common scoter

Melanitta nigra
Melanitta nigra#Translingual

Melanitta nigra, an arctic sea bird in the family Anatidae


white-headed duck

en-noun

white-headed duck (plural white-headed ducks)

Oxyura leucocephala
Oxyura leucocephala#Translingual

Oxyura leucocephala, an arctic sea bird in the family Anatidae


pink-footed goose

pink-footed goose (plural pink-footed geese)

Anser brachyrhynchus
Anser brachyrhynchus#Translingual

Anser brachyrhynchus, a goose that breeds in Greenland, Iceland, etc.


ischnacanthid

Any sharklike early fish of the family Ischnacanthidae


ischnacanthiform

Any primitive gnathostome of the order Ischnacanthiformes


bunnykind

The entirety of rabbits; all rabbits collectively as a group; rabbitkind.


dogtective

I don't bark. I can bark, but I don't. Not that much.
I'm a dogtective.
Dog + detective = dogtective.
I have a real nose for mysteries; solve most of them from this spot on the family-room rug.

1995, Cactus Coyote and Other Stories of Animal Escapades, Highlights for Children, →ISBN, page 35:

Dex Dogtective: [talking to himself] Some dogtective you turned out to be.

(rare, humorous) A detective who is a dog.


poracanthodid

Any extinct gnathostome of the family †Poracanthodidae


sea robin

red-breasted merganser
red-breasted merganser


kangaroo dog

A good dog of this kind is valuable; but we meet with so many cross-bred mongrels, that half the dogs which are called kangaroo-hounds are hardly worth their keep; and I do think a lazy, half-starved, good-for-nothing kangaroo-dog is the biggest loafer one can see about a tent.

1861, Horace William Wheelwright, Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist:

He was as concerned as a rabbit when it is cornered by a kangaroo dog.

1986, Bruce Pascoe, “The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 103:

(Australia) A dog used to hunt kangaroos; (specifically), a breed of dog for this purpose, developed in Australia from the Scottish deerhound and the greyhound.


lampropeltine

Any colubrid snake of the tribe Lampropeltini


white salmon

White Salmon, Washington: a small US city


kelp salmon

A fish (Paralabrax clathratus, syn. Labrax clathratus, Serranus clathratus).


storm-bird

That noise, that awful clamour of uncouthness inexpressible, is the love-call of the storm bird!

1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 205:

channel-billed cuckoo
channel-billed cuckoo


broad-billed sandpiper

broad-billed sandpiper (plural broad-billed sandpipers)

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris falcinellus)

মোটাঠুঁটো বাটান

mōṭaṭhũṭō baṭan


Temminck's stint

Temminck's stint (plural Temminck's stints)

Calidris temminckii
Calidris temminckii#Translingual

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris temminckii)


long-toed stint

long-toed stint (plural long-toed stints)

Calidris subminuta
Calidris subminuta#Translingual

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris subminuta)


Baird's sandpiper

Baird's sandpiper (plural Baird's sandpipers)

Calidris bairdii
Calidris bairdii#Translingual


sharp-tailed sandpiper

sharp-tailed sandpiper (plural sharp-tailed sandpipers)

Calidris acuminata
Calidris acuminata#Translingual

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris acuminata)


red-necked stint

red-necked stint (plural red-necked stints)

Calidris ruficollis
Calidris ruficollis#Translingual

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris ruficollis)


stilt sandpiper

stilt sandpiper (plural stilt sandpipers)

Calidris himantopus
Calidris himantopus#Translingual

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris himantopus)


little stint

Calidris minuta
Calidris minuta#Translingual


western sandpiper

western sandpiper (plural western sandpipers)

Calidris mauri
Calidris mauri#Translingual


white-rumped sandpiper

white-rumped sandpiper (plural white-rumped sandpipers)

Calidris fuscicollis
Calidris fuscicollis#Translingual

A type of sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis).


semipalmated sandpiper

semipalmated sandpiper (plural semipalmated sandpipers)

Calidris pusilla
Calidris pusilla#Translingual


short-billed dowitcher

short-billed dowitcher (plural short-billed dowitchers)

Limnodromus griseus
Limnodromus griseus#Translingual

a long-legged and long-billed migratory wading bird, Limnodromus griseus

korotkokljuvyj amerikanskij bekasovidnyj veretennik

короткоклювый американский бекасовидный веретенник


red-necked phalarope

red-necked phalarope (plural red-necked phalaropes)

Phalaropus lobatus
Phalaropus lobatus#Translingual

a type of small wader, (Phalaropus lobatus)


great snipe

Gallinago media
Gallinago media#Translingual

A medium-small wading bird (Gallinago media).


long-billed dowitcher

long-billed dowitcher (plural long-billed dowitchers)

Limnodromus scolopaceus
Limnodromus scolopaceus#Translingual

a long-legged and long-billed migratory wading bird, Limnodromus scolopaceus


squalodelphinid

Any platanistoid river dolphin of the family Squalodelphinidae


buff-breasted sandpiper

buff-breasted stint (plural buff-breasted sandpipers)

buff-breasted stint (canonical)
buff-breasted sandpipers (plural)

Calidris subruficollis
Calidris subruficollis#Translingual

A type of sandpiper, (Calidris subruficollis)


Eurasian woodcock

Eurasian woodcock (plural Eurasian woodcocks)

Scolopax rusticola
Scolopax rusticola#Translingual

A medium-small wading bird, (Scolopax rusticola)


itjaritjari

Notoryctes typhlops
Notoryctes typhlops#Translingual

Southern marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops)


holodontid

From translingual Holodontidae, from an obsolete genus name.

Any extinct lungfish of the family †Holodontidae.


grass bass

Any fish of species Pomoxis nigromaculatus (speckled perch or black crappie).


louisinid

Any extinct mammal of the genus †Louisina


bush turkey

The bush-turkey is about the same size as a tame one; the colour dark brown, with light grey feathers on the breast, and full plumage on the head and neck.

1844, John Barrow, Life, Voyages, and Exploits of Sir Francis Drake:

The other bush foods, such as the girdi girdi, murrandus and bush turkeys, were shared amongst the community.

1996, Doris Pinkington, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 169

Alectura lathami
Alectura lathami#Translingual

(Australia) The brush turkey, Alectura lathami.


burrow duck

Tadorna tadorna
Tadorna tadorna#Translingual

A sheldrake (Tadorna tadorna) or bergander.


red-bellied black snake

red-bellied black snake (plural red-bellied black snakes)

A red-bellied black snake moves through her mind, sliding through the grass.

2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 99:

A snake, Pseudechis porphyriacus, of eastern Australia.


potoroine

Any small marsupial of the family Potoroidae


tapiromorph

Any tapir or related animal of the superfamily Tapiroidea


ceratomorph

Any odd-toed ungulate of the suborder Ceratomorpha.


white cockatoo

Even flocks of white cockatoos flying in a cloud along the beach like an angel with flapping wings, raucously cried for him.

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 92:

sulphur-crested cockatoo
sulphur-crested cockatoo

Cacatua galerita
Cacatua galerita#Translingual

Any of various cockatoos having predominantly white plumage:

The sulphur-crested cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, of Australia.


elassomatiform

Any pygmy sunfish of the suborder Elassomatiformes


exocoetoid

Any fish of the superfamily Exocoetoidea; a flying fish or halfbeak.


mastacembeloid

Any spiny eel / swamp eel of the suborder Mastacembeloidei


gray ground squirrel

gray ground squirrel (plural gray ground squirrels)

A ground squirrel of the central US, Franklin’s ground squirrel (Spermophilus franklinii).


shrew mole

Any of various moles that resemble shrews.


pristolepidid

Any leaffish of the family Pristolepididae


red phalarope

Phalaropus fulicarius
Phalaropus fulicarius#Translingual

Phalaropus fulicarius, a small wading bird.


rock cod

Any of several Australian fishes of the genus Lotella


summer tanager

Piranga rubra, a medium-sized American songbird.


begti

Lates calcarifer
Lates calcarifer#Translingual


sea fish

sea fish (plural sea fishes or sea fish)


afroinsectivoran

Any African insectivorous mammal of the clade Afroinsectivora.


agnathostome

Any jawless fish of the superclass Agnatha


rifle fish

The other fish Will expected could be hooked, perhaps, a few reasonable-sized freshwater sooty grunter, rifle fish or bream, if the boat was in the main water arteries coming up to the coast from the spring-fed river systems.

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 169:

(Australia) Any of several tropical freshwater fish of the family Toxotidae.


sooty grunter

A freshwater fish of species Hephaestus fuliginosus, of coastal northern Australia.


white-breasted sea eagle

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

The white-breasted sea eagle’s flight was almost noiseless as it dropped out of the sky, falling down, descending down, so quick, until it flew, whistling in behind Will to scoop the stinking trevally up from the mud.

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 170:

Haliaeetus leucogaster
Haliaeetus leucogaster#Translingual

A large bird of prey, Haliaeetus leucogaster, native across Southeast Asia and northern Australia.


eleutherodontid

Any extinct mammal of the family †Eleutherodontidae


loxia

It produces quantities of gum, which is conſidered by the natives as a peculiarly delicate ſpecies of food, the leaves and lower points of the branches ſeem to conſtitute the principal aliment of the camelopardalis; and from the extent of its boughs, and the ſmoothneſs of the trunk, it affords a ſafe ſhelter to the loxia, a ſpecies of gregarious bird, againſt the tribe of ſerpents and other reptiles, which would otherwiſe deſtroy its eggs.

1794, ed. Alexander Hogg, The New Wonderful Magazine, volume 4, number 47, page 427:

She attempted to enlarge her comprehension, by observing the animal world. A young loxia had fallen dead from its pendent nest; and Immalee, looking into the aperture which that intelligent bird forms at the lower extremity of the nest to secure it from birds of prey, perceived the old ones with fire-flies in their small beaks, their young one lying dead before them. […]
‘You also have intellectual beings to converse with instead of the chirpings of loxias, and the chatterings of monkeys.’—‘I have not found the conversation I encounter much more intelligible or significant,’ murmured Isidora, but the stranger did not appear to hear her.

1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 121:

Huckleberries form a portion of the food of many birds, as well as of various quadrupeds. Of the former, I may mention in particular the Wild Turkey, several species of Grouse, the Wild Pigeon, the Turtle-dove, some Loxias, and several Thrushes.

1841, John James Audubon, The Birds of America, volume 2, page 102:

There were parrots, and paroquets, and orioles, and blue jays, and beautiful loxias, both of the scarlet and azure-colored species.

1852, Mayne Reid, The English Family Robinson: The Desert Home; Or, The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness, page 135:


euharamiyidan

Any extinct mammal of the clade †Euharamiyida


fangaroo

(informal) An extinct fanged kangaroo, Balbaroo fangaroo.


haramiyidan

Any extinct mammal of the order †Haramiyida


channel-bill cuckoo

channel-bill cuckoo (plural channel-bill cuckoos)

channel-billed cuckoo
channel-billed cuckoo#English

Alternative form of channel-billed cuckoo.


channel-billed cuckoo

channel-billed cuckoo (plural channel-billed cuckoos)

The channel-bill cuckoos disturbed one another, up in the skies, shouting in a frenzy of old man's cackle.

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 376:

Scythrops novaehollandiae
Scythrops novaehollandiae#Translingual

A large, grey cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, of Indonesia, New Guinea and northeastern Australia,


bell miner

Originally "bellbird", ornithologically altered to "bell miner" due to membership of the genus Mamorina, which were called "miners" owing to the similarity in appearance of Manorina melanocephala to the Indian myna.

One species, the bell miner, is so keen on lerp and so protective of its sources that it fights off all other birds, including the small insectivorous ones that would eat the psyllids.

2016 December, Nigel Andrew, “Beware the Cassowary”, in Literary Review:

A bellbird, a honeyeater of species Manorina melanophrys, endemic to southeastern Australia.


spotted sandpiper

spotted sandpiper (plural spotted sandpipers)

Actitis macularius
Actitis macularius#Translingual

Actitis macularius, a small wading bird.


grey-tailed tattler

grey-tailed tattler (plural grey-tailed tattlers)

Tringa brevipes
Tringa brevipes#Translingual

A species of shorebird, Tringa brevipes, of east Asia, Australasia, and Beringia.


solitary sandpiper

solitary sandpiper (plural solitary sandpipers)

Tringa solitaria
Tringa solitaria#Translingual


green sandpiper

green sandpiper (plural green sandpipers)

Tringa ochropus
Tringa ochropus#Translingual


common sandpiper

common sandpiper (plural common sandpipers)

Actitis hypoleucos
Actitis hypoleucos#Translingual

A small species of wading bird, Actitis hypoleucos, widely distributed across Africa, Eurasia, and Australasia.


plated lizard

A lizard from the family Gerrhosauridae, native to Africa.


kity

(Internet slang, childish, endearing, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of kitty.


flyrobin

Any of various petroicid birds of the genera Microeca and Monachella, of Australia and New Guinea.


petroicid

(ornithology) Any bird in the family Petroicidae; an Australasian robin.


satin flycatcher

satin flycatcher (plural satin flycatchers)

An Australasian bird Myiagra cyanoleuca.


golden monkey

The Old World monkey Cercopithecus kandti.


albertosaur

Any dinosaur of the genus †Albertosaurus


common greenshank

common greenshank (plural common greenshanks)

Tringa nebularia
Tringa nebularia#Translingual


oriental pratincole

oriental pratincole (plural oriental pratincoles)

Glareola maldivarum
Glareola maldivarum#Translingual


black-winged pratincole

blackwinged pratincole (plural black-winged pratincoles)

blackwinged pratincole (canonical)
black-winged pratincoles (plural)

Glareola nordmanni
Glareola nordmanni#Translingual


collared pratincole

collared pratincole (plural collared pratincoles)

Glareola pratincola
Glareola pratincola#Translingual


marsh sandpiper

marsh sandpiper (plural marsh sandpipers)

Tringa stagnatilis
Tringa stagnatilis#Translingual


cream-colored courser

cream-colored courser (plural cream-colored coursers)

Cursorius cursor
Cursorius cursor#Translingual


common redshank

common redshank (plural common redshanks)

Tringa totanus
Tringa totanus#Translingual


chromodacryorrhea

red lacrimal secretion, typically in rats (the production of so-called "bloody tears")


thick-billed murre

thick-billed murre (plural thick-billed murres)


crossognathiform

Any extinct fish of the order †Crossognathiformes


eupleurodiran

Any true turtle of the suborder Pleurodira


ivory gull

Pagophila eburnea
Pagophila eburnea#Translingual

An Arctic seabird species in the gull family Laridae, Pagophila eburnea.


black-legged kittiwake

black-legged kittiwake (plural black-legged kittiwakes)

Rissa tridactyla
Rissa tridactyla#Translingual

A seabird species in the gull family Laridae, Rissa tridactyla.


pleuropholid

Any extinct fish of the genus †Pleuropholis


dragon lizard

Dragon lizards include frill-necked lizards and thorny devils. They are distinct from other lizards by being spiky, rather than smooth and shiny, and from the unique formation of their teeth.

2019 May 24, Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian:

A member of the Agamidae family of iguanian lizards.


Christmas Island whiptail skink

Christmas Island whiptail skink (plural Christmas Island whiptail skinks)

Christmas Island whiptail skinks (plural)

The Christmas Island whiptail-skink or forest skink (Emoia nativitatis), which is listed as critically endangered under the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, is listed as extinct on the IUCN Red List.

A species of skink, Emoia nativitatis, native to Christmas Island.


break one's maiden

en-verb

break one's maiden (third-person singular simple present breaks one's maiden, present participle breaking one's maiden, simple past broke one's maiden, past participle broken one's maiden)

breaks one's maiden (present singular third-person)
breaking one's maiden (participle present)
broke one's maiden (past)
broken one's maiden (participle past)

(horse racing) Of a racehorse or jockey: to achieve victory in a race for the first time.


blue-bellied black snake

en-noun

blue-bellied black snake (plural blue-bellied black snakes)

A snake of species Pseudechis guttatus, of eastern Australia.


proterochampsian

Any extinct reptile of the clade †Proterochampsia


Bonaparte's gull

Bonaparte's gull (plural Bonaparte's gulls)

Named after Charles Lucien Bonaparte, who contributed to the taxonomy and nomenclature of birds in North America.

Chroicocephalus philadelphia, a member of the gull family Laridae found mainly in northern North America.


Mediterranean gull

Mediterranean gull (plural Mediterranean gulls)

Ichthyaetus melanocephalus
Ichthyaetus melanocephalus#Translingual

Ichthyaetus melanocephalus, a small gull of the Western Palearctic.


Ross's gull

Rhodostethia rosea
Rhodostethia rosea#Translingual

Rhodostethia rosea, a small gull breeding in the high Arctic of northernmost North America, and northeast Siberia.


slender-billed gull

slender-billed gull (plural slender-billed gulls)

Chroicocephalus genei
Chroicocephalus genei#Translingual

Chroicocephalus genei, a mid-sized gull which breeds very locally around the Mediterranean and the north of the western Indian Ocean.


white-eyed gull

white-eyed gull (plural white-eyed gulls)

Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus
Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus#Translingual

Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus, a small gull that is endemic to the Red Sea.


Pallas's gull

Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus
Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus#Translingual


Audouin's gull

Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus, a large gull restricted to the Mediterranean and the western coast of Saharan Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.


ring-billed gull

ring-billed gull (plural ring-billed gulls)

Larus delawarensis
Larus delawarensis#Translingual

Larus delawarensis, a medium-sized gull of temperate North America.


Iceland gull

Larus glaucoides
Larus glaucoides#Translingual

Larus glaucoides, a medium size gull which breeds in the Arctic regions of Canada and Greenland.


yellow-legged gull

yellow-legged gull (plural yellow-legged gulls)

Larus michahellis
Larus michahellis#Translingual

Larus michahellis, a large gull of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.


Caspian gull

Larus cachinnans
Larus cachinnans#Translingual


slaty-backed gull

slaty-backed gull (plural slaty-backed gulls)

Larus schistisagus
Larus schistisagus#Translingual


gull-billed tern

gull-billed tern (plural gull-billed terns)

Gelochelidon nilotica
Gelochelidon nilotica#Translingual

A medium-sized tern, Gelochelidon nilotica, family Laridae, with a thick stout black bill, found in marshy and coastal habitats throughout the temperate and tropic zones worldwide.


bridled tern

Onychoprion anaethetus
Onychoprion anaethetus#Translingual

Onychoprion anaethetus, is a seabird of the family Laridae.


tropical fish

tropical fish (plural tropical fishes or tropical fish)

tropical fishes (plural)
tropical fish (plural)

Fish from tropical waters, typically kept in an aquarium.


white-winged tern

white-winged tern (plural white-winged terns)

Chlidonias leucopterus
Chlidonias leucopterus#Translingual

Chlidonias leucopterus, a species of tern in the family Laridae.


whiskered tern

Chlidonias hybrida
Chlidonias hybrida#Translingual

Chlidonias hybrida, a species of tern in the family Laridae.


Forster's tern

Sterna forsteri
Sterna forsteri#Translingual

Sterna forsteri, is a seabird of the family Laridae.


inioid

Any river dolphin of the superfamily Inioidea


flipperling

1893 August, Rudyard Kipling, "Seal Lullaby", in "The White Seal", National Review.
Where billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; / Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!

There the flipperlings—young seals—are born, and from there, as the ice begins to break up with the spring, they and their parents come floating southwards on huge blocks of ice.

1921, The Literary Digest, volume 71, page 20:

At last an unwary cod, in flight from the big male, sped close beside the flipperling.

1936, Latrobe Carroll, The Canadian Magazine:


black stork

Ciconia nigra
Ciconia nigra#Translingual

A large bird of species Ciconia nigra in the stork family Ciconiidae, wintering in tropical Africa, found in much of western Eurasia.


line fish

line fish (plural line fishes or line fish)

The tailor — is that a sea fish — a line fish? It is a sea fish, but not a line fish. They will bite at a line, but they are not a fish you can depend on with the line.

1880, New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council, Journal (volume 30, part 3, page 460)


shrinking frog

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


austrotilapiine

Any of a certain genus of African cichlid


goldenback

Any of a group of large woodpeckers that are resident breeders in tropical southern Asia.


Emden goose

Named after the town of Emden in Lower Saxony, Germany.

A goose of a domestic breed thought to have its origins around the North Sea region, in the Netherlands and Germany.


Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross

Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross (plural Atlantic yellow-nosed albatrosses)

Atlantic yellow-nosed albatrosses (plural)

Thalassarche chlororhynchos is a large seabird in the albatross family.


black-browed albatross

black-browed albatross (plural black-browed albatrosses)

Thalassarche melanophris
Thalassarche melanophris#Translingual

Thalassarche melanophris, a large seabird in the albatross family.


pygmy cormorant

pygmy cormorant (plural pygmy cormorants)

Microcarbo pygmeus, a member of the Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant) family of seabirds.


European shag

Phalacrocorax aristotelis
Phalacrocorax aristotelis#Translingual

Gulosus aristotelis (syn. Phalacrocorax aristotelis), a member of the Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant) family of seabirds.


northern gannet

northern gannet (plural northern gannets)

Morus bassanus
Morus bassanus#Translingual


western cattle egret

western cattle egret (plural western cattle egrets)

Bubulcus ibis
Bubulcus ibis#Translingual

Bubulcus ibis is a species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones.


Levant sparrowhawk

Levant sparrowhawk (plural Levant sparrowhawks)

Accipiter brevipes
Accipiter brevipes#Translingual

A bird of the species Accipiter brevipes


king rail

Rallus elegans
Rallus elegans#Translingual

The bird Rallus elegans, the largest North American rail.


mangrove rail

Rallus longirostris
Rallus longirostris#Translingual


banded rail

Gallirallus philippensis
Gallirallus philippensis#Translingual


sail-fluke

Synonym of megrim (“Cornish sole or whiff (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis)”)


bolitoglossine

Any salamander of the subfamily Bolitoglossinae


cladoselachian

Any of the genus †Cladoselache of extinct cartilaginous fish.


ctenacanthiform

Any extinct fish of the order †Ctenacanthiformes


ichthyosauromorph

Any extinct marine reptile of the clade †Ichthyosauromorpha


big-headed turtle

big-headed turtle (plural big-headed turtles)

An Asian turtle of species Platysternon megacephalum.


lesser redpoll

A bird of the subspecies Acanthis flammea cabaret or species Acanthis cabaret.


arctic redpoll

Acanthis hornemanni
Acanthis hornemanni#Translingual

A bird of the species Acanthis hornemanni.


common redpoll

Acanthis flammea
Acanthis flammea#Translingual


recumbirostran

Any extinct amphibian of the clade †Recumbirostra


black-winged kite

black-winged kite (plural black-winged kites)

Elanus caeruleus
Elanus caeruleus#Translingual

Elanus caeruleus, a small diurnal bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.


European honey buzzard

European honey buzzard (plural European honey buzzards)

Pernis apivorus
Pernis apivorus#Translingual

Pernis apivorus, is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.


anurofauna

anurofauna (plural anurofaunae or anurofaunas)

anurofaunae (plural)
anurofaunas (plural)


crested honey buzzard

crested honey buzzard (plural crested honey buzzards)

Pernis ptilorhynchus
Pernis ptilorhynchus#Translingual

Pernis ptilorhynchus, is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.


Eurasian spoonbill

Eurasian spoonbill (plural Eurasian spoonbills)

Platalea leucorodia
Platalea leucorodia#Translingual

Platalea leucorodia, a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae.


short-toed snake eagle

short-toed snake eagle (plural short-toed snake eagles)

Circaetus gallicus
Circaetus gallicus#Translingual

Circaetus gallicus, a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.


cetiosaur

Any sauropod dinosaur of the genus †Cetiosaurus


booted eagle

Hieraaetus pennatus
Hieraaetus pennatus#Translingual

Hieraaetus pennatus, a medium-sized mostly migratory bird of prey with a wide distribution in the Palearctic and southern Asia.


village weaver

The bird Ploceus cucullatus, native to sub-Saharan Africa.


Senegal firefinch

Senegal firefinch (plural Senegal firefinches)


river jack

The venomous African viper Bitis nasicornis.


lesser spotted eagle

lesser spotted eagle (plural lesser spotted eagles)

Clanga pomarina
Clanga pomarina#Translingual

Clanga pomarina, a large Eastern European bird of prey.


ram-cat

Tom very gravely replied, that he did suppose the food was wholesome enough, for he had seen the skin and feet of a special ram-cat, new flea'd, hanging upon the door of a small pantry adjoining to the kitchen.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:


pallid harrier

Circus macrourus
Circus macrourus#Translingual

Circus macrourus, a migratory bird of prey of the harrier family.

ઉજળી પટ્ટાઈ

ujaḷī paṭṭāī


eastern imperial eagle

eastern imperial eagle (plural eastern imperial eagles)

Aquila heliaca
Aquila heliaca#Translingual

Aquila heliaca, a large bird of prey that breeds in southeastern Europe and extensively through Western and Central Asia.


western marsh harrier

western marsh harrier (plural western marsh harriers)

Circus aeruginosus
Circus aeruginosus#Translingual

Circus aeruginosus, a large harrier, a bird of prey from temperate and subtropical western Eurasia and adjacent Africa.


horse litter

/ˈhɔːsˌlɪtə/

A litter pulled or borne by one horse or borne on poles borne by two or more horses.

takhtrawan

enclosed Middle Eastern & South Asian form


steppe eagle

Aquila nipalensis
Aquila nipalensis#Translingual

Aquila nipalensis, a bird of prey of the family Accipitridae. Previously considered to be closely related to the non-migratory tawny eagle (Aquila rapax) and the two forms have previously been treated as conspecific.


cockabully

A common small, blunt-nosed, stocky endemic freshwater fish, Forsterygion nigripenne, that lives in New Zealand streams and rivers.

kokopara

a small New Zealand freshwater fish species


Eurasian pygmy owl

Eurasian pygmy owl (plural Eurasian pygmy owls)

Glaucidium passerinum
Glaucidium passerinum#Translingual

Glaucidium passerinum, the smallest Eurasian owl.


Eurasian scops owl

Eurasian scops owl (plural Eurasian scops owls)

Any of species Otus scops of small owls.


yellow-crowned bishop

yellow-crowned bishop (plural yellow-crowned bishops)

The bird, Euplectes afer, native to sub-Saharan Africa.


blossomcrown

From blossom + crown, possibly from the taxonomic name for the genus.

Any hummingbird in the genus Anthocephala


metaltail

From metal + tail, probably from the taxonomic name of the genus.


archegosauriform

Any temnospondyl of the clade Archegosauriformes


archegosaur

Any temnospondyl of the genus †Archegosaurus.


cyclotosaur

Any of the genus Cyclotosaurus of extinct temnospondyls.


middle spotted woodpecker

middle spotted woodpecker (plural middle spotted woodpeckers)

Dendrocoptes medius
Dendrocoptes medius#Translingual

Any of species Dendrocoptes medius of a medium-sized woodpecker.


Eurasian three-toed woodpecker

Eurasian three-toed woodpecker (plural Eurasian three-toed woodpeckers)

Eurasian three-toed woodpeckers (plural)

Picoides tridactylus
Picoides tridactylus#Translingual

Any of species Picoides tridactylus of medium-sized woodpeckers.


lysorophian

Any extinct, snakelike tetrapod of the order †Lysorophia


grey-headed woodpecker

grey-headed woodpecker (plural grey-headed woodpeckers)

Picus canus, a Eurasian member of the woodpecker family, greyer than other similar Eurasian woodpeckers.


Eleonora's falcon

Eleonora's falcon (plural Eleonora's falcons)

Falco eleonorae
Falco eleonorae#Translingual

Falco eleonorae, a medium-sized raptor of the falcon family.


Amur falcon

Falco amurensis
Falco amurensis#Translingual

Falco amurensis, a small raptor of the falcon family.


metoposauroid

Any extinct temnospondyl of the superfamily †Metoposauroidea


metoposaur

Any extinct temnospondyl of the genus †Metoposaurus


northern shrike

northern shrike (plural northern shrikes)

Lanius borealis
Lanius borealis#Translingual

Lanius borealis, a large songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae) native to North America and Siberia.


brown shrike

Lanius cristatus
Lanius cristatus#Translingual

Lanius cristatus, a bird in the shrike family (Lanius) that is found mainly in Asia. It is closely related to the red-backed shrike (L. collurio) and isabelline shrike (L. isabellinus).


long-tailed shrike

long-tailed shrike (plural long-tailed shrikes)

Lanius schach
Lanius schach#Translingual

Lanius schach, a member of the shrike family (Laniidae), mainly found in Asia.


masked shrike

Lanius nubicus
Lanius nubicus#Translingual

Lanius nubicus, a large songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae).


woodchat shrike

woodchat shrike (plural woodchat shrikes)

Lanius senator
Lanius senator#Translingual

Lanius senator, a species in the shrike family (Laniidae).


lesser grey shrike

lesser grey shrike (plural lesser grey shrikes)

Lanius minor, a member of the shrike family Laniidae.


Eurasian hobby

Eurasian hobby (plural Eurasian hobbies)

Falco subbuteo
Falco subbuteo#Translingual

Falco subbuteo, a small raptor of the falcon family.


red-tailed shrike

red-tailed shrike (plural red-tailed shrikes)

Lanius phoenicuroides
Lanius phoenicuroides#Translingual

Lanius phoenicuroides, a member of the shrike family (Laniidae). It was formerly considered conspecific with the isabelline shrike and the red-backed shrike.


isabelline shrike

isabelline shrike (plural isabelline shrikes)

Lanius isabellinus
Lanius isabellinus#Translingual

Lanius isabellinus, a member of the shrike family (Laniidae). It was formerly considered conspecific with the red-tailed shrike and the red-backed shrike.


trematosaur

Any extinct amphibian of the genus †Trematosaurus.


trematosauroid

Any extinct amphibian of the superfamily †Trematosauroidea


greater short-toed lark

greater short-toed lark (plural greater short-toed larks)

Calandrella brachydactyla
Calandrella brachydactyla#Translingual

Calandrella brachydactyla, a small passerine bird.


spotted nutcracker

spotted nutcracker (plural spotted nutcrackers)

Nucifraga caryocatactes
Nucifraga caryocatactes#Translingual

Nucifraga caryocatactes, a passerine bird slightly larger than the Eurasian jay.


trimac

Could you give information on flowerhorns? I have heard that they were formed by crossbreeding blood-red parrot cichlids to trimacs. Is that true?

2006, Tropical Fish Hobbyist, volume 54, numbers 9-12, page 19:


mountain shrike

mountain shrike (plural mountain shrikes)

Lanius validirostris
Lanius validirostris#Translingual

Lanius validirostris, a small bird endemic to the Philippines.


grey-backed fiscal

grey-backed fiscal (plural grey-backed fiscals)

Lanius excubitoroides
Lanius excubitoroides#Translingual

Lanius excubitoroides, a species of bird in the family Laniidae.


Western Bonelli's warbler

Western Bonelli's warbler (plural Western Bonelli's warblers)

Named after the Italian ornithologist Franco Andrea Bonelli.

Phylloscopus bonelli
Phylloscopus bonelli#Translingual

Phylloscopus bonelli, a species in the Phylloscopus genus of warblers.


yellow-browed warbler

yellow-browed warbler (plural yellow-browed warblers)

Phylloscopus inornatus
Phylloscopus inornatus#Translingual

Phylloscopus inornatus, a leaf warbler (family Phylloscopidae) which breeds in temperate Asia.


Eastern Bonelli's warbler

Eastern Bonelli's warbler (plural Eastern Bonelli's warblers)

Phylloscopus orientalis
Phylloscopus orientalis#Translingual

Phylloscopus orientalis, a species in the Phylloscopus genus of warblers.


wood warbler

Phylloscopus sibilatrix
Phylloscopus sibilatrix#Translingual

Phylloscopus sibilatrix, a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe, and just into the extreme west of Asia in the southern Ural Mountains.


white-throated dipper

white-throated dipper (plural white-throated dippers)

Cinclus cinclus
Cinclus cinclus#Translingual

Cinclus cinclus, an aquatic passerine bird found in Europe, Middle East, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent.


Eurasian treecreeper

Eurasian treecreeper (plural Eurasian treecreepers)

Certhia familiaris
Certhia familiaris#Translingual

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


quenk

Quenk are found in forested areas throughout the island and travel in bands of five to 15 males and females of all ages.

1979, M. E. Alkins, The Mammals of Trinidad, page 47:

One hunter who hunts quenks claimed that dogs are trained to hunt small game first.

2001, Cheryl Lans, Creole remedies: case studies of ethnoveterinary medicine in Trinidad and Tobago, page 126:

Unlike the true pig to which it is related, the quenk produces one or two young that are fully formed at birth. Quenk are rarely seen today, but still exist in the north-east and south-east of Trinidad.

2008, J. S. Kenny, The Biological Diversity of Trinidad and Tobago: A Naturalist's Notes:

collared peccary
collared peccary#English

(Trinidad and Tobago) Synonym of collared peccary


rhomaleosaurid

Any plesiosaur of the family †Rhomaleosauridae


Iberian chiffchaff

Iberian chiffchaff (plural Iberian chiffchaffs)

Phylloscopus ibericus
Phylloscopus ibericus#Translingual

Phylloscopus ibericus, a species of leaf warbler endemic to Portugal, Spain and North Africa, west of a line stretching roughly from the western Pyrenees via the mountains of central Spain to the Atlantic.


green warbler

Phylloscopus nitidus
Phylloscopus nitidus#Translingual

Phylloscopus nitidus, a leaf warbler found in the Caucasus Mountains in south central Europe.


Pallas's leaf warbler

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

Phylloscopus proregulus
Phylloscopus proregulus#Translingual

Phylloscopus proregulus, a leaf warbler that breeds in mountain forests from southern Siberia east to northern Mongolia and northeast China.


dusky warbler

Phylloscopus sibilatrix, a leaf warbler which breeds in East Asia.


Hume's leaf warbler

Hume's leaf warbler (plural Hume's leaf warblers)

Phylloscopus humei
Phylloscopus humei#Translingual

Phylloscopus humei, a small leaf warbler which breeds in the mountains of inner Asia.


red-rumped swallow

red-rumped swallow (plural red-rumped swallows)

Cecropis daurica
Cecropis daurica#Translingual

Cecropis daurica, a small passerine bird in the swallow family


plain leaf warbler

plain leaf warbler (plural plain leaf warblers)

Phylloscopus neglectus
Phylloscopus neglectus#Translingual

Phylloscopus neglectus, a species of Old World warbler in the family Phylloscopidae.


Eurasian crag martin

Eurasian crag martin (plural Eurasian crag martins)

Ptyonoprogne rupestris
Ptyonoprogne rupestris#Translingual

Ptyonoprogne rupestris, a small passerine bird in the swallow family.


Radde's warbler

Radde's warbler (plural Radde's warblers)

Phylloscopus schwarzi
Phylloscopus schwarzi#Translingual

Phylloscopus schwarzi, a leaf warbler which breeds in Siberia.


European penduline tit

European penduline tit (plural European penduline tits)

The genus name is the Polish word for the Eurasian penduline tit, and pendulinus is Latin for "hanging down”, which refers to its nest.

Remiz pendulinus
Remiz pendulinus#Translingual

Remiz pendulinus, a passerine bird of the genus Remiz.


kivver

Kivvers would bite at just about anything dropped into the water. I remember how my friend Donny once snagged three or four with a small safety pin jiggled back and forth in front of their faces.

1987, Jim Nollman, Animal Dreaming, page 45:


greater rhea

Rhea americana
Rhea americana#Translingual

Rhea americana, a species of flightless bird native to eastern South America.


wild goat

Capra aegagrus
Capra aegagrus#Translingual

Capra aegagrus, a species or goat believed ancestral to and including the domestic goat.


Bekisar

A Javanese hybrid between a green junglefowl and either the local subspecies of red junglefowl, Gallus gallus bankiva, or a domestic chicken.


green junglefowl

green junglefowl (plural green junglefowl or green junglefowls)

green junglefowl (plural)
green junglefowls (plural)

Gallus varius
Gallus varius#Translingual

A species of junglefowl, Gallus varius, native to Java and several islands near it to the east.


on the rails

(horse racing) Racing toward the inside, near the fence that bounds the track.


American white ibis

American white ibis (plural American white ibis or American white ibises)

American white ibis (plural)
American white ibises (plural)

Eudocimus albus
Eudocimus albus#Translingual

Eudocimus albus, a species of wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae, which occurs along the coastal areas of Gulf of Mexico as well as throughout the Caribbean and has a predominantly white plumage with pink facial skin, long downcurved bill and bright red-orange legs.


Inaccessible Island rail

Inaccessible Island rail (plural Inaccessible Island rails)

After Inaccessible Island in the Tristan Archipelago in the isolated south Atlantic.

Atlantisia rogersi
Atlantisia rogersi#Translingual

Atlantisia rogersi, a small flightless bird of the rail family.


phytosaurian

Any extinct reptile of the order †Phytosauria


sphenodontian

Any lizard-like reptile in the rhynchocephalian suborder Sphenodontia, whose only living representatives are the tuataras.


trilophosaur

An allokotosaur of the order †Trilophosauria


robin dipper

(regional, obsolete) The bufflehead duck.


allokotosaur

An extinct reptile of the clade †Allokotosauria


green-tailed trainbearer

green-tailed trainbearer (plural green-tailed trainbearers)

A species of hummingbird with a long green tail and native to western parts of South America, Lesbia nuna


black-tailed trainbearer

black-tailed trainbearer (plural black-tailed trainbearers)

A species of hummingbird with a long black tail and native to western parts of South America, Lesbia victoriae


cladistian

Cladistians (bichirs) are yet another taxon whose phylogenetic position has been much debated since the nineteenth century. Cladistians share some unique skeletal characters with actinopterans (i.e., acipenseriformes and neopterygians), such as the ganoid scale structure or the acrodin cap on teeth, and numerous soft-tissue characters, notably in brain development (everted telencephalon) and muscles of the jaw and gill arches.

2011, Fish Physiology: Primitive Fishes, page 15:


russet sparrow

Passer cinnamomeus, a passerine bird of the sparrow family.


Ipswich sparrow

Ipswich sparrow (plural Ipswich sparrows)

A well-marked subspecies of the Savannah sparrow.


Savannah sparrow

Savannah sparrow (plural Savannah sparrows)

From Savannah, Georgia, where one of the first specimens was collected.

Passerculus sandwichensis, a small American sparrow.


phyllodontid

Any extinct fish of the family Phyllodontidae


stone-snipe

Tringa melanoleuca
Tringa melanoleuca#Translingual

A common North American bird, the greater yellowlegs, greater tell-tale or long-legged tattler (Tringa melanoleuca).


peacock flounder

peacock flounder (plural peacock flounders)

Its bright coloration is reminiscent of a peacock's feathers.


sand shark

A mackerel shark of the family Odontaspididae.


sand viper

Vipera ammodytes
Vipera ammodytes#Translingual

Any of various snakes:
horned viper (Vipera ammodytes)


summer flounder

summer flounder (plural summer flounders)

The marine flatfish Paralichthys dentatus, the fluke.


sand flounder

Any of the family Paralichthyidae of flounders.


Belgian hare

Its precursors were bred in Belgium in the early 18th century.

A fancy breed of domestic rabbit (not a true hare) that has been selectively bred to resemble the wild hare, with a slender wiry frame and long powerful legs.


marudi

A large, tree-dwelling bird, of the genus Penelope, native to Guyana


neotheropodan

Any theropod dinosaur of the clade Neotheropoda


sand lark

Alaudala raytal, a small passerine bird in the lark family, found in southern Asia.


sand skink

An ocellated skink (Chalcides ocellatus), found in sandy places in southern Europe.


spinosaurine

Any theropod dinosaur of the subfamily Spinosaurinae


two-barred warbler

two-barred warbler (plural two-barred warblers)

Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus
Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus#Translingual

Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus, a species of leaf warbler (family Phylloscopidae).


Arctic warbler

Phylloscopus borealis
Phylloscopus borealis#Translingual

Phylloscopus borealis, a widespread leaf warbler in birch or mixed birch forest near water throughout its breeding range in Fennoscandia and northern Asia


greenish warbler

greenish warbler (plural greenish warblers)

Phylloscopus trochiloides
Phylloscopus trochiloides#Translingual

Phylloscopus trochiloides, a widespread leaf warbler with a breeding range in northeastern Europe and temperate to subtropical continental Asia.


loricatan

suf

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


sylviornithid

Any extinct flightless bird of the family †Sylviornithidae


Eurasian golden plover

en-noun

Eurasian golden plover (plural Eurasian golden plovers)

Pluvialis apricaria
Pluvialis apricaria#Translingual

Pluvialis apricaria (European golden plover).


batrachosauroidid

Any salamander of the extinct family †Batrachosauroididae.


slingjaw wrasse

slingjaw wrasse (plural slingjaw wrasses)


pennaraptoran

Any member of the clade Pennaraptora, which includes birds and some of their extinct maniraptoran relatives.


western olivaceous warbler

western olivaceous warbler (plural western olivaceous warblers)


booted warbler

Iduna caligata
Iduna caligata#Translingual

Iduna caligata, an Old World warbler in the tree warbler group.


eastern olivaceous warbler

eastern olivaceous warbler (plural eastern olivaceous warblers)

Iduna pallida
Iduna pallida#Translingual

Iduna pallida, an Old World warbler, mainly found in the northern Afrotropics and winters in southeastern Europe, the Middle East and adjacent western Asia.


paddyfield warbler

paddyfield warbler (plural paddyfield warblers)

Acrocephalus agricola
Acrocephalus agricola#Translingual

Acrocephalus agricola, a species of marsh warbler (family Acrocephalidae).


Blyth's reed warbler

Blyth's reed warbler (plural Blyth's reed warblers)

Named after the British zoologist Edward Blyth.

Acrocephalus dumetorum
Acrocephalus dumetorum#Translingual

Acrocephalus dumetorum, an Old World warbler.


Sykes's warbler

Sykes's warbler (plural Sykes's warblers)


great reed warbler

great reed warbler (plural great reed warblers)

Acrocephalus arundinaceus
Acrocephalus arundinaceus#Translingual

Acrocephalus arundinaceus, an Old World warbler.


giraffe gazelle

giraffe gazelle (plural giraffe gazelles)


icterine warbler

icterine warbler (plural icterine warblers)

Hippolais icterina
Hippolais icterina#Translingual

Hippolais icterina, an Old World warbler.


midwife frog

Any of various frogs of the genus Alexteroon.


bamboo shark

Any of the family Hemiscylliidae of sharks,


ghost shark

Any primitive fish of the order Chimaeriformes


indotyphlid

Any caecilian of the family Indotyphlidae, which is now known as the Grandisoniidae


mycterosaurine

Any monitor lizard-like synapsid of the varanopid subfamily Mycterosaurinae


rhabdodontomorphan

Any dinosaur of the clade †Rhabdodontomorpha


typotherian

Any extinct mammal of the suborder †Typotheria


varanodontine

Any extinct lizard of the former family †Varanodontinae (now called Varanopidae)


angonoka

Astrochelys yniphora, a tortoise endemic to Madagascar having a highly domed light-brown carapace with prominent growth rings on each scute.


geometric tortoise

geometric tortoise (plural geometric tortoises)

Tortoises of South Africa, having a strong carapace with distinctive geometric patterns

Any of the species Psammobates geometricus of South African tortoises with radial black and yellow markings.

Any of the species of genus Psammobates.

serrated tortoise (Psammobates oculifer, tent tortoise, Psammobates geometricus


river chub

Nocomis micropogon, a cyprinid minnow common in North American streams.


nothosauroid

Any extinct sauropterygian reptile of the order †Nothosauroidea


palila

Loxioides bailleui, a finch-billed species of Hawaiian honeycreeper with a golden-yellow head and breast.


scansoriopterygid

Any maniraptoran dinosaur of the family †Scansoriopterygidae


Cory's shearwater

Cory's shearwater (plural Cory's shearwaters)

Named after Charles B. Cory (1857–1921), American ornithologist.

Calonectris borealis, a large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.


titanohyracid

Any extinct hyrax of the genus †Titanohyrax


chaoyangopterid

Any pterosaur of the family †Chaoyangopteridae


Patagonian toothfish

Patagonian toothfish (plural Patagonian toothfishes or Patagonian toothfish)

Patagonian toothfishes (plural)
Patagonian toothfish (plural)

Dissostichus eleginoides
Dissostichus eleginoides#Translingual

Dissostichus eleginoides, a commercially exploited, cold-water fish of the southern hemisphere.


eucynodontian

Any cynodont therapsid of the infraorder Eucynodontia


molgophid

Any prehistoric amphibian of the genus Molgophis


phyllolepidid

Any phyllolepid placoderm of the family Phyllolepididae


jungle babbler

An oscine passerine bird, Turdoides striata, of the Indian Subcontinent.


palaeonisciform

Any extinct fish of the order Palaeonisciformes


petalichthyid

Any extinct placoderm fish of the order †Petalichthyida


paranthropine

Any extinct hominid of the genus †Paranthropus


dippy eggs

dippy eggs pl (normally plural, singular dippy egg)

(UK, Pennsylvania) Eggs cooked over easy or soft-boiled.


baywing

A South American bird of either of the species Agelaioides badius or Agelaioides fringillarius.


limestone salamander

limestone salamander (plural limestone salamanders)

Hydromantes brunus, a lungless salamander endemic to California.


russel

russel (countable and uncountable, plural russels)

From Old French roussel, from Latin russulus, diminutive of russus (“red”).

(countable, uncountable, historical) A twilled woolen material.

And dan ruſſel the fox stert up at onys
And be gorget hent chanteclere
And on his bake toward the wode him bere.

1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Nonnes Preest”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, line 8:

And dan russel the fox started up at once
And by the gorge seized Chanticleer
And on his back toward the wood him bare.


iiwi

scarlet honeycreeper
scarlet honeycreeper

A bird, the scarlet honeycreeper (Drepanis coccinea).


sand snake

Any of a number of other snakes found in sandy areas


cheirodontine

Any fish of the subfamily Cheirodontinae


barrier rogue

(Australia, horse racing) A racehorse that is difficult to control when being put into the starting gates.


serpent-eater

A wild goat of India and Kashmir, the markhor.


pituriaspid

Any extinct fish of the order †Pituriaspida


sea hound

From sea + hound. Compare formally similar Dutch zeehond (“seal”), German Seehund (“seal”), which are alterations of earlier Dutch zaalhond (literally “seal-hound”) (<Middle Dutch saelhont, seelhont), earlier German Seelhund (literally “seal-hound”).


coccosteid

Any placoderm of the family Coccosteidae


cheiracanthid

Any sharklike early fish of the family Cheiracanthidae


climatiid

Any extinct cartilaginous fish of the family †Climatiidae


change the leg

en-verb

change the leg (third-person singular simple present changes the leg, present participle changing the leg, simple past and past participle changed the leg)

changes the leg (present singular third-person)
changing the leg (participle present)
changed the leg (participle past)
changed the leg (past)

(equestrianism) To change the gait of a horse while riding.


gyracanthid

Any extinct fish of the family †Gyracanthidae


mesacanthid

Any acanthodian fish of the family Mesacanthidae


Dales pony

The horse is strongly associated with the Yorkshire Dales in northern England.

A mountain and moorland pony breed native to the United Kingdom.


sphenomorphine

Any lizard of the subfamily Sphenomorphinae


gorhen

Probably from gore + hen, in reference to its red colour.


snake fear

The present writer is inclined to think that cat-fear is analogous to snake-fear.

1908, The Scrap Book, volume 5, page 556:

All groups would demonstrate reductions in snake fear during treatment.

1966, Abstracts of Dissertations and Theses, page 51:

[…] it is meaningful to consider differences between high and low snake fear groups in general, rather than considering each separate measure of fear individually.

1970, Jean Tronick Barnett, Development of Children's Fear: The Relationship Between Three Systems of Fear Measurement, page 34:

There was no snake fear in infant primates (Lorenz 1971) or in human infants up to 2 years old; in humans caution appeared by age 3% and definite fear by age 4 (Jones & Jones 1928), while fear increased from age 4 to 6 (Morris & Morris 1965).

1987, Isaac Marks, Fears, Phobias and Rituals: Panic, Anxiety, and Their Disorders:

His snakefear if anything was more unhealthy than healthy, carrying with it an almost uncontrollable tendency to freeze into a panic-stricken target.

1998, James Jones, The Thin Red Line, page 52:

Intense snake fear is prevalent in both humans and other primates. Humans and monkeys learn snake fear more easily than fear of most other stimuli through direct or vicarious conditioning (Ohman and Mineka, 2003).

A well-known research example is the use of Fear Thermometer ratings during behavioral approach tasks in the early snake-fear desensitization experiments.

2012, Alan S. Bellack, Michel Hersen, Handbook of Clinical Behavior Therapy with Adults, page 29:

Presumably, when preparedness for snake fear was being naturally selected, delaying one's fearresponse while one drew a distinction between poisonous and nonpoisonous snakes was not the most adaptive way to respond to the situation of suddenly coming across a snake.

2012, Allan V. Horwitz, PhD, Jerome C. Wakefield, DSW, PhD, All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders:


aigialosaurid

Any extinct lizard of the family †Aigialosauridae


apatosaurine

Any sauropod of the subfamily †Apatosaurinae


dolichosaurid

Any extinct aquatic varanoid lizard of the family †Dolichosauridae


African crowned eagle

en-noun

African crowned eagle (plural African crowned eagles)

Stephanoaetus coronatus
Stephanoaetus coronatus#Translingual

Stephanoaetus coronatus, a large African raptor that preys on mammals such as ungulates and has reportedly preyed on human children.


scalefish

scalefish (plural scalefishes or scalefish)


Socks

A popular name for a cat that is mainly black but has white paws.


Nelson's sparrow

Nelson's sparrow (plural Nelson's sparrows)

Named after Edward William Nelson, American naturalist.

Ammospiza nelsoni, a small American sparrow.


eubaenine

Any extinct turtle of the baenid subfamily †Eubaeninae


daggertooth pike conger

daggertooth pike conger (plural daggertooth pike congers)

Muraenesox cinereus, a species of eel native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.


running rail

(horse racing) A fence which marks the inside edge of a racecourse track.


hoplocercine

Any lizard of the genus Hoplocercus (sometimes of the family Hoplocercidae)


eel-blenny

carpet eel-blenny (Congrogadus subducens)

eared eel-blenny (Congrogadus subducens)

Shark Bay eel-blenny (Notograptus gregoryi)

small-spot eel-blenny (Congrogadus spinifer)

Any of several species of slender fish:
snake prickleback (Lumpenus sagitta)

Any of several species of slender fish:
spiny eel-blenny (Congrogadus spinifer)


molosser

Derived from Molossia, an area of ancient Epirus, where the large shepherd dog was known as a Molossus

(zoology) A dog of various large, solidly-built breeds, typically having heavy bones, pendant ears, and a relatively short and well-muscled neck with a short, broad muzzle.


bird cliff

A steep cliff with numerous small shelves that serve as nesting locations for bird colonies.


horse collar

Coordinate term: hame

A part of a horse's harness that is used to distribute the load around its neck and shoulders when pulling a wagon or plough.


tickbird

yellow-headed caracara
yellow-headed caracara

Milvago chimachima
Milvago chimachima#Translingual

A bird, the yellow-headed caracara (Milvago chimachima).


scarlet minivet

scarlet minivet (plural scarlet minivets)


Swinhoe's minivet

Swinhoe's minivet (plural Swinhoe's minivets)


brown-rumped minivet

brown-rumped minivet (plural brown-rumped minivets)

Swinhoe's minivet
Swinhoe's minivet#English

Synonym of Swinhoe's minivet; the bird Pericrocotus cantonensis.


spectacled flowerpecker

spectacled flowerpecker (plural spectacled flowerpeckers)

A species of flowerpecker, Dicaeum dayakorum, native to the rainforests of Borneo.


sheep in wolf's clothing

sheep in wolf's clothing (plural sheep in wolves' clothing)

Humorous alteration of wolf in sheep's clothing.

The hunter-insects, as we have seen, disguise themselves so as to get near their victims unawares, and the hunted disguise themselves very often in the same way so as to avoid being seen, but sometimes in such a way that if they are seen they may appear to be much more terrible creatures than they really are. And so we have the sheep in wolves’ clothing.

1910, Douglas English, A Book of Nimble Beasts: Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and “Those Sort of People”, London: Eveleigh Nash, page 221:

Someone or something that appears fierce or threatening but is actually harmless or means no harm.


cheer pheasant

Catreus wallichii
Catreus wallichii#Translingual

A species of pheasant, Catreus wallichii, of the western Himalayas.


hitching rail

A horizontal rail with vertical supports to which a horse can be hitched, or tied up to.


citron-throated toucan

citron-throated toucan (plural citron-throated toucans)

Ramphastos citreolaemus, a toucan with black upperparts and yellow rump, throat, and breast.


cyprinodontine

Any pupfish of the subfamily Cyprinodontinae


velvet hippo

Presumably an allusion to the large size and short coat of pit bull-type dogs or their reputation for aggression and unpredictability.

My real life angel is my very own velvet hippo named Angel, and she is magical.

2014, Rebecca Corry, "Dog Moms Making A Difference: Rebecca Corry", American Dog, Winter 2014, page 22

Velvet Hippo, Silver Shark—those are only a couple of the names that June's fans call her.

2017 August 4, “Pet of the week: June”, in Signal Tribune, page 13:

“This Velcro dog sounds just about perfect to us and we know there’s a family out there waiting to spend their nights binge-watching Netflix and snuggling with this sweet velvet hippo,” the shelter wrote on Facebook.

2018 March 7, Savannah Brock, “Lovable ‘Velcro dog’ returned to Georgia animal shelter for 'being too nice’”, in KSDK:


shitbull

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I went upstairs and got some hamburger and lured pitbull shitbull into my garage.

1999 April 23, TICKYUL, “"PITBULL WAS MY BITCH" a true story”, in rec.pets.dogs.breeds (Usenet):

Better than to have bred and kept shitbulls.

1999 June 8, The Speedbyrd®, “Re: My Pit Bull”, in alt.pets.dogs.pitbull (Usenet):

Forth,^([sic]) I know for a fact that the shitbull that twice attacked my dog (and subsequently tried to eat my hands) was not raised by scummy people, was not trained to attack, didn't hang from a tire in some ghetto front yard, and seems quite friendly.

2001 February 7, boobp...@my-deja.com, “Re: Good ambassador for pitbulldom”, in rec.pets.dogs.breeds (Usenet):

(vulgar, derogatory) A pit bull terrier.


chanting goshawk

chanting goshawk (plural chanting goshawks)

Any of the African hawks in the genus Melierax


sea panther

A South African fish (Congiopodus torvus), brown with black spots, resembling a lamprey.


sea quail

sea quail (plural sea quails or sea quail)


rukia

Any bird of the genus Rukia, native to Micronesia.


sunangel

A South American hummingbird of genus Heliangelus.


Chatham rail

Cabalus modestus, an extinct flightless bird of the family Rallidae, endemic to the Chatham archipelago of New Zealand.


mew gull

The North American subspecies of the common gull.


megatheropod

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

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

(zoology) Any theropod dinosaur that exceeds 3000 kilograms in weight, and 9 meters in length.


austral conure

austral parakeet
austral parakeet#English


emerald parakeet

emerald parakeet (plural emerald parakeets)


Chilean swallow

Chilean swallow (plural Chilean swallows)

A species of swallow Tachycineta leucopyga, native to southern South America.


black-browed mollymawk

black-browed mollymawk (plural black-browed mollymawks)

black-browed albatross
black-browed albatross

Thalassarche melanophris
Thalassarche melanophris#Translingual

black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris)


black-chinned siskin

black-chinned siskin (plural black-chinned siskins)

A species of South American finch, Spinus barbatus.


austral blackbird

austral blackbird (plural austral blackbirds)

A species of bird, Curaeus curaeus, found in southern South America.


New World blackbird

New World blackbird (plural New World blackbirds)

Certain blackbirds found in the New World in the family Icteridae.


Old World oriole

Old World oriole (plural Old World orioles)

Any of the family Oriolidae of passerine birds.


Old World blackbird

Old World blackbird (plural Old World blackbirds)

Old World oriole, passerine birds of family Oriolidae.


sea fox

fox shark; thresher shark (Alopias spp.).


slough shark

(Canadian Prairies, slang, humurous) northern pike


whitestart

From white + start, modelled on redstart.

Any of various New World warblers in the family Parulidae, related to the redstarts but having extensive white and no red in their tails.


blue-eyed shag

Leucocarbo atriceps
Leucocarbo atriceps#Translingual


Magellanic woodpecker

Magellanic woodpecker (plural Magellanic woodpeckers)

A species of bird, Campephilus magellanicus, found in southern Chile.


Dominican gull

Larus dominicanus
Larus dominicanus#Translingual


blue-eyed cormorant

blue-eyed cormorant (plural blue-eyed cormorants)


imperial shag

A species of bird, Leucocarbo atriceps, found in South America.


southern caracara

southern caracara (plural southern caracaras)

Southern crested caracara
southern crested caracara


ringed kingfisher

ringed kingfisher (plural ringed kingfishers)

A species of bird, Megaceryle torquata, found in the Americas south of the Rio Grande Valley to Tierra del Fuego.


southern crested caracara

southern crested caracara (plural southern crested caracaras)

Caracara plancus
Caracara plancus#Translingual

A species of bird, Caracara plancus, found in South America.


fire-eyed diucon

fire-eyed diucon (plural fire-eyed diucons)

A species of tyrant flycatcher, Xolmis pyrope, found in southwest South America, having bright red irides.


beardog

Fossils of the Order Carnivora found in the dens include members of three families: Amphicyonidae (beardogs), Mustelidae (wolverine and marten-like species), and Canidae (small fox-like species).

2019, Robert M. Hunt, Jr., Robert Skolnick, Joshua Kaufman, The Carnivores of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 81:

A member of the extinct carnivoran family Amphicyonidae.


penis fish

penis fish (plural penis fishes or penis fish)

penis fishes (plural)
penis fish (plural)

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From penis + fish.
* (catfish): From its apocryphal ability to enter the penis.
* (worm): From its appearance resembling a human penis.

A candiru, a parasitic catfish of the genus Vandellia, alleged to be able to enter the human urethra.

Any of certain species of Urechis worm, including:

Urechis caupo, a North American spoon worm.

Urechis unicinctus, an East Asian spoon worm.


Guanay cormorant

Guanay cormorant (plural Guanay cormorants)

Leucocarbo bougainvillii
Leucocarbo bougainvillii#Translingual

A species of bird, Leucocarbo bougainvillii, found in South America.


Andean hairy armadillo

Andean hairy armadillo (plural Andean hairy armadillos)

A species of armadillo, Chaetophractus nationi, found in western Bolivia and adjacent areas of South America.


Darwin's fox

Lycalopex fulvipes
Lycalopex fulvipes#Translingual

A fox-like South American canid of species Lycalopex fulvipes, found predominantly on Chiloé.


panda dolphin

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Commerson's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii)


Commerson's dolphin

Commerson's dolphin (plural Commerson's dolphins)

Named after French naturalist Dr Philibert Commerson, who first described them in 1767 after sighting them in the Strait of Magellan.

A species of oceanic dolphin, Cephalorhynchus commersonii, found in South America and the Kerguelen Islands


piebald dolphin

piebald dolphin (plural piebald dolphins)


north Andean deer

north Andean deer (plural north Andean deer)

A species of deer, Hippocamelus antisensis, found in the central Andean Mountains.


lesser rhea

A species of large flightless bird, Rhea pennata, found in South America.


Bolivian chinchilla

Bolivian chinchilla (plural Bolivian chinchillas)

short-tailed chinchilla
short-tailed chinchilla


royal chinchilla

royal chinchilla (plural royal chinchillas)


coastal chinchilla

coastal chinchilla (plural coastal chinchillas)

long-tailed chinchilla
long-tailed chinchilla


common chinchilla

common chinchilla (plural common chinchillas)


Peruvian chinchilla

Peruvian chinchilla (plural Peruvian chinchillas)


lesser chinchilla

lesser chinchilla (plural lesser chinchillas)


Chilean chinchilla

Chilean chinchilla (plural Chilean chinchillas)


short-tailed chinchilla

short-tailed chinchilla (plural short-tailed chinchillas)

A species of chinchilla, Chinchilla chinchilla, found in South America.


southern viscacha

southern viscacha (plural southern viscachas)

A species of rodent, Lagidium viscacia, found in South America.


long-tailed chinchilla

long-tailed chinchilla (plural long-tailed chinchillas)

Any of the species Chinchilla lanigera, found in South America.

Chilean chinchilla. coastal chinchilla. common chinchilla. lesser chinchilla


northern viscacha

northern viscacha (plural northern viscachas)

A species of rodent (Lagidium peruanum, found in South America.


bunny rat

A species of rodent, Reithrodon auritus, found in southern South America.


hairy-soled conyrat

hairy-soled conyrat (plural hairy-soled conyrats)


coruro

A species of rodent, Spalacopus cyanus, found in South America.


California sea lion

California sea lion (plural California sea lions)

A sea lion, of species Zalophus californianus, found in western North America.


Lewis rat

Bred by Margaret Lewis from Wistar stock in the early 1950s.

A kind of albino rat used in medical research, exhibiting docile behavior and low fertility, and suffering from high incidences of neoplasms and other pathology.


Long-Evans rat

Developed by Drs. Long and Evans in 1915 by crossing Wistar females with a wild gray male.

An outbred rat used in medical research, white with a black or brown hood.


Rowett nude rat

Rowett nude rat (plural Rowett nude rats)

A kind of rat with no thymus and thus a severely compromised immune system, used in medical research.


biobreeding rat

biobreeding rat (plural biobreeding rats)

A kind of inbred rat, used in medical research, that spontaneously develops autoimmune type 1 diabetes.


over hard

(US) Of an egg prepared as food, fried on both sides all the way through, with the yolk intact.


cat-sit

en-verb

cat-sit (third-person singular simple present cat-sits, present participle cat-sitting, simple past and past participle cat-sat)

cat-sits (present singular third-person)
cat-sitting (participle present)
cat-sat (participle past)
cat-sat (past)

If you are a cat lover, you can cat-sit for a season in some spiffy house or apartment.

1972, Lavinia Russ, A high old time: or, How to enjoy being a woman over sixty, page 194:

Polly Duncan has a new kitten and I agreed to cat-sit, but he turned out to be a wound-up, hyperactive, jet-propelled maniac!

1990, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat who Talked to Ghosts, page 227:

Suzana was off to the Burning Man festival this year and wanted me to be home in time to cat-sit, though she'd tried not to hint too broadly.

2014, Janine Ashbless, Cover Him with Darkness, page 25:


mossyback

From mossy + back (in sense 2 (“person who stayed hidden to evade conscription during the American Civil War”) probably a variant of mossback, which is attested earlier), alluding to someone or something that is so old or has remained so unmoving that it is as if moss has grown on them or it.
Sense 3.2 (“menhaden”) may be influenced by mossbunker.

(informal, historical, obsolete) Synonym of mossback (“a person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865)”)


blochiid

A prehistoric fish of the family Blochiidae


Coues' rice rat

en-noun

Coues' rice rat (plural Coues' rice rats)

Named in honor of American naturalist Elliott Coues.

Oryzomys couesi, a semiaquatic rodent in the family Cricetidae occurring from southernmost Texas through Mexico and Central America into northwestern Colombia.


mugger crocodile

mugger crocodile (plural mugger crocodiles)

A crocodile of species Crocodylus palustris


vulturine parrot

vulturine parrot (plural vulturine parrots)

Psittrichas fulgidus
Psittrichas fulgidus#Translingual

Psittrichas fulgidus, Pesquet's parrot, a species of parrot found in New Guinea which has black and red plumage.


Pesquet's parrot

Pesquet's parrot (plural Pesquet's parrots)

Pesquet's Parrot

Missing were four eclectus parrots—the male is bright green, the female brigh red—and five Pesquet's parrots which have spectacular red and black plumage, much coveted for tribal head-dresses.

Among the many significant hatchings to rare and endangered species were those of pink pigeons, Malayan wreathed hornbills, Pesquet's parrots, white-naped cranes, hooded cranes, Congo peacocks, and Malayan peacock pheasants.

1980, New York Zoological Society, Annual Report:

Psittrichas fulgidus, a species of parrot found in New Guinea which has black and red plumage.


monofenestratan

Any pterosaur of the clade Monofenestrata


detack

en-verb

detack (third-person singular simple present detacks, present participle detacking, simple past and past participle detacked)

detacks (present singular third-person)
detacking (participle present)
detacked (participle past)
detacked (past)

(transitive) To remove the tack (harness, reins, saddle etc.) from a horse.


mamushi

A species of pit viper, Gloydius blomhoffii


restless flycatcher

en-noun

restless flycatcher (plural restless flycatchers)

A passerine bird, Myiagra inquieta, native to eastern and southern Australia.


least flycatcher

least flycatcher (plural least flycatchers)

From least + flycatcher, from the fact that it is the smallest member of its genus.

A small insect-eating passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family, and the smallest member of the genus Empidonax, native to North America.


strangle the parrot

en-verb

strangle the parrot (third-person singular simple present strangles the parrot, present participle strangling the parrot, simple past and past participle strangled the parrot)

strangles the parrot (present singular third-person)
strangling the parrot (participle present)
strangled the parrot (participle past)
strangled the parrot (past)

/ˌstɹæŋɡ(ə)l ðə ˈpæɹət/

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/ˌstɹæŋɡəl ðə ˈpæɹət/

From parrot (“(aviation, slang) transponder”). “Parrot” was the British codename for the identification friend or foe system on World War II aircraft which used transponders.

If you fly jets, you know what it means to strangle the parrot (turning off the transponder that identifies aircraft as friendly or hostile) and that the howgozit is a dial that shows how much fuel is left.

1990, Tom Fahey, “Types of Jargon”, in The Joys of Jargon, Hauppauge, N.Y., London: Barron’s Educational Series, →ISBN, pages 21–22:

Over the radio, Kincaid heard the sounds of flights into the north: Air Force pilots talking to one another. […] Davis broke in with a radio call. “We strangle the parrot in five minutes.” Kincaid grinned. It meant that they would be turning off the IFF equipment.

1990, Kevin D. Randle, chapter 6, in Carrier War (Wings over Nam; 4), Naples, Fla.: Speaking Volumes, published 2014, →ISBN:

He had acquired a grey parrot on a trip to Africa and en route back to the UK, air traffic gave instructions to strangle the parrot, meaning of course switch off the identification, friend or foe (IFF) (codeword 'parrot'). Woobs feigned righteous indignation at this cruel command!

2017, Tony Blackman, Anthony Wright, V Force Boys: All New Reminiscences by Air and Ground Crews Operating the Vulcan, Victor and Valiant in the Cold War and beyond, London: Grub Street, →ISBN:

(idiomatic, aviation, slang) To switch off the transponder, for example, because it is interfering with the radar system.


glandulocaudin

Any fish of the subfamily Glandulocaudinae


cocrico

Ortalis ruficauda
Ortalis ruficauda#Translingual


pelagosaur

From Latin pelagus from Ancient Greek πελαγικός (pelagikós), from πέλαγος (pélagos, “sea”) + -saur.

In still older formations, such as the Lower Oolites and Lias, there were, however, many long-snouted crocodiles, such as the steneosaurs (Steneosaurus) and pelagosaurs (Pelagosaurus), in which the socket of the eye is divided from the lower temporal fossa by a bony bar, as shown in the figure on p. 13.

1896, Richard Lydekker, Reptiles and fishes, page 32:

SINCE, aflap o'er some dim Jurassic prairie, Pterodactyl seized on pelagosaur; In heraldry-book and bestiary Have been limned the beasts of the days of yore.

1915, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder, The Century: A Popular Quarterly - Volume 89, page 312:

The order Crocodilia comprised, besides terrestrial forms, extinct marine crocodiles such as the genus mystriosaur and the pelagosaur—both lower jurassic forms (one hundred and fifty million years ago).

1969, Rodolfo Riascos Llinás, Neurobiology of Cerebellar Evolution and Development, page 431:

A complication not found in eusuchians occurs in some marine mesosuchians (i.e., mystriosaurs, pelagosaurs), in which the eustachian system may have been connected with the nasal passages, possibly a hydrostatic adaptation for protection of the auditory organs in diving animals (Antunes, 1967b).

1973, Carl Gans, Thomas Sturges Parsons, Biology of the Reptilia, page 278:

Any of the extinct crocodile-like animals of genus †Pelagosaurus which lived during the Jurassic period.


eggwich

Stop in the morning for espresso and the pita eggwich (scrambled eggs, peppers, onions and diced tomatoes with provolone).

2000, Nancy Woodworth, Richard Woodworth, Getaways for Gourmets in the Northeast, page 266:

In Stewart's, waiting for his bagel to toast, Anthony launched into some abbreviated Grunt and Grumble with the other men picking up coffee and eggwiches.

2007, Jon Katz, Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm, page 119:

John butted a cigarette in the ashtray, got out of the car with his twenty-four-ounce coffee and sausage eggwich.

2018, Liam Sweeny, Street Whispers, unnumbered page:

A sandwich with an egg filling or egg patty.


eggel

Ron Allen and his wife, Libby, were enjoying their favorite breakfast, the eggel, an egg on bagel.

2015 August 16, E. B. Furgurson III, “Chick and Ruth's Delly: After half a century, it's still about family”, in Capital Gazette:

Try out the combo meals or even the eggels.

2018 March 2, Anastasia Carter, Eve Gross, “Best Restaurants In The 419”, in The Student Prints, Sylvania Northview High School, page 14:

Our whole menu is offered all day for those who want a lunch sandwich in the morning or an eggel in the afternoon.

2018, “No. 1 Sandwich Shop...AGAIN!!”, in Minot Daily News Readers' Choice 2018, page 13:


Cook's petrel

Pterodroma cookii
Pterodroma cookii#Translingual


Mauritius kestrel

en-noun

Mauritius kestrel (plural Mauritius kestrels)

Falco punctatus
Falco punctatus#Translingual

Falco punctatus, a bird of prey endemic to the forests of Mauritius.


echo parakeet

Psittacula eques, a parrot endemic to the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius and formerly Réunion.


desultor

(historical) A person skilled at leaping from one horse or chariot to another.


ailurine

From New Latin Ailurinae (“taxonomic subfamily”), as Ailurus + -ine.


sunbleak

Synonym of moderlieschen, Leucaspius delineatus.


moderlieschen

From German Moderlieschen, from or corresponding to Mutterlöschen, Mutterloseken, literally "motherless one(s)", because the eggs can withstand long exposure to air, stick to ducks and other birds, and be carried to ephemeral ponds, where they may hatch without adults present, leading to folk beliefs that the fish were motherless.

Leucaspius delineatus (Heckel) The common moderlieschen is a small fish of no economic importance, living in the basins of many Ukrainian rivers. Body length: up to 7-8cm (usually less).

1963, Aleksandr Prokofʹevich Markevich, Parasitic Fauna of Freshwater Fish of the Ukrainian S.S.R.: (Parazitofauna Presnovodnykh Ryb USSR):

[…] numbers of eggs in ribbons (perch) or strings (the moderlieschen Leucaspius delineatus) which are entwined amongst submerged vegetation.

1975, B. A. Whitton, River Ecology, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 226:

To avoid lipoid degeneration in the trout liver young fish which contain less fat should be used. Fresh-water trash fish (bleak, ruff, gudgeon, loach, verkhovka or moderlieschen, minnow, etc.) are considered a better natural food, […]

1983, F. Martyshev, Pond Fisheries, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 366:

The European moderlieschen, Leucaspius delineatus, which lays eggs in spirals or rings on plant stems, is aided by enlarged genital papillae.

2012, Ian J. Winfield, Joe S. Nelson, Cyprinid Fishes: Systematics, biology and exploitation, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 144:

Leucaspius delineatus, a species of freshwater fish found throughout temperate continental Europe.


greyhound racing

The sport of racing greyhounds around a track, originally in pursuit of a live hare, now in pursuit of an artificial lure.


dog handler

A person trained to handle a dog, especially a police dog or a K-9 unit in the military


dope dog

Often the hiding places are so obscure, only a dope dog will find the evidence. If your department has a dog, it is well worth using the dog for searches.

1992, Gary J. Miller, Drugs and the Law: Detection, Recognition & Investigation:

It heated and cooled everything on the ship from the admiral's cabin to the kennel for Duke, the dope dog, who was riding along to sniff out any caches of drugs.

1988, George C. Wilson, Supercarrier: an inside account of life aboard the world's most powerful ship, the USS John F. Kennedy:


polypteroid

But this seems an unnatural arrangement; although the polypteroids and acipenserids are similar in that the number of fin rays is greater than the number of their basal skeletal supports and because there is an unmistakable spiral valve in the intestine […]

2018, Henry B. Bigelow, Soft-rayed Bony Fishes: Orders Acipenseroidei, Lepisostei, and Isospondyli:


dingiso

A tree kangaroo Dendrolagus mbaiso of New Guinea


desmatosuchian

Any extinct archosaur of the genus Desmatosuchus


docodontan

Any extinct mammaliaform of the order Docodonta


eutriconodontan

Any extinct mammal of the order Eutriconodonta


gilt-head

To give another instance: upon examining the fins of a fish to me unknown, I find them prickly; I then look for the situation of the ventral fins, I find them entirely wanting; this then must be a prickly-finned apodal fish. Of this kind there are but three; and, by comparing the fish with the description, I find it either of the trichurus kind, the sword-fish, or the gilt-head.

1813, Oliver Goldsmith, A history of the earth: and animated nature - Volume 6, page 258:

The common gilt-head (C. aurata) is the one best known. It is exceedingly abundant in the Mediterranean, and not rare on the west coast of Spain, Portugal, and France.

1838, Charles F. Partington, The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography, Literature, Natural History, and Biography, page 701:

An underwater hunter spots gilt-heads under twenty, twenty-five or even thirty feet of water.

1955, Pierre de Latil, The Underwater Naturalist, page 169:


lepidosaurid

Any reptile of the superorder Lepidosauria


notacanthiform

Any of the order Notacanthiformes of deep-sea spiny eels.


procatopodine

Any fish of the subfamily Procatopodinae


penduline tit

Any of the family of small passerine birds Remizidae, which nearly all make nests which hang from trees; found in Eurasia, Africa, and North America.


afropithecine

From translingual Afropithecidae + -ine (“related to”).

af

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

Any hominoid of the family †Afropithecidae


eugaleaspid

Any fish of the order Eugaleaspidiformes


North American bison

American buffalo
American buffalo#English

Bison bison (“B. bison”); Synonym of American bison (“American buffalo”)


North American buffalo

en-noun

North American buffalo (plural North American buffalo)


plains buffalo

Bison bison bison
Bison bison bison#Translingual

Bison bison bison; Synonym of plains bison


wood buffalo

Bison bison athabascae
Bison bison athabascae#Translingual

Bison bison athabascae; Synonym of wood bison


American buffalo

American buffalo (plural American buffalo or American buffalos or American buffaloes)

American buffalo (plural)
American buffalos (plural)
American buffaloes (plural)

A gold bullion coin first offered for sale by the United States Mint in 2006.


pteraspidid

Any extinct jawless fish of the family †Pteraspididae


porkfish

porkfish (plural porkfish or porkfishes)

Any grunt (fish) of the species Anisotremus virginicus.


sivapithecine

An extinct hominid of the genus †Sivapithecus.


adapisoriculid

The most abundant were fifteen-centimetre-long nocturnal eaters of insects and fruit known as adapisoriculids.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 52:

An extinct eutherian mammal of the family †Adapisoriculidae.


pampathere

Any extinct armadillo of the family †Pampatheriidae


polydolopimorphian

Any extinct metatherian of the order †Polydolopimorphia


rubidgeine

Any extinct therapsid of the subfamily †Rubidgeinae


Cavoodle

A crossbreed dog, the offspring of a poodle and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.


greater kudu

A kudu of species Tragelaphus strepsiceros, of eastern and southern Africa.


ferret-badger

(zoology) Any of several small mustelid omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.


dasyuromorph

Any marsupial of the order Dasyuromorphia


Cape rock hyrax

Cape rock hyrax (plural Cape rock hyraxes or Cape rock hyraces)

Cape rock hyraxes (plural)
Cape rock hyraces (plural)

From Cape + rock hyrax.
From Cape of Good Hope, from cape.

Procavia capensis
Procavia capensis#Translingual

The Procavia capensis (“P. capensis”). A mammal with a rodent-like appearance, but not closely related, related instead to the elephant, found in Africa and the Middle East.

An animal of this kind of the subpopulation found in Southern/South Africa.


rock badger

From rock + badger.
From Afrikaans dassie,
from Dutch das (“badger”).

Any of species Procavia capensis of mammals with a rodent-like appearance, but not closely related, related instead to the elephant, found in Africa and the Middle East.


Cape hyrax

Cape hyrax (plural Cape hyraxes or Cape hyraces)

Cape hyraxes (plural)
Cape hyraces (plural)

From Cape + hyrax.
Ellipsis of Cape rock hyrax..
From Cape of Good Hope, from cape.


meridiolestidan

Any extinct mammal of the clade †Meridiolestida


turnspit dog

(archaic) A short-legged, long-bodied dog, now extinct, bred to run on a wheel to turn a spit.


trechnothere

Any mammal of the subclass Trechnotheria


aeolosaurian

Any extinct titanosaur of the clade †Aeolosaurini


aeolosaurid

Any extinct titanosaur of the genus †Aeolosaurus


quork

en-verb

quork (third-person singular simple present quorks, present participle quorking, simple past and past participle quorked)

quorks (present singular third-person)
quorking (participle present)
quorked (participle past)
quorked (past)

They quork a few times during their apparent morning inspecting for intruders and return down the valley to the pond.

1989, Bernd Heinrich, Ravens in Winter, page 259:

He could hear the ravens quork'''ing and complaining in the rookery above.

2000, George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, page 549:

A raven quorks from high above the Hills Pond as we stroll Alder Brook Road.

2011, John M. Marzluff, Colleen Marzluff, Dog Days, Raven Nights, page 241:


pareiasaurian

Any extinct parareptile of the clade †Pareiasauria


Yangihissar gecko

en-noun

Yangihissar gecko (plural Yangihissar geckos)


atractaspidine

Any snake of the subfamily Atractaspidinae


calamariid

Any reed snake of the family Calamariidae


grassfinch

Any Australian finch of the genus Poephila.


prozostrodontian

Any cynodont of the clade Prozostrodontia


pseudoxenodontid

Any colubrid snake of the family Pseudoxenodontidae


pseudoxyrhophiid

Any lamprophiid snake of the family Pseudoxyrhophiidae


sibynophiid

Any colubrid snake of the subfamily Sibynophiinae


thalassemydid

Any extinct sea turtle of the family †Thalassemydidae


heath cock

Lyrurus tetrix
Lyrurus tetrix#Translingual


scimitar babbler

scimitar babbler (plural scimitar babblers)

Any of various passerine birds of the genus Pomatorhinus and the former genus Jabouilleia (now included in Napothera), found in tropical Asia.


crow-tit

The parrotbills or crow-tits, Paradoxornithidae, are a family of small tit-like birds found in Europe and Asia, most in India and South China.

1964, Hans Hvass, Birds of the World in Color, page 28:

"Nobody says that. But in my opinion, it's better for poor people to act like what they are. A crow tit shouldn't imitate a crane."

1983, Home-Coming and Other Korean Short Stories, page 101:

We swam in the stream, caught locusts and dragon flies, hunted for eggs laid by Korean crow tits in the rice paddies, […]

1998, Mia Yun, House of the Winds, page 130:

Any small titlike bird of the family Paradoxornithidae, noted for their curved, parrotlike bills.


hogmolly

At Martinsville large common and quillback suckers, hogmollies, sunfish, and numerous minnows are found.

1944, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Ohio River Division, Ohio River Pollution Control: Report (volume 3, page 1309)

Another thing: most native Ozarkers actually prefer suckers to either bass or trout, and will regularly pass up game fish in order to strike at a big redhorse or hogmolly!

2017, Vance Randolph, Robert Cochran, The Ozarks: An American Survival of Primitive Society, page 235:


vombatiform

Any marsupial of the suborder Vombatiformes


anteosaur

Any extinct therapsid of the clade Anteosauria


deperetellid

Any extinct tapir of the family †Deperetellidae


gymnotine

Any of the genus Gymnotus of knifefishes.


helaletid

Any extinct tapir of the family Helaletidae


tapinocephalian

Any therapsid of the clade †Tapinocephalia


actinopterian

Any fish of the Actinopteri, variously treated as a clade, class, or sub- or infra-class.


arrowtooth flounder

arrowtooth flounder (plural arrowtooth flounders)

A flatfish, of species Atheresthes stomias.


violet-green swallow

violet-green swallow (plural violet-green swallows)

A small North American passerine bird, of species Tachycineta thalassina of the swallow family, having a green back and purple tail.


mongolepidid

Any extinct fish of the family †Mongolepididae


mongolepid

Any extinct fish of the genus †Mongolepis


squatiniform

Any angel shark of the order Squatiniformes


sinacanthid

Any of a group of extinct chondrichthyans from China


sinarapan

Mistichthys luzonensis the smallest commercially-harvested food fish endemic to Bicol Region, Philippines


whipray

whiptail stingray
whiptail stingray#English


whiptail stingray

whiptail stingray (plural whiptail stingrays)


American warbler

American warbler (plural American warblers)


batsicle

But there's no answer. Marcie won't let you out, you realize, until you're frozen solid.
Too bad, but you made the wrong choice. And it looks as if you'll end this adventure as a batsicle!

1995, R. L. Stine, Give Yourself Goosebumps: Trapped in Bat Wing Hall, unnumbered page:

[…] They had to drop the bats from high altitudes to keep the bombers from getting shot down, and at those altitudes the bats froze solid and dropped like chunks of ice. What a way to die—clunked on the head by a frozen batsicle."

2009, Tim Downs, Ends of the Earth, pages 275–276:

Most Eastern Red Bats migrate south to avoid winter weather. But some red bats stick around. They keep from becoming batsicles by sleeping under dead leaves on the forest floor when temperatures fall below freezing.

2017, "Strange but True!", Xplor, January/February 2017, page 17

(informal, humorous) A cold or frozen bat.


chattering lory

chattering lory (plural chattering lories)

Lorius garrulus
Lorius garrulus#Translingual

Lorius garrulus, a forest-dwelling parrot endemic to North Maluku, Indonesia.


jandaya

Aratinga jandaya
Aratinga jandaya#Translingual

Aratinga jandaya, a small neotropical parrot with green wings and tail, reddish-orange body, yellow head and neck, orange cheeks, and black bill, native to wooded habitats in northeastern Brazil.


pickcheese

From pick + cheese. The bird is so called because it would steal from dairies.


Laika

A female dog who was sent into space by the Soviet Union on November 3, 1957, aboard Sputnik 2. She died in space.


sun granny

(US) The redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).


great-tailed grackle

great-tailed grackle (plural great-tailed grackles)

Quiscalus mexicanus
Quiscalus mexicanus#Translingual

Quiscalus mexicanus, a medium sized grackle similar in size and appearance to a small raven, jackdaw, or currawong


American paddlefish

American paddlefish (usually uncountable, plural American paddlefishes)

Polyodon spathula
Polyodon spathula#Translingual

A primitive freshwater fish with a paddle-shaped snout, Polyodon spathula, native to the southern US.


spectacled caiman

spectacled caiman (plural spectacled caimans)

Caiman crocodilus
Caiman crocodilus#Translingual

A crocodilian native to the warmer parts of Latin America, Caiman crocodilus, which, despite the specific epithet, is more closely related to alligators than crocodiles.


scarlet macaw

A large, colorful parrot, Ara macao, native to the Amazon rainforest and parts of Central America.


spined loach

Cobitis taenia
Cobitis taenia#Translingual

A small freshwater fish (Cobitis taenia), found in most of northern temperate Europe.


English cocker spaniel

English cocker spaniel (plural English cocker spaniels)

A gun dog of a breed, for the sport of cocking, or bird hunting.


bilou

Synonym of Kloss's gibbon (Hylobates klossii)


Mentawai gibbon

Mentawai gibbon (plural Mentawai gibbons)


Kloss's gibbon

Calque of translingual Hylobates klossii (literally “Kloss’s gibbon”).

clq

A small black gibbon (Hylobates klossii), of the Mentawai Islands to the west of Sumatra.


kolonok

Mustela sibirica
Mustela sibirica#Translingual

The Siberian weasel or kolinsky (Mustela sibirica).


otocinclus

From the genus name Otocinclus. First part from Ancient Greek ὠτο- (ōto-), stem of οὖς (oûs, “ear”).

Any of the species of small South American freshwater fish of the genus Otocinclus, popular in home aquariums.


koi carp

Meanwhile, NR faced an unexpected challenge when a night watchman spotted several Koi Carp swimming in floodwater close to the railway, after they had escaped from a nearby private residence. Wilson says the owner was eventually traced, and the fish were safely returned "after enjoying swimming around in a 3,000-acre lake".

2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “NR beats floods to secure tracks to Drax”, in Rail, page 59:


he-bear

A male bear (as opposed to a she-bear, female bear).


tuna junkie

(slang) A cat that has developed a strong preference for tuna and may refuse to eat anything else.


Eurasian wryneck

en-noun

Eurasian wryneck (plural Eurasian wrynecks)

Jynx torquilla
Jynx torquilla#Translingual

A small migratory bird in the woodpecker family, Jynx torquilla.


garrick

A good candidate for record seekers, garricks are easy to identify, relatively easy to catch and are good table fare.

1990, Boating, volume 63, number 7, page 100:


Henslow's sparrow

Henslow's sparrow (plural Henslow's sparrows)

Named by John James Audubon in honour of John Stevens Henslow.

The passerine bird Ammodramus henslowii.


Henslow's bunting

Henslow's bunting (plural Henslow's buntings)

Henslow's sparrow
Henslow's sparrow#English


leerfish

leerfish (plural leerfishes or leerfish)

Partial calque of Afrikaans leervis, from leer (“leather”) + vis (“fish”).


yawker bird

yakker (“a curveball or slider”)

No bird in America has so many local names as the Flicker. Some of these are Highholder, Wake-up, Walk-up, Pigeon, Woodpecker, and Yawker-bird

1910, Annual Report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, page 280:

Being a common bird he has a number of names such as high-hole, yellow hammer, golden-winged woodpecker, wakeup, yawker bird, and others.

Colaptes auratus
Colaptes auratus#Translingual


Stone sheep

Grasses and forbs comprise the major portion of the Stone sheep's diet.

2000, Vin T. Sparano, The Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia, page 213:

Ovis dalli stonei, a sheep native to northern British Columbia


pink dolphin

Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin
Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin

A subspecies of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis chinensis), of the Pearl River Delta, which gain pink coloration as they age.


Amazon River dolphin

Amazon River dolphin (plural Amazon River dolphins)

Inia geoffrensis
Inia geoffrensis#Translingual

A species of dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) of the Amazon River.


Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin

Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (plural Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins)

A species of dolphin (Sousa chinensis), of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.


lesser roadrunner

lesser roadrunner (plural lesser roadrunners)

/ˈlɛsə(ɹ)ˈɹoʊdˌɹʌnə(ɹ)/

Geococcyx velox
Geococcyx velox#Translingual

A bird native to Central America, Geococcyx velox.


greater roadrunner

greater roadrunner (plural greater roadrunners)

/ˈɡɹeɪtə(ɹ)ˈɹoʊdˌɹʌnə(ɹ)/

Geococcyx californianus
Geococcyx californianus#Translingual

A bird native to North and Central America, Geococcyx californianus.

kalifornianjuoksukäki

Geococcyx californianus — see also roadrunner


geckolet

Any of various small geckos in the Sphaerodactylus genus


kaffir fink

Following a common pattern of naming South African flora and fauna kaffir (originally a neutral term for Bantu, now offensive) followed by an analagous European plant or animal. The compounding may have happened in English or Afrikaans; the components derive from Dutch kaffer and vink.

(South Africa, archaic, now offensive) Synonym of sakabula


dagbreker

(South Africa) Any of the chats of South Africa.


Stephens Island wren

Stephens Island wren (plural Stephens Island wrens)

Synonym of Lyall's wren (“Traversia lyalli”)


Lyall's wren

Named after an assistant lighthouse keeper, David Lyall, who brought the bird to the attention of science.

Traversia lyalli, a small flightless passerine bird once found throughout New Zealand, now extinct.


Laysan crake

Synonym of Laysan rail (“Porzana palmeri”)


Laysan rail

An extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the Northwest Hawaiian island of Laysan (†Porzana palmeri).


weelo

Burhinus grallarius
Burhinus grallarius#Translingual

(Australia) The bush stone-curlew, Burhinus grallarius.


flagfall

Boyce took him ahead at the flagfall , with the Hughes horse in pursuit

June 22, 2020, David Milnes, The Lir Jet swoops late to deny Wesley Ward's Golden Pal in Norfolk in The Racing Post
The result looked unlikely soon after flagfall when Wesley Ward's Golden Pal blazed a trail down the centre of the track under Andrea Atzeni

(horse racing) The start of a horse race


apess

Yet, though his limbs with pile were rough, / And though his tail was long enough / […] / Th’ apesses [he] treated with disdain[.]

1865, Richard Francis Burton, “Dirge.”, in Stone Talk (Λιθοφωνημα / Lithophonema): Being Some of the Marvellous Sayings of a Petral Portion of Fleet Street, London, to One Doctor Polyglott, Ph.D., London: Hardwicke, Robert, pages 20–21:

I must run over & see you some day. Why not you & Mʳˢ Darwin run over here, when you have finished your Book—you can study my little Apes & Apesses—Kindest regards to Mʳˢ Darwin & thanks for her note—Always yours Affecˡʸ / W D Fox

1870 November 18, William Darwin Fox, letter to Charles Darwin:

Suddenly then he rose, and thinking scorn of his fellows / Longed to be quit of them all, his Apess specially.

1884, The Spectator, volume 57, Poetry. In the Beginning., page 1173:

The second movement, the allegro ironico, is a variation on the well-known theme “Je m’en fous.” An ape-like mockery whinnies through it. Cocoanuts are shied at all the four corners of the world. Some of them display a mysterious tendency to fall near the spot where the apess sits weeping over the children.

1923, Paul Rosenfeld, Musical Chronicle (1917–1923), page 81:

In negroes and in anthropoid apes, the index finger is much shorter than the ring finger. In negresses and in anthropoid apesses, the index finger is often longer.

1939, James Bridie, One Way of Living, page 196:

The apess doesn’t look her age.

1986, Rikki Ducornet, Entering Fire, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 142:

I dunno; do apesses screech more than male orangutans 'n' gorillae?

1998 April 20, Geoff Miller, “Re: The Tuneless Whistler -- a trial of patience!”, in alt.peeves (Usenet), message-ID <geoffmEroyF8.79L@netcom.com>:

[A]pesses do all the child-rearing.

2000, “The Life Cycle” (Part I), in Michèle Plott, Lauri Umansky, editors, Making Sense of Women’s Lives: An Introduction to Women’s Studies, Collegiate Press, →ISBN, Women Working: Germaine Greer, “Work”, page 201:

She then remarks that some people refer to art as the “apess or ape of nature, because just as the apess greatly imitates the manners of humans, art greatly imitates the works of nature.”

2009, Stephen Perkinson, “Chapter Three: The Vocabulary of Likeness at the Late Fourteenth-Century French Court”, in The Likeness of the King: A Prehistory of Portraiture in Late Medieval France, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, Conclusion: “Counterfeiting” Nature, ca. 1400, page 186:


throstell

Obsolete spelling of throstle. (song thrush)


feathered folk

feathered folk (countable and uncountable, plural feathered folks)

Boshy, elated, improvised a series of unbirdlike notes, startlingly loud, and new to all feathered folk.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 136:


creeker

From creek + -er, denoting someone who lives in such a rural place that he has no hometown or settlement but a nearby creek.

Children of the old Vikings, or "Creekers", they took, in their great need, to the seaward and the estuaries, as other conquered races take to the mountains, and died, like their forefathers, within scent of the salt sea from whence they came.

1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 12:

Wick, a creek or bay - Ipswich, Greenwich, Berwick. (Viking = a creeker.)

1882, anonymous author, Outline of the history of the English language and literature, Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers:


devil ray

Any of the rays of the genus Mobula, especially Mobula birostris, the manta ray.


anchisaur

Any member of the Anchisauria, a clade of sauropodomorph dinosaurs that lived from the Late Triassic to the Late Cretaceous in North America, Africa, and South America.


golden toad

A toad of recently extinct species †Incilius periglenes, of the cloud forests of Costa Rica.