Etruscan shrew

Of particular interest is the Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus), the smallest living mammal, whose adult body mass averages no more than 2 g.

a. 1980, Ewald R. Weibel et al., "The respiratory system of the smallest mammal". Published in: 1980, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Liana Bolis, Charles Richard Taylor, Comparative Physiology: Primitive Mammals, Cambridge University Press, page 181

Not much is known about the habits of the Etruscan shrew, but it swims well - most shrews do - and climbs well, but only if it has to.

1983, David Black, Animal wonders of the world, Exeter Books, page 15:

In spite of its small size, the Etruscan shrew is a fearsome predator for any living prey, provided it is small enough to be tackled: insects, worms, myriapods, and snails are all eaten voraciously because its survival requires incessant feeding.

1999, Jacques Blondel, James Aronson, Biology and Wildlife of the Mediterranean Region, Oxford University Press, page 82:

Suncus etruscus, a species of shrew native to Eurasia.


noseleaf

en-noun

noseleaf (plural noseleafs or noseleaves)

Vampire bats are capable of perceiving infrared radiation (heat) through the pocketings in their noseleaves that can allow them to find a feeding spot on their prey that is well supplied with blood vessels.

2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 23:

The elaborate structure of skin surrounding the nostrils of many species of bat.


shrewmouse

A shrew, especially the common show (also called the erd shrew).


whale fall

A whale carcass that has fallen to the seafloor, which in deeper water can sustain a diverse local ecosystem for decades.


abrocome

From New Latin abrocoma, from Ancient Greek ἁβροκόμης (habrokómēs, “with delicate hair”), from ἁβρός (habrós, “splendid, delicate”) + κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

der

Either of the ratlike rodents that form the genus Abrocoma; rat chinchilla.


stoater

El Hakim's party won a mere trifle, but stood what poor Captain Scott was wont to term "a stoater" on Merlin, a good but uncertain horse, who had "lost" him in the trial at home.

1858, The Irish metropolitan magazine, page 117:

Owners back their horses for such “stoaters,” in short distance races, where a start is everything, that, in too many cases, woe betide the backs and pockets of the lads if they do not jump off in a twinkling.

1860, Sporting Magazine - Volume 36, page 306:

When it was known before starting the sum Lord Portsmouth stood on his filly, there was a perfect furore to back her, as a pony would be ' a perfect stoater ' for him ; and his commission, it was understood, considerably exceeded that sum.

1863, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes - Volume 5, page 96:

(Scotland, Ireland, horse racing) A horse that wins against the odds.


horse cock

en-noun

horse cock (countable and uncountable, plural horse cocks)

Well, if anybody had a big cock it was Bill Woodruff. It was a veritable horse cock.

1962, Henry Miller, Sexus, Grove Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 184:

(countable, vulgar, figuratively, slang) A very large penis.


planigale

The kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei) might pass for a kangaroo rat, except for being about half the size, and the pygmy planigale (Planigale maculata) looks very much like a house mouse (Mus musculus), but smaller.

2006, Michael Allaby, Tropical Forests, page 156:

The two main contenders^([for smallest marsupial]) are the rare long-tailed planigale (Planigale ingrami), a flat-skulled shrew-like creature found in northern Australia, and the rather similar pilbara ningaui (Ningaui timealeyi) from northwestern Australia.

2008, Mark Carwardine, Animal Records, page 79:

Dunnarts in turn compete with smaller native mammals, such as ningauis and planigales.

2013, Astrid Judge, Plant and Animal Conservation, page 12:

Any species of the genus Planigale of small insectivorous marsupials endemic to Australia and New Guinea.


soulili

(obsolete) A long-tailed, crested Javan monkey (Presbytis melalophos, syn. Semnopithecus mitratus).


Diana monkey

In reference to their crescent-shaped browband, held to resemble the crescent on the brow of the goddess Diana.

Cercopithecus diana, an Old World monkey found in West Africa.


mercow

From mer- + cow, modelled after sea-cow.

Ma ruffled my crew cut. "If you'd been the lookout, you'd've told them these were sea cows, not mermaids, right?" "Right," I said. "Mercows," said Mr. Drake behind us. "Moo. Glub glub glub. Moo."

Mercow. The description of pretty mermaids frolicking in the water is so widespread that it was thought there must be a real creature lurking behind the legends.

2012, QI: quite interesting facts about mythical creatures - Telegraph

Any of several marine mammals of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong; sea-cow.


alaunt

From Old French alans, alanz, itself from Old Spanish alán, itself possibly from Gothic *𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐍃 (*alans), designating the Alan tribe of Eastern Iranian origin who were active in Western Europe during the Migration Period and were associated with the breed.

The gentle alaunt is built exactly like a greyhound, except that he has a short, thick head.

1917 trans., Yale University, Transactions - The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 21, page 133:

The alaunt was considered a reckless animal, and had been known to attack domestic animals, or even its owner.

2007, Robert Low, An Ancient History of Dogs: Spaniels Through the Ages, page 121:

There was a streak through the grass, a fast-moving brindle arrow, rough-haired and uncombed. It struck the flank of the alaunt in midleap ...

2011, Ed Judah, The Lion Wakes, page 65:

A domesticated dog of an extinct breed related to the modern bulldog and mastiff, or modern breeds created in imitation of it.


sigmodont

Ancient Greek σῖγμα (sîgma) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”). So called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars.

(zoology) Any of the Sigmodontinae subfamily of rodents, including New World rats and mice.


pteropodid

(zoology) Any of the bat family Pteropodidae.


head shy

en-adj

head shy (comparative more head shy, superlative most head shy)

more head shy (comparative)
most head shy (superlative)

And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all over.

1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, →LCCN, →OL:

But let's say the horse is neither head shy, nor rank, and you can bridle him without fuss.

1975 September, Bill Tarrant, “The gun dog horse: part II”, in Field & Stream, volume 80, number 5, →ISSN, page 129:

When we climb up to ride the horse, if we have not taken care of any fear he may have of our touching his ears, and we reach down to pet him while we're on his back, he may get scared and begin bucking, because he is head shy.

1991, John Lyons, Lyons on Horses: John Lyons' Proven Conditioned-Response Training Program, Doubleday, →ISBN, →OL, page 78:

(of an animal) Disposed to evade having one's head touched.


horseling

Two of these that she was about to chase and fondle, were not aristocratic horselings, they were but the rough and sturdy children of rough and sturdy dams and sires ; born to the plough, and the heavy waggon, [...]

1874, Bertha De Jongh, The sisters Lawless:

Thork astride the pony raced after, the horseling running in sheer panic.


foxling

The tender foxling, not arrived at the maturity of slyness, who never tasted chicken of his own stealing, shall take him without a ruffle of his plumage — only by pronouncing its dingy brown to be rich crimson.

1837, The Idler, and breakfast-table companion

The foxling made himself thoroughly at home. Seizing on a huge turkey's foot from the Sprite's larder, he dragged it into a dark corner, where he growled over it quite horribly.

1904, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, New Outlook:

A little or young fox; kit; a fox whelp.


bonnet monkey

Macaca radiata, a macaque endemic to southern India.


dog

en-noun

dog (countable and uncountable, plural dogs)

Australian Kriol: dog

Bislama: dog

Gullah: dog

Sranan Tongo: dagu

Tok Pisin: dok

Torres Strait Creole: dog

desc

→ American Sign Language: Kop@Inside-PalmForward 1o@Inside

→ Dutch: dog

→ Esperanto: dogo

Ido: dogo

→ French: dogue

→ German: Dogge

→ Italian: dogo

→ English: dogo

→ Portuguese: dogue

→ Russian: дог (dog)

→ Spanish: dogo

→ Volapük: dog, doeg

Inherited from Middle English dogge (akin to Scots dug), from Old English dogga, docga, of uncertain origin.
The original meaning seems to have been a common dog, as opposed to a well-bred one, or something like 'cur', and perhaps later came to be used for stocky dogs. Possibly a pet-form diminutive with suffix -ga (compare frocga (“frog”), *picga (“pig”)), appended to a base *dog-, *doc- of unclear origin and meaning. One possibility is Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”) (compare frocga from frox). Another proposal is that it derives from Proto-West Germanic *dugan (“to be suitable”), the origin of Old English dugan (“to be good, worthy, useful”), English dow, Dutch deugen, German taugen. The theory goes that it could have been an epithet for dogs, commonly used by children, meaning "good/useful animal". Another is that it is related to *docce (“stock, muscle”), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā (“round mass, ball, muscle, doll”), whence English dock (“stumpy tail”).
In 14th-century England, hound (from Old English hund) was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog. By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting. In the 16th century, the word dog was adopted by several continental European languages as their word for mastiff.
Despite similarities in forms and meaning, not related to Mbabaram dog.

hond

morally reprehensible person — see also scoundrel

it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

This includes the development of hyena-like bone crushers (Osteoborus and Borophagus), a large bone-crushing hunting dog (Aelurodon), and another borophagine frugivorous dog (Carpocyon).

1989, John L. Gittleman, Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, page 561:

Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.


tapoa tafa

brush-tailed phascogale
brush-tailed phascogale

(zoology, obsolete) A small carnivorous marsupial, the brush-tailed phascogale.


bobac

(dated) The bobak marmot (Marmota bobak).


tucan

Native to Mexico, from Nahuatl tuçan, togan.

THE TUCAN, OR MEXICAN GOPHER (G. mexicanus, (Licht.) Rich.) is a Mexican species, with the coloration much […]

1862, Sir John Richardson, The Museum of Natural History: Being a Popular Account of the Structure, Habits, and Classification of the Various Departments of the Animal Kingdom:

Geomys mexicanus, (Licht.) Baird. Tucan. Mexican Pocket-Gopher. Mexico. / Geomys hispidus, Le Conte. Quackil. Central American Pocket-Gopher […]

1885, Frederick William True, A Provisional List of the Mammals of North and Central America, and the West Indian Islands:

(rare, possibly obsolete) The hispid pocket gopher (Heterogeomys hispidus).


white-beaked dolphin

en-noun

white-beaked dolphin (plural white-beaked dolphins)

A marine mammal belonging to the family Delphinidae (dolphins) in the suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales), Lagenorhynchus albirostris.


Brazilian Shorthair

Brazilian Shorthair (plural Brazilian Shorthairs)

A medium size, shorthaired domestic cat breed, originating in Brazil.


marsupialian

(archaic, zoology) Any of the Marsupialia; a marsupial.


sparassodont

(zoology) Any of the Sparassodonta, an extinct order of carnivorous metatherian mammals native to South America.


lechwe

From Tswana [Term?], or from Sotho letsa (“antelope”).

Kobus leche, an African antelope that inhabits marshy regions.


Denisovan

From Denisova Cave, where Denisovan remains were discovered, + -an.

Denisovan Man is the first human relative to have been identified purely from DNA, extracted from the bone and a tooth found in the Denisova cave in the Altai mountains of southern Siberia.

2010 December 23, Hannah Devlin, “Unknown Species of Man Identified from Cave DNA”, in The Times, page 17:

A molar tooth, measuring around 1.5cm on each side and found at the site in 2000, also belongs to a Denisovan individual.

2010 December 23, Ian Sample, "Finger Bone Points to New Human Line", The Guardian, international section, page 18

It is the only known place on the planet where three types of humans — Denisovan, Neanderthal and modern — lived, probably not all at once.

2012 February 1, Alanna Mitchell, “DNA Turning Human Story Into a Tell-All”, in The New York Times, page D1:

Of or pertaining to an extinct grouping of the genus Homo that lived in the Altay Mountains some 41,000 years ago.


Denisovan

And yet, despite their having the entire genome of a Denisovan, Dr. Paabo cannot say much yet about what they were like.

2010 December 23, Carl Zimmer, “Scant Remains Reveal Ancient Neanderthal Cousins”, in The New York Times, page A14:

…this was only the third fossil ever found of a Denisovan, the others being the bit of finger bone and another molar, also from Denisova cave.

2011 August 26, Ann Gibbons, “Who Were the Denisovans?”, in Science, volume 33, page 1084:

The researchers were even able to split and analyze the two strands of the Denisovan's DNA, and thus differentiate the contributions of each parent.

2012 August 31, John Lauerman, "Ancient Genome, Modern Brains", The Gazette (Montreal), page A2

A member of an extinct grouping of the genus Homo that lived in the Altay Mountains some 41,000 years ago.

denisovano

a member of an extinct grouping of Homo that lived in the Altay Mountains


peele

(archaic) A kind of antelope, the rhebok, Pelea capreolus.


klipdas

A small mammal (Hyrax capensis), found in South Africa, that closely resembles the daman.


dog-child

A feral child who lives as a dog, outside human society.


corsac

Borrowed from Russian корса́к (korsák), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *karsak.


Roosevelt elk

Named after US president Theodore Roosevelt.

Cervus canadensis roosevelti, the largest of the four surviving subspecies of elk in North America.


gerbillid

(zoology) Any member of the murid subfamily Gerbillinae; a gerbil.


cricetid

(zoology) Any member of the Cricetidae, a family of rodents.


wejack

From Cree ocêk, otchek (“fisher”) or Ojibwe ojiig (“fisher, marten”). Doublet of woodchuck and woodshock.

Pekania pennanti
Pekania pennanti#Translingual

Martes pennanti
Martes pennanti#Translingual

(US, Canada, rare) A fisher, Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti.


moonack

Borrowed from Unami munhake, from a root meaning "to dig".

(US, Maryland, Virginia, possibly dated) A woodchuck.

With close-shut eyes she listened to the steps of the devils and moonacks as they gradually went away from the house.

1898, Alice Morse Earle, In old Narragansett: romances and realities, page 74:

(US, Maryland, Virginia, possibly dated) A frightful mythical forest creature.


lemurine

en-adj

lemurine (comparative more lemurine, superlative most lemurine)

more lemurine (comparative)
most lemurine (superlative)


tree rabbit

(Southern England, especially Hampshire) A squirrel


woodshock

From the same Cree term ocêk, otchek (“fisher, marten”) or Ojibwe term ojiig (“fisher, marten”) which was taken into English as wejack in reference to the marten and as woodchuck in erroneous reference to the groundhog. Woodchuck may derive from woodshock.

(US, Canada, dialects, obsolete) The marten, or its pelt.

(US, Canada, dialects, obsolete) The groundhog, or its pelt.


lesula

A monkey (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) found in parts of the Congo


tayra

Borrowed, via Spanish tayra or Portuguese taira, from Old Tupi eîrara. (Compare Portuguese irara, Spanish irará, eirá, connected to Guaraní eíra (“honey”), a food the animal is fond of, whence also Portuguese papa-mel, another vernacular name.)

Cope considered it partly arboreal, as tayras are, and possibly omnivorous as well as herbivorous, yet he thought he saw how it could have evolved into hulking Coryphodon in a relatively short time.

2004, David Rains Wallace, Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution, page 66:

A few tayras are known to live in areas of tall grass.
Tayras forage for food on the ground and also in the trees, where their long tail helps them to balance as they move through the branches.

2006, Tom Jackson, Michael Chinery, The New Encyclopedia of American Animals, page 152:

Tayras can be tamed and make interesting but fairly destructive pets.

2010, Carlos L. de la Rosa, Claudia C. Nocke, A Guide to the Carnivores of Central America, unnumbered page:

A South American omnivore, Eira barbara, allied to the grison, with a long thick tail.


Pallas' cat

Named for the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas.


drama llama

/ˈdɹɑːmə ˈlɑːmə/

Drama is consuming. It destroys relationships. It opens a door for gossip, lying, and jealousy and is a big, fat time-sucker. The Scripture above says it all! You and I both know when the drama llama, has not just paid a visit, but also made herself right at home. It is time to evaluate your life—starting with yourself—and kick that Llama out the door.

2011, Gillian M. Henriques, Toshana N. Sledge, Tina Turner, Marcy Bomhak, Hers to Treasure: 100 Devotional/Journal from Sisters in Christ (Women's Fellowship), Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 173:

"Aw, Mom. Don't be a drama llama." / "Excuse me?" / "You know, don't make a fuss about nothing." / "But why a llama?" / "Because a drama llama throws drama around like a llama spits. Everywhere!"

2012, Mary Griggs, Crash Stop, Tallahassee, Fla.: Bella Books, →ISBN:

It was certainly true that Lewie was no ordinary llama. Other llamas didn't spend their days singing and dancing and acting! Even his parents, Mama and Papa Llama, had to admit that Lewie was a bit of a Drama Llama.

2013, Rose Impey, Llama Drama – In It To Win It! (Awesome Animals), HarperCollins Children's Books, →ISBN:

I try not to pay too much attention to the drama-llamas and gossip.

2015, Dena Celeste, Her Master's Gift (The Edge), Klawock, Ak.: Decadent Publishing, →ISBN, page 19:


indri

Possibly from Malagasy endrina (“the lemur Indri indri”). A common explanation asserts that the word comes from the Malagasy indry (pronounced /ˈiɳɖʐʲ/) meaning “lo!” or “behold!”, or from indry izy (“There he is!”), which guides shouted to the French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat (1748–1814) upon seeing the animal, and which Sonnerat mistook for its name, but it has been suggested that Sonnerat studied indris too closely for this story to be plausible.

der

Indri, the ſecond new genus, conſiſts at preſent but of two ſpecies, the Linnæan lemur indri and the laniger; the former of which is lemur brevicaudatus of Geoffroy [i.e., Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire]; and the latter indri longicaudatus of the ſame author.

1819, “LEMUR”, in Abraham Rees, editor, The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. [...] In Thirty-nine Volumes, volume XX, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, […], →OCLC, column 2:

The indris are distuinguished by having only thirty teeth. [...] The Indri (Indris laniger) is the largest known species of the lemurine Quadrumana, measuring when erect more than three feet in height, and is of very remarkable form. [...] The indris inhabit the forests of Madagascar. They are very gentle, and although not remarkable for intelligence, are trained by the natives (who call the indri, "the man of the woods"), to hunt, probably for birds.

[1873], Thomas Rymer Jones, “Order II. Quadrumana. Four-handed Mammals.”, in Mammalia: A Popular Introduction to Natural History, London: Frederick Warne and Co., […]; New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, →OCLC, family IV (Lemuridæ. The Lemurs.), sub-family IV (Lichanotinæ. The Indris.), page 61:

The Indri (Indri indri; top left), the largest prosimian at up to three feet long (excluding tail) and 22 pounds, eats plant matter.

1993, Jan Sovak, Zoo Animals Coloring Book (Dover Pictorial Archive Series), New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 20:

The indri inhabits coastal and montane rainforest from sea level to about 1,800 meters.

1999, Ernest Pillsbury Walker, Ronald M. Nowak, “Avahi, Sifakas, and Indri: Indriiae”, in Walker’s Primates of the World, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 84, column 2:

Indris are known for their calls, some of which are truly eerie and can be heard for miles in the dense undergrowth.

2011, William Powell, Ochan Kusuma-Powell, “Knowing Our Collegial Relations”, in How to Teach Now: Five Keys to Personalized Learning in the Global Classroom, Alexandria, Va.: ASCD, →ISBN, page 134:

One of the largest living lemurs (Indri indri), native to Madagascar.


hylobatid

The principal resemblances between pliopithecines and living hylobatids are found in the skull and dentition (Zapfe 1958).

1972, Elwyn L. Simons, David R. Pilbeam, “Hominoid Paleoprimatology”, in Russell Tuttle, editor, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, page 55:

In the absence of an obvious cause, it must be considered unlikely that hylobatids and great apes (including fossil great apes) would have acquired all of these characters independently.

2001, D. R. Begun, “10: African and Eurasian Miocene hominoids and the origins of Hominidae”, in Louis de Bonis, George D. Koufos, Peter Andrews, editors, Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe, volume 2, page 238:

However, in cercopithecoids and in hylobatids, the transverse processes are completely embedded in the septum.

2007, Aaron G. Filler, Axial Character Seriation in Mammals, page 120:

(zoology) Any species of the family Hylobatidae; a gibbon.


pellack

Did not the devil appear in the midst of the Tay, dressed in a priest's scapular, gambolling like a pellack amongst the waves

1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC:

(Northern England, Scotland, archaic) A porpoise.


rhinaster

From Ancient Greek ῥινός (rhinós) (genitive of ῥίς (rhís, “nose”)) + ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”).


assapan

From Eastern Algonquian, probably Powhatan, first recorded as assapanick in 1706.

Other Taguans and Assapans belong to the genus Sciuropterus, or winged squirrels. Like most of the active rodents, the Flying Squirrels are very capable of domestication, and will soon learn to prefer the society of human beings […].

1875, John George Wood, Trespassers: showing how the inhabitants of earth, air, and water are enabled to trespass on domains not their own, page 299:

A very keen observation, prolonged for some time, is necessary to follow an Assapan at all, to distinguish and understand the purport of its different movements, […]

1896, Brehm's Life of animals, translated from the third German edition by Pechuel-Loesche, Haacke and Schmidtlein, page 312

Assapans are fond of living in colonies, and where they have not been disturbed come together in great numbers for what can be no other purpose than play.

1909, Wallace Rice, Animals: a popular natural history of wild beasts, page 66

southern flying squirrel
southern flying squirrel

Glaucomys volans
Glaucomys volans#Translingual

(Southern US, now uncommon) A southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans), found in the southern and eastern United States.


cercopithecin

Any monkey of the cercopithecine tribe Cercopithecini


canon bone

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

(equestrianism, anatomy) Alternative spelling of cannon bone


paguma

Paguma larvata
Paguma larvata#Translingual

(dated) The masked palm civet (Paguma larvata), resembling a weasel.


toddy cat

Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus#Translingual

The Asian palm civet or musang (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus).


slepez

From Russian слепец (slepec, “blind man; mole rat”).

bor

(zoology, archaic) A type of mole rat, Spalax microphthalmus.


Irish setter

/ˈaɪɹɪʃ ˈsɛt.ə/

A breed of gun dog with a moderately long coat of a red or chestnut color.


bridle path

A party came round the angle of a rock, along the narrow bridle-path, in single file; two ladies on horseback, followed by as many gentlemen on foot, and preceded by the usual guide.

1835, James Fenimore Cooper, The Monikins, Introduction:

It was not a bridle-path—merely a pedestrian's track, and the boughs spread horizontally at a height not greater than seven feet above the ground, which made it impossible to ride erect beneath them.

1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 3, in Far from the Madding Crowd:

Then in the evening, he came suddenly upon Sue riding a spirited black horse in a bridle path at the upper end of the park.

1916, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 5, in Windy McPherson's Son:

Some complaints about the Prospect Park trails seem to reflect the ever-present realities of urban horseback riding. Joggers and even bikers wander onto the bridle path.

2008 June 2, Kareem Fahin, “For Riders and Mounts, Rough Going in Prospect Park”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-03:

(equestrianism) An established trail used by riders mounted on horses.


posthorse

His name was Joe, and he lived at Skroperud in Ullensaker. He built himself a new house there, and he had two or three fat cows and a horse, the like of which was not to be found in the whole parish; the horse was often used as post-horse between Mo and Trogstad, and Joe didn't seem to care much how the beast was used, for fat he was and fat he remained.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 262:

A horse ridden by a postrider to carry mail.


tenrecid

(zoology) Any member of the family Tenrecidae, the tenrecs


nimravid

From translingual Nimravidae, ultimately from Nimrod + Latin avus (“ancestor”).

The earliest nimravids, Dinictis and Hoplophoneus of western North America, were already saber-toothed, with large, serrated, and laterally compressed upper canine teeth and a protective bony flange on the mandible.

2006, Kenneth D. Rose, The Beginning of the Age of Mammals, unnumbered page:

Feliformia includes the more catlike carnivorans: nimravids and barbourofelids (the extinct, so-called false sabertooths, though "false" alludes to their relationship to sabertooth felids, because their upper canine teeth were quite large in some forms), felids (true cats), herpestids (mongooses), viverrids (civets), and hyaenids (hyenas), among others.[…]The nimravids survived into the Miocene (Tseng et al., 2010), and some of their members early developed a large size and large canine saber teeth.

2013, Richard A. Fariña, Sergio F. Vizcaíno, Gerry De Iuliis, Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America, page 125:

The nimravids are not known after the Miocene. Features that distinguish nimravids from felids include the lack of an auditory bulla in most species and the absence of a cruciate sulcus (a conspicuous, deep groove) on the brain.

2013, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, page 287:

Any of the large extinct feliforms of the family Nimravidae, of the Middle to Late Miocene (40—7 million years ago).


curtail dog

(obsolete) A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running.


abrocomid

The Andean families (chinchillids, octodontids, abrocomids, and many ctenomyids) are not subject to the same climatological forces affecting species in the lowland tropics.

1982, Michael A. Mares, Hugh H. Genoways, Mammalian Biology in South America: A Symposium Held at the Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, May 10-14, 1981, page 427:

Caviids are grassland-scrubland species, while abrocomids are small herbivores of xeric Andean habitats.

1985, Francis Greenough Stehli, Sawney David Webb, The Great American Biotic Interchange, page 492:

This is likely to be the plesiomorphic state, as it is thus in capromyids, octodontids, abrocomids, and cuniculids.

2005, Louise H. Emmons, “A Revision of the Genera of Arboreal Echimyidae (Rodentia: Echimyidae: Echimyinae), With Descriptions of Two New Genera”, in Eileen A. Lacey, Philip Myers, editors, Mammalian Diversification: From Chromosomes to Phylogeography, page 262:

Any of the caviomorph rodents of the family Abrocomidae of chinchilla rats.


acrobatid

feather-tailed possum
feather-tailed possum

(mammalogy) Any marsupial of the family Acrobatidae; a feathertail glider or a feather-tailed possum.


adapid

(zoology) Any extinct primate of the family Adapidae


adapisoricid

(zoology) Any of the extinct mammals in the family Adapisoricidae.


ailurid

From New Latin Ailuridae, as Ailurus + -id.

(mammalogy) Any member of the family Ailuridae.


ambulocetid

(zoology) Any extinct cetacean in the family Ambulocetidae.


wynyardiid

(zoology) Any extinct marsupial in the family Wynyardiidae.


xiphodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Xiphodontidae.


amphicyonid

Although now extinct, for over 30 million years amphicyonids predated their way around the Northern continents and Africa, successfully exploiting niches from more slender, wolf-like runners, to big stocky brutes that put the “bear” in “bear-dog”.

2016 November 26, Elsa Panciroli, “Rifling through the 'wastebaskets' of palaeontology reveals surprises”, in The Guardian:

(zoology) A member of the extinct Amphicyonidae family of carnivorans; a beardog.


amphidontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Amphidontidae.


amphilestid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Amphilestidae.


anomalomyid

(zoology) Any of the extinct rodents in the family †Anomalomyidae.


anomalurid

(zoology) Any member of the Anomaluridae, a family of rodents found in central Africa.


anoplotheriid

A variety of strange and primitive ungulates belonging to six artiodactyl families, including the duiker-like anoplotheriids and the rabbit-sized dichobunids, also flourished.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 64:

(zoology) Any member of the extinct mammal family Anoplotheriidae.


anthracotheriid

See anthracothere § Etymology. By surface analysis, anthraco- + theri- + -id.

surf

(zoology) Any mammal of the extinct family Anthracotheriidae.


antilocaprid

Antilocapra americana
Antilocapra americana#Translingual

(zoology) Any member of the family Antilocapridae, Antilocapra americana and its extinct close relatives.


aotid

(zoology) Any member of the family Aotidae, the night monkeys


apatemyid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Apatemyidae.


aplodontid

(zoology) Any member of the Aplodontiidae.


archaeohyracid

(zoology) Any of the extinct mammals of the family Archaeohyracidae.


archaeolemurid

(zoology) Any of the extinct lemurs in the family Archaeolemuridae.


archaeonycteridid

(zoology) Any of the extinct bats in the family Archaeonycterididae.


arctocyonid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Arctocyonidae of extinct carnivores.


arvicolid

(zoology) Any member of the cricetid subfamily Arvicolinae, formerly considered to be the family Arvicolidae.


astrapotheriid

(zoology) Any of the extinct mammals in the family Astrapotheriidae.


atelid

(zoology) Any monkey in the family Atelidae.


balaenid

(zoology) Any member of the family Balaenidae; a right whale.


balaenopterid

(zoology) Any member of family Balaenopteridae of rorqual whales.


balbarid

His research, which has focused on the few partial kangaroo skeletons found, has provided insights into why the bulungamayine kangaroos were so successful while the balbarids vanished.

2004, Tim Flannery, Country: A Continent, a Scientist & Kangaroo, Text Publishing, page 118:

The other interesting feature of the balbarids is that they may not have hopped because the forelimbs and hindlimbs were of similar length and they had the first digit on each hind foot, similar to the Musky Rat-kangaroo.

2010, Stephen Jackson, Karl Vernes, Kangaroo: A portrait of an extraordinary marsupial, Allen & Unwin, page 15:

As in the late Oligocene, the most diverse macropodoids of the early Miocene are balbarids.

2012, Karen H. Black et al., “The Rise of Australian Marsupials”, in John A. Talent, editor, Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time, Springer, page 1026:

(zoology) Any member of the family †Balbaridae of extinct kangaroos.


barbourofelid

(zoology) Any of the large catlike extinct carnivores in the family Barbourofelidae.


basilosaurid

(zoology) Any extinct cetacean of the family Basilosauridae.


bathyergid

(zoology) Any rodent in the family Bathyergidae.


borhyaenid

They eat the low vegetation cautiously and with eyes alert, constantly on the lookout for borhyaenids: pouched predators and relatives of marsupials with hyena-like crushing jaws and grooved, ever-growing canines.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 63:

(zoology) Any of the extinct marsupial-like mammals of the family Borhyaenidae.


bradypodid

(zoology) Any sloth in the Bradypodidae.


brontotheriid

(zoology) Any of the extinct rhinoceros-like mammals in the family Brontotheriidae.


burramyid

(zoology) Any of the pygmy possums in the family Burramyidae.


caenolestid

(zoology) Any member of the family Caenolestidae of shrew opossums.


caluromyid

(zoology) Any opossum of the family Caluromyidae, now considered to be the didelphid subfamily Caluromyinae.


capromyid

(zoology) Any rodent in the family Capromyidae, the hutias.


carpolestid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Carpolestidae.


castorid

(zoology) Any member of the Castoridae; a beaver.


caviid

(zoology) Any member of the family Caviidae of guinea pigs and similar rodents.


cephalomyid

(zoology) Any extinct rodent in the family Cephalomyidae.


cetotheriid

(zoology) Any whale in the family Cetotheriidae.


chalicotheriid

(zoology) Any mammal in the family Chalicotheriidae.


cheirogaleid

(zoology) Any lemur in the family Cheirogaleidae.


chrysochlorid

(zoology) Any member of the family Chrysochloridae, the golden moles.


cimolodontid

(zoology) Any extinct primitive mammal in the family Cimolodontidae.


cimolomyid

(zoology) Any extinct primitive mammal in the family Cimolomyidae.


climacoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Climacoceratidae, which were deer-like relatives of the giraffe.


pen-tailed treeshrew

en-noun

pen-tailed treeshrew (plural pen-tailed treeshrews)

A shrew-like animal native to Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, Ptilocercus lowii.


northern tree shrew

northern tree shrew (plural northern tree shrews)

Tupaia belangeri
Tupaia belangeri#Translingual

A shrew-like animal native to Southeast Asia from Assam to Indonesia, Tupaia belangeri.


ctenodactylid

Miocene and Pliocene ctenodactylids are known from Asia and Africa. In the Oligocene forms cheek-teeth were brachydont, and all known fossil ctenodactylids retained P 4 and p 4, with these teeth showing various stages of reduction.

1967, Sydney Anderson, Recent Mammals of the World: A Synopsis of Families, page 30:

According to Luckett (1985), Bugge (1985), and George (1985), ctenodactylids are an early offshoot of the hystricognathous rodents. Beintema et al. (1991), stating that no molecular data were available, investigated tissues, blood, and proteins and concluded that it was not yet possible to determine whether ctrnodactylids and hystricognathous rodents "share a common ancestor or are located on separate branches."

2005, Fritz Dieterlen, “Family Ctenodactylidae”, in Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, editors, Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd edition, volume 12, page 1536:

Ctenodactylids share many derived characters with the Hystricognathi, but ctenodactylids retain many primitive features and are considered (along with the Diatomyidae) a possible sister group to hystriognath rodents (Dietrlen 2005; Huchon et al. 2007).

2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, unnumbered page:

(zoology) Any of the several rodents of the family Ctenodactylidae.


ctenomyid

New adaptive radiations of small fossorial rodents followed, including crice- tids in the Pliocene and spalacids and ctenomyids primarily in the Pleistocene.

1979, Richard F. Johnston, Peter W. Frank, Charles Duncan Michener, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, volume 10, page 271:

Foraging by geomyids and ctenomyids is more generalized in that all portions of plants may be consumed.

2000, Cristina Busch, C. Daniel Antinuchi, J. Cristina del Valle, Marcelo J. Kittlein, Ana I. Malizia, Aldo I. Vassallo, Roxana R. Zenuto, “Chapter 5: Population Ecology of Subterranean Rodents”, in Eileen A. Lacey, James L. Patton, Guy N. Cameron, editors, Life Underground: The Biology of Subterranean Rodents, page 191:

Ctenomyids first appear in the late Miocene of South America.

2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, page 231:

(zoology) Any rodent of the family Ctenomyidae.


cynocephalid

(zoology) Any member of the family Cynocephalidae, the colugos or flying lemurs.


dasypodid

(zoology) Any armadillo in the family Dasypodidae.


dasyproctid

From Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “hairy, shaggy, dense”) + Ancient Greek πρωκτός (prōktós, “anus, rectum”) + -id, equivalent to translingual Dasyprocta + -id.

bor

(zoology) Any member of the family Dasyproctidae of agoutis and acouchis


daubentoniid

(zoology) Any lemur in the family Daubentoniidae, of which the only living species is the aye-aye.


deinotheriid

(zoology) Any prehistoric proboscidean of the suborder Deinotherioidea


delphinid

(zoology) Any marine mammal in the family Delphinidae, the dolphins, killer whales, pilot whales, and relatives.


desmatophocid

(zoology) Any extinct pinniped in the family Desmatophocidae.


desmostylid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Desmostylidae.


dichobunid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Dichobunidae.


dinomyid

(zoology) Any rodent in the family Dinomyidae.


dipodid

(zoology) Any rodent of the family Dipodidae.


diprotodontid

(zoology) Any member of the family Diprotodontidae of extinct large marsupials, similar to wombats in form.


djadochtatheriid

(zoology) Any multituberculate mammal in the family Djadochtatheriidae.


dromomerycid

(zoology) Any extinct deer-like mammal in the family Dromomerycidae.


dryopithecid

(zoology) Any extinct hominid in the family Dryopithecidae, now considered to be the tribe Dryopitheciini or the subfamily Dryopithecinae.


dugongid

(zoology) Any mammal in the family Dugongidae, such as the dugong, the Steller's sea cow, and other extinct species.


echimyid

(zoology) Any rodent in the family Echimyidae.


elephantid

(zoology) Any member of the family Elephantidae of elephants and their extinct close relatives.


emballonurid

(zoology) Any member of the Emballonuridae.


enaliarctid

(zoology) Any extinct pinniped in the family Enaliarctidae.


eobaatarid

(zoology) Any extinct multituberculate mammal in the family Eobaataridae.


eocardiid

(zoology) Any extinct rodent in the family Eocardiidae.


eomoropid

(zoology) Any extinct odd-toed ungulate in the family Eomoropidae.


eomyid

(zoology) Any extinct rodent in the family Eomyidae.


eosimiid

(zoology) Any extinct primate in the family Eosimiidae.


epoicotheriid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Epoicotheriidae.


erethizontid

Erethizontids are primarily herbivorous.[…]With their elaborate courtship behavior, the erethizontids are a fascinating group of mammals.

1987, Joseph F. Merritt, Guide to the Mammals of Pennsylvan, page 235:

The erethizontids, with four genera (including eight species) achieved their greatest known diversity, representing 22% of the total diversity.

2010, M. G. Vucetich, A. G. Kramarz, A. M. Candela, “14: Colhuehuapian rodents from Gran Barranca and other Patagonian localities: the state of the art”, in Richard H. Madden, editor, The Paleontology of Gran Barranca, page 212:

Erethizontids inhabit a broad variety of habitats, from tundra to the tropics and from dense forests to open settings.

2010, Peter S. Ungar, Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity, page 212:

(zoology) Any of the New World porcupines comprising the family Erethizontidae.


erinaceid

(zoology) Any mammal in the family Erinaceidae, the hedgehogs, gymnures and moonrats.


eschrichtiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Eschrichtiidae of gray whales.


eucosmodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Eucosmodontidae.


euplerid

(zoology) Any member of the family Eupleridae, Malagasy carnivorans, cat-like mammals of Madagascar.


eurhinodelphinid

(zoology) Any toothed whale in the family Eurhinodelphinidae.


eurymylid

(zoology) Any extinct rodent in the family Eurymylidae.


eutypomyid

(zoology) Any rodent in the family Eutypomyidae.


furipterid

(zoology) Any bat in the family Furipteridae.


galagonid

(zoology) Any galago in the family Galagonidae.


galeopithecid

(zoology) Any member of the family Galeopithecidae, now considered to be a synonym of the family Cynocephalidae, the colugos or flying lemurs.


geomyid

Whereas geomyids seem to dominate the montane grassland, microtenes dominated the tallgrass, cricetines dominated the shortgrass and heteromyids dominated the desert grassland site.

1982, L. D. Harris, G. B. Bowman, “6: Vertebrate predator subsystem”, in A. I. Breymeyer, George M. van Dyne, editors, Grasslands, Systems Analysis and Man, page 595:

A second potential problem is the geomyids in their phylogeny are linked more closely to the sciurids than to the muroids, yet several authorities suggest the geomyids should be placed among the muroidomopha (e.g. Eisenberg, 1981).

1999, J. R. Speakman, “The Cost of Living: Field Metabolic Rates of Small Mammals”, in A. H. Fitter, D. G. Raffaelli, editors, Advances in Ecological Research, volume 30, page 226:

Compared with geomyids, little is known about the roles of other subterranean rodents in ecological succession.

2000, Guy N. Cameron, “Chapter Six: Community Ecology of Subterranean Rodents”, in Eileen A. Lacey, James L. Patton, Guy N. Cameron, editors, Life Underground: The Biology of Subterranean Rodents, page 244:

(zoology) Any gopher of the family Geomyidae.


glyptodontid

(zoology) Any of the family †Glyptodontidaeof extinct armadillos.


gobiconodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Gobiconodontidae.


gomphotherid

(zoology) Any extinct elephant-like mammal in the family Gomphotheridae.


gomphotheriid

(zoology) Any extinct elephant-like mammal in the family Gomphotheriidae.


hapalodectid

(zoology) Any mesonychian in the family Hapalodectidae.


hegetotheriid

(zoology) Any notoungulate in the family Hegetotheriidae.


heptaxodontid

(zoology) Any extinct rodent in the family Heptaxodontidae.


herpestid

(zoology) Any member of the family Herpestidae of mongooses.


herpetotheriid

(zoology) Any metatherian in the family Herpetotheriidae.


heteromyid

(zoology) Any rodent of the family Heteromyidae.


homalodotheriid

(zoology) Any toxodont in the family Homalodotheriidae.


hyaenid

(zoology) Any member of the Hyaenidae; an aardwolf or hyena.


hyaenodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Hyaenodontidae.


hydrochoerid

(zoology) Any rodent of the family Hydrochoeridae (now reclassified as the subfamily Hydrochoerinae).


hyopsodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Hyopsodontidae.


hyperoodontid

(zoology) Any beaked whale in the family Hyperoodontidae, a synonym of the Ziphiidae.


hypertragulid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Hypertragulidae.


hypsiprymnodontid

(zoology) A musky rat-kangaroo, sole member of the family Hypsiprymnodontidae.


hyracodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Hyracodontidae.


hystricid

(zoology) Any member of the family Hystricidae, Old World porcupines


ilariid

(zoology) Any extinct marsupial in the family Ilariidae.


indriid

(zoology) Any lemur in the family Indriidae.


iniid

According to Cozzuol (1996), iniids (including fossil taxa) are characterized by an extremely elongated rostrum and mandible, very narrow supraoccipital, greatly reduced orbital region, and pneumatized maxillae forming a crest.

2015, Annalisa Berta, Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology, page 88:

(zoology) Any river dolphin of the family Iniidae.


interatheriid

(zoology) Any notoungulate in the family Interatheriidae.


isotemnid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Isotemnidae of extinct ungulates.


kentriodontid

(zoology) Any extinct cetacean in the family Kentriodontidae.


kogaionid

Some, such as Kogaionids, probably laid eggs and hopped like frogs.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 25:

(zoology) An extinct multituberculate of the family Kogaionidae.


kogiid

clipping

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

(zoology) Any whale in the family Kogiidae.


pig-footed bandicoot

en-noun

pig-footed bandicoot (plural pig-footed bandicoots)

A small marsupial of the arid and semi-arid plains of Australia, †Chaeropus ecaudatus, now presumed to be extinct.


leontiniid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Leontiniidae.


lepilemurid

(zoology) Any lemur in the family Lepilemuridae.


lipotid

(zoology) Any river dolphin of the family Lipotidae.


lorisid

(zoology) Any primate in the family Lorisidae; a loris or potto.


macraucheniid

(zoology) Any extinct hoofed mammal of the family Macraucheniidae.


macropodid

(zoology) Any member of the Macropodidae; a kangaroo.


macroscelidid

(zoology) Any member of the family Macroscelididae, the elephant shrews.


mammutid

(zoology) Any member of the family Mammutidae; a mammoth.


megadermatid

(zoology) Any bat in the family Megadermatidae.


megaladapid

(zoology) Any extinct lemur in the family Megaladapidae.


megalonychid

(zoology) Any sloth in the family Megalonychidae.


megatheriid

(zoology) Any in the family Megatheriidae of ground sloths.


melid

(zoology) Any member of the family Melidae, now usually subfamily Melinae in family Mustelidae, of badgers.


mephitid

(zoology) Any member of the family Mephitidae of skunks and stink badgers.


merycoidodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Merycoidodontidae.


mesotheriid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Mesotheriidae.


miacid

From scientific Latin Miacidae (family name), from Miacis (genus name), of uncertain origin.

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

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

Miacids were long-bodied, had long tails, were pine marten sized or smaller, and some lived in trees while others spent their time on the ground.

2016 November 26, Elsa Panciroli, “Rifling through the 'wastebaskets' of palaeontology reveals surprises”, in The Guardian:

(paleontology) Any member of the Miacidae family of extinct mammals.


microbiotheriid

(zoology) Any marsupial in the family Microbiotheriidae; a monito del monte.


microcosmodontid

(zoology) Any multituberculate in the family Microcosmodontidae.


miniopterid

(zoology) Any bat in the family Miniopteridae.


mixodectid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Mixodectidae.


molossid

(zoology) Any bat in the family Molossidae


ground squirrel

ground squirrel (countable and uncountable, plural ground squirrels)

Earely antelopes are seen, but wolves, rabbits, and sundry ground squirrels abound.

1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:

Many ground squirrels sit up and look like prairie dogs, but a ground squirrel can be recognized by its longer face and tall.

1987, Peter Alden, Fiona Reid, Mammals, Peterson Field Guide Color-in Books, page 21:

2003, University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, Integrated Pest Management for Walnuts, UCANR Publication 3270, page 23,
In some areas, ground squirrels may present a potential health problem because they carry ectoparasites that may transmit diseases such as bubonic plague to humans.
The adult California ground squirrel has a head and body 9 to 11 inches (23-28 cm) long and a somewhat bushy tail that is about as long as the body.

Pocket gophers appear to be abundant in the APWRA on both sides of Altamont Pass Road, whereas ground squirrels appear to be abundant only on the north side.

2003, Lourdes Rugge, Carl G. Thelander, K. Shawn Smallwood, Bird Risk Behaviors and Fatalities at the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area, page 23:

Any of a number of medium-sized squirrel-like burrowing rodents of the tribe Marmotini (i.e., excluding the smaller chipmunks and the larger marmots and prairie dogs).

groundhog

squirrel-like borrowing rodent of Marmotini or Xerini


monodontid

(zoology) Any member of the family Monodontidae; a beluga or a narwhal.


two-toed sloth

One of two species of large mammals in genus Choloepus known for their slowness of movement.


mormoopid

(zoology) Any member of the Mormoopidae of bats; ghost-faced bats.


moschid

(zoology) Any member of the family Moschidae, several species of musk deer in genus Moschus.


mylagaulid

(zoology) Any extinct rodent in the family Mylagaulidae.


mylodontid

(zoology) Any ground sloth in the family Mylodontidae.


myocastorid

(zoology) Any rodent in the family Myocastoridae; a nutria or coypu.


myrmecobiid

(zoology) Any marsupial in the family Myrmecobiidae; a numbat.


myrmecophagid

(zoology) Any anteater in the family Myrmecophagidae


mystacinid

(zoology) Any bat in the family Mystacinidae.


myzopodid

(zoology) Any member of the family Myzopodidae of bats; Madagascar sucker-footed bat.


natalid

(zoology) Any member of the family Natalidae of funnel-eared bats.


erd shrew

Sorex araneus
Sorex araneus#Translingual


common shrew

A shrew, Sorex araneus, one of the most common mammals.


Philippine tarsier

Philippine tarsier (plural Philippine tarsiers)

Carlito syrichta
Carlito syrichta#Translingual

A very small tarsier, Carlito syrichta, native to much of the southern Philippines.


neobalaenid

(zoology) Any whale in the family Neobalaenidae; a pygmy right whale.


neoepiblemid

(zoology) Any extinct rodent in the family Neoepiblemidae.


neoplagiaulacid

(zoology) Any ptilodontoid mammal in the family Neoplagiaulacidae.


nesomyid

(zoology) Any rodent in the family Nesomyidae.


nesophontid

(zoology) Any mammal in the family Nesophontidae.


notharctid

(zoology) Any extinct prosimian in the family †Notharctidae.


notohippid

(zoology) Any toxodont in the family Notohippidae.


notoryctid

(zoology) A marsupial mole, of the family Notoryctidae.


notostylopid

(zoology) Any notoungulate in the family Notostylopidae.


nycterid

(zoology) Any member of the family Nycteridae of bats; slit-faced bats.


ochotonid

(zoology) Any member of the family Ochotonidae, the pikas.


octodontid

From Octodon + -id < Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”), according to the wear pattern of the teeth of these rodents, which resembles a figure 8.

(zoology) Any of the Octodontidae, a family of rodents including the common degu (Octodon degus) and 12 other South American species


oldfieldthomasiid

(zoology) Any notoungulate mammal in the family Oldfieldthomasiidae.


oligopithecid

(zoology) Any extinct monkey in the family Oligopithecidae.


oxyaenid

(zoology) Any mammal in the family Oxyaenidae.


oreodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Oreodontidae, a synonym of the Merycoidodontidae.


oreopithecid

(zoology) Any extinct hominid in the family Oreopithecidae, a synonym of the hominid subfamily Dryopithecinae.


ornithorhynchid

duck-billed platypus
duck-billed platypus

(zoology) A duck-billed platypus, or any of its extinct relatives in the family Ornithorhynchidae.


oromerycid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Oromerycidae, extinct relatives of camels.


orycteropodid

(zoology) Any member of the Orycteropodidae, the aardvark and its extinct relatives.


otariid

(mammology) Any member of the Otariidae, the eared seals


palaeopropithecid

(zoology) Any extinct lemur in the family Palaeopropithecidae.


palaeoryctid

(zoology) Any extinct shrewlike mammal in the family Palaeoryctidae.


palaeotheriid

Among them were the ancient palaeotheriids, early relatives of the rhinos, tapirs and horses.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 64:

(zoology) Any extinct hoofed mammal in the family Palaeotheriidae.


palorchestid

(zoology) Any marsupial in the family Palorchestidae.


pantherid

(zoology) Any member of family Pantheridae (now subfamily Pantherinae) of big cats.


pantolestid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Pantolestidae.


parapithecid

(zoology) Any extinct primate in the family Parapithecidae.


paulchoffatiid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Paulchoffatiidae.


pedetid

(zoology) Any in the family Pedetidae of springhares.


peramelid

(zoology) Any member of the family Peramelidae of bandicoots; a typical bandicoot.


peramurid

(zoology) Any extinct zatherian mammal in the family Peramuridae.


percrocutid

(zoology) Any extinct feliform carnivore in the family Percrocutidae.


periptychid

(zoology) Any extinct condylarthran in the family Periptychidae.


peroryctid

(zoology) Any member of the family Peroryctidae (now subfamily Peroryctinae of family Peramelidae) of bandicoots.


petaurid

Although domestic cats are notorious for bringing young Petaurus and Pseudocheirus home to their owners, comparatively little is known of the predators of petaurids.

1987, Fauna of Australia, vol. I.2, p. 673:

(zoology) A possum of the family Petauridae.


petromurid

(zoology) Any rodent in the family Petromuridae.


phascolarctid

(zoology) Any marsupial in the family Phascolarctidae, including the koala.


phenacodontid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Phenacodontidae of extinct large herbivorous mammals.


phiomyid

(zoology) Any extinct rodent in the family Phiomyidae.


phocoenid

(zoology) Any member of the Phocoenidae; a porpoise.


phyllostomatid

(zoology) Any member of the family Phyllostomidae (syn. Phyllostomatidae), of leaf-nosed bats.


pitheciid

(zoology) Any member of the family Pitheciidae, New World monkeys such as the sakis, titis and uakaris.


plagiaulacid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Plagiaulacidae.


platacanthomyid

(zoology) Any rodent in the Platacanthomyidae.


platanistid

(zoology) Any river dolphin in the Platanistidae.


platanistoid

(zoology) Any river dolphin in the superfamily Platanistoidea.


plesiadapid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Plesiadapidae.


pliopithecid

(zoology) Any extinct primate in the family Pliopithecidae.


pontoporiid

(zoology) Any dolphin of the family Pontoporiidae


potoroid

(zoology) Any marsupial in the family Potoroidae; a potoroo or bettong.


proborhyaenid

(zoology) Any extinct marsupial in the family Proborhyaenidae.


procaviid

(zoology) Any member of the Procaviidae; a hyrax.


proconsulid

(zoology) Any extinct ape-like primate in the family Proconsulidae.


prorastomid

(zoology) Any mammal in the family Prorastomidae, extinct early relatives of the dugong and manatees.


proterotheriid

(zoology) Any extinct ungulate in the family Proterotheriidae.


protoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct artiodactyl in the family Protoceratidae.


protosirenid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Protosirenidae.


pseudocheirid

(zoology) Any marsupial in the family Pseudocheiridae; a ringtail possum.


ptilodontid

(zoology) Any primitive mammal in the family Ptilodontidae.


purgatoriid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Purgatoriidae.


northern greater galago

northern greater galago (plural northern greater galagos)

Otolemur garnettii (Northern Greater Galago), from eastern Africa, is similar to O. crassicaudatus but is rather smaller, shorter-eared, more greyish-toned and has a face that is not pale.

2005, Colin Groves, “Chapter 1: The Taxonomy of Primates in the Laboratory Context”, in Sonia Wolfe-Coote, editor, The Laboratory Primate, page 7:

Most species^([of bushbabies]) are arboreal but the Northern Greater Galago, Otolemur garnettii, and the Brown Greater Galago, O. crassicaudatus, also spend time on the ground.

2012, Terence J Dawson, Kangaroos, page 8:

A comparison of these two duplications was performed in 13 primate species including six species of apes, four Old World monkey species, two New World monkey species, and one species of strepsirhine, the northern greater galago (Otolemur garnettii).

2013, Benjamin J. Ragen, Karen L. Bales, “16: Oxytocin and vasopressin in non-human primates”, in Elena Choleris, Donald W. Pfaff, Martin Kavaliers, editors, Oxytocin, Vasopressin and Related Peptides in the Regulation of Behavior, page 299:

Otolemur garnettii
Otolemur garnettii#Translingual

Otolemur garnettii, a nocturnal, arboreal primate endemic to eastern Africa.


remingtonocetid

(zoology) Any member of the family Remingtonocetidae.


rhinocerotid

(zoology) Any member of the family Rhinocerotidae, the rhinoceroses.


rhinopomatid

(zoology) Any member of the family Rhinopomatidae of bats; mouse-tailed bats.


rhizomyid

(zoology) Any rodent in the family Rhizomyidae, now considered to be the spalacid subfamily Rhizomyinae, comprising the bamboo rats and mole rats (as opposed to the naked mole rats in the subfamily Spalacinae).


uintatheriid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Uintatheriidae of extinct ungulates.


viverravid

(zoology) Any of the extinct mammals in the family Viverravidae.


vombatid

(zoology) Any wombat of the family Vombatidae


sciurid

(zoology) Any rodent of the Sciuridae; a squirrel


sivaladapid

(zoology) Any prosimian in the family Sivaladapidae.


solenodontid

(zoology) Any solenodon in the family Solenodontidae.


soricid

(zoology) Any shrew in the family Soricidae.


spalacid

(mammalogy) Any member of the Spalacidae: the mole rats, bamboo rats and zokors.


squalodontid

(zoology) Any in the family Squalodontidae of extinct toothed whales.


stegodontid

(zoology) Any extinct elephant in the family Stegodontidae.


stenoplesictid

(zoology) Any extinct civet-like mammal in the family Stenoplesictidae.


stylinodontid

(zoology) Any extinct taeniodont mammal in the family Stylinodontidae.


sudamericid

(zoology) Any extinct gondwanatherian mammal in the family Sudamericidae.


tachyglossid

(zoology) Any member of the family Tachyglossidae, the echidnas or spiny anteaters


taeniolabidid

(zoology) Any mammal in the family Taeniolabididae.


talpid

From scientific Latin Talpidae (family name), ultimately from Latin talpa (“mole”).

The several species of small mammals found at Tagay, such as dormice, talpids and hedgehogs, show close affinities to European taxa.

2016 November 16, Hanneke Meijer, “Sunny steppes? A tiny parrot fossil suggests Siberia was once subtropical”, in The Guardian:

(zoology) A member of the family Talpidae, comprising moles and related insectivorous mammals.


tapirid

(zoology) Any tapir of the family Tapiridae


tarsiid

(zoology) Any primate in the family Tarsiidae.


tarsipedid

(zoology) Any member of the Tarsipedidae, which is currently considered to consist of one species, Tarsipes rostratus, the honey possum.


thryonomyid

(zoology) Any cane rat in the family Thryonomyidae.


thylacinid

(zoology) Any member of the family Thylacinidae of extinct carnivorous marsupials.


thylacoleonid

(zoology) Any member of the Thylacoleonidae.


thylacomyid

(zoology) Any marsupial in the family Thylacomyidae; a bilby.


thylacosmilid

(zoology) Any extinct sparassodont in the family Thylacosmilidae.


tinodontid

(zoology) Any extinct early mammal in the family Tinodontidae.


titanoideid

(zoology) Any extinct pantodont in the family Titanoideidae.


titanotheriid

(zoology) Any extinct rhinoceros-like mammal in the family Titanotheriidae, a synonym of the Brontotheriidae.


toxodontid

(zoology) Any mammal in the family †Toxodontidae


tragulid

(zoology) Any member of the family Tragulidae of mouse deers.


trichechid

(zoology) Any manatee in the family Trichechidae.


triconodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Triconodontidae.


triisodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Triisodontidae.


nine-banded armadillo

nine-banded armadillo (plural nine-banded armadillos)

Dasypus novemcinctus
Dasypus novemcinctus#Translingual

A species of armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, ranging from much of the southern US to warmer South America.

negenbandgordeldier

armadillo of species Dasypus novemcinctus


African savannah elephant

African savannah elephant (plural African savannah elephants)

Loxodonta africana
Loxodonta africana#Translingual

One of the two species of African elephant (Loxodonta africana).


African forest elephant

African forest elephant (plural African forest elephants)

Loxodonta cyclotis
Loxodonta cyclotis#Translingual

One of the two species of African elephant, Loxodonta cyclotis.


European hedgehog

European hedgehog (plural European hedgehogs)

Erinaceus europaeus
Erinaceus europaeus#Translingual

Erinaceus europaeus, the hedgehog that inhabits much of Western and Central Europe.


apelloid

Any capuchin monkey of the species Cebus apella or of the new genus Sapajus.


gray short-tailed opossum

gray short-tailed opossum (plural gray short-tailed opossums)

Monodelphis domestica
Monodelphis domestica#Translingual

A small opossum, Monodelphis domestica, native South American rain forests, especially in Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia.


microbat

Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.


minipig

A small pig of a breed used in biological research


theave

Inherited from Middle English theve (“young ewe”), from Old English *þeofu, from Proto-West Germanic *þebu.

inh+

The ewes by them-selfe, the share-hogges and theyues by them selfe

1523, Anthony Fitzherbert, Boke of Husbandry:

Comprising eleven calved and in-calf cows and heifers, three barren cows, […] fifteen in-lamb ewes and theaves, […] yearling draught colt and filly, pony, yearling fummel, mare ass in-foal to a pony, two waggons, […]

1843 March 3, “To Be Sold by Auction, By B. Cheatle & Son”, in Leicester Journal, and Midland Counties General Advertiser, volume 92, number 4895, Leicester: James Jackson, page 2:

A dorring drush in the caddled yew. / A seance o' theaves beneath the woak.

2022, PJ Harvey, Orlam, Picador, page 265:

(UK, dialect) A ewe lamb of a specific age; in some areas, applied to lambs in their the first or second year (before they have had lambs themselves), in others to lambs in their third year, before their second shearing.


Yorkshire pig

A domestic pig of a breed originating in Yorkshire.


triok

Any petaurid marsupial in the genus Dactylopsila.


musrole

(dated) The noseband of a horse's bridle.


Caturday

I had heard of Caturday when I wrote the piece, but I’d understood that it was a proto-lolcats practice that was different from the actual lolcats meme.

2007 July 16, Lev Grossman, “Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong”, in Time:

Lolcats - images of anthropomorphic felines captioned with mis-spelt web-speak ("im in ur bed zleepin" and so on) - made their first appearance on the site, during its regular "Caturday" slot, but went on to dominate blogs and sites the length and breadth of the internet.

2010 August 31, Jon Kelly, Jude Sheerin, “The strange virtual world of 4chan”, in BBC News:

When he and his wife began to have children, they nicknamed them after Internet memes like the lolcat holiday, Caturday.

2012, Katherine Losse, The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, Free Press, →ISBN, page 148:

(Internet slang) Saturday, as the day of the week for posting lolcats or other pictures of cats.


xenurine

Any armadillo of the former genus Xenurus (now Cabassous).


fat-tailed dwarf lemur

en-noun

fat-tailed dwarf lemur (plural fat-tailed dwarf lemurs)

Cheirogaleus medius, one of the smallest primates, native to Madagascar, the only primate known to truly hibernate, which it does during Madagascar's dry season.


horsebrush

horsebrush (countable and uncountable, plural horsebrushes)

Any of various flowering plants in the genus Tetradymia, native to mountainous western North America, especially the US.


vicuña

2009, J. C. Wheeler, J. Laker, The Vicuña in the Andean Altiplano, Iain J. Gordon (editor), The Vicuña, Springer, page 27,
It has been suggested that harvesting reduces the pressure for illegal hunting by providing communities that benefit from vicuña management with incentives to protect the animals over which they have rights.

Vicuña hide was so precious that by the early 1930s, these animals—wild relatives of the llama and alpaca—were threatened with extinction, according to Tschiffely[…].

2009, Jason Wilson, The Andes: A Cultural History, page 12:

Vicuñas are the smallest members of the camelid family, as well as the most prized and endangered.

2010, Neil Edward Schlecht, Frommer′s Peru, page 335:


calkin

Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side,
And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.
He has lifted her out of the stable-door between the dawn and day
And turned the calkins upon her feet, and ridden her far away.

1889, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West:


muishond

From Afrikaans muishond, from Dutch muishond, from Middle Dutch muushont.

A species of weasel found in southern Africa, Poecilogale albinucha.


mountain beaver

mountain beaver (plural mountain beavers)

A beaver-like rodent found on the west coast of North America (Aplodontia rufa, sole member of family Aplodontiidae).


mountain panther

mountain panther (plural mountain panthers)


mountain sheep

On the 29th we passed into the territory of the Panock Indians—a tribe of hunters, who find an abundant subsistence in the myriads of mountain sheep, antelopes, prairie dogs, and other animals, with which the country abounds.

1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 36:

Wild mountain sheep are perhaps the most accomplished and dare-devil acrobats in the animal world.

1915 April 30, Enos A. Mills, “Wild Mountain Sheep”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:

Ovis canadensis
Ovis canadensis#Translingual

The bighorn (Ovis canadensis) of the Rocky Mountains.


yukhoe

All of them – especially my father-in-law – enjoyed yuk hwe, a kind of beef tartar.

2015, Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, The Vegetarian, Granta, published 2018, page 18:

One of a variety of hoe (raw dishes in Korean cuisine), which are usually made from raw ground beef seasoned with various spices or sauces.


pampatheriid

(zoology) Any member of the Pampatheriidae, a family of large extinct armadillo-like plantigrade armoured xenarthrans.


elkhorn

A highly-branched coral (Acropora palmata) supposed to resemble the horns of an elk.


falanouc

Borrowed from Malagasy falanouc, possible cognate of Malay pelanduk (“chevrotain”).

Information on the social life of the falanoucs is highly conflicting: some authors speak of family groups, while others assume that these animals lead a solitary life.

1990, Bernhard Grzimek, Grzimek's encyclopedia of mammals, volume 3, page 531:

A rare mongoose-like euplerid mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres goudotii).


chief hare

A small mammal related to the rabbits, the pika.


rasse

Viverricula indica, the small Indian civet.


ligress

Colette has rescued cougars, bobcats, jaguars, panthers, tigers, lions--and even a ligress --a cross between a lion and a tiger.

1994 December 6, Tim May, “Waystation Trying to Save Tigers in Ireland”, in Los Angeles Times:

Called Shasta because "she hasta" have this and "she hasta" have that, the bossy liger — she was a ligress, to be more precise — was one of the zoo's most beloved and famous residents before she died in 1972 at the ripe age of twenty-four.

2008, Brandon Griggs, Utah Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Insiders' Guide, published 2008, →ISBN, page 128:

There are a number of cases of ligers and ligresses in the world but experts say it is impossible for males to conceive and exceptionally rare for females to give birth.

2012 September 11, “The rarest big cat in the world needs a normal moggy as her foster mum”, in The Siberian Times:


gerbilline

(zoology) Any gerbil of the subfamily Gerbillinae


tangalung

Viverra tangalunga
Viverra tangalunga#Translingual

(archaic) The Malay civet (Viverra tangalunga).


acerathere

An extinct rhinoceros of the genus †Aceratherium.


elasmotheriine

Any extinct rhinoceros of the genus †Elasmotherium.


lobtail

en-verb

lobtail (third-person singular simple present lobtails, present participle lobtailing, simple past and past participle lobtailed)

lobtails (present singular third-person)
lobtailing (participle present)
lobtailed (participle past)
lobtailed (past)

(of a whale) To raise the flukes out of the water and then slap them down against the water surface.


whitret

We maun off like whittrets before the whole clanjamfray be doun upon us.

1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

But even so he was gey slow to get on with the courting and just hung around Kirsty like a futret round a trap with a bit of meat in it, not sure if the meat was worth the risk […].

1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 21:

(Scotland, UK dialect) A weasel or stoat.


meadow vole

Microtus pennsylvanicus
Microtus pennsylvanicus#Translingual

A small rodent (Microtus pennsylvanicus), native to the United States.


Djungarian hamster

en-noun

Djungarian hamster (plural Djungarian hamsters)

Phodopus sungorus, a dwarf hamster with a typically thick, dark grey dorsal stripe and furry feet.


sand puppy

Synonym of naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber)


shorling

(UK, dialect, obsolete) A person who is shorn; a shaveling.


Ross seal

A seal, Ommatophoca rossii, which is found around Antarctica


tuco-tuco

Borrowed from Spanish tuco-tuco. Onomatopoeic.

Tuco-tucos groom themselves to remove loose sand from their fur by combing with the stiff bristles that grow near the bases of the hind claws.

2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, editors, International Wildlife Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, volume 20: Tree squirrel - water spider, New York: Marshall Cavendish, page 2772:

The eyes of tuco-tucos are almost level with the top of the head, which is adaptive for surveying the horizon from their shelter without exposing themselves to predators.

2010, Joseph F. Merritt, The Biology of Small Mammals, page 76:

The tuco-tuco is a vegetarian rodent very similar in appearance and behaviour to the ground squirrel.

2011, Erin McCloskey, Argentina, page 56:

Any of the caviomorph rodents of the genus Ctenomys (the sole extant genus of family Ctenomyidae), which have a large head, small ears, and hairy tail.


pichiciego

Chlamyphorus truncatus
Chlamyphorus truncatus#Translingual

pink fairy armadillo
pink fairy armadillo

A small, burrowing, South American armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus); the pink fairy armadillo.


alcelaphine

(mammalogy) Any member of the subfamily Alcelaphinae of wildebeest, hartebeest, bonteboks and related species.


sarlyk

From Russian сарлык (sarlyk), most likely from a Turkic source, see Tuvan сарлык (sarlık).


mylodon

From the genus name, from Ancient Greek μύλη (múlē, “mill”) + -odon.

(zoology) Any of the extinct genus †Mylodon of giant ground sloths of Patagonia.


sweeny

An atrophy of the muscles, especially of the shoulder, in horses.


screaming hairy armadillo

screaming hairy armadillo (plural screaming hairy armadillos)

Chaetophractus vellerosus, a burrowing armadillo of South America which squeals when handled or threatened.


cabrit

Dated form of cabrée (“pronghorn antelope”).


shapoo

(dated) The urial (subspecies of sheep).


sing-sing

The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle; and hardly a flock is seen without having one or two sing-sings along with it.

1867, Mayne Reid, Quadrupeds: what they are and where found, page 141:

[…] the N'samma Antelope, which appears to be the native name in Uganda for the Kobus sing-sing.

1867, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, page 7:


sing-sing

An annual gathering of tribes or villages in Papua New Guinea in order to share dance, music, and culture.


lambling

I have seen the lamblings skipping / In sunshine and in mist; […]

1843, Punch Or The London Charivari - Volume 5 - Page 83

These woolly lamblings were immensely affected by his exhortations, and when he gave out the hymn, there was such a negro chorus about the house as might be heard across the Potomac — such a chorus as would never have been heard […]

1905, William Makepeace Thackeray, The works of William Makepeace Thackeray:

These two pivots of the Great Wheel, blended, had brought men, women and children in their thousands, to kill some miserable lambling . . . on the temple steps in stonement for their sins […]

2007, Hugh B. Urban, Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 115:

So tell me, lamblings, what's gonna keep a big bad supernatural predator from munching down on you succulent little morsels?” he asked, thoroughly creeping me out.

2015, John Conroe, College Arcane, page 74:


fawnling

Slay not that my musk-deer fawnling, Hunter! Prithee, have thou shame Of her night-black eye nor bind her With thy lasso long and strait.

2012, John Payne Hafiz, The Collected Poems of Hafiz:


guara

From Brazilian Portuguese guará, from Guaraní aguara guasu (“large fox”).

Chrysocyon brachyurus
Chrysocyon brachyurus#Translingual

A maned wolf, of species Chrysocyon brachyurus (syn. Canis jubatus), native to much of subtropical central South America, east of the Andes.


guara

Eudocimus ruber
Eudocimus ruber#Translingual

A bird, the scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber, native to the tropical Atlantic coast of South America.


barling

From Middle English barling, berling, from Old Norse berlingr (“bar, pole”) (found in berlings-áss (“bar, beam, plank, rail”)), a diminutive derived from Proto-Germanic *barō (“beam, bar, barrier”); equivalent to bar + -ling. Cognate with Swedish bärling (“pole, bar”).

der

A tripod can be formed of three hop poles or barlings. The former can be laid in depths up to 2^ metres and the latter in depths up to about 5 metres at low water if the tidal range does not exceed about 3 metres.

1970, Admiralty Manual of Hydrographic Surveying - Volume 2

[...] one pair of fetters, one pair of couplings, 2 barlings [poles], 2s 6d; one saddle, one bridle, one panel, 12s; one corn hutch and 1 chaff bin, 6s 8d; one plough, one pair of harness and one coulter, 2 plough sha-[rest torn] with chains, 14s.

1981, Ann Hughes, W. R. Owens, Seventeenth-century England, a Changing Culture:

On shallow waters they moved upstream using small barlings; [...]

2005, V. D. Golubchikova, Z. Í. Khvtísíashvílí, E. R. Akbalʹi︠a︡n, Severnai︠a︡ ėnt︠s︡iklopedii︠a︡:

(rare or UK dialectal, Scotland) A pole; (carpentry) the cross rafter of a roof.


steller

After Georg Wilhelm Steller, German naturalist.


cropout

The dark overo cropouts often have wide blazes on the face and do not have the bald or apron faces that are associated with the overo color pattern.

1988, Glynn W. Haynes, The American Paint Horse, page 92:

A horse that has spotted coloration but whose sire and dam were both solid-coloured.


whalelore

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

Member of the Danish Rigsdag, the king's sheriff in Faroe, a man of the simplest manners and most varied knowledge and intelligence, great in whalelore and fowllore, strong in deep- sea fishing, a great gatherer of strange over-sea waifs, […]

1864, The North British review, page 300:

A whale of a whale adventure on one of the few sailing vessels still occasionally in use. The author has packed standard ingredients into this story, including a fiendish captain, detailed information on whalelore and modern whaling methods.

1960, Michael Williams, Commonweal, volume 72, page 235:

But his pretense to whalelore didn't even have an aficionado's sincerity. Grey didn't like him.

1973, John Wood Campbell, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, volume 92:

The project itself, in short, generates the need for figuration, itself compactly figured in the Swiss Army knife...in the amount of whalelore that might be considered, but there turns out to be no inherent limit to the number of cognitive strategies for knowledge about whalelore that might be tested.

1987, Udo Fries, The Structure of texts, page 213:

The knowledge, study, or science of whales.


chaus

From New Latin chaus, from a native, probably Turkic, name; compare Nogai кавыс (kavıs).

(dated) Synonym of jungle cat (Felis chaus)


crib-biting

(equestrianism) A stereotypy in horses consisting of seizing the manger or other solid, usually wooden, object with the teeth and sucking in wind.


bawson

From Old French bauzan, bauçant, bauchant (“spotted with white, pied”).

This fine Smooth bawson cub, the young grice of a gray.


brant-fox

For brand-fox; compare German Brandfuchs. So called from its yellowish-brown and somewhat black colour. See brand.

Vulpes vulpes
Vulpes vulpes#Translingual

(dated) A fox, probably a common red fox (Vulpes vulpes).


rowney

Six score pence is the value of a rowney.

1909, Arthur Wade-Evans, Welsh Medieval Law:

A carthorse, load horse, or sumpter horse; a packhorse.


noolbenger

A small species of nocturnal marsupial, Tarsipes rostratus, of southwest Western Australia.


honey possum

Tarsipes rostratus, a tiny nectarivorous Australian marsupial of Western Australia.


herd boar

A stud boar, a male pig kept for breeding.


brood mare

You'll be brushing out a brood mare's tail
While the sun is ascending
And I'll just be getting home with my reel to reel

A stud mare, a female horse used for breeding.


covert hound

In the Welsh laws of Howel Dda (who died 948), the King's buckhound or covert-hound is valued at a pound. — William Drury, British Dogs, Their Points, Selection, and Show Preparation (1903)

a staghound or buckhound, a dog for coursing deer, particularly the Welsh gellgi breed ancestral to the Welsh Sheepdog and Australian Shepherd


Welsh Sheepdog

A contraction of the earlier Welsh Sheep Dog

A type of herding dog originating in 20th-century Wales.


rusty-spotted cat

en-noun

rusty-spotted cat (plural rusty-spotted cats)

Prionailurus rubiginosus, one of the smallest members of the cat family, native to India and Sri Lanka.


jungle cat

Felis chaus, a medium-sized cat native to Asia.


giant forest genet

giant forest genet (plural giant forest genets)

Genetta victoriae, a species of carnivorous mammal, related to linsangs and civets.


apeling

Just now the apeling was developing those arboreal tendencies which were to stand him in such good stead during the years of his youth, when rapid flight into the upper terraces was of far more importance and value than his undeveloped muscles and untried fighting fangs.

1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Tales of Tarzan:

The murder had occurred only a week before and the baby weighed but ten-or-so pounds, barely twice its birth weight. In spite of its traumatic first experience at the hands of humans, the apeling showed little fear of us.

2005, Jim Heaney, Taste This, Taste That:


kimblewick

From the English town of Kimblewick, where it was first made.

A type of bit that has bit shanks, D rings, and a curb chain


claybank

I took Señorita Anabela for a walk in the lemon grove while Fergus, disfiguring himself with an ugly frown, was waltzing with the claybank girl.

1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “‘Next to Reading Matter’”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 82:


zebrinny

His zebra-horse hybrids, or zebrules, and his horse-zebra hybrids, or zebrinnies, are not marked like their Burchell-zebra parent, but resemble in both cases the Somali zebra, which is the most primitive of all its kind.

1900, The Annual Register of World Events, volume 141, page 113:

They will also interbreed with horses, producing zebrules (Plate 137) or zebrinnies.

1955, Ivan Terence Sanderson, Living mammals of the world, page 223:

The offspring of a male horse and a female zebra.


houndly

en-adj

houndly (comparative houndlier or more houndly, superlative houndliest or most houndly)

houndlier (comparative)
more houndly (comparative)
houndliest (superlative)
most houndly (superlative)

From Middle English houndly, houndely, from Old English hundlīċ (“of or like dogs, canine”), equivalent to hound + -ly. Cognate with Middle Dutch hondelike (“doglike”), Middle High German huntlich (“doglike”).

inh

[...] all of which really ought to be secondary considerations to those two houndly gifts, the keen, discriminating sense of smell, and ready, truthful tongue.

1865, Baily's Magazine of sports and pastimes, volume 9, page 129:

Of course, I knew he couldn't read; we loved this basset for his extraordinary beauty and houndly bouquet, not his brains. But he had been quite the book-hound as a youngster, [...]

2008, Kitty Foth-Regner, Heaven Without Her:

But nothing compares to the adoring look in those houndly eyes, nor the profound sigh of bliss when that large head is lowered onto your lap to receive gentle [...]

2013, Thomas J. Mattingly, Earl C. Hudson, Smokey:

Of, like, or characteristic of hounds or dogs; doglike; dogly; canine.


deerling

You will return after giving birth to your deerling?

1950, G.A. Natesan, The Indian review - Volume 51 - Page 85:

When shall the old king of the herd of deer be smelling my mouth without fear, taking me to be a lifeless thing, when I would be sitting in the forest in the padmasana (lotus pose) with the deerlings sitting in my lap?

1989, Hemacandra, Amritlal Savchand Gopani, Surendra Bothara, The Yoga shastra of Hemchandracharya:

He with childlike innocence and simplicity employees the most direct language only to talk to man a man, because his aim is to beckon to him: "Alas, seeing always the deer in the trap in jungle, even then the deerlings get into the crooked snares" [...]

1997, Krishan Lal Kalia, Eminent Personalities Of Kashmir:

Both girls yelped, falling into each other's arms. But it was only a dwarf deerling, no taller than Dart's waist. Its ears quivered. It stopped on tiny hooves, blind to the three of them, then bounded forward, toward the deadfall. Dart glanced after it.


underground mutton

(Australia, humorous) A rabbit, or rabbit meat.


lyam-hound

Talus, that could like a lime-hound winde her, […] At length found out whereas she hidden lay / Under an heape of gold.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


catshit

en-noun

catshit (countable and uncountable, plural catshits)

my house is a shambles
empty bottles lined up
on table, clothes heaped
on chairs, here a sock,
there a catshit,

1978, "Eating Your Way To Heaven", Tilt: An Anthology of New England Women's Writing and Art, New Victoria Publishers (1978), page 58

A cat could give two catshits if you are in a good mood or a bad mood.

2009, Denis Leary, Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid, Plume, published 2009, →ISBN:

I mean, the catshit was piling up. And when the catshit gets bigger than the cat, you've got to get rid of the cat.

2011, Rob Tannenbaum, Craig Marks, I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, Plume, published 2011, →ISBN:

(vulgar, slang) The feces from a cat (feline feces).


kit fox

Vulpes macrotis
Vulpes macrotis#Translingual

Vulpes macrotis, a species of fox found in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.


that dog won't hunt

Apparently originating from the southern United States, the phrase may refer to a hunting dog that refuses to do its job.

‘If the’ ain’t no fools, the’ ain’t no fun,’ said usually in self-derision; and ‘That old dog won't hunt,’ meaning that an excuse offered will not serve. These and the numerous specimens which follow have simply been grouped by the present writer under the heading of Miscellaneous, explanations being made only when the meaning is not clearly evident.

[1939 December, Paul Brewster, “Folk ‘Sayings’ from Indiana”, in American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage, volume XIV, [Tuscaloosa, Ala.]: Published by the University of Alabama Press for the American Dialect Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 266:

"Calling her house help Mr. and Mrs. just won't get it! That old dog won't hunt," Oman had confided. / "I know, but let her discover it herself," Steve had said.]

[1965, Jesse Hill Ford, The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, OCLC 291992; republished as The Liberation of L. B. Jones (Signet Novel; Y4209), New York, N.Y.: New American Library, 1967, OCLC 29459320, page 41

On the [Arthur] Goldberg proposal to stop all the bombing, [Ellsworth] Bunker "came back strong and said, 'I just can't. That dog won't hunt. We just cannot get that over, it would just blow everything.'[…]"

1970 February 7, “Rusk advocated halt of bombing: LBJ says in interview”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, page 3A, column 1:

If, as is more likely, Mr. [Ronald] Reagan's plan is just a ploy to win votes for renewed military aid to the C.I.A.-organized and C.I.A.-controlled contras in Nicaragua, a Congress burned once too often should be able to see right through it. Either way, as Lyndon Johnson used to say of losing propositions, "That dog won't hunt."

1987 August 6, Tom Wicker, “In the nation: That dog won't hunt”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2015-05-24:

“Oh, what in the Sam Hill are you a-wearing? I thought I was supposed to be Twain.” “I say you are incorrect, sir. I believe we decided I would be Twain.” “Twin Twains? That dog won't hunt.” “Uh, Mr. Clemens?” “Mmhmm. That's me.” “No, I'm Twain. Switch costumes, you ignominious pretender.” “You're more stubborn than a senate mule.” “Grits, grits, grits!” “Tarnation!” “Fancy pants, big-city lawyer.” “I say you are incorrect, sir.”

2023 September 21, Grace Parra Janney, “Something Borrowed, Something Green” (9:24 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 4, spoken by Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid):

(US) That idea will not work; that is an inadequate explanation or proposition.


white whale

From white + whale. The figurative senses refer to the novel Moby-Dick (1851) by the American writer Herman Melville (1819–1891), in which Captain Ahab relentlessly pursues a rare albino sperm whale.

The English called the beluga the "white whale", a name often still used (and not to be confused with the white whale of Moby-Dick, which was an albino sperm whale).

2007, Nancy Lord, “Prologue”, in Beluga Days: Tracking the Endangered White Whale, pages 22–23:

Delphinapterus leucas
Delphinapterus leucas#Translingual

beluga

Synonym of beluga (“the beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas), a cetacean found in the Arctic Ocean”)

Monodon monoceros
Monodon monoceros#Translingual

Any whale of the family Monodontidae, which comprises the beluga whales and narwhals (Monodon monoceros), and some extinct species.

(collectible card games) A printing plate, used to manufacture a particular sports card, that is then issued as a collectible itself.

печа́тарска пло́ча

printing plate used to manufacture a particular sports card, that is then issued as a collectible itself


Falkland Islands wolf

Falkland Islands wolf (plural Falkland Islands wolves)

Dusicyon australis
Dusicyon australis#Translingual

A warrah, an extinct canid of species †Dusicyon australis.


Geoffroy's bat

Named after the French naturalist Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.

Myotis emarginatus, a species of vesper bat.


franciscana

La Plata dolphin
La Plata dolphin#English


tigrillo

Leopardus tigrinus
Leopardus tigrinus#Translingual


cataholic

Without the fur and purr, we wouldn't be the cataholics that we are today.

2000, Bob Walker & Frances Mooney, Crazy Cats, Andrews McMeel Publishing (2000), unnumbered page (acknowledgements)

Where once only farmers and "cataholics" kept cats, today they are in all types of households, especially in homes with a history of dog-keeping and little knowledge of feline behavior.

2007, Bruce Fogle, If Your Cat Could Talk, DK Publishing, →ISBN, page 6:

“Maybe I need to send you to House Cats Anonymous,” he teased. “Hello, my name is Jake and I'm a cataholic. I can't stop eating them alive.”

2007, Debra White Smith, Heather, Harvest House Publishers, →ISBN, page 250:

(informal) One who is extremely fond of cats.


near side

(equestrianism) The left-hand side of a horse.


mountain vole

Voles typically found in high-altitude environments, principally in genera Alticola and Neodon.


Suffolk Punch

‘And the Punches,’ said William. ‘There’s cattle! A Suffolk Punch, when he’s a good un, is worth his weight in gold. Did you ever breed any Suffolk Punches yourself, sir?’

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

A kind of English draught horse, chestnut in colour.


bridlewise

en-adj

bridlewise (comparative more bridlewise, superlative most bridlewise)

more bridlewise (comparative)
most bridlewise (superlative)

(equestrianism, of a horse) Responsive to the bridle.


Welsh corgi

/wɛlʃ ˈkɔːɡi/

/wɛlʃ ˈkɔɹɡi/

Mouthfeel presents DJ Divorcée and DJ Tip spinning a tribute to Pimm’s Cups, Welsh Corgwn, the Union Jack, and Kate Middleton’s love of drinking parties, just in time for the royal nups.

2011 April 29, James Renovitch, “Calendar: This week’s community listings”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 30, number 35, page 58:

A type of herding dog originating from Wales, having a small body, short legs, and fox-like features such as large ears.

уелско корги

type of herding dog originating from Wales — see also corgi


labba

During the last three months, of my stay, labba meat (Cœlogenys paca), which is justly looked upon as the caviare of the bush, was fairly plentiful. This was due to a small black and white dog, belonging to one of the boat hands, which hunted labba excellently; sometimes killing four or five in a morning, and once even six.

1888, H. I. Perkins, “Seven months up the Puruni River”, in Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana:

Game included accouries (a kind of guinea pig), water-dogs (otters), labbas (hollow cheek pacas), deer, wild hogs, mypouris (tapirs), monkeys, sloths, water haas (capybaras), armadillos, snakes, tigers, jaguars, iguanas, manatees (sea cows), etc.

1995, Brian L. Moore, Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism: Colonial Guyana, 1838-1900, McGill-Queen's Press:

Labba was my favourite meat. I say “was”, because that came to an end on one of my visits to Guyana.

2011, Helena Martin, Walk Wit’ Me...: All Ova Guyana, BalboaPress, page 54:


giant otter

Pteronura brasiliensis
Pteronura brasiliensis#Translingual

A South American mustelid, Pteronura brasiliensis, that can reach 1.7m in length.


catio

So some cat owners who would never dream of letting their pets roam free outside have come up with a creative compromise: an enclosed space — usually in the form of a screened-in porch or deck — that allows them to share the great outdoors. Please don’t call it a cage. They prefer the term “catio.”

2010 June 16, Jennifer A. Kingson, “‘Catios’ Bring Cats Outdoors”, in The New York Times:

And we have a catio of sorts, a small screened porch built by the previous owner for humans.

2010 June 21, Teresa Mears, “Do your kitties need a 'catio'?”, in MSN Money:

She made a “fence” of them for Varmint inside the wrought iron white fence that bordered the patio so that it was his “catio.”

2010, Sue Tatem, Mones, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 35:

They're happy to hang out on what we call their “catio” all day, lazing on the couch while glowering at chipmunks and letting the sun warm the downy fur on their bellies.

2012 May 1, Jen Lancaster, Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner, New American Library, →ISBN:


Linnaeus's two-toed sloth

en-noun

Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (plural Linnaeus's two-toed sloths)

Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (C. didactylus) is found east of the Andes Mountains in northern South America.

2007, George A. Feldhamer, Lee C. Drickamer, Stephen H. Vessey, Joseph F. Merritt, Carey Krajewski, Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology, 3rd edition, page 305:

Choloepus didactylus
Choloepus didactylus#Translingual

A species of two-toed sloth, Choloepus didactylus, endemic to South America.


flashjack

bridled nailtail wallaby
bridled nailtail wallaby

(Australia, informal) The bridled nailtail wallaby.


Carolina dog

After the Carolinas, where the dogs were first discovered or rediscovered in the modern era.

(zoology) A type of dog, thought to have reached the North American continent before the European arrival, which has a fawn, black, white, or piebald coat and which naturally roams the cypress swamps of the Carolinas, but may be domesticated.


hemione

From New Latin hēmionus, from Ancient Greek ἡμῐ́ονος (hēmĭ́onos, “half ass, mule”).

der

Its head is large, with ears smaller than those of the hemione, the shoulders thick, especially in the male, the limbs robust and stubbier than those of the hemiones and the asses.

1890 September, Edouard L. Troussart, “Wild Horses”, in Popular Science, page 627:

They presumably belong to hemiones (hemiones were actually recorded from the same level at Rana Gundhai) and, in spite of some optimistic statements to the contrary, it is sometimes impossible to distinguish horses fom hemiones on isolated teeth alone.

1985, Augusto Azzaroli, An Early History of Horsemanship, page 24:

Another possible area of disagreement is that asses and hemiones are associated unequivocally in the morphological tree, but less definitely in the genetic tree: whether hemiones and African ('true') wild asses are more closely related to horses or whether they are most closely related to each other and form a separate lineage has yet to be resolved unequivocally by the DNA data, and note that in the morphological data they are united by only a single derived condition (Fig. 1.1).

2000, C. P. Groves, O. A. Ryder, “Systematics and Phylogeny of the Horse”, in Ann T. Bowling, Anatoly Ruvinsky, editors, The Genetics of the Horse, page 11:

Equus hemionus
Equus hemionus#Translingual

Equus hemionus, the onager or kiang, a kind of wild ass of Tibet.


jumping mouse

The jumping mouse is little larger than a house mouse and has a very long, scaly, untufted tail, one-third longer than the head and body.[…]In fact, various observers have found that jumping mice with injured or amputated tails tumble over and are as helpless as a ship without a rudder.

1953, Lowell Sumner, Joseph Scattergood Dixon, Birds and Mammals of the Sierra Nevada, page 423:

In some respects a jumping mouse resembles kangaroo rats and kangaroo mice in habits and appearance. A jumping mouse may readily be distinguished from these animals, however, by its lack of fur-lined cheek pouches and by its preference for, or nearness to, moist habitats instead of arid places.

1954, Lloyd Glenn Ingles, Mammals of California and Its Coastal Waters, page 256:

That was when we realized that we have two species of jumping mice on the mountain.

1999, Marcia Bonta, Appalachian Summer, page 138:

Any species of the taxonomic subfamily Zapodinae or family Zapodidae of rodents, variously endemic to North America or China.


gnu goat

Budorcas taxicolor
Budorcas taxicolor#Translingual


sifaka

Sifakas have single births, and infants ride first on their mother's front until they are about 3 months of age, then move to the mother's back, and they usually become totally independent at an age of about 6 months (Jolly 1996).

2000, Friderun Ankel-Simons, Primate Anatomy: An Introduction, 2nd edition, Academic Press, page 62:

Coquerel's sifaka (P. coquereli) is easily seen in the northwestern regions. Its chestnut-coloured arms and thighs, and piercing yellow eyes, make it particularly handsome. Like all sifakas, the young are born in June and July.

2008, Nick Garbutt, Hilary Bradt, Derek Schuurman, Madagascar Wildlife, Bradt Travel Guides, page 53:

Sifakas can jump about ten metres (thirty-three feet) – a little further than the human long-jump world record – which is not bad given that they are less than two foot high.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 258:

Any of several endangered medium-sized lemurs that comprise genus Propithecus.

冕狐猴

medium-sized lemur of the genus Propithecus