylitol is toxic to dogs and can have potentially life-threatening effects. As owners of two doggos ourselves, we encourage anyone with a dog to use extreme caution when bringing xylitol into your home.

2019, Matt Dorsey, Jenny Dorsey, Healthy Cocktails, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

‘It's OK, you're allowed out here. There haven't been any other doggos in this garden since…’ He shrugged. ‘I dunno, forever.’ His grandmother hadn't had a dog, and she'd lived in the cottage for decades. ‘Doggos?’ he said out loud. ‘Did I just say “doggos”?’

2020, Liz Davies, The Summer of Falling in Love, Lilac Tree Books:

(informal, Internet slang, childish) A dog.


culpeo

Borrowed from Spanish (zorro) culpeo, from Mapudungun culpeu.

Lycalopex culpaeus
Lycalopex culpaeus#Translingual

A canid of species (Lycalopex culpaeus), native to the Andes region of South America.


lundehund

From Norwegian lundehund, compound of lunde (“puffin”) and hund (“dog”).

a spitz dog originating in Norway, traditionally used for hunting puffin.


masked palm civet

masked palm civet (plural masked palm civets)

A civet of species Paguma larvata, native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.


palm civet

Any of various species of civet, principally in the Paradoxurinae subfamily.

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brown palm civet

Paradoxurus jerdoni and Macrogalidia musschenbroekii


Pyrenean ibex

A recently extinct subspecies of the Iberian ibex (†Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica).


Puissance

Puissance (countable and uncountable, plural Puissances)

(equestrianism) Alternative letter-case form of puissance.


lorisoid

Any loris or galago of the superfamily Lorisoidea


Ladoga ringed seal

Ladoga ringed seal (plural Ladoga ringed seals)

A freshwater subspecies of the ringed seal, which are found entirely in Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia, Pusa hispida ladogensis.


tarsioid

Among the short-lived northerners were Metacheiromys, whose South American cousins survive today in the order of armadillos, anteaters and sloths, and the early primates — lemurs like Notharctus and tarsioids like Tetonius.

1953 October 19, Lincoln Barnett, “The Age of Mammals”, in LIFE, page 95:

The living Tarsius, of Southeast Asia, is a lone leftover of a once diverse group of small primates, the tarsioids, which flourished during the Eocene in Europe, Asia, and North America.

1989, Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas H. V. Rich, Mildred Adams Fenton, Carroll Lane Fenton, The Fossil Book: A Record of Prehistoric Life, Revised edition, page 553:

1991, Hominidae, entry in Joan C. Stevenson, Dictionary of Concepts in Physical Anthropology, page 201,
Cope derived anthropoids from an extinct fossil tarsioid; he suggested that apes and humans evolved from a prosimian and skipped the monkey stage. Hubrecht noted that tarsioids were different from lemurs and more like higher primates (monkeys, apes, and humans).

A tarsier or extinct relative; any member of the infraorder Tarsiiformes


grandcat

From grand- + cat, by analogy with grandchild.

This cat—my daughter's cat and my grandcat—arrived here weeks ago, caged and collared and thoroughly citified.

2004, Ellen Goodman, “A Sense of Place”, in Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

I'm heading to GR tomorrow to bring the cat to Mom/Maurice for a couple of weeks. I'm heading to Tokyo the week of July 11, so they have to take care of their grandcat!

2006 July 1, Barbie Root, “July 2006”, in Life After Katrina: A Family's Story of Trial and Triumph, [Mustang, Okla.]: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, published 2009, →ISBN, page 325:

(humorous, endearing) A cat owned by one's child (especially when the latter is adult); a cat having a status comparable to a grandchild.


spoodle

Synonym of cockapoo (“cross between an American cocker spaniel and a miniature poodle”)


olive baboon

From the greenish-grey colour of its fur.

A study of Kenyan olive baboon troops by Margaret Crofoot and her team at the University of California, Davis, considered first the patterns made on a map by the animals' movements […].

2016 November, Richard Smyth, “Bird's-Eye Watching”, in Literary Review:

A subspecies of savannah baboon, Papio hamadryas anubis, found in highland areas of East Africa.


imbabala

A bushbuck (Tragelaphus sylvaticus), one of two species, ranging more into southern and eastern Africa than the other species, the harnessed bushbuck


Icelandic horse

Icelandic horse (plural Icelandic horses)

A horse of a small, hardy breed developed from ponies taken to Iceland by Norse settlers in the 9th and 10th centuries.


stirrup iron

The metal hoop on a stirrup, in which a horserider's foot is inserted when mounted in the saddle.


stud horse

From Middle English *studhors, *stode-hors, from Old English stōdhors, from Proto-West Germanic *stōdahross, equivalent to stud + horse. Cognate with Middle High German stuotros. Compare German Stutpferd.

A stallion; a male horse kept as a stud.


Semon's leaf-nosed bat

Semon's leaf-nosed bat (plural Semon's leaf-nosed bats)

Named for German zoologist Richard Semon.

Hipposideros semoni, a bat in the family Hipposideridae, found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.


Semon's roundleaf bat

Semon's roundleaf bat (plural Semon's roundleaf bats)

Semon's leaf-nosed bat
Semon's leaf-nosed bat#English


rock rat

Certain members of the subfamily Murinae in the family Muridae, those in:

Petromyscus, a southwestern African genus in the subfamily Petromyscinae of the family Nesomyidae (more frequently referred to as rock mice)

Aconaemys, a genus in Argentina and Chile, of the family Octodontidae:

Petromus, an African genus often called dassie rats, of the family Petromuridae

Laonastes, a genus from Laos, of the family Diatomyidae


bush rat

The noise ceased the moment I crawled into the attic, but something was rotten in the roof, and a putrid smell and pyramids of chewed cardboard suggested that possums or bush rats had nested in boxes stacked with the previous owner's red and yellow moodscapes.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 18

(Australia) Any of various rat-sized rodents and marsupials, especially local species of Rattus.


ptilocerque

The Ptilocerque, which is an inhabitant of Borneo and Sarawak, is between five and six inches long, with a tail rather longer than the body.

1890, Grace Townsend, Friend and Foe from Field and Forest: A Natural History of the Mammalia:

pen-tailed treeshrew
pen-tailed treeshrew#English

(zoology, obsolete, rare) Synonym of pen-tailed treeshrew


that old dog won't hunt

that dog won't hunt
that dog won't hunt#English


tragelaph

Any member of the genus Tragelaphus of spiral-horned antelopes.


keb

en-verb

keb (third-person singular simple present kebs, present participle kebbing, simple past and past participle kebbed)

kebs (present singular third-person)
kebbing (participle present)
kebbed (participle past)
kebbed (past)

(Northern England, dialect) Of a ewe, to abort a lamb.


keb

(Northern England, dialect) A still-born lamb.


spotted seal

A true seal, Phoca largha, inhabiting ice floes and waters of the north Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas.


sthenurine

Any extinct marsupial of the subfamily †Sthenurinae.


turn of foot

So myth number one is that horses who finish fast in the final furlong are horses to follow because they possess a turn of foot.

2004, Alan Potts, Against the Crowd, →ISBN, page 23:

He had a turn of foot that could see him outsprint many a staying horse over the 2400 metres, but that was his limit.

The squareish track was flat and suited horses with a turn of foot, which exactly described the two runners that Brewer was sending there on the day following Matt's return from Sedgefield.

2009, Lyndon Stacey, Murder in Mind, →ISBN, page 155:

Meanwhile Charlie Bell reported the stable's latest acquisition: a very good jumper but, as far as he could determine to date, 'without a great turn of foot'.

2014, Peter O'Sullevan, Calling The Horses: A Racing Autobiography, →ISBN:

(horse racing) The ability to accelerate quickly.

A good deal of a horse's efforts at acceleration are dissipated by the surface. On grass, a turn of foot is a powerful weapon. On dirt or the All-weather it counts for very little.

2002, Nick Mordin, Betting for a Living, →ISBN, page 51:

He had failed to match the lightening turn of foot of Desert Destination, but was now eating up the ground and was almost up-sides.

2003, Paddy Cummins, Green Lodge, →ISBN, page 94:

He felt that, as he put him in a gallop, the estimated speed they were travelling at was forty miles an hour and his turn of foot was breathtaking.

2013, B. J. Newing, The Rawlinson Family Story, →ISBN, page 102:

The winner then found an impressive and immediate turn of foot to accelerate away from Nichols Canyon after the second-last, and he was full value for his healthy winning margin at the line.

2016 December 29, Greg Wood, “Petit Mouchoir on course for Champion Hurdle after Leopardstown victory”, in The Guardian:

(horse racing) A burst of speed in a horse race.


were-elephant

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an elephant.


earth pig

Calque of Afrikaans aardvark (literally “earth-pig”), equivalent to earth + pig.

calque

In the high grassy plateaus, with their isolated groups of bushy shrubs, we find, together with the earth pigs and armadilloes mentioned above, two kinds of gazelles (Cephalophus mergens and Calotragus campestris).

1881, Land, sea and sky; or, Wonders of life and nature:

The curious ant-eaters (earth pigs and pangolins) are probably relics of an earlier fauna, which have survived owing to their nocturnal habits.

1893, Frederick Courteney Selous, Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa:

It may be in only an earth pig, or it may be in a leopard, and, quite providentially for the medical profession no layman can see his own soul — it is not as if it were connected with all earth pigs, or all leopards, as the case may be, but it is in one particular earth pig or leopard or other animal — so recourse must be had to medical aid when anything goes wrong with it.

1949, Harold Evans, Men in the Tropics: A Colonial Anthology, page 64:

Aardvarks also eat ants. African natives kill aardvarks to eat. But these “earth pigs” are not easy to catch. Although they look clumsy, they can run fast. They can bury themselves in the ground fast, too.

1959, Bertha Morris Parker, THE GOLDEN BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA:

Bahuchet (1985), who researched the Aka living in Central Africa, cites the earth pig, flying squirrel, and leopard as examples of avoided food animals.

2012, Bonnie L. Hewlett, Adolescent Identity: Evolutionary, Cultural and Developmental Perspectives:


zebuine

In addition to potential for fertility improvements in ruminants, for example decreasing the age of first-calving in zebuine cattle, there is sufficient genetic variability in feed intake, independent of liveweight and daily gain (Flachowsky and Brade 2007) to permit selection for this trait.

2012, Veerasamy Sejian, S.M.K. Naqvi, Thaddeus Ezeji, Environmental Stress and Amelioration in Livestock Production, →ISBN:

The tropical climate produces zebuine hides that are lighter and thinner than in Europe.

2015, Joseph Strasser, Bangladesh's Leather Industry, →ISBN, page 101:

The quantity of H. irritans per animal seems to be greater in taurine than in zebuine cows in Brazil, and size and color influence colonization.

2016, Carlos Brisola Marcondes, Arthropod Borne Diseases, →ISBN, page 478:


she-walrus

en-noun

she-walrus (plural she-walruses or she-walrus)

she-walruses (plural)
she-walrus (plural)

The advice given always consists of certain things that the one threatened must not do, rules of conduct that coincide with the various ones before mentioned ; or also, a dietary may be prescribed, such, for instance, as that the person must not eat he-walrus and only certain portions of the she-walrus ; that all his food must be boiled, and so on.

1908, Knud Rasmussen, The people of the Polar north; a record, page 153:

Charlie Slowokok told us about the she-walrus's love for her young. On one occasion he had watched a she-walrus from a distance hugging her offspring between her fore-fins, breast feeding it and playing with it afterwards.

1964, Sven Gillsäter, Wave After Wave, page 70:

One day they joined some other kayakers, and went in pursuit of a very large she-walrus. Kunuk lanced it four times at a greater distance than usual, and his arrow went right through the animal, which, panting for breath, after a minute or two was quite dead.

2014, Hinrich Rink, Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo, page 139:


gray fox

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Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Urocyon cinereoargenteus#Translingual

Urocyon cinereoargenteus, a carnivorous mammal of the family Canidae, habitat spanning from central North America to northern South America.


North American wood ape

North American wood ape (plural North American wood apes)

(cryptozoology) A large hairy apelike, though upright walking, creature of North America; a Bigfoot.


simiid

(obsolete) A member of the Simiidae; a monkey or ape excluding lemurs and humans.


craseonycterid

However genetic data now indicate that the rhinolophoid microbats (rhinolophids, megadermatids, craseonycterids, hipposiderids, and rhinopomatids) are in fact more closely related to megabats than to other microbats.

2009, David MacDonald, The Encyclopedia of Mammals:

(zoology) Any bat of the family Craseonycteridae.


breaststrap

A piece of horse tack for preventing the saddle from slipping backwards.

Any of various garments made to enwrap a woman's breasts, but excluding brassieres and bikini tops.


kaffir dog

Did she see a half-starved Kaffir dog look in at her kitchen door or crawl trembling towards the dresser, it was not "Furtseck," or "Get out," that she would cry, but "What a shame to starve that poor thing so!" and a piece of bread or meat was sure to be offered.

1882, Sarah Heckford, A Lady Trader in the Transvaal, page 61:

A stray kaffir dog, his skeleton showing clear through tight skin, lay in the pit of blue shade outside the veranda.

1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 276:

A type of hunting dog used by indigenous peoples in parts of southern Africa; (loosely), a mongrel dog.


widge

From Middle English wig, *wigge, from Old English wiċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *wigi, from Proto-Germanic *wigją, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to carry; move; transport; ride”).

der

But what liuinges ſoeuer he had, or hauing liuinges, how beastly ſoeuer he ſpared his money, and rode thether on his widge beaste.

1587, John Bridges, A Defence of the Government Established in the Church of Englande for Ecclesiasticall Matters.:

[addressing the narrator, named Widge] "I'm only going to see that he learns a lesson," said Nick innocently. "Now then. Widge, is it? You know what a widge is where I come from?"
My throat felt too tight to speak. I shook my head.
"A horse. I think I'll call you Horse, although I think you look more like an ass to me. […]"

1998, Gary Blackwood, The Shakespeare Stealer:


Judas steer

A steer that leads other cattle to a slaughterhouse.


cat squirrel

Farther up the bank was a stand of pecans where a cat squirrel was taking bites of green nuts and dropping them to the ground to rot.

2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 18:

eastern gray squirrel
eastern gray squirrel

Sciurus carolinensis
Sciurus carolinensis#Translingual

The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).


melon-headed whale

en-noun

melon-headed whale (plural melon-headed whales)

A cetacean of species Peponocephala electra, in the oceanic dolphin family Delphinidae.


Manchurian hare

Manchurian hare (plural Manchurian hares)

Lepus mandshuricus, a forest-dwelling hare found in northeastern China and Russia, the Amur River basin, and the higher mountains of northern Korea.


white-footed mouse

white-footed mouse (plural white-footed mice)

Peromyscus leucopus
Peromyscus leucopus#Translingual

An American rodent of species Peromyscus leucopus, a reservoir for Borrelia burgdorferi, the cause of Lyme disease.


zubron

(uncommon) A hybrid between domestic cattle and wisent.

zubron

hybrid of the wisent and domestic cattle


Chianina

Unadapted borrowing from Italian chianina


robust australopithecine

en-noun

robust australopithecine (plural robust australopithecines)

(paleontology) Any member of the species sometimes considered to belong to the genus Paranthropus.


gracile australopithecine

gracile australopithecine (plural gracile australopithecines)

(paleontology) Any member of the species belonging to the genus Australopithecus, excluding those sometimes considered to belong to the genus Paranthropus.


scrub hare

Lepus saxatilis, a hare found in southern Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho. The fur on the dorsal side is grizzled-gray with small black spots; on the ventral side, it is all white.


slender shrew

Sorex gracillimus, a shrew found in northeastern North Korea, Hokkaidō, and the Russian Far East.


Japanese mole

Mogera wogura, a solitary diurnal mole native to East Asia.


fainting goat

a breed of domestic goat characterised by a genetic disorder known as myotonia congenita, wherein the muscles freeze for roughly 3 seconds when the goat feels panic


yeen

(fandom slang, Internet slang, furry fandom) A hyena.


Svalbard reindeer

Svalbard reindeer (plural Svalbard reindeers or Svalbard reindeer)

Svalbard reindeers (plural)
Svalbard reindeer (plural)

a subspecies of reindeer found on the Svalbard archipelago; Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus


elephant trap

From elephant + trap, alluding to the fact that a trap for an elephant needs to be quite large, and so ought to be easily seen.

ref

From the collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.

Queen's Gambit Declined
Queen's Gambit Declined

(chess) Often in the form Elephant Trap: a faulty attempt by White to win a pawn in a popular variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined, which is generally only effective against inexperienced players.

parany de l'elefant

(chess) faulty attempt by White to win a pawn


Javan rhinoceros

en-noun

Javan rhinoceros (plural Javan rhinoceros or Javan rhinoceroses)

Javan rhinoceros (plural)
Javan rhinoceroses (plural)

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


Sumatran rhino

Dicerorhinus sumatrensis
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis#Translingual

(informal) Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)


flop-eared

en-adj

flop-eared (comparative more flop-eared, superlative most flop-eared)

more flop-eared (comparative)
most flop-eared (superlative)

A buckboard with a patient flop-eared bay between shafts stood in front of ROOMS & EATS.

1963, Jack Schaefer, Monte Walsh, page 152:

Having ears that flop, having long ears which hang down loosely.


Black Forest horse

en-noun

Black Forest horse (plural Black Forest horses)

A draft horse of a rare breed originating in southern Germany. It has a dark chestnut coat with a flaxen mane and tail.


nureongi

A yellow-furred landrace dog native to Korea, where it is often eaten.


Astadiggaja

From Sanskrit अष्ट (aṣṭa, “eight”) + दिक् (dik, “direction”) + गज (gaja, “elephant”).

(historical) (plural only) A collective term given to eight Telugu poets in the court of emperor Sri Krishna Deva Raya in the 16th century.


central chimpanzee

central chimpanzee (plural central chimpanzees)

Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo

Pan troglodytes troglodytes, a subspecies of the common chimpanzee, found mainly in Gabon, Cameroon, and the Republic of the Congo.


porcupette

To my horror, I saw that she had carefully retrieved a very live and healthy porcupette!

2001, Warner Shedd, Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife:

A mother porcupine can give birth to between one and four porcupettes at one time.

2013, Jeffrey Rouche, Porcupines in the Wild, page 16:


Abyssinian wolf

Abyssinian wolf (plural Abyssinian wolves)


shaking rat Kawasaki

(biology, zoology) A reeler-phenotype neuronal mutant rat.


yugada

From Spanish yugada, from yugo (“yoke”) + -ada (“-ful”), from Latin iugum. Compare Latin iugerum (“juger”).

(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of land area, equivalent to about 32.2 ha.


German Spaniel

A hunting dog of a breed developed in Germany around 1890, having a sturdy build and a brown coat with occasional white markings.


short head

Red Rum won by a short head.

(horse racing) A distance of less than the length of a horse's head


stinking badger

stinking badger (plural stinking badgers)


hunting dog

en:wild dog named for its hunting prowess

African hunting dog
African hunting dog#English

Ellipsis of African hunting dog: a wild dog named for its hunting prowess; like all wild dogs, it hunts prey.


mountain wolf

From mountain + wolf, From this canid living in mountainous terrain, and having an appearance like a wolf.
Possibly also Calque of translingual Cuon alpinus, but 'cuon' means 'dog' rather than 'wolf'.


pseudostome

A North American rodent, Geomys bursarius.


sapien

The word is a singular form, derived by back-formation and shortening of translingual Homo sapiens by interpreting the latter as an English plural form. However, in Latin the word sapiens is strictly singular, its plural form being sapientes (and the Latin plural of homo sapiens is homines sapientes).

[The superhero Mr. Incredible fights against a gorilla named Ungorilla.]
Ungorilla: You foolish sapien! I am the Ungorilla! I possess the speed and strength of a very strong gorilla! How can you possibly defeat me?

2009, The Incredibles (comic) #1, page 9

Better still, with its larger brain Piltdown neatly fit the preconception of what earlier human forms should look like than did either the "primitive" Neanderthals or the small-minded Pithecanthropus skulls. Moreover, it meant that the sapien lineage (in England) could be traced independently of the decidedly more brutish and less human Neanderthals (from Northern Europe) to an earlier period, thereby testifying to the early appearance of an essentially modern human form.

2015, David J. Meltzer, The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 279:

(rare, proscribed) A human, a specimen of Homo sapiens.


taruca

The north Andean deer, Hippocamelus antisensis


ceboid

Of or relating to any member of the superfamily (Ceboidea) of monkeys, believed to have evolved from prosimians isolated in South America, and including the marmosets, capuchins, tamarins, sapajous, and spider monkeys.


kubong

The flying lemur Cynocephalus variegatus


river dolphin

(zoology) Any dolphin that is found only in fresh or brackish water, now considered in one of three superfamilies Platanistoidea, †Lipotoidea, Inioidea, all in parvorder Odontoceti or in a grouping with hippopotamuses.

jokidelfiini

dolphin found only in fresh and brackish water


ameridelphian

Any of the superorder Ameridelphia of marsupials.


apternodontid

Borrowed from translingual Apternodontidae.

(zoology) Any member of the Apternodontidae.


australidelphian

Any marsupial of the superorder Australidelphia


dasyuromorphian

Any marsupial of the order Dasyuromorphia of carnivorous marsupials.


deltatheroidan

Any extinct metatherian of the order Deltatheroida


didelphimorph

Any opossum of the order Didelphimorphia; an opossum.


diprotodontian

Any marsupial of the order Diprotodontia


notoryctemorphian

Any member of the order Notoryctemorphia; a marsupial mole.


paucituberculatan

Any marsupial of the order Paucituberculata; a shrew opossum.


peradectid

Any extinct mammal of the family Peradectidae


peramelemorphian

Any marsupial of the order Peramelemorphia; a bilby or a bandicoot.


pleuraspidotheriid

Any extinct mammal of the genus Pleuraspidotherium


sparassocynid

Any extinct marsupial of the family Sparassocynidae


stagodontid

Any extinct mammal of the family Stagodontidae


ice bear

From ice + bear. Compare German Eisbär, Dutch ijsbeer, Danish isbjørn.

Ursus maritimus
Ursus maritimus#Translingual


Holsteiner

From Holstein + -er, or directly from the German Holsteiner.

Holstein

cattle breed also from Schleswig-Holstein

There are unflappable, lazy Holsteiners and sensitive, spooky Holsteiners.

A horse of a breed originating in the Schleswig-Holstein region of northern Germany.


lowland paca

Cuniculus paca
Cuniculus paca#Translingual


half-length

(horse racing) Half the length of a horse.


Iceland dog

The conclusion that one must arrive at, as it seems to me, is that the collie, the Shetland, and the Iceland dogs all had one common origin, the restricted location of the collie in the Lowlands not being conducive to the supposition that he was of origin there, when there was no breed to the north or south bearing any resemblance to him.

1913 April, James Watson, “Dogs”, in Country Life, volume 23, page 65:

A shaggy white sharp-eared dog of a breed imported from Iceland.


rabbitkind

The entirety of rabbits; all rabbits collectively as a group.


mousekind

[…] it must, I say, be obvious that such abundant supplies of favourite and wholesome food offers the greatest inducement to mousekind to associate themselves with mankind, to attend on their footsteps, and to increase and multiply under their provident but uninentional care.

1850, Rusticus, “The mice and the rats, the weasels and the stoats”, in Chambers's Journal, page 131:

The entirety of mice; all mice collectively as a group.


Beetewk

From the name of the Bityug river near Voronezh, ultimately from Russian битю́г (bitjúg), which is from Turkic.

A type of Russian heavy draft horse, originally from Voronezh guberniya on the Bityug river.


proboscis monkey

proboscis monkey (plural proboscis monkeys)

Nasalis larvatus, a reddish-brown arboreal Old World monkey with an unusually large nose, endemic to Borneo.


hart of grease

(hunting, obsolete) A hart of the season when fat.


rhabdosteid

(zoology) Any extinct cetacean in the family Rhabdosteidae.


bitch hound

Compound of bitch (“female dog”) + hound (“hunting dog”).

compound

A female hound; a bitch used for hunting; a brach.


point-to-point

From point (“individual element in a larger whole; specific location or place; topic of discussion or debate”) + to + point.

(horse racing, also attributively) A kind of horse race involving a direct cross-country course with obstacles for hunting horses and amateur riders.


Asian palm civet

en-noun

Asian palm civet (plural Asian palm civets)

Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus#Translingual

A small civet, (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), of South and Southeast Asia up to the Wallace Line.


pecoran

(zoology) Any ungulate of the infraorder Pecora


sivathere

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Sivatherium</i>

The sivatheres became extinct about two million years ago, but other giraffes, including the ancestors of the living giraffe species and the okapi, thrived.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 103:

Shins coated in mud, the sivathere strides out onto more solid ground, towards the shade to browse.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 28:

(paleontology) An extinct giraffid of the genus Sivatherium.


go walkies

en-verb

go walkies (third-person singular simple present goes walkies, present participle going walkies, simple past went walkies, past participle gone walkies)

goes walkies (present singular third-person)
going walkies (participle present)
went walkies (past)
gone walkies (participle past)

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Synonym of go walkabout (“to go missing; to be lost or stolen”)


common gundi

Ctenodactylus gundi, a species of rodent in the family Ctenodactylidae.


Jerusalem pony

en-noun

Jerusalem pony (plural Jerusalem ponies)


bell cow

When Carlos Hyde was selected in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft, it was presumed he would eventually take over Frank Gore's role as lead back for the Niners. Now that Gore signed in Indianapolis, the door is wide open for Hyde to seize that opportunity. "He looks the part as far as a bellcow running back," Bleacher Report NFL analyst Chris Simms said of Hyde.

2015 August 13, “Chris Simms: ‘Carlos Hyde can be a stud in the NFL’”, in FOX Sports:

Goldman is used to taking the lead. In fact, The Wall Street Journal’s Susanne Craig reported that other firms were standing by on a “Lloyd watch,” waiting to see what precedent would be set by Wall Street’s traditional bell-cow. As those firms now make their own inevitable bonus decisions, they will have to settle for “me-too” stories.

2008 November 17, Jack Flack, “How Goldman Spun the Inevitable Into Big News”, in The New York Times:

When the issue is a political one, reporters tend to watch for the reactions of certain “bell cow” journalists.

1986, Peter Hannaford, Talking Back to the Media, New York: Facts On File, page 29:

(US, figurative) A leader; an influencer.


goitered gazelle

goitered gazelle (plural goitered gazelles)

A gazelle species found in Central Asia and the Near East (Gazella subgutturosa).


bastard hartebeest

bastard hartebeest (plural bastard hartebeests or bastard hartebeest)

bastard hartebeests (plural)
bastard hartebeest (plural)

We saw a small herd of sassadybies, or bastard hartebeesten, and in getting a long shot at one of them I passed so close to a leopard or panther, that I might have killed it, had I seen it before it escaped.

1871 August 20, [Thomas] Baines, quotee, “Exploration. Exploration and Hunting in South Africa.”, in The Australasian, volume XII, number 323, Melbourne, Vic., published 1872 June 8, page 710, column 3:


dieb

The African jackal or dieb (C. anthus, same as in the preceding genus) […]

1869, George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, page 674:

A canine of northern Africa, the African golden wolf (Canis lupaster, formerly considered an African variant of the golden jackal, Canis aureus).


crocidurate

(zoology) Any shrew of the genus Crocidura.


Pom

(informal) Synonym of Pomeranian, a dog breed or a dog of this breed.


sand gazelle

slender-horned gazelle
slender-horned gazelle

slender-horned gazelle, Gazella leptoceros


buffalypso

If we were able to substantially increase the size of Trinidad and Tobago's buffalypso herd, we would have an extremely valuable export commodity.

1984, New Zealand Veterinary Association: Dairy Cattle Society, Proceedings of the Seminar, page 127:

These techniques would also promote the exploitation of unique material, such as the buffalypso of Trinidad and Tobago and blackbelly sheep of Barbados.

1989, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Strategy of Action for Reactivation of Agriculture in the Caribbean Countries, page 44:

Driving south from Port of Spain along the Uriah Butler highway, you will see sugar, citrus and rice fields, maybe a few buffalypso (buffaloes which have been selectively bred for meat), and Hindu temples and mosques.

2014, Sarah Cameron, Trinidad and Tobago Footprint Focus Guide, →ISBN, page 58..:

Bubalus bubalis
Bubalus bubalis#Translingual

A variety of water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), developed in 1949 by Trinidad veterinarian Stephen Bennett for meat and haulage.


lion's provider

The jackal, from its supposed practice of finding prey for the lion.

It isn't that Fan must not be a lion's provider — but she mustn't be any one else's but yours. I see now what brings you about our house so much. You want to get hold of Fan and her business and little savings for yourself, do you?

1870, Thomas Wright, The bane of a life, volume 2, page 109:

(figurative) Any humble friend or follower.


daily double

Other than this defect, the payoffs are remarkably similar; as it is, if your choice is between the daily double and the parlay, bet on the former!

1991, Peter Asch, Richard E. Quandt, Racetrack Betting: The Professor's Guide to Strategies, →ISBN, page 169:

(horse racing or dog racing) A bet on the first-place winners of two consecutive races.


siksik

Arctic ground squirrel
Arctic ground squirrel#English


whalebone whale

whalebone whale (plural whalebone whales)


lesser kudu

lesser kudu (plural lesser kudus or lesser kudu)

lesser kudus (plural)
lesser kudu (plural)

A forest antelope found in East Africa (Tragelaphus imberbis).


flying phalanger

flying phalanger (plural flying phalangers)


arctostylopid

Any extinct mammal of the order Arctostylopida


balbarine

Any macropod of the subfamily Balbarinae


bulungamayine

Any extinct kangaroo in the potoroid subfamily Bulungamayinae


shrew possum

Synonym of shrew opossum (Caenolestidae)


horse-comb

/ˈhɔːsˌkəʊm/

From Middle English horscomb, horsecombe, horskame, horskambe, from Old English horscamb (“horse-comb, curry-comb”), equivalent to horse + comb.

inh

A Horſe-comb. Strigilis.

1675, Christopher Wase, Dictionarium Minus, A Compendious Dictionary English-Latin and Latin-English […] , 2nd edition, page 599:

In the reign of Henry V, the service seems to have been changed to the annual delivery of a “horse comb, value four-pence.”

1837, “Driving to Cover:-Portrait of J. S. W. S. Erle Drax, Esq. Charborough Park, Dorsetshire.”, in The New Sporting Magazine, volume 13, number 79, page 262:

After six weeks in Belgium he arrived in England with only two possessions: an aluminium horse comb and a handkerchief.

2003, Pamela Howe Taylor, The Germans We Trusted: Stories of Friendship Resulting from the Second World War, →ISBN, page 34:

A curry comb (comb used for brushing a horse's coat)


cremello

A horse with a cream-coloured coat due to the presence of two copies of the cream genes

palomino

horse that has one copy of the cream gene


desmodontine

Any vampire bat of the subfamily Desmodontinae


diprotodont

(biology) Any marsupial of the order Diprotodontia


great cat

Any large feline animal, especially one of the Panthera genus, including tigers, lions, jaguars and leopards.


finless porpoise

en-noun

finless porpoise (plural finless porpoises)

Neophocaena phocaenoides, a species of porpoise that lacks a true dorsal fin and is found in the coastal waters of Asia, especially around Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Bangladesh.


scratch race

(horse racing) A catchweight horse race.


Leadbeater's possum

Leadbeater's possum (plural Leadbeater's possums)

Named in 1867 after John Leadbeater, taxidermist at the Museum Victoria.

Gymnobelideus leadbeateri, an endangered possum of Australia.


hairy armadillo

hairy armadillo (plural hairy armadillos)

Andean hairy armadillo
Andean hairy armadillo

Certain species of armadillo found in South America.

of species of Chaetophractus (family Chlamyphoridae)

Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi), present in Bolivia

big hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus villosus), one of the largest and most numerous armadillos in southern South America; peludo

screaming hairy armadillo
screaming hairy armadillo

screaming hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus), a burrowing armadillo found in the central and southern parts of South America

Dasypus pilosus
Dasypus pilosus#Translingual

hairy long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus pilosus) (family Dasypodidae), endemic to Peru


Indiana bat

Myotis sodalis, a medium-sized mouse-eared bat native to North America.


Uinta chipmunk

Derives from the Ute word Yoov-we-teuh, meaning pine forest or pine tree.

Neotamias umbrinus, a chipmunk endemic to the United States.


weight for age

[H]e would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Flemington.

2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 243:

(horse racing) Handicapped according to the age of the racehorse competing (and certain other factors).


weight for age

"What did I say about Nightcap last week? Here he's won the Weight for Age at twelve to one."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 140:


mountain nyala

An antelope native to mountain woodlands of central Ethiopia (Tragelaphus buxtoni).


harnessed bushbuck

harnessed bushbuck (plural harnessed bushbucks)

Tragelaphus scriptus
Tragelaphus scriptus#Translingual

(zoology) The more northern and westernmost of the two bushbuck species of sub-Saharan Africa (considered a single species by some sources), Tragelaphus scriptus


Cape bushbuck

One of the two bushbuck species of sub-Saharan Africa, the imbabala (Tragelaphus sylvaticus).


tragelaphine

Any such antelopes in the bovid tribe Tragelaphini


hippotragine

en-adj

hippotragine (comparative more hippotragine, superlative most hippotragine)

more hippotragine (comparative)
most hippotragine (superlative)

of, pertaining to or resembling antelopes in the bovid subfamily Hippotraginae, the oryxes, roan and sable antelopes, etc.


reduncine

reduncine (comparative more reduncine, superlative most reduncine)

more reduncine (comparative)
most reduncine (superlative)

Of, pertaining to or resembling antelopes in the bovid subfamily Reduncinae, which includes kobs, lechwes, reedbucks, waterbucks, etc.


reduncine

Any such antelope in the bovid subfamily Reduncinae.


nanook

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᓇᓄᖅ (nanoq, “polar bear”).

Let's build a nanook. A big one. Almost as big as a real one!

1935, Armstrong Sperry, One Day with Tuktu: An Eskimo Boy:

"I have a way with nanooks," Mazwuk explained, hoping that none would notice the tremor in his voice, […]

She dressed: white T-shirt, black jeans, blue sweatshirt with the gold UAF nanook on the front, white anklets, black-and-white Nike tennis shoes.

2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 110:

Promising in her Inaugural Address to protect the state like a "nanook defending her cub," she has continued to play down social issues as governor.

2008, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time - Volume 172, page 102:


trash panda

From a likening of the black patches around a raccoon's eyes to similar markings on a giant panda, it being in the same superfamily as the red panda, and a reference to its tendency to forage for garbage in urban environments.

Braddock Baskett of the Orlando-area attempted to give some raccoons food. […] Maybe he should’ve taken his own warning before feeding the “trash panda”.

2016 April 30, Zach Dennis, “Florida man tries to feed ‘trash panda’ in epic fail”, in Palm Beach Post, retrieved 2018-04-13:

[T]he family baby, Jack-Jack, sees a raccoon eating from the family’s garbage can while his father, Mr. Incredible, is sleeping, and uses his superpowers […] to do battle with the trash panda.

2017 July 14, Josh Rottenberg, “All the intel on Disney and Pixar's new slate of animated films”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2018-04-13:

A video posted to Facebook on Saturday shows a trash panda breaking into a “raccoon-proof” green bin in less than 30 seconds.

2018 April 12, Alanna Rizza, “It took this raccoon 30 seconds to break into a raccoon-proof green bin”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 2018-04-13:

(US, Canada, slang, humorous) A raccoon, especially one that forages in garbage cans.


dumpster bandit

en-noun

dumpster bandit (plural dumpster bandits)


conilurine

Characteristic of rodents of the genus Conilurus


Tapanuli orangutan

Tapanuli orangutan (plural Tapanuli orangutans)

The Tapanuli orangutan survives in northern Sumatra and it is already the most endangered great ape in the world; researchers estimate less than 800 individuals survive.

2018 April 23, Jeremy Hance, The Guardian:

A species of orangutan, Pongo tapanuliensis, native to South Tapanuli in the Indonesian island of Sumatra.


microchiropteran

From translingual Microchiroptera + -an.

suf

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Microchiroptera</i>

Any microbat of the suborder Microchiroptera


peramelian

Any marsupial of the former order Peramelia (now Peramelemorphia)


pangopup

(informal, neologism) A young pangolin; a scaly anteater pup.


bastard strangles

From bastard (“a variation that is not genuine”) + strangles.

When horſes have either the real or baſtard ſtrangles, or are changing their foal teeth, or are putting out their upper tuſhes, ſome of them have their ſight weak and troubled, [...]

1735, “EYE of a horse”, in The Sportsman’s Dictionary: Or, The Country Gentleman’s Companion, in All Rural Recreations: […], volume I, London: Printed for C. Hitch, […], and C. Davis, […]; and S. Austin, […], →OCLC, paragraph 3:

Monſieur Solleyſell, as well as our own Countryman Mr. Markham, has accounted for the Baſtard Strangles in a very odd kind of Manner.

1742, Henry Bracken, “Of the Bastard Strangles”, in Farriery Improv’d: Or, A Compleat Treatise upon the Art of Farriery. […], London: Printed for J. Clarke […]; and J. Shuckburgh […], →OCLC, page 29:

The origin of the term strangles arises from the fact that in some cases it is associated with symptoms of choking or strangulation, and it was divided by the old writers into simple and bastard strangles; the first form being that which ran a regular course, and the second consisting in the formation of multiple or successive abscesses. [...] Irregular or bastard strangles, on the other hand, is a very grave affection, in which the connective tissue of the lymphatics of the submaxillary region, and sometimes the salivary glands, are the seat of acute suppurative inflammation, [...]

1878, William Williams, “Terminations of Inflammation—Continued”, in The Principles and Practice of Veterinary Surgery, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, New York, N.Y.: Wm. Wood & Co. […], →OCLC, page 43:

The most common complication is bastard strangles, metastatic spread of the infection to lymph nodes and organs other than the nodes of the head.

2004, Bonnie Rush, Tim Mair, “Strangles”, in Equine Respiratory Diseases, Oxford, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Science, →ISBN, section III (Contagious Respiratory Diseases), page 164:

Isolation of infected animals can prevent epidemics of strangles and is recommended for new additions to a herd or group. In some horses, purpura hemorrhagica and even bastard strangles may follow vaccination, though this is relatively rare.

2005, Will A. Hadden III, “Head and Neck”, in Cheryl Rogers, G. Jeanne Wilcox, editors, Horseman’s Veterinary Encyclopedia, revised and updated edition, Guilford, Conn.: The Lyons Press, →ISBN, page 352:

Bastard strangles, in which abscessation develops in many organs, is a serious complication in about 1% of affected animals.

2011, P[atrick] J. Quinn et al., “Streptococci”, in Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease, 2nd edition, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, section III (Pathogenic Bacteria), page 192, column 1:

upper respiratory tract
upper respiratory tract

(veterinary medicine) A form of strangles, a bacterial upper respiratory tract infection of horses potentially causing airway obstruction, that has spread to other parts of the body and caused abscesses.

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form of strangles that has spread to other parts of the body


cephalophine

Any duiker of the subfamily Cephalophinae


parka squirrel

So called because the Eskimos use the pelts of these squirrels to make parkas.

On the prairie there are little mounds made by generations of parka squirrels. The old-time Eskimo would find a bear that was hunting squirrels and then slip around into its path. Prone behind a parka squirrel's mound, the Eskimo would thrust up his forearm with fist doubled to imitate a squirrel, at the same time chirping like an alarmed squirrel.

2001, Larry Kaniut, Bear Tales for the Ages: From Alaska and Beyond, →ISBN, page 121:

They only had one parka squirrel coat.

2003, James Kari, James A. Fall, Shem Pete, Shem Pete's Alaska: The Territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina, →ISBN:

The wolves had not noticed the distant caribou, and Cris gave each a parka squirrel to hold them with him.


Arctic ground squirrel

en-noun

Arctic ground squirrel (plural Arctic ground squirrels)

Any of various members of the genus Spermophilus that are native to the arctic, including (but not limited to) Spermophilus parryii and Spermophilus undulatus.


caluromyine

Any woolly opossum of the genus Caluromys


woolly opossum

Any of three opossums of the genus Caluromys.


marmosine

(zoology) Any mouse opossum of the tribe Marmosini.


Bemaraha woolly lemur

Bemaraha woolly lemur (plural Bemaraha woolly lemurs)

“I’m absurdly fond of the little creatures,” said Cleese, who made a documentary about lemurs in Madagascar in 1998, and now lives on there in name at least in the Bemaraha woolly lemur (Avahi cleesei).

A species of lemur, Avahi cleesei, native to western Madagascar.


grinny

The phrase "grinny chipmunk" is first attested in 1898 (see quotation below). Perhaps from Etymology 1 above.

Reason thus, and if your heart beats till it hurts your ribs as a gray squirrel whisks across the dry leaves or a ‘grinny chipmunk’ waves you a derisive signal with his little flag from a log before your very nose, call yourself ‘fool,’ ‘idiot,’ anything that comes handy.

[1898 November, B. W. Mitchell, “A Thanksgiving Deer Hunt in West Virginia”, in Outing, page 143:

(Western Pennsylvania) An eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus.


southern hairy-nosed wombat

southern hairy-nosed wombat (plural southern hairy-nosed wombats)

Scientists have spent two wombat breeding seasons seeking to better understand the sex lives of vulnerable southern hairy-nosed wombats, using 24-hour infrared cameras and urine samples.

2018 May 10, Christopher Knaus, The Guardian:

A species of wombat, Lasiorhinus latifrons, native to southern Australia.


vaquita marina

The vaquita marina, known as the "panda of the sea" for the distinctive markings circling its eyes, has been pushed to the brink of extinction by illegal gillnet fishing.

The nets used to catch the totoaba have also contributed to the demise of another critically endangered species, the vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise.


northern quoll

Cane toads, which were introduced into Queensland in the 1930s to control crop pests, have been responsible for wiping out many native animals, including local populations of the endangered northern quoll, the smallest of Australia’s four quoll species.

2018 March 19, Amy McNeilage, The Guardian:

A species of quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus, native to parts of northern Australia.


hit the board

en-verb

hit the board (third-person singular simple present hits the board, present participle hitting the board, simple past and past participle hit the board)

hits the board (present singular third-person)
hitting the board (participle present)
hit the board (participle past)
hit the board (past)

(horse racing) To finish in first, second, third or fourth place, thus appearing on the winners' board.


Sulawesi warty pig

en-noun

Sulawesi warty pig (plural Sulawesi warty pigs)

The genetic data (mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite data) for the Sulawesi warty pig specimens show that populations from different parts of the island diverged from an ancestral population that lived around 2.19m years ago.

2018 May 17, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:


Galápagos fur seal

Galápagos fur seal (plural Galápagos fur seals)

Like the penguins, the Galápagos fur seals tend to concentrate in the islands in the north-west near the cold upwelling and have to use many techniques to keep cool on land.

1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 32:

A small species of fur seal, Arctocephalus galapagoensis, endemic to the Galápagos Islands.


trace horse

One of the outside horses, in a team of three or more horses that are harnessed side-by-side, drawing a load or vehicle.

σειρᾱφόρος

outside horse in a team of three or more


bastard big-footed mouse

bastard big-footed mouse (plural bastard big-footed mice)

From the taxonomic name, from the surname of the person who discovered it.

(rare) Macrotarsomys bastardi, a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae, found only in Madagascar.

Alphonse Milne-Edwards
Guillaume Grandidier


hedgy-boar

Aw loar! the owld gipsies what do live 'pon hedgyboors and that soort of mait, was more betterer off then we wor was regaard to livin'.

c. 1860, John Tabois Tregellas, “California”, in Cornish Tales, page 67:

He sought where grew, in aspect lew, / The skedgwith and the scow, / And he routed the sleepy hedgy-boar, / And the lively padgypaow.

1895, Joseph Thomas, “The Quest of the Gwidgy-gwee”, in Randigal Rhymes, page 15:

Billy was a forthy fellow, prickly as a hedgyboar.

2011, Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy; 2):

(Devon and Cornwall, now rare) A hedgehog.


designer dog

A cross-breed dog which has been intentionally bred from two or more recognized dog breeds.


artiodactylan

Any even-toed ungulate of the order Artiodactyla


cetancodontamorphan

The {anthracotheriid {Siamotherium is sister to the remaining cetancodontamorphans (Figure 2).

2009 September 30, Michelle Spaulding, ResearchGate:

Any artiodactyl of the clade Cetancodontamorpha


cetancodontan

Any animal of the clade with the proposed name Cetancodonta (currently Whippomorpha)


African lion

A lion inhabiting Africa, formerly thought to comprise a subspecies.


greater mouse-eared bat

greater mouse-eared bat (plural greater mouse-eared bats)

Most at risk are the Scottish wildcat and the once-widespread black rat, while there is only a single male greater mouse-eared bat left.

2018 June 13, Damian Carrington, The Guardian:

A species of mouse-eared bat, Myotis myotis, native to Europe.


Nathusius's pipistrelle

Nathusius's pipistrelle (plural Nathusius's pipistrelles)

Nathusius’ pipistrelle bat may also be troubled by having to run a growing gauntlet of offshore wind farms on their migration from continental Europe.

A species of pipistrelle, Pipistrellus nathusii, widespread across Europe.


black-and-white ruffed lemur

black-and-white ruffed lemur (plural black-and-white ruffed lemurs)

Rustling branches and a canopy cacophony – part howl, part screech, part snigger – proclaim the presence of black-and-white ruffed lemurs as visitors enter Ivoloina zoological park in eastern Madagascar.

2018 February 24, Jonathan Watts, The Guardian:

A species of ruffed lemur, Varecia variegata, endemic to Madagascar.


Groves' dwarf lemur

Groves' dwarf lemur (plural Groves' dwarf lemurs)

The latest discovery – the Groves’ dwarf lemur from the south of the island – was only confirmed last month, but it may well follow rapidly on to the red list of threatened species.

A species of lemur, Cheirogaleus grovesi, first formally described in 2017.


painted tree rat

painted tree rat (plural painted tree rats)

Callistomys pictus, a spiny rat from Brazil.


armored rat

Hoplomys gymnurus, a spiny rodent of Latin America.


hoof pick

A hooked tool, usually of metal, used to clean the hooves of a horse.

patakaparó

a hooked tool used to clean the hooves of a horse


Antarctic minke whale

Antarctic minke whale (plural Antarctic minke whales)

Some species have rebounded since then – humpbacks and Antarctic minke whales, for instance, are expected to reach their pre-whaling population numbers by 2050.

2018 June 20, Chelsea Murray, The Guardian:

Balaenoptera bonaerensis
Balaenoptera bonaerensis#Translingual

A species of minke whale, Balaenoptera bonaerensis, found mainly in the southern hemisphere.


pupperino

An ice cream social is in the works for July 17 with pupperino-approved ice cream and popsicles.

2017, Jessica Elizarraras, “Food Court”, in San Antonio Current, 14-20 June 2017, page 33:

C'mon, we live in a society—can a man not keep a well-behaved pupperino in his own apartment?

2018, Hanna Jane Cohen, "The Dog Hating HOA", Reykjavík Grapevine, 10-23 August 2018, page 62

As dog owners it is your civic duty to spend your public Labour Day holiday by taking your special pupperino to a pool paddling puppy extravaganza in Belgrave.

2019 March 5, Derek Schlennstedt, “Splish, splash, doggos are taking a bath”, in Ferntree Gully Mail, page 6:

(Internet slang) Synonym of dog or puppy.


mammophant

However, several generations of “mammophant” breeding would be necessary before it would be possible to sire a genetically “pure” mammoth.

2002, Allen A. Debus, Diane E. Debus, Dinosaur Memories, page 186:

Herds of mammophants pining for the fjords aren’t quite within the realm of what’s possible.

2017 February 22, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:

Church and his team plan to create the mammophant by endowing the egg cell of an Asian elephant with the genes for red blood cells that operate efficiently at low temperature, an enhanced fat layer under the skin, and a luxuriant covering of hair and fur - all from the woolly mammoth genome.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 309:

A (hypothetical) cross between a woolly mammoth and an elephant.


ausktribosphenidan

From translingual Ausktribosphenidae + -an.

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translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Ausktribosphenidae</i>

Any therian of the family Ausktribosphenidae


aetiocetid

A 25-million-year-old fossil whale from Washington State, specimen NMV P252567 – or ‘Alfred’ to his friends – belongs to an extinct group of whales called aetiocetids.

2016 November 30, Elsa Panciroli, “How did the whale get its 'moustache'?”, in The Guardian:

A member of the extinct family of baleen whales Aetiocetidae.


baudrons

Perhaps of Celtic origin. See beadrach (“a frolicsome girl”).


anagalid

An extinct mammal of the family Anagalidae or genus Anagale


mimotonid

Any extinct lagomorph of the family Mimotonidae


zalambdalestid

Any extinct mammal of the family Zalambdalestidae


cow belt

From the widespread practices venerating cattle in that region in northern India. Influenced by the English term Bible Belt.

(India) A rural region of Northern India, extending over the BIMARU states.


gibnut

Borrowed from Belizean Creole gibnat, gibnut, givnat, from Miskito ibina, ibihna, ibinha.

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From the Heart of the Maya Empire to a Retreat for Buccaneers, a Safe-haven for Ex-pirates and Pioneers, a Crown Colony and Modern Nation

The woods abound in game and wild animals, the small red deer, ten varieties of wild hog, the peccary (Dicotyles labiatus) and waree (a mere variety), the paca (Cœlogenys subnigra), a burrowing animal locally called gibbonet or gibnut, considered good eating; [...]

1883, Archibald Robertson Gibbs, “The Labour Question—Climate—Productions—Flora and Fauna—and General Features”, in British Honduras: An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Colony from Its Settlement, 1670. […], London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 185:

We have some splendid game in these woods, among which is the gibnut, a beautiful little animal, which, when cooked, tastes very much like a nice, fat little pig. [From the New York Sun.]

1884 August 23, “In the Honduras forests”, in D. P. Kingsley, editor, Grand Junction News, volume II, number 44, Grand Junction, Colo.: Price & Kingsley, →OCLC, page 4, column 3:

On digging in the earth in this cave, we found the arm and leg bones of a single skeleton. [...] We also found the lower jaw of a gibnut and of another small rodent, but no other bones.

1895 May 16, T[homas] Gann, “[Notes on the Exploration of Two Mounds in British Honduras]”, in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, volume XV (Second Series), London: Printed by Nichols and Sons, for the Society of Antiquaries [of London], […], →OCLC, page 433:

While hunting for a gibnut he traced one to a hole in the ground; on poking a stick into this hole, he was astonished on withdrawing it to find that he had brought out on its end a small painted pottery cylinder. The hole on being enlarged proved to be the entrance to a chultun, one of those curious underground chambers cut in the limestone rock found throughout Yucatan and the northern part of British Honduras, especially in the neighborhood of ruins.

1918, Thomas W[illiam] F[rancis] Gann, “Description of Mounds [Mound No. 41]”, in The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin; 64), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 138:

One reason people come to Belize is for adventure. That's why you might want to try gibnut, bamboo chicken and cow's foot soup.

1993, Richard Harris, Stacy Ritz, edited by Joanna Pearlman, The Maya Route: The Ultimate Guidebook: Yucatan, Belize, Guatemala, Cancún, Berkeley, Calif.: Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 359:

The three men had bagged an iguana and two gibnuts. Except for the spots on their backs, the gibnuts resembled twenty-pound guinea pigs.

2009, Joan Fry, How to Cook a Tapir: A Memoir of Belize (At Table series), Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 77:

But what he knows to do is hunt gibnut as was amply demonstrated when he opened his sack. A pair of gibnuts but he didn't use the gun on them, he smoked them out of a tree bark and used the machete and bundled them for good measure with a few xate leaves.

2009 December 7, Jules Vasquez, “Illegal Xatero in Chiquibul Busted on Camera”, in 7 News Belize, archived from the original on 2010-01-05:

In the case of gibnut (Agouti paca), however, my memories are occupied predominately with my efforts to avoid eating this creature.

2011, Helen R. Haines, “A Rat by Any Other Name: Conflicting Definitions of ‘Dinner’ in Belize, Central America”, in Helen R. Haines, Clare A. Sammells, editors, Adventures in Eating: Anthropological Experiences in Dining from Around the World, Boulder, Colo.: University Press of Colorado, →ISBN, section I (The Main Course), page 45:

(Belize) A paca (“a large rodent of the genus Cuniculus native to Central America and South America, which has dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides”).


ewe lamb

It was my first book, my only book, my ewe lamb; but it was not a “work,” not an “important publication, ” like Mr. Lecky's “Map of Life." The reviewers did not welcome it either eagerly or seriously.

1900, The Book Lover, numbers 5-10, page 234:

A poor person's sole possession (in reference to the Bible, 2 Samuel xii).


phalangeriform

Any marsupial of the suborder Phalangeriformes


gaudeamurid

Any extinct hystricognathous rodent of the family Gaudeamuridae


northern palm squirrel

en-noun

northern palm squirrel (plural northern palm squirrels)

In Perth, the Indian northern palm squirrel was released in 1898 and since then has maintained a healthy population thanks to the abundant fruits of African date palms and other exotic palm trees in the city.

2018, Menno Schilthuizen, “Darwin comes to town”, in The Guardian:

A species of squirrel, Funambulus pennantii, native to the Indian subcontinent.


mountain lioness

mountain lioness (plural mountain lionesses)


octodontoid

Any rodent of the superfamily Octodontoidea


lettice

From Middle English letuse, from Anglo-Norman letuse; further etymology is unknown.

(historical) A kind of whitish-grey fur from the winter coat of the least weasel.


lettice

lettice (countable and uncountable, plural lettices)

To have Syrup of Succory compounded with Rhubarb; Take ſome whole Barley-Corns, the Roots of Smallage, Fennel, and Sparagraſs, with some white crude Tartar, of each two Ounces; two Leaves of Succory, Dandelion, Endive or Scariole, ſmooth Sow-Thiſtle, common Lettice, and Sage […]

1725, [Noël] Chomel, “SYRUP”, in R[ichard] Bradley, editor, Dictionaire Oeconomique: Or, The Family Dictionary. […], volume II (I–Z), London: […] D[aniel] Midwinter, […], →OCLC, column 1:

Obsolete spelling of lettuce.; however, more often a misspelling of lettuce.


balaenopteroid

Any baleen whale of the superfamily Balaenopteroidea


herpetocetine

Any mysticete of the subfamily Herpetocetinae


nandine

(archaic) A small West African carnivore, Nandinia binotata, with spots on its sides.


boonder

Obsolete form of bandar (“rhesus macaque”).


breastgirth

An oblong application supporting the mammaries of a human female


stirrup leather

stirrup leather (plural stirrup leathers)

The strap of leather that supports a stirrup.


dogmonaut

(humorous, rare) A dog sent to space by the Soviet space program.


caenopithecine

Any extinct primate of the subfamily Caenopithecinae


cercamoniine

Any extinct primate of the subfamily Cercamoniinae


dryolestoid

Any extinct mammal of the superorder Dryolestoidea


euprimate

Any true primate (member of the order Primates but not of the order Dermoptera)


guariba

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese guariba, from Old Tupi gûariba. Other early European spellings/renderings of the same Tupian word include guariva, guariha, uariba, waariba, and in French ouarive/ouariue (which was misread as ouarine, giving rise to that word and, by anglicization of it, to warine).
The Century Dictionary suggests a possible relation to araguato and/or araba (an obsolete word for a howler monkey of the genus Mycetes); the New English Dictionary directs readers to compare alouatte and araguato.

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[He saw] ahead of him the carcass of a guariba. It was drifting towards them, [...]

It was not a man at all, it was a guariba. Of all the prehensile-tailed monkeys which haunt the forests of the Upper Amazon the guariba is without doubt the most eccentric. Of sociable disposition, and not very savage, ...

1911, Jules Verne, The five hundred millions of the begum, page 261:

THE MAN WHO MARRIED THE GUARIBA MONKEY
There was once a man who unknowingly married a guariba monkey in human form. The couple lived together until she grew pregnant; she then suggested a visit to her father.

1963, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology:

Any of several South American howler monkeys with prehensile tails.


Malabar rat

(obsolete) A bandicoot (rodent of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia).


winter white Russian hamster

en-noun

winter white Russian hamster (plural winter white Russian hamsters)

A Djungarian hamster (Phodopus sungorus).


hare-wallaby

Any of several wallabies of the genera Lagorchestes and Lagostrophus.


lagomerycid

Any extinct deer of the subfamily Lagomerycinae


pliopithecoid

From scientific Latin Pliopithecoidea (superfamily name).

Pliopithecoids persisted in Europe, Asia and Africa long after the first true apes and Old World monkeys appeared, and the fossil of one was the specimen Darwin was referred to.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 110:

A member of the extinct superfamily of catarrhine primates, Pliopithecoidea.


moudiewart

My faith, he's as black as a craw, and as sleek as a moudiewart.

1828, M. Corbett, Tales and Legends - Volume 1, page 62:

It's an unyearthly kind of trade, turning night intil day, and working like moudiewarts in the dark, when decent folks are in their beds sleeping—And so, as I was saying, ye see, it happened ae Sunday night that a chap cam to the back door; and the mistress too heard it.

1853, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith, page 96:

O gin my sons were moudiewarts To hide into the earth, O gin my head lay in the mools Ere I had gien them birth !

1925, Alexander Keith, Last leaves of traditional ballads and ballad airs, page 255:


snub-nosed monkey

snub-nosed monkey (plural snub-nosed monkeys)

Any monkey of the old-world genus Rhinopithecus.


counter-canter

She used to come to the indoor riding school at Knightsbridge and ride my charger, Foxhunter, which I taught to do counter-canters, extended trots, half-passes and other dressage movements.

2005, James Hewitt, Moving On, →ISBN, page 11:

Before you start teaching your horse to do a flying change, you need to be able to perform counter-canter.

2012, William Micklem, Complete Horse Riding Manual, →ISBN, page 151:

Because it challenges your horse's balance and strengthens his outside hind leg, the counter-canter is an excellent gymnastic exercise for improving balance and collection.

2012, Jennifer O. Bryant, The USDF Guide to Dressage, →ISBN:

(dressage) To canter in a circle, leading with the leg opposite to the direction of the canter.


Boxador

A dog that is a cross between a boxer and a labrador.


Labradane

A dog that is a cross between a labrador and a Great Dane.


make biscuits

en-verb

make biscuits (third-person singular simple present makes biscuits, present participle making biscuits, simple past and past participle made biscuits)

makes biscuits (present singular third-person)
making biscuits (participle present)
made biscuits (participle past)
made biscuits (past)

(idiomatic, informal, intransitive) Of a cat, to knead with the front paws.


cardiocraniine

Any rodent of the subfamily Cardiocraniinae


dipodoid

Any rodent of the superfamily Dipodoidea


ailuropodin

Any giant panda of the subfamily Ailuropodinae


amphipithecid

Any extinct monkey of the family Amphipithecidae


caviine

Any guinea pig or similar animal of the subfamily Caviinae


ghost moose

He is all white lak de moon on de watair. He come not often, oh, ver' seldom." "What !" cried I, "is he a ghost moose?" "Yaas, jes' so — a ghost moose."

1905, Bret Harte, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, page 71:

In camp that evening the discussion turned to strategy for the campaign against the ghost moose. He was given to hanging out near the mouth of a sluggish stream which drained a big swamp far back in the spruce.

1958, T.S. Denison, Hunting Adventures, page 123:

Its massive head, shaggy and white, fell out of an old '78 Ford pickup, as my friends and I sat on our ten-speed bikes listening to the three Americans drinking Coca-Colas outside Sam's Place joke about how they shot the ghost moose coming out of a swamp south of Pickle Lake.

2006, Christopher Banks, The Cold Panes of Surfaces, page 49:

"A rare ghost moose."

1996, Wayne Mergler, The last new land: stories of Alaska, past and present, page 419:

(Canada) Synonym of spirit moose (“a white moose”)


dolichotine

Any mara (rodent) of the subfamily Dolichotinae


hyaenodontidan

Any extinct mammal of the clade Hyaenodonta


hyaenodontine

Any extinct mammal of the subfamily Hyaenodontinae


hydrochoerine

Any rodent of the subfamily Hydrochoerinae.


maradid

Any extinct marsupial of the family Maradidae


vombatomorphian

Any marsupial of the suborder Vombatiformes


zygomaturine

In turn, there are two subfamilies of the diprotodontids: the zygomaturines, whose members have multi-cusped last upper premolars; and the diprotodontines, whose members have much simpler premolars.

2000, Michael Archer, Australia's Lost World: Prehistoric Animals of Riversleigh, page 111:

Any extinct marsupial of the subfamily Zygomaturinae.


nandiniid

(zoology) Any palm civet of the family Nandiniidae


river hog

Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris#Translingual

(obsolete) capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)


borophagine

1989, Kathleen Munthe, The Skeleton of the Borophaginae (Carnivora, Canidae): Morphology and Function, Publications in Geological Sciences, Volume 133, University of California Press, page 66,
Except in Borophagus and late Hemphillian Osteoborus, there is an entepicondylar foramen in borophagines, found in no living canid or hyaenid, but characteristic of felid humeri. In C. lupus and borophagines the lateral epicondyle bears two or more facets for the origin of the carpal and digital extensors and the supinator muscle.

The arctoids and early borophagine canids are the hallmark of the North American Mid-Miocene epoch.

1993, Frederick S. Szalay, Michael J. Novacek, Malcolm C. McKenna, Mammal Phylogeny: Placentals, Springer-Verlag, page 69:

The history of the borophagines also begins with a small fox-like form, Archaeocyon, in the late Oligocene.

2007, X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, “1: Evolutionary History of Canids”, in Per Jensen, editor, The Behavioural Biology of Dogs, CABI, page 10:

Any extinct canid of the subfamily Borophaginae; a bone-crushing dog.


condylarthran

Any extinct mammal of the order Condylarthra


pale-throated sloth

en-noun

pale-throated sloth (plural pale-throated sloths)

Bradypus tridactylus, a sloth that lives in the forests of northern South America.


paleomerycid

Any extinct ruminant of the family Palaeomerycidae


noctilionoid

Any bat of the superfamily Noctilionoidea


smilodontine

Any extinct cat of the tribe Smilodontini


red ape

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, ape.


insectivoran

Any animal of the former order Insectivora


wolfaboo

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

Undaunted, Bridges has continued telling his story, thanking “all of you wolf loving fools” for gaining him new followers on his Wolf Control website. “I only had to ban 150 or so wolfaboos,” he crowed. “You people are your own worst enemies ... please, please, keep it up.”

2014 November 8, Betsy Marston, “Heard around the west”, in Lewiston News-Argus, volume 132, number 127, page 4:

Last year I came across a forum where wolfaboos believed that they were "special snowflakes" who where blessed with the ability to physically shape shift into wolves.

2018, Scary Garry SG1, 99, unnumbered page

Frustration with fluff and wolfaboos is understandable: at stake in Otherkin representation is not merely an opinion about how the community should be characterized, but the very idea that Otherkin identification is a viable way to exist in the world.

2019, Devin Proctor, "On Being Non-Human: Otherkin Identification and Virtual Space", dissertation submitted to George Washington University, page 243

(Internet slang, derogatory) Someone who is obsessed with wolves and identifies with them, especially a furry or otherkin.


macroscelidean

Any insectivorous mammal of the order Macroscelidea; an elephant shrew.


paleoparadoxiid

Any extinct aquatic mammal of the family Paleoparadoxiidae


euarchontogliran

Any mammal of the superorder Euarchontoglires.


marmotine

Any ground squirrel of the tribe Marmotini


australosphenidan

Any echidna or platypus of the infraclass Australosphenida


sivatherine

The sivatherines became the dominant giraffids of the late Miocene terrestrial ecosystems and persisted in Africa until the early Pleistocene, coexisting with the first hominids.

2005, Jordi Agust, Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids:


asiadapine

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Asiadapinae</i>

Any extinct primate of the subfamily Asiadapinae


elephantimorph

Clipping of translingual Elephantimorpha

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Elephantimorpha</i>


Sussex spaniel

The breed was developed in Sussex, England.

A spaniel of a particular low, compact breed having a distinctive golden liver-coloured coat.


telemetacarpal deer

en-noun

telemetacarpal deer (plural telemetacarpal deer)


notharctine

Any extinct primate of the subfamily Notharctinae


plesiadapoid

Any extinct primate of the superfamily Plesiadapoidea


melomys

A rat of the genus Melomys, principally of Australasia.


arietiform

/ˌɛəɹiˈɛtɪfɔːm/

/ˌɛɹiˈɛtɪfɔɹm/

From Latin arietis (the genitive singular of ariēs (“a ram”)) + English -form (suffix meaning ‘having the shape or form of’). Ariēs is derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁r-i-(e)t- (“a certain domestic animal”).

ref

From Robert Ridgway (1886) A Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists, and Compendium of Useful Knowledge for Ornithologists, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, figure XV.

der

The arietiform marks become broader and more prominent.

The great mass of the strata in question clearly belongs to the "Lima-beds or Zone of Ammonites Bucklandi." This is proved by the remarkable abundance of Gryphœa arcuata of the typical form, and by the numerous and fine examples of Lima gigantea which occur—and especially by the presence of such characteristic arietiform Ammonites as A. Bucklandi, Sow., A. Conybeari, Sow., A. Kridion, Hehl, and many others.

1878 January 23, John W[esley] Judd, “39. The Secondary Rocks of Scotland. Third Paper. The Strata of the Western Coast and Islands.”, in The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume XXXIV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer […], →ISSN, →OCLC, section V (Description of the Secondary Strata and Associated Formations in the Western Highlands), page 702:

The species is S[chlegelia] wilsoni, better known as Paradisea or Diphyllodes wilsoni, of Waigiou and Batanta. The male is 7¼ inches long, the tail 2, with its middle pair of feathers as long again, twice crossed and then curled in arietiform figure.

1890–1891, “Schlegelia”, in William Dwight Whitney, editor, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 5391, column 3:

The writer is of the opinion that this grouping is in great need of revision, in the following respects: Halilucites comprises the arietiform Hungarites of the Bosnian Muschelkalk and is either a synonym or subgenus of Eutomoceras Hyatt, for the type species of Hungarites Mojsisovies is one of the arietiform group and closely allied with Eutomoceras laubei Meek, the type of Eutomoceras.

1914, James Perrin Smith, “Systematic Descriptions”, in The Middle Triassic Marine Invertebrate Faunas of North America (United States Geological Survey Professional Paper; 83), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 75:

Discotropites mojsvarensis Smith, […] The form and ornamentation are decidedly arietiform and bear some resemblance to the arietiform Eutomoceras (Halilucites) of the Middle Triassic but differ in the spiral lines, long body chamber, and digitate septa.

1927, James Perrin Smith, “Systematic Descriptions”, in Upper Triassic Marine Invertebrate Faunas of North America (U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper; 141), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 42, column 2:

As compared with D[ipodomys] a[gilis] agilis, D. a. fuscus [a subspecies of kangaroo rat] differs as follows: Dorsal color darker; yellow-orange of sides paler, arietiform facial markings heavier, and black rather than brownish; […]

1943 September 16, Jean T[hresher] Boulware, “Dipodomys agilis fuscus, New Subspecies”, in J. F. Daniel, E. R. Hall, Harold Kirby, S. F. Light, editors, Two New Subspecies of Kangaroo Rats (Genus Dipodomys) From Southern California (University of California Publications in Zoölogy; volume 46, number 7), Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press; London: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 394:

(zoology) Having the shape of a ram's head or of the astrological symbol of Aries, ⟨♈⟩.


meganterid

Any prehistoric feline of the genus Megantereon


argyrolagid

Any extinct metatherian of the family Argyrolagidae


scaletail

From scale + tail, from the scales that appear on the tails.

There is to be found in Africa, only, a flying-squirrel so different in structure and relationships that it is held to represent a separate order by some zoölogists, — the anomalurus lurus, or "scaletail."

1907, Ernest Ingersoll, The life of animals: the mammals, page 446:

The most generalised member of the family is the flightless scaletail (Zenkerella insignis) of West Africa, which has the appearance of a small grey squirrel, although furnished with scales on the tail.

1910, Harmsworth Natural History: A Complete Survey of the Animal Kingdom, page 550:

Scaly-tailed flying squirrels, or scaletails, are placed in 4 genera and about 12 species, all but one of which, the flightless scaletail (Zenkerella insignis), possess gliding membranes.

1983, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Micropaedia (10 v.), page 204:

It can be found both in the capybara and the harvest mouse, in the beaver and the squirrel, and in the meadow mouse and the scaletail.

2013, Pierre-P. Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms: Evidence for a New Theory of Transformation, →ISBN, page 6:

Any of the scaly-tailed species of flying squirrel, especially of Zenkerella insignis; a Cameroon scaly-tail.


Risso's dolphin

en-noun

Risso's dolphin (plural Risso's dolphins)

Named after Antoine Risso, who provided an early description.

Grampus griseus
Grampus griseus#Translingual

Grampus griseus, a large dolphin found in temperate and tropical waters worldwide.


river otter

Any otter of the four species in genus Lontra.

Lontra canadensis (North American river otter)


fjord horse

Probably an anglicisation of Norwegian fjordhest.

a relatively small but very strong horse breed from the mountainous regions of western Norway.


box stall

Then he made out a black horse lying down in the centre of a box stall. The animal plunged at once to its feet, and crowding as far as possible away against the wall, turned its head and stared at them with flashing eyes.

1920, Max Brand, chapter 21, in The Night Horseman, A.L. Burt Company, page 188:

An enclosed stall with walls, within which the animal can move freely.


Arctic wolf

Arctic wolf (countable and uncountable, plural Arctic wolves)

From Arctic + wolf.
From being a wolf found in the Canadian Arctic.

Canis lupus arctos
Canis lupus arctos#Translingual

Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Canadian Arctic Archipelago

(uncountable) Canis lupus arctos; A subspecies of the grey wolf, living in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, including once Greenland, that is all-white.


polar wolf

polar wolf (countable and uncountable, plural polar wolves)

From polar + wolf.
From being a wolf found in the northern polar region, specifically, that of Canada.

Synonym of Arctic wolf (“Canis lupus arctos”)


white wolf

white wolf (countable and uncountable, plural white wolves)

Synonym of Arctic wolf (“Canis lupus arctos”) (an all-white wolf subspecies found in the Canadian Arctic)

Arctic wolf

Synonym of spirit wolf (a mystical creature found in Native American traditions)


takh

Przewalski's horse
Przewalski's horse#English


Madame Berthe's mouse lemur

Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (plural Madame Berthe's mouse lemurs)

Named after the conservationist and primatologist Berthe Rakotosamimanana, of Madagascar.

A small mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae)

Berthe Rakotosamimanana
Madame Berthe's mouse lemur


sicistine

Any birch mouse of the subfamily Sicistinae


birch mouse

Any of the species of the genus Sicista, found in Eurasian forests and steppes.


rousette

Any of a number of species of fruit bat, of the genus Rousettus.

bare-backed rousette (Rousettus spinalatus


stakeswinner

(horse racing) A winner of a stakes race


stakeswinning

(horse racing) Having won a stakes race.


apatotherian

Any extinct mammal of the suborder †Apatotheria (sole family: †Apatemyidae)


cimolestid

Any extinct eutherian of the family †Cimolestidae


nesomyine

Any Malagasy rodent of the subfamily Nesomyinae


pantodontan

Any extinct eutherian mammal of the suborder †Pantodonta


vespertilionoid

Any bat of the superfamily Vespertilionoidea


afroinsectiphilian

Any insectivorous mammal of the clade Afroinsectiphilia.


moon eye

(veterinary medicine) A kind of diseased eye in horses.


winter book

(horse racing) A bookmaker's guide to the likely performance of racehorses in the upcoming season.


warabi

From Wunambal warabi (“mythological site in the Kimberley region (mistakenly taken as name of marsupial)”).

bor

(Australia) Synonym of monjon (“species of rock-wallaby”)


tethytherian

Any of the clade Tethytheria of mammals, including elephants, dugongs, and manatees.


long-eared bat

Any of many vesper bats with ears longer than bats of similar size, especially the brown long-eared bat or common long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus), of Eurasia.


thingodontan

Any extinct marsupial of the informal order Thingodonta, more formally known as †Yalkaparidontia


maltipoo

From malti- (representing Malte(se)) + poo(dle).

Maltipoos are a cross between Maltese and Toy or Miniature Poodles. Their coat might be more like a Poodle's or a Maltese's, or somewhere in between.

2005, Margaret H. Bonham, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Designer Dogs, →OCLC, page 88:

[What is your most treasured possession?] My new dog, Cher. She’s a maltipoo.

2015 August 22, Rosanna Greenstreet, “Q&A: Rita Ora”, in The Guardian:

A dog that is a cross between a Maltese and a miniature poodle.


kenyapithecine

Any extinct ape of the subfamily †Kenyapithecinae


tylomyine

Any rat of the subfamily Tylomyinae of New World rats and mice.


bunnykind

The entirety of rabbits; all rabbits collectively as a group; rabbitkind.


dogtective

I don't bark. I can bark, but I don't. Not that much.
I'm a dogtective.
Dog + detective = dogtective.
I have a real nose for mysteries; solve most of them from this spot on the family-room rug.

1995, Cactus Coyote and Other Stories of Animal Escapades, Highlights for Children, →ISBN, page 35:

Dex Dogtective: [talking to himself] Some dogtective you turned out to be.

(rare, humorous) A detective who is a dog.


kangaroo dog

A good dog of this kind is valuable; but we meet with so many cross-bred mongrels, that half the dogs which are called kangaroo-hounds are hardly worth their keep; and I do think a lazy, half-starved, good-for-nothing kangaroo-dog is the biggest loafer one can see about a tent.

1861, Horace William Wheelwright, Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist:

He was as concerned as a rabbit when it is cornered by a kangaroo dog.

1986, Bruce Pascoe, “The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 103:

(Australia) A dog used to hunt kangaroos; (specifically), a breed of dog for this purpose, developed in Australia from the Scottish deerhound and the greyhound.


squalodelphinid

Any platanistoid river dolphin of the family Squalodelphinidae


itjaritjari

Notoryctes typhlops
Notoryctes typhlops#Translingual

Southern marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops)


louisinid

Any extinct mammal of the genus †Louisina


potoroine

Any small marsupial of the family Potoroidae


tapiromorph

Any tapir or related animal of the superfamily Tapiroidea


ceratomorph

Any odd-toed ungulate of the suborder Ceratomorpha.


shrew mole

Any of various moles that resemble shrews.


gray ground squirrel

en-noun

gray ground squirrel (plural gray ground squirrels)

A ground squirrel of the central US, Franklin’s ground squirrel (Spermophilus franklinii).


afroinsectivoran

Any African insectivorous mammal of the clade Afroinsectivora.


fangaroo

(informal) An extinct fanged kangaroo, Balbaroo fangaroo.


haramiyidan

Any extinct mammal of the order †Haramiyida


kity

(Internet slang, childish, endearing, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of kitty.


golden monkey

The Old World monkey Cercopithecus kandti.