Moloney's mimic bat

Moloney's mimic bat (plural Moloney's mimic bats)

Named after British colonial administrator Cornelius Alfred Moloney.

named-after

Mimetillus moloneyi, a species of vesper bat found in Africa.


pied-bill

Podilymbus podiceps
Podilymbus podiceps#Translingual


pied-billed grebe

en-noun

pied-billed grebe (plural pied-billed grebes)

Podilymbus podiceps, a bird with a striped beak, primarily found in ponds throughout the Americas.


Hissian

Accordingly two of the club went out and shortly after returned with a Hissian, a cant word with the soldiers, for a goose.


carcharodontosaurian

Any dinosaur of the genus Carcharodontosaurus.


desmatochelyid

Any of the genus †Desmatochelys of extinct sea turtles.


eumaniraptoran

Any bird-like dinosaur of the taxon Eumaniraptora


saurolophine

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Saurolophinae


monito del monte

monito del monte (plural monitos del monte)

Borrowed from Spanish monito del monte (“little monkey of the bush”).

bor

A small marsupial native to Chile and Argentina, Dromiciops gliroides.


dromedary camel

en-noun

dromedary camel (plural dromedary camels)


Sulimov dog

Named after its original breeder, Russian scientist Klim Sulimov.

A hybrid canid, the offspring of Lapponian Herders and golden jackals.


Savannah cat

A hybrid between a serval and a domestic cat.


Lapponian Herder

Lapponian Herder (plural Lapponian Herders)

A breed of dog from Finland, used by the Sami to herd reindeer.


huarizo

The hybrid offspring of a male llama and a female alpaca.


ship of the desert

ship of the desert (plural ships of the desert)


Canada lynx

Lynx canadensis
Lynx canadensis#Translingual


pocket pet

Any very small mammal, such as a mouse or rat, commonly kept as a household pet.


black-headed parrot

black-headed parrot (plural black-headed parrots)

Pionites melanocephalus
Pionites melanocephalus#Translingual

Pionites melanocephalus, a small, stocky parrot with a black head, forehead, and nape.


Japanese eel

Am eel of species Anguilla japonica, found in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Vietnam, as well as the northern Philippines.


cardabiodontid

Any lamniform shark of the family Cardabiodontidae (but specifically of the genus Cardabiodon).


lamniform

Relating to sharks of the order Lamniformes


eoenantiornithid

Any of the extinct family †Eoenantiornithidae of birds.


flagellicaudatan

Any of the dinosaurs of the clade Flagellicaudata.


lithostrotian

Any titanosaur of the taxon Lithostrotia


megatooth shark

megatooth shark (plural megatooth sharks)


neornithine

(zoology) Any of the feathered dinosaurs that evolved into modern birds


pengornithid

Any avialan of the family Pengornithidae.


eusauropod

Any true sauropod dinosaur of the clade Eusauropoda


saltasaurine

Any titanosaurian sauropod of the subfamily Saltasaurinae.


pterodactyloid

Any pterosaur of the suborder Pterodactyloidea


somphospondylan

Any titanosauriform sauropod of the clade Somphospondyli


turiasaurian

Any sauropod dinosaur of the clade Turiasauria.


ornithuromorph

The lineage that led to all living birds is known as the ornithuromorphs. […] Roughly three-quarters of all species on the planet were wiped out, including all feathered dinosaurs except the ornithuromorphs.

2023 June 3, Carl Zimmer, “How Did Birds First Take Off?”, in The New York Times:

Any avialan of the group Ornithuromorpha.


snubfin

A dolphin, Orcaella heinsohni, that lives in northern Australian waters


ornithothoracine

From translingual Ornithothoraces + -ine.

Any avialan of the clade Ornithothoraces


vairone

Any of several fish of the genus Telestes native to Europe.


penis snake

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

From its phallic appearance; it is, however, an amphibian, not a snake.

Atretochoana eiselti, a caecilian of Brazil.


Asian carp

From Asian (relating to Asia) + carp (type of fish).

af

(US) Any of various species of heavy-bodied cyprinid fish from East Asia.


walking shark

Given the nickname the walking shark, it is about a metre long and stands up on its pectoral and pelvic fins to walk around on the seabed with a sinuous motion, rather like a lizard, hunting molluscs and crustaceans.

2007, Alex Mustard, Reefs Revealed, page 125:

"This is the third walking shark species to be described from eastern Indonesia in the past six years, which highlights our tremendous shark and ray biodiversity," said Fahmi, a shark expert at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.

2013 August 30, Suzanne Goldenberg, “'Walking shark' discovered in Indonesia”, in The Guardian:

One of the recent PR successes of the shark conservationists is the ‘walking shark’, which crawls along the sea bottom on its fins and has an appealing little face.

2015, Theo Tait, ‘Don't wear yum-yum yellow’, London Review of Books, volume 34, number 15:

Hemiscyllium ocellatum
Hemiscyllium ocellatum#Translingual

Any of various species of shark that move by ‘walking’ their fins across the sea bed, especially Hemiscyllium ocellatum (epaulette shark) or Hemiscyllium halmahera.


corbina

As a result, although corbinas commonly utilize mollusks, they are limited to the siphons, foot, or other soft parts that either extend from the shell or can be picked from it.

1962, Fish Bulletin, numbers 118-130, Department of Fish and Game, page 48:


Jesus lizard

So called because they can run on water; walking on water was one of the miracles ascribed to Jesus Christ.

Any of the Latin American lizards of the genus Basiliscus.


surf duck

Melanitta perspicillata
Melanitta perspicillata#Translingual


surf scoter

A species of sea duck, Melanitta perspicillata, which breeds in northern North America.


neddicky

en-noun

neddicky (plural neddickys or neddickies)

A species of passerine bird, Cisticola fulvicapilla, found in central and southern Africa.


hornero

Any of several species of passerine birds in the genus Furnarius, native to South America.


kahawai

(New Zealand) Arripis trutta, a marine fish found around the southeastern coast of Australia and New Zealand, having a dark bluish-green body with indistinct rows of spots forming narrow irregular bands on the upper sides.


laniisoma

A bird in the Tityridae family, the shrike-like laniisoma (Laniisoma elegans).


melidectes

From New Latin Melidectes, from Ancient Greek μέλι (méli, “honey”) + δέκτης (déktēs, “receiver”).

Any of a number of birds in the genus Melidectes in the honeyeater family, endemic to New Guinea and New Britain.


aracari

/ɑːɹəˈsɑːɹi/

Any of a number of species of toucan in the genus Pteroglossus.


nunlet

Any of several species of puffbirds in the genus Nonnula.


gillaroo

Borrowed from Irish giolla rua (literally “red fellow”), because of its distinctive colouring. See also McElroy.

bor

Salmo stomachicus, a trout found in Ireland.


tityra

Originally a genus name used for the Black-tailed Tityra, Tityra cayana, of South America, referring to the rustic shepherd character Tityrus in Virgil's Eclogues, in allusion to the noisy, aggressive behaviour of the bird.

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:


oropendola

Orioles, along with grackles, blackbirds, meadowlarks, and oropendolas, belong to a family called the Icteridae, which are found only in the New World.

Any of a number of tropical birds related to the caciques, mostly in the genus Psarocolius, and, like the caciques, noted for living communally in large, hanging basket nests.


chelonioid

Any sea turtle of the superfamily Chelonioidea


eurysternid

Any of the family Eurysternidae of extinct turtles.


eucryptodiran

Basal eucryptodiran xinjiangchelyids or macrobaenids―sinemydids are represented in the Phu Kradung Formation by a few fragmentary remains.

2009, Eric Buffetaut, Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Ecosystems in SE Asia:

(zoology) Any turtle of the suborder Eucryptodira.


bristlemouth

Mueller's bristlemouth (Maurolicus muelleri

A member of one of several of the species of oceanic ray-finned fish in genera Argyripnus or Maurolicus in the family Sternoptychidae.


plesiochelyid

Any extinct turtle of the family Plesiochelyidae


xinjiangchelyid

Fragments of plastron with a peg-like process on the lateral plastral margin indicate a ligamentous attachment between the carapace and plastron, as in xinjiangchelyids and macrobaenids.

2009, Eric Buffetaut, Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Ecosystems in SE Asia, page 142:

[…] a mass accumulation of exceptionally well preserved xinjiangchelyid turtles […]

2013, Joachim Reitner, Qun Yang, Yongdong Wang, Palaeobiology and Geobiology of Fossil Lagerstätten through Earth History:

Any member of the family †Xinjiangchelyidae of extinct turtles.


longy

A Manx cat with a long tail, that therefore cannot be shown at a Manx show.


silflay

Coined by Richard Adams in Watership Down as part of the fictional language Lapine, which in the story is spoken by rabbits. The word silflay (“to eat outdoors”) is derived from silf (“outdoors”) + flay (“food”).

Rabbits were out on silflay, and fat spiders hung motionless in the centre of damp webs.

1981, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, The Trials of Worzel Gummidge, Puffin, →ISBN, page 171:

Picnickers, golden eagles and bunnies sunning themselves on silflay will therefore be glad that FoE has drawn up a set of guidelines for local authorities and a code of conduct for ATB users.

1984, Town and Country Planning, volume 53, number 10, page 287:

Three rabbits came, and once they were at silflay the gunslinger pulled leather. He took them down, skinned them, gutted them, and brought them back to the camp.

2003, Stephen King, The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, 2nd edition, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 142:

If I’m a rabbit I jump at sounds. I live in a burrow of motors. I want to jump, but cannot. The ceiling is too low in this burrow. Only rarely can I go out to silflay. I am aware of the coming and going of the sun because of a distant glow. I can barely perceive the white incandescence.

2011, Rupert Schmitt, The Mad Professor, Bloomington: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 485:

(of rabbits) The act of eating outdoors.


Steller sea lion

en-noun

Steller sea lion (plural Steller sea lions)

Named after the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller.

A species of sea lion, Eumetopias jubatus, the largest of the eared seals.


Old World vulture

Old World vulture (plural Old World vultures)

Any of the large scavenging birds found in the Old World and belonging to the family Accipitridae.


Andean condor

Vultur gryphus
Vultur gryphus#Translingual

A South American bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae, Vultur gryphus.


California condor

California condor (plural California condors)

Gymnogyps californianus
Gymnogyps californianus#Translingual

A New World vulture, Gymnogyps californianus, the largest North American land bird.


invasive carp

invasive carp (plural invasive carp or invasive carps)

invasive carp (plural)
invasive carps (plural)

Minnesota’s governor recently signed a new bill into law that renames the “Asian carp” because the Asian community might find it offensive. / CBS reported that the bill, passed by the Senate in April and signed by the governor in late May, came about “in response to concern by some people that the current term casts people from Asian cultures in a negative light.” / The new name: “Invasive carp,” Mediaite reported.

2014 June 23, Cheryl K. Chumley, “Minnesota renames the ‘Asian carp’ to avoid hurting Asians’ feelings”, in The Washington Times:


giant mouse lemur

giant mouse lemur (plural giant mouse lemurs)

They are considerably larger than other mouse lemurs.

Any of the strepsirrhine primates of genus Mirza.


Okinawa rail

Gallirallus okinawae
Gallirallus okinawae#Translingual

A species of rail, Gallirallus okinawae, endemic to Okinawa Island in Japan.


eubrachythoracid

The presence of embryos in the arthrodire Incisoscutum indicate that internal fertilization was the main reproductive mode for this species, and that viviparity could have evolved in other eubrachythoracid arthrodires.

2009 February 26, John A. Long et al., “Devonian arthrodire embryos and the origin of internal fertilization in vertebrates”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7233, →DOI, pages 1124–1127:

Any arthrodire of the clade Eubrachythoraci


megashark

That was about 3m years ago, when the globe was about 3-5F warmer on average, the Arctic 14.4F warmer, megasharks swam the oceans, and sea levels stood at least 20 ft above their current heights.

2015 July 10, “Scientists predict huge sea level rise even if we limit climate change”, in The Guardian:


Marco Polo sheep

Marco Polo sheep (plural Marco Polo sheep)

Ovis ammon polii, a subspecies of argali found in mountainous regions of Central Asia.


fangtooth

From Middle English *fangtooth (“fang, canine”), from Old English fengtōþ, from feng (“grasping, capture”) + tōþ (“tooth”). In the name of the fish perhaps a new compound of fang (abbreviation of the former) + tooth.

com

A beryciform fish of the monotypic family Anoplogastridae, with long sharp teeth.


pogona

From the genus name, from Ancient Greek πώγων (pṓgōn, “beard”).

Additionally, DNA of following species not covered by the assay was tested to exclude cross-reactivity: macaque, budgerigar, pogona, and carp.

2015 July 6, “Automated Forensic Animal Family Identification by Nested PCR and Melt Curve Analysis on an Off-the-Shelf Thermocycler Augmented with a Centrifugal Microfluidic Disk Segment”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

A bearded dragon, any lizard of the genus Pogona, native to Australia.


surfperch

Any of the family Embiotocidae of viviparous perciform fishes, found mainly in the northeast Pacific Ocean.


pachyrostran

Any ceratopsid dinosaur of the clade Pachyrostra


pachyrhinosaurin

In addition, we modified Characters 59 and 61, which describe the epiparietal (ep) morphology at loci ep 2 and ep 3, to include a state that differentiates between rugose, tongue-shaped horncores and greatly elongate, spike-like horncores that, for example, characterize the ep 3 locus in pachyrhinosaurins and some other taxa (e.g., Styracosaurus).

2015 July 9, “Cranial Anatomy of Wendiceratops pinhornensis gen. et sp. nov., a Centrosaurine Ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Alberta, Canada, and the Evolution of Ceratopsid Nasal Ornamentation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any of the dinosaurs of the tribe †Pachyrhinosaurini, a clade of centrosaurine ceratopsids.


cimolodontan

(zoology) Any of the suborder †Cimolodonta of extinct mammals that lived from the Cretaceous to the Eocene.


yellowtail barracuda

en-noun

yellowtail barracuda (plural yellowtail barracudas)

Sphyraena flavicauda, a barracuda of the family Sphyraenidae, found in Indo-West Pacific oceans.


cuckoo catfish

cuckoo catfish (plural cuckoo catfishes or cuckoo catfish)

cuckoo catfishes (plural)
cuckoo catfish (plural)

Synodontis multipunctatus, a small African catfish that lays eggs among the eggs of a cichlid, to be taken care of by the cichlid.


quelea

From Latin quelea, coined as a specific name by Linnaeus; of uncertain etymology but possibly related to Late Latin qualea (“quail”).

A canopy of red-billed quelea / Passed over the blue / A five-hour flock, not one dives down

2014, “Pusher”, in This Is All Yours, performed by alt-J:


alligator lizard

alligator lizard (plural alligator lizards)

As a guide to start your collection we'd suggest either iguanas, tejus, swifts, basilisks, horned toads or alligator lizards.

(US) Any of several species of lizards in the genera Elgaria and Gerrhonotus.


blue whiting

A fish of species Micromesistius poutassou, in the cod family, of the North Atlantic and the western Mediterranean.


Anna's hummingbird

Anna's hummingbird (plural Anna's hummingbirds)

Named after Anna Masséna, Duchess of Rivoli, nee Anne d'Essling.

Any of species Calypte anna of hummingbirds, native to western North America,.


axis deer

A South Asian deer, the chital, Axis axis


American chameleon

American chameleon (plural American chameleons)

An arboreal lizard native to the southeastern US, Anolis carolinensis, best known for its ability to change skin color in the same manner as a chameleon


mad dog

(aviation) A McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft.


least auklet

Aethia pusilla
Aethia pusilla#Translingual


pinkletink

(New England) Pseudacris crucifer, the spring peeper.


cuckoo-hawk

Either of two African hawks in the genus Aviceda


hawk-cuckoo

Any of the birds of several species in the genus Hierococcyx.


djadochtatherioid

Any of the superfamily †Djadochtatherioidea of extinct mammals,


allotherian

The gondwanatherian Vintana showing a combination of primitive and highly derived features recently described from the Maastrichtian of Madagascar [75 ] is another example of insular mosaicism in an allotherian mammal but from Southern Hemisphere.

2015 July 16, “Red Iron-Pigmented Tooth Enamel in a Multituberculate Mammal from the Late Cretaceous Transylvanian “Haţeg Island””, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any member of the infraclass †Allotheria of extinct mammals.


gondwanatherian

Any of the suborder †Gondwanatheria of extinct mammals


eulipotyphlan

In conclusion, Barbatodon transylvanicus was an insular primitive multituberculate with a very hard diet and red iron pigmented teeth showing a pattern distribution similar to eulipotyphlan insectivores and grasping incisors that were not ever-growing.

Multiple studies of solenodon genes in the last 15 years have helped figure things out: solenodons are the sister group of all of the other eulipotyphlans.

2018 April 11, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:

An insectivorous mammal of the order Eulipotyphla.


ptilodontoid

Any of the superfamily †Ptilodontoidea of extinct mammals.


procellariiform

For example, procellariiform species initially use olfaction to detect a prey’s location and then use vision for prey capture [21, 22 ].

2015 July 16, “Stop and Smell the Pollen: The Role of Olfaction and Vision of the Oriental Honey Buzzard in Identifying Food”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any seabird of the order Procellariiformes


taeniolabidoid

Until now, the oldest records of red tooth preservation date back to the late Paleocene Asian taeniolabidoid multituberculates Lambdopsalis bulla and Sphenopsalis nobilis, which have pigmented enamel on the ventrolateral surface of the incisors and the crown of the second upper and lower molars [26, 53, 54].

Any of the extinct superfamily †Taeniolabidoidea of mammals.


black swallower

black swallower (plural black swallowers)

A fish of the species Chiasmodon niger, deep-sea fish able to swallow fish much larger than itself.


Atlantic Coast leopard frog

Atlantic Coast leopard frog (plural Atlantic Coast leopard frogs)

A true frog of the species Rana kauffeldi, native to the lower Delaware River valley, northern New Jersey, and southeastern New York.


sigmodontine

These are not minor issues because the regional extinctions of small mammals are a widespread phenomenon in southern South America and have involved several sigmodontine and caviomorph rodent species.

2015 July 24, “Regional Extinctions and Quaternary Shifts in the Geographic Range of Lestodelphys halli, the Southernmost Living Marsupial: Clues for Its Conservation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any rodent of the subfamily Sigmodontinae


dromaeosaurine

Liaoning dromaeosaurids may simply be a grade on the line to velociraptorines and dromaeosaurines, and short arms may have evolved multiple times in this grade.

2015 July 16, Junchang Lü, Stephen L. Brusatte, “A large, short-armed, winged dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of China and its implications for feather evolution”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:

(paleontology) A bird-like theropod dinosaur of the subfamily Dromaeosaurinae.


tree sparrow

Passer montanus
Passer montanus#Translingual


spiny-cheek sleeper

spiny-cheek sleeper (plural spiny-cheek sleepers)

Any of the genus Eleotris of sleeper gobies with a circumglobal distribution in tropical and subtropical regions.


duck-billed cat

duck-billed cat (plural duck-billed cats)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:duck-billed cat.

(US, dialect, chiefly Mississippi, dated) A paddlefish (Polyodontidae spp.).


woolly rhino

Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205:

woolly rhinoceros
woolly rhinoceros#English

(informal) Alternative form of woolly rhinoceros


saiga antelope

Any of species Saiga tatarica of antelopes found in the steppes of Central Asia.


Columbian mammoth

Columbian mammoth (plural Columbian mammoths)

Any of the species Mammuthus columbi of extinct mammoths, from Pleistocene North America.


short-faced bear

short-faced bear (plural short-faced bears)

The biggest of the Alaskan short-faced bears weighed over a ton, three times the weight of the biggest modern-day predator on land, the Siberian tiger, and four times that of an adult male grizzly bear.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 12:

An in the genus †Arctodus of extinct bears from Pleistocene North America,.


Shasta ground sloth

Shasta ground sloth (plural Shasta ground sloths)

Any member of species †Nothrotheriops shastensis of extinct ground sloths, from Pleistocene North America.


steppe mammoth

An extinct species of mammoth (†Mammuthus trogontherii or †Mammuthus armeniacus), from Pleistocene Eurasia.


Harlan's ground sloth

Harlan's ground sloth (plural Harlan's ground sloths)

In honor of American paleontologist Dr. Richard Harlan, who first discovered and described the lower jaw in 1835.

Any of an extinct species, †Paramylodon harlani of ground sloths, from Pleistocene North America.


Alaska pollock

Alaska pollock (plural Alaska pollocks or Alaska pollock)

Alaska pollocks (plural)
Alaska pollock (plural)

Gadus chalcogrammus
Gadus chalcogrammus#Translingual

Theragra chalcogramma
Theragra chalcogramma#Translingual

A semipelagic schooling fish, Gadus chalcogrammus (syn. Theragra chalcogramma), widely distributed in the North Pacific with largest concentrations found in the eastern Bering Sea.


great bustard

A bird of the species Otis tarda, native to Iberia, but found at least seasonally in many parts of Eurasia.


sand lance

Any of the slender fish of the family Ammodytidae.


allis shad

A herring-like fish (Alosa alosa), of the eastern Atlantic that migrates to fresh water to spawn.


winter wren

A bird of the species Troglodytes hiemalis, of the coniferous forests of the cooler parts of North America, from British Columbia to the Atlantic coast.


trout cod

trout cod (countable and uncountable, plural trout cods or trout cod)

Maccullochella macquariensis, a large predatory freshwater fish of eastern Australia.


Smith's longspur

Smith's longspur (plural Smith's longspurs)

Named by American ornithologist John James Audubon after his friend Gideon B. Smith.

A bird of the species Calcarius pictus, native to North America east of the continental divide.


ivorybill

ivory-billed woodpecker
ivory-billed woodpecker

An ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis).


common ling

A fish of the species Molva molva, of eastern Atlantic waters, especially the North Sea.


Asian black bear

Asian black bear (plural Asian black bears)

The Auvergne bear, Ursus minimus, was similar to, but a little smaller than, the Asian black bear.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 140:

Ursus thibetanus
Ursus thibetanus#Translingual

A bear of the species Ursus thibetanus (previously known as Selenarctos thibetanus).


guacharaca

Ortalis ruficauda
Ortalis ruficauda#Translingual


laurasiatherian

suf

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

(zoology) Any member of the Laurasiatheria.


Japanese grosbeak

en-noun

Japanese grosbeak (plural Japanese grosbeaks)

A finch (Eophona personata), native to East Asia.


scopelid

(zoology) Any member of the obsolete family Scopelidae of deep-sea fish, most of which are now considered to belong to the Myctophidae.


northern fur seal

northern fur seal (plural northern fur seals)

Arctocephalus ursinus. Northern Fur-Seal. Adult male grey-black; hair of the back long, black, reddish, with a subterminal band and a short grey tip; under fur short, wolly, red; the hair of the neck and front of the body longer, forming a kind of mane; lips and nose reddish; whiskers very long, strong, white, smooth, tapering to a fine point.

1859, John Edward Gray, “On the Sea-Bear of Foster, the Ursus marinus of Steller, Arctocephalus ursinus of Authors”, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, page 103:

Callorhinus ursinus
Callorhinus ursinus#Translingual

A fur seal of the species Callorhinus ursinus (formerly Arctocephalus ursinus), of the northern Pacific.


black carp

black carp (plural black carps or black carp)

black carps (plural)
black carp (plural)

traditional Chinese medicine
traditional Chinese medicine

Mylopharyngodon piceus, a cyprinid fish native to East Asia, cultivated for food and traditional Chinese medicine.


sea bear

(obsolete) Any of a number of pinnipeds, but mostly fur seals, and especially the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus.


choochkie

From Russian чукчи (čukči). Popularized by Henry W. Elliott.

Simorhynchus pusillus
Simorhynchus pusillus

(rare) The least auklet, Aethia pusilla (formerly Simorhynchus pusillus).


ursine seal

(archaic) Any of several species of eared seal, but especially the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus


Central Asian Ovcharka

Central Asian Ovcharka (plural Central Asian Ovcharkas)

(zoology) A breed of large dog usually used as a livestock guardian.


Caucasian shepherd

Caucasian shepherd (plural Caucasian shepherds)

(zoology) A dog of a large breed commonly used to guard livestock.


white bass

Morone chrysops, a freshwater fish of the family Moronidae, found in the eastern and central United States and adjoining Canada.


yoldring

But you heed me no more than a goss-hawk minds a yellow yoldring.

1820, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in The Abbot. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 43:

(British, dialectal, obsolete) A bird, the yellowhammer.


urodelan

(zoology) Any member of the order Urodela (syn. of Caudata); a salamander.


crestfish

crestfish (plural crestfish or crestfishes)

From crest + fish, because of the crest (part of the dorsal fin) that emerges from the snout and head.

Family Lophotidae — Crestfishes

1956, Bulletin of the Florida State Museum: Biological sciences:

Nothing is known about crestfish ages, spawning habits, or migrations, but a larval specimen less than an inch long was cast ashore at La jolla in December, 1905.

1968, John E. Fitch, Deep-water Teleostean Fishes of California, page 87:

This mode of swimming is usually used for slow swimming among fishes, e.g. scabbard and crestfish (Lindsey, 1979).

2014, Maki K. Habib, Handbook of Research on Advancements in Robotics and Mechatronics:

Any of the fish in the lampriform family Lophotidae.


red mullet

any fish of the genus Mullus in the family Mullidae


pin-tailed snipe

pin-tailed snipe (plural pin-tailed snipes)

Gallinago stenura
Gallinago stenura#Translingual

A bird of the species Gallinago stenura, native to Russia and southern Asia.


snow goose

Chen caerulescens
Chen caerulescens#Translingual

A goose of the species Chen caerulescens, native to North America.


ocean sunfish

ocean sunfish (plural ocean sunfishes or ocean sunfish)

ocean sunfishes (plural)
ocean sunfish (plural)

At well over a tonne, and sometimes more than two, and 3.3 metres (11 feet) across when fully grown, the Ocean sunfish is the world's heaviest bony fish.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 242:

A large, heavy species of bony fish, Mola mola, native to tropical and temperate waters around the world.


euselachian

(zoology) Any member of the infraclass Euselachii.


Eurasian blackbird

Eurasian blackbird (plural Eurasian blackbirds)

Turdus merula
Turdus merula#Translingual


velociraptorine

In some most parsimonious trees the Liaoning dromaeosaurids form a clade, but in others various species are more closely related to the dromaeosaurine and velociraptorine clade.

Any theropod of the subfamily Velociraptorinae


paravian

We note that the difference forelimb:hindlimb ratio is within the range of intraspecific variation in two paravian taxa known from multiple specimens, Microraptor 17 and Archaeopteryx 19 20, and is therefore not likely to be a clearly distinguishing feature between Tianyuraptor and Zhanyuanlong .

Any birdlike dinosaur of the clade Paraves, dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to oviraptorosaurs.


unenlagiine

Similarly, the humerus of Zhenyuanlong is the shortest relative to the femur of not only any Liaoning dromaeosaurid, but any dromaeosaurid in general except for the very basal taxon Mahakala and the aberrant unenlagiine Austroraptor.

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Unenlagiinae.


banded killifish

banded killifish (plural banded killifish)

A topminnow of the species Fundulus diaphanus


pomarine jaeger

pomarine jaeger (plural pomarine jaegers)


northern fulmar

northern fulmar (plural northern fulmars)

Fulmarus glacialis
Fulmarus glacialis#Translingual

náhookǫs biyaadę́ę́ʼ níyol yiiʼ naalkʼįhii


pelycosaur

Ancient Greek πέλυξ (pélux, “bowl, axe”) and σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

uder

Any of a group of basal or primitive Late Paleozoic synapsid amniotes, part of a polyphyletic grade, formerly regarded as order Pelycosauria.


pomarine skua

Stercorarius pomarinus
Stercorarius pomarinus#Translingual

An Arctic seabird, Stercorarius pomarinus.


long-tailed jaeger

en-noun

long-tailed jaeger (plural long-tailed jaegers)

Stercorarius longicaudus
Stercorarius longicaudus#Translingual

An Arctic seabird of the skua family, Stercorarius longicaudus.


pictarnie

“It's a pictarnie, sir, ” said Edie

1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

(Scotland, obsolete) A sea bird, the great tern.


tiang

The white-eared kob were joined by hundreds of thousands of mongalla gazelles and tiang, a species of antelope.

2007 June 12, Carl Zimmer, “In Sudan, an Animal Migration to Rival Serengeti”, in New York Times:


porcpisce

snores like a porcpisce

1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):


Rambouillet

A sheep of a breed that originated in France.


Japanese seaperch

Japanese seaperch (plural Japanese seaperch)

Any of three species of highly appreciated marine food fish found in the coastal waters of western Pacific from Kyushu to southern Hokkaido and in the Sea of Japan, Sebastes cheni, Sebastes inermis, Sebastes ventricosus.


rock hyrax

rock hyrax (plural rock hyraxes or rock hyraces)

rock hyraxes (plural)
rock hyraces (plural)

Procavia capensis
Procavia capensis#Translingual

A guinea pig-like, but larger, animal (Procavia capensis), native to much of Africa, the Middle East and the Arabian peninsula.


great cormorant

great cormorant (plural great cormorants)

Phalacrocorax carbo
Phalacrocorax carbo#Translingual

A seabird of the species Phalacrocorax carbo.


machairodontine

Any extinct carnivore of the subfamily Machairodontinae


corytophanine

(herpetology (saurology)) Any lizard of the genus Corytophanes


dactyloid

Any lizard / anole of the family Dactyloidae


shinisaur

Chinese crocodile lizard
Chinese crocodile lizard

Any lizard of the genus Shinisaurus (Chinese crocodile lizard).


eutheriodontian

Any therapsid of the clade Eutheriodontia


pizzly bear

A hybrid of the polar bear and the grizzly bear.


woolly monkey

A New World monkey in the genera Lagothrix and Oreonax in subfamily Atelinae.


Japanese marten

Japanese marten (plural Japanese martens)

Martes melampus
Martes melampus#Translingual

A marten of the species Martes melampus, found in Japan and Korea.


casquehead

Any casquehead lizard (family Corytophanidae).


hairyfish

hairyfish (plural hairyfishes or hairyfish)

Mirapinna esau, a fish in the family Cetomimidae with unusual fins resembling thorns or hairs.


bucardo

In 2008 there was an attempt to revive the Spanish bucardo, a subspecies of ibex.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 308:

The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica).


warru

The black-flanked rock wallaby (Petrogale lateralis).


European goldfinch

European goldfinch (plural European goldfinches)

Carduelis carduelis
Carduelis carduelis#Translingual

A bird of the species Carduelis carduelis, native to Europe, North Africa and western Asia.


jacksmelt

Atherinopsis californiensis, an edible neotropical silverside native to the Pacific coast of North America.


Carolina parakeet

Carolina parakeet (plural Carolina parakeets)

A parrot, formerly native to large parts of the United States, but now extinct (†Conuropsis carolinensis)


Chinese alligator

Chinese alligator (plural Chinese alligators)

Alligator sinensis
Alligator sinensis#Translingual

An alligator native to eastern China, Alligator sinensis.


chimney swift

A rapid-flying bird that feeds on flying insects, Chaetura pelagica, with a breeding range in the eastern US extending into Canada and winter range in northwestern South America.


bulldog rat

A dark rat once endemic to Christmas Island (†Rattus nativitatis), now extinct.


Maclear's rat

Named after Captain John Maclear (1838–1907) of the British survey-ship HMS Flying-fish, who collected the specimen from Christmas Island in 1886.

†Rattus macleari, a species of brown rat once endemic to Christmas Island, now extinct.


roan duck

(obsolete) A Rouen duck, a breed of domestic duck.


apostlebird

From apostle + bird; so named because they are often seen in groups of twelve, the same number as the original apostles of Jesus.

A gregarious gray and brown bird native to Australia, Struthidea cinerea


bubal

The bubal hartebeest, which is the typical representative of the group with U-shaped horns, is the smallest of all the species, and a native of North Africa, where it is known from the interior of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, while it formerly extended into Egypt.

1908, Richard Lydekker, The Game Animals of Africa, page 95:

An extinct subspecies of the hartebeest (†Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus), which was formerly native to northern Africa.


sockeye salmon

Oncorhynchus nerka
Oncorhynchus nerka#Translingual

A salmon of the species Oncorhynchus nerka.


yelloweye

The yelloweye mullet, a fish in the family Mugilidae.

The yelloweye rockfish, a fish in the family Sebastidae.


tranatocetid

This anatomy is superficially similar to that of Cetotheriidae and some tranatocetids were previously considered to be cetotheres and even identified as Cetotherium.

2015 September 3, “From Problem Taxa to Problem Solver: A New Miocene Family, Tranatocetidae, Brings Perspective on Baleen Whale Evolution”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any member of the family †Tranatocetidae, which is represented by the sole species †Tranatocetus argillarius, a cetacean.


eomysticetid

(zoology) Any member of the Eomysticetidae, a family of extinct mysticetes.


afrosoricid

(zoology) Any member of the order Afrosoricida, a golden mole, an otter shrew, or a tenrec.


amphisbaenian

Amphisbaenians lost their legs independently of the snake lineage and belong to their own distinct part of the squamate tree.

2016 July 13, Elsa Panciroli, “How did legless worm-lizards cross the Atlantic?”, in The Guardian:

(zoology) Any member of the Amphisbaenia, the clade of worm lizards.


treeswift

Any bird in the family Hemiprocnidae, closely related to the true swifts in the family Apodidae, but differing in having a forked tail and a crest or other facial ornamentation, and in being able to perch on branches.


bernissartiid

(zoology) Any extinct crocodile-like reptile in the family Bernissartiidae.


Eurasian siskin

Eurasian siskin (plural Eurasian siskins)

Spinus spinus
Spinus spinus#Translingual

A bird of the species Spinus spinus, common throughout Eurasia.


edible bird's nest

edible bird's nest (plural edible bird's nests)

A nest of certain species of swiftlet, especially edible-nest swiftlet, Aerodramus fuciphagus or the black-nest swiftlet, Aerodramus maximus, made by the male swiftlet from its gelatinous saliva, and highly prized in Chinese cuisine for delicacies such as bird's nest soup.


dama gazelle

A large gazelle native to the Sahara desert (Nanger dama).


sebecosuchian

(zoology) Any of the Sebecosuchia, an extinct group of mesoeucrocodylian crocodyliforms.


paralligatorid

If the Hungarian specimen is from a paralligatorid, then it would be the first occurrence of the group in the European archipelago.

2015, Attila Ősi et al., “An enigmatic crocodyliform tooth from the bauxites of western Hungary suggests hidden mesoeucrocodylian diversity in the Early Cretaceous European archipelago”, in PeerJ, volume 3, →DOI:

(zoology) Any extinct neosuchian crocodyliform in the family Paralligatoridae


archosauriform

(zoology) Belonging to the Archosauriformes, a clade of diapsid reptiles.


flatback

A chelonid turtle, Natator depressus, with low-domed carapace, endemic to the continental shelf of Australia.


chlorophonia

Any of a number of species of birds in the genus Chlorophonia.


eureptile

From eu- + reptile, influenced by Eureptilia.

There are, however, reasons to believe that aquatic or semiaquatic habits were more widespread among eureptiles than traditionally assumed and that the exclusion of aquatic or semi-aquatic taxa biases the analyses.

2015 September 10, “Anatomy of the Enigmatic Reptile Elachistosuchus huenei Janensch, 1949 (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Upper Triassic of Germany and Its Relevance for the Origin of Sauria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


pseudosuchian

Janensch considered Elachistosuchus a pseudosuchian archosaur and diagnosed it by small body size, the lack of a specialized body plan, and the presence of a large posttemporal fenestra and an alleged antorbital fenestra.

(zoology) Belonging to the Pseudosuchia.


pseudosuchian

(zoology) Any member of the Pseudosuchia.


clevosaur

For the early Mesozoic (Late Triassic) of South American, sphenodontian opisthodontians are known from northern Argentina and clevosaurs from south Brazil.

2015 September 11, “New Data on the Clevosaurus (Sphenodontia: Clevosauridae) from the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

An extinct sphenodontian reptile of the genus Clevosaurus.


camarasaurus

While it looks like a friendly little camarasaurus on the outside, Pleo has plenty of power on the inside.

2007 September 13, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Dinosaurs Return, in a 2.0 Version (but Were They Ever Really Gone?)”, in New York Times:


fence lizard

western fence lizard
western fence lizard

Any of several species of North American lizards in the genus Sceloporus, especially the eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), the western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis), and the southwestern fence lizard (Sceloporus cowlesii)


apterodontine

We can also note that apterodontines and hyainailourines often display more than two mental foramina, while hyaenodontids very rarely display more than two, and have a weak ventral concavity anterior to the angular process.

2015 September 24, “A New Large Hyainailourine from the Bartonian of Europe and Its Bearings on the Evolution and Ecology of Massive Hyaenodonts (Mammalia)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any member of the Apterodontinae.


otophysan

For soniferous otophysans, decreased auditory sensitivity is particularly harmful because it may reduce the capacity to detect acoustic signals from conspecifics.

2015 September 24, “Stress and Auditory Responses of the Otophysan Fish, Cyprinella venusta, to Road Traffic Noise”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any of the fish of the Otophysi series within the Ostariophysi superorder, also known as the Otophysa in some classifications.


migratory bird

A bird that moves from one area of the world to another according to the season, usually from north to south and vice versa.

прелетна птица

migratory bird — see also bird of passage, migrant


Kimberley death adder

Kimberley death adder (plural Kimberley death adders)

It looks like a pile of leaves, but the Kimberley death adder can deliver a bite which could result in paralysis and death.

2015 September 16, Kirstie McCrum, “New deadly snake species discovered is 'in the world's venomous top 10'”, in The Mirror:

Australia is famous for its enormous variety of toxic or venomous creatures, and now scientists have added a new snake to its roster: Acanthophis cryptamydros, or the Kimberley death adder (named after the region of Australia it comes from).

2015 October 1, Danny Lewis, “Yet Another Highly-Venomous Snake Discovered in Australia”, in Smithsonian:

The Kimberley death adder is roughly 24 inches (60 cm) long and has a diamond-shaped head.

2016 January 28, Sergio Prostak, “Top 20 New Species Discovered in 2015”, in Science News:

Fig. 5.11. Range of the Kimberley death adder, Acanthophis cryptamydros

2017, Peter Mirtschin, Arne Rasmussen, Scott Weinstein, Australia's Dangerous Snakes: Identification, Biology and Envenoming, →ISBN, page 76:

Any of species Acanthophis cryptamydros of Australian snake.


blue wren

The winter has been long and somewhat severe, and the robins, therefore, have been well in evidence, also Jacky Winters, double-bars, and blue wrens.

1933 October 21, “The Courier Mail”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 21:

As we went along, Mother had to look this way and that to follow the line of some excited finger pointing out a blue wren's nest or the place where Charlie killed the snake.

1962, Elizabeth Lane, chapter 13, in Mad As Rabbits, page 107:

Any of various species of fairywren (tribe Malurini in the family Maluridae), the male of which acquires blue adult or breeding plumage.


alligatorfish

alligatorfish (plural alligatorfishes or alligatorfish)

alligatorfishes (plural)
alligatorfish (plural)

a bottom-dwelling marine fish of species Aspidophoroides monopterygius, family Agonidae, which is found along the coasts of the northwestern Atlantic.


starsnout

Any of various fishes in the genus Bathyagonus.


rockhead

The fish Bothragonus swanii, a variety of poacher.


Cape porcupine

A porcupine of species Hystrix africaeaustralis, native to subsaharan Africa.


dassie rat

Petromus typicus
Petromus typicus#Translingual

A species of rat found in southwestern Africa, Petromus typicus.


blue monkey

A monkey of the species Cercopithecus mitis, native to central and eastern Africa.


clevosaurid

Any extinct reptile in the family Clevosauridae; a clevosaur


Winnie-the-Pooh

Alternative form of Winnie the Pooh (the original A. A. Milne form contains hyphens).


megaraptorid

The skeleton of Australovenator wintonensis from the Cenomanian of Australia is among the most complete of any megaraptorid.

2015 September 15, “Forearm Range of Motion in Australovenator wintonensis (Theropoda, Megaraptoridae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any theropod dinosaur of the family †Megaraptoridae.


moustached kingfisher

moustached kingfisher (plural moustached kingfishers)

A rare species of kingfisher endemic to Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea, Actenoides bougainvillei.


monkey-eating eagle

monkey-eating eagle (plural monkey-eating eagles)

Pithecophaga jefferyi
Pithecophaga jefferyi#Translingual

The Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi).


swift parrot

The swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) is a case in point. This small (24 cm) green parrot breeds on the eastern two thirds of the island of Tasmania, approximately 300 km across the Bass Strait from the southeast coast of mainland Australia, and migrates in the southern autumn (February to April) to southeastern Australia (Blakers et al. 1984 and Fig. 3-2).

1996, Hugh Dingle, Migration: The Biology of Life on the Move, page 43:

A striking example of the risks of ignoring temporal processes comes from work on the endangered Swift Parrot in north-eastern Victoria.

2005, David Lindenmayer, Mark A. Burgman, Practical Conservation Biology, page 280:

In Australia the swift parrots (Psittacidae) and in Hawaii the 'I'iwi honeycreepers (Drepanididae) have convergently evolved nectarivory, and coexist with honeyeaters.

2011, George R. McGhee, Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful, page 147:

Lathamus discolor
Lathamus discolor#Translingual

A true parrot, of the endangered species Lathamus discolor, which breeds in Tasmania and migrates to mainland south-eastern Australia.


dacnis

Any of a number of species of tanager in the genus Dacnis.


guaiabero

From French guaiabero, from Spanish guayaba.

Bolbopsittacus lunulatus
Bolbopsittacus lunulatus#Translingual

A species of parrot (Bolbopsittacus lunulatus) endemic to the Philippines.


peltops

Either of two species of bird in the genus Peltops, endemic to New Guinea.


water ouzel

(US) An American dipper, of species Cinclus mexicanus.


American dipper

American dipper (plural American dippers)

A North American bird that lives in rapidly-flowing mountain streams, Cinclus mexicanus


orangequit

A monotypic species of tanager (Euneornis campestris) endemic to Jamaica.


torrentfish

torrentfish (plural torrentfish or torrentfishes)

torrentfish (plural)
torrentfishes (plural)

Cheimarrichthys fosteri, a freshwater fish native to fast-moving, shallow waters in New Zealand that migrates out to sea as part of its life-cycle.


lyre snake

The distinctive V-shaped pattern on the snakes' heads is said to resemble a lyre.


azure jay

Cyanocorax caeruleus, a passeriform bird of the crow family.


marsh rice rat

Oryzomys palustris, a semiaquatic North American rodent in the family Cricetidae, mostly found in wetland habitats.


kandhuli

Borrowed from Assamese কান্ধুলি (kandhuli).

bor+

In Assam, for instance, a mild curry made with a fish called kandhuli together with a duck egg is given to someone suffering from measles or chicken pox […].

1998, Harlan Walker, Fish: Food from the Waters, page 255:

Awash in its fragrance, like a kandhuli fish rippling in a pond and making liquid motifs of rings and bangles, her head grew giddier and her heart beat faster.

2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 1:

(India) The bronze featherback, Notopterus notopterus.


Florida panther

en-noun

Florida panther (plural Florida panthers)

New York City, Philadelphia, (traditional) Eastern New England, Irish English

Puma concolor cougar, an endangered cougar that lives in forests and swamps of southern Florida in the United States.


bassarisk

(zoology) Any member of the genus Bassariscus.


caimanine

(zoology) Any member of the subfamily Caimaninae within the Alligatoridae.


boofhead tortoise

boofhead tortoise (plural boofhead tortoises)

From boofhead + tortoise, referring to the large head developed by the female in old age.

A small turtle, Emydura macquarii, of northern Australia.


cheeper

From cheep + -er, from the noise they make.


takhi

Przewalski's horse
Przewalski's horse#English


bamboo rat

Any of the four species of burrowing rodents in the spalacid tribe Rhizomyini, found in China and southeast Asia

ပွေး

rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys


barnie

The 'Barnies' as they were more commonly known, were, in the main, deserving pensioners

1974, Conor Brady, Guardians of the peace - Page 5:

former Barnies, like me, knew very well that serious students — if they would work their butts off — could probably learn more of what the commercial theatre was really about in a summer at the Barn than they could in all four years

2002, Man in the Spangled Pants: Jack Ragotzy and the First Fifty Years:

'What are the Barnies?' asked George, puzzled at Mrs Penruthlan's evident pleasure and excitement. 'Oh, they're travelling players that wander round the countryside and play and act in our big barns,' said Mrs Penruthlan

2014, Enid Blyton, Famous Five: 12: Five Go Down To The Sea:

During recess an inviolable border separated the townies at the northern end of our play area from the barnies at the southern.

2016, Peter Straub, Interior Darkness: Selected Stories:

Peridot "You should just move in with us at this point."
Steven "Actually, maybe not me. But I know someone else who might be interested."
Navy "Hi! I'm Navy, a refugee from Homeworld. Just like you guys.
Peridot "So uh, when did you show up on Earth?"
Navy "Today."
Peridot "New barnie!"

2017, “Room for Ruby”, in Steven Universe:


Aesculapian snake

Aesculapian snake (plural Aesculapian snakes)

A European species of nonvenomous snake, Zamenis longissimus, associated with Asclepius (Roman counterpart: Aesculapius) in Ancient Greek mythology.


canastero

From Spanish canastero (“basket-maker”).

Any of a number of species of small passerine birds of South America, in the genera Asthenes and Pseudasthenes. The genus Asthenes also comprises thistletails and Itatiaia spinebird.

kanastero

birds in the genera Asthenes and Pseudasthenes


monjita

Any of several birds in the genus Xolmis in the tyrant flycatcher family.


water deer

Hydropotes inermis, a species of small deer native to China and Korea that is superficially more similar to a musk deer than a true deer.


ceratioid

(zoology) Any anglerfish of the suborder Ceratioidei, now Ogcocephalioidei.


laughingthrush

Any of a number of species of tropical birds in the family Leiothrichidae, found mainly in Asia.


draghound

"Pompey is the pride of the local draghounds—no very great flier, as his build will show, but a staunch hound on a scent."

1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes:

"I've told them, I'm ready to be the first chairman of the Badsworth draghounds," Mr Beechey said. "I'm all for riding round the countryside, and it's just as enjoyable if you're chasing artificial scent."

2003 December 27, Martin Wainwright, “This year, the day belonged to the hounds”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2015-11-15:

There are also another 26 packs of draghounds and bloodhounds which exist purely to hunt a runner or trail.

2015 October 31, Tim Bonner, “Ten years on, and we're still here”, in Western Daily Press, UK, retrieved 2015-11-15:

A hunting dog especially trained to be effective in drag hunts, having the highly developed sense of smell and the stamina to follow an artificially scented trail at high speed over considerable distance.


African lynx

Caracal caracal
Caracal caracal#Translingual

A medium-sized wild cat with lynx-like black ear-tufts and found in Africa as well as southwest and central Asia and western India, the caracal (Caracal caracal).


alligator fish

alligator fish (plural alligator fishes or alligator fish)

alligator fishes (plural)
alligator fish (plural)


brownbul

Either of two species of birds in the greenbul genus Phyllastrephus.


stud farm

An establishment for selective breeding of livestock, especially horses.


ratsicle

The negative aspects of pre-killed rodents generally focus on two things: the initial killing of the rodent, and the prospect of opening the freezer to find a "ratsicle" next to your frozen pizza.

I'd just fed Rocky the Boa his weekly ratsicle the day before — as evidenced by the golf ball-sized lump in his midsection […]

2007, Brenda Scott Royce, Monkey Star, New American Library, →ISBN, page 87:

The aviary was high enough for him to hop and flap up onto his perches, and there was water for him to take his baths, along with the remnants of a ratsicle, yesterday's supper.

2013, Barbara Chepaitis, Saving Eagle Mitch: One Good Deed in a Wicked World, Excelsior Editions, →ISBN, page 127:

(informal, humorous) A cold or frozen rat.


elongatoolithid

Unlike other elongatoolithid and prismatoolithid eggs, Elongatoolithus elongatus and Protoceratopsidovum minimum were classified into the covered nest type.

2015 November 26, “Eggshell Porosity Provides Insight on Evolution of Nesting in Dinosaurs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(paleontology) Any member of the oofamily Elongatoolithidae.


placodermian

Furtheron the ancient agnathian and the placodermian fishes disappeared.

1984, Nikita Alekseevich Bogdanov, Palaeontology: proceedings of the 27th International Geological Congress, Moscow 4-14 August 1984:

Many organisms were affected including conodonts, ammonoids, echinoderms, trilobites, ancient agnatian and placodermian fishes, continental plant communities, ostracodes, […]

2008, Tom McCann, The Geology of Central Europe: Precambrian and palaeozoic:

It mainly affected pelagic and hemipelagic organisms (e.g. conodonts, ammonoids, echinoderms, trilobites, ancient agnathan and placodermian fishes), […]

2014, A. Gąsiewicz, M. Słowakiewicz, Palaeozoic Climate Cycles: Their Evolutionary and Sedimentological Impact:

(zoology) Of, or relating to, prehistoric armoured fishes in the class Placodermi.


dipnoid

The dipnoid fishes, which, as we have already seen, attained their maximum of development in the Devonian epoch, show us clearly enough how such a transition probably took place, […]

1918, Arthur Dendy, Outlines of Evolutionary Biology:

A concurrent elimination of sharks from fresh waters, with a countercurrent increase in the dipnoid and ganoid lungfishes, readily can be demonstrated.

1941, Clair Arthaud Hannum, Comparative Chordate Anatomy: A Laboratory Text:

During the Carboniferous some species of dipnoid fish had 30 million years to evolve into reptiles, unless new discoveries may point to other origins for reptiles.

2014, Pietro Gaietto, Phylogenesis of Beauty:

(zoology) Of, or relating to, lungfishes in the subclass Dipnoi.


hyainailourid

Hyaenodontid pterygoids are generally less developed ventrally and posteriorly than hyainailourid pterygoids (Fig 5, Feature 12; Table 1 ).

2015 September 24, “A New Large Hyainailourine from the Bartonian of Europe and Its Bearings on the Evolution and Ecology of Massive Hyaenodonts (Mammalia)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any extinct mammal of the family Hyainailouridae


proviverrine

The nasal aperture forms a more opened angle in the proviverrine Cynohyaenodon cayluxi and a slightly sharper angle in P.

Any of the hyaenodontid subfamily †Proviverrinae of extinct mammals.


teratodontine

The only other hyaenodonts known at that time were the teratodontine Dissopsalis, which was present in Africa and Asia [134 ] and the koholiine Metapterodon, which was possibly present in Asia [135 ].

Any hyaenodont of the subfamily Teratodontinae


porcicide

(very rare) The killing of a pig or pigs.


black currawong

black currawong (plural black currawongs)


anchitheriine

La Retama preserves an abundant fossil fauna that includes gastropods and vertebrates such as chelonians, crocodiles, lagomorphs, rodents, several carnivorans, anchitheriine equids, rhinoceroses, gomphoteriid elephants, caenotheriids, suids, cervids and palaeomerycids.

2015 December 3, “Systematics and Evolution of the Miocene Three-Horned Palaeomerycid Ruminants (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any member of the Anchitheriinae, an extinct subfamily of equids.


seymouriamorph

The seymouriamorphs also share with anthracosaurs a palatal structure that, like those of very early tetrapods, is closed—that is to say, it lacks the palatal vacuities of temnospondyls.

2012, Jennifer A. Clack, Gaining Ground, Second Edition: The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods:

Any of the order †Seymouriamorpha of extinct limbed vertebrates.


pleurodeline

It is proportionally smaller than in any other pleurodeline, extant or extinct.

2015 October 1, “An Extremely Peramorphic Newt (Urodela: Salamandridae: Pleurodelini) from the Latest Oligocene of Germany, and a New Phylogenetic Analysis of Extant and Extinct Salamandrids”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any newt of the subfamily Pleurodelinae.


hylaeosaurus

A herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur that lived about 165 million years ago during the Cretaceous period


marine mammal

The influence of the temperature of the Gulf-stream upon animal life in the ocean is very curious. The whale so sedulously shuns its warm waters, as almost to indicate their track by its absence ; while yet abundantly found on each side of it. The physical reasons are doubtless the same which prevent this great marine mammal from ever crossing the equator from one hemisphere to the other — a fact now well ascertained.

1857 April, Philippe de Kerhallet, “The Atlantic Ocean”, in Edinburgh Review, volume CV, number CCXIV, page 371:

A mammal which lives partly or wholly in the ocean, or at least is heavily dependent on the ocean for its lifestyle; such as cetaceans, sirenians, seals, the sea otter or the polar bear.


hilsa

Tenualosa ilisha, a fish in the herring family, and a popular food fish in South Asia.


borgi

As a gesture of confidence, or perhaps resignation, she has provided Lissa and me early Christmas presents—in the form of a six-week-old Corgi (Lissa’s) and six-week-old half brother Borgi (corgi/Border Collie).

BORGI PUPPIES, (Border Collie X Corgi), M/F, shots, $250-$350.

2004 December 23, The Modesto Bee, page G -4:

Her home was filled with her own herd which she loved: horses, Border Collies, Corgis, Borgis, and cats.

2015 October 19, “Kellie Diane Stanley-Bennett: February 5, 1976- September 12, 2015”, in Merced Sun-Star, volume 127, number 191, page 6A:

A crossbreed dog resulting from the breeding of a border collie and a corgi.


widemouth blindcat

widemouth blindcat (plural widemouth blindcats)

Any of species Satan eurystomus of North American freshwater catfish, endemic to Texas in the United States and the only representative of the genus Satan.


corroboree frog

corroboree frog (plural corroboree frogs)

A small, ground-dwelling frog: Pseudophryne corroboree (southern corroboree frog) or Pseudophryne pengilleyi (northern corroboree frog), native to Southern Tablelands of Australia.


Pacific sandfish

Pacific sandfish (plural Pacific sandfishes or Pacific sandfish)

Pacific sandfishes (plural)
Pacific sandfish (plural)


sailfin sandfish

sailfin sandfish (plural sailfin sandfishes or sailfin sandfish)

sailfin sandfishes (plural)
sailfin sandfish (plural)


caudipterid

It is also consistent with the exhibition of less resting forelimb flexion in Caudipteridae than in other feathered theropods, because caudipterid forelimbs are shorter than those of most other feathered dinosaurs, eliminating the possibility of contact between feathers and the ground, hence also eliminating the need for tight forelimb folding.

2015 December 17, “Resting Orientations of Dinosaur Scapulae and Forelimbs: A Numerical Analysis, with Implications for Reconstructions and Museum Mounts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any of the †Caudipteridae, a family of oviraptorosaurian dinosaurs.


osteoglossomorph

Postcranial pneumaticity is absent in all other extant vertebrates with the known exceptions of osteoglossomorph fish and the hyoid bone in howler monkeys.

2015 December 19, “Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any fish of the superorder Osteoglossomorpha.


dollarbird

From dollar + bird. Named so because its white spots of wings resemble silver dollar coins.

Eurystomus orientalis, a bird of the roller family, with distinctive blue coin-shaped spots on its wings.


vermilion flycatcher

vermilion flycatcher (plural vermilion flycatchers)

Pyrocephalus rubinus, a small, bright red passerine bird in the Tyrannidae family.

Rubintyrann

small and bright red passerine bird, Pyrocephalus rubinus


cerapodan

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the clade Cerapoda.


bronze featherback

bronze featherback (plural bronze featherbacks)

Notopterus notopterus, a fish in the family Notopteridae, found in south and southeast Asia. Young specimens are of a dark bronze colour.


nailtail wallaby

nailtail wallaby (plural nailtail wallabies)

Any of the genus Onychogalea of Australian macropods, distinguished by a horny spur at the end of the tail.


hazel dormouse

A volunteer checks a rare hazel dormouse as 20 breeding pairs were released into an undisclosed woodland location near Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, UK.

This project involves construction of a railway crossing for wild hazel dormice on the Furness line (Lancashire), in a bid to save the endangered species from extinction, and it will be the first of its kind on the railway.

2022 February 23, Daisy Chapman-Chamberlain, “Ground-breaking rail innovation goes international”, in RAIL, number 951, page 35:

A small nocturnal dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius, with golden-brown fur and large black eyes.


hadrosauriform

Clipping of translingual Hadrosauriformes

clipping

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

(zoology) Any ornithopod dinosaur in the Hadrosauriformes.


banded stilt

The life history of flamingos and the banded stilt of Australia are astonishingly alike. Like flamingos, banded stilts are colonial, breed in great, densely packed colonies, nest in depressions in the ground and are regularly spaced about 30 centimeters (12 in.) apart, have white, unpatterned downy young with two coats of nestling down (unknown in other shorebirds but found in flamingos), and frequent saline temporary lakes (in this case in southern Australia) where they feed on enormous quantities of small crustaceans[…].

1999, Alan Feduccia, The Origin and Evolution of Birds, page 199:

Banded stilts are unusual in that unlike other waders their breeding seems to be reserved for rare occasions when most of the species congregate on individual salt lakes.

2003, John L. Read, Red Sand, Green Heart: Ecological Adventures in the Outback, page 152:

2008, W. D. Williams, 8: Lakes in Arid Environments, Patrick O'Sullivan, C. S. Reynolds (editors), The Lakes Handbook, Volume 2: Lake Restoration and Rehabilitation, page 221,
This is important because the gull is a significant predator of the banded stilt during its breeding in episodic salt lakes (Robinson 81 Minton1990).

Cladorhynchus leucocephalus, a nomadic stilt endemic to Australia.


cophyline

(zoology) Any member of the Cophylinae, a subfamily of microhylid frogs.


dicroglossid

(batrachology, zoology) Any member of the Dicroglossidae, a family of frogs.


baryonychine

This contrasts with the more lateromedially angular quadrate ridge and the large quadrate foramen located at mid-height of the quadrates of baryonychines.

2016 January 7, “Morphofunctional Analysis of the Quadrate of Spinosauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and the Presence of Spinosaurus and a Second Spinosaurine Taxon in the Cenomanian of North Africa.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any theropod dinosaur of the subfamily Baryonychinae.


royal antelope

The third member of the section is the royal antelope (N. pygmæus) of the Guinea coast, which is the smallest of all the Ruminants, standing only 12 inches at the shoulder.

1894, Richard Lydekker, The Royal Natural History: Mammals:

Any of species Neotragus pygmaeus of antelopes of west Africa, that are the smallest known.


sapiutan

Bubalus depressicornis, a small Indonesian water buffalo.


great sapphirewing

en-noun

great sapphirewing (plural great sapphirewings)

Pterophanes cyanopterus, a hummingbird of South America.


sawshark

/ˈsɔːʃɑː(ɹ)k/

Any of the order Pristiophoriformes of sharks with long, blade-like snouts edged with teeth.

鋸鯊

any of the order Pristiophoriformes of sharks


Zinj

(informal, paleoanthropology, dated) The original specimen of Paranthropus boisei, then known as Zinjanthropus.


veiltail

A variety of goldfish with a long, flowing double tail and high sail-like dorsal fin.


tapaculo

Any of a family (Rhinocryptidae) of small suboscine passeriform birds found mainly in South America.


yaboo

Borrowed from Classical Persian یَابُو (yābū).

bor+

(archaic) An Afghan pony used as a beast of burden.


sika deer

en-noun

sika deer (plural sika deer or sika deers)

Cervus nippon
Cervus nippon#Translingual

Alternative form of sika (“deer (Cervus nippon)”)


Egyptian mongoose

Egyptian mongoose (plural Egyptian mongooses)

Herpestes ichneumon
Herpestes ichneumon#Translingual

Herpestes ichneumon, a small, slender carnivore, resistant to the venom of certain snakes.


oogruk

From Inuktitut ᐅᒡᔪᒃ (ocyok, “bearded seal”).

As soon as the seals are born the first part of April, the ice stops forming around the island. It does not freeze anymore. When that happened we went out with our kayaks, mostly for oogruks, or big bearded seals.

1987, Paul Tiulana, A place for winter: Paul Tiulana's story, page 13:


bearded seal

Erignathus barbatus, an earless seal with conspicuous whiskers, found in and around the Arctic Ocean.


araponga

Borrowed from Portuguese araponga, from Old Tupi gûyrapunga.

bare-throated bellbird
bare-throated bellbird#English

Synonym of bare-throated bellbird (Procnias nudicollis)


whipbird

Any of various Australian songbirds in the genus Psophodes.


apalis

Any of several species of birds in the genus Apalis.


saddlebill

Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, a large wading bird in the stork family, found in parts of Africa.


dorcas gazelle

From Latin dorcas from Ancient Greek δορκάς (dorkás) + gazelle.

A gazelle native to northern Africa and western Asia, Gazella dorcas


scissortail

scissor-tailed flycatcher
scissor-tailed flycatcher

A scissor-tailed flycatcher or Texas bird of paradise (Tyrannus forficatus).

Any of various kinds of fish with forked tails, as the bluefin driftfish (Psenes pellucidus) or a devilfish (genus Assessor)


silktail

Lamprolia victoriae, a bird endemic to Fiji, closely related to the fantails.


skunkbird

From skunk + bird, because its black and white markings resemble those of a skunk.


tyrannulet

Any of about 50 bird species in the tyrant flycatcher family, distinguished by their small size.


plumeleteer

Either of two hummingbird species in the genus Chalybura.


lepidosaurian

Additionally, some 143 studies utilized vertebrates as study organisms, with 30% evaluating lepidosaurians (i.e., snakes, lizards, amphisbaenians, Tuatara), whereas another 30% assessed amphibians.

2016 January 28, “Deconstructing a Species-Complex: Geometric Morphometric and Molecular Analyses Define Species in the Western Rattlesnake ( Crotalus viridis )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any member of the Lepidosauria.


rhabdornis

Any of the small passerine birds of the genus Rhabdornis, endemic to the Philippines.


Eurasian wigeon

Eurasian wigeon (plural Eurasian wigeons)

/jəˌɹeɪʒənˈwɪd͡ʒən/

Mareca penelope
Mareca penelope#Translingual

Mareca penelope, a species of dabbling duck.


balicassiao

A species of bird in the drongo family, Dicrurus balicassius, endemic to the Philippines.


leafscraper

Any of various ovenbirds in the genus Sclerurus, found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.


curve-billed thrasher

curve-billed thrasher (plural curve-billed thrashers)

A non-migratory species of mimid native to the southwestern United States and much of Mexico, Toxostoma curvirostre.


sardinella

sardinella (plural sardinellas or sardinella)

sardinellas (plural)
sardinella (plural)

The small pelagic fish like anchovies, sardines and sardinella are all abundant species in EBUEs where they all have pelagic egg distributions.

2015 October 15, “The Principles of Buoyancy in Marine Fish Eggs and Their Vertical Distributions across the World Oceans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


groundpecker

A species of bird in the tit family Paridae, Pseudopodoces humilis.


Speke's gazelle

Speke's gazelle (plural Speke's gazelles)

Named after English explorer John Hanning Speke.

A species of gazelle from the Horn of Africa (Gazella spekei).


Soemmerring's gazelle

Soemmerring's gazelle (plural Soemmerring's gazelles)

Named after German scientist Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring.

A species of gazelle from the Horn of Africa, Nanger soemmerringi, formerly Gazella soemmerringi.

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
en:Soemmerring's gazelle


purpletuft

From purple + tuft, a reference to the purple feather tufts on the flanks of the male.

Any of the genus Iodopleura of small, short-tailed birds found in the canopy of forests in tropical South America.


Egyptian plover

Egyptian plover (plural Egyptian plovers)

Pluvianus aegyptius
Pluvianus aegyptius#Translingual

A wading bird of the species Pluvianus aegyptius.


moose deer

moose deer (plural moose deers or moose deer)

moose deers (plural)
moose deer (plural)


kajiki

(Hawaii) Blue marlin (Makaira nigricans)


tufted capuchin

tufted capuchin (plural tufted capuchins)

A capuchin monkey of species Sapajus apella, of parts of northern South America and Trinidad.


sooty tern

Onychoprion fuscatus
Onychoprion fuscatus#Translingual

A seabird of species Onychoprion fuscatus, of the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans.


pied avocet

Recurvirostra avosetta
Recurvirostra avosetta#Translingual

Recurvirostra avosetta, a black and white wading bird of temperate Europe and western and central Asia, wintering in Africa and south Asia.


upland sandpiper

upland sandpiper (plural upland sandpipers)

Bartramia longicauda
Bartramia longicauda#Translingual

A small wader, Bartramia longicauda, breeding in North America and wintering in South America.


ring ouzel

Some birds seem to belong to all scenery alike; others love only the waste common land, the stream, or the sea-shore; while a third division, οἱ εκλετόι (the elect), are only to be found in one or two favoured counties in the whole of England. Of these last are the Ring-Ouzels.

1899 September, C. Trollope, “The Haunt of the Ring-Ouzel (Turdus torquatus)”, in The Zoologist^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Zoologist,_4th_series,_vol_3_(1899).djvu/433), volume 3, page 403f:

In recording my observations on the Ring-Ouzel (Turdus torquatus), I have no expectation of writing anything original. But I think it possible that personal notes on this interesting bird may be acceptable to those ornithologists who are less familiar with it than I am.

1900 January, W. Storrs Fox, “The Ring-Ouzel in Derbyshire.”, in The Zoologist^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Zoologist,_4th_series,_vol_4_(1900).djvu/25), volume 4, number 703, page 1f:

Turdus torquatus
Turdus torquatus#Translingual

Turdus torquatus, a European thrush, similar to the common blackbird, but with a ring of white feathers at its neck.


washugyu

Blend of Washington + wagyu, after the US state.

The austere appearance of Japanese Premium Beef’s first retail outlet belies the richness of what it purveys: beef called washugyu, a Black Angus/wagyu cross raised in Oregon.

2009 June 10, Florence Fabricant, “An Oregon Trail for Beef”, in New York Times:

Wagyu cattle crossbred with Black Angus to make them hardier.


whip snake

Any of the slender snakes of diverse genera and species:

species Suta dwyeri, found in Australia from New South Wales to South Queensland


cownose

Housed in the groups events tent, within the Zellers Discovery Zone, the dome-shaped state-of-the art facility features white-spotted bamboo and nurse sharks alongside cownose and southern stingrays.

2009 May 15, Jason Miller, “Stingrays get company”, in Toronto Star:

(chiefly attributive) Any of various eagle rays of the genus Rhinoptera.


common swift

Apus apus, a swallow-like bird native to Europe and much of temperate Asia, rarely alighting on the ground.


microraptor

A small, four-winged paravian dinosaur of the genus Microraptor.


European polecat

European polecat (plural European polecats)

Mustela putorius
Mustela putorius#Translingual

Mustela putorius, related to mink and weasels, native to Europe and parts of Asia, and from which certain of the animals called ferrets have been domesticated.


roundleaf bat

Any of the bats of the genus Hipposideros.


Clark's nutcracker

Clark's nutcracker (plural Clark's nutcrackers)

Nucifraga columbiana, a passerine bird in the family Corvidae, ashy-grey all over except for the black-and-white wings and central tail feathers.


tewit

The crest was a tewit's head and neck erased or.

1866, Edward Peacock, English Church Furniture, Ornaments and Decorations, page 226:

My father and uncle searched for a tewit's nest and brought home two eggs which were beaten with milk and sugar for me to eat raw.

Once in a while, Banks or Sophia would approach too close to a tewit's ground nest, and the birds would start to panic, twittering and flying nervously back and forth, defending their territory.

2008, Peter Robinson, All the Colours of Darkness, →ISBN, page 151:

Vanellus vanellus
Vanellus vanellus#Translingual

(Northern England, Scotland) A northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus.


Indian darter

From its usual range, including the Indian subcontinent.


American darter

American darter (plural American darters)

From its usual range, which includes the United States.

Anhinga anhinga
Anhinga anhinga#Translingual


American snakebird

American snakebird (plural American snakebirds)


bawty

Bourdna wi' bawty lest he bite ye.

Well, he's grown into such a nice bawty.

Some drunken idiot ran over my son's bawty.

He's like the wife's bawty—kens naething about it.

2008, Alexander Hislop, The proverbs of Scotland:


Oriental darter

Oriental darter (plural Oriental darters)

Anhinga melanogaster
Anhinga melanogaster#Translingual

(zoology) A bird (Anhinga melanogaster) of Southeast Asia


mountain chicken

mountain chicken (plural mountain chickens)

Compound of mountain + chicken. So called because it is a local delicacy, supposed to taste like chicken.

Leptodactylus fallax, a large edible frog native to Dominica and Montserrat.


whippomorph

(zoology) Any member of the suborder Whippomorpha, including hippopotamuses and cetaceans.


Baltimore oriole

Baltimore oriole (plural Baltimore orioles)

The male's colours resemble those of the coat of arms of Lord Baltimore.

Icterus galbula, a small New World blackbird.


greater adjutant

greater adjutant (plural greater adjutants)

A clarifying form of its earlier name adjutant

Leptoptilos dubius
Leptoptilos dubius#Translingual

A bird (Leptoptilos dubius) of the stork family native to India and Southeast Asia

Náátsʼózídę́ę́ʼ tsídiidaanézí bikʼoszis hólónígíí


black skimmer

Rynchops niger
Rynchops niger#Translingual

A bird (Rynchops niger) native to the Americas.


sarus crane

A crane (Antigone antigone) native to India, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.


little spiderhunter

little spiderhunter (plural little spiderhunters)

Arachnothera longirostra, a long-billed nectar-feeding bird in the Nectariniidae family, found in South and Southeast Asia.


akule

Residents of the island also told of a school of red akule fish that had been spotted in the waters off the island of Hawai‘i, which traditionally foretold the death of an ali‘i.

2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 122:

(Hawaii) The bigeye scad, Selar crumenophthalmus.


Martelli's wildcat

Martelli's wildcat (plural Martelli's wildcats)

First described by the naturalist Ugolino Martelli in 1906.

Felis lunensis, an extinct felid, the ancestor of the wildcat.


pale thrush

A thrush (Turdus pallidus), of eastern Asia.


snow monkey

Macaca fuscata
Macaca fuscata#Translingual


teuchit

There were the fields over which as a boy he had wandered to pluck the gowan or seek for teuchits’ nests ; there the long stretches of breezy heather, and the low- lying moss where he had helped to dig and wheel the peats[.]

1899, Gavin Greig, Logie O'Buchan: An Aberdeenshire Pastoral of Last Century, page 184:

He saw from the twigs on the ground that a gale had been blowing, and knew it would be the teuchit-storm on which the teuchit, or green plover, is blown home.

1951, Nancy Brysson Morrison, The hidden fairing: a novel, page 203:

The new century brought my seventieth birthday, on which Gillian gave me a watercolour of a lapwing, or teuchit, with her chick by local artist Keith Brockie.

2012, Robin Hull, Scottish Mammals, →ISBN:


blue-throated goldentail

blue-throated goldentail (plural blue-throated goldentails)

blue-throated sapphire
blue-throated sapphire#English


blue-throated sapphire

blue-throated sapphire (plural blue-throated sapphires)

Hylocharis eliciae, a hummingbird of South America with a metallic golden-green tail and blue-violet throat and a straight red black-tipped bill.


koolakamba

Based on indigenous words in the region of the Ovengi River of West Central Africa. Allegedly, kooloo mimics the creature's unique vocalization, and kamba is a Commi word meaning speak.

(obsolete) A purported hybrid species of chimpanzee and gorilla.


Okinawan habu

Protobothrops flavoviridis
Protobothrops flavoviridis#Translingual

Trimeresurus flavoviridis
Trimeresurus flavoviridis

Any member of either of two species of venomous pit viper found on the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.

Protobothrops flavoviridis (syn. Trimeresurus flavoviridis).


purrsuasive

en-adj

purrsuasive (comparative more purrsuasive, superlative most purrsuasive)

more purrsuasive (comparative)
most purrsuasive (superlative)

Cats have served as expert sales-creatures of everything from pet food to whiskey and tobacco. Be it in print or on television, they are undeniably purrsuasive.

(humorous, said of a cat) Alternative form of persuasive


cave salamander

en-noun

cave salamander (plural cave salamanders)

Europe's cave salamanders, scientists agree, must havve come form North America. But when, and by which route?

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 127:

Any of several species of salamander that inhabit caves, chiefly of the family Plethodontidae, but also including the olm, Proteus anguinus, often showing adaptations to living in such a lightless environment.

French cave salamander, or Spezia cave salamander

Tennessee cave salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus

Big Mouth Cave salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus necturoides


temple viper

Because of its abundance around the Temple of the Azure Clouds in Malaysia.

Tropidolaemus wagleri, a venomous pit viper native to Southeast Asia.


Botteri's sparrow

Botteri's sparrow (plural Botteri's sparrows)

Named after the ornithologist Matteo Botteri (1808–1877).

Peucaea botterii, a medium-sized sparrow found mainly in Mexico.


Eurasian eagle owl

Eurasian eagle owl (plural Eurasian eagle owls)

Bubo bubo, the largest owl, native to almost all of temperate Eurasia.


Blenheim

Battle of Blenheim
Höchstädt an der Donau

The house was named to commemorate the Allied victory at the 1704 Battle of Blindheim (near Höchstädt an der Donau in Bavaria). Other places are named after the house, often with an association to the Duchy of Marlborough.

West Oxfordshire
West Oxfordshire#English

A civil parish (without a council) west of Woodstock, West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire.

A small inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Schoharie County
Schoharie County#English

A small town in Schoharie County, New York.

A small town in Marlboro County, South Carolina.

Albemarle County
Albemarle County#English

An unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.


condylarth

From the (disused) order name Condylarthra, from Ancient Greek κόνδυλος (kóndulos, “knuckle”) + ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint”).

uder

In the 10 million years after the mass extinction, the first perissodactyls emerged from the confused wastebasket of animals called condylarths.

2018 March 7, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:

Any of a group of extinct placental mammals, early ungulates, known from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs.


nothrotheriid

Any extinct ground sloth of the family †Nothrotheriidae.


Chow Chow

First attested in 1886, but of uncertain origin (present Chinese terms for the breed do not resemble it). Possibly related to the old Chinese custom of eating dogs (cf. chow and chow-chow).


klipdachs

Borrowed from German Klippdachs, from Dutch klipdas.

But if he succeeds in seizing the klipdachs before it has time to leap away, he carries it to a rocky ledge, and slowly tears it to pieces.

1863, Georg Hartwig, The Tropical World: a Popular Scientific Account of the Natural History of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms in the Equatorial Regions, page 395:

He knew that in time the poor silly little klipdachs would grow careless, and, anxious for a game at play, would get too far from their homes to skip back before he could be down upon them.

1881, William Henry Giles Kingston, In the Wilds of Africa: A Tale for Boys, page 306:

The klipdachs (hierax) and the klipspringer (Oreotragus saltatrix) are the prevalent population, now however threatened with extinction.

1971, Karl Mauch, F. O. Bernhard, Karl Mauch: African Explorer, page 153:


rock rabbit

Most people are surprised when they read that the rock rabbit's nearest relative (apart from the similar tree dassie) is the elephant.

1972, James Clarke, John Pitts, Focus on fauna, page 31:

The Natal red rock rabbit is the largest of the rock rabbits in southern Africa.

1997, M. G. L. Mills, The complete book of Southern African mammals, page 117:

It was designated the cave of the three-toed rock rabbit, and it was a favourite place for the little creatures to seek refuge.

2009, Stephan Taylor, Finkelstein's Folder: Echoes from Judea, →ISBN, page 69:


kokama

I have heard that the Matabili have no name for this animal; but the Bechuana term is "Kokama."

1876, The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, page 289:

The Oryx capensis of South Africa, or Gemsbok of the Dutch colonists, Kokama of the Bechuanas, is even more striking in its coloring.

1888, John Sterling Kingsley, Mammals, page 326:

The Gemsbok (Oryx capensis) is sometimes called the kokama, is nearly four feet in height, and has South Africa as its habitat.


xenodontine

We characterized the skull morphology of 19 species of xenodontine snakes using geometric morphometric techniques, and used phylogenetic comparative methods to test the association between diet and skull morphology.

2016 February 18, “Are Diet Preferences Associated to Skulls Shape Diversification in Xenodontine Snakes?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Belonging to a group of colubrid snakes with unusual teeth.


xenodontine

(zoology) Any snake of the subfamily Xenodontinae


vlei rat

Any of various groove-toothed rats of the genus Otomys, found in sub-Saharan Africa.


Steller's sea cow

en-noun

Steller's sea cow (plural Steller's sea cows)

Named after the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller.

†Hydrodamalis gigas, an extinct herbivorous marine mammal related to the dugong.


konze

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Steller's jay

Cyanocitta stelleri, a jay native to western North America, related to the blue jay, but with a black head and upper body.


brachylophosaurin

The left dentary of MOR 2919 is larger than any other brachylophosaurin dentary (Table 1 ), and preserves the complete series of 43 tooth rows.

2015 November 12, “A New Brachylophosaurin Hadrosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) with an Intermediate Nasal Crest from the Campanian Judith River Formation of Northcentral Montana”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any hadrosaur of the tribe Brachylophosaurini.


doswellid

Any extinct archosauriform of the family †Doswelliidae


drepanosauromorph

The frequent plant leaves, small branches and cones (mainly belonging to conifers [20 ]), the spider Friularachne rigoi Dalla Vecchia and Selden 2013 [75 ], the drepanosauromorph Megalancosaurus preonensis, the protorosaurian Langobardisaurus pandolfii and a probable lepidosauromorph [76 ] were all allochthonous.

2015 November 12, “A Reappraisal of the Purported Gastric Pellet with Pterosaurian Bones from the Upper Triassic of Italy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any reptile of the extinct clade †Drepanosauromorpha.


Aidi

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


protorosaur

From scientific Latin Protorosaurus (genus name).

The large-sized protorosaur Tanystropheus had extremely elongated neck vertebrae and a neck more than two times the length of its trunk.

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 76:

On the other side, there are about 28 chevrons in the long tail of the protorosaur Tanystropheus at least half of which are similar to element i (see [33 ]: Plate 1, Figure 37).

(paleontology) An extinct archosauromorph reptile of the order Protorosauria.


ailurophilic

en-adj

ailurophilic (comparative more ailurophilic, superlative most ailurophilic)

more ailurophilic (comparative)
most ailurophilic (superlative)

/ˌaɪljʊəɹəˈfɪlɪk/

/aɪˌlʊɹəˈfɪlɪk/

/eɪˌlʊɹəˈfɪlɪk/

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

Of or relating to ailurophilia or ailurophiles.


greater prairie chicken

en-noun

greater prairie chicken (plural greater prairie chickens)

Tympanuchus cupido
Tympanuchus cupido#Translingual

Tympanuchus cupido, a large bird in the grouse family native to North America.


Swainson's hawk

Swainson's hawk (plural Swainson's hawks)

Named after William Swainson, a British naturalist.

Buteo swainsoni
Buteo swainsoni#Translingual


black toad

Anaxyrus exsul, a black-skinned toad with white and tan speckles, found only in parts of Inyo County, California, United States.


cofferfish

cofferfish (plural cofferfishes or cofferfish)

cofferfishes (plural)
cofferfish (plural)


lilac point

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


chocolate point

chocolate point (plural chocolate points)

A colourpoint cat with dark brown markings.


hesperornithiform

Flight loss among marine divers started in the Cretaceous, among the hesperornithiforms and perhaps separately in the baptornithids.

2002, Gregory S. Paul, Dinosaurs of the Air, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 151:

This study presents a new taxon of hesperornithiform from the Smoky Hill Member, Fumicollis hoffmani, the holotype of which is among the more complete hesperornithiform skeletons.

2015 November 19, “Identification of a New Hesperornithiform from the Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk and Implications for Ecologic Diversity among Early Diving Birds”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Comprehensive studies of hesperornithiforms show how some of these birds independently evolved large sizes (at least twice) during their long evolutionary history.

2016, Luis M. Chiappe, Meng Qingjin, Birds of Stone, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 238:

Any of the clade †Hesperornithes of extinct toothed birds.


prismatoolithid

Elongatoolithid and prismatoolithid ootaxa are attributed to Oviraptorosauria [57 ,59 –64 ] and non-oviraptorosaur maniraptorans [46 ,65 ], respectively, based on eggshell microstructure similarities with eggs of known taxonomic identity.

2015 November 26, “Eggshell Porosity Provides Insight on Evolution of Nesting in Dinosaurs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any fossil egg of the oofamily Prismatoolithidae.


Bankhar

Borrowed from Mongolian банхар (banxar).

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


winner's circle

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


northern cardinal

northern cardinal (plural northern cardinals)

Cardinalis cardinalis, a North American songbird with a distinctive crest on the head and a mask on the face. The male is a vibrant red, while the female is a dull reddish olive.


side-blotched lizard

side-blotched lizard (plural side-blotched lizards)


largie

The fisheries biologist also says other species seen during their surveys besides fat largies include bluegill, black crappie, redear sunfish, pumpkinseed, brown bullhead and channel catfish.

2008, Virginia Wildlife - Volume 69, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 122:

You'll want to use spinnerbaits to catch the largies, or toss topwater plugs working gaps in the vegetation.

2013, Sportsman's Connection, West-Central Michigan Fishing Map Guide, →ISBN, page 76:

Thick vegetation, lily pads, weed beds and any sort of cover is a typical summer home for a largie.

2015 October 2, “Take advantage of fall fishing opportunities”, in The Kingston Whig-Standard:


bush warbler

Any of various small insectivorous songbirds belonging to the genera Cettia and Bradypterus.


grolar

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

blend

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

2018 April 22, Oliver Milman, The Guardian:

A hybrid cross between a polar bear and a grizzly.


Japanese bush warbler

en-noun

Japanese bush warbler (plural Japanese bush warblers)


plum pudding dog

plum pudding dog (plural plum pudding dogs)


discoglossidean

(zoology) Any of the family Discoglossidae of primitive frogs.


embolomere

(zoology) Any member of the Embolomeri, a suborder in the clade Reptiliomorpha, consisting of long aquatic fish-eating creatures.


anthracosaur

A member of the extinct genus Anthracosaurus of embolomeres.


archaeobatrachian

We selected 12 genes for 144 neobatrachian genera and four archaeobatrachian outgroups and performed a phylogenetic analysis using a maximum likelihood algorithm with the rapid bootstrap test.

2015 December 1, “The Gondwana Breakup and the History of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans Unveils Two New Clades for Early Neobatrachian Diversification”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any primitive frog or toad of the suborder Archaeobatrachia.


neobatrachian

Any frog or toad of the suborder Neobatrachia.


amokura

The amokura (Phaethon rubicauda), the red-tailed tropic bird, known in New Zealand as tawake or amokura, in Hawaii as koa'e'ula, tava'e'ula in Samoa, tavakemoerangi in Rarotonga, […]

1981, Richard Anthony Benton, The Flight of the Amokura: Oceanic Languages and Formal Education in the South Pacific:

red-tailed tropicbird
red-tailed tropicbird#English


red-tailed tropicbird

red-tailed tropicbird (plural red-tailed tropicbirds)

Among other birds, the green parakeets were found in abundance, also the red-tailed tropic-bird, which nests in the pumice tufts.

1932, Chamber's Journal, volume 1, page 198:

Phaethon rubricauda
Phaethon rubricauda#Translingual

A species of tropicbird native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Phaethon rubricauda.


macromammal

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

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


gallopheasant

Any of the pheasants in the genus Lophura of the family Phasianidae.


plateosaur

A plateosaurid dinosaur of the genus Plateosaurus that lived during the Late Triassic period.


leaf monkey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


earthcreeper

Any of several South American birds of species in the family Furnariidae.


baldchin groper

baldchin groper (plural baldchin gropers)

From bald + chin + groper, because it looks like a baldhead from below.

A type of wrasse, Choerodon rubescens, endemic to the waters of Western Australia.


muttonfish

muttonfish (plural muttonfish or muttonfishes)

muttonfish (plural)
muttonfishes (plural)

(chiefly US) Any of several Atlantic and Caribbean fishes which are said to taste of mutton, especially a mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis), an ocean pout (Macrozoarces americanus), or an Irish pompano (Diapterus auratus).


sakabula

A long-tailed widow bird (Euplectes progne), native to southern Africa


whio

The blue duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) of New Zealand.


rosybill

Netta peposaca
Netta peposaca#Translingual

The rosy-billed pochard, Netta peposaca.


antpecker

Any of the genus Parmoptila of tropical songbirds of Africa.


ctenotus

From the genus name, translingual Ctenotus.


Myanmar snub-nosed monkey

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

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


dogote

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

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

A hybrid between a male dog and a female coyote.


Florida scrub jay

Florida scrub jay (plural Florida scrub jays)

Aphelocoma coerulescens, native to central Florida.


black goby

black goby (plural black gobies or black goby)

black gobies (plural)
black goby (plural)

The Black Goby seldom exceeds the length of five or six inches; it is of the voracious kind, preying on smaller fishes and aquatic insects.

1808, Edward Donovan, The Natural History of British Fishes, volume 5:

Any of the species Gobius niger of ray-finned fishes, found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean and Black Seas.


chaoyangsaurid

Any dinosaur of the family Chaoyangsauridae


pachycephalosaurian

Any dinosaur of the suborder Pachycephalosauria.


Waigieu seaperch

Waigieu seaperch (plural Waigieu seaperch)

Psammoperca waigiensis, a latid marine fish, native to tropical coastal waters.


greenwing

Anas carolinensis
Anas carolinensis#Translingual

A common and widespread duck in North America, Anas carolinensis or Anas crecca carolinensis


breechen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Asiatic golden cat

Asiatic golden cat (plural Asiatic golden cats)

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

1958, The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work:

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