American mink

American mink (plural American minks or American mink)

American minks (plural)
American mink (plural)

Mustela vison
Mustela vison#Translingual

(uncountable) A species of small mustelid, Mustela vison, that lives near water.


mantled guereza

en-noun

mantled guereza (plural mantled guerezas)

A colobus monkey, a kind of Old World monkey, Colobus guereza


English partridge

English partridge (plural English partridges)


sawbill

red-breasted merganser
red-breasted merganser


white-tailed sea eagle

white-tailed sea eagle (plural white-tailed sea eagles)


rood goose

(Southwest Scotland) the barnacle goose.


red-leg

red-legged partridge
red-legged partridge

(UK, birdwatching) The red-legged partridge.


rose-ringed parakeet

rose-ringed parakeet (plural rose-ringed parakeets)

ring-necked parakeet
ring-necked parakeet

Psittacula krameri
Psittacula krameri#Translingual

The ring-necked parakeet (Psittacula krameri).


goggle-eyed plover

goggle-eyed plover (plural goggle-eyed plovers)


black cock

(Scotland, Wales, Northern England) Alternative form of blackcock (“the black grouse”).


Lady Amherst's pheasant

Lady Amherst's pheasant (plural Lady Amherst's pheasants)

Named after one Lady Amherst who introduced the species to Bedfordshire from China.

Chrysolophus amherstiae
Chrysolophus amherstiae#Translingual

(UK) A colourful pheasant, Chrysolophus amherstiae, indigenous to China but also found in Bedfordshire.


black game

(Scotland, Wales, Northern England) The black grouse.


great crest

(UK, informal, rare, birdwatching) the great crested grebe.


spotshank

(UK, birdwatching, informal) The spotted redshank.


blackwit

(Yorkshire, birdwatching) the black-tailed godwit.


land gull

great black-backed gull
great black-backed gull

Larus marinus
Larus marinus#Translingual

(Norfolk) the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus).


rosy tern

(Yorkshire, birdwatching) the roseate tern.


flying rat

(derogatory) a rock pigeon, or a seagull, living in an urban environment, especially one regarded as pesky, loud or a scavenger.


sea swallow

There was a light breeze off the land; it was scarcely strong enough to lift the heavy fog which lay over the skerries and the naked cliffs, from which the scared sea-gulls flew and hovered around us with their hoarse cry; the sea-swallows uttered their ringing "Tree, tree," and the oyster-catchers their mocking "Click, click!" which has caused so many an unsuccessful sportsman to smile.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:

Sterna hirundo
Sterna hirundo#Translingual


ringed dove

Columba palumbus
Columba palumbus#Translingual


red-legged partridge

red-legged partridge (plural red-legged partridges)

Alectoris rufa
Alectoris rufa#Translingual

(UK) Any partridge of species Alectoris rufa.


French partridge

French partridge (plural French partridges)

(UK) A red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa).


Billy Wix

(UK, dialect, East Anglia) The barn owl, Tyto alba.


pee-wee

Probably onomatopoeia from the birds' songs.


pee-wee

An American version of the children's game gilli-danda.


whaup

It looks eerie at bright midday, when the sun is shining and whaups are crying among the seaweeds; but think what it was on that awesome night, with the Powers of Darkness brooding over it like a cloud!

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

A whaup flapped up with its liquid, rising cry and he found himself wheeling round in in a dizziness of blue as he tried to follow its flight.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 368:

Numenius arquata
Numenius arquata#Translingual

(Scotland) The curlew, Numenius arquata.


roseate tern

Sterna dougallii
Sterna dougallii#Translingual

(UK) A species of tern, Sterna dougallii.


purple sandpiper

purple sandpiper (plural purple sandpipers)

Importunate with his own kind, garrulous with others…So might one describe the purple sandpiper and so men describe me…

2011, Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, From the Mouth of a Whale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 11:

Calidris maritima
Calidris maritima#Translingual


quist

From Middle English quiste, quyste, quyshte, variants of Middle English couschot, cowschote, cowscott, from Old English cūsċeote (“wood pigeon, ringdove”). Doublet of cushat.

inh

It got me thinking about other names we used to call things when we were younger that for some reason as I got older we stopped doing.¶ For example the common woody was a quist, and the sparrow that we so used to love hunting on the summer hedgerows, once the wheat had been cut, were "spugs or spuggies"

2012 June 26, tegater [username], “Quists, spugs and egg and bacon”, in The Hunting Life Forums:

(UK Midlands) The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.


kingy

From kingfisher + -y (“diminutive suffix”).

Alcedo atthis
Alcedo atthis#Translingual

(UK, slang, birdwatching) the kingfisher, Alcedo atthis.


Sandwich tern

From Sandwich in Kent, England, the type locality.

Thalasseus sandvicensis
Thalasseus sandvicensis#Translingual

A species of tern, Thalasseus sandvicensis.

grote stern

tónteel táshchozhii tsiiyahwozhí bidaaʼ kʼídzítsooígíí


ring-necked parakeet

en-noun

ring-necked parakeet (plural ring-necked parakeets)

The bright-green ring-necked parakeet, originally hailing from India and Africa, has established itself in European cities thanks to the caged-bird trade for much of the 20th century.

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

A species of parakeet, Psittacula krameri, prevalent in Asia and famous for escaping domestication and establishing wild populations in Britain.


spotted redshank

spotted redshank (plural spotted redshanks)

Tringa erythropus
Tringa erythropus#Translingual


goldie

Young "baldies" look just like "goldies" and are often shot by mistake.

[…] the golden eagle is the champion predator. And the most handsome, according to ornithologists, who affectionately call their subjects "goldies".

Golden eagles took up old eyries on Hebridean sea cliffs only after the white-tailed sea eagle became extinct. Goldies may hunt seabirds but never fish, and they always resort to flying inland for rabbits or hares as preferred prey.

2009, John A. Love, A natural history of St. Kilda:

Something which is golden in color.
(UK, birdwatching) The golden eagle.

Something which is golden in color.
The golden eagle.

“Each time the golden plover moved, its dunlin attendant followed, but when the goldie flew off to land on a wooden post, it triggered a bizarre cameo.

2005, Mark Cocker, Richard Mabey, Birds Britannica:

Both grey and golden had the folk name "whistling plover" in Britain, but you know from the habitat that Burns must have had the goldie in mind in his line, The deep-toned plover gray, wild whistling on the hill

2009, Jeremy Mynott, Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience:

Dunlins, 'the plover's page', lay their eggs in wetter flows, usually those having a complex of small pools; we often watched the dunlins following the goldies.

2010, Desmond Nethersole-Thompson, Waders: their Breeding, Haunts and Watchers, page 107:

Something which is golden in color.
(UK, birdwatching) The golden plover.

Something which is golden in color.
The golden plover.

I have tried Inga seed for canaries and goldfinches for three or four months, and can speak well of it. My birds, goldies especially, are very fond of it; these will pick it out and leave the canary seed, which they scarcely touch now.

1882, William Thomas Greene, editor, Notes on cage birds:

Mr. Peter Scott, Lauder, related that Goldfinches were common in Lauderdale about forty-five years ago, and that their nests were sometimes found about that time in the grounds of Thirlestane Castle. The rocky deans near the sea-coast at Lamberton are also said to have been frequented by "Goldies" in former times, and they were likewise found about Fairneyside.

1889, George Muirhead, The Birds of Berwickshire, page 149:

I'm not trying to defend house finches—I'm wooed by goldies' looks like every other feeder—and I certainly think that house finches eat far more seed than they deserve.

2014, Bill Adler, Outwitting Squirrels, page 34:

Something which is golden in color.
The goldfinch.

Outdoor ponds provide the perfect environment for goldies and Koi.

1999, Sutterkid, “fish”, in comp.bbs.tbbs (Usenet):

Something which is golden in color.
(informal) A goldfish.

Something which is golden in color.
A goldfish.

Incredibly, the reactions of the dogs differed between the instances. […] "It's the pursed lips that do it for me," said another comment: "My goldie used to do the same."

2022 July 5, Alice Gibbs, “Golden Retriever's Reaction to Missing Snack Time Delights Internet”, in Newsweek:

Something which is golden in color.
(informal) A Golden Retriever.

Something which is golden in color.
A Golden Retriever.

You'd expect the rainbows and possibly the browns, but not the blues and the goldies, which can look truly spectacular.

2008, Where to Fly Fish in Britain and Ireland, page 84:

The coupons were called greenies, brownies, and goldies. A bicycle could be gotten for 500 goldies. Neither Ray nor I ever acquired a bicycle. But I accumulated a cigar box full of greenies, brownies and a few goldies.

2009, Charles R. Twyman, Daddy, There's a Light in the Sky: An Illumination of Life Stories, →ISBN:

We began by experimenting in the Greyston kitchen during the night. We made brownies, goldies, coffee cakes […]

2010, Bernard Glassman, Rick Fields, Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master's Lessons, →ISBN:


curlew sandpiper

curlew sandpiper (plural curlew sandpipers)

Calidris ferruginea
Calidris ferruginea#Translingual

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris ferruginea)


ribaldo

Mora moro, the common mora, a deep-sea cod-like fish.


tufted duck

Aythya fuligula
Aythya fuligula#Translingual


lemuroid

en-adj

lemuroid (comparative more lemuroid, superlative most lemuroid)

more lemuroid (comparative)
most lemuroid (superlative)

A few recent discoveries, however, expand the temporal range of both lemuroid and lorisoid primates back to the early Tertiary.

2006, Kenneth David Rose, The Beginning of the Age of Mammals, →ISBN, page 186:

The lemuroid dentition is also closely similar to that of the greater glider in having a greater number of cutting edges on the upper molars compared with the common ringtail.

1999, Ian D. Hume, Marsupial nutrition, →ISBN, page 195:

1. In the Paleocene we find remains of small animals intermediate between the tree-shrews and the lemurs, and at the end of the Paleocene the first true Primates, small lemuroid forms.

1980, William Diller Matthew, Stephen J. Gould, “Lemurs Monkeys Apes and Man”, in Stephen J. Gould, editor, Outline and general principles of the history of life, →ISBN, page 222:

Of or relating to the primate superfamily Lemuroidea (lemurs)


lemuroid

In M. laniger the canine and most anterior premolar are more equal than in any other Lermuroid, or indeed than in any other Primate except Man.

1832, Zoological society of London, “Mr. St. George Mivart On Microrhynchus.”, in Proceedings of the Zoological society of London (1832), page 155:

Supernumary or vestigal mammae may occur anywhere along the mammary line extinding from axilla to groin. Among lemuroids, however (cf. Shultz 1948), usually one but frequently up to three well-developed mammary pairs are pectoral (including axial), one pair abdominal and one or two pairs inguinal.

1977, Philip Hershkovitz, “4 Some Descriptive, Diagnostic, Quasi-diagnostic, and Primitive Mammalian Characters of Living Primates”, in Living New World monkeys (Platyrrhini) - with an introduction to Primates, volume 1, →ISBN, Mammae, page 18:

At a meeting of the Royal Society held on June 15, 1893, C.I. Forsyth Major descirbed the skull of an extinct Malagasy primate, the first to come to scientific attention (Major, 1894). Since that time, the subfossil remains of some six genera and 12 species of extinct lemuroids have been recovered in Madagascar, many of them represented by quite abundant material.

1987, Russell L. Ciochon, John G. Fleagle, “10 Notes on the Cranial Anatomy of the Subfossil Malagasy Lemurs”, in Primate evolution and human origins, →ISBN, page 72:

A member of the Lemuroidea superfamily of strepsirrhine primates, including lemurs

An animal that has the appearance or characteristics of a lemur


colin

From French colin, properly a diminutive of Colas, contracted from Nicolas (“Nicholas”).

To this belongs the Colin or Quail of New England and Partridge of the South […]

1859, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Illustrated natural history of the animal kingdom, volume 2, page 244:

Many efforts have been made to improve and increase the variety of our game stock, but whereas the Barbary partridge, the willow grouse, the colin, bob-white, button quail, and even tinamou have been tried and failed […]

1923, Thomas Alfred Coward, Bird haunts and nature memories, page 206:

The American quail or bobwhite, or related species.


sabino

Any of various trees:
bald cypress (Taxodium distichum).

Taxodium distichum
Taxodium distichum#Translingual

Any of various trees:
ahuehuete (Taxodium mucronatum)

Any of various trees:
rock cedar (Juniperus ashei)

Any of various trees:
Magnolia splendens


sable antelope

I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale.

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

A large antelope, of species Hippotragus niger, of eastern and southern Africa.


egglike

egglike (comparative more egglike, superlative most egglike)

more egglike (comparative)
most egglike (superlative)

Resembling or characteristic of an egg; ovate.


streamertail

Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Trochilus, endemic to Jamaica, with greatly elongated rectrices in the males.


bluetail

Either of two species of passerine bird in the genus Tarsiger.

some species are called солове́й m something


sacred baboon

Papio hamadryas
Papio hamadryas#Translingual

A baboon (Papio hamadryas) which was worshiped in ancient Egypt, now found in Yemen and the Horn of Africa.


strepsirrhine

From Strepsirrhini (“a taxon of Primates”), itself formed from Ancient Greek στρέψις (strépsis, “a turning [inward]”) + ῥινός (rhinós, “nose”), referring to the sinuous (comma-shaped) appearance of the nostrils on the rhinarium (wet nose).

uder

(zoology) Any member of the clade Strepsirrhini, one of the two suborders of primates, besides haplorhines (which includes monkeys and apes).


catloaf

And Gary never got to see him do the full catloaf, where he curled up face-down so that all that stuck out were the tips of his ears. I never got a picture of that, either.

1999 December 3, Ailsa N Murphy, “Re: RIP, Silver-The-Cat”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-07-12:

One must often attend to the tail and ensure it remains tucked and not become flippant, so as to maintain a catloaf of presentable form.

2004 January 9, Franz Bestuchev, “Re: catloaf”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-07-12:

"Catloaf" position with paws and tail tucked under the body: "Please do not disturb!"

2009, Brigitte Eilert-Overbeck, Cats, →ISBN, page 47:

I love the ‘catloaf’ expression, so one evening I just had to see if I could bake it for real. Thus catloaf [a loaf shaped like a catloaf] was born, simple as that.

2015 July 15, Lou Lou P., quotee, “Behold the Catloaf, Your Adorable Edible Friend”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 2023-03-18:

(slang) The loaflike form of a domestic cat in which it sits with its paws and tail tucked underneath its body.


saddle-billed stork

en-noun

saddle-billed stork (plural saddle-billed storks)

A large black and white stork of western Africa (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) having a red bill with a black band across it. It is sometimes called jabiru.


saddle horse

I shall expect a new saddle horse, a suit of fine lace, and an infinite number of the most valuable Jewels.

[c. 1792], [Jane Austen], “The Three Sisters: a novel”, in Volume the First, page 161:

A horse that has been specially trained for riding, specifically the American Saddlebred.

кон за езда

a horse that has been specially trained for riding


European hake

Merluccius merluccius
Merluccius merluccius#Translingual

A species of sea fish, Merluccius merluccius.


cock of the plains

cock of the plains (plural cocks of the plains)


sage thrasher

A thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) which is a pale gray-brown above and white with brown streaks below and inhabits sagebrush regions in south-western North America.


sage sparrow

A sparrow (Artemisiospiza belli) that usually inhabits sagebrush land in the western United States.


sage grouse

sage grouse (plural sage grouse or sage grouses)

sage grouse (plural)
sage grouses (plural)

Centrocercus urophasianus
Centrocercus urophasianus#Translingual

A large grouse of western North America having mottled gray, black and buff plumage (Centrocercus urophasianus) which feeds on the buds of the sagebrush.

Centrocerus urophasianus

sage hen, sagehen, sage cock, sage chicken, sage-grouse, cock of the plains


sagoin

From a Tupian word, related to sai and apparently saki (from a Tupian word sagui).

A marmoset, especially of the genus Callithrix.


Sahiwal

Any of a breed of short-horned dairy cattle originating from the Sahiwal district.


hebra

The offspring of a cross between a horse sire and a zebra dam.


Arctic char

Salvelinus alpinus
Salvelinus alpinus#Translingual


saibling

From German Saibling, etymologically equivalent to salmon + -ling.

A char of Europe (Salvelinus alpinus), also called Arctic char.


hard-bill

As the ultimate hard-bills, woodpeckers even use their steel-hard bill to drill homes in solid trees

A bird species which has a hard, strong bill, to feed (mainly) on seeds and/or nuts


seedeater

Any bird in the genus Sporophila of the tanager family, Thraupidae

Any bird in the genus Amaurospiza, now classified in the family Cardinalidae


moonfish

moonfish (plural moonfish or moonfishes)

From moon + fish, from the silvery color, parallel to the synonymous Dutch cognate maanvis.

риба-луна

any of various flat, oval marine fish species

Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.

The cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.


alose

Borrowed from French alose, from Latin alausa, from unattested Gaulish *alausa. Cognate with German Alse.

Any of certain shad
American shad (Alosa sapidissima).


sailor's-choice

Any of several grunts and sparids of the Atlantic:

Haemulon album
Haemulon album#Translingual


saimiri

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese saí-mirim (literally “little monkey”).

bor+

Any member of Saimiri, a taxonomic genus of South American arboreal monkeys comprising the squirrel monkeys.


batutut

John MacKinnon, studying orangutan ecology in the Malaysian state of Sabah, found footprints of the batutut […]

1988, Jeffrey A McNeely, Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, Soul of the tiger:

[…] the batutut was described as a type of ghost, a shy nocturnal creature about four feet tall, which walks upright like a man and has a long black mane.

2007, Jeff Meldrum, Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science:

From the guide's description, however, the batutut seems more aggressive […]

2009, Gregory Forth, Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia:

A folkloric hairy hominid said to inhabit wilderness areas of Vietnam, Laos, and northern Borneo.


smilodon

From the sound of the smilodon’s roar, I knew he was far off.

1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XX, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 180:

Any member of the extinct genus Smilodon, the saber-toothed tigers.


saithe

From Old Norse seiðr; compare Norwegian sei and Swedish and Danish sej.

Pollachius virens
Pollachius virens#Translingual

The pollock or coalfish or coley (Pollachius virens).


Przewalski's horse

en-noun

Przewalski's horse (plural Przewalski's horses)

Named after Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839–1888), Russian geographer and explorer of Polish origin. Compare the taxonomic name Equus ferus przewalskii.

named-after

Gray wolves, red foxes, raccoon dogs, lynx and boars all reside in the exclusion zone, as do endangered Przewalski’s horses, which were introduced to the area about two decades ago.

2022 April 13, Emily Anthes, “A ‘Silent Victim’: How Nature Becomes a Casualty of War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Equus ferus przewalskii
Equus ferus przewalskii#Translingual

A rare, endangered horse, Equus ferus przewalskii, native to the steppes of Central Asia.


gadiform

Belonging to the order Gadiformes of ray-finned fish.


hoop snake

A mythical creature of the United States and Australia, a snake that grasps its tail in its jaws and thereby rolls after its prey like a wheel.

Snakes of genus Farancia, chiefly of the southeastern U.S.:

Farancia abacura (horn snake, mud snake)


Scottish wildcat

en-noun

Scottish wildcat (plural Scottish wildcats)

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

2018 June 13, Damian Carrington, The Guardian:

A subspecies of European wildcat, Felis silvestris grampia, found in Scotland.


European wildcat

European wildcat (plural European wildcats)

Felis silvestris silvestris, a subspecies of the wildcat.


bayard

From French bayard, from Middle French bayard, from Old French béart, bayart, baiart, boieart, boyart, bayard (“stretcher”), of uncertain origin. By surface analysis, bay + -ard.


bayard

coloured bay, reddish brown, notably said of equines


wild ass

Any of several wild equine mammals closely related to donkey, endemic to Asia and northeast Africa.


fed cattle

Even though the empirical analysis used here cannot formally test which of several possible factors is the cause of any asymmetry, it is important to establish theoretical reasons to expect spatial price adjustments for fed cattle to be asymmetric.

1989 December, DeeVon Bailey, B. Wade Brorsen, “Price Asymmetry in Spatial Fed Cattle Markets”, in Western Journal of Agricultrual Economics, volume 8, number 2, page 246:

(agriculture) Cattle leaving a feedlot, after fattening on a concentrated ration, that are ready to be sold to a packinghouse for slaughter.


jackfish

jackfish (plural jackfishes or jackfish)

A jack (in any of the senses referring to types of fish).


esquilax

Coined in a 1995 episode of the animated TV show The Simpsons named "Lisa's Wedding", in which a Renaissance fair sideshow falsely promotes a normal rabbit as "a horse with the head of a rabbit and the body of a rabbit".
Possibly inspired by fanciful names for creatures from Medieval Latin (e.g. basilisk, cockatrice).

Yeah, well I get to run the Circus Sideshow, and the esquilaxes.

1997, Powdered TOAST Man, “TAN: The Weasel Strikes Back”, in aus.tv.x-files (Usenet):

In fact, I am also "really weakly omnipotent," because it is logically impossible for me to fly unaided, or transform myself into an esquilax, because I am a being who cannot do those things. But I can do anything which it is logically possible for me to do.

1999, Cabrutus, “is lack of evidence a reason to lack belief?”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

I wasn't thinking of gray elephants in Denmark, I was thinking of white esquilaxes in the Domincan ^([sic]) Republic.

2001, Anonymous Weirdo, “Have a rest”, in sk.forsale (Usenet):

Could be worse... couldve ^([sic]) been an Esquilax.

2008, Jeßus, “Found some Hydrox”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):


jacksnipe

jacksnipe (plural jacksnipes or jacksnipe)

Lymnocryptes minimus
Lymnocryptes minimus#Translingual

Any of species Lymnocryptes minimus of migratory small stocky waders, the smallest of the snipes.


moki

(New Zealand) A trumpeter fish, of the genus Latridopsis.


bettong

Recorded in English since 1830–40; from Dharug badang.

Bettongs rather resemble rats, having short noses, short, rounded ears, long hind feet and a naked muzzle tip.

Any of the marsupial genera Bettongia and Aepyprymnus; closely related to kangaroos.


lusern

Ne also weare in any maner apparell of his body or on his Hors[…]any Furres of Blake Jenettes or Luserns[…]

1532-3, The Statutes of the Realm, 24 Hen. VIII c. 13, page 430:

The Wild-cat, Lusern or luceret, or Ounce as some call it, is not inferiour to Lamb[…]

1674, John Josselyn, An account of two voyages to New-England:

[…]the King whereof being desirous of my friendship, sent vnto mee a quiuer made of a Luserns skinne full of arrowes[…]

1600, Richard Hakluyt, The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, page 333:


jird

Probably from Arabic جُرَذ (juraḏ, “a rat”) in a vulgar pronunciation.

The jirds are treated with the suspension or solution obtained by this method. Only one jird is used for each compound for the primary screen.

1982, D. A. Denham, “6: Experience with a Screen for Macrofilaricidal Activity Using Transplanted Adult Brugia pahangi in the Peritoneal Cavities of Meriones unguiculatus”, in Dawn Owen, editor, Animal Models in Parasitology, The Macmillan Press Ltd, page 96:

1997, Harold Townson, Chapter 9: Infection of mosquitoes with filaria, J. M. Crampton, C. B. Beard, C. Louis, The Molecular Biology of Insect Disease Vectors, World Health Organization, Chapman & Hall, page 105,
The jird need not be anaesthetized prior to inoculation.

Escherichia coli has been isolated from jirds that have died of septicemia.

2012, Stephen A. Felt, Nancy L. Merrill, Fady I. Guirguis, Hussein I. Hussein, “Chapter 53: Egyptian Fat-Tailed Jird”, in Mark A. Suckow, Karla A. Stevens, Ronald P. Wilson, editors, The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 1165:

Any of various agricultural pest rodents of genus Meriones or rodents of certain species in the genera Sekeetamys, Brachiones, and sometimes Pachyuromys.


bottlenose skate

bottlenose skate (plural bottlenose skates)

Rostroraja alba, a benthic skate native to the coastal eastern Atlantic Ocean, now endangered through overfishing.


rainbow runner

Rainbow runners are fished for food and sport in warm waters.

(zoology) The marine fish species Elagatis bipinnulata, which is brilliantly striped yellow and blue


sakeen

From Tibetan སྐྱིན (skyin, “Tibetan ibex”).


sajou

From French sajou, from a Tupian word sai wassu, sai-guaçū (literally “big monkey”).


salamandrid

Perhaps it was Meseta, where the oldest salamandrid fossils on Earth have been discovered.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 35:


salamandrian

en-adj

salamandrian (comparative more salamandrian, superlative most salamandrian)

more salamandrian (comparative)
most salamandrian (superlative)

Of, relating to, or resembling a salamander, the genus Salamandra, or the family Salamandridae.


salamandrine

Any salamander of the genus Salamandrina.


salamandrous

salamandrous (comparative more salamandrous, superlative most salamandrous)

more salamandrous (comparative)
most salamandrous (superlative)

Infested with salamanders; full of salamanders.


salangane

From French, which formed it from Tagalog salangan.

Any of various swiftlets which produce edible nests.


barnacle

Uncertain, with long-debated origin. From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, most likely from Old Northern French bernaque (“barnacle”) (compare French barnache), probably from Medieval Latin barneca (“limpet”), probably from Gaulish (compare Welsh brennig, Irish báirneac), from Proto-Celtic *barinākos, from *barinā (“rock, rocky ground”) (compare Old Irish barenn (“boulder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H- (“hill, mountain”) + Proto-Celtic *-ākos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos; for sense development, compare Ancient Greek λέπας (lépas, “rock”) which gave λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”).
First attestations referred to the goose, with corresponding folklore (q.v.).

der

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(engineering, slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.

fiksaus

engineering: change made on the manufacturing floor

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

(electronics, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.

(obsolete, in the plural) An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.

(slang, obsolete) A good job, or snack easily obtained.

herkkupala

slang: good job, or snack easily obtained


viverrid

(zoology) Any member of the family Viverridae


tegu

From teguexin, from Nahuatl tecoixin (“lizard”).

Any of the South American lizards of the families Teiidae and Gymnophthalmidae.

especially any of genus Tupinambis, which is sometimes kept as a pet.


bezoar goat

Capra aegagrus
Capra aegagrus#Translingual

A wild goat, Capra aegagrus, native to Asia Minor and the Middle East and also found on Crete, now believed ancestral to the domestic goat.


death adder

Sometimes suggested to derive from deaf adder, a colonial-era name for the snakes which referenced their tendency to remain in place (to ambush prey) rather than flee upon hearing human activity, but probably a simple reference to their venomousness.

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

A copperhead, a venomous pit viper species Agkistrodon contortrix, found in North America.


haplorrhine

From Neo-Latin Haplorrhini, from Ancient Greek ἁπλόος (haplóos, “simple”) + ῥίς (rhís, “nose”).

uder

Any primate of the evolved clade (half of the order) which comprises all apes (including hominoids), monkeys and even (prosimian) tarsiers


Sevan trout

Salmo ischchan
Salmo ischchan#Translingual

A highly-valued endangered species of freshwater trout, Salmo ischchan, that is native only to Sevan, a mountain lake in Armenia.


fauvette

Unadapted borrowing from French fauvette, diminutive of fauve (“fawn-coloured”).

ubor

On the other hand a young owl, which had as yet only been fed by hand, began of itself to eat by devouring a fauvette which was lodged with it.

1853, James Rennie, Bird-architecture, page 287:

(archaic) Any of a number of small songbird, such as nightingales or warblers.


copper moki

A trumpeter fish of the species Latridopsis forsteri


feeder fish

Certain types of inexpensive fish commonly fed as live prey to captive animals, such as sharks and turtles.


bastard trumpeter

en-noun

bastard trumpeter (plural bastard trumpeters)

A trumpeter (fish) of the species Latridopsis forsteri


butterfly ray

A ray (fish) of the family Gymnuridae (or, in some systems, the subfamily Gymnurinae).


swiftlet

Any of the various tropical and subtropical birds of the four genera Aerodramus, Hydrochous, Schoutedenapus, and Collocalia in the swift family, many of which can navigate in darkness using echolocation.


gigster

(dated) A horse that pulls a gig (a two-wheeled carriage).


common death adder

common death adder (plural common death adders)

A death adder of species Acanthophis antarcticus, of Australia, known for its venomousness and speed.


common buzzard

The common buzzard often spots prey by waiting on a prominent perch and scanning the ground for movement.

2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia:


coywolf

Canis latrans
Canis latrans#Translingual

A hybrid of a coyote (Canis latrans) and a wolf.


koekoea

(New Zealand) The long-tailed cuckoo, Eudynamys taitensis, which breeds in New Zealand and migrates to the islands of the western Pacific in the winter.


piaffe

(dressage) A calm, composed, elevated trot in place.


swanskin

swanskin (countable and uncountable, plural swanskins)

The skin of a swan with the down or feathers on.

A type of brushed flannel cotton twill fabric.


adapoid

Any member of the genus †Adapoides of extinct primates.


omomyid

In Europe, beavers, hamsters, hedgehogs and rhinoceroses are migrating in from Asia, wiping out native European groups like omomyids, the nocturnal relatives of tarsiers and monkeys, and several families of hoofed mammal.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 64:

(zoology) Any member of the family †Omomyidae, a diverse group of extinct primates.


mormyrid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Mormyridae of freshwater elephantfish.


yelper

From Middle English yelpere; equivalent to yelp + -er.

Mr. Longstreth, who can be a bit of a yelper, sang sweetly, perhaps in search of contrast.

2009 July 21, Nate Chinen, “Vocals That Deliver a Jolt, as ‘Ooh’ Morphs Into ‘Eh’”, in New York Times:


archeopteryx

/ɑːkiːˈɒptəɹɪks/

From English archaeo- (“ancient”, “primitive”) (from Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos)) + English -o- + Ancient Greek πτέρυξ (ptérux, “wing”, “bird”).

uder

Since Pterosaurians are triassic and the Archæopteryges jurassic we are justified in regarding the actual chronology of external integument in the geological strata as : first, scale ; second, hair ; and third, feather. This inspires us to make a wider appeal to geology in order to have a comprehensive sketch of the avian sequence.

1935, Zoological Society of London, Proceedings, page 758:

A specimen of the species Archaeopteryx lithographica, being the earliest and most primitive known bird, representing a transition in the evolution of dinosaurs to birds.


apeman

Only above the eyebrows, where the sloping forehead and low, curved skull of the ape-man were in sharp contrast to the broad brow and magnificent cranium of the European, could one see any marked difference.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

A prehistoric man resembling an ape, especially one held to be a precursor to modern humans; a non-human australopithecine.


mosasaurid

/ˌməʊzəˈsɔːɹɪd/

Any member of the Mosasauroidea, an extinct superfamily of Late Cretaceous lizards including the mosasaurs and aigialosaurs.


varanoid

(zoology) Any member of the superfamily Varanoidea of lizards, including the well-known Australian family Varanidae (the goannas).


carpometacarpus

(anatomy) The fusion of digits (carpals and metacarpals) that forms the wing in birds.


ceratosaur

(zoology) Any of many dinosaurs of the infraorder Ceratosauria.


stinkard

A teledu or stink badger, endemic to the island of Java, Mydaus javanensis.


douroucouli

From an unidentified South American Indian language, 19th c.

A New World monkey of the genus Aotus, which is active at night and has no pinna of the outer ear.


yellowtail amberjack

en-noun

yellowtail amberjack (plural yellowtail amberjacks)

Seriola lalandi
Seriola lalandi#Translingual

A species of large edible fish, Seriola lalandi, found in the Indian and Pacific oceans.


sea bass

sea bass (plural sea bass or sea basses)

Any of various species of saltwater fish in various families, or a specimen thereof, in several families in order Perciformes


musk shrew

Suncus murinus
Suncus murinus#Translingual

A house shrew (Suncus murinus, syn. Sorex indicus)


splitfin

Any fish in the serranid genus Luzonichthys


stomiid

Since stomiids are sensitive to the far-red bioluminescence produced by their suborbital photophores, which other animals in the deep sea cannot see, they have what could be regarded as a private waveband.

2001, Friedrich G. Barth, Ecology of Sensing:

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Stomiidae of deep-sea ray-finned fish, including the barbeled dragonfishes, stareaters, and loosejaws.


dinomania

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

At this point, we may attempt to define dinomania as the impulse to surround oneself with all forms of dinosaur iconology and to hoard information about their appearance, size, and way of life.

2002, José Luis Sanz, Starring T. rex!: dinosaur mythology and popular culture:

Dinomania didn't start with Jurassic Park - it has been with us since dinosaurs were discovered.

2003, Henry Gee, Luis V Rey, A field guide to dinosaurs:

In 1898, the yellow press snatched up the potential sensation, and invented dinomania. "MOST COLOSSAL ANIMAL EVER ON EARTH JUST FOUND OUT WEST," William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal blared...

2005, David Rains Wallace, Beasts of Eden:


opah

From Igbo uba. Earliest attestation in English is the Royal Society’s 1752 Philosophical Transactions, 1749–50 (vol. 46, p. 519): “The black Prince, and his Cousin, from Anamaboe on the Coast of Guinea, and Mr. Creighton, formerly Governor of Capo Corso Castle, upon seeing this Fish immediately knew it, and said it was common on that Coast … The Natives call it Opah, and the English there call it the King-fish”

2003, Margaret M. Smith, Phillip C. Heemstra (editors), Smiths' Sea Fishes (Revision of 1977, James Leonard Brierley Smith, The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa), page 398,
A member of the lower epipelagic community, the opah feeds on squid and fishes (including some benthic species) and is usually found well offshore.

For a long time, opah has been thought to be good luck so it was only given away, never sold. Opah is a nonschooling open-ocean fish so it's not caught in great quantities.

2006, Sharon Hamblin, Adventure Guide Maui, page 36:

Opah is an extraordinary-looking ocean fish, with an almost perfectly round shape; a comparatively thin, flat profile; a silvery skin, and bright crimson fins.

2013, Roy Yamaguchi, John Harrisson, Roy's Fish and Seafood: Recipes from the Pacific Rim, page 77:

Any of various large, colourful, deep-bodied pelagic fish of the family Lamprididae.


spotted bowerbird

spotted bowerbird (plural spotted bowerbirds)

A bowerbird widely distributed across inland Queensland and New South Wales, Chlamydera maculata


giant tortoise

Any member or species of the genus Geochelone, land tortoises reaching 1.3 meters in length and with average life spans exceeding 100 years.


keeling

Compare Icelandic keila, Swedish kolja, Danish kulle.

(archaic, Scotland) A cod, especially a small one.


otary

From Ancient Greek ὠτάριον (ōtárion, “little ear”), diminutive of οὖς (oûs, “ear”).


parrotfinch

A small, colourful passerine estrildid bird.


parrotbill

Any of a group of warbler-like birds of uncertain taxonomy, now often placed in family Paradoxornithidae, native to East and Southeast Asia, generally small and long-tailed, which inhabit reed beds and similar habitats and feed mainly on seeds.


estrildid

Estrildids and ploceids are clearly different in courtship posture, clutch size, egg coloration, pattern in mouth of the young, and mode of begging of the young.

1968, Breviora, numbers 280-309, page 50:

Marschall and Prinzinger (1991) subjected five species of estrildids to the following calculation from laboratory measurements under different T_A: O₂ consumption, CO₂ production, RMR, TNZ, conductance and T_B.

1996, Gordon L. Maclean, Ecophysiology of Desert Birds, page 100:

The estrildids are all monogamous (forming long-term or life-long pair bonds) and exhibit biparental care.

2008, James L. Goodson, Chapter 1: Nonapeptides and the evolutionary patterning of sociality, page 8:

(zoology) Any weaverbird of the family Estrildidae.


barndoor skate

Some are particularly rich in biodiversity; others support fish nurseries or contain rare or fragile species like barndoor skates and corals.

1999 April 9, Karin Jegalian, “FISHERY MANAGEMENT:Plan Would Protect New England Coast”, in Science, volume 284, number 5412, →DOI:

Dipturus laevis, one of the largest skates, native to the northwestern Atlantic


ailurophiliac

/ˌaɪljʊəɹəˈfɪlɪ.æk/

/aɪˌlʊɹəˈfɪliæk/

From ailuro- (“cat”, from Ancient Greek αἴλουρος (aílouros)) + -philiac.

confix

from Ancient Greek <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">αἴλουρος</i> (aílouros)

The year 1927 also produced a splendidly ailurophiliac Black Cat, with woodcuts by Gyula Zilzer, in Middle European style.

1981, American Book Collector, volume 2, Moretus Press, page 15:

She dies, he dies. They become transfigured in some sort of ailurophiliac heaven and live happily ever after.

1989, Nicolas Slonimsky, Lectionary of Music, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 126:

Gautier’s love of cats was notable even in his ailurophiliac time and place: Nadar made a famous caricature of him sitting plump and happy in his study with a crowd of cats occupying every inch of available space.

2001, Katharine M. Rogers, The Cat and the Human Imagination: Feline Images from Bast to Garfield, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2011-05-24, page 95:

Théophile Gautier’s love of cats was notable even in his ailurophiliac time and place. One of his favourites, Madame Théophile, was ‘so called because she lived with me on a footing of conjugal intimacy’, following him everywhere and at mealtime often hooking morsels ‘on their way from my plate to my mouth’.

2006, Katharine M. Rogers, Cat, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2006-09-29, page 91:

Appropriate or pleasing to ailurophiles.


cotinga

From New Latin cotinga, from Old Tupi cutinga.

Flocks of aquatic birds were to be seen on every side, the most numerous being the pelican, and a bird of the cotinga species, about the size of an English throstle, the plumage of which, being jet black and flamingo red, had a beautiful effect in the sunshine, as they flew or settled in thousands on the canes.

1857, John Benwell, An Englishman's Travels in America:

Sheer color alone is powerful enough, but when heightened by contrast, it becomes still more effective, and I seemed to have secured, with two barrels, a cotinga and its shadow.

1921, William Beebe, Edge of the Jungle:

Any of the neotropical passerine birds of the family Cotingidae

kotinga

neotropical passerine bird of the family Cotingidae


pick six

(horse racing) A wager in which the bettor must correctly predict the winners of six consecutive races.


archosauromorph

Any lizard of the extinct infraclass †Archosauromorpha.

arcossauromorfo

any lizard of the extinct infraclass †Archosauromorpha


lepidosauromorph

Any reptile of the infraclass Lepidosauromorpha.


mosasauroid

Any extinct aquatic reptile of the superfamily Mosasauroidea, variously interpreted as related to or belonging to the lizards or the snakes.


shastasaurid

(zoology) Any extinct ichthyosaur in the family Shastasauridae.


sauropterygian

The sauropterygians had streamlined bodies and their limbs were more or less modified to function as paddles or flippers.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 66:

A reptile of the extinct superorder Sauropterygia.


varanid

From scientific Latin Varanidae (family name).

Although fossils of giant varanids had been known since the mid-1800s, the discovery that giant lizards were still among us, albeit on a few isolated islands in far-away Southeast Asia, was met with fascination and excitement.

2017 May 17, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:

Any lizard of the genus Varanus; a monitor lizard.


Neanderthal

→ Spanish: neandertal

Joachim Neander
Kalmbach Media
Neanderthal 1

From obsolete German Neanderthal, now spelled Neandertal, the name of a valley (German Tal, older also spelled Thal) near Düsseldorf where the first Neanderthal was discovered in 1856. A hollow near the valley was known as Neanderhöhle (“Neander Hollow”) and Neandershöhle (“Neander’s Hollow”) in the early 19th century, and the valley had been renamed to Neanderthal in 1850, in honour of the German Calvinist theologian and hymn writer Joachim Neander (1650–1680). Before, the valley was known as das Gesteins (literally “The Rocks [sg.]”) and Hundsklipp (literally “Dog Cliff”).
The name of Joachim Neander is based on the Ancient Greek translation (νέος (néos) + ᾰ̓νήρ (anḗr)) of his original surname Neumann (“Newman”).
The pronunciation with the "th" sound (/θ/) is a spelling pronunciation; the original German word is pronounced with a "t" sound (/t/).

These injuries may reflect the rigors of hunting with the Neanderthals' limited repertoire of weapons; the Neanderthals never seem to have developed projectiles, so they would have to have gotten more or less on top of their prey in order to kill them.

2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, pages 250–251:

Homo neanderthalensis
Homo neanderthalensis#Translingual

A specimen of the now extinct species Homo neanderthalensis.


Akita

Borrowed from Japanese 秋(あき)田(た) (Akita).

The capital city of Akita Prefecture, Japan.


arni

Besides these three species and the zebu, the yak, the gayal, and the arni (not to mention the buffalo or genus Bubalus) have been domesticated; making altogether seven species of Bos.

1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.:

In the arni of India they are enormously long.

1904, Arthur Erwin Brown, “The Zoology of North American Big Game”, in American Big Game in Its Haunts:

Bubalus arnee
Bubalus arnee#Translingual


tsebe

[…] the Tsebe, or Spring-Boc, Prong-Boc, or Showy Goat, is perhaps the most graceful in its proportions, and beautifully varied in its colours, of all the antelope tribe.

c. 1856, Natural History, Charles Knight:

Pair of Antlers of Axis Deer and Horns of Spring-Boc, or Tsebe, Antidorcas Euchore.

1888, Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham: Being Papers Read at the Meetings of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, page 275:


attila

In the scrubby woods that cover most of the Yucatan, suboscines such as the masked tityra, the bright-rumped attila, and the boat-billed flycatcher are all common.

1988 February 26, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:

Any of the tropical flycatchers of the genus Attila.


surmullet

From French surmulet, from Middle French sormulet, from sor (“reddish brown”) + mulet (“mullet”).


procyonid

(zoology) Any member of the family Procyonidae, a New World family of the order Carnivora, including the raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, ringtails and cacomistles.


tetanuran

The oldest tetanuran, the crested allosauroid Cryolophosaurus, was discovered in Lower Jurassic rocks on Antarctica and is quite similar to allosauroids from Upper Jurassic rocks on several continents.

1999 June 25, Paul C. Sereno, “The Evolution of Dinosaurs”, in Science, volume 284, number 5423, →DOI, pages 2137–2147:

Any theropod of the clade Tetanurae, all theropods, including birds, that are more closely related to modern birds than to the genus †Ceratosaurus.


olingo

A small procyonid resembling the kinkajou, native to the rainforests of Central and South America.


oily bitterling

en-noun

oily bitterling (plural oily bitterlings)

A temperate freshwater fish, Tanakia limbata, of the family Cyprinidae, that is found in central and southwestern Japan.


viperid

Originally only capitalized, from New Latin Viperidae (“taxonomic family”), as Vipera + -id.

der

(zoology) Any member of the family Viperidae; a viper.


Japanese sea lion

en-noun

Japanese sea lion (plural Japanese sea lions)

A sea lion, of species †Zalophus japonicus, inhabiting the Sea of Japan, thought to have become extinct in the 1950s.


spotted dragonet

spotted dragonet (plural spotted dragonets)

A fish of the species Callionymus maculatus.


swan upping

swan upping (countable and uncountable, plural swan uppings)

An annual swan census in Britain in which mute swans on the River Thames are rounded up, caught, marked, and released.


electric catfish

electric catfish (plural electric catfishes or electric catfish)

electric catfishes (plural)
electric catfish (plural)

Any catfish of the family Malapteruridae (order Siluriformes).


dragonet

Any of the small perciform marine fish of the families Callionymidae and Draconettidae (slope dragonets) found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific, the family containing approximately 186 species in 18 genera.


kaama

For, in the morning one of the Hottentots found at some distance from our station, the remains of a kaama or hartebeest, which had been devoured by a lion [...].

1824, William John Burchell, Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, volume 2:

Very great numbers of the large game, buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, tsessébes, kamas or hartebeests, kokongs or gnus, pallahs, rhinoceroses, etc., congregated at some fountains near Kolobeng, and the trap called ‘hopo’ was constructed, in the lands adjacent, for their destruction.

1858, David Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa:


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


gourami

From French gourami, from Malay gurami, from Javanese ꦒꦸꦫꦩꦶ (gurami).

An edible freshwater fish of the family Osphronemidae.


nothura

Any member of the genus Nothura of birds in the tinamou family.


hyla

From the genus name Hyla, from Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood, forest”).

uder

I lifted one of the skins from the mortar and held it close to the candle. Even I could recognize it as that of the common hyla tree frog.

1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 153:


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:


anguimorph

Any lizard of the infraorder Anguimorpha.


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:


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:


Kaimanawa horse

en-noun

Kaimanawa horse (plural Kaimanawa horses)

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


Caribbean monk seal

Caribbean monk seal (plural Caribbean monk seals)

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


soldierfish

soldierfish (plural soldierfishes or soldierfish)

soldierfishes (plural)
soldierfish (plural)

Any member of the subfamily Myripristinae of the family Holocentridae of ray-finned fish.


squirrelfish

squirrelfish (plural squirrelfishes or squirrelfish)

squirrelfishes (plural)
squirrelfish (plural)

Any member of the subfamily Holocentrinae of the family Holocentridae of ray-finned fish.


bloodstock

bloodstock (countable and uncountable, plural bloodstocks)

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


merlucciid

(zoology) Any member of the family Merlucciidae of codlike fishes, including most hakes.


turkle

I knew my father's nature so well, that I was certain his anger would hang on to him like a turkle does to a fisherman's toe [...].

1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 33:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(US, dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of turtle.


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.


torgoch

Welsh, from tor (“belly”) + coch (“red”), from Latin coccum (“kermes berry, scarlet”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “scarletberry”)


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


warehou

(New Zealand) Any of the three medusafishes Seriolella brama (the common warehou), Seriolella caerulea (the white warehou), and Seriolella punctata (the silver warehou).


medusafish

en-noun

medusafish (plural medusafishes or medusafish)

medusafishes (plural)
medusafish (plural)

Any of the family Centrolophidae of perciform fish, often found in association with jellyfish.


black-footed rock wallaby

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.


nelma

Stenodus leucichthys
Wikispecies:Stenodus leucichthys

inconnu, sheefish (Stenodus leucichthys)


jewelfish

en-noun

jewelfish (plural jewelfishes or jewelfish)

Any fish in the genus Hemichromis, native to Africa.


flying frog

Any type of frog with the ability to glide


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.


giant frog

One of a number of species of large frogs.


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.


great skua

There are great skuas here, nesting up on the higher ground, and I have seen them cruising above the gull colony further up the coast.

2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 85:

Stercorarius skua
Stercorarius skua#Translingual


Chinese pheasant

Chinese pheasant (plural Chinese pheasants)

Phasianus colchicus
Phasianus colchicus#Translingual

Chrysolophus pictus
Chrysolophus pictus#Translingual


golden pheasant

golden pheasant (plural golden pheasants)

A colorful game bird originating from China, Chrysolophus pictus.


great crested newt

great crested newt (plural great crested newts)

A newt, Triturus cristatus, found in parts of Europe and Asia.


ricefish

ricefish (plural ricefishes or ricefish)

(US) A freshwater fish of the southeastern United States, Chologaster cornuta


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.


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.


mule deer

Odocoileus hemionus
Odocoileus hemionus#Translingual

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


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.


karearea

Falco novaeseelandiae
Falco novaeseelandiae#Translingual

(New Zealand) Falco novaeseelandiae, the only falcon endemic to New Zealand.


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.


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.


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.


lampern

From Middle English laumproun, adopted from Old French lampreon, diminutive of lampreie (“lamprey”).

[…]if thou woldest an eel or a laumprun holde with streite hondis, how myche strengerli thou thristis, so myche the sunnere it shal sliden awey.

1382, Wyclif's Bible, prologue to Job, page 671:

LAmprayes or Lampurnes bee partly of the nature of Eeles[…].

1589, Thomas Coghan, Haven of Health, published 1636, page 165:

The Lampern is called Petromyzon Fluviatilis, becauſe this fiſh at certain ſeaſons goes to the ſea.

1799, John Price, The Worcester Guide, page 55:

The Lampern, Lampetra fluviatilis, is white, with greenish back; it reaches a length of sixteen inches.

1936, Charles Tate Regan, Natural History, Ward Lock, page 194:

Lampetra fluviatilis (the lampern or river lamprey) undergoes a spawning migration in British rivers during the period between November and February, after which the animals spend from 4 to 6 months in fresh water prior to spawning.

1956, R. Morris, “The Osmoregulatory Ability of the Lampern (Lampetra fluviatilis L.) in Sea Water during the Course of Its Spawning Migration”, in Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 33, page 235:

European river lamprey
European river lamprey

European river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis).


agnathan

/ˈæɡ.nə.θən/

From Agnatha, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “without”) + γνάθος (gnáthos, “jaw”).

Haikouichthys is one of three species of jawless (or agnathan) fish to be found in the Early Cambrian period.

2005, Tim Haines, Paul Chambers, The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life, BBC Books, page 20:

(zoology) Belonging or pertaining to the superclass Agnatha, the jawless vertebrates.


agnath

Evolution of vertebrates was accompanied by a gradual increase in oxygen availability, from the irrespirable atmosphere of the Precambrian to a PO₂ at 7 mmHg with the first vertebrates (agnaths), to the present sea level PO₂ value of 160 mmHg with the first reptiles.

1979, Stephen C. Wood, Evolution of Respiratory Processes, Marcel Dekker,, →ISBN, page 218:

The gnathostomes almost entirely replaced the agnaths, presumably because they were more effective fishes.

1996, George Christopher Williams, Adaptation and Natural Selection, Princeton University Press,, →ISBN, page 51:

Thus, although tunicates are presumably intermediate between flatworms and agnaths, the larval tunicate more closely resembles the flatworm and adult agnath.

2002, Harold J. Morowitz, The Emergence of Everything, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 113:


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.


palmchat

Dulus dominicus, a small, long-tailed species of bird native to Hispaniola


paradoxical frog

paradoxical frog (plural paradoxical frogs)

/ˌpæɹəˈdɒksɪkəl fɹɒɡ/

/ˌpɛɹəˈdɑːksɪkəl fɹɑɡ/

/ˌpɛɹəˈdɑːksɪkəl fɹɔɡ/

So called because it is larger as a tadpole than as an adult frog.

Pseudis paradoxa, a species of frog unusual because it is larger as a tadpole (up to 25 cm or 10 in. long) than as an adult (about a quarter of that length).


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


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.


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.


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.


electric ray

Any of the group of rays of the order Torpedodiniformes, which can produce an electric discharge.


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.


burrowing parrot

burrowing parrot (plural burrowing parrots)

Cyanoliseus patagonus
Cyanoliseus patagonus#Translingual

A South-American conure, Cyanoliseus patagonus


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.


chark

chark (countable and uncountable, plural charks)

A back-formation from charcoal (interpreted as chark coal).

A good chark will sometimes take as many as eight or ten bustards or five or six gazelles in the course of a morning.

1856, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, 2nd edition:

A Middle Eastern falcon, probably the lanner.


argali

From Mongolic (Mongolian аргаль (argalʹ)).

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


lettuce-bird

‘And Len Rhodes said you looked when you danced for all the world “like a lettuce-bird a-flying.”’

1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 112:


shote

The rest are common to other Shires, but the Shote in a maner peculiar to Deuon and Cornwall: in shape and colour he resembleth the Trowt

1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:

Thymallus thymallus
Thymallus thymallus#Translingual

(obsolete, UK, dialect) A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).


like turkeys voting for Christmas

En-au-like turkeys voting for Christmas.ogg

Because turkeys are commonly eaten at Christmas, turkeys voting for (an early) Christmas would be hastening their own death. The phrase is thought to have been coined by the British Liberal Party politician David Penhaligon (1944–1986) who used it to express opposition to the 1977 Lib–Lab pact. It was popularized by the British Prime Minister James Callaghan (1912–2005) who used it in the House of Commons in March 1979 when his Labour Party lost a vote of no confidence: see the 1977 and 1979 quotations.

coinage

The next morning [14 December 1977] the Liberals held a two-and-a-half meeting at which Steel let them have their head. Only two MPs, Howells and Johnston, said they were willing to continue the Pact. The opponents were delighted. […] ‘Us voting for the Pact is like a turkey voting for Christmas’, said David Penhaligon

[1977 December 14, Alistair Michie, Simon Hoggart, “The Wispy Beards Strike Back”, in The Pact: The Inside Story of the Lib-Lab Government, 1977–8, London: Quartet Books, published 1978, →ISBN, page 156:

The minority parties have walked into a trap. If they win, there will be a general election. I am told that the current joke going around the House is that it is the first time in recorded history that turkeys have been known to vote for an early Christmas.

[1979 March 28, James Callaghan, Prime Minister, “Her Majesty’s Government (Opposition Motion)”, in House of Commons Debates (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume 965, London: Parliament of the United Kingdom, archived from the original on 2022-12-07, column 471:

Many of the responses to proposals, particularly regarding deregulation, were unsupported: it would have been like turkeys voting for Christmas in some respects.

1998, Philip Allmendinger, Huw Thomas, “Conclusions”, in Philip Allmendinger, Huw Thomas, editors, Urban Planning and the British New Right, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 247:

Bear in mind, however, that for some purchasing people, deciding to use an agent is a little like turkeys voting for Christmas.

2001, Trevor Kitching, “The Internet – the New Frontier for Scam Merchants”, in Purchasing Scams and How to Avoid Them, Aldershot, Hampshire, Burlington, Vt.: Gower Publishing, →ISBN, page 90:

The anti-divorce rallying cry of Fine Gael’s Alice Glenn, ‘Women voting for divorce is like turkeys voting for Christmas’, captured the sense of fear felt by many at the economic consequences of divorce for women.

2002, Frances Gardiner, Mary O’Dowd, “The Women’s Movement and Women Politicians in the Republic of Ireland, 1980–2000: Introduction”, in Angela Bourke et al., editors, The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, volumes V (Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions), New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 233, column 1:

like turkeys voting for an early Christmas

(British, simile, humorous, of an action) Self-defeating; serving to bring about a situation detrimental to the performer of the action.

James Callaghan
Lib–Lab pact
Oxford University Press

sahata omaa oksaansa

of an action: self-defeating or serving to bring about a situation detrimental to the performer

scier la branche sur laquelle on est assis

肉屋を支持する豚 (nikuya wo shijisuru buta, literally “pigs who support butchers”)

пчёлы про́тив мёда (pčóly prótiv mjóda, literally “bees against honey”)


requiem shark

Any member of the taxonomic family Carcharhinidae (order Carcharhiniformes).


Atlantic salmon

en-noun

Atlantic salmon (plural Atlantic salmons or Atlantic salmon)

Atlantic salmons (plural)
Atlantic salmon (plural)

A species of fish of the Salmonidae family, Salmo salar.


Atlantic pollock

Atlantic pollock (plural Atlantic pollocks or Atlantic pollock)

Atlantic pollocks (plural)
Atlantic pollock (plural)

Pollachius pollachius
Pollachius pollachius#Translingual

European pollock, Pollachius pollachius.


European pollock

European pollock (plural European pollocks or European pollock)

European pollocks (plural)
European pollock (plural)

Fish of the species Pollachius pollachius, which live in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly off the coast of Norway and the United Kingdom.


galaxiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Galaxiidae of mostly small freshwater fish of the Southern Hemisphere.


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:


deerburger

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


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.


silure

From Latin silurus (“a sort of river fish”), from Ancient Greek σίλουρος (sílouros, “a very large sort of river fish”).

der

A fish of the genus Silurus, such as the sheatfish.


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.


oranda

A goldfish characterized by a prominent raspberry-like hood encasing its head.


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.


pythoness

Alternative letter-case form of Pythoness


honey bear

Audio (US)


Chicken Little

A children’s fable about a young chicken who, in the traditional version, believes the sky is falling after an acorn hits her head. Also known by other names including The Sky is Falling.


wood sandpiper

Tringa glareola
Tringa glareola#Translingual

A Eurasian species of small wader birds, Tringa glareola, that is the smallest of the shanks.


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.


boattail

A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.


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.


lodde

1813, Leopold von Buch (Freiherr), Travels through Norway and Lapland
We were actually told that when the lodde enters from the sea, the fishermen smell them at a distance of ten English miles, and immediately set off in their boats in quest of them.


Basque Shepherd Dog

Basque Shepherd Dog (plural Basque Shepherd Dogs)

A herding dog bred in the Basque regions of Northern Spain and Southern France


Löwchen

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

bor

An uncommon bichon bred in North-Western Europe.


Puli

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


Xolo

Clipping of Xoloitzcuintli (“Mexican hairless dog”).


Slovak Cuvac

Slovak Cuvac (canonical)
Slovensky Cuvac (canonical)

livestock guardian dog
livestock guardian dog

A livestock guardian dog bred in Slovakia.


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).


Rhodesian Ridgeback

en-noun

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.


Icelandic Sheepdog

Icelandic Sheepdog (plural Icelandic Sheepdogs)


Croatian Sheepdog

Croatian Sheepdog (plural Croatian Sheepdogs)


Beauceron

/ˈbəʊsəˌɹɒn/

/ˈboʊsəˌɹɑn/

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


Afghan Hound

A sighthound bred in Afghanistan to hunt hare and gazelle.


Manx shearwater

Manx shearwater (plural Manx shearwaters)

Manx shearwaters lounge on the sheeny swell before pattering along and coasting away on stiff, elongated wings. Keep your eyes peeled for a chocolate- and-oatcakecoloured version of the Manxie.

2006, James Lowen, A Summer of British Wildlife, page 141:

Together with its neighbouring island Skokholm, Skomer is home to the highest concentration of Manx shearwaters in the world.

2018 June 20, Louise Tickle, The Guardian:

Puffinus puffinus
Puffinus puffinus#Translingual

A long-winged pelagic seabird, Puffinus puffinus, of the family Procellariidae.


blacktip

Any of various fish having black-colored tips.


bee hummingbird

bee hummingbird (plural bee hummingbirds)

A species of hummingbird, Mellisuga helenae, native to Cuba, noted for being the smallest living bird.


catshark

Any of the sharks in the family Scyliorhinidae


weever

From Middle English *wever, from Old Northern French wivre (“serpent”), from Latin vīpera. Doublet of wyvern and viper.

Any of the usually brown fish in family Trachinidae, which catch prey by burying themselves in the sand and snatching them as they go past.


Spinone Italiano

Spinone Italiano (plural Spinoni Italiani)

A versatile pointing gun dog bred in Italy.


Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen

Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen (plural Petits Bassets Griffons Vendéens)

Petits Bassets Griffons Vendéens (plural)


Thai Ridgeback

A sighthound bred in what is now Thailand.


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.


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.


blobfish

blobfish (plural blobfishes or blobfish)

Psychrolutes marcidus
Psychrolutes marcidus#Translingual

Psychrolutes marcidus, a fish that inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of the Australian mainland and Tasmania.


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


waterthrush

Either of two New World warblers, Parkesia motacilla (the Louisiana waterthrush) and Parkesia noveboracensis (the Northern waterthrush).


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.


dentex

(zoology) Any member of the genus Dentex of perciform fish.


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.


scrubwren

Any of various small, mainly insectivorous passerine birds of genus Sericornis in family Acanthizidae.


Cirneco dell'Etna

Cirneco dell'Etna (plural Cirnechi dell'Etna)


legless lizard

Any of the several groups of lizards of the family Pygopodidae which have lost limbs or reduced them to the point of uselessness.


Belgian Malinois

One of four variants of the Belgian Sheepdog.


sleepy cod

Oxyeleotris lineolata, a medium-sized freshwater fish native to tropical regions of northern Australia.


Belgian Groenendael

The long-haired black variant of the Belgian Sheepdog.


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.


fanskate

Any of various fish of the genus Sympterygia.


unicornfish

unicornfish (plural unicornfishes or unicornfish)

unicornfishes (plural)
unicornfish (plural)


longfin

Any member of the family Plesiopidae of elongated perciform fish.


shortfin

Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by short fins.


bignose

Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large nose.


stink-cat

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