conebill

Any of various small tanagers of the genus Conirostrum.


schizothoracine

Studies of fossil schizothoracine fishes from the Kunlun Pass Basin indicated that the East Kunlun Mountain had not yet become a prominent biological barrier in the early Pliocene [57 ].

2015 December 15, “Into Tibet: An Early Pliocene Dispersal of Fossil Zokor (Rodentia: Spalacidae) from Mongolian Plateau to the Hinterland of Tibetan Plateau”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any cyprinid fish of the genus Schizothorax (snow carps, snowtrouts, and marinkas).


stilter

(zoology, archaic) Any long-legged wading bird.


sand plover

Charadrius mongolus
Charadrius mongolus#Translingual

Charadrius leschenaultii
Charadrius leschenaultii#Translingual

Any of various plovers that winter on sandy beaches. The lesser sand plover is Charadrius mongolus; the greater sand plover is Charadrius leschenaultii.


fiery-tailed awlbill

en-noun

fiery-tailed awlbill (plural fiery-tailed awlbills)

Avocettula recurvirostris, a hummingbird.


antpipit

Any of the genus Corythopis of birds in the Tyrannidae family.


mulard

Only male mulards are used in foie gras production; the females' livers are considered “too veiny.”

2016, Michaela DeSoucey, Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food, page 49:

A domestic duck that is a hybrid of the Pekin duck and Muscovy duck.


ankylopollexian

The general aspect of this tooth is similar to that seen in ankylopollexian ornithopods.

2015 December 17, “A New Sail-Backed Styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any dinosaur of the clade Ankylopollexia


styracosternan

The recognition of Morelladon beltrani gen. et sp. nov. indicates that the Iberian Peninsula was home to a highly diverse medium to large bodied styracosternan assemblage during the Early Cretaceous.

Any dinosaur of the taxon †Styracosterna.


Arabian horse

A breed of horse that originated on the Arabian Peninsula characterised by a refined, wedge-shaped head, broad forehead, large eyes, large nostrils and small muzzle.


dairy cow

The Holstein Friesian is an excellent dairy cow. [breed]

He runs a herd of dairy cows, including his own bulls. [cattle beast]

Mastitis impairs a dairy cow’s output. [lactating female]

Any breed of cow bred for the ability to produce large quantities of milk, from which dairy products are made; an individual cattle beast of such a breed; especially, a female cow who has calved and lactated.


brown woolly monkey

brown woolly monkey (plural brown woolly monkeys)

A woolly monkey found in South America, taxonomic name Lagothrix lagotricha.


karrkaratul

(Australia) a type of marsupial mole found in deserts of Western Australia (Notoryctes caurinus).


foxface

(colloquial) A rabbitfish with prominent facial stripes.


bargoose

Tadorna tadorna
Tadorna tadorna#Translingual

(dated, UK, dialect, Southern England) The common shelduck, Tadorna tadorna.


cingulatan

In contrast, the success of the living pilosans and cingulatans was due to their occupation of relatively narrow niches, which allowed little space for the less specialized newcomers.

2006, David Whyte Macdonald, The Encyclopedia of Mammals:

As a result, in the past, pilosans, cingulatans, and pangolins were frequently combined in the no-longer-recognized order Edentata.

2011, Terry Vaughan, Mammalogy, page 148:

In contrast to what I perceive to be a lack of special similarity in the astragalocalcaneal complex of the Palaeanodonta and Pholidota, the palaeanodont and dasypodid cingulatan derived similarities of these two bones are extremely suggestive of a common ancestral pattern.

2013, Max Hecht, Major Patterns in Vertebrate Evolution, page 352:

(rare) A mammal of the order Cingulata (including the armadillos and other extinct species).


panine

However, if Sahelanthropns tchadensis is considered to be a panine, it is the oldest (lower Pliocene from northern Chad, 7 MYA).

2006, Guillaume Lecointre, The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification, page 501:

The first will give us, amongst others, the gibbon (hylobatides), the second, the orangutan (pongides), the third, the family of the gorilla, the chimpanzee, the bonobo (panines), and finally, Homo sapiens (hominids), the only permanent biped.

2006, Jean Abitbol, Odyssey of the Voice, page 25:

I have previously pointed out that while there is an obvious difference in the pelves between panines and hominines, there are also differences in the usual number of lumbar vertebrae, so in the position of the sacrum.

2009, Èva Bodzsár, New Perspectives and Problems in Anthropology, page 5:


rupicaprine

An excellent indication of this fact is the absence in Pityusic Pleistocene sites of the rupicaprine Myotragus, which is so frequent in the ossiferous Quaternary breccia of Mallorca and Menorca.

1984, K. Kuhbièr, Biogeography and Ecology of the Pityusic Islands, page 117:

The caprines, apart from rupicaprines and Saigini have been included by Schaller (1977) in the category 'selective grazer and browser; uses several vegetation types; seasonal diet change; large home area' of Jarman's (1974) classification.

1994, Y. P. S. Pangtey, High Altitudes of the Himalaya:

These two very distinct genera appear to form a convenient bridge between the antelopes on the one hand and the rupicaprines on the other.

2012, Hiroaki Soma, The Biology and Management of Capricornis and Related Mountain Antelopes:

A mammal of the genus Rupicapra; a chamois.


blue catfish

blue catfish (plural blue catfishes or blue catfish)

blue catfishes (plural)
blue catfish (plural)

A very large freshwater catfish native from central North America south to Central America, os species Ictalurus furcatus


zorillo

We saw also a couple of Zorillos, or skunks,--odious animals, which are far from uncommon. In general appearance the Zorillo resembles a polecat, but it is rather larger, and much thicker in proportion. Conscious of its power, it roams by day about the open plain, and fears neither dog nor man. If a dog is urged to the attack, its courage is instantly checked by a few drops of the fetid oil, which brings on violent sickness and running at the nose. Whatever is once polluted by it, is for ever useless. Azara says the smell can be perceived at a league distant; more than once, when entering the harbour of Monte Video, the wind being off shore, we have perceived the odour on board the "Beagle." Certain it is, that every animal most willingly makes room for the Zorillo.

1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:


brown bullhead

Ameiurus nebulosus
Ameiurus nebulosus#Translingual

A catfish native to eastern North America, Ameiurus nebulosus.


flathead catfish

flathead catfish (plural flathead catfish)

A large freshwater catfish native to North America, Pylodictis olivaris.


walking catfish

walking catfish (plural walking catfishes or walking catfish)

walking catfishes (plural)
walking catfish (plural)

A Southeast Asian catfish that can breathe air and move on land using its pectoral fins, Clarias batrachus


xenotyphlopid

Reptile categories were (1) turtles and tortoises, (2) typhlopid and xenotyphlopid snakes, (3) lamprophiid snakes, (4) iguanid lizards, (5) geckos, (6) skinks, (7) gerrhosaurids, and (8) chameleons.

2016 January 7, “Spatial Biodiversity Patterns of Madagascar's Amphibians and Reptiles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


lesser kestrel

Falco naumanni
Falco naumanni#Translingual


Egyptian goose

Alopochen aegyptiaca
Alopochen aegyptiaca#Translingual

A goose of the species Alopochen aegyptiaca.


hooded skunk

A skunk native to Mexico and the southwestern US, Mephites macroura


eastern spotted skunk

eastern spotted skunk (plural eastern spotted skunks)

A species of spotted skunk native to the eastern US, Spilogale putorius


western spotted skunk

western spotted skunk (plural western spotted skunks)

A spotted skunk of species Spilogale gracilis, native to southern British Columbia, western US, and northern Mexico.


hydrophobia skunk

hydrophobia skunk (plural hydrophobia skunks)

western spotted skunk
western spotted skunk

(Southwestern US, dated) The western spotted skunk, Spilogale gracilis, at one time thought to be invariable carriers of rabies.


hydrophobia cat

hydrophobia cat (plural hydrophobia cats)

(Southwestern US, dated) The western spotted skunk, Spilogale gracilis, at one time thought always to carry rabies.


Leonberger

A dog of a large, muscular breed with a black mask on the face.


tursiop

After the detection of a whistle, the localization of the tursiop is performed comparing the sound direction and the arrival time for each detection unit.

2016 January 21, “A Permanent Automated Real-Time Passive Acoustic Monitoring System for Bottlenose Dolphin Conservation in the Mediterranean Sea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(rare, nonstandard) A bottlenose dolphin (of the genus Tursiops).


black partridge

black partridge (plural black partridges)

The black partridge is very noisy during the spring, which corresponds with its breeding season, and calls loud and incessantly in the morning, at midday, and sometimes even at night; the painted partridge has a pleasant chirping note; the chukar is another noisy bird; its call-note is fully described by Hume.

1892, Ram Bramha Sanyal, A Hand-book of the Management of Animals in Captivity in Lower Bengal:

Melanoperdix niger
Melanoperdix niger#Translingual

A small partridge of Southeast Asia (Melanoperdix niger).


koala lemur

The extinct koala lemurs (Megaladapis) were much larger than their extant relatives, the nocturnal sportive lemurs (Lepilemur), but they resembled the latter in diet (leaves) and commitment to life in the trees.

2005, Mcgraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology 2005, page 188:

The koala lemurs are much larger than the sportive lemurs (Lepilemuridae) and the Lemuridae, both of which have been considered their sister clades. Koala lemurs resembled sportive lemurs in their dental morphology and diet of leaves.

2006, Laurie R. Godfrey, William L. Jungers, Gary T. Schwarz, “Chapter Three: Ecology and Extinction of Madagascar's Subfossil Lemurs”, in Lisa Gould, M. L. Sauther, editors, Lemurs: Ecology and Adaptation, page 43:

As primary folivores, it seems highly unlikely that the koala lemurs were major players in seed dispersal.

2007, L. R. Godfrey et al., “Ghosts and Orphans”, in John G Fleagle, Christopher C. Gilbert, editors, Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins, page 373:

Any of three extinct species of lemur of †Megaladapis, the sole genus of the family †Megaladapidae, which were endemic to Madagascar until circa 1280–1420 CE.


trumpeter crane

trumpeter crane (plural trumpeter cranes)

(rare, dated) Any of several large waders, including the whooping crane, the sandhill crane, and various egrets and trumpeters.


goldspink

Carduelis carduelis
Carduelis carduelis#Translingual

(obsolete) A European goldfinch, Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis).


wood nuthatch

Sitta europaea
Sitta europaea#Translingual

A nuthatch of the species Sitta europaea.


Eurasian nuthatch

Eurasian nuthatch (plural Eurasian nuthatches)


little egret

Egretta garzetta
Egretta garzetta#Translingual

A species of egret, Egretta garzetta, family Ardeidae, widely distributed throughout the Old World, the Caribbean, and Eastern North America.


sociable plover

sociable plover (plural sociable plovers)

Vanellus gregarius
Vanellus gregarius#Translingual


white-tailed plover

white-tailed plover (plural white-tailed plovers)

Vanellus leucurus
Vanellus leucurus#Translingual

Vanellus leucurus, a marshland species of central Asia.


spur-winged plover

spur-winged plover (plural spur-winged plovers)

Vanellus spinosus
Vanellus spinosus#Translingual

Vanellus spinosus, a plover of the eastern Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa.

Vanellus miles
Vanellus miles#Translingual

(Australia) Vanellus miles, the masked lapwing.


spur-winged lapwing

spur-winged lapwing (plural spur-winged lapwings)


sociable lapwing

sociable lapwing (plural sociable lapwings)


white-tailed lapwing

white-tailed lapwing (plural white-tailed lapwings)

Vanellus leucurus, a marshland bird species of central Asia.


Zapata wren

Ferminia cerverai, a medium-sized greyish-brown bird of Cuba.


zenaida dove

Any of the genus Zenaida of American doves.


Zapata sparrow

Torreornis inexpectata, a medium-sized grey and yellow bird of Cuba.


lampuka

From Maltese lampuka, from Sicilian lampuca.


spotless starling

spotless starling (plural spotless starlings)

Sturnus unicolor
Sturnus unicolor#Translingual

Sturnus unicolor, a passerine bird in the starling family Sturnidae.


common wood pigeon

common wood pigeon (plural common wood pigeons)

Columba palumbus
Columba palumbus#Translingual

A wood pigeon of species Columba palumbus.


Eurasian collared dove

Eurasian collared dove (plural Eurasian collared doves)

Streptopelia decaocto
Streptopelia decaocto#Translingual

Streptopelia decaocto, usually shortened to collared dove


European turtle dove

European turtle dove (plural European turtle doves)

Streptopelia turtur
Streptopelia turtur#Translingual

A bird of the species Streptopelia turtur.


unenlagiid

Although megaraptoran and unenlagiid theropods are also thought to have played an important role as medium to large-size predators, we were not able to include them in our analysis due to the small number of occurrences.

2016 February 2, “The “χ” of the Matter: Testing the Relationship between Paleoenvironments and Three Theropod Clades”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any theropod dinosaur of the genus Unenlagia


variable squirrel

variable squirrel (plural variable squirrels)

The fur colour of these animals is extremely variable.

Finlayson's squirrel
Finlayson's squirrel


hydrophiine

(zoology) Any sea snake of the subfamily Hydrophiinae


Finlayson's squirrel

Finlayson's squirrel (plural Finlayson's squirrels)

Named after George Finlayson, a Scottish surgeon and naturalist.

Callosciurus finlaysonii, an Asian squirrel.


fierce snake

A highly venomous snake, Oxyuranus microlepidotus.


monocled cobra

Naja kaouthia, a cobra of south and south-east Asia.


changeable lizard

changeable lizard (plural changeable lizards)

Calotes versicolor, an Asian agamid that can camouflage itself by changing colour.


Polynesian rat

Rattus exulans
Rattus exulans#Translingual

Rattus exulans, the third most numerous species of rat on Earth.


butterbutt

yellow-rumped warbler
yellow-rumped warbler

(colloquial) The yellow-rumped warbler (Setophaga coronata), a North American bird species with a conspicuous yellow rump.


Burmese snub-nosed monkey

Burmese snub-nosed monkey (plural Burmese snub-nosed monkeys)

Myanmar snub-nosed monkey
Myanmar snub-nosed monkey#English


roulroul

From the misspelling "roulroul" in George Robert Gray's 1844 publication List of the Specimens of Birds in the Collection of the British Museum, from a misinterpretation of "Le Rouloul de Malacca" as an instance of reduplication in Giovanni Antonio Scopoli's Deliciae florae et faunae Insubricae, seu novae, aut minus cognitae species plantarum et animalium quas in Insubria Austriaca, tam spontaneas quam exoticas vidit, descripsit, from "Rouloul de Malacca" (plate 100) and its description (pages 174 and 175) in Pierre Sonnerat's 1872 Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine, fait par ordre du roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781, from the Malayic onomatopoeic rendition of one of the bird's calls.

Rollulus rouloul
Rollulus rouloul#Translingual

A gamebird in the pheasant family, the crested partridge (Rollulus rouloul).


Greenland cod

Gadus ojac Rich. (d. s.)—Greenland cod-fish; ojac or ovak (Greenland). Polar regions.

1873, United States Bureau of Fisheries, Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, U.S. Government Printing Office:

Greenland cods have been observed to perform migrations over 1000 km, northeastern Atlantic cod, 800-900 km, while cod of the North Sea, the Channel, and the Irish Sea undertake migrations of lesser magnitude.

1990, Daniel M. Cohen, Gadiform Fishes of the World:

The Greenland cod (Gadus ogac) is often called rock cod in Newfoundland and Labrador.

2007, George A. Rose, Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fisheries:

A species of ray-finned fish in the cod family, (Gadus macrocephalus ogac, syn. Gadus ogac).


ogac

From an Inuit language. Compare Inuktitut ᐆᒐᖅ (oocaq), Greenlandic uuaq, uugaq (“cod”).

The shore fish which were brought to us by Indians from Old Sitka were always dark-colored, with long heads and eyes far apart, and with conspicuous blotches, in general appearance often resembling the small cod taken in shallow water off South Greenland—the ogac form of the common cod.

1881, Proceedings of the American Fisheries Society, volume 10, page 25:

[…] and in this part of the year he then concentrated on collecting and studying trematodes from fishes, the few fish species customarily caught through holes in the ice for consumption, mainly the father lasher and the ogac.

1976, Ornithological observations in Southern Peary Land, North Greenland, 1973, volume 205, page 10:

The ogac most closely resembles the Atlantic cod […]

1992, Brian W. Coad, Guide to the marine sport fishes of Atlantic Canada and New England:

The oceanic-demersal assemblage includes fishes living on or close to ocean-bottom substrates. The ogac, ribbed sculpin, spatulate sculpin, shorthorn sculpin, spinyhook sculpin, archer eelpout, pale eelpout, and daubed shanny are included in this assemblage.

2011, Chukchi Sea Planning Area: Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193 in the Chukchi Sea, Alaska: Revised Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, DIANE Publishing:


spotted flycatcher

spotted flycatcher (plural spotted flycatchers)

Muscicapa striata
Muscicapa striata#Translingual

A small passerine bird found in Europe, Asia, and Africa, Muscicapa striata.


cettiid

Trochocercus and Terpsiphone are now known to be unrelated to the muscicapid flycatchers of the preceding two plates, whereas Erythrocercus is a cettiid warbler, and Elminia and Stenostira are in a separate family allied to the warblers.

2012, Ian Sinclair, Sasol Birds of Southern Africa:

Of or pertaining to the warbler family Cettiidae.


grasshopper warbler

grasshopper warbler (plural grasshopper warblers)

Notoriously hard to see, the grasshopper warbler tends to throw its voice over long distances, while it stays out of sight.

Locustella naevia
Locustella naevia#Translingual

Any of a number of species of small songbirds in the genera Locustella and Helopsaltes, especially Locustella naevia.


reed warbler

A. arundinaceus
Acrocephalus arundinaceus

Any of various similar Old World birds of the same genus, especially great reed warbler (A. arundinaceus) and clamorous reed warbler (A. stentoreus).


pin-tailed sandgrouse

pin-tailed sandgrouse (plural pin-tailed sandgrouses)

Pterocles alchata
Pterocles alchata#Translingual

Pterocles alchata, a bird in the sandgrouse family.


black-bellied sandgrouse

black-bellied sandgrouse (plural black-bellied sandgrouses)

Pterocles orientalis
Pterocles orientalis#Translingual

Pterocles orientalis, a bird in the sandgrouse family.


ghost flathead

Any of various fishes in the genus Hoplichthys.


Pallas's sandgrouse

Pallas's sandgrouse (plural Pallas's sandgrouses)

Syrrhaptes paradoxus
Syrrhaptes paradoxus#Translingual

Syrrhaptes paradoxus, a bird in the sandgrouse family.


ghost catshark

Apristurus manis, a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae.


ghost bat

Named for the extremely thin membrane of its wings, giving a ghostly appearance at night.

A bat of any of the species of genus Diclidurus of the tropical Americas.


ghost catfish

Kryptopterus vitreolus, a small catfish endemic to Thailand and popular in the aquarium trade.


ghost knifefish

ghost knifefish (plural ghost knifefishes or ghost knifefish)

ghost knifefishes (plural)
ghost knifefish (plural)

Any of the family Apteronotidae of ray-finned fishes in the order Gymnotiformes.


knifefish

knifefish (plural knifefishes or knifefish)

Any of numerous fish with knife-shaped bodies, from several different families.


ghost skate

Rajella dissimilis, a rajid fish of Namibia and South Africa.


hyliota

Any of several species of passerine birds in the genus Hyliota, found in Africa.


blackstart

From black + start; in the sense of a bird, due to the analogy of redstart.

A bird (Oenanthe melanura) in the chat family, found in desert regions of the Middle East and North Africa.


California quail

California quail (plural California quails)

Callipepla californica
Callipepla californica#Translingual

A quail native to California and areas of neighboring states, but introduced elsewhere (Callipepla californica).


jacky winter

From jacky + winter, imitative of its call.

A bird (Microeca fascinans) in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae.


bill bird

William Dampier (1729) chapter II, in A Collection Of Voyages: Volume III, London: James and John Knapton, page 402: “The Greater Bill-bird or Toucan. It's Breast is bright Gold, the Belly and Thighs red, Tail black tipt with red.”

Alan Tennant (2010) On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon, New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN: “Protected as Belize's national "bill bird," the keel-billed toucan occupies a safeguarded riparian habitat that also preserves the home of every howler monkey, crested guan, and hickatee river turtle that lives along the watercourse.”


alethinophidian

Any snake of the infraorder Alethinophidia


swee

A finch of species Coccopygia melanotis, found in sub-Saharan Africa.


Atlantic spotted dolphin

Atlantic spotted dolphin (plural Atlantic spotted dolphins)

A dolphin of species Stenella frontalis, found in the Gulf Stream of the North Atlantic Ocean.


black salmon

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha#Translingual

The chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, native to the Pacific.


macrostomatan

The unique adaptations for the snake skull for ingesting large prey in more primitive macrostomatan snakes have been well documented.

2016 February 18, “Are Diet Preferences Associated to Skulls Shape Diversification in Xenodontine Snakes?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


diamond bird

A spotted pardalote (Pardalotus punctatus).


pantropical spotted dolphin

pantropical spotted dolphin (plural pantropical spotted dolphins)

Stenella attenuata, a dolphin found in temperate and tropical oceans.


spotted pardalote

spotted pardalote (plural spotted pardalotes)

Pardalotus punctatus, a very small Australian bird.


eastern wolf

The wolf is found in the eastern United States.

Canis lycaon, a fertile hybrid pseudo-species of wolf resulting from the crossbreeding of gray wolves with coyotes, whose contributions to the eastern wolf genome is roughly 75% to 25%, respectively; which is found on the East Coast and Great Lakes regions of the United States.


long-footed potoroo

long-footed potoroo (plural long-footed potoroos)

Potorous longipes, a large potoroo of southeastern Australia.


long-nosed potoroo

long-nosed potoroo (plural long-nosed potoroos)

Potorous tridactylus, an Australian potoroo with an elongated pointed rostral region.


fancy rat

Rattus norvegicus
Rattus norvegicus#Translingual

A domesticated brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), common as a pet.


percine

The Percines, or typical perches, are recognizable by the elongated form of the body, and the numerous spines of the first or spinous dorsal fin

1867, United States Dept. of Agriculture, “Economical American Freshwater Fishes”, in Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1866, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 405:


plumed partridge

plumed partridge (plural plumed partridges)

Oreortyx pictus
Oreortyx pictus#Translingual


mountain quail

mountain quail (plural mountain quails or mountain quail)

mountain quails (plural)
mountain quail (plural)

Oreortyx pictus, a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family.


mohua

Mohoua ochrocephala, a small insectivorous passerine bird endemic to the South Island of New Zealand.


black howler

A species of New World monkey, Alouatta caraya


catlet

One of these was the large-scaled yellowfish, another the barred minnow, and also the small rock catlet.

1978, Dale Kenmuir, A Wilderness Called Kariba: The Wildlife and Natural History of Lake Kariba, page 36:


doglet

(nonstandard, rare) A young or small dog.


doggo

Around the same time, “wholesome” memes of cute doggos and puppers rejuvenated social media feeds that seemed daily filled with fresh horrors.

2019, Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:

A note of caution to readers with pets: Xylitol is toxic to dogs and can have potentially life-threatening effects. As owners of two doggos ourselves, we encourage anyone with a dog to use extreme caution when bringing xylitol into your home.

2019, Matt Dorsey, Jenny Dorsey, Healthy Cocktails, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

‘It's OK, you're allowed out here. There haven't been any other doggos in this garden since…’ He shrugged. ‘I dunno, forever.’ His grandmother hadn't had a dog, and she'd lived in the cottage for decades. ‘Doggos?’ he said out loud. ‘Did I just say “doggos”?’

2020, Liz Davies, The Summer of Falling in Love, Lilac Tree Books:


houting

Coregonus oxyrinchus, an allegedly extinct European whitefish in the Salmonidae family.


culpeo

Borrowed from Spanish (zorro) culpeo, from Mapudungun culpeu.

Lycalopex culpaeus
Lycalopex culpaeus#Translingual

A canid of species (Lycalopex culpaeus), native to the Andes region of South America.


red turtle dove

red turtle dove (plural red turtle doves)

Streptopelia tranquebarica
Streptopelia tranquebarica#Translingual

A small bird, Streptopelia tranquebarica, a resident breeding bird in the tropics in the Indian subcontinent, with a range extending to Taiwan and the Philippines.


millerbird

A bird (Acrocephalus familiaris), an Old World warbler in the family Acrocephalidae.


hardim

The hardims are of an olive-green color shaded with black, and below a pale yellow.

1888, John Sterling Kingsley, The Riverside Natural History, volume 3, page 414:

The Stellio, sometimes called the Hardim by the Arabs, is a well-known Lizard inhabiting Northern Africa, Syria, and Greece.

1898, John George Wood, Animate Creation: Popular Edition of "Our Living World," a Natural History, volume 5:

(obsolete) Synonym of stellion (a kind of lizard)


masked lapwing

Vanellus miles
Vanellus miles#Translingual

A large, common and conspicuous species of lapwing native to Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea, Vanellus miles.


lundehund

From Norwegian lundehund, compound of lunde (“puffin”) and hund (“dog”).

a spitz dog originating in Norway, traditionally used for hunting puffin.


palm civet

Any of various species of civet, principally in the Paradoxurinae subfamily.

brown palm civet

Paradoxurus jerdoni and Macrogalidia musschenbroekii


masked palm civet

masked palm civet (plural masked palm civets)

A civet of species Paguma larvata, native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.


barley-bird

Any of several birds distinguished by their appearance in England at the time of barley-sowing.


purple martin

This practice of harbouring and protecting the purple martin does not appear to be of European origin, as the aboriginal Americans had adopted a similar practice from time immemorial.

1831, James Rennie, The Architecture of Birds, page 343:

The American purple martin (Progne purpurea) is a visitor to North America, where it arrives in February at New Orleans, and Boston towards the end of April.

1871, Samuel Orchart Beeton, Beeton's Dictionary of natural history, page 193:

Female and young purple martins are gray and black with some blue on the back.

2013, Bill Thompson, Southern Birds: Backyard Guide:

The largest North American swallow, Progne subis.


Kentish plover

Charadrius alexandrinus
Charadrius alexandrinus#Translingual

Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wader that breeds in a wide range, from southern Europe to Japan and in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the southern United States and the Caribbean, but not including Kent.


Montagu's harrier

Montagu's harrier (plural Montagu's harriers)

After George Montagu, British naturalist.

Circus pygargus
Circus pygargus#Translingual

A migratory bird of prey of the harrier family, Circus pygargus.


steenbras

Any of various fish of the sparid genus Lithognathus.


Pyrenean ibex

A recently extinct subspecies of the Iberian ibex (†Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica).


Moses sole

Pardachirus marmoratus, a small fish of the Red Sea.


lagerpetid

From the genus name Lagerpeton, from λαγώς (lagṓs, “hare”) + ἑρπετόν (herpetón, “reptile”).

(zoology) Any of the dinosauromorphs of the family Lagerpetidae.

lagerpétido

dinosauromorph of the family Lagerpetidae


twintail

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

From twin + tail. Sense 2 is a calque of Japanese ツインテール (tsuintēru).

A variety of goldfish with the tail divided into two parts.

(fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) Either of a pair of unbraided tails worn on the sides of the head; an unbraided pigtail.

(in the plural) A hairstyle with a pair of twintails; unbraided pigtails.


lingcod

From ling + cod, from its superficial resemblance to those two fish.

Ophiodon elongatus, a fish of the greenlings, of the family Hexagrammidae, native to the west coast of North America.


sea ruffe

sea ruffe (countable and uncountable, plural sea ruffe or sea ruffes)

Any of various species of saltwater fish in various families, or a specimen thereof, some species in the genus Sebastiscus.


sea-ruff

A sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, inhabiting most European coasts, including the Mediterranean


Puissance

Puissance (countable and uncountable, plural Puissances)

(equestrianism) Alternative letter-case form of puissance.


belted kingfisher

belted kingfisher (plural belted kingfishers)

The jaunty wood-duck smiled and bowed;
The belted kingfisher laughed aloud,

1883, Maurice Thompson, “The Death of the White Heron”, in Songs of Fair Weather:

It is called a belted kingfisher because of the blue-gray band across the breast of the male, with an additional reddish band below the blue-gray one on females.

1999, George Wilby Scotter, Edgar T. Jones, Tom J. Ulrich, Birds of the Canadian Rockies, Fifth House Publishers, page 82:

Megaceryle alcyon, a North American species of kingfisher.


armed bullhead

Agonus cataphractus, a fish covered in hard bony plates.


lorisoid

Any loris or galago of the superfamily Lorisoidea


Ladoga ringed seal

Ladoga ringed seal (plural Ladoga ringed seals)

A freshwater subspecies of the ringed seal, which are found entirely in Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia, Pusa hispida ladogensis.


snow partridge

A bird of species Lerwa lerwa in the pheasant family Phasianidae, widely distributed across the high-altitude Himalayan regions of India, Pakistan, Nepal, and China.


tarsioid

Among the short-lived northerners were Metacheiromys, whose South American cousins survive today in the order of armadillos, anteaters and sloths, and the early primates — lemurs like Notharctus and tarsioids like Tetonius.

1953 October 19, Lincoln Barnett, “The Age of Mammals”, in LIFE, page 95:

The living Tarsius, of Southeast Asia, is a lone leftover of a once diverse group of small primates, the tarsioids, which flourished during the Eocene in Europe, Asia, and North America.

1989, Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas H. V. Rich, Mildred Adams Fenton, Carroll Lane Fenton, The Fossil Book: A Record of Prehistoric Life, Revised edition, page 553:

1991, Hominidae, entry in Joan C. Stevenson, Dictionary of Concepts in Physical Anthropology, page 201,
Cope derived anthropoids from an extinct fossil tarsioid; he suggested that apes and humans evolved from a prosimian and skipped the monkey stage. Hubrecht noted that tarsioids were different from lemurs and more like higher primates (monkeys, apes, and humans).

A tarsier or extinct relative; any member of the infraorder Tarsiiformes


driftfish

driftfish (plural driftfishes or driftfish)

Any of the family Nomeidae of perciform fishes found in tropical and subtropical waters throughout the world.


uruguaysuchid

The tooth (MFGI V 2015.90.2.1.) from the Albian Alsópere Bauxite Formation, western Hungary, however, is ziphodont and closely resembles that of some peirosaurid, non-baurusuchian sebecosuchian, and uruguaysuchid crocodyliforms—all of which have been united into a single clade, Notosuchia ( Sereno et al., 2001 ; Pol et al., 2014 ).

2015, Attila Ősi et al., “An enigmatic crocodyliform tooth from the bauxites of western Hungary suggests hidden mesoeucrocodylian diversity in the Early Cretaceous European archipelago”, in PeerJ, volume 3, →DOI:

Any crocodyliform of the family †Uruguaysuchidae.


hongeohoe

A Korean dish of fermented skate, known for its strong smell.


testudinoid

Clipping of translingual Testudinoidea. By surface analysis, Latin testūdō + -in- + -oid.

clipping

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

surf

The terrestrial mode of food uptake differs dramatically among and within the three testudinoid subgroups (see Bels, Davenport & Delheusy, 1997 ; Bels et al., 2008 ; Summers et al., 1998 ; Wochesländer, Hilgers & Weisgram, 1999 ; Natchev et al., 2009, present study).

2015, Nikolay Natchev et al., “Feeding behaviour in a ‘basal’ tortoise provides insights on the transitional feeding mode at the dawn of modern land turtle evolution”, in PeerJ, volume 3, →DOI:

Any turtle of the superfamily Testudinoidea.


euphonia

Other similar ♂ euphonias in range have yellow crown patches.

2009, Robert S. Ridgely, Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America: The Passerines:


mbuna

Borrowed from Tonga (Malawi) mbuna (“cichlid”).

The mbunas have suffered such local extinctions for a number of reasons. These include shifts in eating habits for the fisher folk who prefer eating mbunas and save the prime species for their market (in contrast to original beliefs that mbunas are not edible), habitate loss and fragementation leading to loss of breeding sites (especially along the western side of the arm where much development is taking place, for instance, the construction of resorts).

2014, Steve Donda, Fragmentation of Resource Management on the South East Arm of Lake Malawi: Dynamics Around Fisheries:

One of a group of haplochromine cichlids from Lake Malawi.


Jack Dempsey

Named after the American boxing champion Jack Dempsey (1895–1983), because of its aggressive nature and strong facial features.

Rocio octofasciata, a cichlid fish Native to Mexico and Honduras, but widely kept in aquaria and introduced elsewhere in the wild.


throstlecock

The wind so whirled a weathercock
He could not hold his tail up;
The frost so nipped a throstlecock,
He could not snap a snail up.

1962, J.R.R. Tolkien, “When Winter first begins to bite”, in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil:


cyprinodontiform

From the taxonomic name of the order, Cyprinodontiformes.

(zoology) Any fish in the order Cyprinodontiformes.


grandcat

From grand- + cat, by analogy with grandchild.

This cat—my daughter's cat and my grandcat—arrived here weeks ago, caged and collared and thoroughly citified.

2004, Ellen Goodman, “A Sense of Place”, in Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

I'm heading to GR tomorrow to bring the cat to Mom/Maurice for a couple of weeks. I'm heading to Tokyo the week of July 11, so they have to take care of their grandcat!

2006 July 1, Barbie Root, “July 2006”, in Life After Katrina: A Family's Story of Trial and Triumph, [Mustang, Okla.]: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, published 2009, →ISBN, page 325:

(humorous, endearing) A cat owned by one's child (especially when the latter is adult); a cat having a status comparable to a grandchild.


spoodle

Synonym of cockapoo (“cross between an American cocker spaniel and a miniature poodle”)


woodhewer

A loud series of descending whistles from the dark shadows was an ivory-billed woodhewer; and an explosive song in the undergrowth, a gray-breasted wood wren.

1955, Roger Tory Peterson, James Fisher, Wild America, →ISBN:

In the two American families of tyrant-birds and woodhewers, neither of which are songsters, there is in some of the closely-related species a remarkable family resemblance in their voices.

2011, William Henry Hudson, Birds and Man, →ISBN, page 22:

If they differed, then the woodhewer feature was not a climbing adaptation. Difficulties with this method are illustrated by examination of the toe arrangement in the two groups, anisodactyl in the woodhewers and zygodactyl in the woodpeckers, but both are clearly adapted for climbing on vertical surfaces (Bock and de W. Miller, 1959).

2013, Max Hecht, Major Patterns in Vertebrate Evolution, →ISBN, page 60:

Any of various passerines of subfamily Dendrocolaptinae, found in South America and Central America having a curved bill, stiff tail feathers, and which feed like woodpeckers; a woodcreeper.


olive baboon

From the greenish-grey colour of its fur.

A study of Kenyan olive baboon troops by Margaret Crofoot and her team at the University of California, Davis, considered first the patterns made on a map by the animals' movements […].

2016 November, Richard Smyth, “Bird's-Eye Watching”, in Literary Review:

A subspecies of savannah baboon, Papio hamadryas anubis, found in highland areas of East Africa.


imbabala

A bushbuck (Tragelaphus sylvaticus), one of two species, ranging more into southern and eastern Africa than the other species, the harnessed bushbuck


Icelandic horse

en-noun

Icelandic horse (plural Icelandic horses)

A horse of a small, hardy breed developed from ponies taken to Iceland by Norse settlers in the 9th and 10th centuries.


stirrup iron

The metal hoop on a stirrup, in which a horserider's foot is inserted when mounted in the saddle.


toothcarp

toothcarp (plural toothcarps or toothcarp)

Any of the minnow-like toothed fish of the order Cyprinodontiformes


stud horse

From Middle English *studhors, *stode-hors, from Old English stōdhors, from Proto-West Germanic *stōdahross, equivalent to stud + horse. Cognate with Middle High German stuotros. Compare German Stutpferd.

A stallion; a male horse kept as a stud.


Semon's roundleaf bat

Semon's roundleaf bat (plural Semon's roundleaf bats)

Semon's leaf-nosed bat
Semon's leaf-nosed bat#English


Semon's leaf-nosed bat

Semon's leaf-nosed bat (plural Semon's leaf-nosed bats)

Named for German zoologist Richard Semon.

Hipposideros semoni, a bat in the family Hipposideridae, found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.


euryapsid

Marine reptiles of the Mesozoic belong to the group known as the euryapsids, which are characterized by an opening in the skull high above the cheek region.

2013, Ronald Martin, Earth's Evolving Systems: The History of Planet Earth, page 438:

An animal belonging to the taxonomic subclass Euryapsida of the class Reptilia.


Tanimbar corella

Tanimbar corella (plural Tanimbar corellas)

Cacatua goffiniana
Cacatua goffiniana#Translingual

Cacatua goffiniana, a near-threatened species of cockatoo endemic to forests of certain islands of the Tanimbar Islands archipelago of Indonesia.


Goffin's cockatoo

Goffin's cockatoo (plural Goffin's cockatoos)

Tanimbar corella
Tanimbar corella#English


bush rat

The noise ceased the moment I crawled into the attic, but something was rotten in the roof, and a putrid smell and pyramids of chewed cardboard suggested that possums or bush rats had nested in boxes stacked with the previous owner's red and yellow moodscapes.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 18

(Australia) Any of various rat-sized rodents and marsupials, especially local species of Rattus.


rock rat

Certain members of the subfamily Murinae in the family Muridae, those in:

Petromyscus, a southwestern African genus in the subfamily Petromyscinae of the family Nesomyidae (more frequently referred to as rock mice)

Aconaemys, a genus in Argentina and Chile, of the family Octodontidae:

Petromus, an African genus often called dassie rats, of the family Petromuridae

Laonastes, a genus from Laos, of the family Diatomyidae


birb

The here-then-gone-then-here-again appearance of the #birb (as Twitter loves to lovingly refer to pretty, pretty birdies) plus the internet’s instant oatmeal obsession with him inspired WIRED’s Paris Martineau to propose a different nickname for the fowl: duckboi

2018 October 10, Emily Dreyfuss, “Glamour Duck and the Internet's Rabid Love of Wild Animals”, in WIRED:

Violent or unseemly behavior doesn’t disqualify a bird from birbness: the aggression of hummingbirds […] and brain-eating of Great Tits are immaterial to their round fluffiness. You could post a picture of any of these on reddit under "murder birb" and nobody would blink.

2019 December 12, Asher Elbein, “When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide”, in Audubon:

(Internet slang, childish, humorous) A bird, especially a small and cute one.


ptilocerque

The Ptilocerque, which is an inhabitant of Borneo and Sarawak, is between five and six inches long, with a tail rather longer than the body.

1890, Grace Townsend, Friend and Foe from Field and Forest: A Natural History of the Mammalia:

pen-tailed treeshrew
pen-tailed treeshrew#English

(zoology, obsolete, rare) Synonym of pen-tailed treeshrew


wolf herring

wolf herring (plural wolf herrings or wolf herring)

wolf herrings (plural)
wolf herring (plural)

Any of the family Chirocentridae of marine ray-finned fish related to the herrings, with elongated jaws and sharp teeth.


zebra cichlid

Named from its black and white stripes, like those of a zebra.

Synonym of convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata)


trimac cichlid

A large cichlid, Cichlasoma trimaculatum.


Texas cichlid

Herichthys cyanoguttatus, a freshwater cichlid native to the United States, having cream and turquoise spots.


convict cichlid

convict cichlid (plural convict cichlids)

Its stripes are supposed to resemble a prison uniform.

Amatitlania nigrofasciata, a cichlid fish native to Central America, with black and white stripes.


corocoro

Mesembrinibis cayennensis
Mesembrinibis cayennensis#Translingual

A bird, the green ibis, Mesembrinibis cayennensis.


that old dog won't hunt

that dog won't hunt
that dog won't hunt#English


cedarbird

Bombycilla cedrorum
Bombycilla cedrorum#Translingual


cedar waxwing

A medium-sized passerine bird native to North and Central America (Bombycilla cedrorum).


flowerhorn

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

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

A brightly-coloured ornamental cichlid with a distinctive nuchal hump.


tragelaph

Any member of the genus Tragelaphus of spiral-horned antelopes.


hoplo

(informal, aquarium trade) Any of the catfish genus Hoplosternum.


hassar

Hoplosternum littorale, an edible South American catfish.


woodswallow

Any of the Artamidae, a family of soft-plumaged, somber-coloured passerine birds.


jungle crow

Corvus macrorhynchos, a large-billed crow of Asia.


keb

en-verb

keb (third-person singular simple present kebs, present participle kebbing, simple past and past participle kebbed)

kebs (present singular third-person)
kebbing (participle present)
kebbed (participle past)
kebbed (past)

(Northern England, dialect) Of a ewe, to abort a lamb.


keb

(Northern England, dialect) A still-born lamb.


yellow bittern

Ixobrychus sinensis
Ixobrychus sinensis#Translingual

Ixobrychus sinensis, a small bittern of Old World origin, breeding in the northern Indian Subcontinent, with a short neck and longish bill.


yellow bullhead

en-noun

yellow bullhead (plural yellow bullheads)

Any of species Ameiurus natalis of catfish, of central and eastern North America.


sthenurine

Any extinct marsupial of the subfamily †Sthenurinae.


spotted seal

A true seal, Phoca largha, inhabiting ice floes and waters of the north Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas.


turn of foot

So myth number one is that horses who finish fast in the final furlong are horses to follow because they possess a turn of foot.

2004, Alan Potts, Against the Crowd, →ISBN, page 23:

He had a turn of foot that could see him outsprint many a staying horse over the 2400 metres, but that was his limit.

The squareish track was flat and suited horses with a turn of foot, which exactly described the two runners that Brewer was sending there on the day following Matt's return from Sedgefield.

2009, Lyndon Stacey, Murder in Mind, →ISBN, page 155:

Meanwhile Charlie Bell reported the stable's latest acquisition: a very good jumper but, as far as he could determine to date, 'without a great turn of foot'.

2014, Peter O'Sullevan, Calling The Horses: A Racing Autobiography, →ISBN:

(horse racing) The ability to accelerate quickly.

A good deal of a horse's efforts at acceleration are dissipated by the surface. On grass, a turn of foot is a powerful weapon. On dirt or the All-weather it counts for very little.

2002, Nick Mordin, Betting for a Living, →ISBN, page 51:

He had failed to match the lightening turn of foot of Desert Destination, but was now eating up the ground and was almost up-sides.

2003, Paddy Cummins, Green Lodge, →ISBN, page 94:

He felt that, as he put him in a gallop, the estimated speed they were travelling at was forty miles an hour and his turn of foot was breathtaking.

2013, B. J. Newing, The Rawlinson Family Story, →ISBN, page 102:

The winner then found an impressive and immediate turn of foot to accelerate away from Nichols Canyon after the second-last, and he was full value for his healthy winning margin at the line.

2016 December 29, Greg Wood, “Petit Mouchoir on course for Champion Hurdle after Leopardstown victory”, in The Guardian:

(horse racing) A burst of speed in a horse race.


marbled eel

Any of various eels, most commonly the tropical eel (Anguilla marmorata), but also eels of other species:

Callechelys marmorata (marbled snake eel)

Mastacembelus vanderwaali (ocellated spiny eel, marbled spiny-eel)

Mastacembelus armatus (large spiny eel, marbled spiny eel)

Synbranchus marmoratus (marbled swamp eel, mottled swamp eel


were-elephant

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an elephant.


nunbird

Any bird in either the genus Monasa or the genus Hapaloptila.


monklet

A bird of the species Micromonacha lanceolata.


buteonine

(ornithology) Any bird in the accipitrid subfamily Buteoninae


lesser goldfinch

lesser goldfinch (plural lesser goldfinches)

Spinus psaltria
Spinus psaltria#Translingual

Spinus psaltria, a very small songbird of the Americas.


lesser crested tern

lesser crested tern (plural lesser crested terns)

Thalasseus bengalensis
Thalasseus bengalensis#Translingual

Thalasseus bengalensis, syn. Sterna bengalensis, a seabird of the tern family.


yeorling

I asked Thady a minute later what nests he knew of. "Galore," he answered, grinning. And then proceeded to enumerate them : " A lintie (a linnet), a green grosbeak (greenfinch), a Harry redcap (goldfinch), a yellow yeorling by the roadside, a scobby (chaffinch), a lavrock (skylark), a cushie-doo (a wood pigeon), a cutty wren (common wren), a nanny washtail (pied wagtail) in the rocks, and two tom-titers of sorts.

1905, Lady Catherine Henrietta Milnes Gaskell, Spring in a Shropshire Abbey, page 179:

The brock, the toad, and the yellow yeorling Get a drap o' the de'il's bluid ilka May morning.

1907, Country Life - Volume 21, page 376:

Then they listened to a yeorling and Will taught the child its song, "A little bit of bread and no che-e-ese.

1962, Henrietta Buckmaster, All the Living: A Novel of One Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, page 360:


lesser black-backed gull

lesser black-backed gull (plural lesser black-backed gulls)

a seabird and member of the gull family, genus Larus fuscus


little tern

Sternula albifrons
Sternula albifrons#Translingual


earth pig

Calque of Afrikaans aardvark (literally “earth-pig”), equivalent to earth + pig.

calque

In the high grassy plateaus, with their isolated groups of bushy shrubs, we find, together with the earth pigs and armadilloes mentioned above, two kinds of gazelles (Cephalophus mergens and Calotragus campestris).

1881, Land, sea and sky; or, Wonders of life and nature:

The curious ant-eaters (earth pigs and pangolins) are probably relics of an earlier fauna, which have survived owing to their nocturnal habits.

1893, Frederick Courteney Selous, Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa:

It may be in only an earth pig, or it may be in a leopard, and, quite providentially for the medical profession no layman can see his own soul — it is not as if it were connected with all earth pigs, or all leopards, as the case may be, but it is in one particular earth pig or leopard or other animal — so recourse must be had to medical aid when anything goes wrong with it.

1949, Harold Evans, Men in the Tropics: A Colonial Anthology, page 64:

Aardvarks also eat ants. African natives kill aardvarks to eat. But these “earth pigs” are not easy to catch. Although they look clumsy, they can run fast. They can bury themselves in the ground fast, too.

1959, Bertha Morris Parker, THE GOLDEN BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA:

Bahuchet (1985), who researched the Aka living in Central Africa, cites the earth pig, flying squirrel, and leopard as examples of avoided food animals.

2012, Bonnie L. Hewlett, Adolescent Identity: Evolutionary, Cultural and Developmental Perspectives:


zebuine

In addition to potential for fertility improvements in ruminants, for example decreasing the age of first-calving in zebuine cattle, there is sufficient genetic variability in feed intake, independent of liveweight and daily gain (Flachowsky and Brade 2007) to permit selection for this trait.

2012, Veerasamy Sejian, S.M.K. Naqvi, Thaddeus Ezeji, Environmental Stress and Amelioration in Livestock Production, →ISBN:

The tropical climate produces zebuine hides that are lighter and thinner than in Europe.

2015, Joseph Strasser, Bangladesh's Leather Industry, →ISBN, page 101:

The quantity of H. irritans per animal seems to be greater in taurine than in zebuine cows in Brazil, and size and color influence colonization.

2016, Carlos Brisola Marcondes, Arthropod Borne Diseases, →ISBN, page 478:


many-banded krait

en-noun

many-banded krait (plural many-banded kraits)

Bungarus multicinctus
Bungarus multicinctus#Translingual

Bungarus multicinctus, a highly venomous striped elapid snake found in central and southern China and Southeast Asia.


she-walrus

she-walrus (plural she-walruses or she-walrus)

she-walruses (plural)
she-walrus (plural)

The advice given always consists of certain things that the one threatened must not do, rules of conduct that coincide with the various ones before mentioned ; or also, a dietary may be prescribed, such, for instance, as that the person must not eat he-walrus and only certain portions of the she-walrus ; that all his food must be boiled, and so on.

1908, Knud Rasmussen, The people of the Polar north; a record, page 153:

Charlie Slowokok told us about the she-walrus's love for her young. On one occasion he had watched a she-walrus from a distance hugging her offspring between her fore-fins, breast feeding it and playing with it afterwards.

1964, Sven Gillsäter, Wave After Wave, page 70:

One day they joined some other kayakers, and went in pursuit of a very large she-walrus. Kunuk lanced it four times at a greater distance than usual, and his arrow went right through the animal, which, panting for breath, after a minute or two was quite dead.

2014, Hinrich Rink, Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo, page 139:


gray fox

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

Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Urocyon cinereoargenteus#Translingual

Urocyon cinereoargenteus, a carnivorous mammal of the family Canidae, ranging throughout most of the southern half of North America.


woggin

Unknown. Found from at least 1762 through the late 1800s, at first in reference to auks. Olson and Lund speculate it initially referred to auks, followed penguin in being applied to Southern penguins, and fell out of use for auks after they went extinct, and for penguins after being displaced by penguin; they say "Beane’s (1905: 88) rendering of the cry of a penguin as “wauk” suggests a possible onomatopoeic origin", or it may be connected to woggle (“wobble”), a word "used in connection with the great auk" (e.g. in a 1672 work by John Josselyn; and the 1885 Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York says early writers "quaintly called [auks] 'wobble-birds'").

at 1 PM Sent our Boat on Shore After Some refreshments She returned with A Plenty of Woggins we Cooked Some for Supper.

1792 December 20, Silvanus Crosby, logbook of the Asia, ship of Nantucket, Massachusetts, voyage of 1791–1794, quoted by Olson and Lund (see further reading)

It was accordingly done by the command of the Captain, when the woggin, in a stately manner, walked as, and showed signs of happiness and contentment. He was perfectly tame, would suffer the approach of any one of the crew, ...

1831, The Philadelphia Album and Ladies' Literary Port Folio, page 262:

One of the crew leaped upon the whale, and the woggin came fearlessly to his hand, and was taken on board. On holding a consultation, it was, determined to kill the strange bird and make a purse of his skin; but one, more humane than the [others, saved him].

The White man looked over his shoulder, and slowly wrinkled his leathem cheeks into an encouraging smile. 'Like ter near killed a woggin,' replied he sententiously. 'Will be ashore in a brace of shakes.' […]

1880, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature, page 519:

"And there's a bag full of woggins' hearts, which we can roast on sticks, and who doubts that we shall make a heart-y supper?"

1887, W. H. Macy, beyond Desolation, in Ballou's Monthly Magazine, pages 234-5

(obsolete, nautical, slang) A penguin (in the southern hemisphere).


North American wood ape

North American wood ape (plural North American wood apes)

(cryptozoology) A large hairy apelike, though upright walking, creature of North America; a Bigfoot.


simiid

(obsolete) A member of the Simiidae; a monkey or ape excluding lemurs and humans.


craseonycterid

However genetic data now indicate that the rhinolophoid microbats (rhinolophids, megadermatids, craseonycterids, hipposiderids, and rhinopomatids) are in fact more closely related to megabats than to other microbats.

2009, David MacDonald, The Encyclopedia of Mammals:

(zoology) Any bat of the family Craseonycteridae.


breaststrap

A piece of horse tack for preventing the saddle from slipping backwards.

Any of various garments made to enwrap a woman's breasts, but excluding brassieres and bikini tops.


Guianan cock-of-the-rock

Guianan cock-of-the-rock (plural Guianan cocks-of-the-rock)

A South American passerine bird of species Rupicola rupicola.


red-cockaded woodpecker

red-cockaded woodpecker (plural red-cockaded woodpeckers)

The male has a small red streak on each side of its black cap called a cockade.

Leuconotopicus borealis, a woodpecker of southeastern North America.


kaffir dog

Did she see a half-starved Kaffir dog look in at her kitchen door or crawl trembling towards the dresser, it was not "Furtseck," or "Get out," that she would cry, but "What a shame to starve that poor thing so!" and a piece of bread or meat was sure to be offered.

1882, Sarah Heckford, A Lady Trader in the Transvaal, page 61:

A stray kaffir dog, his skeleton showing clear through tight skin, lay in the pit of blue shade outside the veranda.

1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 276:

A type of hunting dog used by indigenous peoples in parts of southern Africa; (loosely), a mongrel dog.


hatchetfish

hatchetfish (plural hatchetfishes or hatchetfish)

hatchetfishes (plural)
hatchetfish (plural)

Any of several freshwater tropical fish of the family Gasteropelecidae


lanternshark

From lantern (“referring to their light-producing photophores”) + shark.

compound

A variety of features distinguish blackbelly lanternsharks from the other lanternsharks. These include the arrangement and number of their denticles, and subtle differences in fin size and coloration.

1997, Leighton R. Taylor, Sharks and Rays, page 192:

Any dogfish shark of the genus Etmopterus, or more widely, the family Etmopteridae.


paramacellodid

Clipping of translingual Paramacellodidae

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

Any extinct scincomorph lizard of the family Paramacellodidae


lepidogalaxiid

Any fish of the family Lepidogalaxiidae from Australia


widge

From Middle English wig, *wigge, from Old English wiċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *wigi, from Proto-Germanic *wigją, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to carry; move; transport; ride”).

der

But what liuinges ſoeuer he had, or hauing liuinges, how beastly ſoeuer he ſpared his money, and rode thether on his widge beaste.

1587, John Bridges, A Defence of the Government Established in the Church of Englande for Ecclesiasticall Matters.:

[addressing the narrator, named Widge] "I'm only going to see that he learns a lesson," said Nick innocently. "Now then. Widge, is it? You know what a widge is where I come from?"
My throat felt too tight to speak. I shook my head.
"A horse. I think I'll call you Horse, although I think you look more like an ass to me. […]"

1998, Gary Blackwood, The Shakespeare Stealer:


Judas steer

A steer that leads other cattle to a slaughterhouse.


Madagascar sea-eagle

en-noun

Madagascar sea-eagle (plural Madagascar sea-eagles)

Madagascan fish eagle
Madagascan fish eagle#English


Madagascar fish eagle

Madagascar fish eagle (plural Madagascar fish eagles)


Madagascan fish eagle

Madagascan fish eagle (plural Madagascan fish eagles)

Haliaeetus vociferoides
Haliaeetus vociferoides#Translingual

Haliaeetus vociferoides, a species of eagle native to the coastal strip in the northwest of Madagascar.


red-footed falcon

red-footed falcon (plural red-footed falcons)

Falco vespertinus
Falco vespertinus#Translingual

Falco vespertinus, a Eurasian bird of prey in the family Falconidae


cat squirrel

Farther up the bank was a stand of pecans where a cat squirrel was taking bites of green nuts and dropping them to the ground to rot.

2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 18:

eastern gray squirrel
eastern gray squirrel

Sciurus carolinensis
Sciurus carolinensis#Translingual

The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).


mudminnow

Any member of the family Umbridae of ray-finned freshwater fish found in temperate regions across the Northern Hemisphere.


melon-headed whale

melon-headed whale (plural melon-headed whales)

A cetacean of species Peponocephala electra, in the oceanic dolphin family Delphinidae.


Manchurian hare

Manchurian hare (plural Manchurian hares)

Lepus mandshuricus, a forest-dwelling hare found in northeastern China and Russia, the Amur River basin, and the higher mountains of northern Korea.


white-footed mouse

white-footed mouse (plural white-footed mice)

Peromyscus leucopus
Peromyscus leucopus#Translingual

An American rodent of species Peromyscus leucopus, a reservoir for Borrelia burgdorferi, the cause of Lyme disease.


osteostracan

Any extinct fish of the class Osteostraci


osteolepidid

(zoology) Any extinct sarcopterygian in the superorder Osteolepidida


lophosteiform

Any fossil fish of the family Lophosteiformes


psarolepid

Any extinct fish of the genus Psarolepis


thelodont

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

(zoology) Any extinct fish of the class Thelodonti, having small, spiny scales.


zubron

(uncommon) A hybrid between domestic cattle and wisent.

zubron

hybrid of the wisent and domestic cattle


New Zealand swan

en-noun

New Zealand swan (plural New Zealand swans)

Cygnus atratus sumnerensis, an extinct swan from the Chatham Islands and the South Island of New Zealand.


snail darter

A freshwater fish of species Percina tanasi, of the perch family, found in East Tennessee, United States.


Bachman's warbler

Bachman's warbler (plural Bachman's warblers)

Discovered in 1832 by the Reverend John Bachman.

Perhaps nothing speaks more vividly for the strangeness of the times than the fate of the lovely little Bachman's warbler. A native of the southern United States, the warbler was famous for its unusually lovely song, but its population numbers, never robust, gradually dwindled until by the 1930s the warbler vanished altogether and went unseen for many years.

2005, Bill Bryson, chapter 30, in A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition, page 593:

Vermivora bachmanii, a small passerine migratory bird of America. It was declared extinct in 2021.


Dorking

Thus, a poultry-breeder describes a hen (colored Dorking) crowing like a cock, only somewhat more harshly, as a cockerel crows, and with an enormous comb, larger than is ever seen in the male

1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):


Dartford

Dartford warbler
Dartford warbler#English

Sylvia undata
Sylvia undata#Translingual


Chianina

Unadapted borrowing from Italian chianina


Tasmanian emu

The were followed into oblivion by their neighbours the Tasmanian emus (diemenensis) some fifty years later.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 33:

An extinct subspecies of the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis, once endemic to Tasmania, where it had become isolated during the Late Pleistocene.


robust australopithecine

en-noun

robust australopithecine (plural robust australopithecines)

(paleontology) Any member of the species sometimes considered to belong to the genus Paranthropus.


gracile australopithecine

gracile australopithecine (plural gracile australopithecines)

(paleontology) Any member of the species belonging to the genus Australopithecus, excluding those sometimes considered to belong to the genus Paranthropus.


katoptron

splitfin flashlightfish
splitfin flashlightfish

splitfin flashlightfish (Anomalops katoptron)


scrub hare

Lepus saxatilis, a hare found in southern Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho. The fur on the dorsal side is grizzled-gray with small black spots; on the ventral side, it is all white.


slender shrew

Sorex gracillimus, a shrew found in northeastern North Korea, Hokkaidō, and the Russian Far East.


sea krait

A venomous semi-aquatic elapid snake of the genus Laticauda.


rain frog

(US) A tree frog, especially, a spring peeper.

common rain frog

Breviceps acutirostris or Breviceps adspersus


California smoothtongue

California smoothtongue (plural California smoothtongues)

A species of ray-finned fish native to the northeastern Pacific Ocean from British Columbia to Oregon, and the Gulf of California (Leuroglossus stilbius).


smoothtongue

Any of a number species of ray-finned fish of the taxonomic genus Leuroglossus


monkeyface eel

A species of prickleback native to the Pacific coast of North America (Cebidichthys violaceus).


monkeyface prickleback

monkeyface prickleback (plural monkeyface pricklebacks)

A prickleback of the eel-like species Cebidichthys violaceus, native to the Pacific coast of North America.


goldspotted killifish

goldspotted killifish (plural goldspotted killifish)

Any of species Floridichthys carpio of pupfish, native to the southeastern United States, Mexico and northern Central America.


North American freshwater catfish

North American freshwater catfish (plural North American freshwater catfish or North American freshwater catfishes)

North American freshwater catfish (plural)
North American freshwater catfishes (plural)

Any of the species of catfish native to North America, of the family Ictaluridae


southern cassowary

southern cassowary (plural southern cassowaries)

Casuarius casuarius
Casuarius casuarius#Translingual

A large flightless black bird, Casuarius casuarius.


Cape cobra

Naja nivea, a moderate-sized, highly venomous cobra inhabiting a wide variety of biomes across southern Africa.


bin chicken

So named from their habit of foraging in garbage bins in large cities.

Australian white ibis
Australian white ibis

Threskiornis molucca
Threskiornis molucca#Translingual

(Australia, colloquial, derogatory) Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca).


dwarf emu

Kangaroo Island emu
Kangaroo Island emu#English


Japanese mole

Mogera wogura, a solitary diurnal mole native to East Asia.


Kangaroo Island emu

Kangaroo Island emu (plural Kangaroo Island emus)

An extinct subspecies of emu (†Dromaius novaehollandiae baudinianus).


fainting goat

a breed of domestic goat characterised by a genetic disorder known as myotonia congenita, wherein the muscles freeze for roughly 3 seconds when the goat feels panic


yeen

(fandom slang, Internet slang, furry fandom) A hyena.


Svalbard reindeer

Svalbard reindeer (plural Svalbard reindeers or Svalbard reindeer)

Svalbard reindeers (plural)
Svalbard reindeer (plural)

a subspecies of reindeer found on the Svalbard archipelago; Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus


elephant trap

From elephant + trap, alluding to the fact that a trap for an elephant needs to be quite large, and so ought to be easily seen.

ref

From the collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.

Queen's Gambit Declined
Queen's Gambit Declined

(chess) Often in the form Elephant Trap: a faulty attempt by White to win a pawn in a popular variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined, which is generally only effective against inexperienced players.

parany de l'elefant

(chess) faulty attempt by White to win a pawn


Sumatran rhino

Dicerorhinus sumatrensis
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis#Translingual

(informal) Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)


Javan rhinoceros

en-noun

Javan rhinoceros (plural Javan rhinoceros or Javan rhinoceroses)

Javan rhinoceros (plural)
Javan rhinoceroses (plural)

A rhinoceros of species Rhinoceros sondaicus, in the family Rhinocerotidae.


trumpeter finch

trumpeter finch (plural trumpeter finches)

Bucanetes githagineus
Bucanetes githagineus#Translingual

A species of finch, Bucanetes githagineus, known for its buzzing nasal trill


rinatrix

From Late Latin rinatrix (in Bartholomaeus Anglicus), apparently a misreading of Lucan 9.720 et natrix (“and the water snake”).

Rinatrix is a Serpent which with enuenoming poysoneth ye water, so that into what cleare Fountaine or Riuer he swimmeth, he infecteth it.

Mountebank with thy pedantical action, / Rinatrix, bugle-ox, rhinoceros.

1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, I.1:

(obsolete) A type of water snake formerly thought to poison water.


pale-footed bush warbler

pale-footed bush warbler (plural pale-footed bush warblers)

Urosphena pallidipes, an Oriental warbler in the family Cettiidae, found in southern Asia.


hawsom

Borrowed from German Hausen (“sturgeon”).

They say that the hawsom fish in the Danube has been taken twenty-one feet in length; they come up from the Euxine sea in the spring as far as Buda to spawn.

1745, Richard Pococke, A Description of the East:


sand boa

Any of a number of snakes in subfamily Erycinae: genera Charina, Eryx, and Gongylophis


tree boa

A number of arboreal snakes in the family Boidae

A Madagascar tree boa (Sanzinia madagascariensis)


rainbow boa

A Central and South American snake with iridescent scales, Epicrates cenchria.


emerald tree boa

emerald tree boa (plural emerald tree boas)

A bright green, tree-dwelling South American snake in either of two species,

Corallus batesii (formerly considered a single species).


brown pelican

Pelecanus occidentalis
Pelecanus occidentalis#Translingual

Pelecanus occidentalis, a small pelican found in the Americas.


kokomo

Blyth's hornbill
Blyth's hornbill#English


windcuffer

From wind + cuffer, from cuff (“hit, slap”); compare windhover.

A windcuffer hovered overhead.

1980, Hamish M. Brown, Hamish's mountain walk: the first traverse, page 51:

An auld ram alone huddled against the wind, that had swept clear the skies even of eagle, windcuffer, and goose. The scent of saltwater rode the wind over the freshwater loch, and the dry field-grasses rattled,

2012, GMW Wemyss, Sensible Places: essays on place, time, & countryside →ISBN, in Wiltonshire, England), page 6

I was gorse on the track beaconing the way,
I was seal in the sea, braving the swell,
I was windcuffer mounting the bitter winds,
I was cloud billowing higher than Hoy.

2012, Caitlín Matthews (born in Portsmouth, England), Bone Song, in John Matthews, The Book of Celtic Verse: A Treasury of Poetry, Dreams & Visions →ISBN

(UK dialectal, originally Orkney, rare) The common kestrel.


woundfin

Probably wound + fin, because of a sharp point on its dorsal fin.

Plagopterus argentissimus, a slender, silvery minnow endemic to the Virgin River of the southwestern United States.


protacanthopterygian

Rosen (1973) separated the stomiiforms (= Stomiatoidei) from other protacanthopterygian groups, placing them as the sister-group of all other neoteleosts (Eurypterygii).

1996, Antony S. Harold, “Interrelationships of Stomiiform Fishes”, in Melanie L.J. Stiassny, editor, Interrelationships of Fishes, page 333:

(zoology) Of or from the superorder Protacanthopterygii of ray-finned fish.


neoteleostean

Fishes of the neoteleostean clade are characterized by (among other traits) the possession of a large muscle that extends posterodorsally from the upper pharyngeal jaw to the vertebral column, the retractor dorsalis.

1992, Richard L. Mayden, Systematics, Historical Ecology, and North American Freshwater Fishes:


stomiiform

(ichthyology) Of or from the order Stomiiformes of ray-finned fish.


ascalabotan

Scientists have made our work a bit easier by dividing living lizards into two major groups: the ascalabotans and the autarchoglossans.

1987, Arthur Rosenfeld, Exotic Pets, page 84:

(zoology) A squamate of the clade Ascalabota


autarchoglossan

Assemblages in mainland habitats that consist of species in different families and other higher order clades (e.g., those containing iguanians, gekkotans, and autarchoglossans) are much more complex.

2008, Laurie J. Vitt, Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles:

Autarchoglossan families, if anything, have shifted away from ants (at least adult ants) and tend, with one exception, to eat fairly large prey.

2006, Eric R. Pianka, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, page 46:


platynotid

Autotomy has such an obvious survival value that it is interesting to inquire why the ability to perform has been lost, reduced, or never gained in such groups as agamids, some iguanids, chameleons, a few geckos and skinks, and all platynotids.

1995, Ambika Prasad Diwan, Embryology of Reptiles, page 150:

Mosaursaurids^([sic]) are fossil marine lizards (DeBraga and Carroll, 1993) part of the varanoid (platynotid) clade within Anguimorpha (Lee, 1997).

2001, Hiran M. Dutta, Vertebrate Functional Morphology:

A member of the clade Platynota of anguimorph lizards.


yellowleg

Either of two species of shorebirds, of the genus Tringa, that have yellow legs


flop-eared

en-adj

flop-eared (comparative more flop-eared, superlative most flop-eared)

more flop-eared (comparative)
most flop-eared (superlative)

A buckboard with a patient flop-eared bay between shafts stood in front of ROOMS & EATS.

1963, Jack Schaefer, Monte Walsh, page 152:

Having ears that flop, having long ears which hang down loosely.


Black Forest horse

en-noun

Black Forest horse (plural Black Forest horses)

A draft horse of a rare breed originating in southern Germany. It has a dark chestnut coat with a flaxen mane and tail.


cuiui

A fish native to Pyramid Lake, the Truckee river and tributaries, Chasmistes cujus, which was an important food fish for the local Indians.


jumprock

jumprock (usually uncountable, plural jumprocks)

Any of a number of North American fish in the sucker genus Moxostoma


black cuckooshrike

black cuckooshrike (plural black cuckooshrikes)

Coracina melas
Coracina melas#Translingual

A New Guinea cuckooshrike (Coracina melas), found in the Aru Islands and New Guinea.

aalbok

New Guinea black cuckooshrike, Coracina melas


buntingi

Any of a number of Indonesian species of ricefish in the family Adrianichthyidae


silver gar

A long, slender fish common to coastal waters of the west Atlantic and nearby freshwater (Strongylura maritima).


cuckooshrike

A bird of any of the species in the family Campephagidae.

true cuckooshrike

Campephaga, Coracina, Lobotos, Pteropodocys, Campochaera


mackerel pike

mackerel pike (usually uncountable, plural mackerel pikes)

Any of several species of fish in the family Scomberesocidae, sauries.


needle-nose gar

needle-nose gar (plural needle-nose gar)


nureongi

A yellow-furred landrace dog native to Korea, where it is often eaten.


cypress trout

(Southern US) A bowfin (Amia calva), very common in cypress swamps but completely unlike a trout


Astadiggaja

From Sanskrit अष्ट (aṣṭa, “eight”) + दिक् (dik, “direction”) + गज (gaja, “elephant”).

(historical) (plural only) A collective term given to eight Telugu poets in the court of emperor Sri Krishna Deva Raya in the 16th century.


pintano

Abudefduf saxatilis, a species of damselfish.


central chimpanzee

central chimpanzee (plural central chimpanzees)

Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo

Pan troglodytes troglodytes, a subspecies of the common chimpanzee, found mainly in Gabon, Cameroon, and the Republic of the Congo.


porcupette

To my horror, I saw that she had carefully retrieved a very live and healthy porcupette!

2001, Warner Shedd, Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife:

A mother porcupine can give birth to between one and four porcupettes at one time.

2013, Jeffrey Rouche, Porcupines in the Wild, page 16:


Dinosaurian

/ˌdʌɪnə(ʊ)ˈsɔːɹɪən/

One belonging to the taxonomic superorder or clade Dinosauria; a dinosaur.


Abyssinian wolf

Abyssinian wolf (plural Abyssinian wolves)


varied thrush

A North American passerine bird (Ixoreus naevius).


desert tortoise

desert tortoise (plural desert tortoises)

(US) either of two species of tortoise native to the deserts of the southwest United States and northwestern Mexico, Gopherus agassizii and Gopherus morafkai


Kemp's ridley sea turtle

Kemp's ridley sea turtle (plural Kemp's ridley sea turtles)

Lepidochelys kempii, a species of sea turtle


fig parrot

Any of a number of parrots in the tribe Cyclopsitticini whose diet include figs.


pea-pheasant

A peacock-like pheasant of the genus Polyplectron.


gopher rockfish

Sebastes carnatus, a mottled rockfish of the Pacific coast, primarily off California.


sevengill

Having seven pairs of gill slits, as some sharks do.


sevengill

A shark with seven pairs of gill slits (Notorynchus cepedianus).


California sheephead

Semicossyphus pulcher, a species of wrasse native to the eastern Pacific Ocean.


halosaur

A fish of any of the species in the family Halosauridae, deep-sea eel-like fish.


slope dragonet

A dragonet of the family Draconettidae, small bottom-dwelling fish of warm ocean waters.


bushlark

Any of a number of species of larks in the genus Mirafra native to areas ranging from Africa through southern Asia to Australia.


rock wren

(Canada, US) A wren native to South America and western North America (Salpinctes obsoletus),

(New Zealand) A small wrenlike acanthisittid bird native to New Zealand (Xenicus gilviventris).


loggerhead shrike

loggerhead shrike (plural loggerhead shrikes)

Lanius ludovicianus
Lanius ludovicianus#Translingual

A species of shrike native to North America, Lanius ludovicianus.


calandra lark

Any bird in the genus Melanocorypha, but especially in the species Melanocorypha calandra of the Mediterranean region and central Asia.


southern topeyed lamprey

southern topeyed lamprey (plural southern topeyed lampreys)

A lamprey of the genus Mordacia, of Chile and Australia


southern lamprey

southern lamprey (plural southern lampreys)

A pouched lamprey (Geotria australis), of Australia


pouched lamprey

pouched lamprey (plural pouched lampreys)

A lamprey of Australia (Geotria australis), with an adult size of 0.5 meters.


shaking rat Kawasaki

(biology, zoology) A reeler-phenotype neuronal mutant rat.


yugada

From Spanish yugada, from yugo (“yoke”) + -ada (“-ful”), from Latin iugum. Compare Latin iugerum (“juger”).

(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of land area, equivalent to about 32.2 ha.


calandria

Borrowed from Spanish calandria (“lark (bird); calander”), from Vulgar Latin *calandria, from Ancient Greek χαράδριος (kharádrios). First attested in 1886 in the sugar industry.

bor+

A form of heat exchanger in which steam is forced past tubes which contain water to be boiled.


German Spaniel

A hunting dog of a breed developed in Germany around 1890, having a sturdy build and a brown coat with occasional white markings.


short head

Red Rum won by a short head.

(horse racing) A distance of less than the length of a horse's head


stinking badger

en-noun

stinking badger (plural stinking badgers)


dissorophoid

This diet appears to have been diversified in two clades of relatively small largeheaded and shortbodied temnospondyls, the zatracheids and dissorophoids.

2014, Rainer R. Schoch, Amphibian Evolution: The Life of Early Land Vertebrates:

(zoology) Any amphibian of the clade Dissorophoidea.


stereospondyl

The sequence of vertebral types led Watson to conclude that the primitive labyrinthodonts, embolomeres, had given rise to the rhachitomes and that these forms had eventually produced the ungainly, doomed stereospondyls.

2005, Dev Raj Khanna, Biology of Amphibia, page 56:

(zoology) Any amphibian of the suborder Stereospondyli.


banjo catfish

banjo catfish (plural banjo catfish or banjo catfishes)

banjo catfish (plural)
banjo catfishes (plural)

From banjo + catfish. With a short head and wide body, some look banjo-shaped from above.

Any of a number of small tropical catfish in the family Aspredinidae, especially the popular aquarium species Bunocephalus coracoideus


eiderduck

Free and happy as a bird I flew over the billows, in the pilot's light yawl we cruised about among the skerries shooting ducks, eider-ducks, and seals, in his deck-boat we steered out far to sea trolling for mackerel, and when he got a ship to pilot in, I sailed the boat home, sometimes alone, sometimes in company with the pilot's boy.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:


pogge

First recorded c. 1665-1675, of unknown origin.

unk

unknown

A scorpaeniform fish native to the waters of northern Europe, Agonus cataphractus


hunting dog

en:wild dog named for its hunting prowess

African hunting dog
African hunting dog#English

Ellipsis of African hunting dog: a wild dog named for its hunting prowess; like all wild dogs, it hunts prey.


syngnathiform

Dermal plates, which are composed exclusively of bone, are known for representatives of taxa like syngnathiforms, tetraodontiforms and gasterosteiforms.

2014, Hermann Ehrlich, Biological Materials of Marine Origin: Vertebrates, page 230:

(zoology) Any fish of the order Syngnathiformes.


gasterosteiform

(zoology) Any fish of the order Gasterosteiformes.


twaite shad

A fish in the herring family Clupeidae, Alosa fallax, found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.


baillie brushkie

en-noun

baillie brushkie (plural baillie brushkies)

Borrowed from Russian белобрюшка (belobrjuška).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:baillie brushkie.


parakeet auklet

parakeet auklet (plural parakeet auklets)

Aethia psittacula
Aethia psittacula#Translingual

A bird, Aethia psittacula, native to the islands and coast of Alaska.

tsídii naʼałkǫ́ʼí yázhí bidaaʼ łichíʼígíí


mountain wolf

From mountain + wolf, From this canid living in mountainous terrain, and having an appearance like a wolf.
Possibly also Calque of translingual Cuon alpinus, but 'cuon' means 'dog' rather than 'wolf'.


variatus platy

variatus platy (plural variatus platies)

A tropical fish kept in aquaria, Xiphophorus variatus


wonga-wonga

Leucosarcia melanoleuca
Leucosarcia melanoleuca#Translingual

A species of pigeon, Leucosarcia melanoleuca, endemic to eastern Australian.


helmetcrest

Any of various hummingbirds in the species Oxypogon.


bearded mountaineer

bearded mountaineer (plural bearded mountaineers)

Oreonympha nobilis, a hummingbird in the family Trochilidae, found only in Peru.


butterfly adder

butterfly adder (plural butterfly adders)


Egyptian vulture

Egyptian vulture (plural Egyptian vultures)

Neophron percnopterus
Neophron percnopterus#Translingual


Eurasian wren

Eurasian wren (countable and uncountable, plural Eurasian wrens)

Troglodytes troglodytes
Troglodytes troglodytes#Translingual


flagfish

From flag + fish. The red, white and blue stripes and dots are reminiscent of the American flag.

(US) A freshwater fish in the family Cyprinodontidae native to Florida, Jordanella floridae, sometimes kept in aquaria and used in laboratory tests of the biological effects of environmental pollutants.


javelinfish

javelinfish (plural javelinfish or javelinfishes)

javelinfish (plural)
javelinfishes (plural)

A rattail of species Coelorinchus australis, found around Australia and New Zealand.


zoarcoid

(zoology) Any fish in the suborder Zoarcoidei.


pseudostome

A North American rodent, Geomys bursarius.


procolophonomorph

(zoology) Any member of the Procolophonomorpha, an order or clade of parareptiles that appeared during the Middle Permian.


parareptile

(zoology) Any member of subclass or clade †Parareptilia of extinct reptiles.


lanthanosuchid

(zoology) Any member of the Lanthanosuchidae, an extinct family of procolophonomorph parareptiles.


pareiasaur

(paleontology) Any member of the Pareiasauridae, a family of large parareptiles from the Permian period.


dvinosaur

(zoology) A member of the Dvinosauria, a clade of primitive semi-aquatic to completely aquatic amphibians.


sea moth

Any fish in the family Pegasidae, with winglike pectoral fins and body covered in bony armor.


lesbian lizard

So called because, despite reproducing asexually, and being an all-female species, the whiptail still engages in mating behavior with other females of its own species.

New Mexico whiptail
New Mexico whiptail#English

(informal) Synonym of New Mexico whiptail


sargassum fish

sargassum fish (plural sargassum fishes or sargassum fish)

sargassum fishes (plural)
sargassum fish (plural)

A species of frogfish that lives in sargassum and looks very much like it.


garden eel

These eels are often found in groups, poking their heads up from their burrows, and thus resemble plants in a garden.

Any of the subfamily Heterocongrinae in the conger eel family Congridae, which live in burrows on the sea floor.


biarmosuchian

There is a set of scleral ossicles around the eye that are also found in another biarmosuchian, Lemurosaurus, and certain other pelycosaurs and therapsids, indicating that it is probably a plesiomorphic therapsid character.

2011, Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, Forerunners of Mammals: Radiation • Histology • Biology, page 10:

(zoology) Any therapsid of the suborder Biarmosuchia.


sphenacodontian

The keel of the angular does have the deep form characteristic of the group, but it is not reflected laterally as occurs in other sphenacodontians.

2005, Thomas Stainforth Kemp, The Origin and Evolution of Mammals, page 26:

(zoology) Any synapsid of the clade Sphenacodontia.


ictidorhinid

Biarmosuchians include most of the ictidorhinids and the more derived burnetiamorphs.

2012, Paul Selden, John Nudds, Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems, Second Edition, page 117:

(zoology) Any therapsid of the genus Ictidorhinus.


eupelycosaur

Ophiacodontids were a comparatively more depauperate group of early eupelycosaurs typified by marked elongation of the rostrum […]

2011, Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, Forerunners of Mammals: Radiation • Histology • Biology, page 94:

(zoology) Any synapsid of the clade Eupelycosauria.


nycteroleterid

Although Ivakhnenko (1987) suggests that nycteroleterids are closely related to pareiasaurs, a more recent analysis suggests that the two groups are only remotely related (Lee, 1995).

2003, Michael J. Benton, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, page 83:

(zoology) Any parareptile of the family Nycteroleteridae.


procolophonoid

The presence of an ossified extrastapes in Youngina, however, seems to support a less specialized hearing function than that of procolophonoids.

2016, Jennifer A. Clack, Evolution of the Vertebrate Ear: Evidence from the Fossil Record:

(zoology) Any parareptile of the superfamily Procolophonoidea.


batrachomorph

clipping

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

Batrachomorphs comprise the stegocephalians more closely related to lissamphibians than are other stegocephalians, as well as the lissamphibians themselves.

2012, Sebastien Steyer, Earth Before the Dinosaurs, page 61:

(zoology) Any animal of the clade Batrachomorpha.


stegocephalian

(zoology) Any amphibian of the clade Stegocephalia.


sapien

The word is a singular form, derived by back-formation and shortening of translingual Homo sapiens by interpreting the latter as an English plural form. However, in Latin the word sapiens is strictly singular, its plural form being sapientes (and the Latin plural of homo sapiens is homines sapientes).

[The superhero Mr. Incredible fights against a gorilla named Ungorilla.]
Ungorilla: You foolish sapien! I am the Ungorilla! I possess the speed and strength of a very strong gorilla! How can you possibly defeat me?

2009, The Incredibles (comic) #1, page 9

Better still, with its larger brain Piltdown neatly fit the preconception of what earlier human forms should look like than did either the "primitive" Neanderthals or the small-minded Pithecanthropus skulls. Moreover, it meant that the sapien lineage (in England) could be traced independently of the decidedly more brutish and less human Neanderthals (from Northern Europe) to an earlier period, thereby testifying to the early appearance of an essentially modern human form.

2015, David J. Meltzer, The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 279:

(rare, proscribed) A human, a specimen of Homo sapiens.


taruca

The north Andean deer, Hippocamelus antisensis


sphenosuchian

(zoology) Any crocodylomorph of the Sphenosuchia.


ceboid

Of or relating to any member of the superfamily (Ceboidea) of monkeys, believed to have evolved from prosimians isolated in South America, and including the marmosets, capuchins, tamarins, sapajous, and spider monkeys.


houbara bustard

en-noun

houbara bustard (plural houbara bustards)

In this spelling, from French houbara, and later also directly from Arabic حُبَارَى (ḥubārā).

bor

Arabic حُبَارَى (ḥubārā)

Chlamydotis undulata
Chlamydotis undulata#Translingual

Chlamydotis undulata, a bustard, chiefly of North Africa and south-east Asia.


Hungarian partridge

en-noun

Hungarian partridge (plural Hungarian partridges)

Perdix perdix
Perdix perdix#Translingual


rock partridge

Alectoris graeca
Alectoris graeca#Translingual

Alectoris graeca: a species of partridge


helmeted guinea fowl

helmeted guinea fowl (plural helmeted guinea fowls)

helmeted guineafowl
helmeted guineafowl#English


black francolin

black francolin (plural black francolins)

Francolinus francolinus
Francolinus francolinus#Translingual

A game bird in the francolin family (Francolinus francolinus, of south and southwestern Asia)

Náátsʼózídę́ę́ʼ naaʼahóóhaitʼą́ʼí diłhiłígíí


helmeted guineafowl

helmeted guineafowl (plural helmeted guineafowls)

Numida meleagris
Numida meleagris#Translingual

A game bird in the guinea fowl family, Numida meleagris


buffy fish owl

Malay fish owl (Ketupa ketupu), of the family Strigidae.


piapiac

A long-tailed black passerine, Ptilostomus afer, of tropical Africa.


kubong

The flying lemur Cynocephalus variegatus


rockwren

A small wren endemic to the South Island of New Zealand, Xenicus gilviventris.


clay-colored thrush

clay-colored thrush (plural clay-colored thrushes)

A thrush, common in the Americas, of species Turdus grayi; the national bird of Costa Rica.


pied kingfisher

pied kingfisher (plural pied kingfishers)

Ceryle rudis, a species of kingfisher found in Asia and Africa.


white-throated kingfisher

white-throated kingfisher (plural white-throated kingfishers)

Halcyon smyrnensis
Halcyon smyrnensis#Translingual

Halcyon smyrnensis, an Asian species of tree kingfisher.


common kingfisher

common kingfisher (plural common kingfishers)

Alcedo atthis
Alcedo atthis#Translingual

Alcedo atthis, a Eurasian and North African species of kingfisher.

tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ tábąąh naalzheehii dootłʼizhígíí


European bee-eater

European bee-eater (plural European bee-eaters)

Merops apiaster
Merops apiaster#Translingual

Merops apiaster, a Mediterranean species of bee-eater.

tsísʼná yiyání bitsiitʼáád dibéłchíʼígíí


little green bee-eater

little green bee-eater (plural little green bee-eaters)


green bee-eater

green bee-eater (plural green bee-eaters)

Merops orientalis
Merops orientalis#Translingual

Merops orientalis, a species of bee-eater found in North Africa and the Middle East.


blue-cheeked bee-eater

blue-cheeked bee-eater (plural blue-cheeked bee-eaters)

Merops persicus
Merops persicus#Translingual

Merops persicus, a species of bee-eater found in North Africa and the Middle East.


river dolphin

(zoology) Any dolphin that is found only in fresh or brackish water, now considered in one of three superfamilies Platanistoidea, †Lipotoidea, Inioidea, all in parvorder Odontoceti or in a grouping with hippopotamuses.

jokidelfiini

dolphin found only in fresh and brackish water


Gressingham duck

Gressingham duck (plural Gressingham ducks)

Named after the village of Gressingham in Lancashire, England, where they were first bred.

A kind of duck bred from a cross of mallards and Pekin ducks.


European roller

European roller (plural European rollers)

Coracias garrulus
Coracias garrulus#Translingual

Coracias garrulus, a European species of roller.


blue rock thrush

blue rock thrush (plural blue rock thrushes)

Monticola solitarius
Monticola solitarius#Translingual

Monticola solitarius, a thrush-like flycatcher found in southern Europe, northern Africa and parts of Asia


black-throated thrush

black-throated thrush (plural black-throated thrushes)

Turdus atrogularis
Turdus atrogularis#Translingual

Turdus atrogularis, a migratory Asian thrush with a black throat


totoaba

In 1985, seven vaquitas were caught in gill nets being used by Mexican fishermen to catch totoabas (a species of large sea bass), the major commercial species.

1991, Laura O'Biso Socha, Endangered Species of the World, Mallard Press, page 74:

However, porpoises are also caught in other fishing gear, and there is concern that effort will be re-directed from catching totoabas to catching large sharks and rays in nets that threaten vaquitas (cf. Vidal 1993).

1994, Randall R. Reeves, Stephen Leatherwood, Dolphins, Porpoises, and Whales: 1994-1998 Action Plan for the Conservation of Cetaceans, page 47:

2002 October, Implementation Agreement, Inadvertent Overrun and Payback Policy, and Related Federal Actions, Volume 2: Appendices, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, page G-41,
Totoaba are the largest of the sciaenid fish, with a maximum reported weight of over 100 kg and a length of over 2 meters (Flanagan and Hendrickson 1976).

After the first year, the totoaba spends most of its adult life in the deep waters of the Gulf of California. The totoaba can grow up to 2 meters in length and weigh 140 kilograms (Morrison, Postel and Gleick 1996, 23).

2003, Suzanne Michel, “The Geography of Water Transfers and Urbanization in Baja and Southern California”, in Linda Fernandez, Richard T. Carson, editors, Both Sides of the Border: Transboundary Environmental Management Issues Facing Mexico and the United States, page 210:

In the northern Gulf of California, fishermen report that totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) are being caught illegally around shallow-water hydrothermal vents.

2009, Matthew J. Forrest, Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez, “12: Active Geothermal Springs and Pliocene-Pleistocene Examples”, in Markes E. Johnson, Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez, editors, Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California, page 155:

The marine fish Totoaba macdonaldi, the largest member of the drumfish family Sciaenidae, endemic to the Gulf of California, Mexico.


ameridelphian

Any of the superorder Ameridelphia of marsupials.


australidelphian

Any marsupial of the superorder Australidelphia


apternodontid

Borrowed from translingual Apternodontidae.

(zoology) Any member of the Apternodontidae.


didelphimorph

Any opossum of the order Didelphimorphia; an opossum.


diprotodontian

Any marsupial of the order Diprotodontia


dasyuromorphian

Any marsupial of the order Dasyuromorphia of carnivorous marsupials.


deltatheroidan

Any extinct metatherian of the order Deltatheroida


notoryctemorphian

Any member of the order Notoryctemorphia; a marsupial mole.


paucituberculatan

Any marsupial of the order Paucituberculata; a shrew opossum.


peradectid

Any extinct mammal of the family Peradectidae


peramelemorphian

Any marsupial of the order Peramelemorphia; a bilby or a bandicoot.


pleuraspidotheriid

Any extinct mammal of the genus Pleuraspidotherium


sparassocynid

Any extinct marsupial of the family Sparassocynidae


stagodontid

Any extinct mammal of the family Stagodontidae


ice bear

From ice + bear. Compare German Eisbär, Dutch ijsbeer, Danish isbjørn.

Ursus maritimus
Ursus maritimus#Translingual


climbing perch

climbing perch (plural climbing perches or climbing perch)

climbing perches (plural)
climbing perch (plural)

Anabas testudineus
Anabas testudineus#Translingual

Any fish in family Anabantidae
Anabas testudineus, native to Asia

Any fish in family Anabantidae
Ctenopoma multispine, native to Africa


guckling

A young or small guck (goose-duck hybrid).


Holsteiner

From Holstein + -er, or directly from the German Holsteiner.

Holstein

cattle breed also from Schleswig-Holstein

There are unflappable, lazy Holsteiners and sensitive, spooky Holsteiners.

A horse of a breed originating in the Schleswig-Holstein region of northern Germany.


rufous-tailed rock thrush

rufous-tailed rock thrush (plural rufous-tailed rock thrushes)


rock thrush

Monticola saxatilis
Monticola saxatilis#Translingual

(former name) common rock thrush (Monticola saxatilis)


common rock thrush

common rock thrush (plural common rock thrushes)

Monticola saxatilis, a chat belonging to the family Muscicapidae.


kawachibuna

Borrowed from Japanese 河内鮒 (kawachibuna).

Carassius cuvieri
Carassius cuvieri#Translingual

The Japanese white crucian carp, Carassius cuvieri.


lowland paca

Cuniculus paca
Cuniculus paca#Translingual


Richardson's owl

Richardson's owl (plural Richardson's owls)


White's thrush

White's thrush (plural White's thrushes)

Named after Gilbert White (1720 – 1793), an English clergyman and naturalist.

Zoothera aurea
Zoothera aurea#Translingual

A thrush found mainly in eastern Asia and Siberia and rare vagrant to western Europe, of species Zoothera aurea (or formerly, sometimes of subspecies Zoothera dauma aurea).


half-length

(horse racing) Half the length of a horse.


zingel

A fish of the perch family, found in the Danube.


yucker

A bird, the American flicker or golden-winged woodpecker.


Iceland dog

The conclusion that one must arrive at, as it seems to me, is that the collie, the Shetland, and the Iceland dogs all had one common origin, the restricted location of the collie in the Lowlands not being conducive to the supposition that he was of origin there, when there was no breed to the north or south bearing any resemblance to him.

1913 April, James Watson, “Dogs”, in Country Life, volume 23, page 65:

A shaggy white sharp-eared dog of a breed imported from Iceland.


rabbitkind

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


mousekind

[…] it must, I say, be obvious that such abundant supplies of favourite and wholesome food offers the greatest inducement to mousekind to associate themselves with mankind, to attend on their footsteps, and to increase and multiply under their provident but uninentional care.

1850, Rusticus, “The mice and the rats, the weasels and the stoats”, in Chambers's Journal, page 131:

The entirety of mice; all mice collectively as a group.


Beetewk

From the name of the Bityug river near Voronezh, ultimately from Russian битю́г (bitjúg), which is from Turkic.

A type of Russian heavy draft horse, originally from Voronezh guberniya on the Bityug river.


proboscis monkey

proboscis monkey (plural proboscis monkeys)

Nasalis larvatus, a reddish-brown arboreal Old World monkey with an unusually large nose, endemic to Borneo.


hart of grease

(hunting, obsolete) A hart of the season when fat.


canbottle

Aegithalos caudatus
Aegithalos caudatus#Translingual

(England) A small bird of Europe and Asia, the long-tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus.


rhabdosteid

(zoology) Any extinct cetacean in the family Rhabdosteidae.


stanstickle

threespine stickleback
threespine stickleback

(UK, dialectal) A small fish, the threespine stickleback.


tubesnout

A small, thin fish of Pacific North American coastal waters, Aulorhynchus flavidus


bitch hound

Compound of bitch (“female dog”) + hound (“hunting dog”).

compound

A female hound; a bitch used for hunting; a brach.


point-to-point

From point (“individual element in a larger whole; specific location or place; topic of discussion or debate”) + to + point.

(horse racing, also attributively) A kind of horse race involving a direct cross-country course with obstacles for hunting horses and amateur riders.