lurcher

From lurch + -er. See lurch (“to lurk, lie in wait”).

(obsolete) One who lurks or lies in wait; one who watches in order to rob or betray; a poacher.

“Since we are both obsessed with our dogs” — Ms. Muir has a whippet; Ms. Osborne, a lurcher — “we thought we’d try pets,” she said.

2009 February 5, Penelope Green, “New Book Offers Knitted Projects for Pets”, in New York Times:

A type of crossbreed dog ― a cross between a sighthound and any other breed or the offspring of such crosses.

A large nymphalid butterfly, Yoma sabina, of Australia and Asia.


lurcher

From Latin lurco, lurcho (“a glutton”). See lurch.

Is not loue a lurcher, that taketh mens stomacks away that they cannot eate, their Spleen that they cannot laugh


elopomorph

(ichthyology) Any of fish of the superorder Elopomorpha, including bonefish, tarpon, and many eels and eel-like fish.


dipnoan

(zoology) Any fish of the subclass Dipnoi, the lungfish, (including the closest living relatives to the ancestor of the tetrapods).


dyrosaurid

(zoology) Any of several extinct crocodyliforms of the family †Dyrosauridae


snakeskin

Sort of dago fellow; leads the orchestra down at the Winter Gardens ... You know the sort, all lah-di-dah and snakeskin shoes.

1932, Dorothy L Sayers, chapter 10, in Have His Carcase:


toothfish

en-noun

toothfish (plural toothfishes or toothfish)

Either of the two fish species of the genus Dissostichus.


greylag

From grey (“colour”) + lag (“old name for a goose, derived from the call used to move such animals along”).

Since the war, migrant greylags have virtually deserted the Duddon estuary, so it is a source of great satisfaction that the WAGBI greylags have taken to roosting on the sands in mid-winter, flighting to and from the reserve.

1967, Jeffery G. Harrison, A Wealth of Wildfowl, page 150:

Greylags used to concentrate on British estuaries, eating roots of rushes and sedges, as they do in other parts of their range.

2010, M. Owen, “Greylag Goose”, in Peter Lack, editor, The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland, page 74:

Earlier, 250 more had flown to Rattray beach, nearly all pinkfeet although I saw four greylags and heard others.

2012, Adam Watson, Ian Francis, Birds in North-East Scotland Then and Now, page 11:

A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak.


guereza

From the native name in Ethiopia. Compare Sebat Bet Gurage gureza, Amharic ጉሬዛ (gureza), Oromo gureezaa.

(zoology) A reddish-brown colobus monkey from Abyssinia.


hit-out

(Australia, horse racing) A fast gallop.


woodhoopoe

Any of five birds of the genus Phoeniculus, in the family Phoeniculidae, from sub-Saharan Africa.


mollymawk

Said to be from Dutch mallemok (“foolish gull”), from malle (“foolish”).

black-browed mollymawk (Thalassarche melanophris

Any of the similar, related sooty albatrosses (Phoebetria spp.).


scimitarbill

Any bird of three species of genus Rhinopomastus, in the family Phoeniculidae, from sub-Saharan Africa


wagyu

wagyu (countable and uncountable, plural wagyus or wagyu)

From Japanese 和(わ)牛(ぎゅう) (wagyū), from Middle Chinese 和 (MC hwa, “a gloss for 倭 (MC 'wa, “Japan”)”) + 牛 (MC ngjuw, “cow”).

ltc-l

Slices of wagyu beef come with spheres of root vegetables and mini-towers of polenta.

2009 January 19, Corey Mintz, “Susur and the City”, in Toronto Star:

(countable) Any of several Japanese breeds of cattle genetically predisposed to intense marbling and to producing a high percentage of oleaginous unsaturated fat.


yuhina

Any of several birds of the genus Yuhina: the Old World babblers.


sittella

From New Latin (genus name), diminutive of Latin sitta (“nuthatch”).

A small passerine bird of the family Neosittidae, found in Australasia.


currawong

Probably from Yagara garrawaŋ, ultimately onomatopoeic.

Currawongs and cookaburras woke him early.

1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 68:

She has small unblinking eyes like a currawong, turning its head on one side and staring malevolently […].

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 174:

Any of the three species, and several subspecies, of large, mainly black, predatory passerine birds in the genus Strepera, of the family Artamidae, endemic to Australia.


goatsucker

From goat + sucker, from the ancient folk belief that they sucked milk from goats.

[…] ah, that was the woodcock - and the goatsucker - yes, yes! it sounds strange to him, that hasn't heard him […]

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 286:

Any bird in the nightjar family Caprimulgidae.


adzebill

Either of two bird species of the extinct family †Aptornithidae, once endemic to New Zealand.


sheathbill

Either of two species of scavenging birds in the family Chionididae which breed only on the Antarctic Peninsula and subantarctic islands.


oxpecker

Either of two species of passerine bird in the genus Buphagus, in the monotypic family Buphagidae, endemic to sub-Saharan African savannah.


bristlebird

The bristlebirds have suffered from habitat loss, increased fire frequency, grazing by introduced mammals, and predation by mammalian carnivores.

2002, Bernhard Grzimek, Michael Hutchins, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, volume 11, page 57:

A pilot captive-breeding program at the David Fleay Wildlife Park (DERM) on the Gold Coast has successfully bred Eastern Bristlebirds, with 13 birds raised over four years.

2012, Lee K. Curtis, Andrew J. Dennis, Keith R. McDonald, Peter M. Kyne, Stephen J. S. Debus, editors, Queensland's Threatened Animals, page 315:

The Eastern Bristlebird (Dasyornis brachypterus) (Fig. 7.28) is an endangered species that has disappeared from large parts of its range in heathland environments throughout eastern Australia. A significant population of the Eastern Bristlebird remains at Booderee National Park and has received considerable study (Pyke et al. 1995; Baker 1997, 2000).

2014, David KeithDavid Lindenmayeret al., “7: Heathlands”, in Emma Burns, David Lindenmayer, Andrew Lowe, Nicole Thurgate, editors, Biodiversity and Environmental Change: Monitoring, Challenges and Direction, page 244:

Any of three species of passerine birds in the genus Dasyornis endemic to Australia.


madtsoiid

(zoology) Any of several extinct snakes of the family Madtsoiidae


crocodylomorph

(zoology) Any crocodilian or extinct relative in the superorder Crocodylomorpha.


mangabey

So called by Buffon from Mangaby, in Madagascar, where he erroneously supposed them to be native.

Any of several large, arboreal monkeys in the genera Cercocebus, Lophocebus and Rungwecebus of the family Cercopithecidae.


mesoeucrocodylian

The new species possesses a combination of primitive and derived features that helps to fill wide morphological and temporal gaps in early mesoeucrocodylian history.

2002 September 20, Ronald S. Tykoski, “Calsoyasuchus valliceps, a new crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 22, number 3, page 593:

For mesoeucrocodylians known on the basis of incomplete skeletal remains, body size is generally estimated from skull length-total length relationships in extant crocodylians (Webb and Messel, 1978; Woodward el al., 1995; Sereno et al., 2001).

2005 June 20, James O. Farlow, “Femoral dimenstions and body size of Alligator mississippiensis: Estimating the size of extinct mesoeucrocodylians”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, number 2, page 354:

The mesoeucrocodylians were known previously as the Mesosuchia.

2015, Gordon Grigg, Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians, page 43:

(zoology) Any of a group of mostly extinct crocodylomorphs of the clade Mesoeucrocodylia.


tiddler

(British, informal) A small fish, especially a stickleback.


rock-jumper

Either of two bird species in the passerine family Chaetopidae, endemic to southern Africa.


rockfowl

Either of two bird species of genus Picathartes in the passerine family Picathartidae endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.


wattlebird

In Hobart Town it is frequently exposed for sale in the markets with Bronzewing Pigeons and Wattlebirds, where it is known by the name of Ground-Dove, an appellation which has doubtless been given both from its habit of running and feeding upon the ground like the Pigeons […]

1865, John Gould, Handbook to The Birds of Australia, volume 1, page 434:

Outside in the evening a wattlebird wrenches pieces from the brush tree at the end of the veranda.

2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 285:

Any of a group of Australian birds in the genus Anthochaera of the honeyeater family Meliphagidae.

Any of three birds in the family Callaeidae, endemic to New Zealand.


moloch

From Hebrew מולך (molokh, “Ammonite god, worshipped by Canaanites and Phoenicians, who demanded child-sacrifice. Mentioned in Leviticus and Deuteronomy”).

bor

Any of species Moloch horridus of Australian lizards, sole species of the genus Moloch.


steelhead

en-noun

steelhead (plural steelheads or steelhead)


akiapolaau

A Hawaiian honeycreeper, Hemignathus munroi


manakin

Generally thought to derive, like manikin, from Middle Dutch mannekijn. Compare French manakin, German Manakin. Doublet of manikin and mannequin.

Any of several small South American passerine birds of the family Pipridae.


bufotenine

From French bufoténine, from Latin bufo (“toad”) + ten- (uncertain element) + -ine.

In the late 1950s Howard Fabing, a medical doctor, obtained permission to inject bufotenine intravenously into a number of inmates at the Ohio State Penitentiary.

1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 115:

(organic chemistry) An alkaloid, found in the skins of some toads, related to serotonin.


flappet

An African lark, Mirafra rufocinnamomea.


milkfish

milkfish (countable and uncountable, plural milkfishes or milkfish)

Its fare is a mix of fast-food staples like burgers and Chickenjoy, along with more regional dishes like smoked bangus, or milkfish — a national symbol of the Philippines — served with vinegar and pepper.

2009 February 15, Mark Foggin, “Fast Food for the Filipino Soul”, in New York Times:

The Taiwanese milkfish industry has faced troubles in recent years, and in 2011 a state-owned PRC firm placed an order for the fish from the town of Syuejia (Xuejia) in Tainan County.

2016, Scott L. Kastner, Margaret M. Pearson, “Winning Hearts and Minds? On the Sources and Efficacy of Economic Engagement Policies in US-China and China-Taiwan Relations”, in Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M Ripsman, editors, The Political Economy of Regional Peacemaking, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 159–160:

Chanos chanos
Chanos chanos#Translingual

Chanos chanos, an important food fish in southeast Asia.


monodon

(zoology) Any toothed whale (such as the narwhal) of the family Monodontidae.


unplaced

The Listed John Dillon Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Australia Day is an option for Rok Posta, who has only been unplaced four times in his 20 starts.

2009 January 18, Adrian Dunn, “Girls combine to Posta win at Flemington”, in Herald Sun:

(horse racing) Not among the first three horses to finish a race.


tautog

Borrowed from Narragansett tautauog, plural of taut.

The fish he found were nothing unusual: cunner and tautog, small fish generally found around pilings or rocky shores, and one weakfish.

2007 August 22, Ellen Barry, James Estrin, “Like Ducks and Penguins, With Nervous Stomachs”, in New York Times:

A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina (Tautoga onitis).


oviraptoran

Any of several birdlike dinosaurs of the family †Oviraptoridae.


paleognath

(zoology) Any bird of the infraclass Paleognathae.


brush-turkey

Any of several species of large birds, found in Australia and New Guinea, in the megapode (turkey-like) family Megapodiidae.


spurfowl

Any of three species of bird in the genus Galloperdix, of south Asia, and of the numerous species of Pternistis, of Africa, of the pheasant family Phasianidae.


snowcock

Any of several species of bird in the genus Tetraogallus of the pheasant family Phasianidae, native to central Asia.


fireback

The only condition of the loan is that if the Daughters of the American Revolution are ever disbanded, that the fireback is to be returned to the descendants of General Lincoln.

1903, Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, volume 22 (Jan.-June 1903), National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution., page 84:

Many of the later style fireplaces, most especially of the better class, showed firebacks. These were of iron, and were designed to keep the back of the fireplace from cracking. ... In the Pickering house on Broad Street, Salem, is a quaint fireback which was made in the first iron foundry at Saugus, now Lynn.

1912, Mary Harrod Northend, Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings, Little, Brown, and Company, page 72:

`That shirt is for the fireback,' she told him.'

2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 303:

A piece of iron that fits into the back of a fireplace to distribute the heat and keep the brick from cracking.


curassow

Any of several species of bird in the genera Nothocrax, Mitu, Pauxi, and Crax of the Cracidae family, limited to the Americas.


pythonid

(zoology) Any of the family Pythonidae of non-venomous snakes, distinguished from the boids by teeth on the premaxilla.


monal

Any of three species of pheasant in the genus Lophophorus.


openbill

Either of two species of bird in the genus Anastomus of the stork family Ciconiidae, with a distinctive gap between the mandibles of the closed bill.


cetomimid

(zoology) Any whalefish of the family Cetomimidae.


lamper

One who takes part in lamping, or hunting with bright lights.


fishapod

A blend of fish + tetrapod, Coined by American paleontologist Neil Shubin circa 2006. Analyzable as fish + -a- + -pod

coined

In these conditions, ‘fishapods’, able to do push-ups on proto-limbs to gulp fresh air from just above its river habitat, would have had an edge over those relying only on gills to extract meagre oxygen from the murky water.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 12:

(informal, paleontology) Any of several extinct creatures of the subclass Tetrapodomorpha having features both of fish and tetrapods, especially Tiktaalik.


megalomycterid

Any of several largenose fish of the family Megalomycteridae which were shown in 2009 to be males of whalefish in the family Cetomimidae.

mirapinnid

the larval forms, also once thought to be a separate family


false trevally

en-noun

false trevally (plural false trevallies)

A fish of the species Lactarius lactarius.


jabiru

/ˈd͡ʒæbɪ.ɹuː/

From a Tupian term such as Old Tupi îabyru, said to mean either "swollen neck" or "one that spits".

Jabiru mycteria
Jabiru mycteria#Translingual

A species of bird Jabiru mycteria in the monotypic genus Jabiru, of the stork family Ciconiidae, endemic to the Americas.

He's a jabiru - the only Australian stork.

1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 83:

Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus
Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus#Translingual

(Australia) The black-necked stork, Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus.


mirapinnid

(zoology) Any of several genera of deep-sea fish of the family Mirapinnidae, now known to be the larval forms of whalefish in the family Cetomimidae.

megalomycterid

the male forms, also once thought to be a separate family


huia

A wattlebird (†Heteralocha acutirostris), endemic to New Zealand's North Island but extinct since the early twentieth century.


maguari

Ciconia maguari
Ciconia maguari#Translingual


magnolia warbler

magnolia warbler (plural magnolia warblers)

American ornithologist Alexander Wilson found this species in magnolias near Fort Adams, Mississippi.

A warbler most commonly found in North America, of species Setophaga magnolia.


over easy

(US) Of an egg prepared as food, fried on one side until most of the whites have cooked, then lightly fried on the other to finish cooking the whites, leaving the yolk unbroken and slightly soft (runny).


grasser

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This grasser had to be pushing 45-50 lb.

2003 June 30, David Lee, “Flathead Frenzy”, in alt.fishing.catfish (Usenet):

Obviously if you see a grasser eat something–a bee, wasp, or mayfly–go that way fast!

2021, Drew Ross, “Pro Tips: How to Catch Grass Carp on the Fly”, in Orvis.com, archived from the original on 2021-06-14:

2021, TexasRoughFishing, “Just a grasser! Caught on bread from a park pond in Windsor, Colorado.”, in Reddit.com, archived from the original on 2021-11-04

(recreational fishing) A grass carp; a white amur.


dinoceratan

Any of various extinct mammals, of the order †Dinocerata, somewhat similar to the rhinoceros.


diapsid

clipping

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

(zoology) Any of very many reptiles, of the subclass Diapsida, that have a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye


maguari stork

A stork of species Ciconia maguari, found in South America.


shikra

Accipiter badius
Accipiter badius#Translingual


Père David's deer

en-noun

Père David's deer (plural Père David's deers or Père David's deer)

Père David's deers (plural)
Père David's deer (plural)

After Father Armand David (1826–1900), Catholic priest, zoologist and botanist.

Elaphurus davidianus, a species of deer known only in captivity, which prefers marshland and is believed to be native to the subtropics of China.


sunbittern

Eurypyga helias
Eurypyga helias#Translingual

Any member of species Eurypyga helias of birds found in the New World tropics, the sole member of the family Eurypygidae.


seriema

From New Latin cariama (17th century), and (later directly) its source, Portuguese seriema (also rare form çariama), from Old Tupi sariama (“crested (bird)”), from saria (“crest”).

Either of two species of bird in the family Cariamidae, endemic to South America.


florican

The are two reasons to believe the figure of 362 might be an underestimate: first, not all floricans were seen on each vidi and, second, male floricans were found in other habitats, including cultivated land.

1983, Bustard Studies: Journal of the ICBP Bustard Group, numbers 1-5, page 188:

The park is also home to nearly 400 bird species, three of which - the Bengal florican, the lesser florican and the sarus crane - are endangered.

Each state is taking its own course of action to conserve bustards and floricans without knowing what the other states are doing. There is no cooperation among the states, even though bustards and floricans move from one state to another.

2003, J. C. Daniel, Petronia: Fifty Years of Post-independence Ornithology in India: A Centenary Dedication to Dr. Sálim Ali, 1896-1996, page 251:

Houbaropsis bengalensis
Houbaropsis bengalensis#Translingual

Sypheotides indicus
Sypheotides indicus#Translingual

Either of two species in the bustard family Otididae, Houbaropsis bengalensis or Sypheotides indicus.


mesite

From French mésite (“mesite”), named by the zoologist Isidore Geoffroy in 1838. Perhaps from Ancient Greek μεσίτης (mesítēs, “mediator”), for these birds are of medium size.

Any of three species of bird in the family Mesitornithidae endemic to Madagascar.


flufftail

Any of nine species of bird in the genus Sarothrura of the family Sarothruridae, endemic to Africa.


korhaan

They are hunting the fabled paauw. However, since paauw are sighted only once or twice a year - so rare are they, indeed, that there is a fine of fifty pounds for shooting them, if you are caught — they settle for hunting korhaan.

1997, J. M. Coetzee, Scenes from Provincial Life, published 2011, page 75:

If it is assumed that delayed dispersal is the norm amongst korhaans then the karoo korhaan has a lower fecundity than the other members of the species complex. This suggests that the karoo sensu lato is a less favourable environment for korhaans than is either the desert, savannah, or grassland.

1999, C. J. Vernon, “5: Biogeography, endemism and diversity of animals in the karoo”, in William Richard John Dean, Suzanne Milton, editors, The Karoo: Ecological Patterns and Processes, page 70:

Korhaans, like this red-crested korhaan (above, MU), generally rely on their camouflage to avoid danger. But breeding males, like this northern black korhaan (right, PP) give themselves away with raucous and conspicuous displays.

2011, Mike Unwin, photograh caption, Southern African Wildlife, page 140:

Any of several large, terrestrial birds in the bustard family Otididae.


dryolestid

A dog-sized dryolestid, Peligrotherium, the ‘lazy beast’, is known from the early Paleocene of Patagonia, while another, Necrolestes, the ‘grave-robber’, is from the same part of the world, but much later, in the Miocene.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 102:

(zoology) Any of a group of extinct mammals of the order †Dryolestida.


pantodont

(zoology) Any of many extinct mammals of the suborder Pantodonta


pantolest

(zoology) Any of several extinct mammals of the suborder †Pantolesta


black mamba

Dendroaspis polylepis
Dendroaspis polylepis#Translingual

A large venomous snake found in Africa, taxonomic name Dendroaspis polylepis. Despite the name, this species of snake is not black; its colour ranges widely from olive-brown, khaki or grey, sometimes to darker hues, especially when old. The inside of the mouth is black, but in spite of a recent urban legend there is no indication that that has anything to do with the name "black mamba", which is a much older usage than any such suggestion.


red knot

red knot (countable and uncountable, plural red knots)

Calidris canutus
Calidris canutus#Translingual

Calidris canutus, a species of wading bird.


pleurodire

(zoology) Any of a group of side-necked turtles of the suborder Pleurodira


podocnemidid

(zoology) Any of a group of side-necked turtles of the family Podocnemididae


astrochimp

1960, from astro- + chimp, following astronaut. Referring to initial space flight tests involving animals.

Ham the astrochimp is the first earthly creature to do intelligent tasks in space. He and the other astrochimps prepared for this accomplishment at machines like the one at right where they learned to push levers correctly in response to flashing lights.

1961 February 10, “Great Triple Play”, in Life, volume 50, number 6, page 22:

The real hero of the early American space programme was Ham the "astrochimp", who went up before any of the first American Mercury astronauts (India plans £1.7bn manned space mission by 2015, 24 February; Letters, passim).

2009 February 25, “Letters: Ham the 'astrochimp', the real hero of the space race”, in The Guardian:

(informal) A chimpanzee used in a spaceflight program.


king cobra

Ophiophagus hannah
Ophiophagus hannah#Translingual

A large venomous snake found in East Asia (Ophiophagus hannah), the longest venomous snake in the world.


synapsid

en-adj

synapsid (comparative more synapsid, superlative most synapsid)

more synapsid (comparative)
most synapsid (superlative)

From translingual Synapsida, from syn- + Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch”).

We are synapsid tetrapods, a group of reptiles that almost went extinct 200 million years ago in competition with the better-designed dinosaurs.

1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 26:

Pertaining to the class Synapsida, of animals which have an opening low in the skull roof behind each eye, leaving a bony arch beneath each.


sirenian

/sʌɪˈɹiːnɪən/

From the scientific name, translingual Sirenia.

The cetaceans (whales and dolphins) together with the sirenians (sea cows and manatees) are the sea mammals best-adapted to the seas of today, but it is the cetaceans that have most engaged the attention of mankind as both prey and fellow sentient being.

2011 September 22, Richard Shelton, “Sheep, pig, whale”, in Times Literary Supplement:

(zoology) Any of a group of aquatic, herbivorous mammals of the order Sirenia, a manatee or a dugong.


taeniodont

From Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía, “band, ribbon”) + -odont.

der

(zoology) Any of a group of extinct mammals of the suborder Taeniodonta


whiteface

en-noun

whiteface (countable and uncountable, plural whitefaces)

(countable) Any bird of the genus Aphelocephala.


cottontop

An arboreal, diurnal New World tamarin Saguinus oedipus


moon bear

From moon + bear, so named for the crescent shaped blaze upon its breast.

Ursus thibetanus
Ursus thibetanus#Translingual


frogfish

frogfish (plural frogfishes or frogfish)

Any of several benthic anglerfish, of the family Antennariidae, having a frog-like mouth with a lure.

2016 October 22, Frogfish turns ghostly white to match a bleached coral, New Scientist, Issue 3096, page 15,
Warty frogfish are sedentary seafloor dwellers that can change colour over a few weeks. […] Since the warm waters off the Maldives abound in vibrantly coloured corals, the frogfish there typically sport matching orange or pinkish hues, says Gabriel Grimsditch of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Maldives in Malé.

Any of the benthic ray-finned fish of the family Batrachoididae (the sole family of order Batrachoidiformes), which are ambush predators and have a toad-like appearance.


billard

(obsolete) A coalfish, especially a young one.


maiasaur

Any of the species of herbivorous duck-billed dinosaurs in the genus Maiasaura.


gaspereau

gaspereau (plural gaspereaus or gaspereaux)

From French gaspereau, a variant of gaspareau.

(Canada, dated) An alewife (type of fish).


antiarch

(zoology) Any of a group of extinct placoderms of the order Antiarchi


arthrodiran

(zoology) Any of a group of extinct fish of the order Arthrodira.


carcharhiniform

(zoology) Any ground shark of the order Carcharhiniformes.


elasmobranch

Any of many cartilaginous fish of the subclass Elasmobranchii.


shire horse

A draught horse of a tall British breed, usually bay, black, or grey.


passeriform

From Latin passer (“sparrow”), + -iform.


fish eagle

Any of several species of birds of prey that feed on fish in the genus Haliaeetus (syn. Ichthyophaga).


eggless

You can vary eggless ice cream with flavors of your choice.

2007 August 1, Mark Bittman, “From Eggless Custard, Summer’s Iced Treat”, in New York Times:


holocephalan

(zoology) Any cartilaginous fish of the subclass Holocephali; a chimera.


makomako

makomako (countable and uncountable, plural makomakos)

A tree endemic to New Zealand, taxonomic name Aristotelia serrata.


placegetter

2008, Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses, 2009 Large 24pt Edition, Read How You Want, page 96,
I was utterly unprepared for the reception I received when I trotted up towards the stall reserved for the second placegetter, in the Saddling Enclosure.

Last year's Caulfield Cup placegetter is rated a $6 chance and will be ridden by champion Irish jockey Michael Kinane.

2009 February 13, Tim Habel, “Time to put best foot forward”, in Herald Sun:

Essentially, punters who played the placecards — usually in a local pub — had to pick a placegetter in each of the four feature races on a Saturday. So, if it was races five, seven and eight, you had to correctly select just one of the three placegetters in each race to win.

2011, Nichola Garvey, Beating the Odds, unnumbered page:

(horse racing, Australia, New Zealand) A horse that finishes among the first three of a race, or in a specified place.


whaleburger

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...today when "whaleburger steak" was served at a luncheon of the Institute of Refrigeration. It was part of an experimental consignment of ten tons...

1945, American Polar Society, The Polar Times:

The meat alone was enough to make 800000 "whaleburger" sandwiches. The men also took vitamin oil from the whale's liver.

1963, Paul Andrew Witty, How to Improve Your Reading:

...a blubber-packed whaleburger on a sesame seed bun instead of a flame-broiled burger. Sound unhealthy? Maybe not.

1999, Gale Maleskey, James McCommons, Nature's Medicines:


woodhen

From Middle English wodhen, from Old English wuduhenn (“woodhen, quail”), equivalent to wood + hen.

The story of the woodhen is one outstanding conservation triumph in a plethora of tragedy.

2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 233:

Gallirallus sylvestris
Gallirallus sylvestris#Translingual

Any of the species Hypotaenidia sylvestris (syns. Gallirallus sylvestris, Tricholimnas sylvestris, Ocydromus sylvestris) of rails in the family Rallidae endemic to Lord Howe Island, Australia.


bush-hen

Some species of bird in the genus Amaurornis in the family Rallidae.


mako

Borrowed from Maori makō (“shark”), a Southern Maori dialect form of the more standard mangō (“shark”).


watercock

Gallicrex cinerea
Gallicrex cinerea#Translingual

Gallicrex cinerea, a species of bird in the monotypic genus Gallicrex of the family Rallidae. It is a large rail found in wetland habitats in Asia.


waterhen

From water + hen. Compare Saterland Frisian Woaterhanne, German Low German Waterhenne. Compare also Dutch waterhoen, German Wasserhuhn.

A species of bird in the genus Amaurornis of the family Rallidae.


swamphen

Any of several species of bird in the genus Porphyrio of the family Rallidae.


gallinule

From French gallinule, from Latin gallinula.

A bird of one of several species in the genera Porphyrio and Gallinula of the family Rallidae.


phyllolepid

(zoology) Any extinct placoderm of the order †Phyllolepida.


finfoot

Three species in three monospecific genera of aquatic bird in the family Heliornithidae.


ibisbill

Ibidorhyncha struthersii
Ibidorhyncha struthersii#Translingual

Ibidorhyncha struthersii, a species of wading bird in the monotypic family Ibidorhynchidae, inhabiting the shingle riverbanks of the high plateau of Central Asia and the Himalayas.


sungrebe

Heliornis fulica
Heliornis fulica#Translingual

A species of aquatic bird, Heliornis fulica, in a monotypic genus of the family Heliornithidae, found in Central and South America.


wrybill

Anarhynchus frontalis
Anarhynchus frontalis#Translingual

Anarhynchus frontalis, a species of small bird in the plover family Charadriidae, unique in having a beak that is bent sideways, endemic to New Zealand.


thick-knee

Any of several species of large terrestrial birds in the stone-curlew family Burhinidae.

paksujalka

bird in the stone-curlew family Burhinidae


buttonquail

Any of several species of small terrestrial birds, principally in the genus Turnix of the family Turnicidae.


Carolina wren

A common species of wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) found throughout the eastern United States and nearby areas. It is the state bird of South Carolina.


flickertail

Nickname for the North American ground squirrel, Citellus richardsoni.


wirebird

Charadrius sanctaehelenae
Charadrius sanctaehelenae#Translingual

The St Helena plover, Charadrius sanctaehelenae, endemic to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, and the national bird of the island.


seedsnipe

Any of four species of herbivorous wading birds in the family Thinocoridae, endemic to South America.


plains-wanderer

Pedionomus torquatus
Pedionomus torquatus#Translingual

Pedionomus torquatus, a small quail-like bird in the monotypic family Pedionomidae, endemic to south-eastern Australia.


painted snipe

painted snipe (plural painted snipes or painted snipe)

painted snipes (plural)
painted snipe (plural)

Any of three species of snipe-like birds in the family Rostratulidae, found in wetlands and characterised by reversed sexual dimorphism (female larger than male).


tilefish

tilefish (plural tilefish or tilefishes)

The federal Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency advise women and children to avoid king mackerel, shark, swordfish and tilefish, and limit their consumption of some tuna.

2008 January 30, Nick Fox, “Taking Worry Off the Plate”, in New York Times:

Any of the mostly small, perciform marine fish in the family Malacanthidae; an important food fish.


ptyctodontid

Any placoderm of the order Ptyctodontida.


Vizsla

Vizsla (plural Vizslas or Vizslak or Vizslák)

Vizslas (plural)
Vizslak (plural)
Vizslák (plural)

From Hungarian vizsla, itself probably a borrowing from a Slavic language; compare Serbo-Croatian vižao/вижао, Czech vyžle, Polish wyżeł, wyga (“old dog”), Russian выжла (vyžla).

A bird dog, according to David Smith of the National Bird Dog Museum, can include such breeds as the English pointer and setter, the American Brittany, the German short-haired pointer and the vizsla.

2008 February 24, William Safire, “Bird-Dog Minute”, in New York Times:


ptyctodont

Any placoderm of the order Ptyctodontida


grice

From Middle English gris, from Old Norse gríss.

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

Further, there was of meats wheat bread, main-bread and ginge-bread with fleshes, beef, mutton, lamb, veal, venison, goose, grice, capon, coney, cran, swan, partridge, plover, duck, drake, brissel-cock and pawnies, black-cock and muir-fowl, cappercaillies;

1728, Robert Lindsay, The history of Scotland, from 21 February, 1436. to March, 1565: in which are contained accounts of many remarkable passages altogether differing from our other historians, and many facts are related, either concealed by some, or omitted by others, Mr. Baskett and Company, page 146:

Through a door to one of the galleries, left half open on purpose I was attracted to a dainty hot supper, consisting of stewed mushrooms and the fat paps and ears of very young pigs, or, as they call them, grice.

1789, William Thomson, Mammuth: or, human nature displayed on a grand scale: in a tour with the tinkers, into the inland parts of Africa. By the man in the moon. In two volumes. publ. G. and T. Wilkie, pg.105

A model of the grice - which was the size of a large dog and had tusks - has been created after work by researchers and a taxidermist.

2006 November 17, “Extinct island pig spotted again”, in BBC News:

(now Scotland) A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct.


froggish

en-adj

froggish (comparative more froggish, superlative most froggish)

more froggish (comparative)
most froggish (superlative)

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Well if you feel froggish
And you wanna hop my gal
Please don't be no fool
'Cause I took you for my pal.

1954, Ike Turner, Brother Bell, If You Feel Froggish:


froggish

(slang, offensive) Resembling or characteristic of a French person.

(slang, offensive) Resembling or characteristic of the French language.


ovicaprid

A domestic sheep or goat. Also called a caprovine.


Saluki

(cynology) An ancient sighthound breed of dog with a silky coat originating in the Middle East, once sacred to the Egyptians.


cervid

(zoology) Any animal (such as the deer) of the family Cervidae.


railbird

He earned it one night at Chelsea Billiards in New York, where he knocked off Eddie Hubler, a.k.a. Kid Vicious, winning $4,200 from railbirds who were certain that the fat kid from Jersey had no game.

2007 October 6, Charles Mcgrath, “The Happy Hustler”, in New York Times:

(US, slang) A gambler; originally specifically a horseracing enthusiast


caprid

(zoology) Any member of the subfamily Caprinae.


malimbe

Any of the birds in the Malimbus genus, found across Africa.


stegosaurus

en-noun

stegosaurus (plural stegosauruses or stegosauri)

stegosauruses (plural)
stegosauri (plural)

From the genus name Stegosaurus. From Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

"You will observe that both the pterodactyl and the stegosaurus are Jurassic, and therefore of a great age in the order of life."

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

So you tell your friends about it, including the people who have no interest in birding and wouldn't know a Le Conte's sparrow from a stegosaurus.

1988 April 8, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:

A stegosaur, a member of the suborder Stegosauria, of the order Ornithischia of the middle Jurassic to early Cretaceous period.

A member of the genus Stegosaurus within this suborder.


trembler

Any of various New World passerine birds of the family Mimidae.

internal combustion engine
internal combustion engine

The vibrating hammer, or spring contact piece of a hammer break, as of the electric ignition apparatus for an internal combustion engine.

A kind of security alarm triggered by vibrations or shock waves.


malkoha

Any of the cuculine birds in the Phaenicophaeus genus, found across southern and south-east Asia.


protohuman

The research included an examination of the original fossils and a comparison with skeletons of modern humans and protohumans and also chimpanzees.

2008 March 21, John Noble Wilford, “New Analysis Suggests Earlier Start for Upright Walking”, in New York Times:

One of the earliest humans preceding Homo sapiens.


rhynchocephalian

(zoology) Any of a group of reptiles of the order Rhynchocephalia; a tuatara.


Maltese cat

Any cat of indeterminate breed, with primarily gray or blue fur.


siamang

A large black gibbon, Symphalangus syndactylus, from Sumatra


mamenchisaur

Any of the species of long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs in the genus Mamenchisaurus.


ladyfish

ladyfish (plural ladyfishes or ladyfish)

Eventually we yielded to the urge to catch something — anything — so we sought out a channel where we boated seatrout, ladyfish and one lizard fish.

2008 March 5, Norm Zeigler, “Seeking Florida Redfish, Catching Only Glimpses”, in New York Times:

A coastal dwelling fish (Elops saurus), found throughout the tropical and sub-tropical regions.


snow bunting

Soon the snow buntings will arrive, bringing song. My favourite snow bunting song is the clearance song they make to land.

2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 117:

Plectrophenax nivalis
Plectrophenax nivalis#Translingual

A finch of species Plectrophenax nivalis, having white plumage, widely distributed in northern latitudes.


British Longhair

British Longhair (plural British Longhairs)

A medium-size, long-haired domestic cat breed, originating in Great Britain.


otter civet

A semi-aquatic civet found in South-East Asis, taxonomic name Cynogale bennettii


ratfish

A fish of any of the species in family Chimaeridae.

A Pacific fish, Hydrolagus colliei, that has a long rat-like tail


wood duck

Coordinate term: mandarin duck

A colorful North American duck, Aix sponsa, that nests in hollow trees.


seawolf

From Middle English sēwolf, from Old English *sǣwulf, equivalent to sea + wolf.

Anarhichas lupus
Anarhichas lupus#Translingual

A strong-jawed North Atlantic fish of wolffish family Anarhichadidae, Anarhichas lupus.


bellbird

(Australia) A bell miner (Manorina melanophrys), a bird that feeds on bell lerps (a variety of psyllid).


oilbird

Steatornis caripensis, a nocturnal South American bird related to the nightjars that feeds on the fruit of the oil palm and tropical laurels.


torosaurus

Any member of the genus †Torosaurus of herbivorous dinosaurs.


plateosaurus

plateosaurus (plural plateosauruses or plateosauri)

plateosauruses (plural)
plateosauri (plural)

Triassic Period: cynognathus (foreground; South Africa), podekosaurus (left; Northern America) and plateosauri (background; Western Europe)

1958, Gustav Fochler-Hauke, translated by W. H. Johnston, Our World and Its Beginnings, London: Odhams Press Limited, facing page 113:

What we know of the history of the dinosaurs begins in the Triassic. The first skeletal remains were found in deposits of the uppermost Middle Triassic but trackways of dinosaurs have been discovered in strata five to six million years older. The largest dinosaurs of that time were the plateosauri which attained more than six metres in length.

1985, Rudolf Daber, Jochen Helms, translated by C.S.V. Salt, Fossils: The Oldest Treasures That Ever Lived, Neptune City, N.J.: T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Ltd., →ISBN, page 161, column 3:

A month before, a mass grave of dinosaur bones was unearthed in Frick. An amateur paleontologist found them. He discovered over one hundred entirely intact skeletons. Fossils of plateosauri two hundred million years old.

2015, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 87:

Any herbivorous dinosaur of the family Plateosauridae.


jararaca

Borrowed from Portuguese jararaca, from Old Tupi îararaka.

The pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb, for example, found that the venom of the jararaca snake could help control high blood pressure and used it to create the drug Captopril.

2008 May 18, Alexei Barrionuevo, “Whose Rain Forest Is This, Anyway?”, in New York Times:

A venomous snake of species Bothrops jararaca, found in South America.


dauw

(South Africa) Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii).


teleostean

Any of very many ray-finned fish of the infraclass Teleostei.


Madidi titi monkey

Madidi titi monkey (plural Madidi titi monkeys)

From its discovery in Bolivia's Madidi National Park in 2004.

Callicebus aureipalatii
Callicebus aureipalatii#Translingual

A New World monkey from Bolivia, Callicebus aureipalatii.


golden palace monkey

golden palace monkey (plural golden palace monkeys)

Named as a result of an auction in 2005 for the naming of the newly discovered species of titi monkey. The online casino GoldenPalace.com won the auction, paying $650,000 for the privilege.

Callicebus aureipalatii, a New World monkey from Bolivia.


blue-tongued skink

blue-tongued skink (plural blue-tongued skinks)

Any of several species of Australian skinks in the genus Tiliqua.


aulopiform

Any of many fish of the order Aulopiformes.


telescopefish

telescopefish (plural telescopefishes or telescopefish)

telescopefishes (plural)
telescopefish (plural)

Any of several deep-sea aulopiform fish, of the family Giganturidae, having tubular eyes.


pratincole

/ˈpɹætɪnˌkəʊl/

From Latin pratincola (“meadow-dweller”).

Any of several species of birds in the genera Glareola or Stiltia of the family Glareolidae.


mulet

After that Huon and the good Abbot had deuised together of diuers things, Huon wrote a Letter vnto his men being at Tournous, that they should come vnto him to the Abbey of Cluny, hee sent a Gentleman of the Abbey to fetch them, and when hée was come to Tournous, and had deliuered his Letters vnto Barnard, they made them readie, and trussed their Somers and departed from thence, and they road so longe, that they came in at the gates of the Abbey of Cluny, the same time Huon and the Abbot were leaning out at a window, the Abbot saw fiftéene Somers charged, and seauen Mules and Mulets, whereof he had great maruaile of whence they were, and said to Huon.

1601, The Ancient, Honorable, Famous, and Delighfull Historie of Huon of Bourdeaux, One of the Peeres of Fraunce, and Duke of Guyenne Enterlaced with the Loue of Many Ladies, as Also the Fortunes and Aduentures of Knights Errant, Their Amorous Seruants, London: […] Thomas Purfoot:

Of Mules, Male and Female. Qu. VVHy is it that the Mulets beget not, nor the Mules can conceive?

1637, R[obert] B[asset], transl., Curiosities: or the Cabinet of Nature Containing Phylosophical, Naturall, and Morall Questions Fully Answered and Resolved, London: […] N. and I. Okes, page 54:

[…]; where after some difficulty having got up to the top of the Mountains, we saw Genoa, and the beautiful suburbs of St. Pietro di Arena under us at nine miles distance, and a vast tract of Sea before us, the Eastern Coast on the left hand, and the Western on the right, and descended by a broad way, and by large Windings and Turnings, upon the bare marble rock, meeting great numbers of Mules, and Mulets tossing up their Nets about their noses, which all together afforded an extraordinary prospect.

1685, Edward Brown, A Brief Account of Some travels in Divers Parts of Europe Viz Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli: […], London: […] Benj. Tooke, page 221:


barracouta

(Australia, New Zealand) The snoek, Thyrsites atun, a foodfish.


auklet

Any of several small seabirds in the genera Aethia, Cerorhinca and Ptychoramphus of the auk family Alcidae.


bronzewing

/ˈbɹɒnzˌwɪŋ/

Any of several species of bird in the genera Henicophaps and Phaps in the pigeon family, found in Australasia.

pronssikyyhky

pigeon of the genus Henicophaps or Phaps


cuckoo-dove

Any of several species of bird in the genera Macropygia, Reinwardtoena and Turacoena of the pigeon family.

Andaman cuckoo-dove (Macropygia rufipennis}

bar-necked cuckoo-dove (Macropygia magna}

black-billed cuckoo-dove (Macropygia nigrirostris}

brown cuckoo-dove (Macropygia amboinensis}

crested cuckoo-dove (Reinwardtoena crassirostris}

great cuckoo-dove (Reinwardtoena reinwardtii}

little cuckoo-dove (Macropygia ruficeps}

spot-breasted cuckoo-dove (Macropygia mackinlayi}

white-faced cuckoo-dove (Turacoena manadensis}


quail-dove

Any of several species of bird in the genera Geotrygon and Starnoenas of the pigeon family found in the Americas.

Cubaanse kwartelduif

bird in the genera Geotrygon or Starnoenas


jaeger

jaeger Wikispecies (canonical)
jaegers (plural)

A borrowing from German Jäger (“hunter”). Related to English yacht. Compare yager, yagger.

Any of three seabirds in the skua genus Stercorarius.


sandgrouse

sandgrouse (plural sandgrouse or sandgrouses)

sandgrouse (plural)
sandgrouses (plural)

Any of several species of birds in the family Pteroclididae.


manicou

A common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis), of the tropical Americas


Doberman Pinscher

Doberman Pinscher (plural Doberman Pinschers)

A large, domestic breed of dog originally bred as a watchdog, kept mainly as pets in modern times.


troodontid

From translingual Troodontidae, equivalent to translingual Troodon + -id.

So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids.

2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American:

Any member of the family †Troodontidae of small, bird-like theropod dinosaurs with large brains, large eyes, and a retractable claw on the second toe of each hind foot, similar to a farmer's sickle, used for slashing at prey.


mantegar

(obsolete) mandrill (formerly thought to be a type of baboon)


pudu

From South American Spanish pudú, from Mapudungun pudu (“small deer”).

Whereas the southern pudu is more uniformly dark chestnut-brown, the northern form is light but has a very dark (aggressive) face in both sexes.

1998, Valerius Geist, Deer of the World, page 120:

In the undergrowth, native pudú deer scutter, lower than knee-height and wary of visitors; even shyer are the tall, elegant huemul deer, threatened almost to extinction and now only to be found high up the mountainsides.

2002 November 30, Chris Moss, The Guardian:

Although protected by law, pudus are hunted locally for their hide and meat.

2008, Sharon R Chester, A Wildlife Guide to Chile, page 309:

A very small South American deer of the genus Pudu (in some classifications divided to Pudu and Pudella), native to the Andes.


white rabbit

A phrase said, before saying anything else, on the first day of the month in order to bring good luck.


magot

The magot differs from the ape by having a long muzzle and large canine teeth; and from the baboon by having no actual tail; though it has an exuberance of skin which bears that appearance.

1800, The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 31, page 16:

Macaca sylvanus
Macaca sylvanus#Translingual

(archaic) The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population of uncertain origin in Gibraltar.


manucode

Any of the birds of paradise in the genus Manucodia.


cave lion

After the arrival of humans in Europe, cave lions began to decrease in size.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 202:

Panthera leo spelaea
Panthera leo spelaea#Translingual

An extinct subspecies of lion, Panthera leo spelaea, known from fossils and multiple examples of prehistoric art.


anthracothere

From scientific Latin Anthracotherium (genus name; see Anthracotherium § Etymology). By surface analysis, anthraco- + -there from Ancient Greek θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”).

One mysterious anthracocthere known as Diplopus […] entered Europe just before la grande coupure, presumably by swimming the Turgai Strait.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 86:

(paleontology) Any of several artiodactyl ungulates, of the extinct family Anthracotheriidae, related to the hippopotamus.

antracotério

any of several artiodactyl ungulates of the extinct family Anthracotheriidae


Geoffroy's cat

Named after the 19th-century French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844).

Leopardus geoffroyi
Leopardus geoffroyi#Translingual

Leopardus geoffroyi, probably the most common wild cat in South America.


desert cat

Felis silvestris
Felis silvestris#Translingual

Felis silvestris lybica, also known as the African wildcat, is a subspecies of the wildcat (Felis silvestris).


African wildcat

African wildcat (plural African wildcats)

Felis silvestris lybica, a subspecies of Felis silvestris (wildcat).


marbled cat

Pardofelis marmorata
Pardofelis marmorata#Translingual

Pardofelis marmorata, a cat similar in size to the domestic cat, with a longer, more thickly furred tail.


fishing cat

A medium-sized cat whose habitat range extends through Indochina, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java; (Prionailurus viverrinus).


avialan

Any animal belonging to the clade Avialae, including all birds and a family of dinosaurian relatives


tamaraw

The habitat requirements of the tamaraw appear to be fairly flexible, and present habitat use reflects human pressures rather than the animal's preferences. In the past, tamaraw were found in virtually all parts of Mindoro, from sea level to mountain tops.

1983, National Research Council (U.S.) Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation, Managing Tropical Animal Resources: Little-Known Asian Animals with a Promising Economic Future, page 61:

1994, Mary Emanoil, Encyclopedia of Endangered Species, Volume 1, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, page 364,
In the early 1900s, there were an estimated 10,000 tamaraws on Mindoro; because of excessive hunting and loss of habitat, the population had decreased to less than 150-200 animals by 1971.

If that person explains that a tamaraw is a bovine animal, brown in color, found in the Philippines, I can take tamaraw to designate something like my idea of a brown cow. As a matter of fact, though, tamaraw are actually more like small water buffalo.

2010, Patricia Sheridan, Locke: A Guide for the Perplexed, page 57:

A small, dark brown, hoofed buffalo, Bubalus mindorensis, found only in Mindoro in the Philippines.


colocolo

From Spanish colocolo (“colocolo (cat)”), from Mapudungun Colo Colo (a creature in Mapuche mythology).

der

Leopardus colocolo, a small striped cat native to western central South America.


cetartiodactyl

Cetartiodactyls are by far the most populous of the two ungulate groups today, but it wasn’t always so.

2018 March 7, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:

(zoology) Any of a large group of animals, of the clade Cetartiodactyla, including the whales and even-toed ungulates.


coelurosaur

Any of several small theropod dinosaurs of the clade Coelurosauria


confuciusornithid

Any extinct bird in the family Confuciusornithidae.


clupeid

The open water expanses of the lake have been occupied mainly by two species of clupeids, as well as by Eutropius niloticus and Physailia pellucida.

1973, Willis A. Evans, John Vanderpuye, “Early Development of Fish Populations and Fisheries of Volta Lake”, in William C. Ackermann, Gilbert F. White, E. B. Worthington, editors, Man-Made Lakes: Their Problems and Environmental Effects, page 117:

In the pelagic zone of Lake Tanganyika, the endemic clupeids are planktivores which migrate surfacewards at night (cf. marine clupeids, p. 227).

1987, R. H. Lowe-McConnell, Ecological Studies in Tropical Fish Communities, page 90:

Although most marine fishes studied thus far cannot detect sound frequencies above about 500 Hz, at least some clupeids can detect considerably higher frequencies.

2008, Gene Helfman, Bruce B. Collette, Douglas E. Facey, Brian W. Bowen, The Diversity of Fishes: Biology, Evolution, and Ecology, page 80:

Any of many soft-finned fish of the family Clupeidae.


cypriniform

Any of many ray-finned fish, of the order Cypriniformes, such as the carps, minnows and loaches


enantiornithean

Any of a group of extinct birds (or bird-like reptiles) of the group Enantiornithes.


heterodontosaurid

Any of a group of small dinosaurs, of the family Heterodontosauridae, that had characteristic teeth


proboscidean

Any of various large, herbivorous mammals, of the order Proboscidea, that have a trunk; an elephant.


gomphothere

From Ancient Greek γόμφος (gómphos, “nail, peg, fastener, joint”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”).

uder

The main lineage, the bunodont gomphotheres (called bunomastodonts by some authors), can be traced from Phiomia (from the Oligocene of North Africa) to Gomphotherium (a widespread Miocene genus), Tetralophodon (from the Old World and North America), and Stegomastodon (from the late Tertiary and early Pleistocene of North and South America).[…]Compared to the simple molars of the mastodonts, gomphothere molars are complex, with additional rounded cusps and accessory conules that wear to a complicated trefoil pattern.

1980, Björn Kurtén, Elaine Anderson, Pleistocene Mammals of North America, page 346:

In contrast, the early gomphotheres have lowcrowned bunodont cheek teeth that are adapted for crushing and grinding rather than cutting.[…]The elephantids emerged from gomphothere stock near the end of the Miocene.

2006, Thure Cerling, John M. Harris, Meave G. Leakey, “12: Environmentally Driven Dietary Adaptations in African Animals”, in James R. Ehleringer, Thure Cerling, M. Denise Dearing, editors, A History of Atmospheric CO₂ and Its Effects on Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems, page 263:

These now-extinct animals would have included the gomphotheres, massive extinct relatives of modern elephants, that were obviously plant eaters and flourished in Central America for most of the past five million years.

2013, Peter Crane, Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot, page 159:

Any of the extinct proboscideans of the family Gomphotheriidae, that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Miocene and Pliocene (12—1.6 million years ago), and latterly also in South America (around 3 million to 9100 years ago).


maomao

A number of different fish of the Pacific Ocean

Abudefduf abdominalis (green damselfish)


mesonychian

Any of several extinct carnivorous mammals of the order Mesonychia.


mapepire

(Trinidad and Tobago) The venomous snake Lachesis muta.


ornithischian

Any of a group of dinosaurs, of the order Ornithischia, that have hips characteristic of birds.


pakicetid

Any of a group of extinct mammals of the family †Pakicetidae.


pygostylian

Any avialan of the clade Pygostylia, that has a pygostyle


rhamphorhynchoid

Any of several pterosaurs of the suborder Rhamphorhynchoidea.


therizinosauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Therizinosauroidea


tyrannosauroid

Two skeletons of the oldest known tyrannosauroid have been discovered in what used to be wetland in the Gobi desert of western China.

2006 Feb, NewScientist, page 19, column 1:

The discovery of simple, shaftless feathers on Dilong paradoxus, a 2-metre-long basal tyrannosauroid from the early Cretaceous of China, led to the suggestion that the tyrannosauroids as a group were feathered.

2017 June 7, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian:

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Tyrannosauroidea.


plains zebra

The most common species of zebra, Equus quagga (formerly Equus burchellii)


riverine rabbit

en-noun

riverine rabbit (plural riverine rabbits)

A critically endangered species of rabbit from South Africa, Bunolagus monticularis.


Nubian lion

East African lion
East African lion#English


red-shanked douc

red-shanked douc (plural red-shanked doucs)

Pygathrix nemaeus
Pygathrix nemaeus#Translingual

A colorful Southwest Asian monkey, Pygathrix nemaeus.


silvery gibbon

A gibbon (Hylobates moloch), found in Java.


Etruscan bear

1968 [Transaction Publishers], Björn Kurtén, Pleistocene Mammals of Europe, 2017, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 120,
The first Etruscan bears were small, about the size of the modern Asiatic black bear; but they tended to increase in size and the terminal forms were as large as a brown bear.

About 2.5 million years ago the Auvergne bear gave rise to the Etruscan bear. Fossil remains from Spain, France, Italy, and China suggest that Etruscan bears were about the size of modern American black bears and were gradually increasing in size.[…]The Etruscan bear, about 2 million years ago, gave us the grizzly bear.

2012, Andrew E. Derocher, Polar Bears, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 36:

It^([the Auvergne bear]) appears to have given rise to the Etruscan bear (Ursus etruscus), which is so similar to the Asian black bear that some researchers consider them to be one and the same. In a fairytalelike twist, the Etruscan bear gave rise to Europe's three bears of yore: the brown bear, the cave bear and the polar bear.

2018, Tim Flannery, Luigi Boitani, Europe: A Natural History, Text Publishing, page 140:

An extinct species of bear, †Ursus etruscus, endemic to Europe, Asia and North Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene (approximately 5.3 million to 100,000 years ago).


Barbary lion

Barbary lions had been believed extinct in the wild since the mid-twentieth century, survived only by a few odds and bods of DNA carried in captive individuals descended from Haile Selassie's private collection.

Panthera leo leo
Panthera leo leo#Translingual

(zoology) Any of the North African population, now extinct in the wild, of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo.


Ethiopian wolf

Ethiopian wolf (plural Ethiopian wolves)

The Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) is Africa’s most endangered carnivore, and arguably the world’s most endangered canid.

2018 May 25, Eric Hilaire, The Guardian:

Canis simensis
Canis simensis#Translingual

Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ mąʼiiłchííʼ


northern hawk owl

northern hawk owl (plural northern hawk owls)

A medium-sized owl native to boreal forests of North America and Eurasia; Surnia ulula.


pygmy giant panda

pygmy giant panda (plural pygmy giant pandas)

The earliest known ancestor of the giant panda, †Ailuropoda microta, now extinct.


cat bear

Ailurus fulgens
Ailurus fulgens#Translingual

(obsolete) A red panda (Ailurus fulgens).


lesser panda

→ Japanese: レッサーパンダ (ressā panda)

→ Korean: 레서판다 (reseopanda)


bear cat

Arctictis binturong
Arctictis binturong#Translingual

A binturong (Arctictis binturong, in the family Viverridae).


Lithuanian Hound

Lithuanian Hound (plural Lithuanian Hounds)

A large, powerful scenthound originating in Lithuania.


Portuguese Water Dog

Portuguese Water Dog (plural Portuguese Water Dogs)

/ˌpɔːtʃəɡiːz ˈwɔːtə dɒɡ/

/ˌpɔɹtʃəɡiːz ˈwɔtɚ dɔɡ/

A water spaniel breed of gun dog originating in Portugal.


Bergamasco

Bergamasco (plural Bergamascos or Bergamaschi)

Bergamascos (plural)
Bergamaschi (plural)

A medium-sized breed of herding dog originating in the Italian Alps, known for its heavily matted coat resembling dreadlocks.


Komondor

Komondor (plural Komondors or Komondorok)

The coat of the Komondor is extraordinarily profuse and generally matted into a veritable fleece of extreme density.

1948, Brian Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, The Book of the Dog, page 551:

In 1981 there were 36 known ranchers in North Dakota that had 52 Great Pyrenees (44 working and 8 training) and 2 working Komondor dogs.

1982, Proceedings - Vertebrate Pest Conference, page 56:

For example, the Komondor has a naturally long white coat of matted hair while a Labrador Retriever has short hair that can be sand colored, black or brown.

2010, Barry Eaton, Dominance in Dogs: Fact Or Fiction?, unnumbered page:

A large Hungarian breed of livestock guard dog with a long, corded coat.


water dog

A retriever type of gun dog bred to flush and retrieve game from water.


verdin

Unknown. Compare Spanish verdino (“bright green”), French verdin (“yellowhammer”).

2000, Kenn Kaufman, Verdin, Steven J. Phillips, Patricia Wentworth Comus (editors), A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, University of California Press, Revised and Updated Edition, page 422,
Tiny and rather plain, the Verdin seems quite unremarkable at first sight.

Verdins are yellow-faced desert-dwellers that are commonly encountered in southern Arizona.[…]Although primarily insectivorous, Verdins will also readily consume nectar, which they obtain by piercing tubular flowers or by visiting hummingbird feeders.

2005, Cathryn Wise-Gervais, “Verdin”, in Troy E. Corman, Cathryn Wise-Gervais, editors, The Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas, University of New Mexico Press, page 390:

Desert-dwelling verdins, forage solitarily, in pairs, or in small groups by actively hopping from twig to twig while sounding their surprisingly loud tseet calls almost continuously.

2013, Edward C. Beedy, Edward R. Pandolfino, Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution, University of California Press, page 250:

A small, yellow-headed passerine bird, Auriparus flaviceps, endemic to desert areas of the southwestern United States, that is the only species of family Remizidae found in the New World.


Bullmastiff

A breed of very large mastiff originally bred to immobilize poachers.


American Bulldog

American Bulldog (plural American Bulldogs)


Basenji

From Lingala mbwá na basɛ́nzi (“dogs of the savages; dogs of the villagers”). First use appears c. 1906.

der

(zoology) A hunting dog of a particular African breed.


Kuvasz

From Hungarian kuvasz (“Kuvasz”), from Turkish kavas (“guard”). Attested in English from 1935.

A large, usually white breed of dog with its ancient origins in Hungary.


Mudi

A breed of herding dog originating in Hungary.


Alaskan Malamute

en-noun

Alaskan Malamute (plural Alaskan Malamutes)

(zoology) A relatively large breed of sled dog, sometimes mistaken for the Siberian Husky.

阿拉斯加马拉穆

Ālāsījiā mǎlāmù


Hungarian Kuvasz

Hungarian Kuvasz (plural Hungarian Kuvasz or Hungarian Kuvaszok)

Hungarian Kuvasz (plural)
Hungarian Kuvaszok (plural)


Hungarian hound

Hungarian hound (plural Hungarian hounds)

A breed of hunting dog originating in Hungary.


brush wolf

a small wolf found in western North America


spider monkey

brown-headed spider monkey

black-headed spider monkey, Ateles fusciceps

hooded spider monkey

Geoffroy's spider monkey, Ateles geoffroyi

Any New World monkey of the genus Ateles, with long, spindly limbs.

A muriqui, New World monkey of the genus Brachyteles, closely related to Ateles.


barbet

→ Irish: bairbéad

From French barbe (“beard; long hair of certain animals”).

bor

Any of numerous arboreal birds of the families Capitonidae, Lybiidae, and Megalaimidae, within the order Piciformes.

A dog of a small-bodied breed with long curly hair.

1839 John Obadiah Westwood: An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects
Réaumur, in his account of the insects which attack the aphides, has described the larva of a Coleopterous insect, which he names "l'hérisson blanc", or "le barbet blanc", of small size, and remarkable for having the body clothed with small bundles of oblong, white, cotton-like "touffes" ... I have met with this larva ... it evidently ... belongs to some species of the genus Scymnus.

Any larva of an indefinite number of species of the beetle family Coccinellidae, that is covered in waxy threads and feeds on aphids and similar small prey.


Spanish Water Dog

en-noun

Spanish Water Dog (plural Spanish Water Dogs)

/ˌspænɪʃ ˈwɔːtə dɒɡ/

/ˌspænɪʃ ˈwɔtɚ dɔɡ/

A herding water dog originating in Spain.


takahē

A species of large flightless bird in the Rallidae family, endemic to New Zealand.

巨水雞

North Island takahe - Porphyrio mantelli

South Island takahe - Porphyrio hochstetteri


steenbok

From Afrikaans steenbok, from Dutch steenbok.

A common small antelope of southern and eastern Africa, Raphicerus campestris.


Bichon Frisé

A small bichon with white fur and dark eyes and nose, originating in Spain, Belgium and France.


naja

From Sanskrit नाग (nāga), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neg- (“to crawl; a creeping thing”).

der

A member of the Naja genus of venomous snakes; cobras


moaning dove

Columbina passerina
Columbina passerina#Translingual

(Southern US) A common ground dove (Columbina passerina).


mosasaur

From scientific Latin Mosasaurus (genus name).

What I find deeply disturbing, however, is that Mr. Ross could believe that the earth was created 10,000 years ago, but nevertheless write in his dissertation that mosasaurs, or marine reptiles, existed more than 65 million years ago.

2007 February 14, “The Case of the Creationist Geologist (5 Letters)”, in New York Times:

Mosasaurs could reach lengths of up to 17m and lived mainly in offshore waters of the Late Cretaceous.

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 70:

A large extinct marine reptile in the family †Mosasauridae, dominant marine predator of the Cretaceous. Mosasaurs are considred to be in squmata, the same group that includes lizards and snakes.

mosasauro

extinct marine reptile in family Mosasauridae


musteloid

(zoology) Any of many mammals of the superfamily Musteloidea, including the weasels, raccoons, red pandas, and skunks.


scorpaeniform

Any fish of the former order Scorpaeniformes or of suborder Scorpaenoidei.


suricate

The meerkat, a member of the mongoose family.


splake

A hybrid fish derived from a male brook trout and a female lake trout


macropodine

Any marsupial of the subfamily Macropodinae


Kodiak

A town in Alaska: see Wikipedia:Kodiak, Alaska


winghead shark

The fast-declining winghead shark – a species of hammerhead – has also proved vulnerable to unregulated fishing, due to its distinctive shape which lends itself to entanglement in fishing nets.

2016 July 8, Arthur Nelsen, The Guardian:

Eusphyra blochii
Eusphyra blochii#Translingual

A species of hammerhead shark, Eusphyra blochii, in the family Sphyrnidae, named for the remarkably wide lobes on its head. It is the sole species in its genus.


hammerhead shark

en-noun

hammerhead shark (plural hammerhead sharks)


Kodiak bear

The largest brown bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi, found on Kodiak Island off the south coast of Alaska, United States.


sun bear

A species of relatively small bears, Helarctos malayanus, found in Southeast Asia.


ralline

en-adj

ralline (comparative more ralline, superlative most ralline)

more ralline (comparative)
most ralline (superlative)

From scientific Latin Rallidae (family name).

(ornithology, rare) Of, or pertaining to members of the Rallidae family (also referred to as rails).


moorfowl

It was overgrown by enormous beds of reeds, in which moorfowl, water-hens, and coots abounded[…]

1902 January 3, “A Smuggling Adventure”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 22, page 692:


red grouse

A medium-sized bird, Lagopus lagopus scotica, of the grouse family, found in heather moorland in Great Britain and Ireland.


furze-pig

Wherever there be a gate, or even an apology for one, consisting of a gapway jammed full of a combination of what are mostly called brambles, the near neighbourhood of the same where it opens, or should open, on the field, is always a good place, and one that may well be taken advantage of, more especially if the furze-pig be the bait employed; while a nest of eggs neatly arranged on the top of an adjacent portion of the hedgerow, devoid of bushes, is equally likely to bring the crows into the gins set about for them.

1884, William Carnegie, “Winged Vermin”, in Practical Game Preserving, page 457:

For mowdewart and marmot; for furze-pig / and parmaceti; for feline / and anserine; for Lawrence the tod.

1982, Sheenagh Pugh, “I think someone might write an elegy”, in Poetry Wales, volume 17, number 4, archived from the original on 2015-10-31:

It's not only writers who require creative accounts or an ability to connect discordant events, but most of the rest of everyone else, too, wants to sort fiends into parsimonious piles. In view of those desires, Can I be Rare, Toos sixty-four tales are one part canard, one part forced teleology, and several parts enthusiastic furze-pig'. They are, also, one hundred per cent fun.

2017, KJ Hannah Greenberg, “Preface”, in Can I Be Rare, Too?, Bards and Sages Publishing:


pygmy chimpanzee

en-noun

pygmy chimpanzee (plural pygmy chimpanzees)


gonolek

Any of various passerine birds of the genus Laniarius.


fody

“Only in Madagascar,” the labels proudly proclaim, next to descriptions of animals like the spiny-tail iguana, the radiated tortoise or a small bird, the red fody.

2008 June 20, Edward Rothstein, “Critters of a Wondrous Isle, Meet Your Friend and Foe”, in New York Times:

Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Foudia in the weaver family Ploceidae.


boubou

From French boubou, from Wolof mbubb. The bird name is onomatopoeic.

brubru

bird in the bushshrike family of the species Nilaus afer

In Bamako’s thriving market, a group of moneychangers in brightly colored boubous, the traditional robes worn here, said that Moussa Magassa, who owns the house in the Bronx where his family and the Soumares lived and who lost five children in the blaze, stopped by once or twice a year on his trips home to Mali and was well known in the community.

2007 March 11, Michael Kamber, “A continent away, heartbreak over relatives once seen as lucky”, in The New York Times:

A flowing wide-sleeved robe worn by men in much of West Africa, and to a lesser extent in North Africa.


regal horned lizard

regal horned lizard (plural regal horned lizards)

Phrynosoma solare, a horned lizard, with a wide toad-shaped body about seven inches long, noted for the ten horns that form a crown-like structure on its head.


horned lizard

Any of some 14 species of lizard in the genus Phrynosoma, generally with wide toad-shaped bodies less than a foot long, noted for the horny structures on their heads.


ram cichlid

Mikrogeophagus ramirezi
Mikrogeophagus ramirezi#Translingual

Mikrogeophagus ramirezi, a species of freshwater fish endemic to the Orinoco River basin


mastigure

From translingual Mastigurus (“genus Uromastyx”), from Ancient Greek μάστιξ (mástix, “a scourge, a whip”) + οὐρά (ourá, “a tail”). Compare Uromastyx.

uder

Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.


parrot snake

Leptophis ahaetulla
Leptophis ahaetulla#Translingual

Leptophis ahaetulla, a snake found in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago.


oolacunta

The fabulous oolacunta, a rat kangaroo that is now extinct, streaked across the desert at speeds that made it seem to float above the ground.

2007 July 25, William Grimes, “A Zoologist With a Pouch of Stories”, in New York Times:

An extinct marsupial, the desert rat kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), that lived in a sand-ridge and gibber-plain habitat in south-western Queensland and north-eastern Australia.


elephant polo

(sports) A variety of polo played while riding elephants rather than horses.


black-throat

black-throated diver
black-throated diver

Gavia arctica
Gavia arctica#Translingual

(British, birdwatching) The black-throated diver (Gavia arctica).


red-throat

(British, birdwatching) The red-throated diver.


Slavonian grebe

en-noun

Slavonian grebe (plural Slavonian grebes)

Podiceps auritus
Podiceps auritus#Translingual

A freshwater grebe of Europe, Podiceps auritus.


red-breasted merganser

red-breasted merganser (plural red-breasted mergansers)

Mergus serrator
Mergus serrator#Translingual

A species of diving duck, Mergus serrator.


bluely

The Sussex fishermen call the porpoise 'Bluely'.

(UK dialectal, Sussex, obsolete) Porpoise.


little grebe

Tachybaptus ruficollis
Tachybaptus ruficollis#Translingual

A small freshwater bird of Europe (Tachybaptus ruficollis).

鳰

にお, nio, かいつぶり, kaitsuburi, かいつむり, kaitsumuri


fish hawk

Alternative spelling of fishhawk: the osprey


matjes herring

matjes herring (plural matjes herrings or matjes herring)

matjes herrings (plural)
matjes herring (plural)

From Dutch maatjesharing (“matjes herring”), from maatjes (“young, small”) + haring (“herring”), from earlier forms maetgens-, maeghdekins-, medykens- (“maiden-like”), from maagd (“maiden”) + -kin (“-kin”), so called because matjes herring is made of young herring that has never spawned.

Young filleted herring that has been matured for a short time in brine and prepared traditionally with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.


tigerfish

tigerfish (plural tigerfishes or tigerfish)

Any of a number of species of fish with stripes on their bodies, otherwise fearsome appearance, or aggressive predatory behavior, including, among others:

(Africa) Any fish in the genus Hydrocynus of characins.

Any fish in the percoid genus Datnioides.

Any of the genus Pterois of east Asian lionfishes.


pit viper

Any of various venomous snakes, of the subfamily Crotalinae, found in Asia and the Americas, with a deep pit or fossa on either side of the head that enables them to detect prey by infrared.


blesbuck

A type of damalisk (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi), an African antelope closely related to the hartebeest.


bangda

Those who plunge into the novel soon find themselves thrashing in a sea of words and sentences (“On Maganchand Road the thela-wallahs already had their fruit piled high, and the fishsellers were laying out bangda and bombil and paaplet on their slabs”) unencumbered by italics or explication.

2007 January 7, Paul Gray, “Gangsta Raj”, in New York Times:

A fish of the species Rastrelliger kanagurta.


bombil

The lizardfish (Harpadon nehereus), the Bombay duck, or bummalo, native to the Arabian Sea.


lizardfish

lizardfish (plural lizardfishes or lizardfish)

lizardfishes (plural)
lizardfish (plural)

Any member of the family Synodontidae of aulopiform fish.


flatty

From flat + -y.
(policeman): From flatfoot.


cattelo

cattelo (usually uncountable, plural cattelo or catteloes)

“They purposely crossed bison with domestic cattle to make a better beef animal,” which they called cattelo, said James Derr, a geneticist at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine.

2007 January 9, Jim Robbins, “Strands of Undesirable DNA Roam With Buffalo”, in New York Times:

A cross between domestic cattle and buffalo.


scorpionfish

scorpionfish (plural scorpionfish or scorpionfishes)

scorpionfish (plural)
scorpionfishes (plural)

Any of the family Scorpaenidae of mostly marine fish, including many of the world's most venomous species, the "sting" taking the form of sharp spines coated with venomous mucus.


crow scarer

Synonym of scarecrow (“effigy fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there”)


Southdown

I saw a Southdown or two among the others in the flock.

One of a particular English breed of small sheep with short wool and no horns.


treepie

Any of four closely related genera (Dendrocitta, Crypsirina, Temnurus and as of recently also Platysmurus) of arboreal long-tailed passerine birds in the subfamily Crypsirininae of family Corvidae.


trochilidine

en-adj

trochilidine (comparative more trochilidine, superlative most trochilidine)

more trochilidine (comparative)
most trochilidine (superlative)

From translingual Trochilidae (family name).

Trochilidine literature has never entirely recovered from its effect.

1892, Robert Ridgway, THE HUMMING BIRDS., page 261:

(ornithology, rare) Of, or pertaining to hummingbirds.


rock salmon

(British) The flesh of any of several species of small sharks.


American wigeon

en-noun

American wigeon (plural American wigeons)

Anas americana
Anas americana#Translingual


mavis

From Middle English mavys, from Anglo-Norman mauvis, from Old French mauvis (“song thrush”).

At midnight the moon cometh, / And looketh down alone; / Her song the lintwhite swelleth, / The clear voiced mavis dwelleth […]

1830, Tennyson Alfred Lord, “"Claribel"”, in Poems Chiefly Lyrical:


huss

A lot of people on this board think Western whites can't end up HSTS, but they just lack an imagination. Grew up in the Appalachians? Probable huss. Irish/Italian Northeastern Catholic family? Again, probable huss.

2022 September 22, anonymous author, /lgbt/ (4chan), archived from the original on 2024-06-25:

You're a huss because you date ftms

2022 December 29, anonymous author, /lgbt/ (4chan), archived from the original on 2024-06-25:

I'm a huss, vaginas make me throw up unironically

2023 October 18, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:

(4chan /lgbt/ slang) Alternative form of husstuss (“A transgender woman who is sexually attracted to men”)


cackleberry

From cackle + berry, from the sound of a hen and the rounded shape of an egg.

He had returned with a chipped bowl full of hen's eggs. ‘Nice fresh cackleberries for your mum and dad.’

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 254:

Kestrels they hunted down for their clusters of mottled cackleberries.

2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 218:


barreleye

A small, deep-sea osmeriform fish of the family Opisthoproctidae, with barrel-shaped, tubular eyes which are generally directed upwards to detect the silhouettes of available prey.


noodlefish

noodlefish (plural noodlefishes or noodlefish)

noodlefishes (plural)
noodlefish (plural)

Any of the family Salangidae of osmeriform fish, related to the smelts, with translucent bodies and no scales.


song thrush

Turdus philomelos
Turdus philomelos#Translingual

A songbird in the thrush family, found across Eurasia (Turdus philomelos).


spookfish

spookfish (plural spookfishes or spookfish)


dugite

A small dugite crawled across the lawn from the golf links.

1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 150:

Dugites and bobtails rustled out there, and in the evenings, bronzed by the sun as it dunked into the sea, whole mobs of kangaroos lined the ridge […].

1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 19:

Pseudonaja affinis, a highly venomous snake of southwest Australia.


ophio-

From Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”).


hoatzin

From Nahuatl huāctzin (which probably designated a different bird).

Hoatzins are large birds — at about twenty-six inches from head to tail, they are much larger than Archaeopteryx — with a yellowish chest, brown striped back, and a long narrow tail (Figure 53). Hoatzins are unusual in several ways, one of which is that hatchling hoatzins have claws on their wings. Although some other birds have vestigial wing claws, the hoatzin is the only species known to have functional wing or hand claws.

1999, Pat Shipman, Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight, page 196:

The hoatzin is a very colorful bird with a blue head, a tuft of feathers standing up on the head, and an orange iris in the eye.

2006, Buddy Davis, Kay Davis, Breathtaking Birds, page 41:

Unique among riverine bird species, the hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoatzin) is found along slow meandering streams and oxbows within the Amazon and Orinoco basins (Plate 12-43). Hoatzins resemble chickens in size and shape.

2011, John Kricher, Tropical Ecology, page 460:

Opisthocomus hoazin
Opisthocomus hoazin#Translingual

A bird, Opisthocomus hoazin, with claws on the wing fingers of the juvenile and an enlarged crop used as a rumen.


piwakawaka

(New Zealand) The grey fantail, Rhipidura fuliginosa, a small insectivorous bird of the South Pacific.


quaddie

From quadrella + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

2003 March 22, Craig Sherborne, Footy′s Man of Passion, The Herald Sun, republished in 2003, Garrie Hutchinson (editor), The Best Australian Sports Writing 2003, page 82,
He was a footballer, hard-boned, smart-mouthed, with an eye on the quaddie at Flemington.

I had the quaddie in Melbourne if Alinghi won.

2004 November 21, Josh Button, “Cup tips”, in aus.sport.rugby-league (Usenet):

2006, Mike Dillon, From The Horses Mouth: The Keith Haub Story, 2010, HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand), unnumbered page,
With only the last race to run the trio each had a $1 quaddie unit if Brent Thomson managed to get over the line in front.

For the Fourth week in a row I have had 3 live legs of the Quaddie only to be dudded by West Coast the last two!

2007 July 16, gF, “Screw Fremantle”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules (Usenet):

(Australia, gambling, horse racing, colloquial) A quadrella, a type of bet requiring the bettor to pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track; a bet requiring the selection of four winners of specified matches in a given round of a sporting competition.


pteranodon

/təˈɹænədɒn/

/təˈɹænədɑn/

From Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) + ἀνόδων (anódōn, “toothless”). By surface analysis, ptero- + an- + -odon.

surf

Expect to see species including the apatosaurus, the pteranodon and the tenontosaurus moving and vocalizing at this exhibition, as well as their present-day descendants in the zoos new 13,500-square-foot reptile wing.

2007 November 30, Laurel Graeber, “Spare Times: For Children”, in New York Times:

A member of Pteranodon, a genus of large pterosaurs, the males of which had a bony crest on the back of the head.


phytosaur

Any member of the families Phytosauridae or Parasuchidae, a group of large semi-aquatic predatory archosaurs, resembling modern crocodiles, that flourished during the Late Triassic period.


street pigeon

(UK) a rock pigeon living in an urban environment.


hedgepig

Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whined.

a. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 4, scene 1, line 2:

That sheeted heifer of Prowse’s is all wrong; her coat stares like a hedgepig's. Tell Jewell to go up and bring her in before night.

1855, Charles Kingsley, “Clovelly Court in the Olden Time”, in Westward Ho!, 4th edition, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, published 1857, page 91:


stock dove

[T]he stock-dove, unalarm'd, / Sits cooing in the pine-tree, nor suspends / His long love-ditty for my near approach.

1785, William Cowper, The Task, Book VI:

Columba oenas
Columba oenas#Translingual

A pigeon of species Columba oenas, found in much of Europe, in the family Columbidae of pigeons and doves).


habiline

By around 2.3 million years ago, the first tentative record emerges of a new species, a habiline. Habilines, still poorly understood, are the “missing link” between apes and humans.

2009, Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Basic Books, page 4:

A specimen of the now extinct species Homo habilis.


habiline

Finally, new finds from Olduvai prompted Leakey, Tobias and Napier (1964) to recognize a new form, Homo habilis. Although the post-cranial elements of this find are no longer believed to be habiline, further finds[…]suggest that there is indeed a reality to this species.

1985, Charles E. Oxnard, Humans, Apes and Chinese Fossils: New Implications for Human Evolution, Hong Kong University Press, page 7:

Sexual division of labor may be as old as the habiline hominids (H. habilis, ± 2.5 mya), who in all probability practiced a flexible subsistence strategy of "ecological opportunism optimized by tool use"[…].

1995, Johan Matheus Gerardus van der Dennen, The Origin of War: The Evolution of a Male-Coalitional Reproductive Strategy, Origin Press, page 572


titipounamu

The rifleman (bird), Acanthisitta chloris.


panchax

Any of various tropical fish in the cyprinodontiform families Aplocheilidae and Nothobranchiidae which were formerly classified in the genus Panchax.


heffalump

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-heffalump.wav

Probably a childish mispronunciation of elephant, perhaps influenced by half a lump (as in "I'll have half a lump of sugar in my tea"), coined by the English author Alan Alexander Milne (1882–1956) as the name of an imaginary animal in his book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926). The animal was not described in the book, but the illustrator Ernest Howard Shepard (1879–1976) depicted it as an elephant.
Sense 2 (“something which is elusive”) refers to the fact that in Milne’s book the characters Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet set a trap for, but are unable to capture, a heffalump.

coinage

We went to the zoo and saw some heffalumps.

Mrs. Jumbo stood at the door with the baby heffalump in her arms. She waved a large blue handkerchief and heffalump waved his little white paws. "Goodbye, Daddy Jumbo, Goodbye" they cried. "Goodbye Mummy Jumbo, goodbye baby heffalump."

1973, The Malahat Review, Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82:

From time to time to time, bones clearly recognized as those of elephants have been found in the North Temperate Zone. In Western Europe the explanation always was, "These are the remains of the army-elephants of Hannibal the Carthaginian." […

1983 January, Avram Davidson, “Adventures in Unhistory: What Gave All Those Mammoths Cold Feet?”, in [George H. Scithers], editor, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, volume 28, number 9, Lake Geneva, Wis.: Dragon Publishing, TSR Hobbies, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 90:

Yeees, we're going to the zoo to see animals. There are lions and tiggers and snakes and heffalumps.

2007, Nuno Morais, chapter 1, in Margaret Hart, transl., Spare Parts (Unholy Commerce; 1), Chicago, Ill.: Babelcube, published April 2020, →ISBN:

In the "Heffalumps and Woozles" ditty from Winnie the Pooh, elephants—those would be the heffalumps—wear tuxedos and use their trunks as accordions and suddenly turn blue. Fantastical, to be sure, but it's downright unimaginative compared to what European natural historians used to believe about the elephant: That it has no knees and it can't have sex until it eats the ridiculously toxic mandrake root, and even when it successfully mates, dragons eat its baby.

2014 May 11, Matt Simon, “Fantastically Wrong: History’s Most Hilarious Misconceptions About the Elephant”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-20:

(chiefly childish, humorous) (A child's name for) an elephant.


selachian

From the (disused) genus name Selache, from Latin selachē, from the plural of Ancient Greek σέλαχος (sélakhos, “shark”).

der

However, some selachians enter freshwater and a few, like the stingray Paratrygon motoro, are even restricted to freshwater.

1999, William C Hamlett, editor, Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes, page 300:

(zoology) Any organism of the superorder Selachimorpha or subclass Elasmobranchii; an extant shark (or related species).


saury

From Latin saurus, from Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins.

Pacific saury

Cololabis saira. Scomberesox scombroides


cascadura

Any of the armoured freshwater catfish of the genus Hoplosternum (syn. Cascadura).


shar-pei

Borrowed from Cantonese 沙皮 (saa¹ pei⁴, “sandpapery skin”).

bor

A dog of a distinctive breed with deep wrinkles, especially when young, a blue-black tongue, and a rough short coat.


elephantry

From elephant + -ry, by analogy with infantry and cavalry.

But, juſt before we took the Field, we demoliſhed our Elephantry, and to be more on a Level with the Baboons, introduced Monkies upon lean Cats, and thoſe too a little wild, becauſe we could maintain them very cheap, Monkies being content with Nuts, and Cats with any Thing.

1747 February 5, “Nº 83. Thursday, February 5, 1747”, in The Fool: Being a Collection of Essays and Epistles, Moral, Political, Humourous^([sic]), and Entertaining. Published in the Daily Gazetteer. With the Author's Preface, and a Complete Index, volume II, London: Printed, and sold, by Nutt, Cooke and Kingman, at the Royal Exchange; [et al.], published 1748, →OCLC, pages 258–259:

The king replied in a proclamation to his subjects that he was going to appear in person "with large forces of infantry, artillery, elephantry, and cavalry, by land and water, and with the might of his army efface these heretic Kalas, and annex their country."

1889, William W[otherspoon] Ireland, Through the Ivory Gate: Studies in Psychology and History, Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 12 Bank Street; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., and Hamilton, Adams & Co., →OCLC, page 309:

The elephantry always preceded the army and was primarily used to clear the road, demolish enemy forts, launch night attacks and for defending their own forts and in transporting war materials.

2003, Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa, Generalissimo Chilarai and His Times: A Historical Biography, 2nd edition, Ghy, Assam, India: Vikram Publishers, →OCLC, page 390:

Ashok maintained a large army (infantry) more than nine lakhs, a few thousand cavalries and elephantries.

2005, K. K. Sinha, “A Brief History of the Ancient Indian Achievements”, in Oriental and Western Science and Cosmology, Mumbai: Allied Publishers, →ISBN, page 31:

(military, historical) That branch of an army that uses elephants.

Battle of Zama
Henri-Paul Motte
Second Punic War


sevruga

en-noun

sevruga (countable and uncountable, plural sevrugas)

stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus).


hippotigrine

en-adj

hippotigrine (comparative more hippotigrine, superlative most hippotigrine)

more hippotigrine (comparative)
most hippotigrine (superlative)

From the Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + τίγρις (tígris, “tiger”), describing a 'tiger-like striped' equine, + -ine.

Hippotigrine black and white stripe patterns are fairly popular on cushions and furniture


azhdarchid

From scientific Latin Azhdarchidae (family name), ultimately from Persian اژدر (“mythological serpent”).

There are few creatures that embody the strangeness of the extinct quite like azhdarchids.

2017 February 8, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:

Azhdarchid pterosaurs, the largest-ever living flyers, bigger and lighter than Orville and Wilbur Wright's early aeroplanes, glided overhead.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 98:

Any member of the Azhdarchidae, a family of pterosaurs known primarily from the late Cretaceous including some of the largest known flying animals of all time.


pocket gopher

The pocket gophers are New World endemics for which the fossil history commences in the late Miocene (Kurtén and Anderson, 1980).

1998, B. J. Verts, Leslie N. Carraway, Land Mammals of Oregon, page 223:

Produced by pocket gophers, which push soil upward as they burrow along under the surface, soil tubes are most apparent where the soil is rocky.

2005, Ernest H. Williams Jr., The Nature Handbook : A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors, page 158:

Four species of pocket gophers are currently found within the Great Basin, all of which belong to the genus Thomomys.

2011, Donald K. Grayson, The Great Basin: A Natural Prehistory, page 196:

Any of the burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, regarded as the "true" gophers.


beardy

The fascinating "beardie" is not a tit at all, but belongs to an Asian family, the parrotbills.

1988, Michael Cady, Rob Hume, editors, The Complete Book of British Birds, page 242:

(informal) A bearded person or animal:
A bearded reedling.

But she always kept her distance whenever one of my beardies was out of its cage, as if Moose merely acted like a good-natured lap lizard to throw her off[…].

It is impossible to determine the sex of beardies as babies or juveniles, so if you are thinking of breeding them, you may have to buy four or five and raise them in individual enclosures.

2007, Steve Grenard, Bearded Dragon, page 52:

The bearded dragon will reach its adult length by one year. Baby beardies quickly grow into long, strong lizards!

2008, Suzanne Buckingham, Meet the Bearded Dragon, page 20:

(informal) A bearded person or animal:
A bearded dragon.

Beardies grow fast. They grow like a weed and can be as unsightly as one.

1996, Andrew De Prisco, James Burris Johnson, Choosing a Dog for Life, page 73:

Beardies take two to three years to mature, so be prepared for typical puppy activity during this time.

2005, Don Burke, The Complete Burke's Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets, page 754:

(informal) A bearded person or animal:
A bearded collie.

Loaches (or beardies) often also thinned our preserves, and in this they were occasionally helped by small eels. Whenever beardies got within an enclosure containing only creepers and caddis worms, in a very short space of time the beardies alone were left, so rapacious are these small fishes.

1864, John Younger, River Angling for Salmon and Trout : With a Memoir and List of the Tweed Salmon Casts, page 180:

(informal) A bearded person or animal:
Any of several kinds of fish; a loach.


blennioid

Any member of the true blennies of the suborder Blennioidei.


triplefin

Any of approximately 150 blennioid species of the family Tripterygiidae, found in tropical and temperate waters, whose dorsal fin is separated into three parts, two of them spinous.


rough fish

en-noun

rough fish (usually uncountable, plural rough fish or rough fishes)

rough fish (plural)
rough fishes (plural)

Any fish not considered valuable as sport fish nor used as bait or for food.

roskakala

fish regarded as having no value to humans


bony fish

bony fish (plural bony fishes or bony fish)

A fish of the taxonomic superclass Osteichthyes.


American jay

Any of several species of jays in several genera native to the Western hemisphere.


Canada jay

Perisoreus canadensis
Perisoreus canadensis#Translingual

(US) The gray jay, Perisoreus canadensis.


camp robber

(US) A gray jay (Perisoreus canadensis).


whisky jack

Perhaps an alteration of whisky john, a corruption of Cree wîskacân / ᐄᐧᐢᑲᒑᐣ (iiyskacaan), or perhaps directly from Cree wîskicâk ᐄᐧᐢᑭᒑᐠ (iiyskicaak). See also Wisakedjak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

(Canada) The gray jay, Perisoreus canadensis.


Sichuan jay

A jay of western China (Perisoreus internigrans).


Siberian jay

Perisoreus infaustus
Perisoreus infaustus#Translingual

A jay widespread in northern Eurasia, Perisoreus infaustus


blackbuck

blackbuck (plural blackbucks or blackbuck)

Antilope cervicapra
Antilope cervicapra#Translingual


testiere

From Middle English tester, from Old French testier(e), whence also French têtière (older testière).

(historical) Complete armour for a horse's head.


parson bird

From the two tufts of white feathers at the bird’s throat which resemble a parson’s clerical collar.

(archaic) Synonym of tui (“a species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand”)


oilfish

A snake mackerel (Ruvettus pretiosus), having a high content of wax esters instead of glyceride oils.


medrick

(rare) A species of tern, especially the common tern or Arctic tern.


megamouth shark

megamouth shark (plural megamouth sharks)

A rare species of deepwater shark, Megachasma pelagios, a filter-feeder, swimming with its large mouth wide open to capture plankton and jellyfish.

tangoytangoy

Megachasma pelagios, a rare deepwater shark


mehari

From Arabic مَهَارٍ (mahārin, “a mehari camel or dromedary”), from مَهَرَ (mahara, “to be deft or skillful”)

der

A type of fast-running dromedary camel, which can be used for racing or transport.


wormfish

en-noun

wormfish (plural wormfishes or wormfish)

Any of the family Microdesmidae of small goby-like fish which often burrow in estuarine mud.


megalosaur

As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.

1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

A carnivorous dinosaur of the family Megalosauridae.


sheepshead

sheepshead (countable and uncountable, plural sheepsheads or sheepshead)

sheepsheads (plural)
sheepshead (plural)

(countable) A fish of the species Archosargus probatocephalus.


xenarthran

/zəˈnɑɹθɹən/

From Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “strange”) + ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint”).

Elephant-shrews, xenarthrans, hystricognathous rodents, cetaceans, some pinnipeds, and primates depart sharply from this trend, however.

1978, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, page 355:

Xenarthrans appear to have originated in South America and to have undergone their major adaptive radiation there (Reig 1981).

2000, John F. Eisenberg, Kent H. Redford, Mammals of the Neotropics, volume 3, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, page 90:

Only four xenarthran families are extant today, providing little indication of the past richness of the order.

2008, Christine Argot, “3: Changing Views in Paleontology: The Story of a Giant (Megatherium, Xenarthra)”, in Eric J. Sargis, Marian Dagosto, editors, Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay, page 37:

2010, Ana Maria Jansen, André Luiz Rodrigues Roque, 11: Domestic and Wild Mammalian Reservoirs, Jenny Telleria, Michel Tibayrenc, American Trypanosomiasis: Chagas Disease: One Hundred Years of Research, page 249,
Marsupials and xenarthrans, which represented the autochthonous mammalian fauna, were T. cruzi’s first hosts.

(zoology) Any mammal of the superorder Xenarthra, of the Americas; an anteater, armadillo or sloth.


softly-softly

(regional, western or central Africa) The potto, Perodicticus potto, a primate in the family Lorisidae.


Shiba Inu

/ˌʃiːbə ˈiːnuː/

Even Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that began as a joke with a perpetually surprised Shiba Inu dog for its symbol, has soared almost 1,000 percent over the last week to set a record.

2021 February 8, Nathaniel Popper, “Elon Musk and Snoop Dogg Push Cryptocurrencies to Record Highs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A dog of a small, agile Japanese breed originally used for hunting.


sabalo

Fish of various species in the genus Brycon, native to northern South America.