nope rope

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Chosen for the rhyme. Rope suggests the snake's shape and nope that it inspires fear or aversion, prompting someone to nope out.

There are tons of danger noodles, nope ropes, and long bois throughout our streams, our forests, and our backyards;[…]

2019, David A. Steen, Secrets of Snakes: The Science beyond the Myths, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

The next time you're startled by a nope rope in your yard, perhaps you can appreciate the remarkable way it moves without limbs or even the way its mouth quirks up in what could be called a smile with a certain stretch of the imagination.

2020, Erica Wright, Snake, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:


danger noodle

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From the jocular likening of the long, thin, tubular shape of a snake to a noodle, with the "danger" referencing the threats posed by venomous and constricting species.

[…] but you can also feel free to base your decision entirely on the emotional reaction you want to elicit from your players: Do you want icky-creepy-get-it-away-from-me (one square full of writhing danger noodles), moderate freakout (four crocs), or full-scale panic attack (eight king cobras)?

2019, Keith Ammann, The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 36:

Yeah, right. The only thing I was going to become acquainted with was a one-way bus ticket to Nopeville. I was not sharing any kind of magical bond with this danger noodle.

2019, Bethany Hoeflich, “Soul Bonds are a Witch”, in A Bond of Words: 29 Short Stories, Scout Media, →ISBN, page 119:

Despite their fierce reputation, rattlesnakes (a.k.a. danger noodles) are rather shy and retiring, and they will avoid you at all costs.

2019, Scott Turner, Hike the Parks: Joshua Tree National Park: Best Day Hikes, Walks, and Sights, Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, page 44:


shock collar

A collar for a dog or other animal that delivers electrical stimulation of varying intensity and duration to the neck via radio control.


Lady Amherst

I would have guessed that the Lady Amherst (Chrysolophus amherstiae) would have been similar in its inclinations to the Golden (C. pictus), with which it will interbreed.

1999 January 27, Dan Cowell, “Re: Free-ranging pheasants”, in sci.agriculture.poultry (Usenet):

Lady Amherst's pheasant
Lady Amherst's pheasant#English

(British) Ellipsis of Lady Amherst's pheasant..


echimyine

Of or pertaining to the subfamily Echimyinae of the rodent family Echimyidae.


river warbler

Locustella fluviatilis
Locustella fluviatilis#Translingual

An Old World warbler of species Locustella fluviatilis.


lanceolated warbler

en-noun

lanceolated warbler (plural lanceolated warblers)

Locustella lanceolata
Locustella lanceolata#Translingual

Locustella lanceolata, an Old World warbler.


Pallas's grasshopper warbler

Pallas's grasshopper warbler (plural Pallas's grasshopper warblers)

Locustella certhiola
Locustella certhiola#Translingual

Locustella certhiola, an Old World warbler.


Asian desert warbler

Asian desert warbler (plural Asian desert warblers)


lesser whitethroat

lesser whitethroat (plural lesser whitethroats)

Curruca curruca
Curruca curruca#Translingual

Sylvia curruca
Sylvia curruca#Translingual

Curruca curruca (syn. Sylvia curruca), an Old World warbler.


Moltoni's warbler

Moltoni's warbler (plural Moltoni's warblers)

Named after Edgardo Moltoni, who described it.

Sylvia subalpina
Sylvia subalpina#Translingual


Rüppell's warbler

Rüppell's warbler (plural Rüppell's warblers)

Sylvia ruppeli
Sylvia ruppeli#Translingual


barred warbler

Sylvia nisoria
Sylvia nisoria#Translingual


western subalpine warbler

western subalpine warbler (plural western subalpine warblers)

Sylvia cantillans
Sylvia cantillans#Translingual

Sylvia cantillans, an Old World warbler.


scaly thrush

Zoothera dauma
Zoothera dauma#Translingual


short-toed treecreeper

short-toed treecreeper (plural short-toed treecreepers)

Certhia brachydactyla
Certhia brachydactyla#Translingual

Certhia brachydactyla, a species of bird in the family Certhiidae.


Swainson's thrush

Swainson's thrush (plural Swainson's thrushes)

Catharus ustulatus
Catharus ustulatus#Translingual

Catharus ustulatus, a medium-sized thrush of North America.


ducklet

The copulatory organ looks like a pinkish root tip and its presence denotes a drakelet. In the cloaca of a ducklet no such organ can be seen.

1932, The Harper Adams Utility Poultry Journal, volume 17, page 553:


catophile

Nobody can love Dickens and Thackeray equally well. The catophile will inevitably choose Thackeray, and prefer Baudelaire to either. On a le sens de chat, ou on ne l'a pas.

1922 September, “The Race of Tom”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 424:

Once someone becomes a confirmed catophile, he can rarely resist the pleasure of owning a cat again.

1969, Ann Currah, editor, The Cat Compendium, page 65:

Wycliffe, an incurable catophile, stooped to stroke the cat but Kemp stopped him.

1996, W. J. Burley, Wycliffe and the House of Fear, page 28:

(informal) One who is extremely fond of cats.


Sardinian warbler

Sardinian warbler (plural Sardinian warblers)

Sylvia melanocephala
Sylvia melanocephala#Translingual

Sylvia melanocephala, an Old World warbler.


little ringed plover

little ringed plover (plural little ringed plovers)

Charadrius dubius
Charadrius dubius#Translingual


common whitethroat

common whitethroat (plural common whitethroats)

Sylvia communis
Sylvia communis#Translingual

Sylvia communis, an Old World warbler, now sometimes Mezophilus communis or Curruca communis.


eyebrowed thrush

eyebrowed thrush (plural eyebrowed thrushes)

Turdus obscurus
Turdus obscurus#Translingual

A species of solitary thrush native to Asia, Turdus obscurus.


Siberian thrush

Siberian thrush (plural Siberian thrushes)

Geokichla sibirica
Geokichla sibirica#Translingual

A species of solitary thrush native to Siberia, Geokichla sibirica.


red-throated thrush

red-throated thrush (plural red-throated thrushes)

Turdus ruficollis
Turdus ruficollis#Translingual


Asian brown flycatcher

Asian brown flycatcher (plural Asian brown flycatchers)

Muscicapa dauurica
Muscicapa dauurica#Translingual

Muscicapa dauurica, an Asian flycatcher.


white-throated robin

white-throated robin (plural white-throated robins)

Irania gutturalis
Irania gutturalis#Translingual

Irania gutturalis, a flycatcher breeding in western Asia and overwinters in East Africa


Naumann's thrush

Naumann's thrush (plural Naumann's thrushes)

Turdus naumanni
Turdus naumanni#Translingual


Siberian rubythroat

Siberian rubythroat (plural Siberian rubythroats)

Calliope calliope
Calliope calliope#Translingual

Calliope calliope, a flycatcher breeding in western Siberia and overwinters in South Asia.


European pied flycatcher

European pied flycatcher (plural European pied flycatchers)

Ficedula hypoleuca
Ficedula hypoleuca#Translingual

Old World flycatcher
Old World flycatcher

Ficedula hypoleuca, an Old World flycatcher breeding in Europe and overwintering in Africa


red-flanked bluetail

red-flanked bluetail (plural red-flanked bluetails)

Tarsiger cyanurus
Tarsiger cyanurus#Translingual

Tarsiger cyanurus, an Old World flycatcher


collared flycatcher

collared flycatcher (plural collared flycatchers)

Ficedula albicollis
Ficedula albicollis#Translingual

Ficedula albicollis, an Old World flycatcher breeding in eastern Europe and across Central Asia, overwintering in Africa


red-breasted flycatcher

red-breasted flycatcher (plural red-breasted flycatchers)

Ficedula parva
Ficedula parva#Translingual

Ficedula parva, an Old World flycatcher breeding in eastern Europe and across Central Asia.


taiga flycatcher

taiga flycatcher (plural taiga flycatchers)

Ficedula albicilla
Ficedula albicilla#Translingual

Ficedula albicilla, an Old World flycatcher breeding in Asia


Eurasian tree sparrow

Eurasian tree sparrow (plural Eurasian tree sparrows)

Passer montanus
Passer montanus#Translingual

Passer montanus, a small passerine bird in the family Passeridae


Siberian stonechat

Siberian stonechat (plural Siberian stonechats)

Saxicola maurus
Saxicola maurus#Translingual

Saxicola maurus, an Old World flycatcher.


pied wheatear

Oenanthe pleschanka
Oenanthe pleschanka#Translingual

Oenanthe pleschanka, an Old World flycatcher native to Asia


pied bushchat

Saxicola caprata
Saxicola caprata#Translingual


Siberian accentor

Siberian accentor (plural Siberian accentors)

Prunella montanella
Prunella montanella#Translingual

Prunella montanella, a small passerine bird in the family Prunellidae.


isabelline wheatear

isabelline wheatear (plural isabelline wheatears)

Oenanthe isabellina
Oenanthe isabellina#Translingual

Oenanthe isabellina, an Old World flycatcher native to Asia


black-throated accentor

black-throated accentor (plural black-throated accentors)

Prunella atrogularis
Prunella atrogularis#Translingual

Prunella atrogularis, a small passerine bird in the family Prunellidae


western black-eared wheatear

western black-eared wheatear (plural western black-eared wheatears)

Oenanthe hispanica
Oenanthe hispanica#Translingual

Oenanthe hispanica, an Old World flycatcher native to the Mediterranean and Caucasus


desert wheatear

desert wheatear (plural desert wheatears)

Oenanthe deserti
Oenanthe deserti#Translingual

Oenanthe deserti, an Old World flycatcher native to Asia and northern Africa


European stonechat

European stonechat (plural European stonechats)

Saxicola rubicola
Saxicola rubicola#Translingual

Saxicola rubicola, an Old World flycatcher


Spanish sparrow

Spanish sparrow (plural Spanish sparrows)

Passer hispaniolensis
Passer hispaniolensis#Translingual

Passer hispaniolensis, a small passerine bird in the family Passeridae


northern wheatear

northern wheatear (plural northern wheatears)

There are northern wheatears close to the stream, easy-to-spot males with their rust-tinged breasts and a smart black stripe through the eye.

2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 46:

Oenanthe oenanthe
Oenanthe oenanthe#Translingual

Old World flycatcher
Old World flycatcher

Oenanthe oenanthe, an Old World flycatcher.


alpine accentor

alpine accentor (plural alpine accentors)

Prunella collaris
Prunella collaris#Translingual

Prunella collaris, a small passerine bird in the family Prunellidae


eastern yellow wagtail

eastern yellow wagtail (plural eastern yellow wagtails)

Motacilla tschutschensis
Motacilla tschutschensis#Translingual

Motacilla tschutschensis, a small passerine bird in the family Motacillidae native to East Asia


grey wagtail

Motacilla cinerea
Motacilla cinerea#Translingual

A small passerine bird in the family Motacillidae (Motacilla cinerea).


western yellow wagtail

western yellow wagtail (plural western yellow wagtails)

Motacilla flava
Motacilla flava#Translingual

Motacilla flava, a small passerine bird in the family Motacillidae


citrine wagtail

citrine wagtail (plural citrine wagtails)

Motacilla citreola
Motacilla citreola#Translingual

Motacilla citreola, a small passerine bird in the family Motacillidae native to Eurasia


cowlet

—Chicago boasts of a citizen of fine discrimination and delicacy, who, riding in the suburbs with his best girl, passed a stable in the door of which stood a couple of calves. “See,” said the young lady, “those two cute little cowlets.” “Those are not cowlets, Araminta; they are bullets.”

1886, Hamilton Literary Magazine, Clippings, page 110:

A lurid lumination lights lithe Laura’s eyes, / (O, tender cowlet, kick the bucket o’er)— / A look of anger and of pained surprise, / A look that ne’er had lit those orbs before.

1888, The Blue and Gold, volume 15, The Light in Laura’s Eyes, page 172:

Separate all cowlets from the cows, as they drink all the milk. Cowlets should be earning their own living.

1913, Queensland Agricultural Journal, page 226:

After a short while a thin small cow was released from the gangway leading to the menagerie. Provided with a scarlet cape, Juanito strutted forward towards the scampering cowlet. […] So in vest and black clown’s pantaloons, he provoked the cowlet and played the heavy matador. With all the grand airs of a Bombita Chica or a Montes he advanced to the assault. The dutiful cowlet gave a low. The little cow almost laughed to see such sport.

1932, Wyndham Lewis, Snooty Baronet, Haskell House Publishers Ltd., published 1971, page 201:

Book Agent. Oh, so you are interested in farming? Isn’t that a coincidence? The Everyday Encyclopedia Of Useful Facts included a five-hundred-and-seventy-three-page volume on farm and country life. / Mr. Jordan. (Interested) It does! / Book Agent. It certainly does. I think I have some sample leaflets here. (Opens a briefcase and takes out a pamphlet with some colored pages in it) See! Here is a picture showing a group of contented little cowlets browsing by a babbling brook. / Mr. Jordan. (Puzzled) Cow'''lets? / Book Agent. Yes, little cows. Aren’t they dears? / Mr. Jordan. I thought you said they were cows. / Book Agent. (Laughs) Now, aren’t you the clever one, though?

1934, Boyce Loving, Swappers: A Comedy in Three Acts, page 25:

“I am not sure a compilation of odds and ends should be called a ‘book.’ Perhaps ‘booklet’ would be the better designation. My daughter, when quite young, once spoke of a heifer calf she saw grazing on the rim of the road as a ‘cowlet.’ In reality, the wayside animal was a ‘bullet.’ Though this book, or booklet, isn’t even calf-bound, the analogy should have been close enough to make me wary of jumping to a conclusion. However, it is too late now.

1937, Quarterly Bulletin: The Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio, page 17:

YES — imagine, if you can, that all human beings are cows and or bulls for just one day (I just can’t stand the thoughts of being a cow for more than one day). SO — lets^([sic]) take the cow and bull side of the question first. REMEMBER — you are a cow or bull. Mrs. Cow has been home all day busy getting the cotton seed meal and hulls ready for dinner, tending to the little cowlets and bullets and baking a bale of hay.

1959, C. B. Kitchens, X-syrps from the Trickem News Chronic, page 5:

What’s a meta for anyway, I say, if not to mix with chicken lips, cow intestines and pig ganglia, foisted on poor defenseless cowlets held captive in feed lots for a significant portion of their tiny, meaningless lives, destined for the compressed air gun, the hook, and the heavy hammer, and the human Bar-B-Q bun, rotisserie and intestinal villi.

2004, Michael A. Lewis, “Culture”, in Écritage, Arana Gulch Press, published 2010, →ISBN, Endangered Species: January 1, 2004, page 27:


gunbroke

Well hold his horse. He might not be gunbroke.

1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 42:

Most o' the horses are gunbroke an' they're less likely to spook than the cattle.

2009, Will Armstrong, Jordan Land, page 122:

They'll stand to be saddled and, long as nobody does anything ignorant, they're not likely to throw. Aren't any of them gunbroke, but we can get them that way.

2014, Aaron Gwyn, Wynne's War: A Novel, page 114:

(of a horse) Trained not to spook when a gun is fired nearby.


tack room

“First you've got to sit up and go into the tackroom, because you are soaking wet. And shivering.” […] The tackroom was cold, so Sam turned on the kerosene heater and found a wool cooler and wrapped her in it.

2001, Jane Smiley, Horse Heaven, New York, NY: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 61:

A room used for storing horse tack and related accessories, usually situated near or in a stable.


greenbroke

en-adj

greenbroke (comparative more greenbroke, superlative most greenbroke)

more greenbroke (comparative)
most greenbroke (superlative)

Just halfway decent greenbroke horses. Say six saddles. Double and stop and stand still to be saddled.

1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 103:

Maggie dashed away the tear tracks on her cheeks. “Thank you, Mr. Potts. I believe I' ll take you up on your offer as my colt is only greenbroke, and the only other horse I know how to ride is gone—pulling our cart .

1995, Katharine Kincaid, Ride the Wind, page 364:

This is readily seen in the greenbroke horse that has yet to build full confidence in its rider. I have frequently observed the enhanced performance of the greenbroke horse when it is allowed to train or exercise in the company of others, whether that horse is familiar with its company or not.

1998, Joy Roberts, The Joy of Horses, page 28:

We'll add a greenbroke pack animal and you can break him on the trail.

(of a horse or pack animal) Newly tamed; not fully domesticated for all forms of working.


Dolly Varden trout

en-noun

Dolly Varden trout (plural Dolly Varden trout)

Named after Dolly Varden, a character in Barnaby Rudge, a novel by Charles Dickens, and the 19th-century woman's outfit of the same name. For more information, see Dolly Varden trout on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

pedia

Dolly Varden trout#Origin of common name "Dolly Varden"

A salmonid fish, Salvelinus malma, native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.

Barnaby Rudge
Charles Dickens
Dolly Varden trout


cockfish

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Spawning fish on the redds. A henfish will often be attended by two or three cockfish – whilst displaying ritual combat between themselves, one cock will mate, others may follow [image caption]

2005, Roderick Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, “Life in the Nursery”, in Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 23:

A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.

Morphology of the main digestive features of cockfish, Callorhinchus callorhynchus, is described and linked to feeding habits. […] The diet of the cockfish is compared with that of other holocephalans.

1996, Edgardo E. Di Gitlcomo, Maria Raquel Perier, “Feeding habits of cockfish, Callorhinchus callorhynchus (Holocephali: Callorhynchidae), in Patagonian waters (Argentina)”, in Marine and Freshwater Research, volume 47, number 6, →DOI, page 801:

A callorhinchid fish, Callorhinchus callorynchus, native to South America.

A cyprinid fish, Hypselobarbus dubius, native to India.


flinthead

From flint + head, from the grey colour of the head.


flammulated owl

en-noun

flammulated owl (plural flammulated owls)

Psiloscops flammeolus, a small nocturnal American owl with flame-like markings on the face.


wood ibis

A bird, the wood stork (not a true ibis).


wolfess

From Middle English wolfesse, wolvas, wolvesse; equivalent to wolf + -ess.

He’ll enjoy the game, and if he goes into it with his eyes wide open, he won’t be ensnared by any tricks the wolfess plays on him. Not your man. He’s yours!

1946, Elizabeth Woodward, Let’s Have a Party, page 19:

The hostess who invites only the gals whom she thinks she can outshine in looks and conversation, so that she’ll be queen of the ball, will swiftly win the reputation of having only female goons and creeps at her parties. Boys also duck the wolfess who manages to invite five men to every girl so that, although all of the frails enjoy a dizzy whirl, most of the men just stand around talking to one another. […] Keep your wolfess tactics away from a school dance or party, especially when they’re aimed at somebody else’s date.

1947, Betty Betz, The Betty Betz Party Book, pages 16, 55:

[…] the types of girls you’re more likely to come across in your dating life.” There was the gold digger, the wolfess, and the catty character, but worst of all was the bad sport: […]

2002, Lynn Peril, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, →ISBN, page 148:

The use of -ess(e) to form the nouns of female animals spread after the introduction of lioness and gave rise, by analogy, to the nonce-word dovess. But wolfess, the medieval term for a she-wolf, is now rarely used in Present Day English except to mean a woman that is sexually aggressive.

[2015, Elena Sasu, Nicolas Trapateau, “Inkhorn Terms: Some that Got Away. Middle English Words Ending in -ess(e)”, in Fabienne Toupin, Brian Lowrey, editors, Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change: From Old to Middle English, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, 5. The fate of words ending in -ess(e): 3. Lexical revival, page 75:


wood stork

Mycteria americana
Mycteria americana#Translingual

A large American wading bird, Mycteria americana.


Richard's pipit

Richard's pipit (plural Richard's pipits)

Named after the French naturalist Charles Richard (1745–1835).

Anthus richardi
Anthus richardi#Translingual

Anthus richardi, a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in open grasslands in the East Palearctic.


Blyth's pipit

Named after the English zoologist Edward Blyth.

Anthus godlewskii
Anthus godlewskii#Translingual

Anthus godlewskii, medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in Mongolia and neighbouring areas of China, Tibet and India.


Pechora pipit

Anthus gustavi
Anthus gustavi#Translingual

Anthus gustavi, a passerine bird which breeds in the East Palearctic tundra


olive-backed pipit

olive-backed pipit (plural olive-backed pipits)

Anthus hodgsoni
Anthus hodgsoni#Translingual

Anthus hodgsoni, passerine bird of the pipit (Anthus) genus, which breeds across southern, north central and eastern Asia, as well as in the north-eastern European Russia


Manx longhorn

A primitive breed of sheep native to the Isle of Man, noted for having multiple sets of horns, and shaggy wool.


scarlet rosefinch

scarlet rosefinch (plural scarlet rosefinches)

Carpodacus erythrinus
Carpodacus erythrinus#Translingual

Carpodacus erythrinus, an Old World warbler.


American pipit

Anthus rubescens
Anthus rubescens#Translingual

Anthus rubescens, a small songbird found on both sides of the northern Pacific.


white-winged crossbill

white-winged crossbill (countable and uncountable, plural white-winged crossbills)

two-barred crossbill
two-barred crossbill#English


spruce siskin

Spinus spinus
Spinus spinus#Translingual

Synonym of Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus)


pine grosbeak

Pinicola enucleator
Pinicola enucleator#Translingual

Pinicola enucleator, a large member of the true finch family, Fringillidae.


common rosefinch

common rosefinch (plural common rosefinches)

Carpodacus erythrinus, a small passerine bird.


European greenfinch

European greenfinch (plural European greenfinches)

Chloris chloris
Chloris chloris#Translingual

Chloris chloris, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.


buff-bellied pipit

buff-bellied pipit (plural buff-bellied pipits)


parrot crossbill

parrot crossbill (plural parrot crossbills)

Loxia pytyopsittacus
Loxia pytyopsittacus#Translingual

Loxia pytyopsittacus, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.


European serin

Serinus serinus
Serinus serinus#Translingual

Serinus serinus, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.


pinkfoot

pink-footed goose
pink-footed goose#English


two-barred crossbill

two-barred crossbill (plural two-barred crossbills)

Loxia leucoptera
Loxia leucoptera#Translingual

Loxia leucoptera, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.


ring-necked duck

ring-necked duck (plural ring-necked ducks)

Aythya collaris
Aythya collaris#Translingual

Aythya collaris, a diving duck from North America commonly found in freshwater ponds and lakes


grey-hooded bunting

grey-hooded bunting (plural grey-hooded buntings)

chestnut-eared bunting
chestnut-eared bunting#English


grey-headed bunting

grey-headed bunting (plural grey-headed buntings)


chestnut-eared bunting

chestnut-eared bunting (plural chestnut-eared buntings)

Emberiza fucata
Emberiza fucata#Translingual

Emberiza fucata, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.


Cretzschmar's bunting

Cretzschmar's bunting (plural Cretzschmar's buntings)

Emberiza caesia
Emberiza caesia#Translingual

Emberiza caesia, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.


pine bunting

Emberiza leucocephalos
Emberiza leucocephalos#Translingual

Emberiza leucocephalos, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.


Pallas's bunting

Pallas's bunting (plural Pallas's buntings)

Emberiza pallasi
Emberiza pallasi#Translingual

Emberiza pallasi, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.


ortolan bunting

ortolan bunting (plural ortolan buntings)

Emberiza hortulana
Emberiza hortulana#Translingual

Emberiza hortulana, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.


grey-necked bunting

grey-necked bunting (plural grey-necked buntings)

Emberiza buchanani
Emberiza buchanani#Translingual

Emberiza buchanani, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.


dark-eyed junco

dark-eyed junco (plural dark-eyed juncos)

Junco hyemalis
Junco hyemalis#Translingual

Junco hyemalis, a passerine bird in the passerine family Passerellidae.


little bunting

Emberiza pusilla
Emberiza pusilla#Translingual

Emberiza pusilla, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.


American tree sparrow

American tree sparrow (plural American tree sparrows)

Spizelloides arborea
Spizelloides arborea#Translingual

Spizelloides arborea, a passerine bird in the passerine family Passerellidae.


yellow-browed bunting

yellow-browed bunting (plural yellow-browed buntings)

Emberiza chrysophrys
Emberiza chrysophrys#Translingual

Emberiza chrysophrys, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.


black-headed bunting

black-headed bunting (plural black-headed buntings)

Emberiza melanocephala
Emberiza melanocephala#Translingual

Emberiza melanocephala, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.


rose-breasted grosbeak

rose-breasted grosbeak (plural rose-breasted grosbeaks)

Pheucticus ludovicianus
Pheucticus ludovicianus#Translingual

Pheucticus ludovicianus, a large, seed-eating grosbeak in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae).


rock bunting

Emberiza cia, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.


black-faced bunting

black-faced bunting (plural black-faced buntings)

Emberiza spodocephala
Emberiza spodocephala#Translingual

Emberiza spodocephala, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.


white-throated sparrow

white-throated sparrow (plural white-throated sparrows)

Zonotrichia albicollis
Zonotrichia albicollis#Translingual

Zonotrichia albicollis, a passerine bird in the passerine family Passerellidae.


Lapland longspur

Lapland longspur (plural Lapland longspurs)

Calcarius lapponicus
Calcarius lapponicus#Translingual

Calcarius lapponicus, a passerine bird in the longspur family Calcariidae.


yellow-headed blackbird

yellow-headed blackbird (plural yellow-headed blackbirds)

Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus, a medium-sized blackbird, and the only member of the genus Xanthocephalus.


yellow-breasted bunting

yellow-breasted bunting (plural yellow-breasted buntings)

Emberiza aureola
Emberiza aureola#Translingual

Emberiza aureola, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.


cinereous bunting

cinereous bunting (plural cinereous buntings)

Emberiza cineracea
Emberiza cineracea#Translingual

Emberiza cineracea, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.


Eurasian teal

Anas crecca, a common and widespread duck which breeds in temperate Palearctic and migrates south in winter.


Hispaniolan crossbill

Hispaniolan crossbill (plural Hispaniolan crossbills)

Loxia megaplaga
Loxia megaplaga#Translingual

Loxia megaplaga, a crossbill that is endemic to Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic), and the only one of its genus in the Caribbean.


Scottish crossbill

Scottish crossbill (plural Scottish crossbills)

Loxia scotica
Loxia scotica#Translingual

Loxia scotica, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is endemic to the Caledonian Forests of Scotland


Cassia crossbill

Cassia crossbill (plural Cassia crossbills)

Loxia sinesciuris
Loxia sinesciuris#Translingual

Loxia sinesciuris, a passerine bird in the family Fringillidae, endemic to the South Hills and Albion Mountains in southern Idaho.


redband

The Warner Lakes redband lives mostly in Oregon, but for the purposes of the challenge, of course, you have to catch your fish in California.

2020, James Pogue, “Redbands”, in California Fly Fisher:

One of several subspecies of rainbow trout (O. m. gairdneri, O. m. newberrii, O. m. stonei).


balenopterid

Any baleen whale of the family Balaenopteridae


carideer

The Nunivak Island game range in Alaska is the home of muskoxen, carideer (a cross between caribou and reindeer), and reindeer.

1943, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1944: Hearings, volume 3, page 693:

The reindeer and carideer on Nunivak Island are superior animals in weight and size.

1963, L. J. Palmer, Charles H. Rouse, Muskoxen Investigations in Alaska 1930-35, page 13:

(rare) An animal that is a hybrid of caribou and reindeer.


lesser jacana

Microparra capensis
Microparra capensis#Translingual

Microparra capensis, a wader in the family Jacanidae.


Madagascar jacana

Madagascar jacana (plural Madagascar jacanas)

Actophilornis albinucha
Actophilornis albinucha#Translingual

Actophilornis albinucha, a wader in the family Jacanidae.


bronze-winged jacana

bronze-winged jacana (plural bronze-winged jacanas)

Metopidius indicus
Metopidius indicus#Translingual

a wader of species Metopidius indicus, in the family Jacanidae.


northern jacana

northern jacana (plural northern jacanas)

Jacana spinosa
Jacana spinosa#Translingual

Jacana spinosa, a wader in the family Jacanidae.


comb-crested jacana

comb-crested jacana (plural comb-crested jacanas)

Irediparra gallinacea
Irediparra gallinacea#Translingual

Irediparra gallinacea, a wader in the family Jacanidae.


pheasant-tailed jacana

pheasant-tailed jacana (plural pheasant-tailed jacanas)

Hydrophasianus chirurgus
Hydrophasianus chirurgus#Translingual

Hydrophasianus chirurgus, a wader in the family Jacanidae.


wattled jacana

Jacana jacana
Jacana jacana#Translingual

Jacana jacana, a wader in the family Jacanidae.


African jacana

Actophilornis africanus
Actophilornis africanus#Translingual

Actophilornis africanus, a wader in the family Jacanidae.


go the way of the dodo bird

en-verb

go<goes,,went,gone> the way of the dodo bird

go the way of the dodo bird (third-person singular simple present goes the way of the dodo bird, present participle going the way of the dodo bird, simple past went the way of the dodo bird, past participle gone the way of the dodo bird)

goes the way of the dodo bird (present singular third-person)
going the way of the dodo bird (participle present)
went the way of the dodo bird (past)
gone the way of the dodo bird (participle past)

/ˈɡəʊ ðə ˌweɪ ə(v)ðə ˈdəʊdəʊ bɜːd/

/ˈɡoʊ ðə ˌweɪ ə(v)ðə ˈdoʊˌdoʊ bɝd/

[A]s many middle-class women entered the workforce, the live-in servant went the way of the dodo bird, and the maids, servants, and hired girls who had helped with the back-breaking housework preferred jobs in offices.

1995, Sylvia Lovegren, “The Twenties: Icebox Cookery and Other Modern Ideas”, in Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 2:

Soon the typewriter would become a back-office curiosity, and the slide-rule would go the way of the Dodo bird.

1995, Joachim Schurmann, “Do-it-yourself Software”, in Jessica Keyes, editor, Technology Trendlines: Technology Success Stories from Today’s Visionaries, New York, N.Y.: Van Nostrand Reinhold, Wiley, →ISBN, page 119:

Without sending the verification, your credit for the find goes the way of the dodo bird.

2004, Erik Sherman, “Cache On”, in Geocaching: Hide and Seek with Your GPS (A Technology in Action Press Book), Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →DOI, →ISBN, page 24:

She [Thelma Golden] wanted to emphasize that postmulticulturalist African American artists had both benefited from and wanted to move on from that narrow focus on racial content over formal quality. She certainly didn't mean to suggest that racism had gone the way of the dodo bird or that race was no longer a concern of these artists—in fact, quite the opposite.

2006, Jeff Chang, “Introduction: Hip-hop Arts: Our Expanding Universe”, in Jeff Chang, editor, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-hop, New York, N.Y.: BasicCivitas, →ISBN, note 1, page xv:

The reason that so many were fleeing the land was simply that small family farms were going the way of the dodo bird.

2011, C. J. Maloney, “The Angel of Arthurdale Arrives”, in Back to the Land: Arthurdale, FDR’s New Deal, and the Costs of Economic Planning, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 67:

In the new Atomic Age, little thought was given (again) to the relevancy of the lone shooter, and the allies continued to thumb their noses at history and allowed their sniper programs to go the way of the dodo bird. Not so much the Communists.

2011, Brandon Webb, Glen Doherty, “The History of Snipers”, in The 21st-century Sniper: A Complete Practical Guide, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, page 47, column 1:

During Reconstruction, after [William Tecumseh] Sherman had torched the place, the planners decided to let the old historic landmarks go the way of the dodo bird; and over the next century and a half Atlanta got tarted up in steel and glass.

2011 October 11, Robert Kirkman, Jay Bonansinga, The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 100:

go the way of the dodo
go the way of the dodo#English

(idiomatic) Alternative form of go the way of the dodo.


tusked frog

A frog of species Adelotus brevis, of central eastern Australia, having two tusk-like projections on the lower jaw.


swinehound

From swine + hound, a direct calque of German Schweinehund.


scoophead

A species of hammerhead shark, Sphyrna media, distinguished by its moderately broad, mallet-shaped head.


guggy egg

(Ireland) A dish for a young child consisting of a soft-to-medium boiled egg with butter, salt, and pepper, served mashed in a cup.


spindalis

Any of various passerine species of birds of the genus Spindalis, of Caribbean distribution.


rock-wallaby

Any of the wallabies of the genus Petrogale.


greater whitethroat

en-noun

greater whitethroat (plural greater whitethroats)

common whitethroat
common whitethroat#English


streaked fantail warbler

streaked fantail warbler (plural streaked fantail warblers)

zitting cisticola
zitting cisticola#English


European spotted flycatcher

European spotted flycatcher (plural European spotted flycatchers)

spotted flycatcher
spotted flycatcher#English


tundra bean goose

tundra bean goose (plural tundra bean geese)

Anser serrirostris
Anser serrirostris#Translingual

Any goose of species Anser serrirostris, that breeds in northern Siberia.


zitting cisticola

zitting cisticola (plural zitting cisticolas)

Cisticola juncidis
Cisticola juncidis#Translingual

A passerine bird of species Cisticola juncidis, family Cisticolidae, distributed across Africa, Eurasia, and Australasia.


cackling goose

Branta hutchinsii
Branta hutchinsii#Translingual

Branta hutchinsii, a North American bird of the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species.


American black duck

American black duck (plural American black ducks)

Anas rubripes
Anas rubripes#Translingual

Anas rubripes, a large dabbling duck in the family Anatidae.


red-breasted goose

red-breasted goose (plural red-breasted geese)

Branta ruficollis
Branta ruficollis#Translingual

Branta ruficollis, a species of goose from Eurasia, with a large rust-colored area on its breast and throat.


Eurasian blackcap

Eurasian blackcap (plural Eurasian blackcaps)

Sylvia atricapilla
Sylvia atricapilla#Translingual

Sylvia atricapilla, an Old World warbler.

вэдщхьэфӏыцӏэ

vɛdśḥɛfʼəcʼɛ


lesser white-fronted goose

lesser white-fronted goose (plural lesser white-fronted geese)

Anser erythropus
Anser erythropus#Translingual

Anser albifrons
Anser albifrons#Translingual

Anser erythropus, a goose closely related to the larger white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)


doctor bird

Compound of doctor + bird. The bird, endemic to Jamaica, is so named because its tail resembles a stethoscope.

The red-billed streamertail, also known as the doctor bird, is a hummingbird which is indigenous to Jamaica.

He listened to the zip of doctor birds at the window and the peach trees in the wind.

2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 125:

Trochilus polytmus; a red-billed streamertail; scissor-tail hummingbird; scissors tail hummingbird (hummingbird)


Brazilian aardvark

Brazilian aardvark (plural Brazilian aardvarks)

/bɹəˌzɪljən ˈɑɹdvɑɹk/

/bɹəˌzɪljən ˈɑːdvɑːk/

The name was picked up following its insertion into Wikipedia in July 2008 by Dylan Breves as a joke. The hoax was uncovered in 2014, but some use of the name has continued.

Specializing mostly in birds, pheasants and ducks, they also have a few donkeys, snakes, porcupines and a group of animals: Brazilian aardvarks, Mexican tejon, hog-nosed coons, pistoes and snookum bears, which are cousins of the racoon.

2010 April 20, Randy Burns, “Scape Ore Farms' menagerie becoming an attraction”, in The Item, volume 115, number 157, page A4:

If they receive government approval, the species they'll be working with would include the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus); jaguar (Panthera onca); black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus); bush dog (Speothos venaticus); Brazilian aardvark, also known locally as coati (Nasua nasua); collared anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla); gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira); and bison (Bison bison).

2012 November 14, John R. Platt, “Brazil Plans to Clone Its Endangered Species”, in Scientific American, quoted in print in Phillips, published 2020, →ISBN:

2013 February 20, "Brazilian aardvark on the loose in Marlow" (headline, when a coati escaped; article by James Nadal), in Bucks Free Press (Buckinghamshire, UK); quoted in print in Phillips (2020, →ISBN)

[…] A Brazilian aardvark, pictured enoying a snack in Tulum, Mexico.

2020, Tom Phillips, Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t, Harlequin, →ISBN:


king of birds

царь-птица m (carʹ-ptica, literally “bird king”)


eastern Orphean warbler

eastern Orphean warbler (plural eastern Orphean warblers)

Sylvia crassirostris
Sylvia crassirostris#Translingual

Curruca crassirostris
Curruca crassirostris#Translingual

Sylvia crassirostris, an Old World warbler. Now sometimes Curruca crassirostris.


western Orphean warbler

western Orphean warbler (plural western Orphean warblers)

Sylvia hortensis
Sylvia hortensis#Translingual

Curruca hortensis
Curruca hortensis#Translingual

Sylvia hortensis, an Old World warbler. Now sometimes Curruca hortensis.


dusky shark

A requiem shark of species Carcharhinus obscurus, found in tropical and warm-temperate continental seas worldwide.


dusky dolphin

Lagenorhynchus obscurus, a dolphin found in coastal waters in the Southern Hemisphere.


viverral

A cat breed, the cross between a Bengal cat and an Asian fishing cat


servical

The hybrid offspring of a male serval and a female caracal


swift fox

Vulpes velox, a species of fox found in the central United States.


crab-eater seal

crab-eater seal (plural crab-eater seals)

From the mistaken belief that they eat crabs.

Lobodon carcinophagus
Lobodon carcinophagus#Translingual

The seal Lobodon carcinophagus, which eats krill.


Negretti

Uncertain. Probably from Negretti, the name or title of the family which owned the strain.

If a man with large means intends to raise for wool merely, or principally, I leave it open to him to select Negrettes or Combwools, as both will pay with necessary care; and although I belong to the old merino school, I am last to deny the qualities of a Cotswold.

1871, C. C. Hutchinson, Resources and Development of Kansas: Fifteen Years Experience, Topeka, KS: C. C. Hutchinson, pages 131–132:

A sheep of a Merino strain of Spanish origin, known for having very fine wool.


Appie

(informal) A member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, an outdoor group in the United States.


add to the list

en-verb

add to the list (third-person singular simple present adds to the list, present participle adding to the list, simple past and past participle added to the list)

adds to the list (present singular third-person)
adding to the list (participle present)
added to the list (participle past)
added to the list (past)

Sabinus has been added to the list.

(transitive, slang, dated, horse racing) To geld (a horse).


German Sheprador

en-noun

German Sheprador (plural German Shepradors)

The Ryans had several dogs, including a German Sheprador who had to be separated from the others because of her aggressive nature.

2017, Jon Hochschartner, The Animals' Freedom Fighter, Jefferson: McFarland & Co., →ISBN, page 147:

A cross between a German Shepherd and a Labrador.


catess

I merely add that after a short acquaintance between the Monkey and the Lioness, a Cat and Catess made their appearance to the great surprise and no small scandal of the whole social circle.[…]Anubis, worshipped since under the name of Mercury, was transformed into a Dog; Diana, who according to a learned Orientalist, is the same as the Egyptian Isis, took the form of a handsome Cat, or rather Catess.

1852, Charles Hale, editor, To-day, a Boston Literary Journal, volume I, Boston: Redding and Co., pages 147, 165:

Besides the animals of the neighbourhood, for whom Madame Ahavzi kept open table on certain days, she kept of her own two cats and four catesses, which she took a great deal more care of than if they had been human beings.

1873, Stories from Over the Sea, Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, page 160:

No one could dream for a moment that any respectable and well brought up catess could be attracted by such a fearful storm of profanity and discord. We blush to write it, but duty is duty—cats swear! We know that they are peculiarly susceptible to perfumes and music, and it is quite opposite to their nature to believe that such discordant discords would be uttered by any cat, unless in extreme agony.

1882, The Australian Journal: A Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art, volume 18, page 148, column 1:

Now are the wild, weird songs of night / Borne to us through the open lattices, / And wake us up in sore affright— / Some are cats and some are catesses. / — St. Paul Herald.

1884, Life, volume 4, page 28, column 2:

‘Rather than marry a gentleman like that,’ the girl continued recklessly, ‘I will be an old maid, and pass my life with cats and catesses.’ / This was girl-phrasing in the style of Richardson’s ‘dogs and dogesses’; not that the girl here speaking had ever read a line of Richardson, but that she spoke the language which that novelist was so industrious in gathering from girls’ lips.

1899, Christabel R. Coleridge, Arthur Innes, editors, The Monthly Packet, page 161:

The programme of entertainment for Gideon’s Band at Spokane bore the following bright lines: / Dear Kittens, CATS and CATesses, from cities far and near, / A conCATenated welcome we extend to you while here.

1903, Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, The Bulletin, “Cat-ode.”, page 77:

Mr. Kenneth Clarke: Oh, tish tish. That’s utterly pre-Pappa-You-Done-Yo-Sugar-Mama-Wrong-poserous. [general laughter] Oh, I see. Ka-boom tish. A joke. Very good, splap splap but seriously, wabbeda wabbeda look. All the political cats and catesses know me. I’m a moderate. I’m not from the hanging and flog bog ga-dogging wing of the party.

2011, Ian Martin, The Coalition Chronicles, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, pages 79–80:

There was a handsome ginger cat at the steering wheel wearing a magnificent white coat, a scarf and goggles, and next to him a pure grey catess in a frilly white dress and bonnet.

2017, Adam Browne, Imperium Lupi, Dayfly Publications:


Italian sparrow

Italian sparrow (plural Italian sparrows)

A species of sparrow, Passer italiae, of Italy and adjacent areas, and the islands of Corsica, Sicily, Malta, and Crete.


pickerel frog

Lithobates pipiens
Lithobates pipiens#Translingual

A frog of the eastern US and neighboring parts of Canada, Lithobates pipiens.


camelestrian

In Khedive Avenue [Khartoum] […] is a statue by E. Onslow Ford, of General Gordon on an Indian camel. So far as I know this is the world’s only camelestrian statue.

1923, Frank George Carpenter, Cairo to Kisumu, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, page 171:


bush stone-curlew

bush stone-curlew (plural bush stone-curlews)

Burhinus grallarius
Burhinus grallarius#Translingual

A species of stone-curlew, Burhinus grallarius, of Australia and southern New Guinea.


rufous warbler

Cercotrichas galactotes
Cercotrichas galactotes#Translingual

rufous-tailed scrub robin
rufous-tailed scrub robin

Cercotrichas galactotes, a species of bird. Also called rufous-tailed scrub robin, rufous scrub robin, rufous bush robin, rufous bush chat


rufous bush chat

rufous bush chat (plural rufous bush chats)

Cercotrichas galactotes, a species of bird. Also called rufous-tailed scrub robin, rufous scrub robin, rufous bush robin, rufous warbler


rufous bush robin

rufous bush robin (plural rufous bush robins)

Cercotrichas galactotes, a species of bird. Also called rufous-tailed scrub robin, rufous scrub robin, rufous warbler, rufous bush chat


rufous-tailed scrub robin

rufous-tailed scrub robin (plural rufous-tailed scrub robins)

Cercotrichas galactotes, a species of bird. Also called rufous scrub robin, rufous bush robin, rufous warbler, rufous bush chat


rufous scrub robin

rufous scrub robin (plural rufous scrub robins)

Cercotrichas galactotes, a species of bird. Also called rufous-tailed scrub robin, rufous bush robin, rufous warbler, rufous bush chat


great knot

great knot (countable and uncountable, plural great knots)

Calidris tenuirostris
Calidris tenuirostris#Translingual

Calidris tenuirostris, a species of wading bird.


pithecanthropine

Belonging to the former hominid genus Pithecanthropus.


pithecanthropine

Any member of the former hominid genus Pithecanthropus.


organbird

The pied butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis).


gegharkuni

A subspecies of the Sevan trout, Salmo ischchan gegarkuni.


castorimorph

Any rodent of the suborder Castorimorpha


chinchilloid

Any rodent of the superfamily Chinchilloidea


osteoglossoid

Any fish of the suborder Osteoglossoidei


green-headed sunbird

green-headed sunbird (plural green-headed sunbirds)

Any of species Cyanomitra verticalis of sunbirds, of tropical Africa.


scaly-breasted lorikeet

scaly-breasted lorikeet (plural scaly-breasted lorikeets)

A lorikeet, Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus, of eastern Australia, of green plumage with yellow scale-like marking on the breast.


white-plumed honeyeater

white-plumed honeyeater (plural white-plumed honeyeaters)

Any of species Ptilotula penicillata of honeyeaters, of Australia.


Charolais

A breed of cattle, raised primarily for beef, having a large build and a cream-coloured coat.


English setter

A medium-sized breed of dog, having a silky "feathered" coat in a variety of colours, such as black and white or orange and white, originally bred as a gun dog.


gnomefish

gnomefish (usually uncountable, plural gnomefishes)

A marine food fish found in the western Indo-Pacific region from Japan to South Africa, Scombrops boops.


wenchman

A marine food fish native to the subtropical and tropical western Atlantic/Caribbean, Pristipomoides aquilonaris, a type of snapper.


Chinamanfish

Chinaman + fish: the fish is relatively harmless in Chinese waters, but frequently toxic in Australia. Perhaps Chinese immigrants were noted for eating it when other Australians wouldn't.

(Australia) A type of snapper native to the western Pacific, Symphorus nematophorus, which is a commercial food fish in some areas, but ciguatoxic in others.


cattlehead

cattlehead (plural cattlehead or cattleheads)

cattlehead (plural)
cattleheads (plural)

From cattle + head. Interestingly, both are doublets from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (“head”), through Latin caput (“head”) and from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source; chief”), itself from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), respectively.

inh

Even assuming that our 50-million Muslims eat up 50-million cattle-heads a year at the rate of one cattlehead per human head per year, we shall still have millions and millions of cattle living and multiplying with our food inside them.

1963, Mother India, volume 29, page 14, column 2:

The reasons for death were more or less similar to cattleheads. In the case of poultry, in all, 1312 died mainly due to Ranikhet. These deaths of livestock comprised 5, 9.6 and 19.5 percent respectively of the present stock of cattleheads, goat and poultry (Tables – 14 and 15).

1984, Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development, Effects of Flood (1984) in Bangladesh: Survey of Nine Villages in Comilla, page 16:

The mobile veterinary unit had been providing health facilities to the ailing cattlehead in the whole of Thar.

The Local Government Engineering Bureau (LGEB) has built 2 killas as shelter for cattlehead.

1992, Raana Haider, A. Atiq Rahman, Saleemul Huq, editors, Cyclone '91 Revisited: A Follow-up Study, Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies, page 12:

As a result, most farming families now cannot keep more than a pair of cattlehead each, the bare minimum for operating a plough to till the land.

1995, Bara Parang: The Tale of the Developmental Refugees of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, →ISBN, page 65:

Whenever a cattlehead was killed by the tiger, the men sprayed these poisonous chemicals copiously on the carcass and even kept the semi-solid balls of this substance namely carbofuran, B.H.C. Gamma, Lindane, Lintaf and Hepta Chlore etc. inside the fleshy part of the animal.

1995, Rahul Shukla, Killing Grounds: The Saga of Encounters in Wild, Siddhi Books, page 114:

India is perhaps a rare country having one cattlehead per two persons.

2006, Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development, Collection of Foundation Day & Lovraj Kumar Memorial Lectures, “Cattlewealth and Fish”, page 244:

30 and 31 July 1991: Area Affected: Betul, Dewas, Indore and Ujjain; Casualties: 22 persons killed; 150 cattleheads perished; Damages: One house collapsed; Chandora dam damaged and Sapana dam breached.

2006, SC Bhatt, Gopal K. Bhargava, editors, Land and People of Indian States and Union Territories: Madhya Pradesh (volume 15), India: Kalpaz Publications, →ISBN, page 470:

(India) head of cattle; a neat, a beef, a single bovine


pholidote

(zoology) A member of the Pholidota; a pangolin.


gropper

Enjoyed a wide range of Sedge warblers, heard a gropper, and saw a spoonbill, and our first house martins and swifts of the year. The avocets were grand (nearly 50 of them) and not as argumentative as usual at his time of the year.

2001 April 29, Michael J Davis, “A grand day out and request for help”, in uk.rec.birdwatching (Usenet):

These overwhelmingly male gatherings remind me of paparazzi flocks I’ve encountered. Like a reluctant celebrity, the Pallas’s “gropper” (twitchers have their own language, as well as paparazzi-style ripping yarns about this trip or that shot) was skulking in the bushes.

2017 September 25, Patrick Barkham, “Twitchers and groppers: when birdwatching turns ugly”, in The Guardian:

(UK, informal, birdwatching) The grasshopper warbler.


Lambert's wren

Named in honour of British naturalist Aylmer Bourke Lambert.

variegated fairywren
variegated fairywren

(archaic) A variegated fairywren (Malurus lamberti), of eastern Australia.


emperor fairywren

en-noun

emperor fairywren (plural emperor fairywrens)

Any of species Malurus cyanocephalus of fairywrens, of New Guinea.


red-winged fairywren

red-winged fairywren (plural red-winged fairywrens)

Any in species Malurus elegans of fairywrens, of south-western Western Australia.


white-winged fairywren

white-winged fairywren (plural white-winged fairywrens)

Any of species Malurus leucopterus of fairywrens, of inland Australia.


red-backed fairywren

red-backed fairywren (plural red-backed fairywrens)

Any of species Malurus melanocephalus of fairywrens, of northern Australia.


chalk-eating weasel

chalk-eating weasel (plural chalk-eating weasels)

(horse racing) A bettor who regularly wagers on the favorite.


Japanese robin

red-billed leiothrix
red-billed leiothrix

Pekin robin or red-billed leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea), a small passerine bird native to China and Vietnam, and introduced in Japan.


Heaviside's dolphin

Heaviside's dolphin (plural Heaviside's dolphins)

Early in the 19th century, a specimen was caught off the Cape of Good Hope by a Captain Haviside of the British East India Company. Zoologist John Edward Gray then misidentified Haviside as the surgeon John Heaviside, who was known for his own biological collections at the time.

Cephalorhynchus heavisidii, a small dolphin endemic to the Benguela ecosystem along the southwest coast of Africa.


Pacific saury

Pacific saury (plural Pacific sauries or Pacific saury)

Pacific sauries (plural)
Pacific saury (plural)

A species of the saury family native to north Pacific Ocean from Yellow Sea to Gulf of Alaska; Cololabis saira.


green frog

Beginning around 34 million years ago, the green frogs (Ranidae) arrived, perhaps from Asia or Africa.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 60:

Any frog of the family Ranidae; a true frog or ranid.


afalina

The largest and rarest of all three Black Sea dolphins species is the "Black Sea pig" or afalina (Tursiops tursio Fabr.). The external appearance of the afalina differs from that of the other two dolphins. The beak is significantly shorter than that of the common dolphin.

In 1993 it opened a Dolphinarium whereat presently live seven dolphins - afalinas from the Black Sea. They not only entertain spectators but also gladly communicate with children having disability - […]

A biotechnical complex had been developed for the dolphin therapy sessions that included Black Sea Afalina dolphins specially trained according to the researcher's methods.

2012, Cynthia K. Chandler, Animal Assisted Therapy in Counseling, Routledge, →ISBN, page 232:

Tursiops truncatus
Tursiops truncatus#Translingual

A Black Sea bottlenose dolphin; Tursiops truncatus.


Hoover hog

Herbert Hoover + hog, because impoverished people were reduced to (and Hoover himself may have suggested) eating such animals during the Great Depression which Hoover presided over the start of.

Sometimes living on rabbits and squirrels , they described their fare as Hoover hogs. The President's rigid stand on the relief issue widened the gap between the Old Guard and the insurgents in the Republican party, and his differences with ...

1971, Richard Brandon Morris, William Greenleaf, Robert H. Ferrell, America: a History of the People:

[It] rises . . . a jackrabbit. A Hoover hog, long-eared, light in the front legs, strong in the rear. The jack stretches his heels and takes the hill in a few bounds. When last seen, he is heading east.

"Some folks are lonesome all their life and some are hungry . We ain't ever needed to eat a Hoover hog (an opossum) since we come to the Creek.” With humor , Bernie lamented that the only thing missing in his life was a new pickup truck.

1993, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature:

"It's a Hoover hog!" "Give it here," said Simeon Vear. Jimmy started to pick up the entire trap." Just the animal." Jimmy pushed his hand into the trap. "Don't," I said. "Let him," said Simeon Vear. "Got him," said Jimmy. He pulled the nervous rabbit […]

“[You don't have] to eat anything I fix again if you don't want to,” Jason McTavish spat. “I was surprised as everyone when Howard choked. That steak wasn't tougher than normal — for antelope.” “ If you'd stewed up a Hoover hog instead of that stringy[…]”

2007, Ken Hodgson, The Man Who Killed Shakespeare, ME: Five Star, →ISBN:

Aunt Cora, Mom's sister, always seemed to have rabbits or squirrels—Hoover hogs, she called them—or a greasy ole' barbecued raccoon for supper.

2010, Carroll Osburn, The Edge of the Wedge: Recollections of a Reluctant Prodigal, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23:

“We'e gonna catch us a Hoover Hog, s'first thing,” said Carl. “A Hoover Hog? What's a Hoover Hog?” “You ain't never heard of a Hoover Hog? You'll see,” said Carl. They trudged along, keeping the conversation to a minimum, […]

2013, W. Jeff Bishop, A Cold Coming, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 215:

(US, especially Southern US) An animal which is eaten by poor people during hard times, especially an armadillo or jackrabbit, but also a possum or squirrel.


stripetail darter

stripetail darter (plural stripetail darters)


foul feeder

(obsolete) A horse that has bad eating habits.


apegirl

"But a little ape-girl said: "Sing not this way; sing as you sung before.".

"Oh, it's the same old story. Mad scientist meets ape girl; ape girl throws mad scientist into volcano; werewolf bites ape girl; elephant boy marries daughter of vampire!".

1954, Collier's: Incorporating Features of the American Magazine, New York:


ape-person

ape-person (plural ape-people or ape-persons)

ape-people (plural)
ape-persons (plural)

The openings of these huts and the branches of the trees were thronged with a dense mob of ape-people, whom from their size I took to be the females and infants of the tribe.

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

The earliest fossils that can be classified as ape-persons have been found in South Africa and they date back about 5.5 million years.

1982, James J. O’Donnell, Earthly Matters: A Study of Our Planet, New York, N.Y.: Julian Messner, →ISBN, page 171:

In England, Grafton Elliot Smith, who had been involved in the Piltdown affair, convinced The Illustrated London News to publish an artist’s rendering of Nebraska Man. The picture, which appeared in a two-page spread and received wide distribution, showed two brutish, naked ape-persons, the male with a club, the female gathering roots. All this from one tooth.

1999, James Perloff, “An Ape-man for All Seasons”, in Tornado in a Junkyard: The Relentless Myth of Darwinism, Arlington, Mass.: Refuge Books, →ISBN, page 82:

It remains a great mystery as to how these slow locomoting ape-persons survived in relatively open terrestrial environments without the aid of great speed, large canines, large body size, stone tool technology, or other physical adaptations that most mammals possess.

2000, Geoffrey Grant Pope, The Biological Bases of Human Behavior, Allyn and Bacon, →ISBN, page 101:

The anthropocentrist who values rationality, and sees it as the essence of being a person, would regard Taylor as having wiped out morally significant beings, since both mutants and ape-persons are clearly rational. Hence the act is a great wrong.

2013, Norva Y.S. Lo, Andrew Brennan, “The Last Man”, in John Huss, editor, Planet of the Apes and Philosophy: Great Apes Think Alike (Popular Culture and Philosophy; 74), Chicago, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN, part IX (Planet), page 275:

A non-human australopithecine; an ape-like precursor to modern humans.


sangai

From Meitei language words, "sa" (meaning "animal") and "ngai" (meaning "waiting").

A endemic member of a subspecies of brow-antlered deer (Eld's deer) naturally found only in Manipur in India.


form book

(British) An annual book produced showing the results for the year's horse races together with comments on each runner.


market horse

[N]othing is easier than to make sure […] that the horse selected, in the event of the public fancying him, shall be made a market horse, and be “milked” for the benefit of those interested: the losing of a race may at any time be ensured, and there are scores of “turf dairymen” who are reputed adepts in the use of the milking pail.

1892, James Glass Bertram, A Mirror of the Turf, page 271:

(horse racing, slang, obsolete) A horse kept in the betting-lists for the sole purpose of being betted against.


grasshopper mouse

grasshopper mouse (plural grasshopper mice)

Any of the genus Onychomys of rodents, found in North America.


capreol

Ixion[…]turn'd dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavaltoes

Run through the field with frisks and kicks, In various capreols and tricks, Some ease poor thing, alass, to find;

1670, Virgil, Scarronides; Or Virgile Travestie, page 73:

A little Wall lay sculking about this Territory of the Dead, which we suppos'd was plac'd there as a Bulwark to their Ashes, but it prov'd but a feeble Fence against the Intrusion of the Lambs, who made frequent Capreols into this adjacent Dormitory.

1743, John Torbuck, A collection of Welch travels, and memoirs of Wales, page 21:

Ye know the capers our friends cut, their transnatural leaps exceed the capreols at Sadler's, or those of Del Phobo, or the dance of Merlin's giants: fools!

1756, John Dove, An Essay on Inspiration, page 182:

Noblissimo's First Gentleman remarks 'Your Lordship rid to day beyond Perseus on his Pegasus' and Noblissimo, modestly deferring, 'No Monsieur, he went (if Poets speak truth) in higher Capreols than ever I shall make my Horse go'.

2016, Peter Edwards, Elspeth Graham, Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth-Century England, page 137:


red-capped parrot

red-capped (canonical)
red-capped parrots (plural)

Purpureicephalus spurius
Purpureicephalus spurius#Translingual

A parrot species, Purpureicephalus spurius, native to southwest Western Australia.


dog doctor

A famous dog-doctor vvas ſent for, and undertook to cure the patient, provided he might carry him home to his ovvn houſe; […]

1771, [Tobias Smollett], “To Miss Lætitia Willis, at Gloucester”, in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume I, London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC, page 119:

I shall now give a dialogue which was held, as nearly as I can recollect, between Mrs. Nollekens and Mrs. Norman, the wife of a celebrated Dog-doctor, who, at the time I was with Sherwin, lived in Fox-court, St. James's-street […].

1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 106:

“My dad’s a dog doctor.” “Not just dogs,” the girl corrected. “He’s also a cat doctor. And sometimes even horses and cows.”

2012, RaeAnne Thayne, A Cold Creek Noel, Harlequin, →ISBN:

“[…]They think it’s so cool that Auntie Janey’s a horse doctor.” Janey laughed. “A horse doctor, a cow doctor, a cat and dog doctor.[…]”

2022, SJ McCoy, The Cowgirl’s Unmistakable Love, Xenion, Inc., →ISBN:

(chiefly historical, now rare) A veterinarian who specialises in dogs.


acromyodian

Any passerine songbird of the former taxon Acromyodi


rough rider

because you are full of old festered wounds, you must have corrosive salves, for that is best for you, and the speediest way to recover your health: and forasmuch as you be rough horses, you must have a rough rider, and hard knobby timber must have hard wedges, and hard strokes with a beetle ["mallet"].

a. 1607, Arthur Dent, A Sermon of Repentaunce. A verie godly and profitable sermon, preached at Lee in Essex. B.L., Thomas Snodham for Roger Jackson, published 1615:

Our best rough-rider had mounted him, with a view of thoroughly "taking it out of him," and I never witnessed a better display of horsemanship.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 77:

A person whose specialty is the breaking in or training of wild horses.


Philippine cuckoo-dove

Philippine cuckoo-dove (plural Philippine cuckoo-doves)

Macropygia tenuirostris
Macropygia tenuirostris#Translingual

Any of species Macropygia tenuirostris of doves native to the Philippines and Taiwan


chiselmouth

A North American fish (Acrocheilus alutaceus)


chlamydophore

Any of the genus Chlamyphorus of armadillos.


poë

Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae
Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

(obsolete) Short for poë-bird (“the tui, a species of honeyeater (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae), a bird which is endemic to New Zealand”).


poë bird

(obsolete) Alternative form of poë-bird (“the tui, a species of honeyeater (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae), a bird which is endemic to New Zealand”)


poë-bird

/ˈpəʊiːbɜːd/

Borrowed from Tahitian poe (“pearl”) (a reference to the two tufts of white feathers at the bird’s throat) + English bird.

tui

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


Japanese wagtail

Japanese wagtail (plural Japanese wagtails)

Motacilla grandis
Motacilla grandis#Translingual

A wagtail of species Motacilla grandis, family Motacillidae, native to Japan and Korea.

binááʼádaałtsʼózí Dineʼé Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ tseeyidiłtazii


mountain wagtail

mountain wagtail (plural mountain wagtails)

Motacilla clara
Motacilla clara#Translingual

Motacilla clara, a species of wagtail of the family Motacillidae from sub-Saharan Africa


Cape wagtail

Motacilla capensis
Motacilla capensis#Translingual

A wagtail of species Motacilla capensis, of the family Motacillidae, widespread in southern Africa


Pomapoo

A small dog that is a cross between a Pomeranian and a poodle (typically a toy poodle).


golden whistler

golden whistler (plural golden whistlers)

An insectivorous songbird (Pachycephala pectoralis), of Australia, whose male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast.


Elliot's short-tailed shrew

Elliot's short-tailed shrew (plural Elliot's short-tailed shrews)

Named after Daniel Giraud Elliot, who first described the species in 1899.


Atlantic saury

Atlantic saury (plural Atlantic sauries)


small-spotted catshark

small-spotted catshark (plural small-spotted catsharks)

Scyliorhinus canicula
Scyliorhinus canicula#Translingual

Scyliorhinus canicula, a fish native to northern European waters.


ornithocheiromorph

Clipping of translingual Ornithocheiromorpha

clipping

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

(paleontology) a member of the clade Ornithocheiromorpha.


greater flamingo

en-noun

greater flamingo (plural greater flamingos or greater flamingoes)

greater flamingos (plural)
greater flamingoes (plural)

Phoenicopterus roseus
Phoenicopterus roseus#Translingual

Phoenicopterus roseus, the most widespread and largest species of the flamingo family, found in Africa, on the Indian subcontinent, in the Middle East, and in southern Europe.


clockbird

laughing kookaburra
laughing kookaburra#English


Leisler's bat

Named to honour the naturalist Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler.

A lesser noctule (Nyctalus leisleri), an insectivorous vesper bat.


Berger Picard

/bɛəˌʒeɪ pɪˈkɑː/

/bɛɹˌʒeɪ pɪˈkɑɹ/

Unadapted borrowing from French berger picard (literally “Picard shepherd”).

unadapted borrowing

A French breed of medium-sized sheepdog.


cockatouche

A freshwater fish (Triglopsis thompsonii) found in Canada


poitrel

From Middle English: the form poitral is from central/Parisian French poitrel, "introduced into English apparently by Caxton"; the older form peitral (Middle English peitrel, paytrel, etc) was borrowed from Anglo-Norman peitral; both are from Old French poitral (modern French poitrail).

(historical) A piece of armor for a horse's chest; the breastplate of a horse's armour or harness.


bucketmouth

Micropterus salmoides
Micropterus salmoides#Translingual

Micropterus salmoides (largemouth bass).


colocolo opossum

en-noun

colocolo opossum (plural colocolo opossums)

monito del monte
monito del monte#English

Synonym of monito del monte (“small South American marsupial”)


cat o' mountain

cat o' mountain (plural cat o' mountains)

Goe, charge my Goblins that they grinde their ioynts / With dry Convultions, ſhorten vp their ſinewes / With aged Cramps, & more pinch-ſpotted make them, / Than Pard, or Cat o' Mountaine.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 16, column 1:


catamountain

From Late Middle English catamountain, from Middle English cat of the mountain (“leopard, panther”).

inh

(leopard, panther):

Panthera pardus
Panthera pardus#Translingual

Leopardus pardalis
Leopardus pardalis#Translingual

(also attributively) A leopard, a panther (Panthera pardus); also, an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis).

(by extension) A man living in the mountains.


mabouya

Any of various skinks of the genus Eutropis.


brismak

Ultimately from Old Norse brosma, compare dialectal Norwegian bresma; ultimately related to English bream, which see for more.

The Torsk it seems, from his account, or as it is called in the Shetlands, Tusk and Brismak, is a northern fish, which as yet has not been discovered lower to the southward than the Orknies, and is even rather scarce there.

1804, Edward Donovan, The Natural History of British Fishes: Including Scientific and General Descriptions of the Most Interesting Species and an Extensive Selection of Accurately Finished Coloured Plates, Taken Entirely from Original Drawings:

itt I wiz kummin hemm frae Ska, / whaar I wiz rowin dat simmer, / ee setterdey nycht wi a biudie o' / ling hedds an peerie brismaks, an / bruk o' dat kynd apo ma bak,
that I was coming home from / Ska, wheere I was fishing that / summer, one Saturday night with a creil [or basket] ling heads / and small tusk-fish, and scaps / of that kind upon my back,

1886, "A---d B---y", "Letter in the Dialct of the Shetland Isles", in George Laurence Gomme, Dialect, Proverbs and Word-lore: A Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of The Gentleman's Magazine from 1731-1868, page 31

Twa brismaks, a stäblin', an' four krooners [grey gurnards]!

(Shetland, Orkney) A torsk, a tusk (fish).


Papuan hornbill

en-noun

Papuan hornbill (plural Papuan hornbills)

Blyth's hornbill
Blyth's hornbill#English


year-bird

From the old idea that a new wreath was added to its casque every year. Compare Dutch jaarvogel.


Blyth's hornbill

Blyth's hornbill (plural Blyth's hornbills)

To commemorate Edward Blyth (1810–1873), English zoologist and Curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

Rhyticeros plicatus, a large hornbill inhabiting the forest canopy in Wallacea and Melanesia.


Suphalak

A shorthaired breed of cat originating in Thailand, having solid reddish-brown fur.


Azara's night monkey

Azara's night monkey (plural Azara's night monkeys)

Named after Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara.

Aotus azarae, a night monkey of South America.


scapteromyine

Any rat of the former tribe Scapteromyini (now Akodontini)


wakasagi

Means of Introduction: Wakasagi were intentionally introduced in 1959 from Japan by the California Department of Fish and Game as an experimental forage fish for trout

2011 September 16, “wakasagi (Hypomesus nipponensis)”, in NAS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species, USGS:

Wakasagi are pelagic plankton feeders found in open lakes, streams and reservoirs. They can survive in a wide range of temperatures (2-29°C) and salinities (0-29 ppt).

2021, “California fish species”, in University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources:

Japanese smelt, Hypomesus nipponensis, a fish native to Japan and introduced in the United States


simiophagic

“Deforestation has resulted in the migration of macaques to the forest fringes, alongside with the simiophagic mosquito vectors.”

2021 January 25, Meizhi Irene Li, Diyar Mailepessov, Indra Vythilingam, Vernon Lee, Patrick Lam, Lee Ching Ng, Cheong Huat Tan, “Prevalence of simian malaria parasites in macaques of Singapore”, in Neglected Tropical Diseases, →DOI:


tarbosaur

From the genus name Tarbosaurus, formed with -saur.

Juvenile T. rexes were light and agile before they leveled up into the adults we’re more familiar with. […] Other megatheropods, including abelisaurs and tarbosaurs, also grew from turkey-like hatchlings to bus-sized behemoths over the course of their lives.

2021 February 25, Cara Giaimo, “The Outsized Influence of Teen T. Rex and Other Young Dinosaurs”, in The New York Times:

(zoology) A tyrannosaurid dinosaur of the genus Tarbosaurus from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and China.


bekko

A koi carp with black markings on white, red or yellow skin.


bockadam

Any of various snakes of the family Homalopsidae.


blueside wrasse

blueside wrasse (plural blueside wrasses)

Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura, a wrasse native to the eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.


tacuacine

(archaic) An opossum native to Central America, possibly Didelphis marsupialis.


saddleback seal

saddleback seal (plural saddleback seals)

From saddle + back + seal. From having a harp-like-shaped part of its back outlined in black, that looks like a location to place a saddle.

Pagophilus groenlandicus
Pagophilus groenlandicus#Translingual

Synonym of harp seal (“Pagophilus groenlandicus, a marine mammal”)


eggsactly

en-adv

eggsactly (comparative more eggsactly, superlative most eggsactly)

more eggsactly (comparative)
most eggsactly (superlative)

Eggsactly, is exactly what we mean! In the highly competitive field of egg processing, fast, efficient production methods are essential for a profitable, successful operation.

1960, Everybody’s Poultry Magazine, page 9:

How to boil eggs eggsactly as ordered and at a profit.

Only two of the chocolate Easter eggs are ‘eggsactly’ the same size, which two?

2006, 1000 Junior Holiday Puzzles, New Dawn Press, Inc., published 2009, →ISBN:

Not Eggsactly What You Thought / Bird eggs are perfect structures that contain all of the materials needed to support the growth of a new life or, in many unlucky cases, provide a highly nutritious meal to any number of different critters.

2016, Richard Evershed, Nicola Temple, Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics, Bloomsbury:

(informal, humorous) Exactly, when referring to eggs or Easter.


Japanese jack mackerel

en-noun

Japanese jack mackerel (plural Japanese jack mackerels)

Trachurus japonicus, of the fish family Carangidae,


karoro

Larus dominicanus
Larus dominicanus#Translingual

A seagull (Larus dominicanus) found on the coasts of New Zealand and many other coasts of the Southern Hemisphere,


pale-headed rosella

pale-headed rosella (plural pale-headed rosellas)

Platycercus adscitus
Platycercus adscitus#Translingual

A broad-tailed, moderate-sized parrot of species Platycercus adscitus, native to northeastern Australia, with a pale yellow head, predominantly white cheeks, a scalloped black and gold back, pale blue underparts, and a blood-red vent.


ragfish

From rag + fish, from the limpness of its body, the skeleton being mostly cartilage.

Icosteus aenigmaticus, a ray-finned fish of the northern Pacific Ocean.


flying cat

A colugo or flying lemur in the family Cynocephalidae


Malaysian flying lemur

Malaysian flying lemur (plural Malaysian flying lemurs)

A Sunda flying lemur (Galeopterus variegata)


Sunda flying lemur

Sunda flying lemur (plural Sunda flying lemurs)

A flying lemur, Galeopterus variegatus, native to Malaysia and much of the Malay Archipelago south of the Philippines


monopneumonian

suf

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

Any lungfish of the former order Monopneumonia


woolly lemur

Any member of nine species of strepsirrhine primates in the genus Avahi.


leuciscine

(ichthyology) Any fish in the cyprinid subfamily Leuciscinae


odd-toed ungulate

en-noun

odd-toed ungulate (plural odd-toed ungulates)

From odd-toed (as a translation of the taxonomic name, translingual Perissodactyla, from Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “odd in number”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “toe”)) + ungulate.

der

(zoology) Any mammal in the order Perissodactyla, including horses and other equids, rhinoceroses, and tapirs.


even-toed ungulate

en-noun

even-toed ungulate (plural even-toed ungulates)

From even-toed (as a translation of the taxonomic name, translingual Artiodactyla, from Ancient Greek ἄρτιος (ártios, “even in number”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “toe”)) + ungulate.

der

(zoology) Any mammal in the order Artiodactyla, including camels, pigs and ruminants such as deer, cattle, goats, sheep and antelopes; as well as, in recent years, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises).


swallowling

Then back to the slender bough, which drooped under the weight of four swallowlings in a row, and now swayed with the agitations of their welcome to hovered wings and a full beak.

1923, Harold John Massingham, Untrodden Ways, page 85:

And swallows are the spring's agents, nesting in the rafters, eating, defecating, procreating, producing prodigious flocks of swallowlings.

1989, Stephen Owen, Yuwen (Suo'an), Mi-Lou: Poetry and the Labyrinth of Desire (page 92)


syagush

Corruption of Iranian Persian سیاهگوش (siyâh-guš, literally “black-ear”)

bor

1774?, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth and Animated Nature
The jackall, the syagush, the wolf, and the dog, are of this kind; they pursue with patience rather than swiftness; their prey flies at first, and leaves them for miles behind; but they keep on with a constant steady pace […]


mutton busting

From mutton (“sheep”) + busting (“turning an animal into a beast of burden”), modeled on the phrase bronco busting.

com

See all these sheep over there? All those kids are gonna be racing. […] What's this called again? Mutton busting. Mutton busting?

[2011, Wes Cunningham, Brandon Dickerson, Thomas Ward, directed by Brandon Dickerson, Sironia (motion picture):

What is mutton busting? […] Apparently, in certain parts of the country it's perfectly acceptable to take your 2- to 6-year-old child, strap a helmet on their tiny, fragile, still-growing head and throw them on the back of a frantic sheep in front of a cheering audience. It's a very, very real thing at junior rodeos, […]

But mutton busting quickly caught on and is now a staple at rodeos and fairs around the country, and even overseas, despite occasional opposition from animal rights groups.

2020 February 1, John MacCormack, “Mutton busting a popular rodeo event for kids in San Antonio and nationwide”, in My San Antonio:

I feel like having all of the livestock exhibits and shows under one roof has been fun and educational for our fair families as well as the public. […] Our truck and tractor pull were well attended, and we had some great reviews on that. [T]he mutton busting area was packed!

2020 May 14, Victoria Smithey, “History of Laramie County Fair Part 1”, in Pine Bluffs Post:

A form of entertainment, akin to bull riding, where young children compete to hold onto the back of sheep for as long as possible.


house dog

The house-dog, with the vacant greyhound, lies, / Out-stretch'd, and sleepy.

a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:

A dog used to protect a house, a watchdog; (later also) a dog kept as a pet.


waspfish

en-noun

waspfish (plural waspfish or waspfishes)


omomyine

Any extinct primate of the clade †Omomyinae


Fuegian dog

Lycalopex culpaeus
Lycalopex culpaeus#Translingual

An extinct domesticated canid (not a true dog), similar to the culpeo, of species †Lycalopex culpaeus.


kidang

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦶꦢꦁ (kidang), from Old Javanese [Term?].


kotuku

(New Zealand) The white heron Egretta alba.


elephantess

I wish I could dash off a sketch of her stupendous majesty the great elephantess, with the clumsy little prince royal, the calf elephant, as they appeared when enjoying themselves in their bath; and of his royal highness the great camelopard, as he stood stretching his interminable neck over the railing, impertinently watching them in their recreation.

1854, Grace Greenwood [pseudonym; Sara Jane Lippincott], chapter III, in Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 54:

It was now time to bring new actors upon the stage, that the proverbial influence of the female sex might be tested upon these wild and untamed leviathans. Among the elephantesses—pardon the word—employed on this occasion was one named Siribeddi, which had earned a reputation for her skill as a decoy, and now did her best to justify that reputation.

1873, W[illiam] H[enry] Davenport Adams, “The Elephant: His History and Habits”, in The Forest, the Jungle, and the Prairie; or, Scenes with the Trapper and the Hunter in Many Lands, London: T Nelson and Sons, […], page 360:

Now, it chanced that there dwelt in the same Forest a young Elephantess, who perceived that the Kitten was copping the cash, and had all the other Female Animals so Faded they looked like a Shirt Waist fresh from a Chinese Laundry.[…]Being a thoughtful Creature, however, the Elephantess did not knock her rival’s game, but began to study the Kitten’s system, to see if there was not a soft spot where she could butt into the money.

1902, Dorothy Dix [pen name; Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer], “The Elephantess who Tried to be Cute”, in Fables of the Elite, New York, N.Y.: R. F. Fenno & Company, […], pages 155–156:

Elephantesses should be employed to decoy stupid and amorous wild elephants into the trap (1—4).[…]Similarly, a fifty thousand libations, consisting of sesamum seeds and clarified cow-butter, would stamp out an epidemic affecting the bipeds only, whereas the ceremony should be repeated at the breaking out of a pestilential disease, or on the occasion of elephantess developing a pair of tusks, and portending evil to the state. The evil consequences of an elephantess, exuding serum from her temple, would be warded off by a Homa of ten thousand libations, whereas an epidemic of miscarriages of the womb, or of deaths of new-born infants in a community, would prove amenable to a similar Homa, consisting of as many libations (10—13).

1904, Manmatha Nath Dutt, transl., A Prose English Translation of Agni Puranam, volume II, Calcutta: […] H. C. Das, Elysium Press, […], pages 1057 and 1195–1196:

The elephantess of Udena runs in the sand like lightning.[…]Elephants wander in the forest with elephantesses.

1942, D. G. Koparkar, English Guide to C. V. Joshi’s Manual of Pāli, Oriental Book Agency, pages 4 and 6:

“Behold here the damsels of Vidyádharas, are waiting for you with fans and wreaths of flowers in their hands; and they have been hailing and inviting you to them, as the young elephantess, entices the big elephant towards her.”

1978, The Yoga-Vásishtha-Mahárámáyana of Válmiki, Bharatiya Publishing House, page 991:

Let us decorate an elephantess, give a garland in its trunk and, take her in the garden.[…]Sajjan was made to seat on the same elephantess.

1983, Upadhyay Shri Pushkar Muni, edited by Shree Devendra Muni, Punyano Prabhav, Ahmedabad: Shree Laxmi Pustak Bhandar, pages 145–146:

Rather, from Bridgman’s account of her early career Stein emerges as an elephantess in the china shop of literature: “Expending prodigious amounts of energy, Stein thrashed erratically toward innovation.”

1986, Janice L. Doane, Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude Stein, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page xvii:


frogess

Do Frogs like children? I am not terribly convinced they do. Before I get pelted with tomatoes by indignant Frogesses, could I simply ask you to draw your own conclusion from the large number of abusive terms used to describe children? Our “brats” is nothing compared with the variety of French names that have the same meaning but are too often used instead of “kids.”

1986, Genevière Edis, ““Le Français méprise la jeunesse””, in Merde Encore!: More of the Real French You Were Never Taught at School, New York, N.Y.: Fireside Books, published 1998, →ISBN, chapter X, “Allons enfants”, page 82:

— I go on. To Dover and then take ship for France. / — God help us, you are indeed up. That sounds like state business. / — War on the papists. / — For God’s sake leave at least the English papishes alone, they have suffered enough. There is enough trouble here with the frogs and frogesses. The little froglings would grow up into proper Kent citizens if they were permitted to speak our tongue.

1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, part one, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 37:

‘What would it involve?’ / ‘Living off the fat of the land in my room at the château. Local wine with meals twice a day. Unlimited. Lunch and dine with the director, an old army chap called Bagnolet, who’s got an English wife, Lucy. And the students of course.’ / ‘But the work?’ / ‘Nothing to it. Conversation in English all day with frogesses from the very best families. It’s a finishing school for girls – and you’re not to touch them.’

2007, Oliver Stanley, Hotel Victoire, Sussex, England: Book Guild Publishing, →ISBN, page 139:

(rare, offensive) A female frog (French person).


green goose

The Spring is neare when greene geese are a breeding.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

My green Goose for this last Entertainment cost but 15s.

A young goose, especially under four years old.


wompoo

Ptilinopus magnificus
Ptilinopus magnificus#Translingual

An Australian fruit dove, Ptilinopus magnificus.


apron skirt

1984, Paul Hulton, America 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White, The University of North Carolina Press and British Museum Publications, description of Plate 33, p. 178,

The woman, described […] as a chief’s wife or chief lady of Pomeiooc, wears an apron-skirt of fringed skin, edged at the top and bottom with a single row of white beads.

(historical) An item of clothing worn by women in some North American indigenous communities, consisting of an apron-like flap hanging over the front of the thighs, sometimes with an additional flap hanging in the back.


dead amiss

At the mention of the increased amount of odds, the snob took the youngster aside, and said to him, "Look now, by the book, we have the old man done brown; my horse is dead amiss, your cousin's horse you can beat easy, […]

1840, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review, page 286:

Sunshine ran gamely, but was clearly out of condition; and Gamos, who was dead amiss at Bath, having got round, beat her from the superiority of her training, […]

1870, Tresham Gilbey, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 18, page 320:

(horse racing) Of a horse: too ill to compete.


jacky dragon

A species of agamid lizard, Amphibolurus muricatus, native to south-eastern Australia.


swamplands lashtail

swamplands lashtail (plural swamplands lashtails)

northern water dragon
northern water dragon


northern water dragon

northern water dragon (plural northern water dragons)

A species of agamid lizard, Tropicagama temporalis, native to northern Australia, New Guinea, and southeastern Indonesia.


lashtail

Any of various agamid lizards having long, thin tails.


water dragon

Any of various agamid lizards of eastern Asia and Australasia, including the genera Physignathus, Intellagama, and Tropicagama, all of subfamily Amphibolurinae.


Miss Waldron's red colobus

Miss Waldron's red colobus (plural Miss Waldron's red colobuses)

Discovered in December 1933 by Willoughby P. Lowe, who named it after a fellow museum employee, Miss Fanny Waldron, a colleague on the expedition.

Piliocolobus waldronae, a red colobus native to West Africa.


Arafura fantail

Arafura fantail (plural Arafura fantails)

A species of fantail, Rhipidura dryas, native to northern Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands of Indonesia; formerly treated as a subspecies of the rufous fantail.


gorilless

The last statement suggests to me the question, did she walk upon her hind legs only, or upon all four? That is, did she walk erect like a man and a brother,—I should say a gorilless and a sister,—or like an attached and humble individual of the canine or feline quadruped species?[…]Was not Seraphine a wonderful young person,—I mean gorilless?

1861 September 30, “Paterfamilias”, “Gentle Gorilla–Wither Away. To the Editor of Fun.”, in Fun, published 12 October 1861, page 39, columns 1–2:

“An’ now I hear you’re sendin’ our flagship Pastores out at four o’clock this afternoon with another cock-eyed cross between a giraffe an’ a Gila monster— / “By my soul, never!” yells th’ G.P.A., jumpin’ up like a bumb has gone off under him. “If the Pastores sails with that red-skirted gorilless aboard, it’ll be over my dead body!”

1923 December, Volney G. Mathison, “The Woman-Handler”, in Radio, volume V, number 12, pages 68 and 70, column 3:

I know it’s horribly sexist but, it has to be said, so are gorillas. / Then there’s the lonely gorilless whose mate has died just before breeding time, leaving both her and her devoted keeper desolate with grief.

1985, Maureen Lipman, “Lipmanish Allthouthts^([sic])”, in How Was It for You?, Clio Press, published 1989, section “A Joking Aside”, page 186:

On another day, at the Program Corporation of America, a White Plains-based company that serves as lecture managers and booking agencies for celebrities, the gorilla was invited to stay for lunch. “You’re a “gorilless,” Joan Steinhaus, executive vice president, said as Miss Corsetti removed the head of her costume. “Would you like a banana?”

1985 March 31, Lynne Ames, “About Westchester; Listening Device”, in The New York Times, page 2:

She wanted a job with Phyllis the Gorilless.

2016, CJ Verburg, “Lovely Rita”, in Zapped: An Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery, Boom-Books, →ISBN:


call a cab

en-verb

call a cab (third-person singular simple present calls a cab, present participle calling a cab, simple past and past participle called a cab)

calls a cab (present singular third-person)
calling a cab (participle present)
called a cab (participle past)
called a cab (past)

(raise arm while riding): From the similarity to the raised-arm gesture used to summon a taxi.

An habitually raised arm, termed 'calling a cab', was the trademark of amateurism.

1994, Dick Francis, Wild Horses, page 137:

Drawings of races sixty years ago show the riders trying to avoid catching their horses in the mouth by stretching forward with one arm and lifting the other hand backwards off the reins into the position known as 'calling a cab'.
Although it is no longer the normal and recognized thing to do, 'calling a cab' is still occasionally seen when a jockey finds himself in difficulties over a fence.

2002, Frank R. Scatoni, Finished Lines, page 181:

(horse racing) To raise one's arm to maintain balance while riding.


Captain Armstrong

A pun on the name Armstrong, referring to the use of a strong arm.

"Poor child," he said to himself, all his angry feelings changing, "she seems to have set her heart so upon winning, it would be sad if she were disappointed. No one has much on it: shall I try Captain Armstrong for once? It would make her very happy. Bar accidents, I must win. They don't know that the chestnut has not extended himself yet."

1860, George Alfred Lawrence, Guy Livingstone, page 70:

He had practised “Captain Armstrong” so palpably as to be banished from the Turf.

1886, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 46, page 413:

We have not an iota of belief in this or any other "Captain Armstrong" insinuation against high-class jockeys, who have far too comfortable incomes, and too much proper pride, to place their characters in any man's power, […]

(horse racing, archaic, slang) A form of cheating in which the jockey deliberately pulls his horse back so that it does not win.


great stone-curlew

en-noun

great stone-curlew (plural great stone-curlews)

A species of stone-curlew, Burhinus recurvirostris, of continental Asia, from Iran east to southern China.


beach stone-curlew

beach stone-curlew (plural beach stone-curlews)

Esacus magnirostris
Esacus magnirostris#Translingual

A species of stone-curlew, Esacus magnirostris, of Southeast Asia, Australasia and the western Pacific.


Eurasian stone-curlew

Eurasian stone-curlew (plural Eurasian stone-curlews)

Burhinus oedicnemus
Burhinus oedicnemus#Translingual

A species of stone-curlew, Burhinus oedicnemus, of Eurasia, the Middle East, and northern Africa.


mouselet

Pretty soon she would have a litter of five or six tiny, pink, unfurred mouselets to put into it.

1963, Friends Journal, volume 9, page 105:


northern brushtail possum

northern brushtail possum (plural northern brushtail possums)

A species of possum, Trichosurus arnhemensis, endemic to northern Australia; sometimes considered a subspecies of the brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula.


neotomid

Any muroid rodent of the subfamily Neotominae


papingo

Borrowed from Scots papingo, ultimately from Old French papegai. Cognate to popinjay, German Papagei, Dutch papegaai.


glacier bird

white-winged diuca finch (Idiopsar speculifer).


viperess

A female viper (snake, or treacherous/malignant person)


bananabird

blue-faced honeyeater
blue-faced honeyeater

A blue-faced honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis).


kakawahie

Paroreomyza flammea, an extinct Hawaiian honeycreeper.


bearess

As it is the only spirit I possess I heed his advice and bring it back to the hotel to find the entire force standing at attention, ready to receive me. I pass on to my room with a procession of bearers and bearesses strung out behind me like the tail of a kite, anything from a tea-tray to the sugar tongs being sufficient excuse for joining the parade.

1912, Frances Little, The Lady and Sada San: A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., pages 60–61:

Ring bearer and bearess were Larry and Mary Lynn Ayers, Springfield, Va., nephew and niece of the bridegroom.

1968 April 3, “Greencastle Girl Marries In Arlington, Virginia”, in The Morning Herald, volume XCIV, number 80, Hagerstown, Md.:

Some aggressively degenerate Chinese emperors and noblemen used to make a spectacle of their comely female sedan-chair bearers. (Perhaps properly: bearesses or she-bears or bearpersons.)

1975 December 18, “Tourists main client of China’s dwindling rickshaws”, in The Advocate, Newark, Oh., page 33, column 5:

Ring bearess and flower girl were Emily and Elizabeth Goldeman.

1995 September 19, “Musgrave — Johnson”, in The Ithaca Journal, Ithaca, N.Y., page 6A, column 3:

On the other hand, we must say that what distinguishes this “concreteness” is the essential, originary distinction between the “physical” person (the bearer, or bearess of the philosophical discourse) and his or her truly being a philosopher.

2007, Romano Màdera, Vero Luigi Tarca, “Philosophical Practices as the Valorization and Care for “Beautiful People””, in Philosophy as Life Path: An Introduction to Philosophical Practices, Milan: IPOC di Pietro Condemi, translation of La filosofia come stile di vita: Introduzione alle pratiche filosofiche, →ISBN, pages 186–187:

Natalie Ambrusko of Tonawanda, NY was a ring bearess; Katherine Ambrusko of Pittsburgh, PA and Audrey Kefor of Glastonbury, CT were flower girls, all three are cousins of the bride

2007 December 2, “Hill - Ackers”, in Poughkeepsie Journal, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., page 3I, column 2:

The bridesmaids gestured that it was time for the rings and Elizabeth, who was apparently the ring bearess, rose to the occasion.

2014, Sam Harris, “Promises”, in Ham: Slices of a Life, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 17:


Australian green tree frog

Australian green tree frog (plural Australian green tree frogs)

Any of species Ranoidea caerulea (syn. Litoria caerulea) of docile tree frogs common in Australia, often found near or even inside houses.


jacutinga

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese jacutinga, from Old Tupi îakutinga. The ore is so called because it resembles the bird.

bor+

Pipile jacutinga
Pipile jacutinga#Translingual

A black-fronted piping guan (Pipile jacutinga).


mud turtle

Any of the genus Kinosternon of small aquatic turtles of the Americas.


thalassochelydian

Any extinct turtle of the clade †Thalassochelydia


kilch

Borrowed from German Kilch, Swiss German variant of Kelch (“double chin, crop”).


Futsing wolf snake

en-noun

Futsing wolf snake (plural Futsing wolf snakes)

bor

Chinese 福清白環蛇／福清白环蛇

The Futsing Wolf Snake is a terrestrial species often hunting in forested areas or water culverts at higher elevations. It is extremely rare in Hong Kong. A less common encounter for most given its rarity and nocturnal nature, it is possible though very unlikely to bump into one on the trail and if so they should be give a wide berth and left alone due to similar appearance with the deadly Many Banded Krait.

n.d., Adam Francis, Robert Ferguson, “Futsing Wolf Snake — Lycodon futsingensis”, in HongKongSnakeID.com, archived from the original on 2022-12-24:

Lycodon futsingensis
Lycodon futsingensis#Translingual


paucident planigale

en-noun

paucident planigale (plural paucident planigales)

From paucident (nonce borrowing from Latin paucidens (“having few teeth”), apparently not otherwise used) + planigale (“carnivorous marsupial of genus Planigale”). Compare Translingual Paucidentomys.

The dasyurids examined were the Paucident Planigale, Planigale gilesi, and the Kowari,[…].

1982, Michael Archer, Carnivorous Marsupials, Volume 1, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, page 255:

The Paucident Planigale is a robust marsupial. Its head and body are 6-8 cm long. It has only two premolar teeth in each upper and lower jaw, instead of three as the other four planigales have. The Paucident Planigale has soft, dense, colourful fur.

1983, Keith Davey, “Our Arid Environment: Animals of Australia's Desert Regions”, in Reed, page 92:

However, for small cryptic species such as the southern ningaui Ningaui yvonneae, narrow-nosed planigale Planigale tenuirostris and paucident planigale P. gilesi, range extensions are probably more apparent than real[…].

1994, Daniel Lunney, Future of the Fauna of Western New South Wales, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, page 86:

Planigale gilesi, a very small species of carnivorous marsupial endemic to desert areas of southern and eastern Australia.