hartebeest

hartebeest (plural hartebeest or hartebeests or (rare) hartebeesten)

hartebeest (plural)
hartebeests (plural)
hartebeesten (plural rare)

From early Afrikaans hartebeest (now hartebees), from Dutch hert (“deer, hart”) + beest (“(wild) animal, beast”).

Coordinate term: wildebeest

Besides these, there are bles bucks, quaggas, ostriches, steen bucks, ree bucks, and a few hartebeesten.

1842 February 16, O. P. Q., “New Zealand and the Cape”, in The New Zealand Journal, volume III, London: […] Henry Hobbs Chambers, […], page 46, column 1:

Immense troops of elephants roamed the coastlands and the thorns; lions and panthers lurked in the kloofs and among broken ground; elands, hartebeesten, and other antelopes swarmed in the veld; and hippopotami and crocodiles abounded in the rivers.

1891, Robert Russell, “Natal in 1800”, in “Sailors and Natives”, in Natal: The Land and Its Story: A Geography and History for the Use of Schools (with Map), Pietermaritzburg: P. Davis and Sons, page 113:

Here all kinds of animals are found, viz., lions, rhinoceroses, horses (zebras), ostriches and hartebeesten in multitudes, there being always good water and grass here. […] We also saw 13 horses (zebras), 5 rhinoceroses, some ostriches and thousands of hartebeesten. […] A little further on I encountered a herd of hartebeesten, four of which I wounded, though I only secured one, which I laid on one of the oxen.

1897, H[endrik] C[arel] V[os] Leibbrandt, Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope, January, 1659–May, 1662. [Abraham van] Riebeeck’s Journal, &c., part III, Cape Town: W[illiam] A[ttwell] Richards & Sons, […], pages 230–231:

A type of grassland antelope, Alcelaphus buselaphus, native to parts of Africa.


lip bear

Melursus ursinus
Melursus ursinus#Translingual


gee-gee

/ˈdʒiːˌdʒiː/

Reduplication of gee (“a command to an animal to move forward, go faster, or turn right”).

[W]hen great Aunt Ryder was exhausted with carrying her little nephews pick-a-back, Aunt Ellen was always willing to become a ‘gee-gee’ or riding-horse in her place, although certainly one of no very prancing and fiery temperament.

1860 April 14, “The Bateman Household, and What Became of Them”, in William, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts, volume XIII, number 328, London: W. & R. Chambers 47 Paternoster Row and High Street Edinburgh, →OCLC, chapter XXIV (The Best of the Household), page 236:

I once heard a gee-gee neigh. / I thought he was calling for heigh. / But a man tapped my head, / And smilingly said, / "It's just that he feels a bit geigh."

1946 February 18, W. D. Walker, “Letters to the Editors”, in Life, volume 20, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:

Oh, you don’t catch me on a gee-gee’s [footnote: A “gee-gee” is a horse.] back again, / It’s not the sort of place that you can doze on, / For the only ’orse that I think that I can ride / Is the one that the m’ssis dries the clothes on.

2015, E. Maud Graham, “End of the Camp Life”, in Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney, Susanne M. Klausen, editors, A Canadian Girl in South Africa: A Teacher’s Experiences in the South African War, 1899–1902, Edmonton, Alta.: University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, page 88:

Then one day his bookkeeper didn't show up for work, just disappeared, the financial records and journals gone with him. / 'He stole from you?' / 'He blew it all on the gee-gees and cards. I had no idea. You just can't trust people Jamie.'

2015, Tim Griffiths, “Glebe and Lithgow, 1898–1910”, in Endurance, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN:


dogkind

One question remains for dogkind to ponder. Why on earth did Dog domesticate the man? The advantages are obvious: heated shelters and constant food supply...

1948, The Arizona quarterly, University of Arizona:


catkind

What Eliot had in mind by writing "Growltiger's Last Stand" is difficult to say unless it was to present catkind in one of its most deplorable states.

1978, Francelia Butler, editor, Children's literature, Volume 7:


Caribbean monk seal

en-noun

Caribbean monk seal (plural Caribbean monk seals)

Monachus tropicalis, an extinct seal once native to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.


Kaimanawa horse

Kaimanawa horse (plural Kaimanawa horses)

A hardy feral horse of New Zealand, descended from the domestic horses released in the 19th and 20th centuries.


bloodstock

bloodstock (countable and uncountable, plural bloodstocks)

(uncountable) Thoroughbred animals in general, but especially horses.


Lhasa apso

/ˈlɑːsə ˈæpsoʊ/

From Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa) + Tibetan ཨོག་ཚོམ (og tshom) / ཨག་ཚོམ (ag tshom, “goatee, chin-beard”). Alternatively, from Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa) + ར་ཕོ (ra pho, “billy goat”) OR from Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa) + འབ་ ('ab, “to bark”) + སོ་ (so, “guard, watchman”).

A particular breed of dog, Tibetan in origin.


kyoodle

If I wasn't afraid of you thinking I was a kyoodle, I'd quit the business tonight.

1995, John O'Hara, The Novellas of John O'Hara, page 528:

And the reason he says that is because he's absolutely convinced that Louis has a little kyoodle in him. Tony means Louis'll quit if he's hit.

2012, Joseph Monninger, Two Ton: One Night, One Fight -Tony Galento v. Joe Louis, →ISBN, page 27:

A coward or quitter; One who lacks the determination to face hardship.


chinny

en-adj

chinny (comparative chinnier, superlative chinniest)

chinnier (comparative)
chinniest (superlative)


inia

(zoology) Any South American freshwater dolphin of genus (Inia), with a hairy snout.


ursid

(zoology) Any species of the family Ursidae; a bear, a giant panda, or any of certain extinct relatives.

ursidé

any member of the family Ursidae, the bears


black-footed rock wallaby

en-noun

black-footed rock wallaby (plural black-footed rock wallabies)

waru

One of several rock-wallabies in the genus Petrogale


australopith

/ˈɒstɹələˌpɪθ/

The incisors are more similar in size to the molars compared to earlier australopiths—a condition which is also more humanlike.
The limb bones indicate A. garhi had small stature like earlier australopiths.

2007, Holly M. Dunsworth, Human Origins 101, page 78:

Most authorities would nowadays concur that the australopiths were generally committed to habitats with at least some trees, to which they were more or less tied for sleeping and for shelter from predators during the day, as well as for a large part of their sustenance.

2008, Rob DeSalle, Ian Tattersall, Human Origins: What Bones And Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves, page 118:

Later we'll consider how these principles apply to australopith craniofacial function, but first let's review briefly how different australopiths accommodated large teeth and big masticatory muscles, and how they grew large, buttressed faces.

2011, Daniel E. Lieberman, The Evolution of the Human Head, page 451:

(anthropology, paleontology) Any of the hominids of the extinct genus Australopithecus.

australopithecine

depending on the classification scheme used


australopith

en-adj

australopith (comparative more australopith, superlative most australopith)

more australopith (comparative)
most australopith (superlative)

/ˈɒstɹələˌpɪθ/

(anthropology, paleontology) Of or pertaining to the hominids of the extinct genus Australopithecus.


flying mouse

Compare Russian лету́чая мышь (letúčaja myšʹ, “flying mouse”).

ncog

лету́чая мышь

The system I quoted […] was a full system: 486 PC 8megRAM 140HD, 2 DVI boards, 1 Ascension Bird flying mouse (6D mouse with 3 buttons, used for navigation and interaction), 1 VirtualResearch Headmounted display, 1 Logitech Sonic 6D tracker for headmount, Sense8 software and environment.

1992, Maurice Sharp, “INDUSTRY: VPL's MicroCosm - Clarification from VPL”, in sci.virtual-worlds (Usenet):

My hope is that the system would be as friendly as possible. So, i like ^([sic]) to know how to start looking into possible I/O devices. i.e. flying mouse, voice activated programs, video capture card?...

1993, ala...@cerritos.edu, “Help! PC System Configuration”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware (Usenet):

Oh, and those wacky nonstandard mice — including the infamous 3D flying mouse — they need their own software to do their tricks.

2008, Dan Gookin, Troubleshooting Your PC For Dummies, page 165:

(computing) An input device like a mouse that can be lifted from a surface and moved in three dimensions.


Japanese spitz

en-noun

Japanese spitz (plural Japanese spitzes)

(zoology) A small breed of dog from Japan, having a somewhat square body, deep chest, and very thick, pure white double coat.


dogman

From dog (“the domesticated mammal Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris”) + -man (suffix denoting someone (possibly implied male) who is an expert in an area, who is employed or holds a position in an area, or who takes part in an activity) or man (senses 2 and 3).

suffix

Every one of those dogmen has been either cajoled, bribed, or commanded by his own particular Circe to take the dear household pet out for an airing.

1899–1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Ulysses and the Dogman”, in Sixes and Sevens, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1911, →OCLC, page 64:

A dogman, he [John Moore] said, likes having tails wagged at him, wants to be looked up to, and tends for that reason to be quite a good leader. A catman, on the other hand, is made slightly uncomfortable by spaniel eyes and devoted tail thumpings. Dogmen seem to prefer the outdoors, adventure, jungles, deserts, and are attracted by the army. Little is heard of cats in army officers' messes or barracks.

1968, John Montgomery, “Are You a Catman?”, in The World of Cats, London, New York, N.Y.: Hamlyn Publishing Group, published 1970, →ISBN, page 11, column 1:

It is an error of modern dog men to wean puppies too soon—they should run with the bitch till six weeks old, being at the same time fed.

1893, Hugh Dalziel, Alexander C. Piesse, “FEEDING”, in The Diseases of Dogs: Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment. […], 4th edition, London: L. Upcott Gill, […], published 1905, →OCLC, page 12:

Abscess of the Jaw.— […] The system will require good support, and, it may be, a course of tonics, such as a grain or two of quinine, night and morning, in the form of a pill; or, using one of the Condition Pills you see advertised in this book—Clayton's, Dent's or Sergeant's—they are all good, made by dogmen for dogs, and you won't go amiss in using either of them in such cases.

1902, “TEETH”, in Al[vin] G[eorge] Eberhart, editor, Everything about Dogs […], 2nd edition, Camp Dennison, Oh.: The Eberhart Kennels, →OCLC, page 112:

Dogfights are most commonly staged in secluded rural areas such as barns or fields. […] When a contract is drawn up for a fight, the participants decide on a central location. They then contact a dogman in that area to make arrangements to have the fight at a location that he provides. […] On the day of the fight the participants and the spectators, usually members of the fraternity, which tends to be almost exclusively male, meet at a dogman’s house near the location where the fight will take place. […] This gathering of the fraternity before the event is a very important element of the dogmen subculture.

2001, Rhonda D. Evans, Craig J. Forsyth, “The World of Dogfighting”, in Alex Thio, Thomas C. Calhoun, editors, Readings in Deviant Behavior, 2nd edition, Needham Heights, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon, →ISBN, part 11 (Deviant Sports), page 333:

A man who has charge of dogs, such as a dog breeder or dog trainer; specifically, a man who trains dogs for the bloodsport of dogfighting.

koiramies

man who has charge of dogs; specifically, a man who trains dogs for the bloodsport of dogfighting

Now another important component of the skeleton is under scrutiny by some of our most respected dogmen and -women: the anatomy of the chest and the relationship between the correct rib cage and loin.

2010, AKC Gazette: The Official Journal for the Sport of Purebred Dogs, volume 127, New York, N.Y.: American Kennel Club, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 1:

Alternative form of dog man (“a man who likes dogs or prefers dogs as pets, often as opposed to liking cats”)

dog man

[T]his tradition certainly influenced that of Dog-Men (cynanthropy) and of dog-headed men (cynocephaly), […] Dog-Men, however, have historically enjoyed a much richer and more varied mythology than their lycanthropic cousins, no doubt as a result of the ambiguity of the dog itself as much as of cultural or historical trends.

1991, David Gordon White, “Hell is Other People”, in Myths of the Dog-man, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 15:

A dogman’s legs are back bent, crooked as a dog’s. Its body is covered in fine fur, and its face has a dog-like snout and ear. A dogman’s arms and torso are completely humanoid, save for the its strange paws, that are vaguely human-like, but with thick dark claws.

2002, Sovereign Stone: Bestiary of Loerem, Lake Geneva, Wis.: Sovereign Press, →ISBN, page 56, column 1:

I was interested in the Wisconsin dogman sightings, which were kind of scary, but when you started talking about the ones showing up in bedrooms I must have been agape and my hair [standing] on end.

2016, Linda S. Godfrey, quoting Matt Ballotti, “Shadow Wolves”, in Monsters among Us: An Exploration of Otherworldly Bigfoots, Wolfmen, Portals, Phantoms, and Odd Phenomena, New York, N.Y.: TarcherPerigee, →ISBN, pages 95–96:

Sightings of mysterious creatures that appear to be part human and part wolf are reported in modern times all over the world. […] Their apparent hybrid nature makes them “dogmen” or “man-wolves.” […] Reports of dogmen date to ancient times. In some cases, they were thought to be a type of debased human.

2018, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, “Introduction: An Overview of Werewolves and Their Kin”, in Rosemary Ellen Guiley, editor, Fate Presents Werewolves and Dogmen, New Milford, Conn.: Visionary Living, →ISBN:

(cryptozoology, mythology) An alleged cryptid or mythological creature that is part dog and part man; also (religion) a deity who is part dog and part man.


dogman

From dog (“part of a crane that holds the items to be lifted”) + -man (suffix denoting someone (possibly implied male) who is an expert in an area, who is employed or holds a position in an area, or who takes part in an activity), from the fact that such a person would often ride on the load lifted by the crane when carrying out their duty.

Throughout 1970 there were repeated calls, particularly from Brian Hogan and Owens, for the banning of dogmen riding hooks, a demand firmly resisted by employers unwilling to hire the extra dogmen required. Accordingly, during 1972 the union embarked upon a concerted campaign to enforce the use of two dogmen on each crane.

1998, Meredith Burgmann, Verity Burgmann, “Civilising the Industry”, in Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers’ Federation, Sydney, N.S.W.: University of New South Wales Press, published 2000, →ISBN, part 2 (A New Concept of Unionism), page 108:

The usual crane crew required for operation of the site was one crane driver and two dogmen, but the BLF insisted that the builder keep a relief crane driver and a relief dogman permanently on site.

2005, Henry Pollack, The Accidental Developer: The Fascinating Rise to the Top of Mirvac Founder Henry Pollack, Sydney, N.S.W.: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, →ISBN, page 243:

The only work I had done as a dogman was to use a crane on the back of a truck ‘slinging loads’ and work the crane and truck myself.

2011, Raymond D. Clements, Aussie Rogue, Bangkok, Thailand: Bangkok Book House, published 2017, →ISBN, page 59:

(Australia, New Zealand) An assistant to a crane operator, responsible for securing the crane's load and directing the operator.


prototherian

/ˌpɹoʊtɵˈθɪəɹi.ən/

From Prototheria, from Ancient Greek πρωτο- (prōto-, “proto-, first”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”); + -ian.

uder

Monotremes (prototherians), which include the duck-billed platypus, and short- and long-beaked echidnas, have a cloaca—a single opening for the fecal, urinary, and reproductive tracts.

1999, George A. Feldhamer, Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, and Ecology, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 192:

Any of the egg-laying mammals of the subclass Prototheria; a monotreme.


quadrumane

From French quadrumane, from Late Latin quadrumanus.

(zoology, now rare) An animal having four hands and feet with opposable digits, specifically a member of the now obsolete order of mammals Quadrumana, comprising all non-human primates; a primate.


mule deer

Odocoileus hemionus
Odocoileus hemionus#Translingual

A species of deer (Odocoileus hemionus) found in western North America.


musang

Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus#Translingual

The Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), of South and Southeast Asia up to the Wallace Line.


Buru babirusa

Babyrousa babyrussa, a pig-like animal native to Buru and the Sula Islands in Indonesia.


babirusa

From scientific Latin babyroussa (later as specific name), and its source, Malay babi rusa, from babi (“pig”) + rusa (“deer”).

And there are wild pigs, babirusas, with wrinkled skin and impressive upper tusks that instead of growing down, grow up and backwards toward the skull.

2018 May 17, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:

Any of several mammals in the genus Babyrousa in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward.


afrotherian

en-adj

afrotherian (comparative more afrotherian, superlative most afrotherian)

more afrotherian (comparative)
most afrotherian (superlative)

From Afrotheria, from Afro- + Ancient Greek θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”), + -n.

Although the monophyly of Afrotheria is well supported by recent molecular studies, the interrelationships within afrotherian mammals remain unclarified.

2003, Yumie Murata et al., “Afrotherian Phylogeny as Inferred from Complete Mitochondrial Genomes”, in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, volume 28, page 253:

Just as molecular evidence from living mammals would predict, the African fossil record documents the presence of several afrotherian groups by early or middle Eocene time.

2006, Chris Beard, The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, University of California Press, page 251:

(zoology) Belonging or pertaining to the superorder Afrotheria, which includes the elephants, aardvarks, golden moles, tenrecs, etc.


afrotherian

As their name implies, afrotherians putatively represent a radiation of placentals rooted in the African continent and nearby island of Madagascar.

2001, Michael J. Novacek, “Mammalian Phylogeny: Genes and Supertrees”, in Current Biology, volume 11, page R573:

Alternatively, the afrotherians may have originated in Europe, and an elephant-shrew like creature crossed into Africa and gave rise to the great diversity of afrotherians—from elephants to golden moles—that inhabit the continent today.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 59:

(zoology) A placental that belongs to the superorder Afrotheria, such as an elephant, aardvark, golden mole, tenrec, etc.


afrothere

From Afrotheria, from Afro- + Ancient Greek θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”).

Golden moles and tenrecs seem to be related to each other, and most modern authorities place them within the afrotheres.

2004, Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale, Mariner Books, page 222:

In the absence of a comprehensive fossil record for stem members of crown Afrotheria, most high-level phylogenetic analyses have been based primarily on the morphology of extant afrotheres[…].

2007, Rodolphe Tabuce et al., “Early Tertiary Mammals from North Africa Reinforce the Molecular Afrotheria Clade”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, volume 274, page 1159:


change hand

en-verb

change hand (third-person singular simple present changes hand, present participle changing hand, simple past and past participle changed hand)

changes hand (present singular third-person)
changing hand (participle present)
changed hand (participle past)
changed hand (past)

(military, archaic) To turn a horse around; especially, when exercising in a circle, to cross the center and resume circling in the other direction.


shaft bow

Part of a horse harness, an arch from shaft to shaft over the horse's shoulders.


Xoloitzcuintli

Through Spanish from Classical Nahuatl xoloitzcuintli (literally “dog of Xolotl”).

uder

Whoever has petted a hairless dog will verify that these wrinkles are produced by a lack of hair, especially among the pups of the xoloitzcuintli.

1991, Guillermo García Oropeza, Perros en las tumbas de Colima:

The Mexican xoloitzcuintli (or xolo) is a likely GFP K-9 breed (fig. 77).

2005, Eduardo Kac, Telepresence and bio art: networking humans, rabbits, and robots:

Owing to its hairless condition, the xoloitzcuintli visibly perspires...

2005, Kent V Flannery, Joyce Marcus, Excavations at San José Mogote 1: the household archaeology:


Labrador retriever

en-noun

Labrador retriever (plural Labrador retrievers)

A dog of a medium to large breed, popular as guide dogs and in other service.


common marmoset

common marmoset (plural common marmosets)

Callithrix jacchus
Callithrix jacchus#Translingual

Marmoset, a New World monkey, Callithrix jacchus


truffle hog

From truffle + hog from being swine used to hunt for buried truffles.

A domestic pig used for extraction of truffles.


urva

A crab-eating mongoose (Urva urva, syn. Herpestes urva).


pongid

(obsolete) Any primate once considered to belong in the family Pongidae; the great apes excluding humans


needle-clawed bushbaby

needle-clawed bushbaby (plural needle-clawed bushbabies)

A primate of one of the two species in the genus Euoticus, which is in the family Galagidae.


greater galago

Any of three species of strepsirrhine primates of the genus Otolemur.


thick-tailed bushbaby

thick-tailed bushbaby (plural thick-tailed bushbabies)

Common name for three species of strepsirrhine primates of the genus Otolemur.


polar fox

Vulpes lagopus
Vulpes lagopus#Translingual


snow fox

snow foxes (canonical)
snow foxes (plural)


banded mongoose

banded mongoose (plural banded mongooses or banded mongoose)

banded mongooses (plural)
banded mongoose (plural)

A mongoose of the species Mungos mungo, commonly found in the central and eastern parts of Africa.


platypusary

From platypus + -ary, coined by Australian naturalist Henry Burrell (1873–1945), the first person who succeeded in constructing a functioning platypusary.

It was Mr. Harry Burrell, of Sydney, who first designed an intricate model home for the platypus and coined for it the obviously suitable name of "Platypusary".

1944, David Howells Fleay, We breed the platypus, page 14:

When building "platypusaries" in zoos and sanctuaries it is essential to ensure that man-made tunnels are tight-fitting.

1974, Dal Stivens, The incredible egg: a billion year journey, page 354:

There was nothing for it but to install the three duckbills in the travelling platypusary in one of the Pan American hangars and hope for the best.

1980, David Howells Fleay, Paradoxical Platypus: Hobnobbing with Duckbills, page 106:

(Australia) A place where platypuses are nurtured.


snow sheep

Ovis nivicola
Ovis nivicola#Translingual

Ovis nivicola, a species of sheep from the mountainous areas in the northeast of Siberia.


argali

From Mongolic (Mongolian аргаль (argalʹ)).

Ovis ammon, the largest wild sheep, which roams the highlands of Central Asia.


domestic sheep

Ovis aries, domesticated sheep kept as livestock


thinhorn sheep

Ovis dalli, a species of sheep native to northwestern North America, ranging from white to slate brown in color and having curved yellowish brown horns.


turn flukes

en-verb

turn flukes (third-person singular simple present turns flukes, present participle turning flukes, simple past and past participle turned flukes)

turns flukes (present singular third-person)
turning flukes (participle present)
turned flukes (participle past)
turned flukes (past)

But come, it's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes--it's a nice bed; Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:


venisonburger

The rest of the deer is butchered into chops, steaks, roasts, stew meat, venisonburger, and even ribs, if the deer is a large one.

1977, Field & Stream, volume 82, number 8, page 60:

A burger made with venison instead of beef.


deerburger

A hamburger made with meat from a deer instead of beef.


catbath

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

‘Cat bath, hmm, I wonder what that is?’ I said, trying to imagine what it involved.

2007, Moammar Emak, Jakarta Undercover II, →ISBN:

The sex worker, called ‘Angel’, scored 7/10 for her all-over ‘catbath’; 8/10 for the ‘bareback barrel blow job’ (BBBJ), and 8/10 for her ‘fuck job’ (FJ), which took place with a condom.

2012, Lenore Lyons, Michele Ford, Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia, →ISBN:

[…] but His Hardness wants that damned, hellified, diabolical catbath and foot massage you do.

2014, Nancy Hartwell Enonchong, Harem Slave, →ISBN:

(sex) A form of foreplay, chiefly in Southeast Asian sex work, in which one participant licks the other all over their body.


roussette

French, in allusion to the color. See russet.

Any Mauritian flying fox (Pteropus niger, syn. Pteropus vulgaris) inhabiting islands of the Indian Ocean.

Any of certain fruit bats:
Any flying fox of genus Rousettus.

Any small shark of the genus Scylliorhinus (syn. Scyllium); a dogfish.


honey bear

Audio (US)


European mink

Mustela lutreola
Mustela lutreola#Translingual

a species of mink, Mustela lutreola, found mostly in Europe, similar in appearance to the American mink.


king of beasts

Coordinate term: queen of beasts

“Who shot the lions?” Fred asked. / “Yours truly,” answered Terry. “I shot them with my little gun. I wouldn’t tell a lie for a dozen lions.” Nearly every one in the command laughed heartily, and gathered around to see the big game. The scouts told how Terry had brought the two kings of beasts down, each at a single shot.

1900 February 23, Hal Standish [pseudonym; Harvey King Shackleford], “Fred Fearnot in Johannesburg or, The Terrible Ride to Kimberley”, in Work and Win: An Interesting Weekly for Young America, number 64, New York, N.Y.: Frank Tousey, chapter VII (Terry’s Remarkable Exploit as a Lion Slayer), page 20, column 1:

مَلِك الغَابَة (malik al-ḡāba, literally “king of the forest/jungle”)


deerlick

He'd hearn tell of deerlicks, and how they were sometimes made. So he started out one Sunday into the woods, with a bag of salt...

1854, Samuel H Hammond, Hills, lakes, and forest streams: or, A tramp in the Chateaugay woods:

Deerlicks, it is true, were known here long before the Revolution, and Captain Brady and other hunters from Fort Pitt frequently took advantage of them...

1908, John Newton Boucher, John Woolf Jordan, A century and a half of Pittsburg and her people, Volume 1:


Staffie

(informal) A Staffordshire bull terrier.


Miniature Pinscher

en-noun

Miniature Pinscher (plural Miniature Pinschers)

A small breed of pinscher bred in Germany to hunt small vermin, especially rats.


Bulgarian Hound

Bulgarian Hound (plural Bulgarian Hounds)

A breed of scenthound originating in Bulgaria.


Large Münsterländer

Large Münsterländer (plural Large Münsterländers)

A gun dog of a breed originating in Münster, Germany.


Löwchen

Borrowed from German Löwchen (literally “little lion”).

bor

An uncommon bichon bred in North-Western Europe.


Basque Shepherd Dog

en-noun

Basque Shepherd Dog (plural Basque Shepherd Dogs)

A herding dog bred in the Basque regions of northern Spain and southern France.


fummel

After the conclusion of the regular sport, a match, two miles, came off between a fummel (2 yrs old) and a pony (aged, which seemed to excite some interest from the large cavalcade of horsemen who followed them round the course. The fummel won easy.

1839 September 20, “Sporting Intelligence: Lichfield Meeting”, in Stockport Advertiser, volume 18, number 913, Stockport, page 3:

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:

Twelve useful in-calf Short-horned Dairy Cows, eleven in-calf Heifers, eleven Stirks, […] half-bred Filly by Spotswood, Fummel, 50 inlamb Leicester Ewes, 20 Ewe Hogs, […] about 5 Acres of White Turnips to be sold in lots, […]

1845 January 8, “By Mr. Leedam”, in The Derby Mercury, volume 114, number 5870, Derby: Thomas Burroughs, page 2:

(UK, dialectal, obsolete) A hinny (the hybrid of a male horse and a female donkey).


Xolo

Clipping of Xoloitzcuintli (“Mexican hairless dog”).


Puli

Pulik (plural)
Pulis (plural)
Puli (plural)


Slovak Cuvac

Slovak Cuvac (canonical)
Slovensky Cuvac (canonical)

livestock guardian dog
livestock guardian dog

A livestock guardian dog bred in Slovakia.


Croatian Sheepdog

Croatian Sheepdog (plural Croatian Sheepdogs)


Icelandic Sheepdog

Icelandic Sheepdog (plural Icelandic Sheepdogs)


Rhodesian Ridgeback

Rhodesian Ridgeback (plural Rhodesian Ridgebacks)

Named for the ridge of hair along the spine that grows toward the dog's front.

The house is still there […] . And guarded by a pair of Rhodesian ridgebacks.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 117

A dog of a kind bred in southern Africa to hunt lions.


Afghan Hound

A sighthound bred in Afghanistan to hunt hare and gazelle.


Beauceron

/ˈbəʊsəˌɹɒn/

/ˈboʊsəˌɹɑn/

A large dog bred in Northern France for herding and guarding.


Chinese Crested Dog

Chinese Crested Dog (plural Chinese Crested Dogs)

Named for the crest of hair on the top of the head and ears.

A toy dog that resembles a long-snouted Chihuahua with tufts of hair about the head and ears, tail and feet.


Spinone Italiano

Spinone Italiano (plural Spinoni Italiani)

A versatile pointing gun dog bred in Italy.


Thai Ridgeback

A sighthound bred in what is now Thailand.


Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen

Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen (plural Petits Bassets Griffons Vendéens)

Petits Bassets Griffons Vendéens (plural)


toy fox terrier

toy fox terrier (plural toy fox terriers)

A toy terrier bred from the fox terrier and several toy breeds in the United States.


Irish wolfhound

Irish wolfhound (plural Irish wolfhounds)

The Irish wolfhound is the official mascot of The Irish Guards and The Royal Irish Regiment.

The largest sighthound and tallest dog on average, bred in Ireland to hunt wolves


Vancouver Island marmot

Vancouver Island marmot (plural Vancouver Island marmots)

Any of species Marmota vancouverensis of marmots, found only on Vancouver Island.


Kermode bear

/ˈkɜːɹmoʊd bɛəɹ/

/kəɹˈmoʊd bɛəɹ/

Named after researcher Frank Kermode /ˈkɜːɹmoʊd/.

A subspecies of the American black bear, Ursus americanus kermodei found in British Columbia, some members of which have white or cream-colored (rather than black) skin due to a recessive gene.


Affenpinscher

A breed of toy dog bred in Western Europe.


caviomorph

Cavies are caviomorphs. Caviomorphs are tailless South American rodents that are characterized by having one pair of mammae (teats), four digits on the forefoot, and three digits on the hind foot, as well as special anatomical features of the head and jaws.

2003, Sharon Lynn Vanderlip, The Guinea Pig Handbook, page 11:

Platypittamys was a caviomorph that lived in southern South America around 30 million years ago.[…]Today caviomorphs are found in South America, but genetic studies show that they are descended from African rodents.

2008, Rebecca Stefoff, The Rodent Order, page 21:

In beds of Deseadan age caviomorphs are represented by 6 families (9 genera), in the Santacrucian by 7 families (17 genera), and in the Hayquerian by 8 families (21 genera) (Marshall et al. In press b).

2012, Larry G. Marshall, “The Geat American Interchange—An Invasion-Induced Crisis for South American Mammals”, in Matthew Nitecki, editor, Biotic Crises in Ecological and Evolutionary Time, page 192:

Any rodent of the infraorder (sometimes parvorder) Caviomorpha, that unites all South American hystricognaths.


hystricognath

The New World hystricognath rodents (= caviomorphs) today represent one of the most diverse and widespread suborders among the over 800 mammal species of South America (Woods, 1982).

1996, José Roberto Moreira, David W. Macdonald, “7: Capybara use and conservation in South America”, in V.J. Taylor, N. Dunstone, editors, Exploitation of Mammal Populations, page 89:

The situation is similar with respect to rodents, given that the earliest undisputed hystricognaths are from the Oligocene of Pakistan and Egypt (ca. 35Ma), with the possibility of a Middle Eocene origin for the group (Bryant and McKenna 1995; Marivaux et al. 2002).

2008, Felipe Bandoni de Oliveira, Eder Cassola Molina, Paul A. Garber, Gabriel Marroig, “Chapter 3: Paleogeography of the South Atlantic: a Route for Primates and Rodents into the New World?”, in Alejandro Estrada, Julio Cesar Bicca-Marques, Eckhard W. Heymann, Karen B. Strier, editors, South American Primates, page 63:

The hystricognaths include several lines that radiated in Africa and South America in the Oligocene and Miocene.[…]The largest hystricognath group is the Caviomorpha, the South American guinea pigs, capybaras, chinchillas and New World porcupines.

2009, Michael J. Benton, Vertebrate Palaeontology, page 359:

(zoology) Any member of the infraorder Hystricognathi of rodents, distinguished from other rodents by the bone structure of their skulls.


Cirneco dell'Etna

Cirneco dell'Etna (plural Cirnechi dell'Etna)


Belgian Sheepdog

Belgian Sheepdog (plural Belgian Sheepdogs)

белгийска овчарка

Umbrella term for the four Belgian sheepdog variants

Belgian Shepherd Dog

umbrella term for the four "Belgian Shepherds"

One of four variants of sheep herding dog bred in Belgium.


Belgian Groenendael

The long-haired black variant of the Belgian Sheepdog.


Belgian Laekenois

One of four variants of the Belgian Sheepdog.


stink-cat

From stink + cat, probably a calque of German Stinkkatze.


oliphaunt

From Middle English oliphaunt, olifaunt, from Old French olifant, from Latin elephantus; see elephant for more information.

The gander, the gose, and the hudge oliphaunt, / Went with the pecok ageyne the fesaunt;

1523, John Skelton, “A ryght delectable treatyse upon a goodly garlande or chapelet of laurell”, in Poetical Works of John Skelton, published 1853, page 365:

His mugge so Taste and wide, I wel opine,
 An oliphaunt he might have swallow'd[.]

1876, William Curry, Jun. & Co, The Dublin university magazine: Volume 88:

‘Were there any oliphaunts?’ asked Sam, forgetting his fear in his eagerness for news of strange places.

1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, Random House, published 1982, →ISBN, page 283:


mereswine

mereswine (plural mereswines or mereswine)

Inherited from Middle English mereswyn (“porpoise, dolphin”), from Old English mereswīn (“porpoise, dolphin”), from Proto-West Germanic *mariswīn, from Proto-Germanic *mariswīną (“dolphin, porpoise, cetacean”). By surface analysis, mere + swine or mer- + swine.

inh

(rare, poetic, archaic) A porpoise or dolphin.


Tibetan Mastiff

en-noun

Tibetan Mastiff (plural Tibetan Mastiffs)

A large dog of a breed from Central Asia, having a medium to long double coat in a wide variety of colors, sometimes with white markings around neck, chest, and legs.


ride down

en-verb

ride down (third-person singular simple present rides down, present participle riding down, simple past rode down, past participle ridden down)

rides down (present singular third-person)
riding down (participle present)
rode down (past)
ridden down (participle past)

(idiomatic, equestrianism, transitive) To cause (a horse) to fall when riding.


wheel dog

(mushing) One of the dogs positioned directly in front of the sled that absorbs most of the force during the sled's movement.


swing dog

(mushing) One of the dogs directly behind the lead dogs, who help set the pace.


lead dog

(mushing) one of the dogs at the front of the team, who set the pace.


cebine

Synonym of capuchin monkey (“primate of the genus Cebus”).


troat

troat (third-person singular simple present troats, present participle troating, simple past and past participle troated)

troats (present singular third-person)
troating (participle present)
troated (participle past)
troated (past)

Either onomatopoetic, or akin to throat.


knobber

From knob + -er; the deer sense derives from the fact that a young buck's antlers begin diminutively as mere knobs; the fool sense derives indirectly from a reference to the penis; the two senses are ultimately cognate.

Near-synonyms: brocket, pricket, spitter

As soon as the knobber started galloping, all the other stags, who. till now, had taken but a languid interest, if any, in his movements, jumped on to their feet.

1906, Country life, volume 20, page 619:

But even she was forced to confess that nothing was astir in the mossy wilderness. She climbed to the top of Craig Dhu and had a long spy, but, except for more hinds and one small knobber, living thing there was none.

1925, John Buchan, John Macnab, page 100:

While I watched the young hind approached the knobber and, after standing by him for a moment, began to lick him

A mature stag chases a young male (a knobber) from the harem

1978 November 16, New Scientist, volume 80, number 1129, page 540:

(hunting, animal husbandry) A hart in its second year; a young male deer.


knobbler

They had begun by running a knobbler in the Shabbington coverts, but in the afternoon the sport had been better, for they had found a stag of ten in the oak wood by Stanton

1931, John Buchan, Blanket Of The Dark, page 51:

This was explained when we got up to the beasts, for they were all dead, six of them: five hinds and calves and a small knobbler. They had been struck by lightning.

(hunting, animal husbandry) Synonym of knobber (young male deer).


spayard

A new membrane destined to be converted into horn develops itself, pushing away the old horn, and the spayard drops his dags, the stag and the hart their horns with antlers.

1865 April 22, unattributed, “Antlers”, in All the Year Round, page 304:

(obsolete) The hart in its third year; a young deer


pteropine

of or pertaining to flying foxes (bats of the genus Pteropus).


rabbitry

Аn enclosure where rabbits are kept, and often bred.

зайчарник

an enclosure where rabbits are kept, and often bred


queen of beasts

en-noun

queen of beasts (plural queens of beasts)

Coordinate term: king of beasts

[W]e will follow females from pregnancy and parturition to the pooling of their cubs in a crèche, whereupon the egalitarian queens of beasts are faced with the intricacies of shared caregiving.

2023, Craig Packer, “Cub Rearing”, in The Lion: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation of an Iconic Species, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 76:

राज्ञी पशूनाम्

rājñī paśūnām


foxie

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He was a spare fellow, eager as a foxie, with the remains of a good profile and some remnants of grey curl.

1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 21:


Scottish Deerhound

Scottish Deerhound (plural Scottish Deerhounds)

A large sighthound bred in Scotland to hunt deer.


quadrella

2003 March 22, Craig Sherborne, Footy′s Man of Passion, The Herald Sun, republished in 2003, Garrie Hutchinson (editor), The Best Australian Sports Writing 2003, page 79,
Demetriou is an inveterate punter with a miraculous instinct for picking big quadrellas.

2009, H. G. Nelson (Greig Pickhaver), Sprays: A Collection of Verbal Touch-Ups, unnumbered page,
Imagine jagging a couple of nice trifectas or the quadrella and squaring the Christmas credit-card bill, with a little extra left for a three-week holiday at Victor Harbor. Magic!

2010, Stephen Barkoczy. Australian Tax Casebook, 10th Edition, CCH Australia, page 416,
Instead, the taxpayer relied on his own intuition, placed bets mainly on the totalisator or with on-course bookmakers and was more inclined to place “higher risk” bets such as trifectas and quadrellas.

(gambling, horse racing, Australia, New Zealand) A bet where the bettor must pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track.


side-striped jackal

side-striped jackal (plural side-striped jackals)

Canis adustus
Canis adustus#Translingual

A species of jackal (Lupulella adusta, syn. Canis adustus), native to central and southern Africa.


short-eared dog

short-eared dog (plural short-eared dogs)

Atelocynus microtis
Atelocynus microtis#Translingual

A canid of species Atelocynus microtis, endemic to the Amazonian Basin.


crab-eating fox

crab-eating fox (plural crab-eating foxes)

Cerdocyon thous
Cerdocyon thous#Translingual

A medium-sized canid of species Cerdocyon thous, endemic to central South America.


black-backed jackal

black-backed jackal (plural black-backed jackals)

Canis mesomelas
Canis mesomelas#Translingual

A jackal of species Canis mesomelas, which inhabits the southernmost and central-eastern regions of the African continent.


wiener dog

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(informal, sometimes humorous) Synonym of dachshund (a dog breed)


guib

The guib is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.

1835, Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history:

Tragelaphus scriptus
Tragelaphus scriptus#Translingual

The harnessed antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), a West African antelope marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground;.


Pearson's long-clawed shrew

Pearson's long-clawed shrew (plural Pearson's long-clawed shrews)

Any of species Solisorex pearsoni of shrews endemic to Sri Lanka;.


Triple Crown

(horse racing, US) The three greatest thoroughbred races of the year restricted to three-year-olds: the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes

(horse racing, UK) The three greatest thoroughbred races of the year restricted to three-year-olds: the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, Derby Stakes (aka "Epsom Derby"), and St. Leger Stakes

(horse racing, Canada) The three greatest thoroughbred races of the year restricted to three-year-olds: the Queen's Plate, Prince of Wales Stakes, and Breeders' Stakes


glirid

(zoology) Any member of the family Gliridae of dormice.


myoxid

(zoology) Any member of the family Myoxidae of dormice (better known as the Gliridae).


feeder cattle

(agriculture) Steers or cows that are mature enough to be placed in a feedlot in preparation for slaughter.


mouldwarp

From Middle English moldewarpe, moldewarp, moldewerp, (also molwarpe, molewarpe), from Old English *moldeweorpe, ("mole"; literally "earth-thrower"; compare Old English wandeweorpe (“mole”)), from Proto-Germanic *muldawurpiz (“earth-thrower, mole”), equivalent to mould + warp.
Cognate with Scots malwart, modewarp (“mole”), Dutch molworp (“mole”), Low German mulworp, molworm (“mole”), German Maulwurf (“mole”), Danish muldvarp (“mole”), Swedish mullvad (“mole”), Icelandic moldvarpa (“mole”).

gloss

"mole"; literally "earth-thrower"; compare Old English <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang">wandeweorpe</i> (“mole”)

inh

For either they be puffed vp vvith pride, / Or fraught vvith enuie that their galls do ſvvell, / Or they their dayes to ydleneſſe diuide, / Or drovvnded lie in pleaſures vvaſtefull vvell, / In vvhich like Moldvvarps nouſling ſtill they lurke, / Vnmyndfull of chiefe parts of manlineſſe, / And do themſelues for vvant of other vvorke, / Vaine votaries of laeſie loue profeſſe, […]

1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso:

as the moldiwarp in Æsop told the fox […], you complain of toys, but I am blind, be quiet […].

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 1, subsection i:

"Yi, an' there's some chaps as does go round like moudiwarps." He thrust his face forward in the blind, snout-like way of a mole, seeming to sniff and peer for direction.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

(now regional, archaic) A mole, Talpa europea.


Mongolian wild ass

en-noun

Mongolian wild ass (plural Mongolian wild asses)

Equus hemionus hemionus, a subspecies of the onager, found in Mongolia and northern China.


Palawan bearcat

Palawan bearcat (plural Palawan bearcats)

A subspecies of the binturong, Arctictis binturong whitei, endemic to the Philippine island of Palawan.


phocid

(mammalogy) Any member of the family Phocidae, the true seals


Old World porcupine

Old World porcupine (plural Old World porcupines)

Rodents are represented by four families: squirrels, Old World porcupines, mice and rats, and bamboo rats.

2008, Barbara A. Holzman, Tropical Forest Biomes, page 115:

Old World porcupines inhabit much of Africa, southern Europe, and Asia. Old World porcupines are also known to gnaw on bones (Bruno and Riccardi 1995; Nowak 1999; Smithers, Skinner, and Chimimba 2005; Barhelmess 2006; Arslan 2008).

2010, Peter S. Ungar, Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity, page 211:

Erethizon characteristically takes shelter in rock piles, beneath overhanging rocks, or in hollow logs but (as other New World porcupines) does not dig burrows as do Old World porcupines.

2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 227:

Any of the large, spiny-furred rodents of the family Hystricidae, native to the southern Eurasia and Africa.


catarrhine

Describing the Catarrhini parvorder of primates (including humans) that have nostrils that are close together and directed frontward or downward


bum calf

At the start of calving season, there was another bum calf, Ferdinand, whose mother had abandoned him.

2005, Lynn Parr, Cowgirl: A Home on the Wyoming Range, page 149:

I could do it all — I could play their game until I dropped — but I would never own a square foot of land, a bushel of oats or a bum calf in my own name.

2002, Judy Blunt, Breaking Clean, page 291:

She usually manages to be busy feeding some bum calf or wrangling the horses or something.

1992, Teresa Jordan, Cowgirls: Women of the American West, page 83:

"I feel like a bum calf when you do this to me," Madeleine said and when her mother said, "What?" Madeleine said, "Never mind."

1989, Gretel Ehrlich, Heart Mountain, page 114:

A young heifer or bull which has been orphaned or abandoned; it must be adopted by another cow, steal milk, or be bottle-fed in order to survive, and is therefore often a runt.


leppy

When those big bands take off, the mares never come back for those leppies. We were branding one time and saw a little bunch move out and a mom left a leppy behind.

2006, Paula Morin, Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin, page 105:

Out on the range, he would have been a stunted leppy.

2003, American Cowboy, volume 10, number 4, page 90:

I have heard a famous rodeo announcer crack the same old joke every year, "A leppy is a little calf whose ma has died, and whose pa has run away with another cow."

1978, Sarah E. Olds, Twenty Miles From a Match: Homesteading in Western Nevada, page 44:

(slang, US) A young animal, particularly a cow calf or bull calf, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned.


quillwork

quillwork (countable and uncountable, plural quillworks)

On the each end was a leanback made of willow rods tied together in a tapered trapezoidal form set at an angle. Covers of buffalo hide with the hair on and quillwork designs were draped over the leanback and bed surface.

2013, Jeffrey D. Anderson, Arapaho Women's Quillwork: Motion, Life, and Creativity, page 61:

Decorative textile embellishment made from porcupine quills by certain Native Americans.


tylopod

From Ancient Greek τύλη (túlē, “knob, hump”) + -pod (“foot”).

(zoology) Any even-toed ungulate mammal, of the suborder Tylopoda, including the camels.


litoptern

From modern Latin Litopterna (order name), from Ancient Greek λῑτός (lītós, “smooth”) + πτέρνη (ptérnē, “heel-bone”).

[C]ertain litopterns like the camel-like Macrauchenia also lived on until within 15,000 years before the present.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 73:

(zoology) An extinct hoofed mammal of the order †Litopterna, from the Cenozoic period.


izard

From French isard, further derivation uncertain.

[T]hat threatening aspect with which they seemed to hang over the wandering traveller […] bid him to fear, lest even the light steps of the Izard (the Chamois of the Pyrenees), or the wild goats, who now and then appeared suspended amid the craggy fissures, should disunite them from the mountain itself and bury him beneath their thundering ruins.

1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 474:

A Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica).


bontebok

From Afrikaans bontebok, from Dutch bontebok (literally “motley goat”).

der

A South African antelope of genus Damaliscus


quadfecta

He won the Superfecta and the Quadfecta all in the same day at Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles.

2010, George V. Bush, Magazine Man “A Slave To The Sale”, unnumbered page:

(gambling, horse racing) A bet in which the bettor must select the winners of the first four places (i.e., first, second, third, and fourth) of a race in the correct order.


protocetid

Any of a group of extinct cetaceans, of the family †Protocetidae, from the Eocene period


mysticete

(zoology) Any of the baleen whales (of parvorder Mysticeti).


physeteroid

(zoology) Any sperm whale (of the family Physeteridae).


basilosaurus

Any species of several very large extinct cetaceans belonging to the genus †Basilosaurus, of the family †Basilosauridae, from the late Eocene. the two species in the genus B.isis (found in Egypt and Tunisia) and B. cetoides (found in the southern and eastern US).


chiropteran

(zoology) Any mammal, of the order Chiroptera, that has forelimbs modified to form wings; a bat.


chickaree

Onomatopoeia from its cry; compare chickadee.

We heard the sound of the chickaree

1864, Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods:

(Canada, US) A small squirrel, one of the species of Tamiasciurus, that lives in evergreen forests of North America.


platyrrhine

(zoology) Any New World monkey of the Platyrrhini


callitrichid

(zoology) Any New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae.


bellyband

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From belly + band. As a Japanese article of clothing, a calque of Japanese 腹巻き (haramaki).

(equestrianism) A strap around the belly of a horse or other draft animal used to secure a saddle or the shafts of a cart.

(nautical) A band of canvas used to strengthen a sail.


devilfish

en-noun

devilfish (plural devilfishes or devilfish)

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The California gray whale, or devil-fish (Rhachianectes glaucus), is found only in the North Pacific, and is an object of pursuit by the shore stations established along that coast.

1887, A. Howard Clark, “The American-Whale Fishery”, in Science, volume 9, number 217, New York, N.Y.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, page 323:

The Sarah Warren returned with 1,100 bbls. of "devil fish" oil and 60 bbls. of sperm oil, and her tender, the Nevada, returned with 74, bbls. of whale oil.

1972, David A. Henderson, Men & Whales at Scammon's Lagoon, Los Angeles, C.A.: Dawson's Book Shop, →ISBN, page 270:

Returning, arrived at Honolulu on April 6, with 330 barrels of devil fish oil. Discharged cargo and left again for the Arctic region the latter part of July, 1867, returning the latter part of October, with 850 barrels of oil.

1907, Daniel Logan, A History of the Hawaiian Islands, New York, N.Y., Chicago. I.L.: Lewis Publishing Company, page 231:

Although twice the size of the killers and correspondingly strong, when one of the orcas appears the devilfish become terrified and either wildly dash for shore or turn belly up at the surface, with fins outspread, paralyzed by fright.

1916, Roy Chapman Andrews, Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, page 197:

(dated) Any of several not closely related marine animals:

Eschrichtius robustus
Eschrichtius robustus#Translingual

Elliott's "South Carolina Field Sports" is a very interesting and entirely trustworthy record of the sporting side of existence on the old Southern plantations, and not only commemorates how the planters hunted bear, deer, fox, and wildcat in the cane-brakes, but also gives a unique description of harpooning the devil-fish in the warm Southern waters.

1893, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, American Big-game Hunting: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club, New York, N.Y.: Forest and Stream Publishing Co, page 323:

The Tectospondyli contains those dog-fishes which have no anal fin, and the rays and devil-fishes.

1901, William Plane Pycraft, The Story Of Fish Life, London: George Newnes, page 173:

There the great ray, the devilfish, powerful, swift, mighty, tons in weight, spreads his huge black wings; […]

1905, A. S. J. Newberry, “The Song of the Spear”, in Forest and Stream, volume 44, number 15, New York, N.Y.: Forest and Stream Publishing Company, page 295:

Indeed the same time-worn phrase if considered horizontally would be less than the actual fact if applied to some of the devilfish or giant rays which we saw.

1926, William Beebe, The Arcturus Adventure, New York, N.Y., London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 206:

Viennese marine biologist Han Haas lived for six months on an Arab fishing boat on the Red Sea in 120 degree heat. He bumped noses with sharks and deadly devil fish while he photographed the briny deep.

1951, “Woman Diverts Attention From Filming Undersea”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume 84, number 148, page 12:

Thinking a whale had just sounded after hitting the water with its tail, I was about to turn away from it, when, like a great white owl, thirty feet across, and half as much from nose to tail, a gigantic eagle-ray or devil-fish, leaped silently out of the water, with its wings spread wide, planed for a short distance, and struck the water flat, with a similar detonation.

1951, Roy Campbell, Light on a Dark Horse: An Autobiography, Chicago, I.L.: Henry Regnery Company, published 1952, page 149:

The largest rays, like the largest sharks, are plankton strainers. Devilfishes or manta rays of the family Mobulidae are up to 6 meters in width.

2002, F. Harvey Pough, Christine M. Janis, John B. Heiser, Vertebrate Life, 6th edition, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 127:

These "devil fish" may have seemed terrifying then, but these days, the opportunity to swim with manta rays lures divers to Tobago, Trinidad's smaller, less-developed neighbor.

2004 October 31, Susan Enfield Esrey, “Far From the Bubblin' Crowd”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-03:

The manta ray; any ray in the genus Mobula.

(specifically) The devil ray, Mobula mobular.


gray whale

A baleen whale, Eschrichtius robustus, from the north Pacific


paint horse

A horse of a breed that combines the conformational characteristics of a western stock horse with a pinto spotting pattern of white and dark coat colours.


entelodont

[T]he Oligocene's signature species were an unsavoury group of pigs and pig-like creatures, foremost among which were the entelodonts, more popularly known as hell pigs, or terminator pigs.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 85:

Any of several extinct pig-like omnivores, of the family Entelodontidae, from the Eocene and Miocene epochs.


crabeater

Although crabeaters often gather on the ice in large numbers, pupping takes place in small groups.

2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Chickaree - crabs, →ISBN, page 564:

Although few observations have been made of feeding crabeaters, it is assumed that they take bites from a swarm of krill, extracting one or two. Crabeaters sometimes feed collectively, which may increase the efficiency of their hunt.

2002, David G. Campbell, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica, →ISBN:

Also distinguishing them is that crabeaters often have moderate scaring around the head and chest from fights with conspecifics and deep scaring along the body resulting from close encounters with leopard seals.

2013, Roger Kirkwood, Simon Goldsworthy, Fur Seals and Sea Lions, →ISBN, page 45:

Lobodon carcinophagus
Lobodon carcinophagus#Translingual

An Antarctic seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) that feeds on krill.


cercopithecoid

In East Africa the first evidence of cercopithecoid diversity appeared in the Pliocene at sites such as Lothagam, East Turkana, and Laetoli where papionins were the dominant cercopithecoids.

2005, Meave G. Leakey, “3: Evolution of Theropithecus in the Turkana Basin”, in Nina G. Jablonski, editor, Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus, page 117:

Concerning systematics, while extinct monkeys from the early and middle Miocene of Africa are widely accepted as true cercopithecoids, there remains some discussion as to their precise phylogenetic position.

2006, Tom Gundling, Andrew Hill, “7: Geological context of fossil Cercopithecoidea from eastern Africa”, in Paul F. Whitehead, Clifford J. Jolly, editors, Old World Monkeys, page 181:

The latest major anthropoid radiation, and in some ways the most successful, was that of the Old World monkeys, the Cercopithecoidea. Cercopithecoids appear to have originated from early African catarrhines during the late Oligocene gap in the Old World fossil record.

2011, Matt Cartmill, Fred H. Smith, The Human Lineage, page 128:

(zoology) Any species of the superfamily Cercopithecoidea (the Old World monkeys).


lionhead rabbit

lionhead rabbit (plural lionhead rabbits)

From lion + head + rabbit, from the resemblance to a male lion's mane.

A domestic rabbit of a United States breed that has particularly long wool around the face.


strandwolf

Hyaena brunnea
Hyaena brunnea#Translingual

(South Africa) The brown hyena (Hyaena brunnea).


wanderoo

From Sinhalese වඳුරා (waⁿdurā, “monkey”), වඳුරෝ (waⁿdurō, “monkeys”).

The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus)


tahr

Borrowed from Nepali थार (thār), from थारल (thāral).

Any of three genera of large Asian ungulates belonging to the subfamily Caprinae (goat-antelopes).


urial

Borrowed from Pothohari Punjabi ہڑیال m (huṛiāl), ultimately from Sanskrit हुड m (huḍa).

All domesticated sheep are descended from the moufflon, urial or argali. They are closely related to each other and connected by intermediate breeds. Most wool sheep are believed to have been derived from urial stock, while hair sheep are traced back to the moufflon.

1990, “Animals, Domestication of”, in A. Ghosh, editor, An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology, page 3:

O. severtzovi has been shuffled back and forth between the urial and the argali groups.

2011, Colin Groves, Peter Grubb, Ungulate Taxonomy, page 237:

Most urials live in open habitats, with few or no trees, but there are indications that this may be a recent adaptation to changing environmental conditions and that the urial was originally more of a woodland animal than at present.

2011, John P. Rafferty, Grazers, Britannica Educational Publishing, page 136:

A bearded reddish sheep, subspecies of Ovis orientalis (including Ovis orientalis vignei), previously classified as Ovis vignei, being endemic to southern Asia and believed to be a wild ancestor of domestic sheep.


physeterid

(zoology) Any sperm whale of family Physeteridae


terret

Alteration of Middle English toret, turret (“half-ring, eyelet”), from Anglo-Norman turette, diminutive of Old French tur (“circuit, ring”). More at turn.

She had a good idea of what was coming, and the moment York took the rein off the terret in order to shorten it, she took her opportunity, and reared up so suddenly, that York had his nose roughly hit, and his hat knocked off; […]

[1877], Anna Sewell, “A Strike for Liberty”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 106:

One of the rings on the top of the harness saddle, through which the reins pass.


brushtail

Back-formation from brush-tailed. See brush, tail.


entellus

A small Asian monkey (Semnopithecus entellus, syn. Presbytis entellus), one of the gray langurs, having bristly hairs on the crown and the sides of the face.


talbot

Henry Fox Talbot
Lumen second
Talbot (disambiguation)

After Henry Fox Talbot, a 19th-century pioneer of photography.

(physics) An mks unit of luminous energy, exactly corresponding to the SI lumen second.


whiptail

whiptail (countable and uncountable, plural whiptails)

Social status may be less important to red-necked wallabies, which, unlike whiptails, are "essentially solitary" (McEvoy 1970).

1977, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, volume 4, number 4, page 409:

pretty-faced wallaby
pretty-faced wallaby

A pretty-faced wallaby (Macropus parryi).


Amur leopard

a wild feline predator, of species Panthera pardus orientalis, native to the mountainous areas of the taiga as well as other temperate forests in Korea, Northeast China and the Russian Far East.


whalemeat

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


colobine

Any Old World monkey of the subfamily Colobinae.


phascogale

From genus name, translingual Phascogale (from Ancient Greek φάσκωλος (pháskōlos, “pouch, wallet”) + γαλέη (galéē, “weasel”)), classified 1824 by Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.

der

Any of several Australian dasyurid marsupials, of the genus Phascogale, the males of which die shortly after mating.


dasyurid

The Tasmanian Devil and the several species of quolls are by far the largest of the dasyurids, but the group is very diverse, and includes about 30 species of small insect-eaters, some not a lot bigger than a mouse.

1998, Terence Lindsey, Mammals of Australia, New Holland, published 2004, page 22:

It was once assumed that dasyurids made little use of visual communications because they are nocturnal.

2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 67:

A member of the family Dasyuridae, comprising carnivorous marsupials.


barbastelle

From French barbastelle, from Italian barbastrello.

But while common and soprano pipistrelles are numerous, the barbastelle bat is dependent on ancient woodland.

2018 June 13, Damian Carrington, The Guardian:

A relatively rare European bat, Barbastella barbastellus.


Asiatic wildcat

en-noun

Asiatic wildcat (plural Asiatic wildcats)

A subspecies of wildcat (Felis silvestris ornata).


Javan tiger

An extinct tiger that inhabited the Indonesian island of Java until the 1980s.


Cape lion

Panthera leo melanochaita
Panthera leo melanochaita#Translingual

A lion of the extinct population of subspecies Panthera leo melanochaita which inhabited the Cape of Good Hope.


grison

From Old French gris (“gray”) + -on (diminutive suffix). Doublet of Grisons.

A small, carnivorous South American mammal, of the genus Galictis, somewhat resembling a weasel.


leporid

(mammalogy) Any mammal of the family Leporidae: the hares and rabbits.


reedbuck

Any of several African antelopes of the genus Redunca.


grysbok

From Afrikaans grysbok, from Dutch grijsbok, from grijs (“gray”) + bok (“buck, billy goat”).

A small antelope of genus Raphicerus from South Africa.


hamadryas

Papio hamadryas
Papio hamadryas#Translingual

A large baboon (Papio hamadryas), from northern Africa and Arabia, that was sacred in ancient Egypt.


tucuxi

A freshwater dolphin, estuarine dolphin Sotalia fluviatilis, found in the rivers of the Amazon Basin


angwantibo

From Ibibio añwa (“cat”) + nte (“like”) + ibọk (“monkey”).

Either of two small primates, of the genus Arctocebus, similar to lemurs.


antechinus

antechinus (plural antechinuses or (rare) antechini)

antechinuses (plural)
antechini (plural rare)

These are distinguished from the Monodelphia, or Placentalia, by bringing forth their young in a very rudimentary state, nourishing them in a “marsupium,” which is either a regular pouch or a simple skinfold, such as our native cats and antechini develop at the time of parturition.

1873 November 5, Gerard Krefft, “Australian Natural History”, in Transactions of the Royal Society of New South Wales, for the Year 1873, Sydney, N.S.W.: Thomas Richards, […], published 1874, page 135:

Being on the West Coast at the time, and always anxious to forward any scientific investigations, I collected all the varieties of kangaroo rats, antechini, and rats that came under my observation.

1886, T[homas] B[ather] Moore, “Western Tasmania”, in J[ames] P[ark] Thomson, editor, Proceedings of the Queensland Branch of the Geographical Society of Australasia. 1st Session, 1885-6., volume I, Brisbane, Qld.: Watson, Ferguson & Co., […], page 65:

Smaller than the wambengers, the antechinuses are secretive and are seldom seen by people unless they are caught and brought into houses by domestic cats.

1970, W. D. L. Ride, Ella Fry, A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia, page 116:

Two species of antechini live above the snowline. These are pugnacious rat-sized marsupials. Male antechini copulate so vigorously that they die from exhaustion.

1990, Eric Hoffman, “Victoria’s Alpine Region”, in Adventuring in Australia (The Sierra Club Adventure Travel Guides), San Francisco, Calif.: Sierra Club Books, →ISBN, page 239:

I thought it was my fault until I consulted the experts, and found that antechinus die naturally at this time of the year.[…]Antechinus eat beetles, spiders and cockroaches, which they find in decaying litter and topsoil in their habitat of dense ground cover.

1998, Deirdre Slattery, chapter I, in The Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks, page 67:

If held as a colony outside the breeding season, antechinus show relatively little aggression while still forming a linear hierarchy.

2007, Stephen Jackson, Australian Mammals: Biology and Captive Management, unnumbered page:

Any member of the genus Antechinus of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble shrews.


dunnart

Probably borrowed from Nyunga danard (“Sminthopsis griseoventer”).

bor

After the winter solstice, while the ambient temperature still remained low, nest sharing declined rapidly, due to increasing intolerance among the fat-tailed dunnarts, as breeding began.

2005, C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 158:

During the original AWC survey, Alexander Baynes identified, in a single hollow salmon gum, 283 jaws of half-a-dozen native mammal species, mostly dunnarts, many of which were recovered from owl pellets.

2009, Tim Winton, “Silent Country: Travels through a Recovering Landscape”, in Robyn Davidson, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 18:

Reptiles are an important food source for a wide range of animals, including birds and small native marsupials such as the yellow-footed antechinus and the fat-tailed dunnart.

2010, Damian Michael, David Lindenmayer, Reptiles of the NSW Murray Catchment, page 7:

Any species of the genus Sminthopsis of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble mice or shrews.


kowari

The kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei) of central Australia, one of a number of marsupial species that become torpid during cold weather, is also a fierce hunter and vocally aggressive […].

2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 57:

A small carnivorous rat-like marsupial, Dasyuroides byrnei, endemic to the dry grasslands and deserts of central Australia.

Dasycercus byrnei

(Dasyuroides byrnei): brush-tailed marsupial rat, Kayer rat, Byrne's crest-tailed marsupial rat, bushy-tailed marsupial rat, kawiri


vespertilionid

Any of very many bats of the family Vespertilionidae.


Spanish walk

(equestrianism) A movement in which the horse raises the forelegs off the ground in an extreme upward and out manner, with much expression.


cusimanse

Any of several species of dwarf mongoose or small mongoose in the genus Crossarchus, native to West Africa.


sewellel

From Chinook sewellel, shewellel (“mountain beaver pelt robe”).


whale watching

The practice of observing whales and other cetaceans in their natural habitat.

觀賞鯨魚 /观赏鲸鱼

observing whales in their natural habitat


multituberculate

Any of a small group of rodent-like mammals, of the order †Multituberculata, from the Cretaceous and Paleocene periods.


tauros

Bos primigenius
Bos primigenius#Translingual

A crossbred cattle that is bred to bring back features of the aurochs (“Bos primigenius”), a member of the Tauros cattle breed.


fodient

(obsolete) One of the former suborder Fodientia; the aardvark.


chalicothere

From scientific Latin Chalicotherium (originally a genus name), from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “gravel”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”).

During the Miocene, a veritable evolutionary explosion of chalicotheres occurred in Europe, with no less than five genera existing at one time.

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

Any of various odd-toed ungulates of the family Chalicotheriidae, from the Eocene and Pleistocene periods, which had horse-like heads and apelike bodies.


cattle beast

en-noun

cattle beast (plural cattle beasts or cattle)

1883, Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm, Guelph, Annual Report, Volume 8, 199,
To aim at breeding, raising, and fattening one cattle beast from every ten cultivated acres of the Province.

1970, New Zealand Department of Agriculture, New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 121, page xxvii,
Similarly, people describe their ideal cattle beast with terms such as depth of body, depth of twist, blocky, […] .

2005, New Zealand Society of Animal Production, Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, Volume 65, 80,
The system is dependent on producers, abattoirs, meat wholesalers and meat retailers recording and managing information on each cattle beast using a ten-digit individual identification number.

An individual domesticated bovine animal; a singular form of the generalised plural cattle.


hogg

A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth; a hogget.


common dolphin

One of two species of dolphin in the genus Delphinus.


spinner dolphin

spinner dolphin (plural spinner dolphins)

Spinner dolphins of both sexes sometimes engage in orgies of more than a dozen individuals, known as ‘wuzzles’.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 59:

Stenella longirostris
Stenella longirostris#Translingual

A species of small dolphin (Stenella longirostris).


urson

The urson (Hystrix dorsata)^([sic]) inhabits the United States and Canada, and is the only species of porcupine, properly so called, which appears to have the power of climbing trees.

1833, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 1, page 443:

The urson might be called the spiny beaver, it being of the same size, the same country, and the same form of body;[…]. In the young ursons, the prickles are proportionably larger, more apparent, and the hair shorter and scarcer than in the adults.

1834, Augustus Addison Gould, editor, A System of Natural History, page 253:

Erethizon dorsatum
Erethizon dorsatum#Translingual

A species of New World porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum.


Norwegian forest cat

Norwegian forest cat (plural Norwegian forest cats)

A domestic cat breed noted for its above average size, long, water-repellent fur and woolly undercoat.


horseskin

horseskin (countable and uncountable, plural horseskins)

The dried horseskin was made of brown Canton flannel and was held in place by being thrown over a horizontal stick.

1930, John Merrill, Martha Fleming, Play-making and plays: the dramatic impulse and its educative use in the elementary and secondary school, MacMillan, page 98:

But we cannot wear these horseskin boots in the rain and snow. We need regular leather top-boots. Moreover, our clothing is very much the worse for wear. We must provide ourselves with new outfits.

1945, Petr K. Ignatov, Partisans of the Kuban, Hutchinson & Co., page 148:

They made these fancy coverings from buckskins, horseskins, and cornhusks.

2000, Allison Lassieur, The Nez Perce Tribe, page 13:

The skin of a horse, or leather made therefrom.


galeanthropy

/ɡæliˈænθɹəpi/

From Ancient Greek γαλῆ (galê), a contracted form of γαλέη (galéē, “weasel”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “humanity”).

"That is the most interesting delusion I've come across since reading up on galeanthropy," said Sophie. […] / "What's galeanthropy?" I asked. / Sophie said, "It's the delusion that you've been turned into a cat."

1973, M. E. Kerr [pseudonym; Marijane Meaker], chapter 5, in If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever?, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row; republished Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish, 2009, page 49

Meanwhile his frau made loud mewling and scratching noises in the hallway beyond, deep in the throes of advanced galeanthropy.

1994 May 20, Matthew Marchese, “Tales of Obscure Usage I”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet), message-ID <1994May20.134031.17065@driftwood.cray.com>:

One of the finest novels for children ever written, in my opinion, is Paul Gallico's The Abandoned, in which a young boy named Peter, struck by a van while running across the street to pet a cat, falls into a coma and experiences galeanthropy.

1996, Charles Harrington Elster, “Dr Elster's Verbal Health Center”, in There's a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 33:

You got through to him?! He [Jack Kevorkian] won't return my calls anymore and his secretary just keeps repeating "No, we don't think suffering from galeanthropy makes one a valid candidate for the doctor's consideration."

1998 April 15, Serenleono, “Re: Touched by Chris Farely”, in alt.religion.angels (Usenet), message-ID <3537764a.34513787@news.mindspring.com>:

(rare) A mental condition of thinking that one has become a cat, which is usually manifested in the adoption of feline mannerisms and habits.


nems

(archaic) The ichneumon, or Egyptian mongoose.


rabbitat

We have already seen how forest rabbitat management improves the forest stand and helps other forest game species.

1955, Wisconsin conservation bulletin, Volume 20, page 36:

This may necessitate canvas-shelled britches and a long-sleeved hunting jacket, since thorns, needles, and burrs are part of rabbitat.

1978, Anthony J. Acerrano, The practical hunter's handbook, page 15:

Whatever special combination rabbitat is, the Prairie Home Area's small fields, weedy field borders, brush piles and cover plantings fit the bill pretty well.

1985, Missouri Conservationist, Volume 46, page 13:

The type of natural environment where rabbits can thrive.


vontsira

From Malagasy vontsira (“several similar mongoose-like animals”), from Swahili nguchiro.

uder

A member of either of two species of small, brown, mongoose-like mammals Salanoia concolor and Salanoia durrelli, from Madagascar.


star-nosed mole

en-noun

star-nosed mole (plural star-nosed moles)

A mole of species Condylura cristata, identified by the 22 sensory appendages around the snout.

naadoobooʼíinii bíchį́į́h sǫʼ nahalinígíí


Barbary macaque

Barbary macaque (plural Barbary macaques)

Macaca sylvanus
Macaca sylvanus#Translingual

Macaca sylvanus, an Old World monkey found in Gibraltar and the Atlas Mountains in Algeria and Morocco.


korrigum

Damaliscus korrigum korrigum, an antelope of a subspecies of the topi.


desmostylian

Of or pertaining to the Desmostylia, an extinct order of marine mammals.


erd

Sorex vulgaris
Sorex vulgaris#Translingual

(zoology) The common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse or erd shrew.


greater bamboo lemur

greater bamboo lemur (plural greater bamboo lemurs)

Prolemur simus
Prolemur simus#Translingual

a large, greyish brown lemur with white ear tufts, Prolemur simus


musk cat

As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still, / As that which from chaf'd muskats pores doth trill […]

(chiefly obsolete) An animal which secretes musk, such as a civet, or musk deer.


Cheshire cat

the Cheshire cat (canonical)
Cheshire cats (plural)

/ˌtʃɛʃə ˈkat/

/ˌtʃɛʃɚ ˈkæt/

Term attested since at least the 1780s in the expression grin like a Cheshire cat. The reason why Cheshire was combined with cat is disputed: see here for more information.

CHESHIRE CAT. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing.

1788, Francis Grose, A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue, 2nd corrected and enlarged edition, London:

“Please would you tell me,” said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, “why your cat grins like that?” “It’s a Cheshire-Cat,” said the Duchess, “and that’s why.”

1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:

‘It’s almost as if we’ve gone silly with happiness,’ said Marcus two days later. ‘Everyone in the house going round grinning like a lot of Cheshire Cats! The family I mean.’ ‘And Jess,’ said Kitto quickly. ‘Oh well, Jess is as good as family,’ said Fanny comfortably. Jessamy said nothing, but she looked up quickly and her smile would have rivalled any Cheshire Cat.

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 127:

A fictional cat with a broad fixed grin, made popular by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).


New Forest pony

New Forest pony (plural New Forest ponies)

A horse of a breed indigenous to the New Forest in Hampshire, England.


toothed whale

(marine biology) A whale of the Odontoceti parvorder of the cetaceans, including sperm whales, beaked whales, dolphins, and others.


Bengal fox

Vulpes bengalensis
Vulpes bengalensis#Translingual

Vulpes bengalensis, a fox endemic to the Indian subcontinent.


corsac fox

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

Vulpes corsac
Vulpes corsac#Translingual

a medium-sized Asiatic fox, of species Vulpes corsac.


Tibetan fox

Vulpes ferrilata
Vulpes ferrilata#Translingual

Vulpes ferrilata, a species of true fox endemic to the high Tibetan Plateau in Nepal, China, and India


Grévy's zebra

Equus grevyi, the largest species of zebra


Big Bad Wolf

An evil fictional wolf that appears in fairy tales or fables.


soricomorph

Any member of the order Soricomorpha of shrew-like mammals.


deductor

From deduct + -or under influence from Latin dēductor.

One who deducts something, particularly one who deducts tax from wages or deducts certain expenditures from payment of tax.


deductor

From Latin dēductor (“guide; founder”). See deduce.

(historical) The formal patron of a Roman colony.


zebrule

A cross between a male zebra and a female horse.


bucktail

Chris used a spinning rod with a green-and-white bucktail jig while I cast a chartreuse Angel Hair and white-bucktail Clouser minnow with my 8-weight fly rod.

2007 June 23, Norm Zeigler, “The Low-Profile Westport River Offers a High Yield of Fish”, in New York Times:

The tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure.


chiengora

Blend of French chien (“dog”) and angora.


carpet shark

Any shark of the order Orectolobiformes.


black-footed cat

black-footed cat (plural black-footed cats)

Felis nigripes
Felis nigripes#Translingual

Felis nigripes, the smallest African cat, endemic in the south west arid zone of the southern African subregion.


bay cat

Pardofelis badia
Pardofelis badia#Translingual

Catopuma badia (syn. Pardofelis badia), a small feline endemic to the island of Borneo.


flat-headed cat

flat-headed cat (plural flat-headed cats)

Prionailurus planiceps
Prionailurus planiceps#Translingual

Prionailurus planiceps, a small wild cat patchily distributed in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra.


unguligrade

/ʌŋˈɡjuːlɪˌɡɹeɪd/

/ʌŋˈɡjuːləˌɡɹeɪd/

From Latin ungula (“claw, hoof”) + -grade (“means of walking]”) (from Latin gradus). Compare French ongulograde.

Dr. [Philip] Sclater submitted a classification of the Ruminating Artio-dactyls to the Section, in which he separated the Antilocapra from the other Unguligrades.

1866 October, “[The British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting at Nottingham, August, 1866.] Biology. (Section D.)”, in James Samuelson, William Crookes, editors, The Quarterly Journal of Science, volume III, London: John Churchill and Sons, New Burlington Street, →OCLC, page 543:

Unguligrades (L. ungula, hoof) have reduced the number of digits present in their limbs. The unguligrade foot makes contact with the ground at the tips of the most distal digits and hooves have replaced claws. Unguligrades include ungulates such as ruminants, horses and pigs.

2010, Seth M. Kisia, “Skeletal System”, in Vertebrates: Structures and Functions (Biological Systems in Vertebrates), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press; Enfield, N.H.: Science Publishers, →ISBN, page 112:

A cheetah is a digitigrade and moves faster than a horse, an unguligrade.

2011, Michael D. Mattesi, “The FORCE Animal”, in Force: Animal Drawing: Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators, Waltham, Mass., Kidlington, Oxford: Focal Press, →ISBN, page 13:

(zoology) An animal that walks on hooves.


western gorilla

western gorilla (plural western gorillas)

Coordinate term: eastern gorilla

Gorilla gorilla
Gorilla gorilla#Translingual

Gorilla gorilla, a great ape and the most populous species of the genus Gorilla.


orf

From Middle English orf, from Old English orf (“cattle, livestock”), from Proto-West Germanic *arbī.
Akin to Old English ierfe (“inheritance, livestock, cattle”). More at erf.


agile gibbon

Hylobates agilis
Hylobates agilis#Translingual

A primate of species Hylobates agilis, in the Hylobatidae or gibbon family.


black-handed gibbon

en-noun

black-handed gibbon (plural black-handed gibbons)

Hylobates agilis, a primate in the Hylobatidae or gibbon family


pileated gibbon

pileated gibbon (plural pileated gibbons)

Hylobates pileatus
Hylobates pileatus#Translingual

a primate of species Hylobates pileatus, in the Hylobatidae or gibbon family.


tapeti

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tapeti, from Old Tupi tapeti.

bor+

A small South American cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus brasiliensis).


Rin Tin Tin

From the name of a good-luck charm that French children often gave to American soldiers.

A name given to several related fictional German Shepherd dogs, particularly from the 1920s and the 1930s.


Scooby-Doo

Frank Sinatra
Scooby-Doo
Strangers in the Night

Uncertain. scooby doo appears as a vocable scatted in "The Boppenpoof Song" written in 1954, as the name of a band (The Scooby-Doo All-Stars) in 1956 and the title of a song by the Jerry Lieber Beat Band published by Zephyr Records in 1959 (both of which were signed to Zephyr Records). It is likely that such uses were an influence on the creators of the cartoon but they may also have been partially influenced by Frank Sinatra's "doo-be-doo-be-doo" improvisation in "Strangers in the Night" released in 1963 a few months prior to the first episode of Scooby-Doo being shown (also in 1963).

I knew I had to be very careful when I was crafting the story, so that it wouldn't be a Scooby Doo moment—you know, the one where the villain rips off his mask and tells you why he did it—and that he would have gotten away with it, if not for those pesky kids!

2007, Jodi Picoult, "Reader's Companion" (Washington Square Press) to the author's Plain Truth (Simon and Schuster, 2000) p.414

A mile out of town, off the Combe Martin road, discover a real Scooby Doo experience at Chambercombe Manor. It's shrouded in ghost stories and has starred in TV shows about the paranormal.

2008, Simon Heptinstall, Devon (Crimson Publishing) page 137

It was a Scooby-Doo moment: everybody looks down, everybody looks up. Maddy looks surprised. Pat looks guilty. Oh, those meddlesome kids.

2010, J. Wachowski, In Plain View, Carina Press, page 314:

"I love the Scooby-Doo of it all." And it was fun, combing through old books and papers for recognizable names.

2010, Buzzy Jackson, Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist, Simon and Schuster, page 171:

An American cartoon franchise, named for one of the main characters, a large dog, and featuring as protagonists four "meddling" teenagers who unravel seemingly supernatural mysteries.


bear-whelp

From Middle English bere-hwelp, equivalent to bear + whelp.


rough collie

A dog of a long-haired breed originating from Scotland, originally used as sheepdogs.


tiglon

Panthera tigris
Panthera tigris#Translingual

A fertile hybrid cross between a male tiger (Panthera tigris) and a lioness (Panthera leo).


gray squirrel

Sciurus griseus, a species of squirrel, found along the western coast of the United States and Canada, the western gray squirrel.

Sciurus carolinensis
Sciurus carolinensis#Translingual

eastern gray squirrel
eastern gray squirrel

Sciurus carolinensis, a species of squirrel, found in the eastern and midwestern United States and Canada, and western Europe, eastern gray squirrel.


flattie

Flat-coated Retriever
Flat-coated Retriever


mustela

From Latin mūstēla and translingual Mustela.

Almost all of the mustelas have a power of secreting and discharging a most fetid and intolerable stench at their will; and many of them do it as a mean of defence: and often so effectually that the very beast that pursues them is compelled to relinquish the chace, so completely is he overpowered by its noisome vapour.

1826, John Mason Good, “Lecture I. On Zoological Systems, and the Distinctive Characters of Animals”, in The Book of Nature, volume II, London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], page 56:

Skull.—The skull of the Felis yaguarundi, in general shape, exhibits a close relationship to that of F. eyra, and, like it, much narrower and elongated than in the Felida concolor or pardalis; calling to mind the mustelas as much as the cats.

1859, S. F. Baird, “Part II. Zoology of the Boundary”, “Mammals”, in William H. Emory, editor, Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Made under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior, volume II, Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, “9. FELIS YAGUARUNDI, Desm. (p. 88)”, page 12:

Among the carnivores researched, the brain of bear seems to be the most highly differentiated as can be confirmed in the comparative anatomical features of the thalamus and hypothalamus (ITÔ, 1952; KOIKEGAMI, 1947), and that of the mustela is regarded as minimally developed, contrary to the opinion of JESERICH (1945).

1962, Acta Medica et Biologica, volume 10, page 193:

Any of the carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela.


irbis

The tiger and the irbis (felis irbis) reach the northern limit of their distribution in the reeds of Balkhash, but occasionally stray northward into the neighbourhood of the Alatau.

1893, John Martin Crawford, U.S. Consul General to Russia, transl., The Industries of Russia, volumes 5: Siberia and the Great Siberian Railway, St Petersburg, Chapter VI. The Kirghiz Steppe Region, page 83 ᴳᴮ:

(uncommon) snow leopard (large feline mammal, Uncia uncia, native to mountain ranges of central Asia)


Tibetan antelope

en-noun

Tibetan antelope (plural Tibetan antelopes)

Pantholops hodgsonii
Pantholops hodgsonii#Translingual

An endangered species of antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii, endemic to areas of the Tibetan Plateau.


chiru

The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii.


greater bilby

Macrotis lagotis
Macrotis lagotis#Translingual

An endangered and the only known extant species of bilby, a rabbit-sized marsupial, Macrotis lagotis, endemic to arid regions of central Australia but previously more widespread.


lesser bilby

Macrotis leucura
Macrotis leucura#Translingual

An extinct species of bilby, a rabbit-sized marsupial, Macrotis leucura, previously endemic to arid regions of central Australia.


spotted hyena

Crocuta crocuta
Crocuta crocuta#Translingual

Any of species Crocuta crocuta of the largest of hyenas.


striped hyena

Hyaena hyaena
Hyaena hyaena#Translingual

The smallest of the true hyenas, Hyaena hyaena.


brown hyena

It is now well established that brown hyenas, at least when rearing cubs, deliberately hunt other carnivores (up to the size of cheetahs, on the Kruger Park evidence) and take them to the breeding dens as food for the cubs.

1981, C. K. Brain, The Hunters Or the Hunted?: An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy, page 77:

Because they are scavengers in a semiarid ecosystem where carrion is often limited, brown hyenas naturally occur in small numbers.

1984, Mark Owens, Delia Owens, Cry of the Kalahari, page 324:

The brown hyena has evolved to live in desert systems throughout southern Africa, where it occurs at low densities.

2014, Chris McIntyre, Botswana Safari Guide: Okavango Delta, Chobe, Northern Kalahari, 4th edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 428:

Parahyaena brunnea
Parahyaena brunnea#Translingual

A comparatively rare species of hyena, Parahyaena brunnea, endemic to desert and semi-desert areas and open woodland savannahs of southern Africa.


rogue elephant

A solitary, old, male elephant that has become dangerously and unpredictably violent.


cave bear

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

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

It begs the question: why did the Neanderthals “fail,” since the cave-dwelling hominin, like the cave bear, faltered during the last glaciation, not afterward?

2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 7, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:

A large extinct species of bear, †Ursus spelaeus.


drever

A short-legged scenthound of a Swedish breed.


island fox

Urocyon littoralis
Urocyon littoralis#Translingual

A fox (Urocyon littoralis) endemic to the Channel Islands of California.


California Channel Island fox

California Channel Island fox (plural California Channel Island foxes)

California Channel Island foxes (plural)


insular gray fox

insular gray fox (plural insular gray foxes)


island gray fox

island gray fox (plural island gray foxes)


short-tailed fox

short-tailed fox (plural short-tailed foxes)


browband

Helmet of Buggenum-Montefortino type, from Anatolia, end of the first century AD […] The browband — riveted to the dome on each side — was part of its reinforcing structure, protecting the legionary from direct blows ...

2009, Graham Summer, Raffaele D'Amato, Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier, Frontline Books, →ISBN, page 111:

Of course it was nothing to compare with the authentic crown, with its inlays and chasings of seven different precious metals, its finials of rare gems, its three gleaming diniaba-stones mounted on the browband.

2012, Robert K. Silverberg, Lord Valentine's Castle: Book One of the Majipoor Cycle, Penguin, →ISBN:

A band of metal, part of a (person's) helmet or crown, which covers the brow.


oryzomyine

Any member of the rodent tribe Oryzomyini, including the rice rats.


crownpiece

A strap in the bridle that goes over the horse's head just behind the animal's ears.


wolfpack

(historical, nautical, military) During World War II, any of various marauding groups of submarines, especially German submarines that patrolled the North Atlantic and preyed upon merchant ships.


Mangalica

/mɑŋɡəˈliːtsə/

Borrowed from Hungarian mangalica (“Mangalica”).

A domestic pig of a Hungarian breed developed in the mid-19th century, which grows a thick, curly coat of hair.


mapinguary

Tales of mapinguary encounters are common in Rio Branco.

2007 July 8, Larry Rohter, “A Huge Amazon Monster Is Only a Myth. Or Is It?”, in New York Times:

A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.


Java cat

Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus#Translingual

A viverrid of species Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, musang.


doggess

The sound even called back the departing senses of the dying doggess. She drew me to her with her paws, and made an effort to lick me. The action quite melted me.

1856, Pictures of Comical People, with Stories about Them, page 158:


ponyskin

ponyskin (countable and uncountable, plural ponyskins)

The ponyskin Chrissie (left) is a tribute to — no surprise here — Chrissie Hynde, the outspoken frontwoman of the Pretenders, while the marbleized leather-and-suede Angie presumably riffs on the dissolute glamour of the ultimate groupie and former Mrs. Bowie.

2007 August 26, Angela Gaimari, “Hogan’s New Guitar Handbags”, in New York Times:


spectacled bear

spectacled bear (plural spectacled bears)

Some specimens have spectacle markings on the face.

Tremarctos ornatus
Tremarctos ornatus#Translingual

Tremarctos ornatus, a species of small, short-faced bear native to South America.


whalefall

From whale + fall, possibly modelled after snowfall. Compare also marine snow.

But the ocean floor is not exactly wall-to-wall whalefalls.

2007 December 18, Henry Fountain, “Whales Are Tasty, but Bone-Eating Worms Might Not Discriminate”, in New York Times:

A whale carcass that has fallen to the ocean floor.


honey badger

From their badger-like appearance and their liking for honey.
The slang sense was inspired by the 2011 viral video The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger, for which original narration (including variations of "honey badger don't care") was dubbed over preexisting footage of a honey badger fending off various dangerous situations.

Not only is the honey badger fond of hunting and eating venomous snakes and stealing honey from angry bees, it is also disregarding of animals many times its own size. Lions and leopards have been known to kill and eat honey badgers, but on the whole, they will give them a wide berth.

2007, Ross Piper, Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual Animals, page 48:

There are in fact records of Honey badgers being stung to death in their quest for this much-relished source of food. Reptiles are also a major food source. Venomous snakes are neither ignored nor respected by the honey badger.

2008, Lee Gutteridge, The South African Bushveld: A Field Guide from the Waterberg, page 97:

Co-operative relationships between mammals and birds are unusual, but the honey badger enjoys two. Its association with the greater honeyguide is well known. This small bird uses a distinctive song to lure the honey badger to a bee′s nest, whereupon it feasts on the grubs after the badger has ransacked the nest and had its fill of honey.
Less well known is the honey badger′s association with the pale chanting goshawk.

2010, Chris McIntyre, Botswana: Okavango Delta, Chobe, Northern Kalahari, page 201:

Mellivora capensis
Mellivora capensis#Translingual

Mellivora capensis, a badger-like mustelid native to Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.


Russian Wolfhound

Russian Wolfhound (plural Russian Wolfhounds)


Swedish Vallhund

Swedish Vallhund (plural Swedish Vallhunds)

From Swedish + Swedish vallhund (“herding dog”), from valla (“herd”) + hund (“dog”).

A dog of a small, powerful breed associated with the Vikings.


hedgie

The average life span of the captive hedgie is 3 to 8 years.

2003, Chris Pinney, The Complete Home Veterinary Guide, page 502:

Still, some hedgies will run for hours at night.

2008, Hugh Warwick, A Prickly Affair: My Life with Hedgehogs, unnumbered page:

Still, the original imported hedgies were enough to establish a stable North American population.

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

Despite the best, or worst, efforts of those overextended hedgies and subprime-sters, it did, but not as high as hems, and it yo-yoed squeamishly along the way.

2009 March 3, Alice Rawsthorn, “Power Play”, in New York Times:

Most hedgies currently lack conviction. Incidentally, that's a good sign, not an ill omen.

2020, Barton Biggs, Diary of a Hedgehog: Biggs' Final Words on the Markets, page 28:

(finance, informal) A hedge fund trader.


alleycat

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

Having dropped just nine games in two matches – two short of Jimmy Connors's 1980 record – [Roger] Federer was reduced to fighting like an alleycat.

2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2016-11-15:

There are also competitions called alleycats, in which bicyclists pick their own routes between a series of checkpoints where monitors stamp their paper manifests.

2008 March 9, Colin Moynihan, “Add Alleycat Races to List of Bike Messengers’ Risks”, in New York Times:


alleycat

en-verb

alleycat (third-person singular simple present alleycats, present participle alleycatting, simple past and past participle alleycatted)

alleycats (present singular third-person)
alleycatting (participle present)
alleycatted (participle past)
alleycatted (past)


dwarf rabbit

A small-sized variety of the domestic rabbit.


jairou

(archaic) An Asian gazelle, the chinkara.


zamouse

Ultimately from Arabic جاموس (jāmūs, “buffalo”).

A West African buffalo, Syncerus caffer brachyceros, with short horns and large ears.


zati

Macaca radiata, a macaque native to India and Sri Lanka with a hairstyle similar to a centre parting.


agouara

Procyon cancrivorus
Procyon cancrivorus#Translingual

(archaic) Procyon cancrivorus, the crab-eating raccoon


ziphiid

(zoology) Any of the family Ziphiidae of beaked whales and bottlenose whales.


zerda

From Arabic [script needed] (zerdawā), probably of Persian origin; compare Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”) and the dialectal suffix و (-ow, -aw) that creates nouns from adjectives.


zenik

Unknown, likely from a native African name.

The enormous elephant, the tall giraffe, and the stately ostrich, being found in the same spot with a species of mouse, called the black-streaked, weighing only a quarter of an ounce; the zenik, an animal only three inches in height; and the creeper, a bird not much larger than a cherry.

1857, J. Bezant, William Cooke Stafford, Key to the Geographical questions, page 107: