fuck-you lizard

fuck-you lizard (plural fuck-you lizards)

Named during the Vietnam War, as the lizard's cry could be heard as fuck you. The fuck sound is quite clear and short in duration, followed by a pause of about half a second and the elongated you. The same sound could also be heard as tokay (as in tokay gecko), as tokeh (as in tokeh-tokeh), or as tuctoo, all of which are other English names of the lizard.

The mating call of a tokay gecko (fuck-you gecko)

listen

“Relax, son,” he whispered, “it’s only a fuck-you lizard.”

1988, Russell E. McLogan, Boy Soldier: Coming of Age During World War II, Terrus Press, page 141

“Uccck-ouuu.” Small Deer said, imitating a Fuck-You Lizard to perfection.

2004, Mike Sutton, No Survivors, Author House, page 176:

At least it wasn’t a fuck-you lizard, I thought.

2009, Wayne Karlin, Wandering Souls: Journeys with the Dead and the Living in Viet Nam, Nation Books, page 269:

(military slang, vulgar) The tokay gecko (Gekko gecko), native to Southeast Asia.


blackcock

Lyrurus tetrix
Lyrurus tetrix#Translingual


oliphaunt

From Middle English oliphaunt, olifaunt, from Old French olifant, from Latin elephantus; see elephant for more information.

The gander, the gose, and the hudge oliphaunt, / Went with the pecok ageyne the fesaunt;

1523, John Skelton, “A ryght delectable treatyse upon a goodly garlande or chapelet of laurell”, in Poetical Works of John Skelton, published 1853, page 365:

His mugge so Taste and wide, I wel opine,
 An oliphaunt he might have swallow'd[.]

1876, William Curry, Jun. & Co, The Dublin university magazine: Volume 88:

‘Were there any oliphaunts?’ asked Sam, forgetting his fear in his eagerness for news of strange places.

1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, Random House, published 1982, →ISBN, page 283:


mereswine

en-noun

mereswine (plural mereswines or mereswine)

Inherited from Middle English mereswyn (“porpoise, dolphin”), from Old English mereswīn (“porpoise, dolphin”), from Proto-West Germanic *mariswīn, from Proto-Germanic *mariswīną (“dolphin, porpoise, cetacean”). By surface analysis, mere + swine or mer- + swine.

inh

(rare, poetic, archaic) A porpoise or dolphin.


epibatidine

(organic chemistry) A polycyclic alkaloid, obtained from the skin of the poisonous frog Epipedobates tricolor, that is a powerful analgesic


rawaru

(New Zealand) A fish, the blue cod (Parapercis colias).


silvereye

A very small passerine bird, Zosterops lateralis, native to Australia, New Zealand, and nearby Pacific islands, having a ring of silvery feathers around the eye.

Any of several birds of the genus Zosterops having a ring of white feathers around the eyes.


tauhou

Also in this group is the tauhou or silvereye (Zosterops lateralis) and two honey-eaters […]

1973, Walter Imber, Kenneth Brailey Cumberland, R B Rains, New Zealand: Pacific land down under:

There was one tauhou preternaturally wary and, somehow, knowing […]

1997, Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, Mark Williams, An anthology of New Zealand poetry in English:


Tibetan Mastiff

en-noun

Tibetan Mastiff (plural Tibetan Mastiffs)

A large dog of a breed from Central Asia, having a medium to long double coat in a wide variety of colors, sometimes with white markings around neck, chest, and legs.


timberdoodle

Scolopax minor
Scolopax minor#Translingual


American woodcock

American woodcock (plural American woodcocks)

A North American shorebird, Scolopax minor


acrodont

Pleurodont lizards are such as have the teeth attached by their sides {148} to the inner surface of the jaw, in contradistinction to acrodont lizards, which have the bases of their teeth anchylosed to the summit of the margin of the jaw.

1871, St. George Mivart, On the Genesis of Species:

The known skeletal remains of Longisquama lack any other diagnostic archosaurian characters [the furcula mentioned by Jones et al. consists of paired clavicles, as Sharov originally noted], but they exhibit two features, acrodont teeth and an interclavicle ( 3 ), that are typical of lepidosaurs.

2001 March 9, Richard O. Prum with et al., “Longisquama Fossil and Feather Morphology”, in Science, volume 291, number 5510, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1899–1902:

Having teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.

ránőtt fog

having teeth united to the top of the alveolar ridge


acrodont

One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge


ride down

en-verb

ride down (third-person singular simple present rides down, present participle riding down, simple past rode down, past participle ridden down)

rides down (present singular third-person)
riding down (participle present)
rode down (past)
ridden down (participle past)

(idiomatic, equestrianism, transitive) To cause (a horse) to fall when riding.


apogonid

Any of the family Apogonidae of large-headed, marine, percoid fishes with oblong and compressed bodies.


wheel dog

(mushing) One of the dogs positioned directly in front of the sled that absorbs most of the force during the sled's movement.


lead dog

(mushing) one of the dogs at the front of the team, who set the pace.


swing dog

(mushing) One of the dogs directly behind the lead dogs, who help set the pace.


porcupine puffer

en-noun

porcupine puffer (plural porcupine puffers)

A pufferfish of the families Diodontidae or Tetraodontidae.


terror bird

Any of the family Phorusrhacidae of extinct flightless birds endemic to South America during the Cenozoic; a phorusrhacid.


potato cod

potato cod (plural potato cod or potato cods)

potato cod (plural)
potato cods (plural)

Epinephelus tukula, a large fish found in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans.


sungazer

One who takes part in sungazing, staring at the Sun.


spayart

(obsolete) The hart in its third year; a young deer


eelfare

(now rare) The movement of eels, especially migratory.


ranarian

en-adj

ranarian (comparative more ranarian, superlative most ranarian)

more ranarian (comparative)
most ranarian (superlative)


cebine

capuchin monkey, primate of the genus Cebus


spayard

A new membrane destined to be converted into horn develops itself, pushing away the old horn, and the spayard drops his dags, the stag and the hart their horns with antlers.

1865 April 22, unattributed, “Antlers”, in All the Year Round, page 304:


knobbler

They had begun by running a knobbler in the Shabbington coverts, but in the afternoon the sport had been better, for they had found a stag of ten in the oak wood by Stanton

1931, John Buchan, Blanket Of The Dark, page 51:

This was explained when we got up to the beasts, for they were all dead, six of them: five hinds and calves and a small knobbler. They had been struck by lightning.

(hunting, animal husbandry) Synonym of knobber (young male deer).


leptocephalus

From (obsolete) genus name Leptocephalus, equivalent to Ancient Greek λεπτός (leptós, “thin, slim”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).

der

There they spawn, and from the fertilized eggs emerge the leptocephali, which then ride on currents all the way back to Europe.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 69:

The flat, transparent larva of an eel, originally thought to be a distinct species.


pteropine

of or pertaining to flying foxes (bats of the genus Pteropus).


rabbitry

Аn enclosure where rabbits are kept, and often bred.

зайчарник

an enclosure where rabbits are kept, and often bred


doveling

On one of its lower branches was fastened a dove-cote, ingeniously made of willow wands, plastered with adobe, and containing so many rooms that the whole tree seemed sometimes a-flutter with doves and dovelings.

She began to wring her hands. "Oh, my poor doomed dovelings . . . my darling star-crossed daughters . . ."

2007, Lucretia Cole, The King of Amphiboly:

Their guan beaks, coupled dovelings, the poorotten, leafing their livers, nieces of the cloud . . . Life! Life! This is life!

2007, César Vallejo, Clayton Eshleman, The Complete Poetry:


knobber

From knob + -er; the deer sense derives from the fact that a young buck's antlers begin diminutively as mere knobs; the fool sense derives indirectly from a reference to the penis; the two senses are ultimately cognate.

Near-synonyms: brocket, pricket, spitter

As soon as the knobber started galloping, all the other stags, who. till now, had taken but a languid interest, if any, in his movements, jumped on to their feet.

1906, Country life, volume 20, page 619:

But even she was forced to confess that nothing was astir in the mossy wilderness. She climbed to the top of Craig Dhu and had a long spy, but, except for more hinds and one small knobber, living thing there was none.

1925, John Buchan, John Macnab, page 100:

While I watched the young hind approached the knobber and, after standing by him for a moment, began to lick him

A mature stag chases a young male (a knobber) from the harem

1978 November 16, New Scientist, volume 80, number 1129, page 540:

(hunting, animal husbandry) A hart in its second year; a young male deer.


troat

en-verb

troat (third-person singular simple present troats, present participle troating, simple past and past participle troated)

troats (present singular third-person)
troating (participle present)
troated (participle past)
troated (past)

Either onomatopoetic, or akin to throat.


froggery

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A place or enclosure where frogs are kept, and often bred.


hornyhead chub

en-noun

hornyhead chub (plural hornyhead chubs or hornyhead chub)

hornyhead chubs (plural)
hornyhead chub (plural)

Nocomis biguttatus, a small minnow of the northern central United States and Canada.


queen of beasts

queen of beasts (plural queens of beasts)

Coordinate term: king of beasts

[W]e will follow females from pregnancy and parturition to the pooling of their cubs in a crèche, whereupon the egalitarian queens of beasts are faced with the intricacies of shared caregiving.

2023, Craig Packer, “Cub Rearing”, in The Lion: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation of an Iconic Species, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 76:

राज्ञी पशूनाम्

rājñī paśūnām


oologist

a person who studies or specializes in oology


fairywren

Any of the small passerine birds of the tribe Malurini in the family Maluridae of Australasian wrens.


foolfish

foolfish (plural foolfishes or foolfish)


filefish

filefish (countable and uncountable, plural filefishes or filefish)

Any fish of the family Monacanthidae, with very slender bodies.


foxie

He was a spare fellow, eager as a foxie, with the remains of a good profile and some remnants of grey curl.

1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 21:


freshie

freshie (countable and uncountable, plural freshies)

From fresh + -ie. In the sense of an immigrant, shortened from fresh off the boat.

You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles.

1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64:

(countable, colloquial, US, Philippines) A freshman.

(countable, colloquial, UK) A new immigrant (usually to the UK).

(countable, colloquial, Australia) A freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni)


milk snake

Lampropeltis triangulum
Lampropeltis triangulum#Translingual

Any of various snakes, Lampropeltis triangulum, with smooth and shiny scales and typically a pattern of colours that runs red-black-yellow or white-black-red.


night-raven

sad Horrour with grim hew, / Did alwayes sore, beating his yron wings; / And after him Owles and Night-rauens flew, / The hatefull messengers of heauy things [...].

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Cursed creatures, messengers of death, possess the world. / Night-ravens, screech-owls, and voice-killing mandrakes […].

1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, IV.4:

A bird active at night, sometimes identified with a specific species such as a night owl or nightjar, and sometimes seen as a separate animal in its own right.


Scottish Deerhound

Scottish Deerhound (plural Scottish Deerhounds)

A large sighthound bred in Scotland to hunt deer.


columbiform

Taubenvogel (see die Taubenvögel / Columbiformes)

Columbiforme (a nominalized adjective; die Columbiformen, die Columbiformes)

Kolumbiforme (a nominalized adjective; die Kolumbiformen)


dorse

The Baltic cod or variable cod (Gadus morhua callarias).


colubriform

From Latin coluber and translingual Coluber + -iform.

Characteristic of snakes of the family Colubridae; colubrid


drome

From French, from Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos, “running”). Doublet of dromos.

der

Dromas ardeola
Dromas ardeola#Translingual

(obsolete) The crab plover, Dromas ardeola, of North Africa.


omelette Arnold Bennett

en-noun

omelette Arnold Bennett (plural omelettes Arnold Bennett)

After Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867–1931), English novelist.

An omelette containing smoked haddock and parmesan cheese.


blowie

"I said," my friend says on the phone, "I can call the cops and have you arrested or you can give me a blowie."

2008, Shane Lindemoen, Empire Dirt, Fallen Publishing, page 91

‘I didn′t mind being groped by him,’ Crystal replied. ‘He was cute. In fact I′m looking forward to later; don′t I have to pretend to give him a blowie?’

2010, Zoe Foster, Playing the Field, Round 23: The Enchantress vs The Press, unnumbered page,
‘A brothel. Anyway, they got kicked out ′cos one of them – not Josh – took photos on his mobile of some bird giving him a blowie, and she flipped out.’


quadrella

2003 March 22, Craig Sherborne, Footy′s Man of Passion, The Herald Sun, republished in 2003, Garrie Hutchinson (editor), The Best Australian Sports Writing 2003, page 79,
Demetriou is an inveterate punter with a miraculous instinct for picking big quadrellas.

2009, H. G. Nelson (Greig Pickhaver), Sprays: A Collection of Verbal Touch-Ups, unnumbered page,
Imagine jagging a couple of nice trifectas or the quadrella and squaring the Christmas credit-card bill, with a little extra left for a three-week holiday at Victor Harbor. Magic!

2010, Stephen Barkoczy. Australian Tax Casebook, 10th Edition, CCH Australia, page 416,
Instead, the taxpayer relied on his own intuition, placed bets mainly on the totalisator or with on-course bookmakers and was more inclined to place “higher risk” bets such as trifectas and quadrellas.

(gambling, horse racing, Australia, New Zealand) A bet where the bettor must pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track.


fernbird

Megalurus punctatus, an insectivorous bird native to New Zealand.


galliwasp

Any of the lizards in the genus Celestus.


swordtail

But ongoing efforts to sequence genes from other fishes, including salmon and swordtail, will also help to test the theory, Postlethwait says.

1998 August 21, Gretchen Vogel, “EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:Doubled Genes May Explain Fish Diversity”, in Science, volume 281, number 5380, →DOI, pages 1119–1121:

One of many species of freshwater fish, in genus Xiphophorus, others of which are called platyfish.


blay

From Middle English *blaye, *bleye, from Old English blǣġe (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-Germanic *blaigijǭ (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyk- (“to shine”). Cognate with German Bleie, Bleihe (“blay”).


Brahmaputra

/ˈbɹɑː.məˌpuː.tɹə/

Borrowed from Sanskrit ब्रह्मपुत्र (brahmaputra, “son of Brahma”), from ब्रह्मा (brahmā, “Brahma”) + पुत्र (putra, “son”).

bor+

Jih-k’a-tse, Tibet’s second largest city, is located on the Brahmaputra southwest of Lhasa, in Tibet’s major grain-producing area, with highland barley as the major grain.

1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Tibet”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 198:

A river which flows through Tibet, India and Bangladesh.

布拉马普特拉河

Bùlāmǎpǔtèlā Hé


pin bone

A long, thin bone in a fish extending sideways from the backbone.


strich

Compare Latin strix, strigs (“a screech owl”).

The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


kingklip

From Afrikaans kingklip (“king rock fish”), from Dutch koningklipvisch.

A popular South African food fish; Genypterus capensis .


short-eared dog

en-noun

short-eared dog (plural short-eared dogs)

Atelocynus microtis
Atelocynus microtis#Translingual

A canid of species Atelocynus microtis, endemic to the Amazonian Basin.


crab-eating fox

crab-eating fox (plural crab-eating foxes)

Cerdocyon thous
Cerdocyon thous#Translingual

A medium-sized canid of species Cerdocyon thous, endemic to central South America.


side-striped jackal

side-striped jackal (plural side-striped jackals)

Canis adustus
Canis adustus#Translingual

A species of jackal (Lupulella adusta, syn. Canis adustus), native to central and southern Africa.


black-backed jackal

black-backed jackal (plural black-backed jackals)

Canis mesomelas
Canis mesomelas#Translingual

A jackal of species Canis mesomelas, which inhabits the southernmost and central-eastern regions of the African continent.


herpet-

From the Ancient Greek ἑρπετ- (herpet-), the stem of ἑρπετόν (herpetón, “serpent, creeping animal, reptile”), from ἕρπω (hérpō, “I creep”); compare herpet-².


wiener dog

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(informal, sometimes humorous) Synonym of dachshund (a dog breed)


cook someone's goose

en-verb

cook someone's goose (third-person singular simple present cooks someone's goose, present participle cooking someone's goose, simple past and past participle cooked someone's goose)

cooks someone's goose (present singular third-person)
cooking someone's goose (participle present)
cooked someone's goose (participle past)
cooked someone's goose (past)

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Various folk etymologies have been suggested, but the true etymology remains unknown.

I like this Goose Lake country better than any I've seen east of the Cascade range, and if some mishap don't cook my goose, I hope to give you a good account of it, if not of myself.

1867 September 28, Joseph Wasson, “Colonel [George] Crook’s Campaign”, in Peter Cozzens, editor, Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865–1890: The Wars for the Pacific Northwest, volume 2, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, published 2002, →ISBN, part 1 (The Snake-Paiute War and after, 1866–72), page 63:

[W]hen is it reasonable to think that the Americans will be able to put in that immense army of three millions, fully equipped, each man with a hair mattress, a hot-water bottle, a gramophone, and a medicine chest, which they tell us will get to Berlin and ‘cook the goose’ of the Kaiser? [In a letter from F. S. Oliver to his brother.]

[1918 May 2, John Terraine, quoting Frederick Scott Oliver, “The Gambler’s Fling”, in The Great War (Wordsworth Military Library), Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, published 1997, →ISBN, page 156:

A strange, awkward thought! Had Fleur cooked her own goose by trying to make too sure?

1921 September, John Galsworthy, “The Dark Tune”, in To Let, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, part III, page 284:

"Well," remarked Dobbie succinctly, "that rather cooks his goose, doesn't it?"

1931, Anthony Gilbert [pseudonym; Lucy Beatrice Malleson], chapter 6, in The Case against Andrew Fane, London: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co., →OCLC; republished London: The Murder Room, 2004, →ISBN, section 1:

"I am afraid Bill [William Joseph Donovan] is rapidly cooking his own goose by lobbying," Dykes recorded on 4 April. "[Walter Bedell] Smith is getting completely fed up with [Donovan]."

1941 April 4, D[aniel] K. R. Crosswell, quoting Vivian Dykes, “Forging the Mold”, in Beetle: The Life of Walter Bedell Smith (American Warriors), Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, published 2010, →ISBN, part 3 (The Towering Figure—George C. Marshall), page 254:

Well I don't care if it's a thing or a mammal or a skunk, he can't sleep on our money. I'll cook that mammal's goose!

1943 October, Robert McCloskey, “The Case of the Sensational Scent”, in Homer Price, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, December 1966, →OCLC, page 18:

To express his antipathy, the lawyer manipulates the judicial process, its language and technicalities, to show that if he was formerly unprepared to serve Guillaume the promised feast, he is now eager to help him cook his own goose.

1984, Donald Maddox, “Antipathiquelin and the Rhetoric of Torts”, in Semiotics of Deceit: The Pathelin Era […], Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press; Cranbury, N.J.; London: Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 95:

One false step can cook your goose for good. Before you know it, there's such a big stink that it's smeared all over the newspapers.

1987, Sholem Aleichem [pseudonym; Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich], “[The Railway Stories] The Man from Buenos Aires”, in Hillel Halkin, transl., Tevye the Dairyman and The Railway Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics), New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, [2008?], →ISBN, page 172:

(idiomatic, informal) To spoil one's plans or hope of success.

kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander


kingbird

A group of large insectivorous passerine birds of the genus Tyrannus.


guib

The guib is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.

1835, Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history:

Tragelaphus scriptus
Tragelaphus scriptus#Translingual

The harnessed antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), a West African antelope marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground;.


morwong

Any of various perciform fishes comprising or formerly comprising family Cheilodactylidae.


Pearson's long-clawed shrew

en-noun

Pearson's long-clawed shrew (plural Pearson's long-clawed shrews)

Any of species Solisorex pearsoni of shrews endemic to Sri Lanka;.


meropidan

From the scientific translingual Meropidae + the English suffix -an.

Any bird (such as the bee-eaters) of the family Meropidae


scrub bird

(zoology) A shy, secretive, ground-dwelling passerine bird of the genus Atrichornis, found in Australia.


scrub robin

An Australian singing bird of the genus Drymodes.

Any of several African birds of the genus Cercotrichas.


Triple Crown

(horse racing, US) The three greatest thoroughbred races of the year restricted to three-year-olds: the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes

(horse racing, UK) The three greatest thoroughbred races of the year restricted to three-year-olds: the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, Derby Stakes (aka "Epsom Derby"), and St. Leger Stakes

(horse racing, Canada) The three greatest thoroughbred races of the year restricted to three-year-olds: the Queen's Plate, Prince of Wales Stakes, and Breeders' Stakes


glirid

(zoology) Any member of the family Gliridae of dormice.


myoxid

(zoology) Any member of the family Myoxidae of dormice (better known as the Gliridae).


hookbill

Any of various parrots with a hooked bill for climbing and for crushing nuts and seeds.


feeder cattle

(agriculture) Steers or cows that are mature enough to be placed in a feedlot in preparation for slaughter.


bearded reedling

bearded reedling (plural bearded reedlings)


lobefin

Any of the fish of the class Sarcopterygii.


elephant bird

Apparently from Marco Polo's description of the legendary roc as being capable of seizing a small elephant.

The fossil record is also poor for moa and the aepyornid elephant birds, in that both are mainly known from remains that date from historical times.

2002, Gregory S. Paul, Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds, page 306:

Another very notable feature of Madagascar was the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus), an enormous relative of the ostrich which reached 3 m in height.

2009, Jonathan Adams, Species Richness: Patterns in the Diversity of Life, page 242:

All^([of order Struthioniformes]) except tinamous are flightless; they include the largest birds ever known (moas and elephant birds) and the largest living bird (Ostrich).

2013, Roger Safford, Frank Hawkins, The Birds of Africa, volume VIII, The Malagasy Region, page 107:

Any of the very large extinct flightless birds that make up the genera Aepyornis and Mullerornis within family Aepyornithidae, and lived in Madagascar until the 17th or 18th century; especially †Aepyornis maximus.


mouldwarp

From Middle English moldewarpe, moldewarp, moldewerp, (also molwarpe, molewarpe), from Old English *moldeweorpe, ("mole"; literally "earth-thrower"; compare Old English wandeweorpe (“mole”)), from Proto-Germanic *muldawurpiz (“earth-thrower, mole”), equivalent to mould + warp.
Cognate with Scots malwart, modewarp (“mole”), Dutch molworp (“mole”), Low German mulworp, molworm (“mole”), German Maulwurf (“mole”), Danish muldvarp (“mole”), Swedish mullvad (“mole”), Icelandic moldvarpa (“mole”).

gloss

"mole"; literally "earth-thrower"; compare Old English <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang">wandeweorpe</i> (“mole”)

inh

For either they be puffed vp vvith pride, / Or fraught vvith enuie that their galls do ſvvell, / Or they their dayes to ydleneſſe diuide, / Or drovvnded lie in pleaſures vvaſtefull vvell, / In vvhich like Moldvvarps nouſling ſtill they lurke, / Vnmyndfull of chiefe parts of manlineſſe, / And do themſelues for vvant of other vvorke, / Vaine votaries of laeſie loue profeſſe, […]

1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso:

as the moldiwarp in Æsop told the fox […], you complain of toys, but I am blind, be quiet […].

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 1, subsection i:

"Yi, an' there's some chaps as does go round like moudiwarps." He thrust his face forward in the blind, snout-like way of a mole, seeming to sniff and peer for direction.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

(now regional, archaic) A mole, Talpa europea.


swanling

From swan + -ling, formed by analogy with duckling, gosling, etc. Compare German Schwänlein.

Suddenly I feel myself become small as a swanling, tucked into the swan's feathers.

2004, Pauline Somers, Dreams Within Dreams:

Slim ran over to the pond and unleashed the excited swanlings. They followed Moose and Slim to a quiet backwash of the river and glided gracefully into the water. Moose sat down on a little hillock and listened to Slim talking to the swanlings.

2007, Hubert Schuurman, People of the Swan:

The narrative concerns a female duck who hatches four dark ducklings, and when the fifth turns out to be a white “swanling,” the father duck more or less accuses his wife of adultery.

Bruno Bettelheim What this is really about is how you and your own dear swanling can rest securely in the feeling of belonging together when you experience daily life differently because others treat you differently.

2011, Gail Steinberg, Beth Hall, Inside Transracial Adoption:

So close, swanling, do not hesitate. Her eyes went to the sun hanging between night and day and then to Wulfsun. I cannot leave him to such a fate. Without me, he is a dead man.

2015, Betina Lindsey, Swan Bride: The Swan Maiden Trilogy - Book One:


Mongolian wild ass

en-noun

Mongolian wild ass (plural Mongolian wild asses)

Equus hemionus hemionus, a subspecies of the onager, found in Mongolia and northern China.


leptoceratopsid

Any dinosaur of the family Leptoceratopsidae


bagaceratopsid

Any dinosaur of the genus †Bagaceratops.


great egret

A large, white egret, Ardea alba, found around the world.


sea dragon

Any of certain fish consider to resemble dragons:

weedy sea dragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus)

(UK, dated) An ichthyosaur (Age of Dinosaurs delphine marine reptile)


whalesucker

A tropical species of remora, Remora australis, that attaches exclusively to cetaceans.


gorgonopsid

(zoology) Any member of the suborder Gorgonopsia of therapsid synapsids.


ringed plover

Charadrius hiaticula
Charadrius hiaticula#Translingual

A small plover, Charadrius hiaticula, that has a black neckband


avadavat

Variant of earlier amadavat, from Ahmedabad, city in Gujarat, India, from which the bird was imported to Europe.

SIR OLIVER. What!—has he never transmitted—you—Bullion—Rupees—Pagodas!
SURFACE. O Dear Sir—Nothing of the kind—no—no—a few Presents now and then—china, shawls, congo Tea, Avadavats—and indian Crackers—little more, believe me.

1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.i:

And now it has flown to new scenes of delight,
Where Venus's pigeons long cooing have sat,
While Lesbia's famed sparrow with envy moults white

c. 1785, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, "Elegy on the Lamented Death of an Avadavat" (undated manuscript preserved by his wife Elizabeth Ann Linley Sheridan is printed in Clementina Black, The Linleys of Bath (London: Martin Secker, 1911), pp. 180-81

And the Muses all chrip to the Avadavat.

And the warm angled winter screen,
On which were many monsters seen,
Call’d doves of Siam, Lima mice,
And legless birds of Paradise,
Macaw, and tender Avadavat,

1819, John Keats, "The Eve of Saint Mark", (text of unfinished manuscript printed in berefrois, August 13, 2013)

Any of various estrildid finches of the genus Amandava, especially the red avadavat, Amandava amandava, of India and Southeast Asia, commonly kept and bred as a cagebird; also known as Java sparrow.


Palawan bearcat

Palawan bearcat (plural Palawan bearcats)

A subspecies of the binturong, Arctictis binturong whitei, endemic to the Philippine island of Palawan.


wrymouth

Cryptacanthodes maculatus, a slim, eel-like fish.


staniel

From Middle English staniel (“bird of prey”), from Old English stānġilla, stānġella (“staniel, pelican”, literally “rock-crier”), from stān (“stone, rock”) + ġella (“yeller, crier”). More at stone, yell.


sand eel

From Middle English sandeel, sandell, sandel, equivalent to sand + eel. Cognate with German Sandaal (“sand eel”), Danish sandål (“sand eel”).

In short, this means sandeels, the small, oily fish that are a staple diet for many seabirds, need to be in the right place at the right time for puffins to be able to feed their chicks.

2018 June 20, Louise Tickle, The Guardian:

Any of various species of slim fish, resembling eels, especially of the family Ammodytidae.


phocid

(mammalogy) Any member of the family Phocidae, the true seals


tree pipit

Anthus trivialis
Anthus trivialis#Translingual

A small passerine bird, Anthus trivialis.


meadow pipit

Anthus pratensis
Anthus pratensis#Translingual

A small passerine bird (Anthus pratensis).


Old World porcupine

Old World porcupine (plural Old World porcupines)

Rodents are represented by four families: squirrels, Old World porcupines, mice and rats, and bamboo rats.

2008, Barbara A. Holzman, Tropical Forest Biomes, page 115:

Old World porcupines inhabit much of Africa, southern Europe, and Asia. Old World porcupines are also known to gnaw on bones (Bruno and Riccardi 1995; Nowak 1999; Smithers, Skinner, and Chimimba 2005; Barhelmess 2006; Arslan 2008).

2010, Peter S. Ungar, Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity, page 211:

Erethizon characteristically takes shelter in rock piles, beneath overhanging rocks, or in hollow logs but (as other New World porcupines) does not dig burrows as do Old World porcupines.

2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 227:

Any of the large, spiny-furred rodents of the family Hystricidae, native to the southern Eurasia and Africa.


titanosaur

But 70 million years ago, near modern-day Asturias in northern Spain, there existed a lagoon, and as the land sank, the sea flooded it at high tide, and the bones of alligators, pterosaurs and dwarf titanosaurs (long-necked sauropod dinosaurs) were buried in the sediment.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 30:

Any member of the taxonomic groups Titanosauria or Titanosauroidea of diverse sauropod dinosaurs including some of the heaviest creatures ever to walk the earth.


wels

From German Wels, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”).

Silurus glanis
Silurus glanis#Translingual


blindfish

blindfish (plural blindfishes or blindfish)

Any of various fish, having only rudimentary eyes, that inhabit underground waters.


boatbill

Either of two species of passerine birds in the genus Machaerirhynchus


fallfish

fallfish (plural fallfishes or fallfish)

A small silvery freshwater fish (Semotilus corporalis) found in North America.


seismosaurus

A dinosaur, of genus Seismosaurus, from the Jurassic period


murmuration

murmuration (countable and uncountable, plural murmurations)

/ˌmɝməˈɹeɪʃən/

/ˌmɜːməˈɹeɪʃən/

1350–1400; Medieval Latin murmuratio (“murmuring, grumbling”). The “flock of starlings” sense is probably derived from the sound of the very large groups that starlings form at dusk.

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"Oh! I wasted most of my morning crawling to a murmuration of starlings, which I foolishly mistook for congregation of plover."

1893 September 27, The Bazaar, the Exchange and Mart, London, page 800, column 3:

The same dynamics can be seen in starlings: On clear winter evenings, murmurations of the tiny blackish birds gather in Rome’s sunset skies, wheeling about like rustling cloth.

2013 March 19, Ed Yong, “How the Science of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer and Predict the Future”, in Wired:

Professor Anne Goodenough, an applied ecologist at the University of Gloucestershire who led the research, said: ‘It appears murmuration has become the norm – a general way for the starlings to stay safe from predators.’

2017 July 29, “Solved, the riddle of starlings' aerial ballet: Birds use acrobatics to ward off creatures of prey”, in Daily Mail:

(ornithology, collective) A flock of starlings.

An emergent order in a multi-agent social system.


bushtit

Any of the long-tailed tits of the family Aegithalidae

A North American long-tailed tit, of the genus Psaltriparus, that has mostly grey plumage


allosaur

Any of several huge carnivorous dinosaurs, of the superfamily Allosauroidea, from the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods

alossauro

any dinosaur of the superfamily Allosauroidea


swoose

The associate in arts or A.A. degree, another "swoose," has quickly established itself as the community college degree in a degree-obsessed nation.

1970 Dec, James J. Zigerell, “The Community College in Search of an Identity”, in The Journal of Higher Education, volume 41, number 9, pages 701–712:

Well by the time all the cooks in that broth got through with it, by the time it emerged from the Congress, it was a "swoose." It was not swan and it was not goose, it was a "swoose." It was a "swoose" to its dying day, which hasn't quite arrived yet, but its [sic] imminent.

1979 "A History of Cancer Control in the United States, 1946-1971: Appendixes," U.S. National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Rehabilitation, p98

But Mom describes my life that year pretty accurately when she says that I had become a “swoose”- that is to say, not a swan and not a goose.

2000, Claire Cloninger, Karla Worley, When the Glass Slipper Doesn't Fit, New Hope Publishers:

"John calls teenagers 'sweese.'" "What?" "Neither swans nor geese."

2007, Susan Kelly, Now You Know, Pegasus Books, page 229:

(informal) A person or thing sharing the characteristics of two otherwise separate groups; a hybrid (also see Swoose)


prairie chicken

en-noun

prairie chicken (plural prairie chickens)

ᏢᏗᏍᏗ

flightless bird of the genus Tympanuchus

greater prairie chicken
greater prairie chicken

Tympanuchus cupido
Tympanuchus cupido#Translingual

Any of the genus Tympanuchus of grouse, native to the prairies of North America

greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) including the extinct heath hen

lesser prairie chicken
lesser prairie chicken

Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus#Translingual

lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)

Tympanuchus phasianellus
Tympanuchus phasianellus#Translingual

sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus)


pileated woodpecker

pileated woodpecker (plural pileated woodpeckers)

A large woodpecker native to North America, Dryocopus pileatus


catarrhine

Describing the Catarrhini parvorder of primates (including humans) that have nostrils that are close together and directed frontward or downward


pachycephalosaur

From the New Latin genus name Pachycephalosaurus, equivalent to pachy- (“thick”) + cephalo- (“head”) + -saur (“lizard”).

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One could almost call Triopticus a mimic were it not for the fact that it dates to 228-220 million years ago, meaning that it predates the pachycephalosaurs by over 100 million years.

2016 September 28, David Hone, “‘Three-eyed’ extinct reptile was a bone-headed dinosaur mimic 100 million years early”, in The Guardian:

Any of a group of herbivorous dinosaurs, of the genus Pachycephalosaurus from the late Cretaceous period.

paksupää

dinosaur of the genus Pachycephalosaurus


billfish

en-noun

billfish (plural billfishes or billfish)

silver gar (Strongylura maritima, in family Belonidae)


bum calf

At the start of calving season, there was another bum calf, Ferdinand, whose mother had abandoned him.

2005, Lynn Parr, Cowgirl: A Home on the Wyoming Range, page 149:

I could do it all — I could play their game until I dropped — but I would never own a square foot of land, a bushel of oats or a bum calf in my own name.

2002, Judy Blunt, Breaking Clean, page 291:

She usually manages to be busy feeding some bum calf or wrangling the horses or something.

1992, Teresa Jordan, Cowgirls: Women of the American West, page 83:

"I feel like a bum calf when you do this to me," Madeleine said and when her mother said, "What?" Madeleine said, "Never mind."

1989, Gretel Ehrlich, Heart Mountain, page 114:

A young heifer or bull which has been orphaned or abandoned; it must be adopted by another cow, steal milk, or be bottle-fed in order to survive, and is therefore often a runt.


combfish

combfish (plural combfishes or combfish)

A comb wrasse, an Australasian wrasse (Coris picta), having a comb-like stripe.


leppy

When those big bands take off, the mares never come back for those leppies. We were branding one time and saw a little bunch move out and a mom left a leppy behind.

2006, Paula Morin, Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin, page 105:

Out on the range, he would have been a stunted leppy.

2003, American Cowboy, volume 10, number 4, page 90:

I have heard a famous rodeo announcer crack the same old joke every year, "A leppy is a little calf whose ma has died, and whose pa has run away with another cow."

1978, Sarah E. Olds, Twenty Miles From a Match: Homesteading in Western Nevada, page 44:

(slang, US) A young animal, particularly a cow calf or bull calf, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned.


quillwork

quillwork (countable and uncountable, plural quillworks)

On the each end was a leanback made of willow rods tied together in a tapered trapezoidal form set at an angle. Covers of buffalo hide with the hair on and quillwork designs were draped over the leanback and bed surface.

2013, Jeffrey D. Anderson, Arapaho Women's Quillwork: Motion, Life, and Creativity, page 61:

Decorative textile embellishment made from porcupine quills by certain Native Americans.


tylopod

From Ancient Greek τύλη (túlē, “knob, hump”) + -pod (“foot”).

(zoology) Any even-toed ungulate mammal, of the suborder Tylopoda, including the camels.


salmonoid

The lake trout‐Lwhich need no populations of two salmonoids, lake trout and landlocked salmon.

1978 January 29, Nelson Bryant, “Wood, Field and Stream”, in The New York Times:

One of his planned angling adventures is a float trip of nearly 100 miles down a wild stretch of the Zhang River in quest of various little-known trout and a salmonoid called the taimen, which can reach well over 100 pounds and live for more than a century.

1988 May 27, Nelson Bryant, “OUTDOORS; Quest for a 100-Year-Old Fish”, in The New York Times:


broadbill

Any of several small passerine birds of the family Eurylaimidae (Asian and Grauer's broadbills) or Calyptomenidae (African and green broadbills).

harlekiini

bird of the family Eurylaimidae or Calyptomenidae


nothosaur

From scientific Latin Nothosaurus (genus name).

Nothosaurs were equipped with large, slightly curved teeth, which could provide a scissor-like bite like crocodiles.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 68:

(paleontology) An extinct marine reptile of the order Nothosauroidea, from the Triassic period.


spadefish

spadefish (plural spadefishes or spadefish)

Any of several marine fish of the family Ephippidae


litoptern

From modern Latin Litopterna (order name), from Ancient Greek λῑτός (lītós, “smooth”) + πτέρνη (ptérnē, “heel-bone”).

[C]ertain litopterns like the camel-like Macrauchenia also lived on until within 15,000 years before the present.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 73:

(zoology) An extinct hoofed mammal of the order †Litopterna, from the Cenozoic period.


izard

From French isard, further derivation uncertain.

[T]hat threatening aspect with which they seemed to hang over the wandering traveller […] bid him to fear, lest even the light steps of the Izard (the Chamois of the Pyrenees), or the wild goats, who now and then appeared suspended amid the craggy fissures, should disunite them from the mountain itself and bury him beneath their thundering ruins.

1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 474:

A Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica).


iguanodon

From Spanish iguana (from Taíno iwana) + -odon.

August the twenty-eighth - the day we saw five live iguanodons in a glade of Maple White Land.

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

Any of several large dinosaurs, of the genus Iguanodon, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.


bontebok

From Afrikaans bontebok, from Dutch bontebok (literally “motley goat”).

der

A South African antelope of genus Damaliscus


quadfecta

He won the Superfecta and the Quadfecta all in the same day at Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles.

2010, George V. Bush, Magazine Man “A Slave To The Sale”, unnumbered page:

(gambling, horse racing) A bet in which the bettor must select the winners of the first four places (i.e., first, second, third, and fourth) of a race in the correct order.


protocetid

Any of a group of extinct cetaceans, of the family †Protocetidae, from the Eocene period


physeteroid

(zoology) Any sperm whale (of the family Physeteridae).


mysticete

(zoology) Any of the baleen whales (of parvorder Mysticeti).


neosauropod

Any sauropod, of the rank Neosauropoda, from the late Jurassic period


megalodon

Pseudo-loan from Ancient Greek as if formed from a compound of μεγάλος (megálos, “big”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”); coined by Swiss-born American scientist Louis Agassiz in 1843 as a specific epithet. By surface analysis, megalo- + -odon.

coinage

Throughout the period, toothy giants persisted in the oceans. Perhaps the most spectacular was the megalodon shark.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 139:

A species of extinct shark that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (†Otodus megalodon).

mégalodon

extinct shark in species of Carcharocles megalodon


basilosaurus

Any species of several very large extinct cetaceans belonging to the genus †Basilosaurus, of the family †Basilosauridae, from the late Eocene. the two species in the genus B.isis (found in Egypt and Tunisia) and B. cetoides (found in the southern and eastern US).


chiropteran

(zoology) Any mammal, of the order Chiroptera, that has forelimbs modified to form wings; a bat.


gibberbird

An Australian chat (bird), of the genus Ashbyia, that lives in the gibber plains


dealfish

en-noun

dealfish (plural dealfishes or dealfish)

A deep-sea ribbonfish, Trachipterus arcticus, from the north Atlantic


ribbonfish

ribbonfish (plural ribbonfishes or ribbonfish)

ribbonfishes (plural)
ribbonfish (plural)

Any of several lampriform fish, of the family Trachipteridae, having long, ribbon-like bodies.


bummalo

Probably modification of Marathi [script needed] (bombīlā), oblique case form of बोंबील (bombīl).

Bombay duck (flesh of the edible lizardfish)


chickaree

Onomatopoeia from its cry; compare chickadee.

We heard the sound of the chickaree

1864, Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods:

(Canada, US) A small squirrel, one of the species of Tamiasciurus, that lives in evergreen forests of North America.


cornetfish

cornetfish (plural cornetfishes or cornetfish)

cornetfishes (plural)
cornetfish (plural)

Any of several slender, elongate tropical fish, of the family Fistulariidae, that live in shallow water


frogmouth

From frog + mouth, from its mouth shape.

Any of several nocturnal, insectivorous birds, of the family Podargidae, native to Australia and southern Asia


stitchbird

Perhaps from its call, which resembles the word stitch, and bird.

Notiomystis cincta, a rare honeyeater-like bird endemic to parts of New Zealand.


platyrrhine

(zoology) Any New World monkey of the Platyrrhini


woodchat

Lanius senator
Lanius senator#Translingual

Lanius senator, a medium-sized migratory passerine bird of the shrike family.


suckerfish

suckerfish (plural suckerfishes or suckerfish)

suckerfishes (plural)
suckerfish (plural)

Echeneis naucrates
Echeneis naucrates#Translingual

The remora and other fish of family Echeneidae, especially Echeneis naucrates.


callitrichid

(zoology) Any New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae.


berrypecker

Any of various birds of the families Melanocharitidae and Paramythiidae, native to New Guinea, whose diet is dominated by berries and small fruits.


grassbird

Any of various warblers, many formerly in genus Megalurus.

bristled grassbird

syns. Chaetornis striata, Megalurus striatus

fan-tailed grassbird

Catriscus brevirostris, syn. Schoenicola brevirostris

Fly River grassbird

Poodytes albolimbatus, syn. Megalurus albolimbatus

little grassbird

Poodytes gramineus, syn. Megalurus gramineus

marsh grassbird

Helopsaltes pryeri, syn. Megalurus pryeri

New Caledonia grassbird

Cincloramphus mariae, syn. Megalurulus mariei

Papuan grassbird

Cincloramphus macrurus, syn. Megalurus macrurus

tawny grassbird

Cincloramphus timoriensis, syn. Megalurus timoriensis


flowerpecker

Any member of the family Dicaeidae of passerine birds, many of which feed on nectar.


bellyband

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From belly + band. As a Japanese article of clothing, a calque of Japanese 腹巻き (haramaki).

(equestrianism) A strap around the belly of a horse or other draft animal used to secure a saddle or the shafts of a cart.

(nautical) A band of canvas used to strengthen a sail.


paint horse

A horse of a breed that combines the conformational characteristics of a western stock horse with a pinto spotting pattern of white and dark coat colours.


gray whale

Eschrichtius robustus
Eschrichtius robustus#Translingual

A baleen whale, Eschrichtius robustus, from the north Pacific


entelodont

[T]he Oligocene's signature species were an unsavoury group of pigs and pig-like creatures, foremost among which were the entelodonts, more popularly known as hell pigs, or terminator pigs.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 85:

Any of several extinct pig-like omnivores, of the family Entelodontidae, from the Eocene and Miocene epochs.


yellowbill

Ceuthmochares aereus
Ceuthmochares aereus#Translingual

Ceuthmochares aereus, an African cuckoo with a heavy yellow bill.


hellbender

From hell + bender, possibly from hell-bent.

A giant salamander (genus Cryptobranchus) of North America that inhabits large, swiftly flowing streams with rocky bottoms.

голям америкнски саламандър

Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, a giant salamander of North America that inhabits large, swiftly flowing streams with rocky bottoms


amur

Borrowed from Russian аму́р (amúr), from an Evenki language such as Solon amur (“river”). Doublet of Amur.

In the fall of 1972, we obtained a special permit from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to import 20 amurs for study in indoor aquaria.

1974, “Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science”, in Indiana Academy of Science, volume 83, 174:

Any of various hybrids of the white amur that were bred for aquatic weed control.


mistletoebird

An Australian flowerpecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that commonly eats and thereby serves to spread mistletoe.


devilfish

devilfish (plural devilfishes or devilfish)

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The California gray whale, or devil-fish (Rhachianectes glaucus), is found only in the North Pacific, and is an object of pursuit by the shore stations established along that coast.

1887, A. Howard Clark, “The American-Whale Fishery”, in Science, volume 9, number 217, New York, N.Y.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, page 323:

The Sarah Warren returned with 1,100 bbls. of "devil fish" oil and 60 bbls. of sperm oil, and her tender, the Nevada, returned with 74, bbls. of whale oil.

1972, David A. Henderson, Men & Whales at Scammon's Lagoon, Los Angeles, C.A.: Dawson's Book Shop, →ISBN, page 270:

Returning, arrived at Honolulu on April 6, with 330 barrels of devil fish oil. Discharged cargo and left again for the Arctic region the latter part of July, 1867, returning the latter part of October, with 850 barrels of oil.

1907, Daniel Logan, A History of the Hawaiian Islands, New York, N.Y., Chicago. I.L.: Lewis Publishing Company, page 231:

Although twice the size of the killers and correspondingly strong, when one of the orcas appears the devilfish become terrified and either wildly dash for shore or turn belly up at the surface, with fins outspread, paralyzed by fright.

1916, Roy Chapman Andrews, Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, page 197:

(dated) Any of several not closely related marine animals:

In the rivers of southern Mexico, a lizard-like fish with armor for skin has taken over the habitat of the native fish like róbalo and mojarra. Locals call it the pez diablo, or devil fish, and long assumed it was poisonous.

[2018 July 2, Tara Duggan, “Bay Area men’s plan to market invasive fish from Mexico hits snag in U.S.”, in San Francisco Chronicle, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:

But a U.S. law, aimed at protecting American catfish farmers from cheaper Asian imports, means there is effectively a ban on foreign catfish‚ including the suckermouth or devil fish, from entering the U.S.

2018 July 19, “Entrepreneurs hope to sell Mexico's 'devil fish' to Canadians as a sustainable snack”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2023-02-03:

Devilfish is an invasive species of the Loricariidae family native to South America of the Amazon basin, but it has been introduced in several countries, as in Mexico. Devilfish has become an environmental problem in the country, at least in the last 20 years.

2022, Flores et. al, “Evaluation of a biocoagulant from devilfish invasive species for the removal of contaminants in ceramic industry wastewater”, in Scientific Reports, volume 12, London: Nature Portfolio, →DOI, →ISSN:

In another alarm of nature spiraling to hell in Florida, scientists suspect global warming has enabled devil fish to plague and ravage the St. Johns River.

2022 December 3, Kevin Spear, “Climate change heats devil fish that possess St. Johns River”, in Orlando Sentinel, archived from the original on 2022-12-23:

The suckermouth catfish, Hypostomus plecostomus (translating Spanish pez diablo).

Elliott's "South Carolina Field Sports" is a very interesting and entirely trustworthy record of the sporting side of existence on the old Southern plantations, and not only commemorates how the planters hunted bear, deer, fox, and wildcat in the cane-brakes, but also gives a unique description of harpooning the devil-fish in the warm Southern waters.

1893, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, American Big-game Hunting: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club, New York, N.Y.: Forest and Stream Publishing Co, page 323:

The Tectospondyli contains those dog-fishes which have no anal fin, and the rays and devil-fishes.

1901, William Plane Pycraft, The Story Of Fish Life, London: George Newnes, page 173:

There the great ray, the devilfish, powerful, swift, mighty, tons in weight, spreads his huge black wings; […]

1905, A. S. J. Newberry, “The Song of the Spear”, in Forest and Stream, volume 44, number 15, New York, N.Y.: Forest and Stream Publishing Company, page 295:

Indeed the same time-worn phrase if considered horizontally would be less than the actual fact if applied to some of the devilfish or giant rays which we saw.

1926, William Beebe, The Arcturus Adventure, New York, N.Y., London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 206:

Viennese marine biologist Han Haas lived for six months on an Arab fishing boat on the Red Sea in 120 degree heat. He bumped noses with sharks and deadly devil fish while he photographed the briny deep.

1951, “Woman Diverts Attention From Filming Undersea”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume 84, number 148, page 12:

Thinking a whale had just sounded after hitting the water with its tail, I was about to turn away from it, when, like a great white owl, thirty feet across, and half as much from nose to tail, a gigantic eagle-ray or devil-fish, leaped silently out of the water, with its wings spread wide, planed for a short distance, and struck the water flat, with a similar detonation.

1951, Roy Campbell, Light on a Dark Horse: An Autobiography, Chicago, I.L.: Henry Regnery Company, published 1952, page 149:

The largest rays, like the largest sharks, are plankton strainers. Devilfishes or manta rays of the family Mobulidae are up to 6 meters in width.

2002, F. Harvey Pough, Christine M. Janis, John B. Heiser, Vertebrate Life, 6th edition, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 127:

These "devil fish" may have seemed terrifying then, but these days, the opportunity to swim with manta rays lures divers to Tobago, Trinidad's smaller, less-developed neighbor.

2004 October 31, Susan Enfield Esrey, “Far From the Bubblin' Crowd”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-03:

The manta ray; any ray in the genus Mobula.

(specifically) The devil ray, Mobula mobular.

Devilfish are rather shy and difficult to approach. However, patience and perseverence^([sic]) usually pay off.

1989, Heinz-Gert de Couet, Andrew Green, The Manual of Underwater Photography, Viesbaden, Germany: Verlag Christa Hemmen, →ISBN, page 214:

Another closely related marine family, the Indo-Pacific Plesiopidae (roundheads), are well represented in Australian waters, with such familiar and brightly colored species as the hulafishes (Trachinops), devilfishes (Paraplesiops), and longfins (Plesiops).

1994, John R. Paxton, William N. Eschmeyer, Encyclopedia of Fishes, San Diego, C.A.: Academic Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 185:

Certain fish in the genus Paraplesiops; see blue devilfish, Bleeker's devilfish.


graylag

1872, John Cordeaux, Ornithological Notes from North Lincolnshire, Edward Newman (editor), Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History, 2nd Series, Volume 7, page 3016,
Wild Geese. — February 29th. Saw a skein of ten wild geese flying a few feet above the Humber this morning : from their size and colour I believe them to have been graylags.

Eventually a few graylags landed; the Professor dug into his bucket, scattered some barley grain about, and started to scribble notes.

1973, Ivan Newton MacCollom, Nancy Lloyd Badore, Exploring Psychology: Introductory Readings, page 405:

With reference to Konrad Lorenz's famous graylags, which assure each other of their solidarity by the display of common aggression against a nonexistent interloper, Burkert defines ritual as “action redirected for demonstration.”

2012, Mikael Aktor, “Negotiating Karma: Penance in the Classical Indian Law Books”, in Ute Hüsken, Frank Neubert, editors, Negotiating Rites, page 24:


candlefish

candlefish (plural candlefishes or candlefish)

candlefishes (plural)
candlefish (plural)

Thaleichthys pacificus
Thaleichthys pacificus#Translingual

An oily edible fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, from the northern Pacific, that was once dried and used as a candle or torch by the Chinook Indians.


crabeater

Rachycentron canadum
Rachycentron canadum#Translingual

A cobia or sergeant fish (Rachycentron canadum).

Ixobrychus minutus
Ixobrychus minutus#Translingual

A little bittern; a bird of species Ixobrychus minutus.

Although crabeaters often gather on the ice in large numbers, pupping takes place in small groups.

2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Chickaree - crabs, →ISBN, page 564:

Although few observations have been made of feeding crabeaters, it is assumed that they take bites from a swarm of krill, extracting one or two. Crabeaters sometimes feed collectively, which may increase the efficiency of their hunt.

2002, David G. Campbell, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica, →ISBN:

Also distinguishing them is that crabeaters often have moderate scaring around the head and chest from fights with conspecifics and deep scaring along the body resulting from close encounters with leopard seals.

2013, Roger Kirkwood, Simon Goldsworthy, Fur Seals and Sea Lions, →ISBN, page 45:

Lobodon carcinophagus
Lobodon carcinophagus#Translingual

An Antarctic seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) that feeds on krill.


becard

From French bécard, bécarde, beccard (“a merganser with a prominent beak”), equivalent to bec (“beak”) + -ard.

A South American flycatcher of the genus Pachyramphus


ornithomimosaur

Any of several theropod dinosaurs, of the clade Ornithomimosauria, that bore a superficial resemblance to modern ostriches


sea-pie

A pie made of meat and vegetables baked in a pan over the fire, with a pastry crust, or in layers between crusts, the number of which denominate it a two or three decker.


soapfish

soapfish (plural soapfishes or soapfish)

Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus

Rypticus bistrispinus (freckled soapfish)

Rypticus maculatus (whitespotted soapfish)

Rypticus nigripinnis (blackfin soapfish, twice-spotted soapfish)

Rypticus saponaceus (greater soapfish, three-spined soapfish, soapy jack)

Rypticus subbifrenatus (spotted soapfish)

Grammistes sexlineatus (golden stripe soapfish, goldenstriped soapfish, six-lined soapfish, skunkfish

Aulacocephalus temminckii (goldribbon soapfish, goldstripe grouper)

Pogonoperca punctata (leaflip soapfish, spotted soapfish, snowflake soapfish, leaflip grouper)

Diploprion bifasciatum (barred soapfish, two-banded soapfish)


turkeycock

Equivalent to turkey + cock; see turkey.


cercopithecoid

In East Africa the first evidence of cercopithecoid diversity appeared in the Pliocene at sites such as Lothagam, East Turkana, and Laetoli where papionins were the dominant cercopithecoids.

2005, Meave G. Leakey, “3: Evolution of Theropithecus in the Turkana Basin”, in Nina G. Jablonski, editor, Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus, page 117:

Concerning systematics, while extinct monkeys from the early and middle Miocene of Africa are widely accepted as true cercopithecoids, there remains some discussion as to their precise phylogenetic position.

2006, Tom Gundling, Andrew Hill, “7: Geological context of fossil Cercopithecoidea from eastern Africa”, in Paul F. Whitehead, Clifford J. Jolly, editors, Old World Monkeys, page 181:

The latest major anthropoid radiation, and in some ways the most successful, was that of the Old World monkeys, the Cercopithecoidea. Cercopithecoids appear to have originated from early African catarrhines during the late Oligocene gap in the Old World fossil record.

2011, Matt Cartmill, Fred H. Smith, The Human Lineage, page 128:

(zoology) Any species of the superfamily Cercopithecoidea (the Old World monkeys).


alpine newt

a newt of the salamander order Caudata, Ichthyosaura alpestris, formerly Triturus alpestris and Mesotriton alpestris.


trunkfish

trunkfish (plural trunkfishes or trunkfish)

Species of genera Lactophrys and Rhinesomus (in boxfish family Ostraciidae).


iguanid

(zoology) Any lizard of the family Iguanidae.


oarfish

For the second time this year an oarfish, a rarely seen deep sea fish that has historically been considered a harbinger of doom, washed up on the California coastline.

2024 November 15, Dani Anguiano, “Second oarfish, mythical harbinger of doom, found washed up in California”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A large, greatly elongated, type of fish of the family Regalecidae.


lionhead rabbit

lionhead rabbit (plural lionhead rabbits)

From lion + head + rabbit, from the resemblance to a male lion's mane.

A domestic rabbit of a United States breed that has particularly long wool around the face.


syngnathid

(zoology) Any member of the family Syngnathidae of seahorses, sea dragons, and pipefish, all with fused jaws.


lionhead cichlid

lionhead cichlid (plural lionhead cichlids)

a cichlid rheophile freshwater fish from Africa.


strandwolf

Hyaena brunnea
Hyaena brunnea#Translingual

(South Africa) The brown hyena (Hyaena brunnea).


figbird

Any of several frugivorous birds, of the genus Sphecotheres, from Australia.


giganotosaurus

Borrowed from translingual Giganotosaurus, from giga- (“large”) + noto- (“southern”) + -saurus (“lizard”).

affix

Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.


crowned crane

Balearica pavonina
Balearica pavonina#Translingual

Balearica regulorum
Balearica regulorum#Translingual

Either of two species of crane of the genus Balearica (Black Crowned Crane, Balearica pavonina and Grey Crowned Crane, Balearica regulorum) from sub-Saharan Africa.


wanderoo

From Sinhalese වඳුරා (waⁿdurā, “monkey”), වඳුරෝ (waⁿdurō, “monkeys”).

The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus)


smallmouth

A species of freshwater bass, Micropterus dolomieu, native to central North America but widely introduced throughout Canada and the United States as a game fish.


Orpington

A town in Greater London, in southeastern England.


tahr

Borrowed from Nepali थार (thār), from थारल (thāral).

Any of three genera of large Asian ungulates belonging to the subfamily Caprinae (goat-antelopes).


urial

Borrowed from Pothohari Punjabi ہڑیال m (huṛiāl), ultimately from Sanskrit हुड m (huḍa).

All domesticated sheep are descended from the moufflon, urial or argali. They are closely related to each other and connected by intermediate breeds. Most wool sheep are believed to have been derived from urial stock, while hair sheep are traced back to the moufflon.

1990, “Animals, Domestication of”, in A. Ghosh, editor, An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology, page 3:

O. severtzovi has been shuffled back and forth between the urial and the argali groups.

2011, Colin Groves, Peter Grubb, Ungulate Taxonomy, page 237:

Most urials live in open habitats, with few or no trees, but there are indications that this may be a recent adaptation to changing environmental conditions and that the urial was originally more of a woodland animal than at present.

2011, John P. Rafferty, Grazers, Britannica Educational Publishing, page 136:

A bearded reddish sheep, subspecies of Ovis orientalis (including Ovis orientalis vignei), previously classified as Ovis vignei, being endemic to southern Asia and believed to be a wild ancestor of domestic sheep.


sandfish

en-noun

sandfish (plural sandfishes or sandfish)

belted sandfish

Serranus subligarius in family Serranidae

Any of genus Gonorynchus (also called beaked sandfishes), long, thin ray-finned fishes (family Gonorychidae)

Any of several marine fishes that burrow into sandy seabeds

in Trichodontidae, a family of perch-like fish

of species Awaous tajasica, usually sand fish, a species of goby fish (family Gobiidae)

Other animals that notably burrow in sand:

sandfish skink (Scincus scincus), a land-dwelling lizard that swims in sand

a sea cucumber of species Holothuria scabra or Thelenota ananas.


physeterid

(zoology) Any sperm whale of family Physeteridae


featherback

From feather + back, from the small and narrow dorsal fin.


terret

Alteration of Middle English toret, turret (“half-ring, eyelet”), from Anglo-Norman turette, diminutive of Old French tur (“circuit, ring”). More at turn.

She had a good idea of what was coming, and the moment York took the rein off the terret in order to shorten it, she took her opportunity, and reared up so suddenly, that York had his nose roughly hit, and his hat knocked off; […]

[1877], Anna Sewell, “A Strike for Liberty”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 106:

One of the rings on the top of the harness saddle, through which the reins pass.


brushtail

Back-formation from brush-tailed. See brush, tail.


entellus

A small Asian monkey (Semnopithecus entellus, syn. Presbytis entellus), one of the gray langurs, having bristly hairs on the crown and the sides of the face.


skilfish

skilfish (plural skilfishes or skilfish)

A fish, of the genus Erilepis, found on deep rocky bottoms in the North Pacific.


talbot

Henry Fox Talbot
Lumen second
Talbot (disambiguation)

After Henry Fox Talbot, a 19th-century pioneer of photography.

(physics) An mks unit of luminous energy, exactly corresponding to the SI lumen second.


whiptail

whiptail (countable and uncountable, plural whiptails)

One of the most popular is the hoki, or whiptail, a bug-eyed specimen found far down in the waters around New Zealand and transformed into a major export.

2009 September 10, William J. Broad, “From Deep Pacific, Ugly and Tasty, With a Catch”, in New York Times:

A fish, blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae).

Social status may be less important to red-necked wallabies, which, unlike whiptails, are "essentially solitary" (McEvoy 1970).

1977, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, volume 4, number 4, page 409:

pretty-faced wallaby
pretty-faced wallaby

A pretty-faced wallaby (Macropus parryi).


Amur leopard

a wild feline predator, of species Panthera pardus orientalis, native to the mountainous areas of the taiga as well as other temperate forests in Korea, Northeast China and the Russian Far East.


Amherst

Amherst
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst

From either Old English elm or Old Norse almr (“elm”) + Old English hyrst (“wood”). The town in Nova Scotia is named after Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–1797).

af

A town, the county seat of Amherst County, Virginia.


rhynchosaur

From rhyncho- + -saur on the basis of their prominent beak-like structures.

Any of several diapsid reptiles, of order Rhynchosauria, from the Triassic period


anchoveta

/ˌantʃəʊˈvɛtə/

/ˌænt͡ʃoʊˈvɛtə/

From Spanish anchoveta, diminutive of anchova (“anchovy”). Compare anchovette.

An anchovy of species Engraulis ringens, from the southern Pacific.


wheater

It is particularly famous for its wheaters, a small bird, of the size of a lark, not much inferior to an ortolane, which is taken on the SE.

1801, John Walker, Arthur Kershaw, The Universal Gazetteer, page 19:

The people have plenty of patridges, woodcocks, snipes, thrushes, woodpigeons, turtle doves, wheaters, and poultry.

As less and less of the Downs is used as traditional pasture and more grassland is turned over to arable agriculture, the once-common wildlife species – the Adonis Blue and Chalkhill Blue butterflies, grasshoppers and the wheater bird, for example – are fast disappearing.

1987, The Geographical Magazine, page 572:


tinkerbird

From tinker + bird, from the resemblance of its call to the sound of metalwork.

Any of several barbets of the genus Pogoniulus.


whalemeat

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


colobine

Any Old World monkey of the subfamily Colobinae.


blackpoll

A North American warbler, Setophaga striata, the male of which has a black patch on its head


dasyurid

The Tasmanian Devil and the several species of quolls are by far the largest of the dasyurids, but the group is very diverse, and includes about 30 species of small insect-eaters, some not a lot bigger than a mouse.

1998, Terence Lindsey, Mammals of Australia, New Holland, published 2004, page 22:

It was once assumed that dasyurids made little use of visual communications because they are nocturnal.

2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 67:

A member of the family Dasyuridae, comprising carnivorous marsupials.


phascogale

From genus name, translingual Phascogale (from Ancient Greek φάσκωλος (pháskōlos, “pouch, wallet”) + γαλέη (galéē, “weasel”)), classified 1824 by Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.

der

Any of several Australian dasyurid marsupials, of the genus Phascogale, the males of which die shortly after mating.


gambusia

Any of several live-bearing freshwater fish, of the genus Gambusia, that feed on the larva of mosquitos and are used to control them.


gill slit

(anatomy, zoology) An individual opening to gills, which lacks an operculum; characteristic of cartilaginous fish such as sharks.


gill cover

(anatomy, zoology) An operculum; a series of bones found in bony fish that serves as a facial support structure and a protective covering for the gills.


blueback

A Beardslee trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus f. beardsleei).


bluebill

Any of the genus Spermophaga of estrildid finches found in tropical Africa.


toucanet

Any of several small toucans, of the genera Aulacorhynchus and Selenidera.

Nelson's toucanet Aulacorhynchus cognatus)


mopoke

A mopoke cried in the scrub to the north.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 401:


Asiatic wildcat

en-noun

Asiatic wildcat (plural Asiatic wildcats)

A subspecies of wildcat (Felis silvestris ornata).


barbastelle

From French barbastelle, from Italian barbastrello.

But while common and soprano pipistrelles are numerous, the barbastelle bat is dependent on ancient woodland.

2018 June 13, Damian Carrington, The Guardian:

A relatively rare European bat, Barbastella barbastellus.


Cape lion

Panthera leo melanochaita
Panthera leo melanochaita#Translingual

A lion of the extinct population of subspecies Panthera leo melanochaita which inhabited the Cape of Good Hope.


Javan tiger

An extinct tiger that inhabited the Indonesian island of Java until the 1980s.


teratorn

Long before man, there were birds even larger than this. The biggest found so far in the fossil record are the teratorns.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 249:

Any of various large birds of prey, now extinct, living in North and South America, of the family Teratornithidae.


greenling

Any of various food fishes, of the family Hexagrammidae, of the northern Pacific


scolopacid

(ornithology) Any member of the family Scolopacidae of waders or shorebirds.


sauger

Unknown. Attested from late 19th century.

Sander canadensis
Sander canadensis#Translingual

A freshwater perciform fish, of species Sander canadensis


urodele

Although courtship and other mating behaviors of many urodele amphibians in the laboratory have been described in great detail (Arnold, 1977; Halliday and Verrell, 1986; Verrell, 1989), little is known about such behavior in natural populations (MacMahon, 1964; Lynch and Wallace, 1987).

1989 December 27, Fredric J. Janzen, Edmund D. Brodie, III, “Tall Tails and Sexy Males: Sexual Behavior of Rough-Skinned Newts (Taricha granulosa) in a Natural Breeding Pond”, in Copeia, volume 1989, number 4:


barrelfish

barrelfish (plural barrelfishes or barrelfish)

barrelfishes (plural)
barrelfish (plural)

The black rudderfish, Hyperoglyphe perciformis


rudderfish

rudderfish (plural rudderfishes or rudderfish)

rudderfishes (plural)
rudderfish (plural)

Any of various not closely related fish that have the habit of following ships

Centrolophus niger, a medusafish, the only member of the genus Centrolophus.


crucian

From Low German karusse, karutze, possibly from Medieval Latin coracinus (“kind of river fish”). Also compare German Karausche.

der

Carassius carassius
Carassius carassius#Translingual

A small greenish-brown carp, Carassius carassius, farmed in parts of Europe.


tarwhine

A yellowish sea bream, Rhabdosargus sarba


charadriid

Darting among the penguins on the foreshore are little charadriids, members of the plover and lapwing family who feed on the insects that the massed animals attract […].

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 83:

(ornithology) A bird of the taxonomic family Charadriidae.


leporid

(mammalogy) Any mammal of the family Leporidae: the hares and rabbits.


grison

From Old French gris (“gray”) + -on (diminutive suffix). Doublet of Grisons.

A small, carnivorous South American mammal, of the genus Galictis, somewhat resembling a weasel.


reedbuck

Any of several African antelopes of the genus Redunca.


hypsilophodont

Any of the genus †Hypsilophodon of small ornithopod herbivorous dinosaurs.


ankylosaurid

(zoology) Any of the dinosaurs of the family Ankylosauridae.


threadfin

en-noun

threadfin (plural threadfins or threadfin)

From thread + fin. Named so because of the thread-like free sensory filaments at the base of each of their pectoral fins.

Any of many perciform fish of the family Polynemidae.


nodosaurid

(zoology) Any of the ankylosaurian dinosaurs of the family Nodosauridae.


hamadryas

Papio hamadryas
Papio hamadryas#Translingual

A large baboon (Papio hamadryas), from northern Africa and Arabia, that was sacred in ancient Egypt.


grysbok

From Afrikaans grysbok, from Dutch grijsbok, from grijs (“gray”) + bok (“buck, billy goat”).

A small antelope of genus Raphicerus from South Africa.


leaflove

Any of several songbirds of certain genera in family Pycnonotidae, the bulbul family.

Congo white-throated leaflove

Atimastillas flavicollis, syn. Chlorocichla flavicollis


labyrinthodont

Ancient Greek λαβύρινθος (labúrinthos, “labyrinth”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”).

uder

Any extinct amphibian of the subclass Labyrinthodontia.


tucuxi

A freshwater dolphin, estuarine dolphin Sotalia fluviatilis, found in the rivers of the Amazon Basin


bandfish

en-noun

bandfish (plural bandfishes or bandfish)

Any of many perciform fish of the family Cepolidae


batfish

Any of several spade-shaped, laterally compressed, reef-dwelling tropical fish of the genus Platax.


indigobird

From indigo + bird, from its deep blue-black colour.

Any of various African passerine birds of the family Viduidae


kingsnake

Any of various colubrid snakes of the genus Lampropeltis.


squawfish

squawfish (plural squawfishes or squawfish)

A cyprinid fish of the genus Ptychocheilus, a voracious predator on small trout and salmon.


morrocoy

The turtle is named after the Morrocoy National Park in Venezuela, where the turtle is indigenous and was spotted for the first time.

A red-footed tortoise, of the species Chelonoidis carbonaria, from the West Indies.


scaldfish

scaldfish (plural scaldfishes or scaldfish)

Any of several edible flatfish of the genus Arnoglossus.


stumpnose

(South Africa) Any of several sea breams of the genus Rhabdosargus.


bonnethead

Sphyrna tiburo
Sphyrna tiburo#Translingual

A form of hammerhead shark (Sphyrna tiburo)


angwantibo

From Ibibio añwa (“cat”) + nte (“like”) + ibọk (“monkey”).

Either of two small primates, of the genus Arctocebus, similar to lemurs


dunnart

Probably borrowed from Nyunga danard (“Sminthopsis griseoventer”).

bor

After the winter solstice, while the ambient temperature still remained low, nest sharing declined rapidly, due to increasing intolerance among the fat-tailed dunnarts, as breeding began.

2005, C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 158:

During the original AWC survey, Alexander Baynes identified, in a single hollow salmon gum, 283 jaws of half-a-dozen native mammal species, mostly dunnarts, many of which were recovered from owl pellets.

2009, Tim Winton, “Silent Country: Travels through a Recovering Landscape”, in Robyn Davidson, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 18:

Reptiles are an important food source for a wide range of animals, including birds and small native marsupials such as the yellow-footed antechinus and the fat-tailed dunnart.

2010, Damian Michael, David Lindenmayer, Reptiles of the NSW Murray Catchment, page 7:

Any species of the genus Sminthopsis of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble mice or shrews.


antechinus

en-noun

antechinus (plural antechinuses or (rare) antechini)

antechinuses (plural)
antechini (plural rare)

These are distinguished from the Monodelphia, or Placentalia, by bringing forth their young in a very rudimentary state, nourishing them in a “marsupium,” which is either a regular pouch or a simple skinfold, such as our native cats and antechini develop at the time of parturition.

1873 November 5, Gerard Krefft, “Australian Natural History”, in Transactions of the Royal Society of New South Wales, for the Year 1873, Sydney, N.S.W.: Thomas Richards, […], published 1874, page 135:

Being on the West Coast at the time, and always anxious to forward any scientific investigations, I collected all the varieties of kangaroo rats, antechini, and rats that came under my observation.

1886, T[homas] B[ather] Moore, “Western Tasmania”, in J[ames] P[ark] Thomson, editor, Proceedings of the Queensland Branch of the Geographical Society of Australasia. 1st Session, 1885-6., volume I, Brisbane, Qld.: Watson, Ferguson & Co., […], page 65:

Smaller than the wambengers, the antechinuses are secretive and are seldom seen by people unless they are caught and brought into houses by domestic cats.

1970, W. D. L. Ride, Ella Fry, A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia, page 116:

Two species of antechini live above the snowline. These are pugnacious rat-sized marsupials. Male antechini copulate so vigorously that they die from exhaustion.

1990, Eric Hoffman, “Victoria’s Alpine Region”, in Adventuring in Australia (The Sierra Club Adventure Travel Guides), San Francisco, Calif.: Sierra Club Books, →ISBN, page 239:

I thought it was my fault until I consulted the experts, and found that antechinus die naturally at this time of the year.[…]Antechinus eat beetles, spiders and cockroaches, which they find in decaying litter and topsoil in their habitat of dense ground cover.

1998, Deirdre Slattery, chapter I, in The Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks, page 67:

If held as a colony outside the breeding season, antechinus show relatively little aggression while still forming a linear hierarchy.

2007, Stephen Jackson, Australian Mammals: Biology and Captive Management, unnumbered page:

Any member of the genus Antechinus of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble shrews.


kowari

The kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei) of central Australia, one of a number of marsupial species that become torpid during cold weather, is also a fierce hunter and vocally aggressive […].

2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 57:

A small carnivorous rat-like marsupial, Dasyuroides byrnei, endemic to the dry grasslands and deserts of central Australia.

Dasycercus byrnei

(Dasyuroides byrnei): brush-tailed marsupial rat, Kayer rat, Byrne's crest-tailed marsupial rat, bushy-tailed marsupial rat, kawiri


titlark

Anthus pratensis
Anthus pratensis#Translingual

Anthus pratensis, the meadow pipit, a songbird.


vespertilionid

Any of very many bats of the family Vespertilionidae.


Spanish walk

(equestrianism) A movement in which the horse raises the forelegs off the ground in an extreme upward and out manner, with much expression.


houndfish

houndfish (plural houndfishes or houndfish)

Tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae.


beardie

(Scotland) A fish, a bearded loach or stone loach (Barbatula barbatula).


beardfish

beardfish (plural beardfishes or beardfish)

Wikispecies beardfish (canonical)
beardfishes (plural)
beardfish (plural)

Any of various deep-sea fish, of the family Polymixiidae, that have a pair of long hyoid barbels.


plectognath

Any fish of the order Tetraodontiformes.


Indian peacock

Pavo cristatus
Pavo cristatus#Translingual

Pavo cristatus, a species of peacock native to the Indian subcontinent.


sparoid

From Latin sparus (“gilt-head, a certain kind of fish”) + -oid (“resembling”, suffix forming an adjective).

suffix

Of or pertaining to the family, Sparidae, of deep-bodied, spinous-finned marine fish, including the sea bream, porgy, scup, and sheepshead.


cusimanse

Any of several species of dwarf mongoose or small mongoose in the genus Crossarchus, native to West Africa.


prosauropod

/pɹoʊˈsɔɹɵpɑd/

The longest trackway (23m) consists of 60cm long, four-toed footprints with one meter long strides in between and can probably be assigned to a prosauropod.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 87:

Any member of the Prosauropoda, a group of early herbivorous dinosaurs with a long neck and small head, forelimbs shorter than the hindlimbs, and a very large thumb claw for defense.


glassfish

en-noun

glassfish (plural glassfishes or glassfish)

Any of several not closely related small fish that have almost transparent bodies, especially those of the genera Ambassis or Chanda


oviraptor

From scientific Latin Oviraptor (genus name), from Latin ōvi- (“ovi-”) + raptor (because it is believed to have fed on the eggs of other dinosaurs).

In all three fossil samples, the concentration of biliverdin is higher than that of protoporphyrin, suggesting that these oviraptor eggs originally were blue-green.

2017 October 11, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:

Any of several bipedal dinosaurs, of the genus Oviraptor, from the late Cretaceous period.


roughy

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

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

The orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus.

(Australia) Any of several marine fish of the related genus Trachichthys, which have rough and spiny scales.


sewellel

From Chinook sewellel, shewellel (“mountain beaver pelt robe”).


sewin

(Wales) Sea trout, a subspecies of brown trout (Salmo trutta morpha trutta).


razorfish

razorfish (plural razorfishes or razorfish)

Any of various not closely related fish, including those of the genera Aeoliscus, Centriscus, and Xyrichtys.


sweetlips

Kenny Gamble, Dockside Dave’s manager and chef, has often heard the question since a Florida attorney general’s investigation revealed this year that 17 of 24 other restaurants in and around Tampa Bay were passing off cheaper imported fish — tilapia, bream, hake, sutchi, emperor, green weakfish, painted sweetlips — as grouper.

2007 May 27, Lynn Waddell, “That Grouper on the Menu? Turns Out It Was a Fish Tale”, in New York Times:

Any member of the genus Plectorhinchus of fish with large fleshy lips.

gulyabaw

any member of the genus Plectorhinchus of fish with large fleshy lips


annet

From Middle English ende, enede, from Old English ened, æned (“drake, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *anad (“duck”), from Proto-Germanic *anadz (“duck”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts (“duck”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oante (“duck”), West Frisian ein (“duck”), Dutch eend (“duck”), German Low German Aant (“duck”), German Ente (“duck”), Norwegian and Swedish and (“duck, mallard”), Icelandic önd (“duck”), Latin anas (“duck, drake”), Lithuanian antis (“duck, mallard”), Russian у́тка (útka, “duck”), Sanskrit आति (ātí, “aquatic bird”).

black-legged kittiwake
black-legged kittiwake

(UK, dialect, West Country, Cornwall, obsolete) A black-legged kittiwake.

(dialectal, figurative) A silly fellow; gull.


ringneck

Any of several unrelated birds that have a ringed neck.


whale watching

The practice of observing whales and other cetaceans in their natural habitat.

觀賞鯨魚

observing whales in their natural habitat


boarfish

boarfish (plural boarfishes or boarfish)

Any of a number of fish that have a projecting snout, in either of two families:


honeybird

From Middle English hony brid (“honey-bird, bee”, also an epithet for Christ), equivalent to honey + bird.

inh

Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.


crocias

From Ancient Greek κροκίας (krokías, “a saffron-colored stone”).

der

grey-crowned crocias
w:en:grey-crowned crocias

Only used in spotted crocias and grey-crowned crocias (two species of birds in the laughingthrush family, found in Java and Vietnam).


multituberculate

Any of a small group of rodent-like mammals, of the order †Multituberculata, from the Cretaceous and Paleocene periods.


twinspot

Any of various African waxbills that have spotted underparts.


tauros

Bos primigenius
Bos primigenius#Translingual

A crossbred cattle that is bred to bring back features of the aurochs (“Bos primigenius”), a member of the Tauros cattle breed.


testudine

It is convenient to divide the testudines into three groups, which will be referred to as the tortoises, the terrapins, and the turtles.

1969, Douglas J. Short, The I.A.T. manual of laboratory animal practice and techniques:

Any turtle, tortoise etc of the order Testudines.


wedgebill

Two Australian birds, Psophodes cristatus and Psophodes occidentalis that have wedge-shaped bills.


logrunner

Any of several Australian songbirds of the family Orthonychidae.


weebill

A small Australian warbler, Smicrornis brevirostris, that has a short bill.


great northern loon

en-noun

great northern loon (plural great northern loons)


ossifrage

/ˈɒsɪfɹɪd͡ʒ/

From Middle French ossifrage, from Latin ossifraga (“osprey”), ossifragus (“osprey”), from ossifragus (“bone breaking”).

And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray […]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 11:13:

Calcareous lies, slate, and trap are still to be found there, rising from layers of conglomerate, like teeth from a gum; but the pickaxe has broken up and leveled those bristling, rugged peaks which were once the fearful perches of the ossifrage.

1880, [uncredited English translator], The Man who Laughs by Victor Hugo, Book the Third, Chapter I

Yes; for these two passions, when they enter into a man, alter his wisdom and understanding and judgment and wit, and he is like the Ossifrage which, for precaution against the hunters, abode in the upper air, of the excess of his subtlety […]

1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Spider and the Wind. [Night 162.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

The aged sisters draw us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: over us dead they bend. First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

Gypaetus barbatus
Gypaetus barbatus#Translingual

(archaic) Gypaetus barbatus, the bearded vulture, the diet of which is almost exclusively bone marrow.


shubunkin

shubunkin (plural shubunkins or shubunkin)

/ʃuːˈbʊŋkɪn/


compy

I have NT 4.0 setup^([sic]) on my compy and would also like to have win95.

1998, Eric Packwood, “Installing Win95 when having NT 4.0”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc (Usenet):


compy

As used in the novel (and subsequent motion picture) Jurassic Park; shortened from Compsognathus, with -y.

We picked up another compy.

(informal) A member of the genus Compsognathus or Procompsognathus.


fodient

(obsolete) One of the former suborder Fodientia; the aardvark.


chalicothere

From scientific Latin Chalicotherium (originally a genus name), from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “gravel”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”).

During the Miocene, a veritable evolutionary explosion of chalicotheres occurred in Europe, with no less than five genera existing at one time.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 103:

Any of various odd-toed ungulates of the family Chalicotheriidae, from the Eocene and Pleistocene periods, which had horse-like heads and apelike bodies.


cattle beast

cattle beast (plural cattle beasts or cattle)

1883, Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm, Guelph, Annual Report, Volume 8, 199,
To aim at breeding, raising, and fattening one cattle beast from every ten cultivated acres of the Province.

1970, New Zealand Department of Agriculture, New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 121, page xxvii,
Similarly, people describe their ideal cattle beast with terms such as depth of body, depth of twist, blocky, […] .

2005, New Zealand Society of Animal Production, Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, Volume 65, 80,
The system is dependent on producers, abattoirs, meat wholesalers and meat retailers recording and managing information on each cattle beast using a ten-digit individual identification number.

An individual domesticated bovine animal; a singular form of the generalised plural cattle.


ammer

Inherited from Middle English *ambre, from Old English amore. Alternatively, it may be a clipping of yellowhammer or earlier yelambre. Favored over *hammer due to the influence of its German cognate and synonym Ammer (“bunting”) and its predecessors, Middle High German amer and Old High German amaro.

Emberiza citrinella
Emberiza citrinella#Translingual

The yellowhammer; yellow bunting; Emberiza citrinella.


hogg

A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth; a hogget.


fruit dove

Fruit doves are colorful, frugivorous (fruit-eating) doves found in forests and woodlands throughout Southeast Asia and Oceania. The genus comprises about 50 species, some threatened or already extinct.

Any bird of the genus Ptilinopus, in the pigeon and dove family Columbidae.


saltator

Borrowed from the genus name, translingual Saltator, borrowed from Latin saltātor (“dancer”).

One of several passerine birds in the genus Saltator.


rohu

From Hindi रोहू (rohū), from Sanskrit रोहित (rohita, “reddish”), due to the reddish tint of the fish's fins.

“Well,” said the fakir, “when you come to the Bhagirathi river you will see a big fish, a Rohu; and you must get him to carry you to Prince Majnun's country, or you will never reach it.”

1969, Joseph Jacobs, Indian Fairy Tales, page 53:

He caught a Rahu fish weighing around three kilos, and brought home a pair of pigeons for his wife to cook.

2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

A freshwater fish, Labeo rohita, of the carp family, found throughout Asia.


edaphosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the genus Edaphosaurus of prehistoric reptiles with a dorsal sail.


speight

From late Northern Middle English specht (“woodpecker”), from Old English *spiht, *speoht, from Proto-West Germanic *spiht, *speht, from Proto-Germanic *spihtaz, *spehtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“a kind of bird, woodpecker, magpie”).
Traditionally considered to be borrowed from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German, but this is rendered problematic by the mention of Spehtesberie in Domesday (Middle English Speghtesbury, Spettesbury; modern Spettisbury). Compare Dutch specht (“woodpecker”), German Specht (“woodpecker”), Danish spætte (“woodpecker”), Latin pīcus (“woodpecker”).


common dolphin

One of two species of dolphin in the genus Delphinus.


spinner dolphin

en-noun

spinner dolphin (plural spinner dolphins)

Spinner dolphins of both sexes sometimes engage in orgies of more than a dozen individuals, known as ‘wuzzles’.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 59:

Stenella longirostris
Stenella longirostris#Translingual

A species of small dolphin (Stenella longirostris).


velvet scoter

Melanitta fusca
Melanitta fusca#Translingual


edaphosaurus

any of several synapsids of the genus Edaphosaurus, from the Carboniferous and Permian periods, that had a distinctive dorsal sail or crest


short-eared owl

short-eared owl (plural short-eared owls)

Asio flammeus
Asio flammeus#Translingual


argus

Special use of Argus, a many-eyed mythological figure.

Any of various nymphalid butterflies, such as those of the genus Junonia, also called pansies.


urson

The urson (Hystrix dorsata)^([sic]) inhabits the United States and Canada, and is the only species of porcupine, properly so called, which appears to have the power of climbing trees.

1833, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 1, page 443:

The urson might be called the spiny beaver, it being of the same size, the same country, and the same form of body;[…]. In the young ursons, the prickles are proportionably larger, more apparent, and the hair shorter and scarcer than in the adults.

1834, Augustus Addison Gould, editor, A System of Natural History, page 253:

Erethizon dorsatum
Erethizon dorsatum#Translingual

A species of New World porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum.


Norwegian forest cat

Norwegian forest cat (plural Norwegian forest cats)

A domestic cat breed noted for its above average size, long, water-repellent fur and woolly undercoat.


horseskin

horseskin (countable and uncountable, plural horseskins)

The dried horseskin was made of brown Canton flannel and was held in place by being thrown over a horizontal stick.

1930, John Merrill, Martha Fleming, Play-making and plays: the dramatic impulse and its educative use in the elementary and secondary school, MacMillan, page 98:

But we cannot wear these horseskin boots in the rain and snow. We need regular leather top-boots. Moreover, our clothing is very much the worse for wear. We must provide ourselves with new outfits.

1945, Petr K. Ignatov, Partisans of the Kuban, Hutchinson & Co., page 148:

They made these fancy coverings from buckskins, horseskins, and cornhusks.

2000, Allison Lassieur, The Nez Perce Tribe, page 13:

The skin of a horse, or leather made therefrom.


peristeronic

From Ancient Greek περιστερά (peristerá, “pigeon, dove”) + English -ic. -on- possibly inserted to differentiate from chemical peristeric.


thresher shark

I went diving […] and saw manta rays and thresher sharks, the sharks are like sickles, like polished steel, they look almost man-made except for their worried little faces, and they move like – like they’re not moving, the water is undisturbed by them.

2023, Samantha Harvey, Orbital, Jonathan Cape, page 57:

Any of the species of sharks in the genus Alopias, three of which are extant.


galeanthropy

/ɡæliˈænθɹəpi/

From Ancient Greek γαλῆ (galê), a contracted form of γαλέη (galéē, “weasel”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “humanity”).

"That is the most interesting delusion I've come across since reading up on galeanthropy," said Sophie. […] / "What's galeanthropy?" I asked. / Sophie said, "It's the delusion that you've been turned into a cat."

1973, M. E. Kerr [pseudonym; Marijane Meaker], chapter 5, in If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever?, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row; republished Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish, 2009, page 49

Meanwhile his frau made loud mewling and scratching noises in the hallway beyond, deep in the throes of advanced galeanthropy.

1994 May 20, Matthew Marchese, “Tales of Obscure Usage I”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet), message-ID <1994May20.134031.17065@driftwood.cray.com>:

One of the finest novels for children ever written, in my opinion, is Paul Gallico's The Abandoned, in which a young boy named Peter, struck by a van while running across the street to pet a cat, falls into a coma and experiences galeanthropy.

1996, Charles Harrington Elster, “Dr Elster's Verbal Health Center”, in There's a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 33:

You got through to him?! He [Jack Kevorkian] won't return my calls anymore and his secretary just keeps repeating "No, we don't think suffering from galeanthropy makes one a valid candidate for the doctor's consideration."

1998 April 15, Serenleono, “Re: Touched by Chris Farely”, in alt.religion.angels (Usenet), message-ID <3537764a.34513787@news.mindspring.com>:

(rare) A mental condition of thinking that one has become a cat, which is usually manifested in the adoption of feline mannerisms and habits.


nems

(archaic) The ichneumon, or Egyptian mongoose.


rabbitat

We have already seen how forest rabbitat management improves the forest stand and helps other forest game species.

1955, Wisconsin conservation bulletin, Volume 20, page 36:

This may necessitate canvas-shelled britches and a long-sleeved hunting jacket, since thorns, needles, and burrs are part of rabbitat.

1978, Anthony J. Acerrano, The practical hunter's handbook, page 15:

Whatever special combination rabbitat is, the Prairie Home Area's small fields, weedy field borders, brush piles and cover plantings fit the bill pretty well.

1985, Missouri Conservationist, Volume 46, page 13:

The type of natural environment where rabbits can thrive.


sparid

Any of several perciform fishes of the family Sparidae


sharpchin flyingfish

en-noun

sharpchin flyingfish (plural sharpchin flyingfishes)

A species of flying fish (Fodiator acutus), of the western coast of Africa.


backspot flying fish

backspot flying fish (plural backspot flying fish)

A particular species of flying fish, Cheilopogon dorsomacula.