water pipit

Anthus spinoletta
Anthus spinoletta#Translingual

A small passerine bird, Anthus spinoletta.


jelerang

(zoology, archaic) A large squirrel of Java and Southern Asia.


dermochelyid

Loss of scutes (and corresponding loss of sucli^([sic]) on the underlying shell plates) is widely regarded as a derived condition that has occurred independently in trionychids, advanced carettochelyids (Carettochelyidae), and derived sea turtles such as dermochelyids and protostegids (e.g., Meylan 1988; Hirayama and Chitoku 1996).

2012, Donald B. Brinkman, editor, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles:

(zoology) Any of the family Dermochelyidae of marine turtles.


Prevost's squirrel

en-noun

Prevost's squirrel (plural Prevost's squirrels)

Named after Florent Prévost (1794–1870), French naturalist.

Callosciurus prevostii, a colourful Asian squirrel.


hardtail

(countable, uncountable) (A) jack (edible fish of the genus Caranx or Trachurus).


roundfish

roundfish (plural roundfishes or roundfish)

A round whitefish (Prosopium cylindraceum).

Cyprinus carpio
Cyprinus carpio#Translingual


rabicano

A horse that is colored mostly red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or grey especially on the flanks.


forest green tree frog

forest green tree frog (plural forest green tree frogs)

A tropical lowland frog (Rhacophorus arboreus) whose habitat range is mostly restricted to Japan's Honshū


lampriform

of or related to the order Lampridiformes of ray-finned fish


lampriform

Any of the fish in the order Lampridiformes


hackee

The Hackee is one of the liveliest and briskest of quadrupeds, and by reason of its quick and rapid movements, has not inaptly been compared to the wren.

1865, John George Wood, The illustrated natural history: Volume 1, page 600:

The hackee, which is pedimanous, tried to climb the bole.

1894, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: Volume 21, Part 1:

(US, dialect) The chickaree or red squirrel.


chalk out

en-verb

chalk out (third-person singular simple present chalks out, present participle chalking out, simple past and past participle chalked out)

chalks out (present singular third-person)
chalking out (participle present)
chalked out (participle past)
chalked out (past)

A 25-1 shot won race 3, but the rest of the early pick 5 chalked out after that.

(US, intransitive, horse racing) In a multi-race wager, to lose to the favorite in all of the remaining races.


Chinese edible frog

en-noun

Chinese edible frog (plural Chinese edible frogs)

A species of frog (Hoplobatrachus chinensis, syn. Hoplobatrachus rugulosus), found mostly in Southeast Asia.


quenda

A short-nosed bandicoot found mostly in southern Australia, Isoodon obesulus.


cynomorph

A member of the obsolete taxonomic subgroup Cynomorpha, the dog-like apes.


hackbolt

Ardenna gravis
Ardenna gravis#Translingual

(archaic, Scilly Isles) A greater shearwater or hagdon (Ardenna gravis).


honeysucker

There were also many palms, some of them more than one hundred feet high, and the largest and most beautiful tree ferns that I ever saw, about which hung clouds of jewelled honeysuckers and great-winged butterflies.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:


cynomorphism

This should teach us to bear in mind that there is, affecting the dog's point of view, almost undoubtedly such a thing as cynomorphism, and that he has his peculiar and limited ideas of life and range of mental vision, and therefore perforce makes his artificial surroundings square with them.

1892 December, Louis Robinson, “Canine Morals and Manners”, in The Popular Science Monthly, page 177:

Without anthropomorphism on our part and cynomorphism on the dog's part, it is unlikely that dogs could have been successfully domesticated and eventually come to live in our homes and serve as companions and workmates.

2004, Stanley Coren, How Dogs Think: Understanding the Canine Mind, Free Press, →ISBN, page 290:

Finally, this definition implies the Razor-friendly dualism Nature/Culture, by using a two-way-only approach, from animals to humans and back (zoomorphism), without the pluralistic biosemiotic-friendly suggestion there might be, say, a cynomorphism or at least an icthyomorphism.

2008 December, Dario Martinelli, Kristian Bankov, “Bankov's Razor Versus Martinelli's Canon: A Confrontation Around Biosemiotics”, in Biosemiotics, volume 1, number 3, page 413:

(nonce word) The manner in which a dog sees the world, including the attribution of doglike characteristics to non-canine animals, especially humans.


singletail

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

A variety of goldfish with an undivided tail.


buck rarebit

A Welsh rarebit topped with a poached egg.


kelpfish

kelpfish (plural kelpfishes or kelpfish)

A perciform fish in the family Chironemidae, native to coastal Australia and New Zealand.


cutlassfish

cutlassfish (plural cutlassfishes or cutlassfish)

cutlassfishes (plural)
cutlassfish (plural)

A predatory perciform marine fish in the family Trichiuridae, with large sharp teeth and an eel-like appearance.


pardusco

A tanager of species Nephelornis oneilli found in Peru.


mama bear

(informal) A female bear currently rearing one or more cubs.


crappo

en-adj

crappo (comparative more crappo, superlative most crappo)

more crappo (comparative)
most crappo (superlative)

From crap (“of poor quality”) + -o (colloquializing suffix).

suffix

(slang) Of very low quality; crap, lousy.


crappo

Borrowed from Guyanese Creole English crappo, from French crapaud (“toad”), from Middle French crapaud, from Old French crapaut, crapot (“frog; toad”), from Frankish *krappō, *krappa (“claw, hook”) (because of a toad’s hooked feet; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *greb-) + -aud (suffix forming diminutives or nouns having a pejorative connotation). Doublet of crapaud.

Medical attention is immediately needed if "Fido" encounters a specie of huge toad, up to eight to ten inches round, called a "crappo", and decides to take it into his mouth to play with. This toad exudes a substance from glands in its skin which will cause profuse salivation, and sometimes, if absorbed, will cause the animal to become very excited with high fever and twitching uncontrollable motions.

1982, The Settler’s Handbook: Everything You Need to Know about St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, 6th edition, Christiansted, Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands: Prestige Press, →OCLC, pages 37–38:

crapo (from the French crapaud, frog) a huge toad (Bufo marinus)

[2004, William L. Murphy, “A Trinbagonian Lexicon”, in A Birdwatchers’ Guide to Trinidad & Tobago (Birdwatchers’ Guides), Cley next the Sea, Norfolk: Prion, →ISBN, page 163:

One of the wild animals most familiar to all Trinidadians, even those with not the slightest interest in wildlife, is the crappo, that large toad which is seen so often at this time of year around houses and roads.

2007, Richard ffrench, “August”, in The Naturalist’s Year, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: Prospect Press, →ISBN, page 96:

Little crappos would find their way into the house. I was tormented by them. When in panic I feared they, like fluttering pigeons, were liable to do anything.

2011, Rahul Bhattacharya, chapter 7, in The Sly Company of People Who Care, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 86:

This sentry type wooden cubicle was built in the yard; not far from the house. It was not a very respectful bathroom in my opinion; especially since the fat crappos (crapaud/huge toad) took up residence. How I despised them.

2011 October 27, Helena Martin, “1947 Jacklow, Pomeroon River”, in Walk Wit’ Me …: All Ova Guyana, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, section 4 (Primitive Plumbing), page 19:

Crickets call out in the coming dark. Crappo answer.

2013, Gaiutra Bahadur, “Beautiful Woman Without a Nose”, in Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, London: C[hristopher] Hurst & Co., →ISBN, Part 2 (Exploring), page 105:

(Caribbean, chiefly Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago) A toad (chiefly from the family Bufonidae).


crappo

Leiden University
National Herbarium of the Netherlands
Nicoline van der Sijs

Borrowed from Trinidadian Creole English crappo, crapaud, a modification of either Lokono carapa, kálaba, karaba, or Kari'na karapa.
cognates
* Dutch krapboom
* Sranan Tongo krapa

Carapa or Crappo […] Carapa Guianensis, Aubl.

1888, J. H. Hart, “Appendix C. Classified List of the Wood-producing Trees of Trinidad”, in Annual Report on the Royal Botanic Gardens, and Their Work for 1887 (Council Paper; no. 32), [Port of Spain], Trinidad: [Government of Trinidad], →OCLC, page 34:

Crappo, or carapa (Carapa guianensis), 40 to 60 feet high and 1½ to 3 feet in diameter, grows plentifully in mixed forests. The reddish wood weighs 42 pounds per cubic foot, and is durable and easily worked.

1916, Roger E. Simmons, “Trinidad. Chapter I.—General Description and Forest Resources.”, in Lumber Markets of the West and North Coasts of South America (Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, Special Agents Series; no. 117), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 133:

Besides Cedar, there are only five kinds of timber that are sufficiently plentiful to allow of their export viz.: Crappo or Crabwood (Carapa guianensis), Mora (Dimorphandra Mora), Olivier (Chuncoa obovata) Guatacre or Watercaire (Lecythis laevifolia) and Fustic (Macura Xanthoxylon). Crappo or Crabwood somewhat resembing Mahogany—a useful furniture wood—and Fustic—a dyewood—are fairly well known.

1921, “Section 22. Production and Natural Resources.”, in Trinidad and Tobago. Blue Book: 1920, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: […] Government Printing Office, →OCLC, subsection 2 (Forestry), page 508:

With the Forest Reserves there are now more than 1,500 acres of plantations (including experimental plots) of which the principal indigenous species are:— […] crappo (Carapa guianensis, Aubl.), […] ten acres were regenerated with crappo under contracts at the Central Range Reserve Plantations, whilst ten acres in the Southern Watershed Reserve were partly planted with teak and partly with indigenous species.

1930, “Production”, in Trinidad and Tobago. Annual General Report for the Year 1929 (Colonial Reports—Annual; no. 1505), London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office; Port of Spain, Trinidad: […] Government Printer, Government Printing Office, →OCLC, paragraphs 24–25, page 15:

The commonest large trees in the Bois Mulatre-Carat forest areas are crappo Carapa guianensis and wild chataigne Pachira insignis, with guatecare Eschweilera subglandulosa in third place among acurel Trichilia oblanceolata, rosemacho Crudia glaberrima and redwood Gaurea guara.

1982, “Trinidad & Tobago”, in IUCN Directory of Neotropical Protected Areas, Dublin: [F]or IUCN by Tycooly International Publishing, →ISBN, page 337:

[C]edar, crappo, olivier and mora dominate the harvest from state forests.

2000, Julian Kenny, “Plants”, in Views from the Ridge: Exploring the Natural History of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: Prospect Press, →ISBN, page 25, column 1:

Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla G. King and S. mahagoni Jacq.), the American cedar (Cedrela odorata L. (= C. mexicana Roem.)) and crappo (Carapa guianensis Aubl.) are forest trees of commercial value in the Caribbean region.

2020, E. E. Sosa, F. Blanco, J[oop] C. van enteren, “Biological Control in Belize”, in Joop C. van Lenteren, Vanda H. P. Bueno, M. Gabriela Luna, Yelitza C. Colmenarez, editors, Biological Control in Latin America and the Caribbean: Its Rich History and Bright Future (CABI Invasives Series; 12), Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Boston, Mass.: CABI, →ISBN, page 59:

(Trinidad and Tobago) The andiroba or crabwood tree (Carapa guianensis).


velvetbreast

Mergus merganser
Mergus merganser#Translingual

(US, dated) The goosander (Mergus merganser).


ostodolepid

Any of the extinct family Ostodolepidae of tuditanomorph microsaurs.


gymnarthrid

Any of the extinct family Gymnarthridae of tuditanomorph microsaurs.


goniorhynchid

From translingual Goniorhynchus + -id. The genus name itself is from Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, “angle”) + ῥῠ́γχος (rhúnkhos, “snout”).

Any of the extinct microsaur genus †Goniorhynchus (a synonym of †Rhynchonkos).


manucodiata

Wherefore Scaliger admitting that the Manucodiata is perpetually on the wing in the Aire, he must of necessity admit also that manner of Incubation that Cardan describes; else how could their generations continue?

1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 75

(obsolete) A bird of paradise (family Paradisaeidae).


stall handler

(horse racing) Someone responsible for manoeuvring the horse between the gates before the start of a race.

pousseur

someone responsible for manoeuvring the horse between the gates


kleenebok

Borrowed from Dutch kleene bok, obsolete form of kleine bok (“small buck, small antelope”).

A small, active antelope of South Africa, the blue duiker, Philantomba monticola.


Corriedale

A sheep of a dual-purpose breed that is a cross between Merino and Lincoln sheep.


woylie

Woylies are sometimes referred to as brush-tailed rat kangaroos. This alternative name is an apt description of these small marsupials.

1996, Rees Barrett, Peter Dent, Place, Patter and Process, page 89:

It's a whodunit involving the woylie, the marsupial poster-child for recovery programs involving endangered animals.

2007, The Bulletin, numbers 6559-6566, page 27:

‘Like a woylie,’ said John Dell, ‘Closely related.’
Ah. Of course. Even I'd heard of the woylie. But like most of my countrymen, I couldn't have described one for love nor money.
The woylie belongs to the great treasury of marsupials that we revere and know nothing about. As I learnt that day, the boodie and the woylie are different species of bettong.

2009, Tim Winton, “Silent Country: Travels Through a Recovering Landscape”, in Robyn Davidson, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 16:

Bettongia penicillata
Bettongia penicillata#Translingual

(Australia) A species of bettong, Bettongia penicillata.


kirumbo

(obsolete) A bird of Madagascar, the cuckoo-roller, Leptosomus discolor.


jowler

Never saw I bloodthirsty fierceness better depicted than in the muzzles o ' thae ferocious Jowlers

(Can we date this quote?), John Wilson (Scottish writer), “Noctes Ambrosianae”, in Blackwood's Magazine:

(archaic) A dog with large jowls, such as the beagle.


rhomboganoid

(zoology) A fish of the obsolete suborder Rhomboganoidei, roughly corresponding to the gars (Holostei).


mariput

(zoology) A species of civet; Ictonyx striatus.


wekau

(zoology) An extinct small New Zealand owl with short wings and long legs that lived chiefly on the ground (†Sceloglaux albifacies).


Impeyan pheasant

en-noun

Impeyan pheasant (plural Impeyan pheasants)

After English natural historian Lady Mary Impey, who established a menagerie in Calcutta. Named in 1790 by ornithologist John Latham, who described the species from a preserved corpse from the menagerie.

The Impeyan pheasant is an example in point : adapted for regions where the temperature is at the most only moderate, and often at a low degree, this noble bird soon dies when taken from its alpine home into the burning lowlands of India; and hence arises one of the difficulties in the way of our obtaining living specimens in Europe.

1836 August 27, The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 5, page 330:

Fig. 13.3.[…]Impeyan pheasants (Lophophorus impejanus)(c) bow low before the hen, then peck vigorously.

2003, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Developmental Plasticity and Evolution, Oxford University Press, page 245:

One of the most beautiful species is the Impeyan pheasant, Nepal's national bird. Nepalis call it the danphe, and it is also known as the Himalayan monal.

2009, Ann Heinrichs, Mount Everest, Marshall Cavendish, page 36:

Lophophorus impejanus
Lophophorus impejanus#Translingual

A species of pheasant, Lophophorus impejanus.


beadsnake

A small poisonous snake of North America, banded with yellow, red, and black: the eastern coral snake, Micrurus fulvius.


whitebill

Fulica americana
Fulica americana#Translingual

(dated) An American coot (Fulica americana)


phocal

they wended their way westward to fields of blood and phocal carnage

1885, Gordon Stables, Wild Adventures round the Pole:


spiketail

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(US, dialect) A pintail duck (Anas spp.).


bearhound

"For his amusement John the Terrible used to order a number of people to be sewed up in bear-skins, and then torn to death by bear-hounds. For tearing prisoners to pieces he ordered the tops of several trees to be bent down so that they came together; the limbs of the unfortunate victim were fastened to these tops, each limb to a different tree. When they were thus tied up, the release of the trees performed the work intended by the cruel Czar."

1887, Thomas Wallace Knox, The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire, Chapter 11:

1918, Melville Davisson Post, Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries, Chapter 5text=There seemed no overt reason, old Clayborne said, but presently Dabney began to act like a man in fear. He made friends with the dog, a big old bearhound. He got a fowling piece and set it up by the head of his bed, and finally took the dog into the room with him at night. He kept out of the house by day.:

A dog used for bearbaiting or bear hunting.


pearlfish

pearlfish (plural pearlfishes or pearlfish)

Any of various slender marine fish of the family Carapidae, resembling eels.


wolfkin

Kite and kestrel, wolf and wolfkin, from the wilderness, wallow in it.


wetbird

From wet + bird; the chaffinch's cry was believed to foretell rain.


lionly

en-adj

lionly (comparative more lionly, superlative most lionly)

more lionly (comparative)
most lionly (superlative)

For although I ſaid before, that the Church coveting to ride upon the lionly form of Juriſdiction, makes a transformation of herſelf into an Aſs, and becomes deſpicable...

1738, John Milton, “The Reaſon of Church-Government Urg'd againſt Prelaty, Book II”, in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, London: A. Millar, →OL, page 66:

Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; […]

The destructive lionly skepticism burns all bridges to prior beliefs and presuppositions.

1994, George David Miller, An Idiosyncratic Ethics:

Lionly strength expresses independence of will and a restless wandering based in deep curiosity and intense perception.

Picture these lionly lovers jumping through romantic hoops, otherwise known as the initial courtship phase, and then a disagreement or difference of opinion occurs.

Resembling or characteristic of a lion, for example in fierceness.


Dolly Varden

Barnaby Rudge
Charles Dickens
Dolly Varden (costume)

After a lively, coquettish character in Charles Dickens' novel Barnaby Rudge.

A woman's outfit, briefly fashionable in Britain and America in the late nineteenth century, with a brightly patterned, usually flowered, dress with a polonaise overskirt gathered up and draped over a separate underskirt.

Dolly Varden crab
Dolly Varden crab#English

Dolly Varden is the staple catch. To a point that, after two days, we find ourselves feeling guilty trying to shake them free from our fly or giving plenty of slack in the hope that another Dolly finds early freedom. […] Often the biggest challenge of hooking a big trout is avoiding Dollies.

2017 November–December, Dean Oelschig, “Kamchatka: 61 Hours from Jo'burg”, in The Mission: The Cult of Fly Fishing, number 6, pages 54–55:

Dolly Varden trout
Dolly Varden trout#English


nefasch

(archaic) Any fish of the genus Distichodus.


nematognath

Formed as nemato- + -gnath after the scientific Latin Nēmatognathī.

(zoology, archaic) catfish; one of the Nematognathi, now called Siluriformes.


siscowet

From an Ojibwe word, given by some English dictionaries as pemitewiskawet ("fish with oily meat") (compare bimide (“grease”), -skaw- (“meat of a fish”), -e (“an incorporating final”)), perhaps via French ciscoette.

A freshwater fish from Lake Superior in the Great Lakes, a variety of the lake trout.


nutjobber

From nut + jobber. Compare nuthacker, nutcracker.

(archaic, UK, dialect) A bird of family Sittidae; a nuthatch.


teguexin

From Nahuatl tecoixin (“lizard”); compare tegu.

A large South American lizard with yellowish spots; a gold tegu.


koklass

A pheasant of India and China, with a long central crest and two lateral crests on the head.


kokoon

Mixed squads of kokoons and zebras are practising their wild gambols over the level plain, kicking, frolicking, butting, and pursuing each other with untiring perseverence

1845, John George Cochrane [editor], The Foreign Quarterly Review:


prad

Borrowed from Dutch paard (“horse”). Doublet of palfrey.

Horse Stealers, they go together always the Day before, to look over the Grounds for a good Prad or Prads […]

1754, John Poulter, The Discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter, Sherborne, page 39:

We had fixed our eye on a horse-dealer, and had some conversation with him about the purchase of a prad; but we could not agree, and parted, on account of a deeker, who was eyeing us closely, and I observed him speak to the jockey.

1821, David Haggart, The Life of David Haggart, written by himself while under sentence of death, London: W. and C. Tait, page 22:

'Just send somebody out to relieve my mate, will you, young man?' said the officer; 'he's in the gig, a-minding the prad. […]'

1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “chapter XXXI”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:

1893, Ernest Favenc, "Bunthorp's Decease" in Tales of the Austral Tropics, London: Osgood, MacIlvaine & Co., 1894, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600691h.html
"Not a bad sort of a prad that brown one," he remarked; "looks a little gone in the near fore-leg."

So smooth of face, so fine of eye, so much a beautiful part of his beautiful chestnut prad.

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 212:

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal, dated) A horse.


plunderfish

en-noun

plunderfish (plural plunderfishes or plunderfish)

plunderfishes (plural)
plunderfish (plural)

Any of various Antarctic fish of the family Artedidraconidae.


beaverskin

The hunter gave the merchant twenty beaverskins for a gun.

The soldier wore a beaverskin hat.


toadskin

It was as though she wore a mask made from toadskins. Her clothes were crocodile skin the color of old tobacco, and she carried a staff of twisted driftwood.

The Chinese use a preparation derived from toadskins, which they call senso, as a remedy for several sicknesses.

the skin of a toad, or leather made therefrom


frogskin

frogskin (countable and uncountable, plural frogskins)

You can buy the individual parts for a few frogskins, or the whole setup for fifty.

Give a few frogskins to charity.

(US, slang) A greenback, a United States dollar.


lizardskin

lizardskin (countable and uncountable, plural lizardskins)

He placed the dried lizardskin on the table.

She wore a lizardskin coat and lizardskin boots.

The skin of a lizard, or leather made from it.


catskin

In the fable, the maiden had to find a catskin coat, a coat made of catskins.

the skin of a cat, or leather made therefrom


elkskin

elkskin (countable and uncountable, plural elkskins)

The skin of an elk, or leather made from it.


sharpbill

A small bird of Central and South America, Oxyruncus cristatus


sperm oil

sperm oil (countable and uncountable, plural sperm oils)

Whale oil that is extracted from a sperm whale.


sicklebill

Any of several birds of paradise (Drepanornis spp., Epimachus spp.) and hummingbirds (Eutoxeres spp.) with a sickle-shaped bill.


sewen

(dialect) A British trout usually regarded as a variety (var. Cambricus) of the salmon trout.


silver salmon

silver salmon (plural silver salmons or silver salmon)

silver salmons (plural)
silver salmon (plural)

Oncorhynchus kisutch
Oncorhynchus kisutch#Translingual


sharksucker

Shark fishermen sometimes receive an unexpected bonus in the form of small fishes known as remoras, or sharksuckers, which are attached to the sharks by a sucking disk located on the top of the head.

1972, Earl Stannard Herald, Fishes of North America, page 155:

The sharksucker may be found free swimming but is most often found hitchhiking on a larger fish by attaching itself to the fish with the sucker disk on top of its head.

2007, Mike Lane, Angler's Guide to Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, page 191:

Remoras and sharksuckers directly attach themselves to large sharks, Manta Rays, and large bony fish, feeding on scraps of their hosts' dinners and taking smaller fish not eaten by the host.

2012, Noble S. Proctor, A Field Guide to the Southeast Coast & Gulf of Mexico:


sleuthhound

From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse slóð (“track”) + hound.

Sometimes he pursued the wily burn trout with relentless ferocity and the silent intentness of a sleuthhound. Often, however, he would pause and with his finger indicate some favourite stone to Winsome.

1894, S. R. Crockett, The Lilac Sunbonnet:

A working dog who tracks or pursues e.g. a wanted criminal; a bloodhound formerly used in Scotland.


mooseskin

These lodge poles were steadied by being lashed to a couple of cross poles whose arch conformed to the inner curve of the lodge. The covering was preferably made of mooseskins sewn together although caribouskins were used if the former were not available. Sometimes the upper part of the cover was of mooseskins while caribouskins were used for the sides.

1959, Yale University Publications in Anthropology, number 55, page 71:

The skin of a moose, or leather made therefrom.


icebird

(archaic) An Arctic sea bird, such as the Arctic fulmar.


delphinoid

From Latin delphinus (“a dolphin”) + -oid.

Any cetacean of the superfamily Delphinoidea


duck mole

Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus#Translingual

(rare) A platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus).


horned pout

At length you slowly raise, pulling hand over hand, some horned pout squeaking and squirming to the upper air.

1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Boston: Ticknor and Fields:

Ameiurus nebulosus
Ameiurus nebulosus#Translingual

A catfish native to the eastern United States, the brown bullhead, Ameiurus nebulosus.


whewer

Century, Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and the 1933 OED take it to be from whew (“(to make) a shrill whistling sound like the cry of a plover”) + -er, and early cites also call the bird the "whistling widgeon".

Peckards 3—broadbills 5—whewers 2

1634, Althorp MS. in Simpkinson, Washingtons (1860), page xxiii

Boscas, aliis Anas Fistularis … the Whewer, or Whistling Widgeon.

With the Fish I have put up in a Box some Water Fowl, viz. a Pocker, a Smew, three Sheldins, a Widgeon, and a Whewer; which two last are Male and Female of the same kind.

1718 [1674], John Ray, Francis Willughby, Philosophical Letters Between the Late Learned Mr. Ray and Several of His Ingenious Correspondents, Natives and Foreigners: To which are Added Those of Francis Willughby Esq, page 21:

Widgeons are common in Cambridgeshire, the Isle of Ely, &c. where the male is called the widgeon, and the female, the whewer. They feed upon wild periwinkles, grass, weeds, &c. which grow at the bottom of rivers and lakes. Their flesh has a very delicious taste, not inferior to teal, or wild ducks.

1806, Thomas Smith, The Naturalist's Cabinet: Containing Interesting Sketches of Natural History; Illustrative of the Natures, Dispositions, Manners, and Habits of All the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Amphibia, Reptiles, &c. in the Known World, page 217:

the choicer fowl of mallard and widgeon (locally "whewers"), both in the Humber and the Tees, the former species being, of course, resident in the county.

1908, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, page 172:

Mareca penelope
Mareca penelope#Translingual

(UK, dialect) whew duck, Eurasian wigeon, wigeon (Mareca penelope).


nagor

From French [Term?], said to have been named by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, from earlier nanguer; compare Nanger.

(archaic) The bohor reedbuck, Redunca redunca.


waggie

(UK, dialect) The pied wagtail, a small passerine bird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, a subspecies of the white wagtail, found in Britain and Ireland.


bezantler

From Old or modern French bes-antlier, ultimately related to Latin bis (“twice”).


harbour porpoise

harbour porpoise (plural harbour porpoises)

Smaller than a human being at roughly 1.5m in length, the harbour porpoise is not easy to spot.

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

Phocoena phocoena
Phocoena phocoena#Translingual

A porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, that inhabits coastal areas and river estuaries.


hornotine

(zoology) A yearling; a bird born in the current year.


thorntail

Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Discosura.


beambird

From beam + bird. So called as they often nest on a beam in a building.

Muscicapa striata
Muscicapa striata#Translingual

(archaic) the spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.


water crow

So called in allusion to its dark plumage.


klipfish

klipfish (countable and uncountable, plural klipfishes)

A fish of certain genera in the family Clinidae.


dobule

Leuciscus leuciscus
Leuciscus leuciscus#Translingual

(archaic) A common dace (Leuciscus leuciscus)


banxring

An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia


bunny wunny

(UK, childish or endearing) A bunny; a rabbit.


fishy wishy

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


mangar

Luciobarbus esocinus
Luciobarbus esocinus#Translingual

Luciobarbus esocinus, a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Luciobarbus.


hippophile

I have not that vicious and demoralizing love of horse-flesh which makes it next to impossible to find a perfectly honest hippophile.

1887, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Our Hundred Days in Europe:

This book would not be a book for hippophiles without the oft-quoted adage 'no foot – no horse'.

2012, Paul McGreevy, Equine Behavior: A Guide for Veterinarians and Equine Scientists:


vespertilionine

(zoology) Any bat of the family Vespertilionidae or subfamily Vespertilioninae


spirit bear

靈熊

translations based on "spirit bear" — see also Kermode bear


madoqua

(zoology, obsolete) A small Abyssinian antelope, Salt's dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana)


coachdog

(dated) The Dalmatian (often used as a coach dog).


bull terrier

A medium-sized dog of a breed that is a cross between bulldog and terrier.


wheatbird

A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch or meadowlark.


sea cock

A gurnard, such as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini).


hogskin

hogskin (countable and uncountable, plural hogskins)

My spiritual backbone stiffened, and I held my head high, looking all men in the eyes. And I did these things, not that I was an egotist, not that I was impervious to the critical glances of my fellows, but because of a certain hogskin belt, plethoric and sweat-bewrinkled, which buckled next the skin above the hips.

1900, Jack London, The Dignity of Dollars:


hard-mouthed

en-adj

hard-mouthed (comparative more hard-mouthed, superlative most hard-mouthed)

more hard-mouthed (comparative)
most hard-mouthed (superlative)

a hard-mouthed horse

Not sensitive to the bit; not easily governed.

cruabhéalach

not sensible to the bit; not easily governed

a hard-mouthed woman


Ziegler's water rat

en-noun

Ziegler's water rat (plural Ziegler's water rats)

Hydromys ziegleri, a species of water rat native to the mountains of Papua New Guinea.


marikina

From the native name: compare mariquinha.

A small marmoset, the golden lion tamarin, Leontopithecus rosalia.


galagid

(zoology) Any galago in the family Galagidae.


rupicola

(ornithology) Any of several South American passerine birds, of the genus Rupicola, having bright plumage and a fan-shaped crest on the head.


namaycush

Borrowed from Cree ᓇᒣᑯᐢ (namekos, “lake trout”), from Proto-Algonquian *name·kwa (“lake trout”).

der

Salvelinus namaycush
Salvelinus namaycush#Translingual

(Canada, US) The togue: a large North American lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, usually spotted with red.


numbfish

en-noun

numbfish (plural numbfish or numbfishes)

An electric ray of the family Narcinidae, capable of delivering numbing shocks.


ourebi

Alternative form of oribi (“type of antelope”) (Ourebia ourebi)


killigrew

(UK, Scotland, dialect, archaic) A bird, the red-billed chough.


myomorph

(zoology) Any of the suborder Myomorpha of mouse-like rodents.


chimango

chimango (plural chimangos or chimangoes)

From Spanish chimango, from an Aymara word (said to mean "beetle-eater").

Milvago chimango
Milvago chimango#Translingual

Milvago chimango, a South American bird of prey related to the falcon.


bosset

(zoology) A rudimentary antler of a young male deer.


squacco

Borrowed from dialectal Italian sguacco; possibly ultimately imitative of the bird’s cry (compare squawk (“American night heron”)).

[A]n elegant ſpecies of Heron, common to Italy, to Switzerland, and perhaps other parts of Europe. It was firſt deſcribed by Aldrovand [Ulisse Aldrovandi], under the title of Sguacco, a Heron ſo called in the valley of Malalbergo: Mr. [Francis] Willughby calls it the Heron ſtyled Sguacco, we name it from its colours, the cream-coloured Heron.

[1771 August, “Y.”, “The Cream-coloured Heron Described”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XLI, London: Printed for D[avid] Henry, […], →OCLC, page 345, column 1:

SQUACCO H[ERON]. [...] This is an elegant ſpecies, and inhabits the bays of the Caſpian Sea, and the ſlow ſtreams of the ſouthern Deſert. It is alſo met with in Italy, about Bologna, where it is called Sguacco, and is ſaid to be a bold and courageous bird.

1785, John Latham, “Genus LXV. Heron.”, in A General Synopsis of Birds, volume III, part 1st, London: Printed for Leigh & Sotheby, […], →OCLC, paragraph 39 (Squacco H[eron]), page 74:

["]It is also met with in Italy, about Bologna, where it is called Squacco, and is said to be a bold and courageous bird." [Quoting John Latham: see the 1785 quotation.] In the Globe London newspaper, of the 4th December, 1820, it is stated that, "there has been taken within a few miles of Yarmouth, a male bird, of that very rare species, Ardea comata, of [Peter Simon] Pallas, or the Squacco Heron, of Latham."

1826, Thomas Bewick, “The Squacco Heron”, in A History of British Birds, 6th edition, volumes II (Containing the History and Description of Water Birds), Newcastle: Printed by Edw[ard] Walker, […], for T[homas] Bewick; sold by him, Longman and Co., […], →OCLC, page 20:

The pretty little Squaccoes had then shifted their quarters to the reedy edges of the lagoons; and several nests appeared near ready for eggs in the "juncales," or reed-beds; but none of the genus appear to lay before June.

1884 January, Abel Chapman, “IX.—Rough Notes on Spanish Ornithology.”, in Philip Lutley Sclater, Howard Saunders, editors, The Ibis, a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, volume II (Fifth Series), number V, London: John Van Voorst, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 91:

The Night-Herons had their nests a few feet above the water, as had also the Squaccos and Little Egrets, though those of the latter were sometimes placed just above the surface.

1884 April, W[illiam] Eagle Clarke, “XIII.—Field-Notes from Slavonia and Hungary, with an Annotated List of the Birds Observed in Slavonia.”, in Philip Lutley Sclater, Howard Saunders, editors, The Ibis, a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, volume II (Fifth Series), number VI, London: John Van Voorst, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 134:

These trees were occupied, some laden, with hundreds of stick-built nests, the abodes of the southern herons some of which we have already mentioned—Egrets, Squaccos, Buff-backs, Night-Herons, and the like: but nearly all this group nest very late (in June), and the colony was at this season tenantless.

1893, Abel Chapman, Walter J. Buck, “The Bætican Wilderness. Spring-notes of Bird-life, Natural History, and Exploration in the Marisma. Part I.—April.”, in Wild Spain (España Agreste): Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History and Exploration, London: Gurney and Jackson, […] (successors to Mr. [John] Van Voorst), →OCLC, page 81:

Although approaching the Little Bitterns in size and general appearance, the Squacco really belongs to the group of true Herons. They have twelve tail feathers, and the bill shows distinct serrations near the end of the upper mandibles.

1896–1898, Henry O[gg] Forbes, quoting “Dr. Sharpe”, “The Squacco Heron”, in Henry O. Forbes, John Cordeaux, W[illiam] B[ernhardt] Tegetmeier, British Birds with Their Nests and Eggs: In Six Volumes, volumes IV (Orders Herodiones and Odontoglossae; Order Anseres; Orders Columbae and Pterocletes), Hull, Yorkshire, London: Brumby & Clarke, Limited, […], →OCLC, page 21:

[T]his species forms part of a species-group with the Squacco Heron (31), and the two frequent broadly similar habitats except for the Madagascar's apparent preference for more open situations in its non-breeding range [...]. Their maps, however, are distinctly different, with the Squacco more widespread in the W and N, while the distribution of the present species reflects its penetration into Kenya as a migrant from the S.

1989, Adrian Lewis, Derek Pomeroy, “Family Ardeidae: Bitterns, Herons, Egrets”, in A Bird Atlas of Kenya, Rotterdam, Brookfield, Vt.: A[ugust] A[imé] Balkema, →ISBN, paragraph 32 (Madagascar Squacco Heron), page 57, column 2:

The wildlife was particularly concentrated close to the river and indeed in it. The water itself contained catfish, various bream, minnows, stocked black bass, turtles, and was frequented by [...] various herons including squacco, black, night, grey, and bittern.

2011, Rafe Bates, “Bush Adventures”, in Lest I Forget: A Chequered Life, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, part 2, page 157:

Ardeola ralloides
Ardeola ralloides#Translingual

A species of pond heron, Ardeola ralloides, which is small, and brown and white in colour; it is found in Asia, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe.

squawk

American night heron (Nyctanassa violacea)


delundung

(zoology) An East Indian carnivorous mammal, Prionodon linsang, having spots and resembling the civet, but without scent pouches.


kanchil

From the Wilkinson spelling of Malay kancil, kanchil.

A small, agile chevrotain of the genus Tragulus, especially Tragulus kanchil (lesser mouse-deer).


marsh deer

Like pampas deer, marsh deer occur only south of Amazonia.

1998, Valerius Geist, Deer of the World, page 117:

A large deer of the wetlands of South America, Blastocerus dichotomus.


pampas deer

Like many open-country ungulates, the pampas deer tends to explore the unusual

1998, Valerius Geist, Deer of the World, page 116:

A small South American deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus).


kevel

From English dialect kevil, cavel (“rod, pole, a large hammer”), from Middle English kevel, *kavel (“a large stonemason's hammer”), from Old Norse kefli, kafli n (“a cylinder, stick, piece of wood”) and Old Norse kefli, kafli m (“a piece cut off, buoy, piece”). Compare Icelandic kefli (“cylinder, a stick, mangle”), and Danish kievle (“a roller”).


toadish

en-adj

toadish (comparative more toadish, superlative most toadish)

more toadish (comparative)
most toadish (superlative)

revel in a toadish insensibility

The only human occupant of the back seat was a toadish little creature. He held out a severely mangled hand, with clawed, yellowish nails.

2012, Andrew Vachss, Blackjack: A Cross Novel:


warine

Anglicization of French ouarine, a misreading of ouariue (i.e. ouarive), ultimately from the same source as guariba.

A guariba: a South American monkey (sapajou).


ruddy duck

From ruddy (“reddish”) + duck, referring to the rust-coloured body of the male.

Except when migrating, the ruddy duck seldom flies.[…]If disturbed by a predator, the ruddy duck dives to escape.

2004, Laurie E. Likoff, The Encyclopedia of Birds, volume 1, page 802:

Since hybridization with the ruddy duck could lead to extinction of the white-headed duck, Spain began to kill its ruddy ducks. Trials to eliminate ruddy ducks from the U.K. began in 1999, and were overseen by a euphemistically named White-headed Duck Task Force.

2008, Roslyn M. Frank, Body, Language, and Mind: Sociocultural situatedness, volume 2, page 170:

The decision was taken, supported by conservation organizations, that it was necessary to save the white-headed duck species by exterminating all members of the ruddy duck species in Europe, which meant mainly in the UK, where there were an estimated 6000 ruddy ducks in 2000.

2010, Jacky Turner, Animal Breeding, Welfare and Society, unnumbered page:

Oxyura jamaicensis
Oxyura jamaicensis#Translingual

Oxyura jamaicensis, a small stifftail duck, the male of which has a rust-coloured body.


oryctere

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρυκτήρ (oruktḗr, “miner”).


mousekin

“Frisk about, pretty little mousekin,” says grey Grimalkin, purring in the corner, and keeping watch with her green eyes.

1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:

Dufleur blinked at the stuffed oblong bit of gray cloth that had originally been a mousekin for Fairyfoot. The ears and tail were all gone. The fabric was nubby and snagged, with a couple of bits gone, showing the padding.


osseter

From Russian осётр (osjótr, “sturgeon”).

(zoology) Acipenser gueldenstaedtii, the Russian sturgeon.


swellfish

en-noun

swellfish (plural swellfishes or swellfish)

(zoology) Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, such as the pufferfish.


Sealyham terrier

Sealyham terrier (plural Sealyham terriers)


green leek

Polytelis swainsonii
Polytelis swainsonii#Translingual

Polytelis swainsonii, a mostly bright green parrot of southeastern Australia.


whiterump

(archaic) A bird, the black-tailed godwit.


toothbill

The tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris), a fruit-eating pigeon native to the Samoan Islands, somewhat resembling the extinct dodo.


frostfish

frostfish (plural frostfishes or frostfish)

From frost + fish. In the case of the tomcod, so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about when frost comes.


firetail

Any Australian finch of the genus Stagonopleura.


caponet

Some little fragments , that his haunches wore;
Or sure that caponet.

1624, George Chapman, Juvenal's Fifth Satire:


simious

en-adj

simious (comparative more simious, superlative most simious)

more simious (comparative)
most simious (superlative)

that strange simious, schoolboy passion of giving pain to others


thrusher

(UK, obsolete, dialect) The song thrush.


kamichi

From French kamichi, from earlier kamityi. Borrowed from an indigenous language of the Caribbean.

Anhima cornuta
Anhima cornuta#Translingual

A South American bird with a long, slender, horn-like ornament on its head and two sharp spurs on each wing, the horned screamer, Anhima cornuta.


notidanian

(zoology) Any of various sharks of the obsolete family Notidanidae, at present corresponding to the Hexanchidae.


humbird

The Humbird is one of the vvonders of the Countrey, being no bigger than a Hornet, yet hath all the demenſions of a Bird, as bill, and vvings, vvith quills, ſpider-like legges, ſmall clavves: For colour, ſhe is as glorious as the Raine-bovv; as ſhe flies, ſhe makes a little humming noiſe like a Humble-bee: vvherefore ſhee is called the Humbird.

1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 28:


urodelian

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the salamanders of Urodela (synonym of Caudata).


urodelian

Salamanders are urodelians.

(zoology) Any member of the Urodela (synonym of Caudata).


bearing rein

Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it.

[1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 105:


Manx cat

A domestic cat of a breed that is native to the Isle of Man, principally characterized by suppression of the tail, and with a short-haired coat and a medium-sized, rounded, cobby body.


nanpie

Nanpie, the name in local Dai dialect for a sauce-like dish made with fresh ingredients and spices, is one such creation.

2019 September 5, “Flavorful Origins trailor: Nanpie”, in China Culture.org:

Indulge in the delightful flavors of Chinese cuisine with our Nanpie recipe.

2023, “Nanpie-Crispy Chinese Pancakes”, in Fusion Food:

Nanpie or nanmi is a spicy and sour Dai dipping sauce that is prepared using a mortar and pestle — the ingredients are crushed until they turn into a mash.

2024, “Eat Local in Yunnan”, in Taste Atlas:

A traditional Dai spicy and sour paste-like side dish made by combining vegetables, herbs and spices in a mortar and pestle.


redfin

From red + fin. In the breeding season, the male has bright red fins.

The common shiner, a small North American dace, Luxilus cornutus.


barberfish

en-noun

barberfish (plural barberfishes or barberfish)

barberfishes (plural)
barberfish (plural)

Johnrandallia nigrirostris, a cleaner fish.


oquassa

(archaic) A type of blueback trout, Salvelinus oquassa, specifically those found in the Rangeley Lakes Region of Maine. Now considered to be the same species as the Sunapee trout.


ophiophagous

From ophio- (“snake”) + -phagous (“eating”).


weka

The Lord Howe woodhen or woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand.


wishtonwish

From a Native American word which was an onomatopoeic representation of the animals' cry.

On the twenty fourth of October, while on a short excursion from this place, Lt. Pike and Dr. Robertson, (a gentleman who accompanied the expedition,) killed some prairie squirrels, or wishtonwishes, and nine rattle snakes, […]

1812 April, “Pike's Expedition”, in The General Repository and Review, volume 1, page 398:

[…] who, it turned out, devoted all his spending money to them, asked me if I had ever seen a "wishtonwish."

1937, James Thurber, Let Your Mind Alone, page 189:

(US, obsolete, except perhaps in dialects) The prairie dog.


filander

(obsolete) A pademelon (Thylogale spp.).


vansire

Borrowed from French vansire, from Malagasy vontsira.

(zoology) An ichneumon, Atilax paludinosus (syn. Herpestes galera), native to Africa and Madagascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white.


microhylid

(zoology) Any of the frog family Microhylidae.


scaphiophrynine

(zoology) Any of the frogs in the microhylid subfamily Scaphiophryninae.


firmisternal

(biology, of frogs) Having the epicoracoid cartilages fused both anteriorly and posteriorly.


arciferal

(biology, of frogs) Having the epicoracoid cartilages fused anteriorly, but separate and overlapping posteriorly.

arcífero

having the epicoracoid cartilages fused anteriorly, but separate and overlapping posteriorly


solan goose

Morus bassanus
Morus bassanus#Translingual

(archaic) Morus bassanus, a seabird, the northern gannet.


croupade

A leap in which the horse pulls its hind legs up towards the belly.


water mouse

From Middle English water mous, watermowse, equivalent to water + mouse.

(zoology) Any of several species of rodents of the genus Hydromys, native to New Guinea and Australia, with strong hind legs and partially webbed toes.


ullet

Compare Old French hullote, English howlet.

(archaic, UK) The tawny owl, Strix aluco.


tody

Any of the genus Todus of small insectivorous Caribbean birds.


lancefish

lancefish (plural lancefishes or lancefish)

A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus, found in British waters.


whaap

(Scotland, obsolete) The European curlew; called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup.

(Scotland, obsolete) The whimbrel; called also May whaup, little whaup, and tang whaup.


velverd

(UK, dialect, archaic, rare, West Country, Wiltshire) A bird, the fieldfare.


amphiuma

(zoology) Any of the genus Amphiuma of aquatic salamanders.


locustella

(zoology) A bird, the European cricket warbler.


swallowfish

Chelidonichthys lucerna, the tub gurnard or sapphirine gurnard.


minny

All I know is, it doesn't seem strange in the turkeys, and same way I've seen rock-fish move like soldiers on a school of minnies; but for the plovers to do the like seemed all out of place, somehow[…]

1901, Charles Conrad Abbott, A naturalist's rambles about home:


wamp

Probably from Massachusett wompi (“white”).


ghostfish

ghostfish (plural ghostfishes or ghostfish)

From ghost + fish, from its pale colour.

The wrymouth, Cryptacanthodes maculatus.


lungie

A rectangular piece of cloth that is wrapped around a man's waist and tied to form a skirt-like garment, traditional in India and some other South Asian countries.


lobefoot

(archaic) A bird with lobate toes, especially the phalarope.


guffer

In many respects, this is what marks out the true fartsmith from the amateur guffer[…]


Caspian tiger

Panthera tigris tigris
Panthera tigris tigris#Translingual

An extinct race of Panthera tigris tigris, that had been recorded in the wild until the early 1970s, and formerly inhabited the sparse forest habitats and riverine corridors west and south of the Caspian Sea, from Turkey, Iran and west through Central Asia into the Taklamakan Desert of Xinjiang, China.


horner

From Middle English horner, hornere, equivalent to horn + -er.

The British sand lance or sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus.


podder

Brrrtr had even sent Hrrryr, a podder. They had been born in the same pod.

2007, Samuel Blankson, The Kolumbas Affair, page 195:

'It's the essential meat gunk that is supplied to the still-living podders,' she explained.

2010, Robertski Brothers, The McAtrix Derided:

Paul says he started out as a Podder. He tried to do development deals with the Inner and Outer Systems, and he only became a renegade when he was betrayed by both.'

2013, Charles Sheffield, Proteus Unbound:

(science fiction) One who was born in or lives in a pod.


podder

podder (countable and uncountable, plural podders)

If Ah'd only got some podder, Ah can mek Fourt' of July raght here.

1894 July 5, “Fourth of July at Highfield Poorhouse”, in Youth's Companion, volume 67, page 307:

Thursday the Therd Day: I Kept Laising aBought all Day for I was very Laisay only I made a Stople to a podder Horn : and So on:

1966, Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum - Volume 12, page 281:

And when I remarked I couldn't provide 'em with no meat since I was out of podder for my rifle, Micajah--or Big Harpe as some calls him-- he smiled, sorta chuckled, and lent over the table, and said, 'No man oughta be without podder,' — or something like that and then poured out of his own horn.

2005, Kenneth Tucker, A Wilderness of Tigers, page 5:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


podder

It sounds like treacle,' said Abe, with a puzzled look; but I don't see what the podder's got to do with it, anyhow; and the young woman's got no business to be wasting her time waiting for the milk to set.

1898, The Literary World - Volume 57, page 70:

Now and then toads would appear, and the shout " There's a podder!" would come from some child or other during an acute moving crisis.

1930, Mother Cecile in South Africa, 1883-1906: Foundress of the Community of the Resurrection of Our Lord, page 37:

Speaking of toads—after a rainfall in South African country places, the roads would be hopping with great, fat, ugly, croaking toads (known to us kids as 'podders').

2006, F. M. K. Ridgway, Our Wandering Years, page 227:


lionel

From Old French [Term?], diminutive of lion.


derbio

A large European food fish, Trachinotus ovatus.


kiack

Common names for the alewife are gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, or kiack.

2007, “Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)”, in Fisheries and Aquaculture—Government of Nova Scotia, retrieved 2011-11-30:

Finally, I visited a group of kiack fishermen down in Argyle. This was a new fishery to me. The kiack (also called gaspereau and alewife in other areas) is fished with a dip net out of small brooks in the Tusket River area.

2010, William Casselman, Nova Scotia Fish Word: Kiack, www.billcasselman.com (retrieved 29 Nov. 2011)

(Canada) Alosa pseudoharengus, a species of small freshwater fish, also known as the alewife.


chukar

Borrowed from Hindi चकोर (cakor), from Sanskrit चकोर (cakora).

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:

The climate is dry and at the time the chukars hatch that Is In their favor.

1937, Monthly Bulletin of the Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission, Texas. Game, Fish, and Oyster Commission:

I bagged this one on Michigan's upper peninsula. ruffed grouse to be more difficult to hit, but the chukar is the most difficult to get to. I have hunted chukar when they held tight to the point of a dog and the .410 was plenty of gun, but I have also hunted them when the 12-gauge was none too much.

2003, Layne Simpson, Shotguns & Shotgunning, page 92:

Alectoris chukar
Alectoris chukar#Translingual

A bird of species of partridge native to central Asia (Alectoris chukar).


tapiroid

Any perissodactyl of the superfamily Tapiroidea


sea pie

In the West Bay we had pretty good sport among the sea pies and shaggs […] .

1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 24 May

(archaic) The oystercatcher (any of several black or pied coastal wading birds in the genus Haematopus that have a long red or orange bill and feed on shellfish).


hatteria

From obsolete translingual Hatteria, which was a genus proposed in 1842 and later rejected.

The skull of the hatteria is more like that of a crocodile than like that of any other reptile; but on the other hand its legs are like those of the lizard […]

1891, Julia McNair Wright, Nature Readers: Sea-side and Way-side, number 4, page 163:

A Red-breasted Water lizard, appropriately christened “Robin,” seemed more especially to excite its ire in the vain pursuit of which the hatteria would rush out from its lair with angry gruntings whenever that lizard chanced to trespass too closely […]

1902, Animal Life and the World of Nature:

This association favours the hatterias which feed on the numerous insects attracted by the birds' excrement.

1975, Pierre Paul Grassé, Larousse Encyclopedia of the Animal World, page 407:


Chantilly

From French Chantilly, from Medieval Latin Chantileium, ultimately from Gallo-Roman personal name in Latin Cantilius.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.


nine-killer

The bird was believed to kill and impale on thorns nine birds, etc., in succession.

Lanius borealis
Lanius borealis#Translingual

(archaic) The northern shrike (Lanius borealis).


oxshoe

(historical) A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron that is nailed to the hoof.


buzzardet

Pandion haliaetus
Pandion haliaetus#Translingual

(US, obsolete) A bird of prey mentioned in New England historical accounts, probably the osprey, Pandion haliaetus.


service dog

A spinal cord injury will confine him to a wheelchair for life. . . . He has a service dog and lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment, although there are relatives nearby.

2007 April 18, Rita Healy, “Echoes of Columbine”, in Time:

Reggie was a “release” from Guiding Eyes; he kept leading his trainers into light poles, so he was deemed temperamentally unsuited to be a service dog.

2011 June 11, Robin Finn, “Sunday Routine: Jessica Walter”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-12-05:

activities of daily living
activities of daily living

post-traumatic stress disorder
post-traumatic stress disorder

A dog that serves humans by helping them with activities of daily living, with search and rescue, or with other (non-draft and non-farming) tasks.

A dog that assists a person who has a physical disability or has a mental disability such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

gos d'assistència

dog that assists a handicapped person or an official


tupaiid

Some authors rank tupaiids in a separate order Tupaioidea (Martin, 1966), while others retain them among the Primates (Napier and Napier, 1967) or 1nsectivora (Hill, 1953b).
The uncertainty surrounding tupaiid phylogeny is a consequence of an inadequate fossil record.

1987, F. A. Jenkins, Jr., “1: Tree Shrew Locomotion and the Origins of Primate Arborealism”, in John G. Fleagle, editor, Primate Evolution and Human Origins, page 2:

Dental characters have proven to be of little use as there is no Paleocene tree shrew, which would show more primitive tupaiid dental characters. From the dentition of living tupaiids, one would easily infer that all of them have derived characters that prevent them from being ancestral to primates, among which [are] specializations in their dentitions or molar characters in tupaiines (see Butler, 1980).

2007, Marc Godinot, “Chapter 4: Primate Origins: A Reappraisal of Historical Data Favoring Tupaiid Affinities”, in Matthew J. Ravosa, Marian Dagosto, editors, Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution, page 120:

Figure 12.16 A typical tupaiid. This common treeshrew (Tupaia glis) superficially resembles a squirrel. Tupaiids have had a confused taxonomic history—at various times being placed in the Orders Primates and Insectivora, and currently within their own order, Scandentia.

2007, George A. Feldhamer, Lee C. Drickamer, Stephen H. Vessey, Joseph F. Merritt, Carey Krajewski, Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology, 3rd edition, page 252:

(zoology) Any of the family Tupaiidae of tree shrews.


carrier pigeon

At length, after wheeling his toothpick slowly round and round in the air, as if it were a carrier pigeon just thrown up, he suddenly made a dart at the drawing,

1843, Charles Dickens, chapter 21, in Martin Chuzzlewit:

Once on her window-sill Harmony found among the pigeons a carrier pigeon with a brass tube fastened to its leg.

1914, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 25, in The Street of Seven Stars:

Two days after the first U.S. bridgehead had been thrown back at Rapido (see p. 23), a U.S. carrier pigeon winged wearily into its home base in Italy. Clipped to its leg was this German sneer: "Herewith your message pigeon is returned. We have plenty to eat."

1944 February 7, “World Battlefronts: Men at War—The Bird”, in Time:

For the second time in four months, prison guards foiled an attempt to smuggle a cellphone into a prison by carrier pigeon.

2009 July 3, “Brazil: A Cellphone Carrier Is Thwarted”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-12-05:

A domestic pigeon which transports attached messages or very small parcels from the place where it is released to a familiar destination.


guevi

(zoology) Any pygmy antelope of the genus Cephalophus, the duikers, of Africa.


molossine

The monk bat is a molossine.

(zoology, dated) A bat of the genus Molossus.


birdikin

Mrs. Prior and her basket were gone when we repaired to the drawing-room: having been hunting all day, the hungry mother had returned with her prey to her wide-mouthed birdikins.

1860 January–June, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, Lovel the Widower, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1861, →OCLC:


lap dog

A lady loses her muff, her fan, or her lap-dog, and so the silly poet runs home to versify the disaster.

1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], chapter XVII, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:

There might ye ſee the pioney ſpread vvide, / The full-blovvn roſe, the ſhepherd and his laſs, / Lap-dog and lambkin vvith black ſtaring eyes, / And parrots vvith tvvin cherries in their beak.

1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 3:

Frau von Greifenstein had seated herself in a straw chair with her parasol, her fan and her lap-dog, a little toy terrier which was always suffering from some new and unheard-of nervous complaint.

1889, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 4, in Greifenstein:

Steffi is a tricolor King Charles spaniel, an archetypal lap dog and love sponge, barely a foot high and no more than 10 pounds.

2007 December 1, Harry Hurt III, “Proof That Overscheduled Modern Life Isn’t Fit for a Dog”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-12-05:

A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner.

gos falder

small dog suited to resting in its master's lap


trainbearer

Either of two species of long-tailed hummingbirds in the genus Lesbia, found in tropical South America.


trachinoid

en-adj

trachinoid (comparative more trachinoid, superlative most trachinoid)

more trachinoid (comparative)
most trachinoid (superlative)

(zoology) Of, pertaining to, or like fish of genus Trachinus (the weevers).


branlin

A small red worm or larva, used as bait for fish.


chewink

A bird, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, the eastern towhee.


sea scorpion

Myoxocephalus scorpius
Myoxocephalus scorpius#Translingual

A European sculpin, Myoxocephalus scorpius (synonym Cottus scorpius), having the head armed with short spines.


winnard

(Cornwall, Devon, obsolete) The redwing.


gibfish

When a gib fish has found a stream that he likes , he makes a hole as a swine works in the ground with his nose , his mouth being nailed with the gib in its socket

1834, Thomas Medwin, The Angler in Wales: Or, Days and Nights of Sportsmen:

In Northumberland the male [salmon] is called a summercock, or gibfish

1885, Edward Hamilton, Recollections of Fly Fishing for Salmon, Trout, and Grayling:


ophiolatry

From ophio- + -latry, from Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”) and λατρεία (latreía, “worship”).

The serpent depicted on one of the food vessels is so close in its symbolism to this mythic being of Tusayan folklore that it is probable ophiolatry of a kindred sort was practiced in the ancient pueblo of Sikyatki where it was found.

1896, Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the Board of Regents:


seaswine

From sea + swine. Compare Middle English brunswin (“porpoise”).

The seaswine are almost always seen in troops, especially in their sexual season, which is in the month of August.

1828, John Davidson Godman, American natural history:


roughtail

A small snake of the family Uropeltidae.


malacopterygian

(archaic) (zoology) Any of the obsolete order of fish Malacopterygii.


batrachophagous

/bəˈtɹækəˌfeɪɡəs/

/ˌbætɹəˈkɒfəɡəs/

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

der

[…] the frogs had their full share in the general calamity. The convention of Cintra delivered the remnant of the race from their batrachophagous oppressors […]


piciform

(zoology) Of or pertaining to Piciformes


butterbird

(Jamaica) The bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus).


holostean

(zoology) Any fish of the class or infraclass Holostei.


roughleg

Buteo lagopus
Buteo lagopus#Translingual


dermopteran

(mammalogy) Any mammal in the order Dermoptera, a colugo.


ortygan

From Ancient Greek, stem of ὄρτυξ (órtux, “quail, Coturnix”).


ouarine

From French ouarine (which see for more), from the same source as English guariba.


crossopterygian

From Crossopterygia + -an, Greek krossoí “tassels, fringe” + -o- + pterýgion “little wing or fin,” equivalent to pteryg- (stem of pterýx ) “wing, fin” + -ion + -an.

One consequence was that the crossopterygian fishes (distantly related to the famous ‘living fossil’ coelacanth Latimeria) were dethroned from their privileged position as ancestors.

2000, Richard Fortey, “No Such Thing as a Fish”, in London Review of Books, volume 22, number 13:

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii, an infraclass of bony fish.


bogsucker

From bog + sucker, from its habit of feeding among bogs.


buckstall

Our ambushed troops, like cataracts falling into a torrent, joined the vanguard, and as fishes in a net or deer in a buckstall, the enemies were surrounded, closed, hemmed in.

1867, Georgiana Fullerton, A Stormy Life: A Novel:


whittret

(archaic) Alternative spelling of whitret (“weasel”)


caranx

Any member of the fish genus Caranx; jacks, trevallies, or kingfishes.


padge

(obsolete, Leicestershire) The barn owl.


porket

Adorned in white, a reverend priest appears, / And offerings to the flaming altars bears— ; / A porket, and a lamb that never suffered shears.

1697, Virgil, “The Twelfth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

[…] his yards abound with poultry, and his fields with flocks and herds of kids, lambs, and porkets.

1838, William Howitt, The Rural Life of England:


nigrita

Any member of genus Nigrita, certain estrildid finches.


minow

he gets him into swifter and swifter streams, and there lies at the watch for any flie or Minow that comes neer

1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:


thornhog

From Middle English thornhog, equivalent to thorn + hog.


ayu

Plecoglossus altivelis
Plecoglossus altivelis#Translingual

A sweetfish, an amphidromous fish of East Asia, the only member of its genus and family, Plecoglossus altivelis, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh. It is a game fish and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.


broadmouth

(dated) broadbill (one of the Eurylaimidae family of Asian passerine birds).


hypural

From hypo- (“under”) + Ancient Greek οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -al.

af

hypural plate, hypural piece, hypural bone


thiller

, And apron, and scissars for head and for tail,
Whole bridle and saddle, whitleather, and nall,
With collars and harness, for thiller and all[…]

1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:

The horse that goes between the thills, or shafts of a carriage, and supports them.


ticpolonga

A very venomous viper (Daboia russelii), native to Sri Lanka and India.


thunderworm

From thunder + worm, so called because it leaves its burrows after a thunderstorm.

A small burrowing snake-like lizard (Rhineura floridana) native to Florida.


pinnock

Unknown. Perhaps from a base pin, of unknown origin + -ock (diminutive suffix).


cobswan

From cob (“one who is eminent or great”) + swan.

compound

I'am not taken / With a Cob-Swan, or a high-mounting Bull / As fooliſh Leda and Europa were.

1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, Act II:

[T]here's plenty hint / Your pinions have received of late a shock— / Out-soar them, cobswan of the silver flock!

1840 March, Robert Browning, “Book the Second”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 83:


goggler

A carangoid marine fish (Selar crumenophthalmus) with large, prominent eyes.


missel

en-noun

missel (countable and uncountable, plural missels)


longiroster

From Latin longus (“long”) + rostrum (“beak”). Compare French longirostre.

(obsolete) One of the Longirostres, a former family of long-billed birds, such as the snipe.


trundletail

15th century, Juliana Berners, Hawking, Hunting, Fouling and Fishing, London: Adam Islip, 1596, “The names of diuers Hounds,”
[…] Trindle tailes, and pricke eared Curres, and small Ladie Puppies, that beare away the fleas and diuers small faults.

Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim,
Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,
Bobtail tyke or trundle-tail—
Tom will make them weep and wail;
For, with throwing thus my head,
Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:

Doe you sneere, you dogs-head, you Trendle tayle!

1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, page 26:

[…] what did you take me to be? […] a Woodcock amongst birds, […] amongst Cu[r]s a trindle tale,

a. 1639, John Webster, Appius and Virginia, published 1654, Act III, Scene 1:

(obsolete) A dog with a rounded, curled-up tail.


hellkite

From hell + kite, with the rapacious implication of kite (“bird of prey”).

O hellkite!

A person who is cruel and wicked, like a devil.


malapterurid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Malapteruridae; an electric catfish.


hepper

(archaic, Devon) A young salmon; a parr.


flindermouse

From flinder (“moth, butterfly”) + mouse. Compare Dutch vlinder (“butterfly”). Compare also flittermouse, flinder.


scug

Scottish and Northern English from Old Norse skuggi, from Proto-Germanic *skuwwô (“shadow, reflection”). Cognate with Icelandic skuggi, Swedish skugga, Danish skygge, Old English sċūa, sċūwa (“a shade”).

der

(Northern England, Scotland) Shade, shadow.

"Let's go scug-hunting" is a common phrase. […] a stick with a leaden head, used for knocking down birds and scugs (squirrels).

1883, Alfred Easther, A Glossary of the Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield, page 78:


scug

en-verb

scug (third-person singular simple present scugs, present participle scugging, simple past and past participle scugged)

scugs (present singular third-person)
scugging (participle present)
scugged (participle past)
scugged (past)

(Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To shelter; to protect.

(Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To hide; to take shelter.


jashawk

Apparently an altered form of eyas + hawk.


jentling

Squalius cephalus
Squalius cephalus#Translingual

Leuciscus cephalus
Leuciscus cephalus#Translingual

A chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus) found in the Danube.


messenger pigeon

en-noun

messenger pigeon (plural messenger pigeons)


painted dog

Lycaon pictus
Lycaon pictus#Translingual


painted wolf

Calque of New Latin Lycaon pictus, its taxonomic name.


African wild dog

African wild dog (plural African wild dogs)


Duroc

Early 19th century, from the name of a stallion said to have been bought by the breeder, Isaac Frinck, on the same day as the pigs from which he developed the breed.

A pig of a reddish breed developed in North America.


rufous-bellied kookaburra

rufous-bellied kookaburra (plural rufous-bellied kookaburras)

A kookaburra of species Dacelo gaudichaud, of lowland New Guinea.


blue-winged kookaburra

blue-winged kookaburra (plural blue-winged kookaburras)

A kookaburra of species Dacelo leachii, of northern Australia and New Guinea.


laughing kookaburra

laughing kookaburra (plural laughing kookaburras)

Dacelo novaeguineae
Dacelo novaeguineae#Translingual

A kookaburra of species Dacelo novaeguineae, native to eastern Australia and famed for its loud laugh-like call.

Nahatʼeʼiitsoh Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ tábąąh naalzheehiitsoh dinilbáhígíí


inanga

(New Zealand) A fish, the jollytail (Galaxias maculatus).


wheelbird

From wheel + bird, from the sound of its cry?

(UK, dialect, dated) The European goatsucker.


matie

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(UK and Scotland, archaic) A fat herring with undeveloped roe.


leamer

From French limier, from Old French liemier, from Latin ligamen (“band, bandage”). See lien.


ahu

The goitered gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa.


ahu

On Rapa Nui, a stone platform on which moai (statues) were erected.


didelphid

(zoology) A member of Didelphidae; opossum


swordbill

A hummingbird, Docimastes ensiferus, with a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.


maikong

The Maikong (Canis cancrivorus) is a crab-eating fox-wolf, found in Guiana, where it runs in small packs.

1891, James William Buel, The Living World:

The Crab-Eating Wolf, Canis cancrivorus, or Maikong, is a slender, long-legged, jackal-like animal, with a short, broad, blunt-nosed head, rounded ears of moderate size, placed wide apart, oblique eyes with oblong pupils, and a tail nearly touching the ground.

1897, Hugh Craig, The Animal Kingdom, page 254:

What is one to think of a theory which does not allow the fox to pass as an ancestor of the dog, when in our own day South American Indians tame the Maikong jackal-fox into a domestic animal much resembling a dog?

1959, Richard Katz, Solitary Life, page 43:

Those licking their stamps are thus confronted with a (according to experts) Malaysian bearded swine instead of a wild boar, and exotic white-winged woodpecker and not the great spotted woodpecker, an Indian four-horn antilope instead of a deer and not a fox but a maikong from Central and South America.

2004, Aad Krol, Timo de Rijk, editors, Yearbook Dutch Design 03/04:

Cerdocyon thous
Cerdocyon thous#Translingual

(rare) Synonym of crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous)


finnikin

An extinct variety of pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the mane of a horse.


megaceros

New Latin, from Ancient Greek, meaning "great horn".


hornsnake

A nonvenomous, semiaquatic snake, Farancia abacura, found in the southern United States. Its upperside is glossy black, and its underside is red and black.


leviner

(obsolete) A type of dog, apparently related to the greyhound and noted for its speed.


hornfish

hornfish (plural hornfishes or hornfish)


tenderling

Now […] have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses.

1586, William Harrison, The Description of England:

(archaic) One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.

(zoology) One of the first antlers of a deer.


sea raven

An American cottoid fish, Hemitripterus americanus, allied to the sculpins.


megalops

A large fish of species Megalops atlanticus (Atlantic tarpon).


kalasie

A long-tailed monkey, Presbytis rubicundus, native to Borneo.


trochilidist

This species […] has been a great puzzle to me, as it must be to every Trochilidist who studies the little green Humming-birds to which the generic name of Chlorostilbon has been applied.

1832, John Gould, “Chlorostilbon Osberti”, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London:

One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of hummingbirds.


thickbill

Any of a number or other thick-billed birds, such as the pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator).


ruru

Borrowed from Maori ruru. First use in English appears c. 1842.


thornbird

(archaic) A small South American bird (Anumbius annumbi) that builds a large and complex nest of twigs and thorns.


tamanoir

From French tamanoir, a variant representation of the same Tupian word as tamandua. Doublet of tamandua.


wariangle

From Middle English wariangel, weryangle, possibly from Old English *weargincel with the second element reanalyzed as *weargengel. Compare Old English wearg (“outlaw, criminal”), German würgengel (“destroying angel, destroyer, killer”), -incel (“diminutive suffix”) and English worry.

cog

Lanius collurio
Lanius collurio#Translingual

(UK, obsolete or dialect) The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio).


ammodyte

From Latin ammodytes, from Ancient Greek "sand burrower, a kind of serpent".

(obsolete) One of the genus Ammodytes of fishes; the sand eel.

Vipera ammodytes
Vipera ammodytes#Translingual

(obsolete) A species of viper (Vipera ammodytes) of southeastern Europe.


redtail

Buteo jamaicensis
Buteo jamaicensis#Translingual


ringlestone

(UK, obsolete) The ringed dotterel, or ringed plover.


beeve

Back-formation from beeves, plural of beef.

They would knock down the first beeve they met with.

1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington:


hornyhead

Any North American chubs of the genus Nocomis, especially Nocomis biguttatus.


tuscor

(obsolete) a tush (canine tooth) of a horse.


hair seal

Any of various seals which have coarse hair rather than fur

especially the true seals or earless seals of family Phocidae.


scorpene

The scorpionfish, a marine food fish of the genus Scorpaena.


yarwhip

Limosa lapponica
Limosa lapponica#Translingual

(obsolete) The bar-tailed godwit, Limosa lapponica


yakin

Budorcas taxicolor
Budorcas taxicolor#Translingual

A large Himalayan antelope, Budorcas taxicolor


warrah

From Guaraní aguará (“fox”), via Spanish guará.

A few still live on the remote coasts of Tierra del Fuego, and though warrahs and gauchos vanished from the Falklands soon after Darwin's visit, striated caracaras still cling to life on the archipelago's outer islands, where they hunt and scavenge in colonies of penguins, seals, and albatrosses.

2021, Jonathan Meiburg, A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey, Vintage, →ISBN, page 8:

Falkland Islands wolf
Falkland Islands wolf

Dusicyon australis
Dusicyon australis#Translingual

A Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis), a canid that became extinct in 1876.


porkling

And serue thee in winter, more ouer than that,
to shut vp thy porklings thou mindest to fat


apery

en-noun

apery (countable and uncountable, plural aperies)

If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.

1862 August – 1863 March, Charles Kingsley, chapter IV, in The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, London, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., published 1863, →OCLC, page 156:


lepidosiren

From lepido- + Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn, “Siren”).


cheven

(archaic, dialectal) A river fish, the chub.


mulley

Streamlined for action thin, flat and long, it mouth armed with two broad lines of sharp teeth – the mulley is all that it is said to be, a "fresh water shark", an eater of offal and a killer of fish.

1956, The March of India - Volume 8, page 15:

A closer look revealed a more silvery colouration and proper teeth, identifying it as a mulley (Wallagu attu). It weighed around twenty pounds, and to prove it was no fluke, I caught three smaller.

I was overwhelmed with mixed feelings of triumph and sorrow I must admit, as I watched the Mulley come swimming along reluctantly, a beautiful, sleek supple black-seeming fish.

2013, Simren Kaur, Fin Feather and Field, page 134:

A giant Asian catfish, Wallagonia Attu found in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Indochina, Thailand, Java, and Sumatra.


zandmole

From Dutch zandmol, from zand (“sand”) + mol (“mole”).

The sand mole or coast rat (Bathyergus suillus)


coast rat

(zoology) A small South African mammal (Bathyergus suillus), that builds extensive burrows.


sewel

From Early Middle English sheueles (“scarecrow”) [and other forms]; probably from Old English *scīewels, from sċīen (“to be frightened or startled; to recoil in fear”) (from Proto-West Germanic *skiuhijan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“frightened; bashful, coy, shy, timid; cautious, reserved”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, *skūbʰ- (“to drive, move forward, push”) or *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to hide”)) + -els (suffix forming masculine nouns). Doublet of shy.
cognates
* Middle English asheuelen, asheulen (verb)
* Middle Low German schūwelse
* Middle High German schiusel, schusel (modern German Scheusal (“beast; monster”))
* Old High German sciuhen (Middle High German schiuhen, schiuwen, German scheuen (“to scare”))

nb...

schawles, scheules, shaules, sheules, shewelys, shueles

inh

Their sewels are made by tying a tassel of birch rind , formed like the wing of a paper kite , to the small end of a slight stick , about six feet in length. These sticks are pricked into the ground about ten or a dozen yards apart

1768, John Cartwright, Remarks on the Situation of the Aborigines of Newfoundland …:

A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place.


petauristid

(zoology) Any member of the genus Petaurista, including some flying squirrels.


phalangerid

Orbital orientation in the slow-moving phalangerid Phalanger maculatus is more primate-like than in other phalangerids, including Pseudocheirus lemuroides, one of the most acrobatic of arboreal marsupials.

1972, Matt Cartmill, “4: Arboreal Adaptations and the Origin of Order Primates”, in Russell Tuttle, editor, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, published 2009, page 112:

One of these species, Phalanger gymnotis (ground cuscus), is reported to be the most frugivorous of the eight New Guinean phalangerid species, and is perhaps the most frugivorous of all phalangerids.

1999, Ian D. Hume, Marsupial Nutrition, page 202:

Phalangerids are predominantly herbivorous, and some prefer leaves, whereas others eat more fruit, flowers, or grasses.

2010, Peter S. Ungar, Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity, page 139:

(zoology) Any of the nocturnal marsupials of family Phalangeridae, which includes cuscuses and brushtail possums.


lake trout

en-noun

lake trout (plural lake trouts or lake trout)

lake trouts (plural)
lake trout (plural)

Salvelinus namaycush
Salvelinus namaycush#Translingual

A large species of trout found in lakes in North America, Salvelinus namaycush.


melanure

From Ancient Greek μελάνουρος (melánouros, “saddled sea bream”) from μελανός (melanós) (genitive of μέλας (mélas, “black”)) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).

uder

(obsolete) A small fish of the Mediterranean, Oblada melanura


sea hog

"[O]ne would have judged from its motley hues, exhibiting the consistence and appearance of variegated fancy soap, that it was the flesh of the porpoise or sea-hog, and had been an inhabitant of the ocean rather than of the stye."

1890, Willis J. Abbot, chapter 24, in The Naval History of the United States, volume 1:

The story of the transformation of the mariners is supposed by Bochart to have been founded on the adventure of certain merchants from the coast of Etruria, whose vessel had the figure of a dolphin at the prow, or rather of the fish called ‘tursio,’ probably the porpoise, or sea-hog.

1899, Henry Thomas Riley (translator), Ovid (author), The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Book 3, Fable 8 (translator's explanation)


weeverfish

en-noun

weeverfish (plural weeverfishes or weeverfish)

weeverfishes (plural)
weeverfish (plural)

weever (type of fish in family Trachinidae)


topminnow

From top + minnow, since they swim near the surface.

Any of the ray-finned fish in the taxonomic family Fundulidae.


whiptail gulper

whiptail gulper (plural whiptail gulpers)

A species of gulper eel, Saccopharynx schmidti


white marlin

A marlin of species Kajikia albida (syn. Tetrapturus albidus).


yellowmargin triggerfish

yellowmargin triggerfish (plural yellowmargin triggerfish or yellowmargin triggerfishes)

yellowmargin triggerfish (plural)
yellowmargin triggerfishes (plural)

A species of triggerfish, Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus


weather loach

A loach of the genus Misgurnus, the behavior of which changes in response to changes in barometric pressure.


alvarezsaurid

Any small, long-legged running dinosaur of the family †Alvarezsauridae.


weatherfish

weatherfish (plural weatherfishes or weatherfish)

weatherfishes (plural)
weatherfish (plural)

A loach of the genus Misgurnus
especially, Misgurnus fossilis


azhdarchoid

Any pterosaur of the superfamily Azhdarchoidea.


alvarezsauroid

Any small, long-legged running dinosaur of the superfamily Alvarezsauroidea


white croaker

Pennahia argentata, a species of croaker found in the Northwest Pacific


calamosaur

Any small theropod dinosaur of the genus †Calamosaurus


tonguefish

tonguefish (plural tonguefishes or tonguefish)

tonguefishes (plural)
tonguefish (plural)

Members of the family Cynoglossidae, the tonguefishes are for the most part too small to be of much interest as food fishes.

1988, Gar Goodson, Fishes of the Pacific Coast, page 163:

The tonguefishes are flatfishes found in the tropical and subtropical seas of the world, hut some species are found in freshwater hahitats (see Achiridae for a discussion of flatfishes).

1997, David W. Greenfield, Jamie E. Thomerson, Fishes of the Continental Waters of Belize, page 252:

But the tonguefish are unaffected by the noxious gases.
The ”narked" fish end up as chow for the tonguefish.

2010, Pat Senson, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Animal Sex and Other Weird Behaviour, page 249:

Any of the flatfishes in the taxonomic family Cynoglossidae, distinguished by the presence of a long hook on the snout overhanging the mouth.


brachiosaurid

Any herbivorous dinosaur of the family Brachiosauridae.


jawfish

Any of many marine fish, of the family Opistognathidae, that have large mouths.


dinmont

(Scotland) A wether sheep between one and two years old.


physeter

(zoology) A member of the genus Physeter; a sperm whale.


hemionus

[…] the ass seldom has stripes on its legs and the hemionus has none and has not even a shoulder-stripe, […]

1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Laws of Variation”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 165:


rubythroat

ruby-throated hummingbird
ruby-throated hummingbird

Any of several species of birds, the males having a brilliant patch of metallic red on the throat.

A ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris).

Calliope calliope
Calliope calliope#Translingual

A Siberian rubythroat (Calliope calliope) or white-tailed rubythroat (Calliope pectoralis),of genus Calliope (syn. Luscinia).

A ruby-throated bulbul (Rubigula dispar, syn. Pycnonotus dispar).


blue-eye

blue-faced honeyeater
blue-faced honeyeater

The blue-faced honeyeater of Australia (Entomyzon cyanotis).

Fish of the family Pseudomugilidae, native to Australia and New Guinea.


becker

Pagrus pagrus
Pagrus pagrus#Translingual

(archaic) A European fish, Pagrus pagrus


eelblenny

Any fish of genus Lumpenus, resembling an eel, found in subarctic waters, especially Lumpenus sagitta and Lumpenus fabricii (slender eelblenny).


Dandie Dinmont

Named after a character in Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott.

A terrier of a small Scottish breed with long body, short legs, and a distinctive "topknot" of hair on the head.


swanny

From “(I) shall warrant ye”; later re-interpreted as a minced oath of swear. Compare swan.

I swanny if I ever felt so in my life ! I was so anxious about that long letter that I sent to them to get printed for you, that I was dreadful loth to go in, and eenamost made up my mind to turn about and make tracks for the sloop agin !

1843, Ann Sophia Stephens, High Life in New York, page 7:

I swanny! but that was a warm time for me, Miss—it sure was. There was that ol' she b'ar with her mouth as wide open as a church door or, so it looked to Jerry Todd.

1913, Alice B. Emerson, Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp, Start Classics, →ISBN:

Here I was, with Miss Marie looking at me, expecting me to say what she wanted me to say, and I knew the Good Lord was looking down on me, too, expecting me to tell the truth. I swanny, I didn't know what to do.

2004, Ann Roscopf Allen, A Serpent Cherished, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 172:

Alternative form of swan (“declare, swear”)


coralfish

coralfish (plural coralfishes or coralfish)

Certain fish of the butterflyfish family (Chaetodontidae spp.).


noctilionid

(zoology) A South American bat of the genus Noctilio, with cheek pouches and large incisor teeth; a bulldog bat.


spring peeper

Because it peeps (makes a sound) in the spring (the season).

It was May before the skunk cabbage began to push up through the ooze of the swamps, before the rhubarb reddened to the back corner of the garden and the spring peepers finally emerged and began abrading the edges of the night with their lovesick vibrato.

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

A small chorus frog of North America (Pseudacris crucifer).


chipping sparrow

chipping sparrow (plural chipping sparrows)

A sparrow of species Spizella passerina, endemic to North America.


redfinch

Linaria cannabina
Linaria cannabina#Translingual

(rare) The common linnet (Linaria cannabina).


fringilline

(zoology) Pertaining to the family Fringillidae, the true finches.


fringilline

Any finch of the family Fringillidae, a fringillid

Any finch of the fringillid subfamily Fringillinae


moo-cow

Compare German Muhkuh and Italian mucca.

At the end of the line nearest the Arch, under a flary light, stood an old bearded man having the look on his face of a kindly but somewhat irritated moo-cow.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo[…]

1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:


doughbird

From dough + bird, from its soft, pale breast meat.

Numenius borealis
Numenius borealis#Translingual


charadriiform

(ornithology) Belonging to the Charadriiformes.


whiffler

(obsolete) One who whiffles, or frequently changes their course or opinion.

Every Whiffler in a Laced Coat, who frequents the Chocolate-Houſe, and is able to ſpell the Title of a Pamphlet, ſhall Talk of the Conſtitution with as much Plauſibility as this very Solemn Writer, and with as good a Grace blame the Clergy for medling with Politicks which they do not underſtand.

1714 February, [Jonathan Swift], The Publick Spirit of the Whigs: Set forth in Their Generous Encouragement of the Author of the Crisis: […], London: […] [John Barber] for John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 13:

(obsolete) One who argues evasively; a trifler.

(obsolete) One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper.

[...] Men, Wiues and Boyes, / Whoſe ſhouts & claps out-voyce the deep-mouth'd Sea, / Which like a mightie Whiffler 'fore the King, / Seems to prepare his way: [...]

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, prologue], page 91, column 1:

Whifflers, or fifers, generally went first in a procession, from which circumstance the name was transferred to other persons who succeeded to that office, and at length was given to those who went forward merely to clear the way for the procession […] In the city of London, young freemen, who march at the head of their proper companies on the Lord Mayor's day, sometimes with flags, were called whifflers, or bachelor whifflers, not because they cleared the way, but because they went first, as whifflers did.

(obsolete) An officer who went before a procession to clear the way, by blowing a horn or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger.


ganoid

Ancient Greek γάνος (gános, “brightness, sheen”) + -oid

uder

Having a smooth, shining surface, as if polished or enameled: specifically applied to those scales or plates of fishes which are generally of an angular form and composed of a bony or hard horny tissue overlaid with enamel.

In a few minutes the huge beast had been cut up and slabs of him were hanging over a dozen camp fires, together with great scaly ganoid fish which had been speared in the lake.

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

Having ganoid scales or plates, as a fish; specifically, of or pertaining to the Ganoidei.


ganoid

(zoology) One of the Ganoidei, a disused taxonomic grouping of fishes, including the bowfin, gars, and sturgeons.


oncilla

Borrowed from Spanish oncilla, diminutive of onza (“snow leopard”).

Leopardus tigrinus
Leopardus tigrinus#Translingual

a small spotted felid, of species Leopardus tigrinus, found in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America.


silverbill

A kind of estrildid finch, most in genus Lonchura, some in Euodice.


bo-peep

en-noun

bo-peep (countable and uncountable, plural bo-peeps)

Well, come on, boys. You've got to push off now. I'm going to read me linen and then get some Bo-Peep.

1976, Ron Barnes, Coronation Cups and Jam Jars, page 164:

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(uncountable, Cockney rhyming slang) Sleep.


peba

Compare Portuguese peba. Ultimately from Old Tupi peba (“having a flattened shape”).

uder

Dasypus novemcinctus
Dasypus novemcinctus#Translingual

An armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) found from Texas to Paraguay; the tatouhou.


cardueline

(zoology) Belonging to the subfamily Carduelinae of finches.


spine pig

From spine + pig, literal translation of porcupine.

Hares are fairly common, so also is the fretful porcupine, who, if he finds his way into your kitchen-garden, will play havoc with your pet vegetables. He is accounted delicate eating, this 'spine pig,' as the natives call him; [...]

1884, James Hogg, Florence Marryat, London society:

"Spine-swine (the edgehog misnamed hedgehog)," echidna, echinoderm, rhino, the spine pig or porcupine — "everything is battle-dressed"; [...]

1953, Randall Jarrell, Poetry and the age:

Spine pig, spine pig, say me true, how your flesh befits a you so articulate in joint as to sharpen to your point. I've kept dogs ten thousand days; dodge my fears and play my joys out there in the forest's maze, [...]


hogchoker

Said to be from hog + choker, because the scaly fish could get stuck in the throats of pigs when fed to them.

Trinectes maculatus, a small flatfish found along the coast of parts of North America.


ringbill

Aythya collaris
Aythya collaris#Translingual

Aythya collaris, a diving duck of North America with a white band around the bill.


haybird

European spotted flycatcher
European spotted flycatcher

Muscicapa striata
Muscicapa striata#Translingual

The European spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata).


ichneumia

white-tailed mongoose
white-tailed mongoose

The white-tailed mongoose of genus Ichneumia.


hoolock

→ Translingual: Hoolock

Borrowed from Assamese হলৌ (holou) or a kindred Eastern Indo-Aryan language.

A large gibbon, either of three primate species Hoolock hoolock, Hoolock leuconedys, or Hoolock tianxing from the family Hylobatidae.


frogly

en-adj

frogly (comparative more frogly, superlative most frogly)

more frogly (comparative)
most frogly (superlative)

1877, "The Centennial Frog", The Centennial Frog, and Other Stories, publ. by Clazton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, page 14.
Lieutenant Frog's rich frogly voice / Husky grew with his great theme;

[…] and when at last they arrive at frogly maturity, they escape into the world through the mouth of their father.

1901, Grant Allen, In nature's workshop:

Yet as some of the verses show, Aristophanes knew a good deal of actual frogly habits.

1945, American Nature Association, Nature magazine:

On those sacred nights you can rise in frogly glory to confront the villains who are poisoning my subjects.

Of, relating to, or pertaining to frogs; froglike.


frogly

Toadly awesome!" "Not toadly," said Michael, laughing. "Gorfman's a frog." "It's frogly awesome," said Charu.

2009, Gail Donovan, In Memory of Gorfman T. Frog:

(humorous, nonce word) In a frog-like manner.


toadly

toadly (comparative more toadly, superlative most toadly)

more toadly (comparative)
most toadly (superlative)

From a corruption of towardly (“comely, nice, pleasant, queem”).

(UK dialectal) Quiet; gentle; docile; easily managed; kindly; well-contented.


roostcock

No matter whether his nag have the stringhalt, and steps like a roostcock, or has wind-galls the size of bladders, or has been fired till his legs resemble a scored griskin, the BUTCHER's Boy braves every competitor in the race

(UK, dialect, obsolete) The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.


ctenoidean

(archaic) Any member of the former group Ctenoidei; a ray-finned fish.


wavey

According to one theory, from Cree. An alternative etymology, perhaps a folk etymology, attributes the name to their peculiar, wavy flight.

Chen caerulescens
Chen caerulescens#Translingual

(US, Canada, dialects) The snow goose (Chen caerulescens)


ridgehead

Any of the family Melamphaidae of small, deep-sea stephanoberyciform fish.


balisaur

A badger-like animal of India, Arctonyx collaris, the sand bear.


gustard

As a resident species it appears to have been entirely confined to Berwickshire; it is thus referred to by Hector Boece, who flourished about 350 years ago :--'Besides these, we have another foule in Mers, more strange and uncouth than all these aforementioned, called a Gustard, fully so great as a Swan, but in colour of feathers and tast of flesh little differing from a Partridge'.

1881, Henry Eeles Dresser, A History of the Birds of Europe, page 7:

Translation: I have received from Scotland a picture of a web-footed bird purporting to be a Gustard which I have placed above after the wild Geese, since it is plainly different from a Gustard or Tarda which we are here describing, and perhaps he who sent it me has erred as regards its name. The true tarda, indeed, seems to be called Gustard by the British

1923, The Scottish Naturalist, page 175:

It was found in the Merse of Berwickshire, in the south of Scotland, where it was called the "gustard" ; and in England on the Yorkshire Wolds, the open chalk country around Royston, and the chalk downs of Berkshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Hampshire and Sussex.

1952, Herbert Leeson Edlin, The Changing Wild Life of Britain, page 66:


forktail

Gallus varius
Gallus varius#Translingual

(Hong Kong) Any fish of the species Ariomma indica.


bloodbird

From blood + bird, from the bright red colour of the male.

An Australian honeyeater, Myzomela sanguinolenta.