musquash

From Abenaki moskwas (or its Massachusett equivalent). Compare musquaw.

[…] Muſquaſhes, vvhich be much like a Beaver for ſhape, but nothing neare ſo bigge; the male hath tvvo ſtones vvhich ſmell as ſvveete as Muske, […]

1634, William Wood, “Beasts Living in the Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 25:

Ondatra zibethicus
Ondatra zibethicus#Translingual


European beaver

en-noun

European beaver (plural European beavers)

A species of beaver, Castor fiber, native to Eurasia.


Norway lemming

Lemmus lemmus
Lemmus lemmus#Translingual

A lemming of species Lemmus lemmus, endemic of northern Scandinavia and northern Russia.


race card

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(often derogatory) The invocation of a person's race in a discussion in order to gain sympathy or an advantage in that discussion.

rotukortti

the invocation of a person's race in a discussion in order to gain sympathy

play the race card

invocation of race to gain sympathy in a discussion


southern vole

A species of vole, Microtus levis (syns. Microtus rossiaemeridionalis, Microtus epiroticus)


grey red-backed vole

grey red-backed vole (plural grey red-backed voles)

A vole of species Myodes rufocanus, former genus names Chletrionomys and Evotomys.


common vole

Microtus arvalis
Microtus arvalis#Translingual


bank vole

A vole of species Myodes glareolus (former genus names Chletrionomys and Evotomys), of much of western Eurasia.


tundra vole

A vole of species Microtus oeconomus, found throughout the Arctic.


field vole

A vole of species Microtus agrestis, of cool-temperate western Eurasia.


whitecoat

A new-born baby harp or grey seal before its fur becomes grey, normally around 12 days old.


European water vole

European water vole (plural European water voles)

Arvicola amphibius
Arvicola amphibius#Translingual

Arvicola terrestris
Arvicola terrestris#Translingual

A species of vole, Arvicola amphibius, formerly Arvicola terrestris.


mouffle

The young wolves divided the spoil into four portions ; but one of them retained the tongue and the other the mouffle (upper lip), which are the chief delicacies of the animal.

1923, Sir James George Frazer, Folk-lore in the Old Testament:

(Canada) The loose covering around the nose and upper lips of the moose or elk. Prized for stewing or roasting.


collared peccary

collared peccary (plural collared peccaries)

A small wild hog (Pecari tajacu), native to southern United States through to northern Argentina.


Rover

desctree

→ Polish: rower
→ Belarusian: ро́вар (róvar)
→ Ukrainian: ро́вер (róver)
→ Yiddish: ראָווער (rover)

Thor jumped off the sledge to undo the gate, and as we merrily drove up to the door we were met by the boisterous welcome of old Rover, who in his frantic joy at hearing my voice almost broke his chain in trying to rush at me.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 18:


Asian black rat

en-noun

Asian black rat (plural Asian black rats)


house rat

Rattus rattus
Rattus rattus#Translingual


roof rat

A large roof rat ran from the overflowing bins and disappeared under the house.

2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 308:


Norwegian rat

The common name was popularised (and perhaps coined) by English naturalist John Berkenhout, in his Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain (1769). Berkenhout believed the species migrated to England from Norwegian ships in 1728; he is also responsible for the scientific name.


wharf rat

(slang) A man who hangs around a wharf in the hope of finding temporary work there.


bottom feeder

The Apristurus genus, the second-most diverse group of sharks that counts about 40 species, is commonly known as the ghost or demon catshark. […] The sharks are bottom feeders and have elongated catlike eyes.

2023 May 12, Lauren McCarthy, “‘A Bit Spooky’: The New Shark Species With Bright, White Eyes”, in The New York Times:

A fish or other aquatic creature that feeds off the bottom of its habitat; a flatfish.

pohjakala

a fish or other aquatic creature that feeds off the bottom of its habitat; a flatfish


black rat

The black rat spread wherever they settled, and so tied was it to Roman habitats that it became extinct in Britain following the Roman withdrawal, only to reappear in Norman times. Thereafter the black rat prospered - until the arrival of the larger brown rat (also known as the sewer rat or Norway rat), which reached Britain at about the time of the Hanoverian succession in the eighteenth century.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 272:

A common species of rat, Rattus rattus, originating anciently in Asia but now distributed worldwide.


degu

From the Mapudungun dewü, via South American Spanish degú.

Along the trails, degus leave mini-urine puddles marking the trail.

2008, Ana Maria Rodriguez, Secret of the Singing Mice... and More!, page 37:

Dr. Braun used used laboratory rats called degus or brush-tail rats (Octodon degus), a species of rodent closely related to guinea pigs.[…]In their natural environment, degu infants are raised jointly by their father and mother and are extremely communicative, using whistling tones to carry on intensive “conversations.”

2011, Elsie Jones-Smith, Spotlighting the Strengths of Every Single Student, page 80:

Degus, or trumpet-tail rats, come from Chile. Taxonomically, they are in the same diverse order as guinea pigs and chinchillas. Degus have been used as laboratory animals for 20 years and in recent years have become popular as pets in the United States and Europe.

2011, Katherine Quesenberry, James W. Carpenter, Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery, unnumbered page:

Any species of the genus Octodon, especially Octodon degus, a small, caviomorph rodent native to Chile.


yellow-necked mouse

yellow-necked mouse (plural yellow-necked mice)

A mouse of species Apodemus flavicollis of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mice), of much of western Eurasia.


striped field mouse

striped field mouse (plural striped field mice)

A field mouse of species Apodemus agrarius, native to much of western Eurasia and to east Asia,


harvest mouse

A New World mouse of the genus Reithrodontomys.


northern birch mouse

northern birch mouse (plural northern birch mice)

A rodent classified either in the family Sminthidae or in the Dipodidae, Sicista betulina that is found in subarctic and cool temperate Asia from Scandinavia to Lake Baikal.


garden dormouse

A rodent in the Gliridae (dormouse) family, Eliomys quercinus, native to parts of Europe, especially southern Europe.


water vole

Any of three Old World vole species: European water vole (Arvicola amphibius, formerly Arvicola terrestris), montane water vole (Arvicola scherman), or southwestern water vole (Arvicola sapidus).


groundling

From ground + -ling. Compare Old English grundling (“a groundling fish, grundel”).

cog

The BEARDED-LOACH or GROUNDLING. Gobites Barbatula. It is a small fish about five inches long, bearded with six small Threads, three on each side

1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge:

When you angle for a trout, you are to do it as deep, that is, as near to the bottom as you can, provided your bait do not drag, although a trout will sometimes take it in that posture: if for a grayling, you are then to fish further from the buttom, it being a fish that usually swims nearer to the middle of the water, and lies always loose; or, however, is more apt to raise than trout, and more inclined to raise than to descend, even to a groundling.

Fertilized groundling (Misgurnus fossilis) and sturgeon (Acipenser Stellatus) eggs were irradiated (10,000 r) at stages from fertilization to middle gastrulation.

1958, Soviet Physics, Doklady, page 464:

Lopashov (1944) extirpated and grafted neural tubes from several species of teleosts—the groundling, Misgurnus fossilis, the loach, Nemacheilus barhatulus, and the perch, Perca fluviatilis — to determine whether pigment cells were of neural crest origin.

1999, Brian K. Hall, The Neural Crest in Development and Evolution, →ISBN, page 82:

Cobitis taenia
Cobitis taenia#Translingual

Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:

The spined loach (Cobitis taenia), weather loach (Misgurnus fossilis), or other member of the loaches.

Charadrius hiaticula
Charadrius hiaticula#Translingual

The ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula.

In the pond behind the garden there were plenty of carp and groundlings.

1922, Ivan Turgenev, chapter XXVI, in Constance Garnett, transl., A House of Gentlefolk, London: Heinemann, page 155:

[…] the ewe called Tiny
 Crossed over and touched her, the others turned anxious looks
 From sniffing the autumn-pinched leaves of the groundling blackberries.

1929, Robinson Jeffers, “The Loving Shepherdess”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, New York: Random House, published 1937, page 219:

Delgard got out the handkerchief again and blew his nose loud enough to alert any bird or groundling within several hundred yards.

2012, David Williams, Planning on Murder, →ISBN:


pack rat

Any of several small North American rodents, of the genus Neotoma, that have bushy tails.


Yorkshire Terrier

en-noun

Yorkshire Terrier (plural Yorkshire Terriers)

/ˈjɔː(ɹ)kʃɪə(ɹ)ˈtɛɹɪə(ɹ)/

A breed of toy dog having a long, glossy coat.


raccoon dog

OBLIVIOUS to his sterilisation, Judas the raccoon dog treks through Sweden’s countryside in search of a mate. At last he finds one, only for their liaison to end when she is shot. He trudges on and finds another, but she is killed too. This is his destiny: he is a radio-tagged lure leading hunters to the last live raccoon dogs in the country.

2016, Aisling Irwin, Furry aliens on Europe’s hit list: New Scientist, number 3063, page 8:

Nyctereutes procyonoides
Nyctereutes procyonoides#Translingual

Nyctereutes viverrinus
Nyctereutes viverrinus#Translingual

A canid, of species Nyctereutes procyonoides or Nyctereutes viverrinus, the only extant species in the genus Nyctereutes of the Canidae or dog family, native to East Asia and widely introduced elsewhere in other cool parts of Eurasia.


hoss

hoss (countable and uncountable, plural hosses)

Non-rhotic pronunciation of horse.
See also 'oss in English dialects with H-dropping.

"Them hosses are feeling their oats," said McGuire. "Can't tell what they'd be up to the minute I turned my back on 'em. Might jump that old fence and be off, for all I know."

1922, Max Brand [pseudonym; Frederick Schiller Faust], Alcatraz:

“That ole black hoss let out a whinny.”

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 563:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(Southern US, slang) Pronunciation spelling of horse.


common woodpigeon

common woodpigeon (plural common woodpigeons)

common wood pigeon
common wood pigeon#English

Alternative spelling of common wood pigeon


domestic pigeon

domestic pigeon (plural domestic pigeons)


bronzewing pigeon

bronzewing pigeon (plural bronzewing pigeons)

The bronzewing, any of several Australian pigeon species.


oriental turtle dove

oriental turtle dove (plural oriental turtle doves)

Streptopelia orientalis
Streptopelia orientalis#Translingual

A species of pigeon (Streptopelia orientalis).


stock pigeon

Columba oenas
Columba oenas#Translingual

A pigeon of species Columba oenas, of western Eurasia.


rock pigeon

Columba livia
Columba livia#Translingual

Columba guinea
Columba guinea#Translingual

(Africa) A speckled pigeon or African rock pigeon (Columba guinea).

Petrophassa rufipennis
Petrophassa rufipennis#Translingual

(Australia) A chestnut-quilled rock pigeon (Petrophassa rufipennis).

roodvleugelkwartelduif

chestnut-quilled rock pigeon, Petrophassa rufipennis

Petrophassa albipennis
Petrophassa albipennis#Translingual

(Australia) A white-quilled rock pigeon (Petrophassa albipennis).

witvleugelkwartelduif

white-quilled rock pigeon, Petrophassa albipennis


homing pigeon

“What I mean is, just stick around and you'll probably find the thing.” “You think it will return?” “I do.” “Like a homing pigeon?” “That's the idea.”

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

In her telling, she sought Musk out after the deal closed, pressing him to meet and discuss how she could make NBCUniversal a bigger media partner “via email, text, I may have been considering a homing pigeon”.

2023 September 30, Hannah Murphy, quoting Linda Yaccarino, “The wildest job in Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 17:

A variety of domesticated rock pigeon (Columba livia) that has been selectively bred to be able to find its way home over extremely long distances.

пощенски гълъб

domesticated rock pigeon with strong homing instinct


feral pigeon

Columba livia domestica
Columba livia domestica#Translingual

A variety of rock pigeon, Columba livia domestica, that has reverted to the wild and adapted itself to living in urban or rural areas.


narwhale

Oh, the believing is hard to be doing, because that was so incredible! We met so many celebrities in midair! And the part with the narwhale was so illegal.

2006 July 3, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Weclome Back”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):


wood pigeon

Idiot-eyed wood pigeons lumbered across the lawn, belly-deep in clover.

2024, Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time, Sceptre, page 14:

Columba palumbus
Columba palumbus#Translingual

The common wood pigeon, an Old World species of pigeon, Columba palumbus.


alley cat

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(cycling) An informal bicycle race with checkpoints.


eastern jackrabbit

eastern jackrabbit (plural eastern jackrabbits)

Lepus europaeus
Lepus europaeus#Translingual

A term used of European hare, Lepus europaeus, in Eastern North America, originating from European hares that escaped from a farm.


European hare

Lepus capensis
Lepus capensis#Translingual

A Eurasian hare species (Lepus europaeus or Lepus capensis).


mountain hare

Lepus americanus
Lepus americanus#Translingual

(Canada, US) Any of various hares found in mountainous country, especially the snowshoe hare, Lepus americanus, and the white-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendi).


Dobermann Pinscher

Dobermann Pinscher (plural Dobermann Pinschers)


shorthorn

One of a breed of cattle, originating in England, with distinctively short horns (in contrast to longhorn cattle).


toy dog

(cynology) Any of several breeds of small dogs, kept as pets.


bluetongue

bluetongue (countable and uncountable, plural bluetongues)

“I don't worry about snakes, blue-tongues, spiders. All I worry about is the mutton-bird.”

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 191

(countable, Australia) The blue-tongue lizard.


matamata

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese matamatá.

A side-necked turtle of species Chelus fimbriata, whose shell resembles a dead leaf.


pig-nosed turtle

pig-nosed turtle (plural pig-nosed turtles)

Carettochelys insculpta
Carettochelys insculpta#Translingual

Alternative form of pig-nose turtle (Carettochelys insculpta)


pig-nose turtle

pig-nose turtle (plural pig-nose turtles)

Australasian pig-nose turtle
Australasian pig-nose turtle

The Australasian pig-nose turtle (Carettochelys insculpta).


plateless turtle

plateless turtle (plural plateless turtles)

The Australasian pig-nose turtle (Carettochelys insculpta)


pitted-shelled turtle

pitted-shelled turtle (plural pitted-shelled turtles)


Fly River turtle

Fly River turtle (plural Fly River turtles)

Australasian pig-nose turtle (Carettochelys insculpta).


Australasian pig-nose turtle

Australasian pig-nose turtle (plural Australasian pig-nose turtles)

Carettochelys insculpta, a species of soft-shelled turtle native to freshwater streams, lagoons and rivers of the Northern Territory of Australia and of southern New Guinea.


chicken turtle

After the chicken-like flavor of its meat.

‘I've a chicken-turtle, which promises well—the first I've received this season, from what I call my West-Indian farm […].’

1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 81:

An uncommon freshwater turtle, of species Deirochelys reticularia, found in the southeast of the United States, similar in appearance to the eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta picta), but with an unusually long, striped neck, a yellow stripe on each of its legs and a net-like pattern on its carapace.


horsemeat

horsemeat (usually uncountable, plural horsemeats)

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In January 2013, supermarkets were hit by an extraordinary scandal as it emerged that foods made of processed 'beef' actually contained horsemeat.

2015, Ian Marcouse, Andrew Hammond, Nigel Watson, Edexcel Business A Level Year 1: Including AS:


green turtle

Among the archipelago's ecological attractions are turtles and avians. The green turtles (Chelonia mydas japonica) that lay their eggs on Wangan Island between May and October are an endangered species protected by ROC law.

2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Travel Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 310:


side-necked turtle

side-necked turtle (plural side-necked turtles)

As we scan the Gaelian shore we see large side-necked turtles sunning themselves.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 29:

Any turtle of the family Pelomedusidae, characterised by protecting its head by turning it to one side rather than, as other turtles do, withdrawing it into its shell.


pond turtle

and many more

western pond turtle (Actinemys marmorata)

The Philippine forest turtle or Leyte pond turtle (Heosemys leytensis).


snake-necked turtle

snake-necked turtle (plural snake-necked turtles)

Any turtle of the Chelodina or Hydromedusa genera and some others in family Chelidae.


box turtle

A turtle of the genera Terrapene (the North American box turtles), Cuora, or Pyxidea (the Asian box turtles), characterised by having a domed shell that is hinged at the bottom, allowing the animal to close its shell tightly to escape predators.


green sea turtle

green sea turtle (plural green sea turtles)

Chelonia mydas
Chelonia mydas#Translingual

Any of species Chelonia mydas of large sea turtles, the only species of the genus Chelonia.


pig dog

In Sense 2, a calque of German Schweinehund. Taj Burrow offers two (perhaps fanciful) explanations for Sense 3: that surfers tend to assume a dog-like expression when in this stance (page 119) or that the stance is low and sturdy like a dog (glossary page 171).

The pig-dogs are of rather a mongrel breed, partaking largely of the bull-dog, but mixed with the cross of mastiff and greyhound, which forms the New South Wales kangaroo-dog.

1908, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Robert Stout, Adventure in New Zealand from 1839 to 1844, published 2010, page 350:

1961, Royal Society of New Zealand, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand: Zoology, Volume 2, page 221,
Pig dogs have a have a particularly high incidence of E. granulosus and T. hydatigena compared with infections in farm gogs and [this] may be related to the eating of infected sheep carrion rather than wild pigs.

These so-called ‘pig dogs’ chase after the wild pigs, often through rough terrain, and bring them down so that the following hunter can shoot the quarry. There is normally more than one dog involved in the hunt. The pig dogs tend to be powerful crossbreds with Great Dane, Bull Mastiff and/or Pit Bull Terrier blood and sometimes with a dash of Irish Wolfhound or Scottish Deerhound to give them more speed and height.

2009, Jane Duckworth, Not Every Dog Has His Day: The Treatment of Dogs in Australia, page 162:

2009, Evan McHugh, Birdsville, Penguin Group, EasyRead Large Edition, page 139,
Zeus was Ben′s pig dog, an Irish wolfhound crossed with other breeds of hunting dog.

(Australia, New Zealand) A dog bred to hunt wild pigs, typically based on breeds such as Staffordshire Terrier and English Bull Terrier.


soft-shelled turtle

soft-shelled turtle (plural soft-shelled turtles)

soft-shell turtle
soft-shell turtle#English


spiny softshell turtle

spiny softshell turtle (plural spiny softshell turtles)

A type of soft-shell turtle (Apalone spinifera) native to Canada, the United States and Mexico, having spiny projections on the leading edge of its carapace.


scut

Associated University Presses
Folger Shakespeare Library
Henry IV, Part 2

From Middle English scut (“hare”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Middle English scut, scute (“short”), possibly from Old French escorter, escurter, or Latin excurtāre, scurtāre, from curtō (“to cut short, shorten”), from curtus (“short; shortened”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -ō. A derivation from Old Norse skut, skutr (“stern of a boat”), or Icelandic skott (“animal's tail”) is thought to be unlikely.
As to sense 3 (“the female pudenda, the vulva”), see the letter of 5 June 1875 from Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris published in One Touch of Shakespeare (1986).

der

(obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.

Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3.

A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.


scut

Uncertain, possibly a variant of scout (“(obsolete except Scotland) contemptible person”), possibly related to scout (“to reject with contempt; to scoff”), from a North Germanic language; compare Old Norse skúta, skúte (“a taunt”), probably from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną (“to shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to shoot; to throw”). Compare Old Norse skútyrði, skotyrði (“abusive language”).

cog

"I'll have no more of it. I'll have no more Dinny Ryans handlin' flesh and blood of my gettin'. Ye'd see me dyin' for a sup of drink to give me peace, and you philanderin' and danderin' with yon scut of a fellow, and worse doin's behind that, if the truth is told."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 195:

She didn't need a new dress! Me money! Me hard earned three hundred that I scraped and scrimped for. Me scut of a daughter puttin' it on her back in finery.

1947, Paul Vincent Carroll, The Wise Have Not Spoken: A Drama in Three Acts (French’s Acting Edition; no. 308), London: French, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, 1954, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 49:

I dreamt that Ruairi Quinn was smokin' marijuana in the Dail. Barry Desmond handing Frenchies out to scuts in Fianna Fail.

1985, “Delerium Tremens” (track 2), in Ordinary Man, performed by Christy Moore:

CHRIS. Danny Bradley is a scut, Rose. / ROSE. I never said it was Danny Bradley! / CHRIS. He's a married man with three young children.

1993, Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, →ISBN, act I, page 14:

Ruth had snapped open her purse and pulled out a small gun. I grabbed her arm and yanked her into the car; she squawked and her shot went wide. [...] "You scut," she said as we hit the entrance ramp of the interstate. "You're a scut-pumping Conservative. You made me miss."

1997, John Kessel, “The Pure Product”, in The Pure Product: Stories (Tom Doherty Associates Book), New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN; republished in Harry Turtledove, with Martin H[arry] Greenberg, editors, The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, Ballantine Books, 2005, →ISBN, page 322:

Fat-headed scut. That's what he is, scut. Thinks he runs the whole river.

2005, Dean Whitlock, chapter 12, in Sky Carver, New York, N.Y.: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 108:

(chiefly Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.


scut

en-noun

scut (countable and uncountable, plural scuts)

Uncertain; perhaps related to scut (“contemptible person”): see etymology 2.

There's no question that it's sexist. [Female residents] are berated more on rounds, given more scut to do.

1999, Patricia L. Dawson, Forged by the Knife: The Experience of Surgical Residency from the Perspective of a Woman of Color, Seattle, Wash.: Open Hand Pub., →ISBN, page 100:

(medicine, slang) Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.


soft-shell turtle

soft-shell turtle (plural soft-shell turtles)

Any turtle of the family Trionychidae, such turtles having a carapace that has no scutes and is leathery and pliable at the sides.


merino

merino (countable and uncountable, plural merinos)

(countable) A sheep of a Spanish breed with long, fine hair.


constrictor

constrictor (plural constrictors or constrictores)

constrictors (plural)
constrictores (plural)

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Borrowed from New Latin cōnstrictor, or from constrict + -or.

pharyngeal constrictor
pharyngeal constrictor#English

(anatomy) A muscle whose contraction narrows a vessel or passage or compresses an organ.

(anatomy) Each of the muscles which constrict the pharynx; ellipsis of pharyngeal constrictor..


diving petrel

Any seabird of the family Pelecanoididae in the order Procellariiformes, resembling auks and native to the southern oceans.


Shetland sheepdog

Shetland sheepdog (plural Shetland sheepdogs)

(zoology) A breed of small sheepdogs, originally from the Shetland Islands.


piha

Any bird belonging to Lipaugus or Snowornis.


cribber

A horse that has the habit of cribbing (seizing a solid object with the teeth and drawing in wind).


Shetland pony

A small horse of a breed originally from the Shetland Islands


cowling

She nuzzled between the legs—a bull calf. She continued to nuzzle and clean the little pea-green body that was blue with white patches about his cowling parts.

2003, David Gilet, The Yellow Dot Plague and Other Tales:


Sheltie

Probably ultimately representing Old Norse Hjalti (“Shetlander”).


cowhand

From cow + hand, or perhaps blend of cowboy + farmhand.

Though a first rate cow hand he very shortly proved himself to be wholly incapable of acting as head.

1886 April, Theodore Roosevelt, “Ranch Life and Game Shooting in the West”, in Outing, volume 8, number 1, page 3:

I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande / but my legs ain't bowed and my cheeks ain't tan […]

1936, “I'm an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande)”, Mercer, Johnny (music):

One who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.


currycomb

en-verb

currycomb (third-person singular simple present currycombs, present participle currycombing, simple past and past participle currycombed)

currycombs (present singular third-person)
currycombing (participle present)
currycombed (participle past)
currycombed (past)

(transitive) To groom using such a comb.


Seven Sisters

(education) A group of seven liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States.


willie wagtail

The birds were nowhere to be seen or heard, not even a singing willy-wagtail lightly flittering from rock to rock […].

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 412:

An Australian bird, Rhipidura leucophrys.


Galapagos sea lion

en-noun

Galápagos sea lion (plural Galapagos sea lions)

Galápagos sea lion (canonical)
Galapagos sea lions (plural)

The fur seals can at first sight be confused with the more boisterous Galápagos sea lions.

1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 34:

Californian sea lion
Californian sea lion

A small species of sea lion, Zalophus wollebaeki (though sometimes considered a subspecies of the Californian sea lion), that breeds in the Galápagos islands.


red panda

Ailurus fulgens
Ailurus fulgens#Translingual

An omnivorous mammal, Ailurus fulgens, native to the Himalayas and eastern Asia, which has dark red fur and a ringed tail.


Bornean clouded leopard

Bornean clouded leopard (plural Bornean clouded leopards)

Neofelis diardi
Neofelis diardi#Translingual

A species of cat found on Borneo and Sumatra, Neofelis diardi.

leopard b’marki qishom sħab tal-Gżejjer ta’ Sunda


bovid

An animal of the family Bovidae (such as the antelope, gazelle, goat, and sheep).


placental

From post-classical Latin placentalis, corresponding to placenta + -al.

We do not know exactly how many placental lineages survived to leave descendants; most estimates are around ten.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 103:

(zoology) Pertaining to the Placentalia, comprising those mammals not marsupials or monotremes.


bluey

bluey (countable and uncountable, plural blueys)

(Australian slang) A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.


screech owl

From the fact that these species are owls which emit screeching calls.

The screech owls winter in the north and are distinctly farsighted in preparing for winter.

1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 102:

And I listened for a voice;— / But my heart was all I heard; / Not a screech-owl, not a loon, / Not a tree-toad said a word.

1921, Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Blue-Flag in the Bog”, in Second April:

†Virgin Islands screech owl

Puerto Rican screech owl (Megascops nudipes)

(UK) A common barn owl, of species Tyto alba, found almost worldwide.

Turdus viscivorus
Turdus viscivorus#Translingual


finfish

(informal) Short for finned fish. As in ray-finned fish. Term is used to distinguish them from shellfish, cartilaginous fish and other similar aquatic creatures customarily used as food.


phalanger

From Ancient Greek φαλάγγιον (phalángion, “spider's web”), from φάλαγξ (phálanx, “spider”), referring to the webbed toes on the hind feet.

der

An arboreal marsupial of the family Phalangeridae, native to Australia.


blinder

From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.

1969, Kenzaburō Ōe, chapter 5, in John Nathan, transl., A Personal Matter, New York: Grove Press, page 84:

Orientalism itself, furthermore, was an exclusively male province; like so many professional guilds during the modern period, it viewed itself and its subject matter with sexist blinders.

1978, Edward Said, Orientalism, New York: Vinatage, published 2003, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 207:

A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.


alala

A crow native to Hawaii, of species Corvus hawaiiensis.


corella

A flock of white corellas stared with black beady eyes as Warren Finch and the girl passed by, then continued gnawing with sharp pointy beaks on the paddy melons held in their claws.

2013, Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, Constable (2016), page 204:

Any of several species of white cockatoo of the subgenus Licmetis within genus Cacatua.


giant anteater

Myrmecophaga tridactyla
Myrmecophaga tridactyla#Translingual

The largest species of anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, found in Central and South America.


guan

The 'true' (Penelope) guans also occur at a range of altitudes but like most species of cracids, are mostly restricted to forest, both montane and lowland. Piping-guans (Pipile) are primarily lowland species, whereas numerous monospecific (single-species genus) taxa of guans (i.e. Aburria, Penelopina, Oreophasis) are restricted to montane environments.

2000, Daniel M. Brooks, Stuart D. Strahl, Curassows, Guans and Chachalacas: With Spanish and Portuguese Translations, page 8:

Most guans move among only the most rewarding trees, those having the largest fruit crops and/or the greatest reward per fruit. Nevertheless, solitary individuals and some guan groups - as well as the first-mentioned guans, once they deplete the fruit crops in the most popular trees - are stuck with the less rewarding trees.

2002, Kent H. Redford, Peter Feinsinger, “17: The half-empty forest: sustainable use and the ecology of interactions”, in John D. Reynolds, editor, Conservation of Exploited Species, page 381:

The Crested Guan is a large, brown, turkeylike bird most frequently seen peering down from the treetops as it searches for fruit and leaves that make up its diet. As its name implies, this bird has a feathered crest that is frequently raised as it relates to nearby guans or to potential danger.

2010, Carrol L. Henderson, Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide, page 40:

Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina, and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas.

koc̈hoyi

several birds within the family Cracidae


froglike

en-adj

froglike (comparative more froglike, superlative most froglike)

more froglike (comparative)
most froglike (superlative)

Though it was not far to Jamiltepec, once outside the village, the chauffeur and his little attendant lad began to get frightened, and to go frog-like with fear.

1926, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 19, in The Plumed Serpent, New York: Vintage, published 1955, page 316:

I have seen, too, a frog-like beast with protruding green eyes, which is simply a gaping mouth with a huge stomach behind it.

1929, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, in The Maracot Deep:

a froglike croak

Parsons, Winston's fellow-tenant at Victory Mansions, was in fact threading his way across the room--a tubby, middle-sized man with fair hair and a froglike face.

1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 5:

It was the typical chatter of the moment when each woman was showing off her baby, held against her froglike belly.

1988, Yasunari Kawabata, “Samurai Descendant”, in Lane Dunlop, J. Martin Holman, San Francisco, transl., Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, North Point Press, page 133:

Similar to a frog (amphibian), or to a characteristic of a frog.


mao

The ma'oma'o, Gymnomyza samoensis, a large passerine bird native to Samoa.


bighorn

Ovis canadensis
Ovis canadensis#Translingual

especially, Ovis canadensis, having large, curving horns.


kang

Why is it built this way?
Oh, it's a kang. It's heated from underneath, like an oven.
Kang? What is a kang for?
A community bed. You'll find them in every inn in north China. We've got lots of rooms, but when winter comes, this is the bed everybody'll be in.
You mean togther?
Thirty, forty, fifty at a time. All fully-clothed and ignoring each other. It gets cold here you'll find out.

1958, 29:45 from the start, in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, →OCLC:

A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.


bloodsucker

From blood + sucker. Sense 5 (“changeable lizard”) is perhaps because of the reddish color of its neck.

The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).


blue bonnet

Centaurea cyanus
Centaurea cyanus#Translingual

Any of several blue flowering plants, especially cornflower, Centaurea cyanus, and plants of the genus Scabiosa.

ruiskaunokki

blue flower, Centaurea cyanus or plant of the genus Scabiosa


cockbird

The male of a game bird, especially of a pheasant.


barramunda

A Queensland lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri).


honeyguide

Any of several brood-parasitic Old World tropical birds, of the family Indicatoridae, that primarily feed on wax, especially beeswax.


red-eared slider

en-noun

red-eared slider (plural red-eared sliders)

The turtle subspecies Trachemys scripta elegans, quite popular as a pet. Although native to the southern United States, it has become common in many areas of the world.


longspur

A specific type of bird, of the genus Calcarius; it has a long claw on the hind toe of each foot.


howler monkey

At dawn and at sunset the howler monkeys screamed together and the parrakeets broke into shrill chatter, but during the hot hours of the day only the full drone of insects, like the beat of a distant surf, filled the ear, while nothing moved amid the solemn vistas of stupendous trunks, fading away into the darkness which held us in.

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

A Central American and South American monkey of the genus Alouatta, noted for its loud call.

aluata

loud Central American and South American monkey of the genus Alouatta


knifetooth sawfish

knifetooth sawfish (plural knifetooth sawfishes)

Anoxypristis cuspidata, a sawfish of the family Pristidae, the lone member of the genus Anoxypristis.


ceratopsian

suf

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

Triceratops is a ceratopsian dinosaur.

One common ceratopsian feature is a frill extending from the back of the skull.

Of or belonging to the Ceratopsia suborder of dinosaurs.


zorille

From French zorille, from Spanish zorrillo, from zorro (“fox”) + -illo.

Ictonyx striatus, a small, carnivorous, nocturnal African mammal resembling a skunk.


Cerberus

From Latin Cerberus, from Ancient Greek Κέρβερος (Kérberos), of unknown origin.

(Greek mythology) The giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades; and one of the many offspring of Echidna and Typhon.


European badger

en-noun

European badger (plural European badgers)


Eurasian badger

Eurasian badger (plural Eurasian badgers)

A badger species indigenous to Eurasia, Meles meles.


ratel

→ Italian: ratelo


pine marten

Martes martes
Martes martes#Translingual

A species of marten native to Northern Europe, Martes martes.


bluepoint

(marine biology) A small oyster, of species Crassostrea virginica, from the eastern United States seaboard.


blacksnake

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

Alternative form of black snake: any of several relatively harmless North American snakes.


bobwhite

Any one of four species of quail in the genus Colinus, of the bird family Odontophoridae, limited to the Americas.


bobolink

Imitative of its song. Compare Bob Lincoln.

Lethe in my flower / Of which they who drink / In the fadeless orchards / Hear the bobolink.

a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd and M[illicent] T[odd] Bingham, editors, Bolts of Melody, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, published 1945, page 330:

The San's feeders were mobbed with sparrows and jays and the starlings that had just begun to colonize the area, but there was no sign of robin, bobolink or oriole.

1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 297:

An American migratory songbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, resembling a blackbird with the bill of a finch.


Baltic herring

Baltic herring (usually uncountable, plural Baltic herrings)

Clupea harengus membras
Clupea harengus membras#Translingual

A subspecies of Atlantic herring, (Clupea harengus membras), living in the Baltic Sea, smaller than Atlantic herring, with leaner flesh.


bushmaster

Lachesis muta
Lachesis muta#Translingual

A venomous pit viper, Lachesis muta, from tropical America.


Atlantic herring

Atlantic herring (plural Atlantic herrings or Atlantic herring)

Atlantic herrings (plural)
Atlantic herring (plural)

Clupea harengus
Clupea harengus#Translingual

Clupea harengus, an abundant species of herring and an important food fish living in the North Atlantic.


brindle

brindle (usually uncountable, plural brindles)

Back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.

I snatch at the puppy closest to me, the brindle, which is limp in my hand, and shove it down my shirt.

2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 235:


brindle

en-adj

brindle (comparative more brindle, superlative most brindle)

more brindle (comparative)
most brindle (superlative)

It is brindle. Stripes of black and brown ride its ribs like a zebra’s.

2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 18:


brindle

en-verb

brindle (third-person singular simple present brindles, present participle brindling, simple past and past participle brindled)

brindles (present singular third-person)
brindling (participle present)
brindled (participle past)
brindled (past)

Sorely too as I laboured and toiled, the reward of toil would not come ; already my back began to curve, and my hair to brindle itself with gray, yet I saw no luck before me.

1841, The Metropolitan - Volume 30, page 226:

It is the perfect opposition of dark and light that brindles the tiger with gold flame and dark flame.

1925, D.H. Lawrence, Reflections on the Death of Porcupine and Other Essays:

The darkest areas (the points) may brindle or become bleached by brilliant sunlight, especially in chocolate and white points.

1993, Peter Warner, Perfect Cats, page 78:


dasyure

From Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “hairy”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).

Any of various Australasian carnivorous marsupials, of the family Dasyuridae, which include the marsupial equivalent to cats


candiru

/ˌkændɪˈɹuː/

From Old Tupi, via Portuguese or Spanish.

A small parasitic catfish, Vandellia cirrhosa, native to the Amazon river, rumored to swim up male urethras.


broadtail

The hide or fur of a Persian lamb, formerly used in clothing etc.


platy

en-noun

platy (plural platys or platies or platy)

platys (plural)
platies (plural)
platy (plural)

]
]
Translingual: Platypoecilus (“former genus of platys”)

desc

I had a mixed community aquarium with several tetras, two mollies, some corydoras catfish, and a platy from a previous tank.

Any of two species (and hybrids) of tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (which also includes the swordtails).


acrocephaline

Of or pertaining to the Acrocephalus genus of warblers


sook

Unknown origin. From Chesapeake Bay, attested as early as 1948.

The life cycle of the crab in the bay causes a preponderance of adult males (jimmy crabs) to occur in the waters of the upper bay while conversely a concentration of adult females (sook crabs) occurs in the more saline waters near the mouth of the bay (table 2).

1948, John Cleary Pearson, Fluctuations in the Abundance of the Blue Crab in Chesapeake Bay, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, page 4:

(US, eastern shore of Maryland) A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).


snow-bird

Any of several small birds including the snow bunting and snowfinch


Tasmanian wolf

en-noun

Tasmanian wolf (plural Tasmanian wolves)

Thylacinus cynocephalus
Thylacinus cynocephalus#Translingual

塔斯马尼亚虎

Tǎsīmǎníyǎ hǔ


pacer

In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter.


parrothouse

I do not deny that the poet may write an ode to a parrot as well as to a skylark; or for that matter a serenade to a penguin or a pelican. But he will prefer the parrot outside the parrothouse. He will prefer the pelican in the wilderness.

1964, G. K. Chesterton, The Spice of Life and Other Essays: The Soul in Every Legend:

An aviary where parrots and similar exotic birds are kept for display.


reef triggerfish

reef triggerfish (plural reef triggerfish or reef triggerfishes)

reef triggerfish (plural)
reef triggerfishes (plural)

Rhinecanthus rectangulus, a species of triggerfish.


parrotfish

parrotfish (plural parrotfishes or parrotfish)

parrotfishes (plural)
parrotfish (plural)

Any of several tropical marine fish of the family Scaridae known for their beak-like mass of teeth used to scrape algae from rocks or coral.


Connemara

/ˌkɑnəˈmɑɹə/

/ˌkɒnɪˈmɑːɹə/

Borrowed from Irish Conamara, from Conmhaícne Mara (literally “the Conmhaícne of the sea”), a branch of an ancient native tribe named Conmhaícne (literally “descendants of Con Mhac”).

A pony of a particular breed native to this Irish district.


hawkie

(Geordie) A cow with a white face and darker body.


sea-parrot

(Northern Scotland) A puffin (Fratercula spp.)


hogcote

From hog + cote (“building for domesticated animals”).


haulm

en-noun

haulm (countable and uncountable, plural haulms)

From Middle English halm, from Old English healm, from Proto-Germanic *halmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos) and Latin culmus. Doublet of calame, calamus, culm, helm (Etymology 4), and shawm.

doublet

(uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.

слама

stems of cultivated plants left after harvesting


zedonk

From the first syllables of zebra and donkey.

A zebroid hybrid that is the offspring of a male zebra and a female donkey


hogget

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

From Middle English hogget, from Anglo-Norman hoget and an Anglo-Latin hogettus.

They were kept in separate flocks; first there were the hoggets, then the oldest of the younger lambs and lastly the very young ones all kept apart from one another […]

1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book IX., page 113

(chiefly UK, New Zealand) A young colt or sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth).

Jungschaf

a young sheep from about 9 to 18 months of age

(chiefly UK, New Zealand) The meat of a young sheep.

(chiefly UK) A young boar of the second year.


turdiform

en-adj

turdiform (comparative more turdiform, superlative most turdiform)

more turdiform (comparative)
most turdiform (superlative)

(ornithology, rare) Of, relating to or resembling a thrush, or any other bird of the family Turdidae.


rosella

Uncertain; perhaps a variant of Rosehill.

/ɹə(ʊ)ˈzɛlə/

Molly […] had glimpsed a future, like a rosella, hardly seen, swooping through the high umbrellas of the bush.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 138:

Platycercus eximius
Platycercus eximius#Translingual

A parrot belonging to any of the five to eight species in the genus Platycercus (originally specifically Platycercus eximius) which is native to Australia and nearby islands.


equerry

From an alteration of earlier esquiry (through the influence of the unrelated Latin equus), from Middle French escuirie, escuerie, derivative of escuyer (“squire”), or alternatively from Medieval Latin scuria (“stable”), from Old High German scura (“barn”). Compare esquire.

A bedroom is provided for the equerry and one for the King's physician. […] The compartments for the doctor and equerry are panelled in West African betula and cherry mahogany.

1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, pages 36, 47:

(British) A personal attendant to a head of state, a member of a royal family, or a national representative.


amphisbaena

From Latin amphisbaena, from Ancient Greek ἀμφίσβαινα (amphísbaina, from ἀμφίς (amphís, “both ways”) + βαίνω (baínō, “I go”)).

der

1971: What do you call that animal that goes backward and forward, head at each end? —'Amphisbaena'. A kind of lizard. It doesn't exist. — Anthony Burgess, M/F (Penguin 2004, p. 109)

(mythology) A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body, able to move in either direction.

ամֆիսբենա

A member of a genus of lizards, native to the Americas, having extremities which are very similar.

amphisbène

any of the genus Amphisbaena of legless lizards


equestrianism

en-noun

equestrianism (usually uncountable, plural equestrianisms)

The art or sport of horseriding; the skill required for it.


bulbul

Borrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul) or from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).

bor+

Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae (currently, 27 genera recognized), native to Africa and Eurasia.


silvery marmoset

en-noun

silvery marmoset (plural silvery marmosets)

A Brazilian monkey, Callithrix argentata, having white fur, a dark tail, and naked ears


Faroes

A breed of domestic sheep, native to the Faroe Islands


sea calf

sea calf (plural sea calves or (proscribed) sea calfs)

sea calves (plural)
sea calfs (plural proscribed)

Phoca vitulina
Phoca vitulina#Translingual

(obsolete) The common seal, Phoca vitulina.


creodont

From κρέας (kréas, “flesh”) + οδοντ- (odont-, “tooth”).

A member of the extinct Creodonta order of mammals that lived from the Paleocene to the Pliocene epoch.


saber-toothed tiger

saber-toothed tiger (plural saber-toothed tigers)

Any of numerous species of prehistoric cat-like mammals (principally in the subfamily Machairodontinae), characterized by massive, but short, legs and two large canine teeth, each about seven inches long and shaped like a saber.


seg

Probably from the root of Latin secāre (“to cut”).

(UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A castrated farm animal.


grosbeak

/ˈɡɹəʊz.bɪk/

From French gros-bec, gros (“big”) + bec (“beak”).

Any of several finches and cardinals that have a large, powerful bill


sharpie

It is harder to gauge the shorter tail of sharpies, but on sitting birds the tail shape is a more useful character than it is on flying birds. Sharpies of all ages and sexes almost always show a notched tail when they are sitting.

2005, Bill Thompson, Eirik A. T. Blom, Jeffrey A. Gordon, Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges, page 93:

My mother had lost a considerable number of spring chicks to a raiding sharpie.

2010, Era S. VanDenburg, The Natural World of Ivy Lane, page 48:

sharp-shinned hawk
sharp-shinned hawk#English

(birdwatching) Clipping of sharp-shinned hawk.


stormy petrel

One who brings trouble or whose appearance is a sign of coming trouble.


Mother Carey's chicken

Mother Carey's chicken (plural Mother Carey's chickens)

A few blue petrels, black sheer-waters and Mather Caries chickens are all the birds we see.

1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 27 December

Kemp watched sperm whales and green turtles and hundreds of gulls and petrels – known as “Mother Carey's chickens” – that flew around the ship with piercing screams.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 36


harness racing

A form of horse racing in which the horses race in a specified gait, usually pulling two-wheeled carts called sulkies.


fantail

Any of several birds, of the genus Rhipidura, from Asia, Australia and New Zealand.


sazan

From Russian саза́н (sazán), from Turkic, from Proto-Turkic *siāŕgan (“carp; snake, dragon”).

der

Cyprinus carpio
Cyprinus carpio#Translingual

A fish (Cyprinus carpio) in the Cyprinidae family. It is native to Sea of Azov, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea, Balkhash lake, Amour river.


bananaquit

From banana + quit (“small passerine bird”).

Consider an example involving the bananaquit (Coereba flaveola), a common land bird in Central and South America and on several Caribbean islands (Seutin et al., 1994).

2000, John C. Avise, Phylogeography: The History and Formation of Species, page 270:

Since not all bananaquits nest near wasp nests, Wunderle and Pollock were able to compare the nesting success of pairs nesting near or away from polybiine colonies.

2009, Gilbert Waldbauer, What Good Are Bugs? Insects in the Web of Life, page 140:

It had been weeks since Valerie had been outside on the patio, weeks since Ana had left out sugar water for the hummingbirds and bananaquits, who still continued to flutter around the empty feeders ever hopeful that their easy nectar would return.

2010, LeAnn Neal Reilly, The Mermaid's Pendant, page 490:

A nectar-feeding bird, Coereba flaveola, thought to be related to the Darwin's finches and the grassquits.


sand-martin

But the red light was on the columns of the Parthenon, and the Greek women who were knitting their stockings and sometimes crying to a child to come and have the insects picked from its head were as jolly as sand-martins in the heat, quarrelling, scolding, suckling their babies, until the ships in the Piraeus fired their guns.

1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 172

a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family.


hunting-crop

Bonamy took up a bill for a hunting-crop.

1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 173

"Even in his most temperate moments he is constantly felling people with a hunting-crop."

1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19:

A hunting whip, without a thong, that can be used for opening gates.


fingerling

From Middle English fyngyrlynge, equivalent to finger + -ling, from having the size of a human finger.

(zoology) A juvenile fish that has developed scales and working fins.


saiga

From Russian сайга́ (sajgá), alternative form of сайга́к (sajgák), from Chagatai سایغاق (saiɣak, “chamois”).

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

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

Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia.

possibly a subspecies Saiga tatarica mongolica


krait

Borrowed from Hindi करैत (karait), possibly from Kurukh.

On visiting the General Hospital, on the morning of the 22nd of August, I was informed that one of the punkah coolies had been bitten about 8.30 p.m., the night before, by a krait, whose venom is virulently poisonous.

1871 December, Dr. J. Ewart, “How the bite of snakes―supposed to be poisonous―may be cured”, in The Australian Medical Gazette:

Now, if you run into one of these kraits, you better NOT run away else you're a goner. It'll catch you for sure and you will die in your tracks.

2007, A. Philip Parham, Feeling Free, page 190:

Very much in my thoughts is Joe Slowinski, a herpetologist killed a few years earlier by a misidentified juvenile krait, a snake so small that he couldn't tell if the fang had punctured the skin.

2009, Kate Jackson, Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo, page 295:

India has a healthy share of poisonous snakes, including kraits, cobras, and two species of vipers, yet Hindu traditions are overwhelmingly snake-friendly.

2011, Lisa Kemmerer, Animals and World Religions, page 71:

Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.


Iberian lynx

The Iberian lynx is the largest carnivore unique to Europe.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 285:

Lynx pardinus
Lynx pardinus#Translingual

An endangered species of lynx, Lynx pardinus, native to the Iberian peninsula.


fleabag

While Mike was still in the hospital, a man named Olin—the manager of the goddamned hotel, if you please—came and asked Sam Farrell if he could listen to that tape. Farrell said no, he couldn't; what Olin could do was take himself on out of the agent's office at a rapid hike and thank God all the way back to the fleabag where he worked that Mike Enslin had decided not to sue either the hotel or Olin for negligence.

1999, Stephen King, “1408”, in Everything's Eventual, published 2002:

(slang) A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment.

He's become a real fleabag recently. Time for a bath!

Get out of the way, you fleabag!

(slang) A mammal whom the speaker dislikes.


suslik

en-noun

suslik (countable and uncountable, plural susliks)

Any of several large Eurasian squirrels, of the genera Citellus or Spermophilus.


baza

Any of three species of small, crested hawks in the genus Aviceda.


houndstooth

From hound + -s- + tooth, from its appearance.
Although the pattern itself is archaeologically found from time immemorial, the modern term is first attested in 1936.

Their ties were tidier, their houndsteeth toothier … they ended up looking more Windsorian than Windsor.

1970, Men's Wear, volume 161, New York, N.Y.: Fairchild Publications, →OCLC, page 73, column 1:

Her dress is wool too, brown and black houndsteeth that belonged to her mother.

2014, Jacinda Townsend, “Jupiter”, in Saint Monkey: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 68:

Fabric with a houndstooth pattern; an item of clothing made with such fabric.


flycatcher

Old World flycatcher
Old World flycatcher

Any of many kinds of birds of the family Muscicapidae, of Africa, Europe, and Asia, that catch insects in flight; an Old World flycatcher.

New World flycatcher
New World flycatcher

Any of many kinds of similar birds of various families, such as Tyrannidae (the New World flycatchers of the Americas), Tityridae, Stenostiridae, Monarchidae, Petroicidae, etc.


binky

* (US) Commercial child's pacifier brand name. (1948–1977)
* Perhaps a child's pronunciation of blanket.

(informal, childish) A stuffed animal, pillow, blanket, or toy that a small child is more attached to than any other, and often sleeps with.


vison

Neovison vison
Neovison vison#Translingual

Mustela vison
Mustela vison#Translingual

The American mink, variously classified as Neovison vison or Mustela vison.


asse

Perhaps from Afrikaans asse (“ashes”), because the fur at the top of the Cape fox's body looks like ash.

and the little Asse Fox (Canis chama).

1906, Praagh, L. V, The Transvaal and its mines : the encyclopedic history of the Transvaal:

South of the Zambezi the group reappears in the shape of the asse-fox or fennec, (V. cama), a dark-coloured species, with a black tip to the long, bushy tail and reddish-brown ears.

1910, Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 ed. Vol. 10, page 769:

Foxes involved include the long-eared Asse Fox or Cape Fox (Vulpes chania) and the bat-eared fox

1973, West, Geoffrey P. (Geoffrey Philip), Rabies in animals & man, New York, Arco, →ISBN, →OCLC:


noddy

Bakin off of this light skin hottie
Sweet ting, arch ya up and give noddy

2024 January 13, “Aint A joke”, Shmurda x Dontplay (lyrics), 1:39:


Rottweiler

Borrowed from German Rottweiler, from German Rottweil.

A very large muscular breed of dog of German origin with black fur and tanned markings.


megathere

From Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “large”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “wild beast”).

An extinct, gigantic, ground sloth (genus Megatherium) that flourished in South America during the Pleistocene epoch.


Invisible Pink Unicorn

en-proper noun

Invisible Pink Unicorn (plural Invisible Pink Unicorns)

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If you feel it is the duty of others to refute the claim, and not of yourself to support it, then how about refuting the existence of invisible pink unicorns?

1990 July 17, je kanker moeder, “Re: 'Proof' of God's Existence”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2010-09-30, message-ID <3704@qip.UUCP>:

Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.

From a quite opposite perspective, an interesting departure of the 1990s (largely on the internet, and still flourishing) is the cult of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, which is at least in part a philosophical tool for examining the nature of religious faith from a skeptical point of view.

2007, Nigel Suckling, Unicorns, Facts, Figures, & Fun, →ISBN, page 94:

(Internet slang, humorous) A unicorn goddess who is simultaneously invisible and pink, used in arguments against faith in an unprovable deity.


batrachotoxin

en-noun

batrachotoxin (countable and uncountable, plural batrachotoxins)

From Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”) + toxin.

compound

(neurotoxicology, uncountable) An extremely neurotoxic and cardiotoxic steroidal alkaloid found in poison dart frogs.

(toxicology, countable) Any one of a group of extremely neurotoxic and cardiotoxic steroidal alkaloids found in poison dart frogs, Melyridae beetles, and certain birds.


martlet

From Middle English martilet, probably a blend of martinet (“martin”; from Middle French martinet and Medieval Latin martineta) and Middle French merlet.

merlette

mythological bird in French heraldry depicted with no beak or feet

(heraldry) A depiction of a bird similar to a house martin or swallow with stylized feet.


metatherian

The pouched metatherians, the progenitors of marsupials, used to be common all over North America.

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

(zoology) A member of the infraclass Metatheria.


true seal

Any of the seals in the taxonomic family Phocidae; earless seal.


grandsire

From Middle English graunsire; compare grand and sire.

paternal grandfather
paternal grandfather

(equestrianism) The sire of a sire, paternal grandfather


Saimaa ringed seal

en-noun

Saimaa ringed seal (plural Saimaa ringed seals)

A subspecies of the ringed seal, living only in Lake Saimaa in Finland.


earless seal

Any of the seals in the taxonomic family Phocidae characterized by lacking external ear flaps; true seals.


grey seal

Halichoerus grypus
Halichoerus grypus#Translingual


howlet

From Middle English howlat, howlott etc, either borrowed from French hulotte or formed from Middle English howle (form of oule) + -et. Compare modern owlet.

Will the night send a howlet or a bat? / I asked: when something on the dismal flat / Came to arrest my thoughts and change their train.

1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XVIII:


pouting

Trisopterus luscus
Trisopterus luscus#Translingual

A fish in the cod family (Gadidae), Trisopterus luscus.


mammal-like reptile

mammal-like reptile (plural mammal-like reptiles)

The mammal-like reptiles, constituting the subclass Synapsida, were among the earliest to appear of known reptilian groups and had passed the peak of their career before the first dinosaur appeared on the earth.

1966 — Alfred S. Romer, Vertebrate Paleontology, 3rd ed.; ch 14, p 173

Synapsida: amniotes with one lower temporal fenestra, surrounded by the postorbital, jugal and squamosal. Includes the extinct mammal-like reptiles and the mammals.

1997 — Michael J. Benton, Vertebrate Paleontology, 2nd ed.; ch 5, p 109

(paleontology, dated) Any basal member of the Synapsida, related to the mammals but superficially resembling reptiles.


horseflesh

Bahama mahogany, wood from species Lysiloma sabicu and Lysiloma latisiliquum.


actinopterygian

The ear of all nonteleostean actinopterygian fishes (Grande and Bemis 1996) does not differ much from that of ratfish (considered by most an ancient line of cartilaginous fish), with the notable exception of the position of the ultricular macula.

1999, Bernd Fritzsch, “2: Hearing in Two Worlds”, in Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper, editors, Comparative Hearing: Fish and Amphibians, page 19:

The otico-orbitotemporal region is formed by a single ossification in primitive actinopterygians but by many separate ossifications in advanced actinopterygians, expecially teleosts.

2004, Bhavna Khanna, Ichthyology Handbook, page 108:

2004, M. L. J. Stiassny, E. O, Wiley, G. D. Johnson, M. R, de Carvalho, 24: Gnathostome Fishes, Joel Cracraft, Michael J. Donoghue (editors), Assembling the Tree of Life, page 416,
The most basal of living actinopterygians are the bichirs (Polypteridae), a small group (11 spp.) of African fishes previously thought to be related to the lobefin fishes (sarcopterygians), or to form a third group.

(zoology) Any of the ray-finned fish of the taxonomic class Actinopterygii.

actinopterígio

any of the ray-finned fish of the class Actinopterygii


paddlefish

paddlefish (plural paddlefishes or paddlefish)

paddlefishes (plural)
paddlefish (plural)

Caviar comes from various species of sturgeons and paddlefishes.

1996 May 21, The Associated Press, “Test for Caviar Source”, in The New York Times:

A plucky, compact vendor of fish, Mr. Shuckman spent years peddling southern paddlefish roe from his seafood shop in Louisville, knocking on doors of fancy restaurants and country clubs, asking anyone who would listen, "Y'all want some caviar?"

2003 July 20, Jeffrey Gettleman, “Humble Paddlefish Fulfills Southerners' Caviar Dreams”, in The New York Times:

Any of several primitive fish, of the family Polyodontidae, that have a long snout shaped like a paddle.


tuna fish

tuna fish (countable and uncountable, plural tuna fishes)

(uncountable) The flesh of this fish, used as food


tunny

tunny (countable and uncountable, plural tunny or tunnies)

→ Irish: tuinnín

From Middle French thon + -y, from Old Occitan ton, from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos), + -y.

You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the tunny fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids--

2021, Edward Stratemeyer, Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom:


longspine snipefish

longspine snipefish (plural longspine snipefishes)

A moderately elongate species of snipefish with a tubular snout equal to about a quarter of the total body length, Macroramphosus scolopax.


finback

Balaenoptera physalus
Balaenoptera physalus#Translingual

A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale.


leafbird

A small passerine bird of the genus Chloropsis, native to India and southeast Asia.


whalebone

whalebone (countable and uncountable, plural whalebones)

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“You have probably never seen anything like this before, Mr. Toler. It is baleen, or if you prefer it, whalebone, taken from the mouth of the bowhead whale. It is used by the whale to filter its food.”

1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 5, in The Subtle Minotaur:

The horny material from the fringed plates of the upper jaw of baleen whales that are used to filter plankton; once used as stays in corsets

балена

horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale


baleen whale

Any of several large whales, of the parvorder Mysticeti, that have plates of whalebone (baleen) instead of teeth.


ortolan

From Middle French hortolan (“gardener”), from Latin hortulānus (“gardener”). Doublet of hortulan.

[…]this taught him to consider Sophia as a most delicious morsel, indeed to regard her with the same desires which an ortolan inspires into the soul of an epicure.

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VI, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:

[…]the last flavor Mitterrand wished to savor belonged to the flesh of the endangered ortolan, a songbird the size of a human toe that is a crime to buy or hunt, and is certainly illegal to eat. Mitterrand devoured it in the traditional manner, first covering his head with an embroidered cloth, then inserting the entire bird into his mouth.[…]Only its head should dangle out from between your lips. Bite off the head and discard.

2003, Stewart Lee Allen, In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food, page 73:

Emberiza hortulana
Emberiza hortulana#Translingual

A small European migratory bunting (Emberiza hortulana), once eaten whole as a delicacy.

(US) Any of various similar birds, especially the bobolink, sora, or snow bunting.

greater short-toed lark
greater short-toed lark

Calandrella brachydactyla
Calandrella brachydactyla#Translingual

The greater short-toed lark (Calandrella brachydactyla).


small fry

small fry (plural small fry or small fries)

From small + fry, first use appears c. 1577, in the publications of John Dee.


leaffish

leaffish (plural leaffishes or leaffish)

A small South American freshwater fish of the family Polycentridae.


leaf-nosed bat

A bat of the family Phyllostomidae, having a pointed projection on the snout.


artiodactyl

/ˌɑːtɪəʊˈdaktɪl/

From scientific Latin Artiodactyla (suborder name), from Ancient Greek ἄρτιος (ártios, “even”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger, toe”).

I have been unable to find out if these are linked in some way to the 1945 Budapest hippos, with the possibility this would create of a parallel history of Central Europe seen through the endurance of one brave African artiodactyl family.

2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 397:

(zoology) Any ungulate mammal with an even number of toes and belonging to the Artiodactyla, including pigs, sheep, deer, cattle, and most grazing animals. In contrast, horses have an odd number of toes and as such are not Artiodactyla, but Perissodactyla.

Чифтокопитен

any ungulate mammal with an even number of toes


perissodactyl

From Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “uneven”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger, toe”).

uder

The chalicotheres were among the strangest mammals that ever lived. They were perissodactyls - relatives of horses, rhinos and tapirs - and if all you had seen of one was its head, you might have mistaken it for a very strange horse.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 102:

Any ungulate mammal with an odd number of toes and belonging to the Perissodactyla, an equid, a tapir, or a rhinoceros.


placoderm

From placo- + -derm, after German Placoderm.

Out to sea are placoderms – heavily armoured fish, some of them more than six metres (twenty feet) long and equipped with massive, powerful jaws.

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

(paleontology) A member of an extinct class (Placodermi) of jawed fish with armored heads and thoraces; the group lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods.


leaf frog

Compound of leaf + frog. Compare German Laubfrosch (“treefrog”), Faroese leyvfroskur (“treefrog”).

Any tree frog of the subfamily Phyllomedusinae.


leaf warbler

Any of numerous small insectivorous passerine birds of the genus Phylloscopus.


umbrette

We cannot see that the haer-head is exposed to any greater present dangers than are its cousins, or that it gains much or anything from its superior comforts and defenses — that is, the umbrettes do not seem to increase faster than do the other African waders.

1906, Ernest Ingersoll, The wit of the wild, page 235:

Scopus umbretta
Scopus umbretta#Translingual

Synonym of hammerkop (Scopus umbretta, a bird)


arvicole

From Latin arvum (“field”) + colo (“I inhabit”); compare Italian arvicola.

A single species, A. quasiater, is known from Mexico. Evotomys rutilus, a form very closely related to the arvicoles, inhabits the circumpolar regions of both hemispheres.

1887, Angelo Heilprin, The Geographical and Geological Distribution of Animals, page 356:

(zoology, dated) field mouse (US, Canada), vole


foumart

From Middle English fulmard, from Old English fūl (“foul”) + mearþ (“marten”), in reference to its offensive smell.

(chiefly Scotland) A European polecat; a member of the Mustelidae family.


golomyanka

Either of two species of fish of the family Cottidae, endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia (Comephorus baicalensis and Comephorus dybowskii).


omul

Any of the salmon-like fish of species Coregonus migratorius (syn. Coregonus autumnalis migratorius), native to Lake Baikal in Siberia


white-tailed deer

en-noun

white-tailed deer (plural white-tailed deer)

Odocoileus virginianus
Odocoileus virginianus#Translingual

A medium-sized deer found throughout most of North and Central America and northern portions of South America; Odocoileus virginianus.


copi

Clipping of copious, coined by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources in 2022 in reference of the abundance of Asian carp as well as to give it a less racist name.

Now imagine if copi becomes the new tuna or tilapia or shrimp. Skyrocketing demand could encourage a surge in fishing, which in turn could help restore some semblance of ecological balance in rivers up and down the Mississippi watershed.

2022 June 22, Patti Wetli, “Introducing Copi, the Fish Formerly Known as Asian Carp”, in WTTW:

You’re in the mood for fish and your server suggests a dish of invasive carp. Ugh, you might say. But how about broiled copi, fresh from the Mississippi River?

2022 June 22, John Flesher, “A ‘copi’ fillet? Illinois hopes new name for ‘invasive carp’ will convince diners”, in PBS:

That may as well be the new battle cry for Illinois fishery managers trying to rebrand four invasive species of Asian carp as copi.

2022 January 7, Chris Bentley, “If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em: Illinois fisheries rebrand the invasive Asian carp”, in WBUR:

It’s “copi,” short for “copious,” which the fish certainly are in Illinois’s waterways. Copi are actually four very different fish species native to China: grass, bighead, black, and silver carp.

2022 August 14, Christian Elliot, “This Invasive Fish Got an Anti-Racist Rebrand”, in Sierra:


grimalkin

/ɡɹɪˈmɔːl.kɪn/

From grey + malkin; literally "grey-haired cat" or "grey-haired woman".

(archaic) A bad-tempered old woman; a crone.


equid

Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).

馬科動物

any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae


mountain reindeer

mountain reindeer (plural mountain reindeer)

Wikispecies mountain reindeer (canonical)
mountain reindeer (plural)

A subspecies of reindeer, found wild in southern Norway and Kola peninsula in Russia; Rangifer tarandus tarandus. A semi-domesticated variant is widely herded by the Sami in northern Scandinavia.


Finnish forest reindeer

Finnish forest reindeer (plural Finnish forest reindeer)

Rangifer tarandus fennicus
Rangifer tarandus fennicus#Translingual

A subspecies of the reindeer, Rangifer tarandus fennicus, found only in Eastern Finland and Russian Karelia.


ailurophobe

/aɪˈljʊəɹəˌfəʊb/

/aɪˈlʊɹəˌfoʊb/

/eɪˈlʊɹəˌfoʊb/

A person with an irrational fear or hatred of felines.


fusilier

Borrowed from French fusilier, from fusil.

A fish in family Caesionidae, related to snappers.


gadoid

From modern Latin gadus, from Ancient Greek γάδος (gádos, “cod”). See -oid.


turca

Pteroptochos megapodius
Pteroptochos megapodius#Translingual

A moustached turca (Pteroptochos megapodius).


schipperke

From Belgian Dutch (Flemish), but unclear at the word level.
* Conventionally taken to be schipper (“skipper”) + -ke (“diminutive suffix”), allegedly alluding to a role as watchdog and/or rodent catcher on canal boats.
* Alternatively, a mutation of scheperke, a diminutive of scheper (“shepherd, sheepdog”), referring to the breed's purported descent from an extinct larger breed of sheepdogs.
Related to the etymological debate is a longstanding informal one about whether the dog itself should be regarded as a spitz or a miniature sheepdog.
For more, see Schipperke § History on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

pedia

(zoology) A small breed of dog developed in Belgium, sometimes used as a watchdog on boats.


ranivore

A frog-eater; a creature that eats frogs.


theropod

Any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, of the suborder Theropoda, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.


gigantoraptor

A gigantic birdlike theropod dinosaur, Gigantoraptor erlianensis, from the late Cretaceous period of China


coelurosaurian

Any dinosaur of the taxonomic group Coelurosauria


triller

National Museum of Singapore
Triller (bird)
William Farquhar
pied triller

A small passerine bird of the genus Lalage belonging to the cuckoo-shrike family Campephagidae, so called because of the loud trilling calls of the male birds.


solan

There, if you are in luck, you will find the tide out and the place fordable dryshod for a man on a horse. But if the tide runs, you will do well to sit down on the sands and content yourself till it turn, or it will be the solans and scarts of the Solway that will be seeing the next of you.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:


sugar glider

As with other exotic pets, sound husbandry is essential for captive sugar gliders to flourish.

2003, Chris Pinney, The Complete Home Veterinary Guide, page 510:

As in the eastern pygmy possum (van Tets and Hulbert 1999), this is reflected in a very low nitrogen requirement in sugar gliders (Smith and Green 1987), and probably all sap feeders.

2005, C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 209:

The animals on the cover of Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS are sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps). Sugar gliders are small, gray-furred creatures that grow to an adult length of six to seven-and-a-half inches.[…]This ensures that of the group will know when an outsider approaches; group members will fight off any sugar glider not bearing their scent.

2012, Robin Nixon, Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS, 2nd edition, O'Reilly, page 557:

Petaurus breviceps
Petaurus breviceps#Translingual

Petaurus breviceps, an omnivorous gliding arboreal marsupial, endemic to mainland Australia and New Guinea, and introduced to Tasmania in 1835.


maremma

A Maremma Sheepdog or Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog.


gee up

en-verb

gee up (third-person singular simple present gees up, present participle geeing up, simple past and past participle geed up)

gees up (present singular third-person)
geeing up (participle present)
geed up (participle past)
geed up (past)

"US fund manager Eric Knight has a fearful reputation as a shareholder activist, geeing up underperforming managements at Royal Dutch Shell and Suez." – HSBC: activist pounces, The Week, 15 September 2007, 631, 43.

(slang) To excite in order to try to achieve a desired result.


Iriomote cat

(zoology) A small wild cat, Prionailurus iriomotensis, found only on the Japanese island of Iriomote. It has a long, dark brown coat with darker rows of horizontal spots.


musth

en-noun

musth (countable and uncountable, plural musths)

Persian مست (mast, “drunk, inebriated”).

At MalaMala we are charged by a bull elephant. The late sun reflecting on the moisture at his temporal gland shows he is in musth, and mad with lust, and we have inadvertently separated him from the breeding cows of his desire.

2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:

A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness and often secrete leaking temporin from the sides of their heads.


korin

Aoudads, korins, mhorrs and mambas. Hartebeests. Wild asses. Rats the size of piglets […]

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 64:

A small gazelle native to West Africa, Eudorcas rufifrons.


rodentology

a branch of mammalogy for the study of rodents by a rodentologist.


clouded leopard

clouded leopard (plural clouded leopards)

Neofelis nebulosa
Neofelis nebulosa#Translingual

A medium-sized, arboreal cat (Neofelis nebulosa) found in Southeast Asia. It has a disproportionately long tail and canines, and a tawny coat with dark, irregular, oval markings.

leopard b’marki qishom sħab tal-kontinent


sea snake

Any of several snakes, of the subfamily Hydrophiinae, that live in the waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.


Jack Russell

From the Reverend Jack Russell (1795–1883) who developed the breed in the early 19th century.

A breed of terrier dog, usually white with brown patches and commonly found domesticated and kept as pets.


sunbird

(US) A person, usually one who is retired, who travels from a warm climate to a colder one in the summer; one who oversummers elsewhere.


fin whale

The fin whale is a fast swimmer (around 30km/h) and generally lives in small groups numbering around five.

2019, James Proctor, Faroe Islands, 5th edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 7:

A whale of the rorqual family (Balaenoptera physalus).


sei whale

Partial translation of Norwegian seihval, seikval, from sei (“pollock”) + hval/kval (“whale”).

Balaenoptera borealis
Balaenoptera borealis#Translingual

A whale of the rorqual family (Balaenoptera borealis).


cotylosaur

(paleontology, dated) A member of the Cotylosauria, a synonym of the family †Captorhinidae, the earliest group of true reptiles from the Carboniferous through the Permian.


pickerel

From Middle English pikerel; equivalent to pike + -rel.

I see, that the Pickrell-fish, and the Swallowes live well by her lawes.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

(Canada) Walleye, A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.


Cymric

From Welsh Cymru (“Wales”) + -ic (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of Cumbric and cognate with English Cambrian and Cymry.

Manx cat

the original, short-haired version of the breed

A breed of domestic cat, developed in Canada, principally characterized by suppression of the tail and by a semi-long-haired coat, with a medium-sized, rounded, cobby body; it is the longhair version of the Manx cat.


tattler

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A few truck drivers griped drowsily about the tattlers in their cabs which graphed the mileage per hour per day.

Electronic monitors (black box, tattlers) help to define the actions of the driver during normal and emergent operation of the EMS unit.

2002, National Association of EMS Physicians, Prehospital Systems and Medical Oversight, page 270:

A device fitted to a vehicle to measure mileage etc.


tule

From Spanish tule, from Classical Nahuatl tōllin (“bulrush, sedge”).

uder

A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin


masu

From Japanese 鱒 (masu, “trout, sea trout, salmon”).

bor

masu-seki

possibly etymologically unrelated, but it is Japanese, like previous etymologies.


hoki

Borrowed from Maori hoki (“blue grenadier”).

bor+

Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:

The blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake.


aspin

Borrowed from Tagalog aspin, a blend of aso + Pinoy, suggested by the Philippine Animal Welfare Society as an alternative to askal.

(Philippines) A variety of mongrel dog breed in the Philippines.


takin

From a Tibeto-Burman language, probably Miju or Taraon.

Budorcas taxicolor
Budorcas taxicolor#Translingual

A goat-antelope, of species Budorcas taxicolor.


tanager

/ˈtænəd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

From translingual Tanagra, from Portuguese tangara, from Old Tupi tangara.

Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:

I’m remembering that time when there was a mourning warbler on that chip path 15 years ago and I remember the scarlet tanagers last week. That’s what I think about when I’m in the park.

2023 June 19, Morgan Jerkins, quoting Christian Cooper, “‘She doesn’t have the power’: Central Park birdwatcher Christian Cooper on why racist ‘incident’ won’t define him”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Any of numerous species of often colorful passerine birds that inhabit New World forests, formerly all within the family Thraupidae, but now with some species placed in other families with birds such as finches and cardinals.


tapper

(telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.

lesser spotted woodpecker
lesser spotted woodpecker

(British, dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker.

(sports) An assistant in the sport of paraswimming who taps blind or visually impaired swimmers with a pole to indicate when they should turn around.


malia

A passerine bird endemic to Sulawesi, of species Malia grata.


thrasher

Originally a variant of thresher; equivalent to thrash + -er.

Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak.


big cat

Any large felid animal, especially one of the Panthera genus, including tigers, lions, jaguars and leopards.


black-striped wallaby

en-noun

black-striped wallaby (plural black-striped wallabies)

A medium-sized wallaby, Macropus dorsalis, from Queensland and New South Wales


scrub wallaby

She waved out the sidewindow, ‘Another scrub wallaby! That's fifteen not including your side.’

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 16:

black-striped wallaby
black-striped wallaby

Any of various wallabies living in dense vegetation, especially the black-striped wallaby, Macropus dorsalis, of eastern Queensland and New South Wales.


mico

A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus, syn. Callithrix melanura), allied to the marmoset.


skrike

From Middle English skrike, scryke (also skryche, schryke, shryke). Cognate with Old Frisian skrichte, Middle Low German schrichte.


doeling

Before your kids are born, decide how many doelings you will keep and stick with it.

1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living ninth edition, Sasquatch Books, Seattle Washington, page 715

A female domestic goat of less than one year of age.


caponize

en-verb

caponize (third-person singular simple present caponizes, present participle caponizing, simple past and past participle caponized)

caponizes (present singular third-person)
caponizing (participle present)
caponized (participle past)
caponized (past)

To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […]

1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion: Or Profitable Directions for Whatever Relates to the Management and Good Œconomy of the Domestick Concerns of a Country Life, According to the Present Practice of the Country Gentleman's, the Yeoman's, the Farmer's, &c. Wives, in the Counties of Hertford, Bucks, and Other Parts of England: Shewing how Great Savings may be Made in Housekeeping: … With Variety of Curious Matters … The Whole Founded on Near Thirty Years Experience, London: Printed for James Hodges, at the Looking-glass, facing St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge; and B. Collins, bookseller, at Salisbury, →OCLC, page 157:

(transitive) To castrate (a cockerel) in order to fatten it for table use.


packhorse

Finally they put him on one of De Soto's packhorses, but even on a packhorse his feet hung down to within a few inches of the ground.

1997, Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms, page 232:

Procter had a handsome half-breed girl with him and two splendid elk heads and meat on his packhorses that he was taking to Fort Lincoln for sale.

2009, Victor Grant Smith, edited by Jeanette Prodgers, The Champion Buffalo Hunter: The Frontier Memoirs of Yellowstone Vic Smith, Revised edition, page 70:

While I was destroying my parka, the packhorse that Bob had been leading laid down. So now all our supplies were supine along with the napping packhorse. Looking upon a reclining packhorse while facing a wind-driven rain, wearing a tattered rain parka, with lightning flashing every fifteen seconds followed by thunder so loud my clothes shuddered was not how I had expected the afternoon to unfold. Each time we got the packhorse to his feet he would promptly lie down again.

2010, Bill G. Yung, The Half Fast Hunter, page 41:


sile

sile (third-person singular simple present siles, present participle siling, simple past and past participle siled)

siles (present singular third-person)
siling (participle present)
siled (participle past)
siled (past)

From Middle English silen, sylen, from Middle Low German silen ("to let off water, filter, strain"; > Low German silen, sielen), equivalent to sie (“to filter, strain”) + -le. Cognate with German sielen (“let off water, filter”), Swedish sila (“to strain, filter, sift”), German Siel (“drain, sewer, sluice”).

cog

(intransitive, UK dialectal) To go; pass.

(intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To pour with rain.


sile

From Middle English *sile, from Old Norse síl (“herring”), from Proto-Germanic *sīlą, *sīlō (“herring”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Icelandic síld (“herring”), Norwegian and Danish sild (“herring”), dialectal Swedish sil (“young fish, fry”). Compare sild.


pollard

From poll (“head, scalp”) + -ard. The coin sense derives from the original penny's uncrowned obverse bust, as opposed to the laurel-wreathed form appearing on the rosary. The verb derives from the noun.

The enclosure was indeed little beyond that of a good-sized paddock – its boundaries were visible on every side – but swelling uplands, covered with massy foliage sloped down to its wild irregular turf soil – soil poor for pasturage, but pleasant to the eye; with dell and dingle, bosks of fantastic pollards – dotted oaks of vast growth – here and there a weird hollow thorn-tree – patches of fern and gorse.

1857, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in What will He Do with It? (Collection of British Authors; CCCCVII), Tauchnitz edition, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, →OCLC, book II, page 140:

Only a little pollard hedge kept us from their blood-shot eyes.

1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, “Chapter 65”, in Lorna Doone:

Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 98:

And at this place there was a long, straight causeway, with two long rows of pollard willows, one upon either hand.

1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Third, page 116

(often attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.

Squalius cephalus
Squalius cephalus#Translingual

Leuciscus cephalus
Leuciscus cephalus#Translingual

(obsolete, rare) A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.

(now Australia) A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.

(numismatics, historical) A 13th-century European coin minted as a debased counterfeit of the sterling silver penny of Edward I of England, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.


pollard

en-verb

pollard (third-person singular simple present pollards, present participle pollarding, simple past and past participle pollarded)

pollards (present singular third-person)
pollarding (participle present)
pollarded (participle past)
pollarded (past)

I didn't know one could pollard elms. I thought one only pollarded willows.

1910, Edward Morgan Forster, chapter 11, in Howards End:

As well as coppicing, other trees were pollarded, or lopped about 6 ft up the trunk so that the resulting growth was beyond the reach of grazing animals. Pollarding lengthens the life of trees, and the frequently made estimate '1,000 years old' could well be true of some sturdy old trunks.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 118:

Cutting back to the same position annually is usually referred to as pollarding; cutting nearly to the ground is usually called stooling. Both are good methods of controlling height and maintaining vigor on plants that would normally grow to a large size.

2011, Edward F. Gilman, An Illustrated Guide to Pruning, 3rd edition, Clifton Park, N.Y.: Delmar, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 411:

I walked up the path, passing under a heavily pollarded oak.

2019, Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, page 287:

(horticulture) To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.


jackanapes

1450, from “Jack of Naples”, with “of Naples” rendered “a Napes” in vernacular. Originally rendered as Jac Napes, Jac Nape, and Jack Napis in 1450s. Presumably from *Jak a Napes, and original *Jak of Naples, presumably circa 1400. Monkeys were one of many exotic goods from Naples exhibited in Britain, hence acquired the nickname Jack a Napes.
In sense “upstart person”, applied to 15th century William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, one of the first nouveau riche nobles (risen from merchant class). The family used a collar and chain on their coat of arms, which was an unfortunate choice, as this was more associated with monkey leashes, leading to the derisive nickname Jack Napis for de la Pole, yielding the insult.
Later mis-analyzed as Jack-an-apes (16th and 17th century), leading to folk etymology (taking “ape” from “monkey”). The same process and mis-analysis occurred for fustian of Naples, which became fustian a napes, fustian anapes, etc.
Also attributed to the transition of the playing card 'Knave' to 'Jack' where both cards were associated with the idea of roguery. The 'Jack' became the Jack a napes, derived from Jack a naipes, naipes being the Spanish for playing card.

Was there euer man had ſuch lucke? when I kiſt the Iacke vpon an vp-caſt, to be hit away? I had a hundred pound on't: and then a whoreſon Iacke-an-apes muſt take me vp for ſwearing, as if I borrowed mine oathes of him, and might not ſpend them at my pleaſure.

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], pages 375–376:

(dated, derogatory) An impudent or mischievous person.


basset hound

From French basset (“basset hound”), nominalization of Old French adjective basset (“short-legged”), from bas (“short, low”).

A shortlegged breed of dog of the hound family.

巴吉度獵犬

short-legged breed of dog of the hound family


skipjack

Any of several not closely related fish.


snakehead

Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it.

2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 1:

(zoology) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.


Canada goose

Branta canadensis
Branta canadensis#Translingual

ᑭᐦᒋ ᓂᐢᑲ (kihci-niska, literally “great goose”)


Neandertaler

This snout-like type of face, with the projecting jaws and wide nose, persists to some extent among certain living races, notably among the Australian aborigines, whose skulls have features in common with those of Neandertalers. […] It is supposed that the forerunners of the Neandertalers and of the gorilla evolved for so far together, because their respective skeletons have so many points in common.

1913, Hugo v[on] Buttel-Reepen, Man and His Forerunners, London: Longmans, Green and Co., pages 50 and 74:

The skeleton of the fourth species, the Neandertalers, is almost completely known from the remains of numerous individuals. These Neandertalers are most puzzling beings. They had receding foreheads with monstrous brow-ridges, and they walked with a permanent crouch, and yet they had big brains and were skilled workers in stone.

1916, Science Progress in the Twentieth Century: A Quarterly Journal of Scientific Work & Thought, volume X, page 269:

The legends of ogres and man-eating giants that haunt the childhood of the world may descend to us from those ancient days of fear. And for the Neandertalers it was the beginning of an incessant war that could end only in extermination. The Neandertalers, albeit not so erect and tall as men, were the heavier, stronger creatures, but they were stupid, and they went alone or in twos and threes; […]

1927 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Grisly Folk”, in The Short Stories of H. G. Wells, London: Ernest Benn Limited […], →OCLC, page 689:

Neandertal Man, Homo neanderthalensis King. The true or ‘classical’ Neandertaler with his dorsally flattened, very large and long head, big brow ridges, prognathous face, round eye sockets, very large braincase and a stockily built, powerful body, lived during the 4-Würm up to the great interstadial about 35,000 years ago, when this species became extinct. […] Our own species may be definitely identified in the 4-Würm interstadial, the time when men of modern type invaded Europe and ousted the Neandertalers. On the other hand, it has been thought that specimens like Fontéchevade Man (two skull caps without a trace of the Neandertal brow ridge) have to be counted in this species, even if Steinheim and Swanscombe are left as Neandertalers.

1968, Björn Kurtén, Pleistocene Mammals of Europe, Routledge, published 2017, →ISBN, pages 60–61:

This was the most complete Neandertal skeleton found in western Europe up to that time. Once it was reconstructed, the world could see what a Neandertaler looked like. […] Piltdown Man was one of Boule’s proofs that modern humans with their high-domed skulls dated much further back than the Neandertalers.

1992, Marvin L. Lubenow, Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of the Human Fossils, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, →ISBN, page 36:

The Neandertalers (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) were a subspecies of prehistoric humans inhabiting Europe and parts of Western Asia from about 150,000 to 35,000 years ago. The first Neandertal fossil was discovered (1856) by quarrymen in a cave in the Neander Valley, near Düsseldorf, Germany. […] Evidence indicates that the Neandertalers hunted a variety of animals, including cave bear, woolly rhinoceros, and mammoth, and also gathered plant foods.

1998, “Neandertalers”, in Academic American Encyclopedia, volume 14, →ISBN, pages 68–69:


sergeant major

en-noun

sergeant major (plural sergeant majors or sergeants major)

sergeant majors (plural)
sergeants major (plural)

non-commissioned officer
non-commissioned officer

(US, plural sergeants major) The most senior rank of non-commissioned officer in the United States Army, ranking above a first sergeant. In the United States Marine Corps it ranks above First Sergeant and is equal in grade to Master Gunnery Sergeant.


tack up

en-verb

tack up (third-person singular simple present tacks up, present participle tacking up, simple past and past participle tacked up)

tacks up (present singular third-person)
tacking up (participle present)
tacked up (participle past)
tacked up (past)

To prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with tack (harness, reins, saddle etc.)


bevy

From Middle English bevey, of uncertain origin, possibly Anglo-Norman.

(collective) A group of animals, in particular quail.