dogie

Unknown.
Possibly an abbreviation of dough-guts, the pot bellied appearance of a malnourished calf. Possibly the transliteration of the slang word dobie/dobe/doby, pejoratively meaning inferior. Since dogie and dobie in reference to an orphaned calf both appeared in print around the same time (1880-1888), it is possible that dogie is the original and dobie is the transliteration.

When she was a child, her father often gave her orphaned calves to look after, and every so often, she would fold the grown ones in with the steers when they were shipped off to Fort Worth. She made enough money off her dogies to make investments in stocks […]

2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 49:

(colloquial) A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow.


skewbald

From skew + bald (where bald means having patches of white).

gloss

(of horses) Marked with patches of white and non-black colours.

scheckig

1. Marked with patches of white and non-black colours


natterjack

A toad of species Bufo calamita (or Epidalea calamita), known for its running lizard-like gait and very loud mating call.


grampus

From Middle English *grampas, grappays, grapas, graspeys, from Anglo-Norman grampais, Old French graspois, craspois (“whale, (salted) whale meat; blubber; seal”), from Medieval Latin craspicis (literally “fat fish”), from Latin crassus (“fat”) + piscis (“fish”).

der

Some time after this we saw some very large fish, which I afterwards found were called grampusses.

1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 3, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:

The Governor will blow like an old grampus, I know he will,—well, we must stop till he gets his wind again.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

Blowing like a grampus from every orifice, I leaned on a passing wave which dumped me[.]

1980, Ian Chappell, Chappelli has the last laugh, page 39:

Grampus griseus
Grampus griseus#Translingual

Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus, with a blunt nose.

The hellbender salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis.

giant whip scorpion (Mastigoproctus giganteus)


black cat

Pekania pennanti
Pekania pennanti#Translingual

Martes pennanti
Martes pennanti#Translingual

A fisher, North American marten that has thick brown fur (Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti).


pardalote

Pardalotes, honeyeaters and thornbills are among several birds that feed on carbohydrate-rich sugars from trees: manna, the crystalline sap which oozes from injuries to trees made by insects or other animals; honeydew, the exudate of sap-sucking coccids and aphids; and lerps, the protective sugary coating of psyllid larvae.

2011, Penny Olsen, Leo Joseph, Stray Feathers: Reflections on the Structure, Behaviour and Evolution of Birds, CSIRO Publishing, page 258:

They are pardalotes, tiny little feathered jewels with stubby bills and stubby tails, giving an oddly ladybird-like silhouette.

2011, Ian Fraser, Peter Marsack, A Bush Capital Year: A Natural History of the Canberra Region, page 137:

The forty-spotted pardalote (Pardalotus quadragintus) is the first Australian bird found to encourage trees to release manna, a sugary crystallised sap.

2016 March 12, “Mining bird farms trees for manna”, in New Scientist, number 3064, page 16:

Any of the Australian birds of the family Pardalotidae, which feed on lerps.


lanner

From Middle French lanier (“cowardly”), possibly from Latin lānārius.

The mountains of this country also supply Saker falcons of excellent flight, and plenty of lanners likewise.

1874, Bayard Taylor, chapter II, in Central Asia. Travels in Cashmere, Little Tibet, and Central Asia:

Falco biarmicus
Falco biarmicus#Translingual


lanner falcon

lanner, from the Middle French lanier (“cowardly”), and falcon.

Falco biarmicus, a large bird of prey found in Africa, southeast Europe, and southwest Asia.


kitty-cat

Felis silvestris catus
Felis silvestris catus#Translingual

(colloquial, usually childish) A domestic cat (subspecies Felis silvestris catus).


tamandua

From the genus name, from Tupian. Doublet of tamanoir.

Tamanduas eat many kinds of ants as well as termites and bees. They tend to shy away from army ants and ponerine ants, both of which give nasty stings. When threatened, a tamandua may sit up on its hind legs and brandish its sharp curved claws.

1999, John C. Kricher, A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics, 2nd edition, page 307:

The tamandua is easily separated from the giant anteater by its smaller size, its coloration, and the shape of its tail. Most tamanduas in southern South America are golden brown with a black vest covering the dorsum and venter, crossing the shoulders in a black band, but on some individuals the vest may be greatly reduced or even absent.

2000, John F. Eisenberg, Mammals of the Neotropics, volume 3, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, page 93:

They have coarse tan or brown pelage, and in the northern tamandua (Tamandua mexicana) and in southern specimens of the southern tamandua (T. tetradactyla) black fur forms a “vest” (figure 15.8B). Tamanduas have a prehensile tail that aids in climbing.

2007, George A. Feldhamer, Lee C. Drickamer, Stephen H. Vessey, Joseph F. Merritt, Carey Krajewski, Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology, 3rd edition, page 307:


horsewoman

A woman who is skilled with horses; a female equestrian.


gravelling

Uncertain. Compare Old French gravele (“minnow”) + -ling.


titling

Uncertain. Superficially tit (“a small bird”) + -ling (“small”). Attested from the 16th century. Probably from Icelandic titlingr (“tit sparrow”), Old Norse titlingr (“sparrow”). Compare Old Norse tittr (“titmouse”). Also see Middle English titmose (“titmouse”).

The Titling therefore that sitteth, being thus deceived, hatcheth the egge and bringeth up the chicke of another bird.

1601, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, Book X:

[…]its winter note resembles the word, Tit, Tit, often repeated, which has given it the name of Titling in many parts of the country.

1821, George Graves, British Ornithology, SYLVIA MODULARIS, page 540:

Prunella modularis
Prunella modularis#Translingual

The hedge sparrow, dunnock, titlene, Prunella modularis.


nestling

It was associated, to them, with vague sweet memories of loving nestlings in mother's arms, of soft warm coddlings before the fire, of slow rocking to and fro in the little, low, flag chair, and gradual droppings off to sleep […]

1871, Kate Neely Hill Festetits, Actions speak louder than words:


grey partridge

Perdix perdix
Perdix perdix#Translingual

A game bird in the pheasant family, Perdix perdix.

(obsolete) The grey francolin, Ortygornis pondicerianus.


laverock

From Middle English laveroc, laverke, from Old English lāferce, variant of older lāwerce, lǣwerce. More at lark.

She was young and blithe, with a face like an April morning, and a voice in her that put the laverocks to shame.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:


moonlighter

(Australia) A southern Australian marine fish, Tilodon sexfasciatum.


mossback

From moss + back (in senses 1 (“person with old-fashioned views; one who is very conservative or reactionary”) and 2.3 (“fish that is large and old”) probably a variant of mossyback, which is attested earlier), alluding to someone or something that is so old or has remained so unmoving that it is as if moss has grown on them or it.
Sense 2.4 (“largemouth bass”) may refer to the back of the fish being a dark green colour.

(informal, historical) A person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865); a mossyback.


common quail

Coturnix coturnix
Coturnix coturnix#Translingual

Coturnix coturnix, a bird in pheasant family.


sparra

Pronunciation spelling of sparrow, representing Cockney English.

pronunciation spelling of

Jason dons a screwed-up accent that Madonna would be proud of. While Martine, loved for being a cockney sparra, unfortunately goes posh.

2008, Jon Wise, “Double trouble as soap won't wash”, in People:

"Ah ! ah ! the fun was, one of the company said it was as like a sparra as one pea is like another; how I did laugh to myself, for she grew quite offended like, and insisted that this was a light brown bird, but that a sparra was next to black"

1859, Samuel Carter Hall, The book of the Thames: from its rise to its fall, page 351:


hazel grouse

Tetrastes bonasia
Tetrastes bonasia#Translingual

A bird in the grouse family, Tetrastes bonasia, native to most of temperate-cool Eurasia.


horned owl

An owl of the genus Bubo native to the Americas, among the largest types of owl, having two horn-like tufts of feathers on its head.


rifleman

A small wrenlike insectivorous passerine bird endemic to New Zealand, Acanthisitta chloris, the titipounamu.


draft horse

From draft (itself from to draw) + horse.

(American spelling) A horse used for muscular work, other than carrying a rider and/or load, such as pulling a cart, plow or log.


manège

en-noun

manège (countable and uncountable, plural manèges)

From French manège; cognate with French manier and English manage.


roan

From Middle French roan, probably from Spanish roano, from Old Spanish raudano, itself probably of Germanic origin (compare Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (raudan), accusative of 𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (rauþs, “red”). Compare rowan.

roan binding


jewie

From jewfish + -ie (“diminutive suffix”), ultimately from jewel.

(Australia) A fish, Argyrosomus hololepidotus; a type of mulloway.


Siamese cat

A short-haired breed of domestic cat having blue eyes and pointed coat pattern, that is, a pale body and dark extremities.


garibaldi

/ɡæɹɪˈbældi/

The jacket is named after Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi, who wore a red shirt of similar appearance. The biscuit is also named after Garibaldi.

(British) a biscuit consisting of currants squashed between layers of flaky pastry.


American Bobtail

American Bobtail (plural American Bobtails)

A short-haired domestic cat breed originating in the United States, having a short tail as a result of genetic mutation.


Burmilla

Blend of Burmese + chinchilla; see Chinchilla Persian.

A medium-sized shorthair domestic cat breed, originating in Great Britain.


Chausie

(felinology) A large, shorthair, domestic cat hybrid, crossbred from a female Abyssinian and a male Felis chaus.


American Wirehair

American Wirehair (plural American Wirehairs)

A large domestic cat of a breed with hard, wiry fur and crinkly whiskers, originating in the United States.


Sokoke

A domestic cat of a particular breed with a blotched tabby coat.


LaPerm

A domestic cat of a particular breed with curly fur.


Asian Semi-longhair

Asian Semi-longhair (plural Asian Semi-longhairs)

A rare domestic cat breed originating in Britain.


Cornish Rex

A domestic cat of a medium-sized breed with short wavy hair, originating in Great Britain.


Snowshoe

A domestic cat of a particular breed with a light body and darker ears, face, legs, and tail.


Devon Rex

A domestic cat of a particular medium-sized breed with rippled or swirling hair, originated in Britain in the 1960s.


Toyger

A domestic cat of a breed with a tiger-like striped coat.


Ocicat

A domestic cat of a breed that is spotted like a wild cat, established from Siamese and Abyssinian stock.


Peterbald

From St Petersburg, where the breed was created, and bald.

A domestic cat of a typically hairless Russian breed with a slim muscular build.


York Chocolate Cat

York Chocolate Cat (plural York Chocolate Cats)

An American breed of longhaired domestic cat.


Skookum

(US, historical) A kind of Native American-themed souvenir doll once common in tourist areas.


German Rex

A domestic cat of a medium-sized breed with slender legs and a short silky coat.


California Spangled Cat

California Spangled Cat (plural California Spangled Cats)

(felinology) A domestic cat of an extinct medium-sized, short-haired breed, originating in the United States during the 1980s, which was bred to resemble a leopard.


Pixie-bob

A domestic cat of a breed developed to resemble the North American bobcat.


European Shorthair

European Shorthair (plural European Shorthairs)

A sturdy short-hair domestic cat breed, developed from various ordinary cat breeds.


Japanese Bobtail

Japanese Bobtail (plural Japanese Bobtails)

A domestic cat of a particular breed with a short bobbed tail like that of a rabbit.


Selkirk Rex

A domestic cat of a breed with highly curled hair.


Exotic Shorthair

Exotic Shorthair (plural Exotic Shorthairs)

A domestic cat breed similar to the Persian cat but with a short dense coat.


Scottish Fold

A domestic cat of a breed with ears folded down towards the front of the head.


Australian Mist

Australian Mist (plural Australian Mists)

A medium-sized, short-haired domestic cat of a breed originating in Australia.


Havana Brown

A chocolate-colored domestic cat breed, similar to the Siamese breed.


American Keuda

Initialism, from a 1980s study in the US southwest entitled Kitten Evaluation Under Direct Assessment, which sought to establish the characteristics of the ideal barn cat.

The only other breed said to have this flap is the American Keuda.

And if you aren't bored already here are some more: American Keuda, American Ringtail,[…].

2008, Vicky Halls, The Complete Cat, page 122:

This is not the first breed to be developed from street cats; as the American Shorthair, European Shorthair, and American Keuda all show.

2012, Nancy Robbins, Domestic Cats: Their History, Breeds and Other Facts, page 127:

(zoology) A domestic cat of a provisional breed originating in the United States.


British Shorthair

British Shorthair (plural British Shorthairs)

A medium-sized shorthaired domestic cat of a breed originating in Great Britain.


Turkish Van

A domestic cat of a rare semi-long-haired breed developed in the United Kingdom from cats obtained from various cities of modern Turkey. They have a coloured head and tail and a white body.


Egyptian Mau

A domestic cat of a short-haired breed originating in Egypt, with a well-muscled medium-length body.


Turkish Angora

A domestic cat of an ancient breed with a long, silky coat.


Korat

A blue-grey short-haired breed of domestic cat with heart-shaped head and large green eyes.


Chartreux

Borrowed from French Chartreux. Compare chartreuse.

A member of a breed of large, blue, short-haired domestic cats, originating in France.


Oriental Longhair

Oriental Longhair (plural Oriental Longhairs)


Birman

A medium-sized semi-longhair domestic cat of a breed originating in Burma.


Oriental Shorthair

Oriental Shorthair (plural Oriental Shorthairs)

A domestic cat of a breed related to the Siamese.


American Curl

A short-hair or semi-longhair domestic cat breed originating in the United States. This breed displays distinctive backward curling ears.


Russian Blue

(zoology) A domestic cat of a breed with dense silver to grey fur.


Ojos Azules

A domestic cat breed, originating in the southwest United States, that has deep blue eyes.


Sphynx

Sphynx cats are often called hairless cats. But Sphynx do have hair. Very short, fine hairs called down cover the Sphynx’s body.

2001, Joanne Mattern, The Sphynx Cat, Capstone, →ISBN, page 7:

A domestic cat of a breed with little or no hair, a narrow long head, and webbed feet.


American Shorthair

American Shorthair (plural American Shorthairs)

A large, short-haired domestic cat breed originating in the United States.


Nebelung

A domestic cat of a particular breed with long bodies, wide-set green eyes, and long dense silky blue-gray fur.


nilgai

From Hindi नीलगाय (nīlgāy, “nilgai”), from नीला (nīlā, “blue”) + गाय (gāy, “cow”).

A large antelope, of species Boselaphus tragocamelus, of India; blue bull.


vesper bat

Any member of the Vespertilionidae, a family of bats.


Singapura

A domestic cat of a small breed with large eyes and ears, brown ticked coat and blunt tail.


rudd

Within minutes of starting I had my first fish a rudd about a pound, this was followed by a tench about five pounds.

2007, Martin James, “At the Waters Edge blog!”, in BBC - Lancashire - Sport, retrieved 2010-08-02:

Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.

common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)


bonxie

From Scots bonxie, from Old Norse bunki.

Bonxies are more than happy to fly at you as you walk harmlessly across the moors, and they regularly clip people with a wing or extended foot […]

2006, Graham Uney, Backpacker's Britain: Northern Scotland:

It is the large brown bonxies that heckle me as I pass across the high moor and approach the sheep gate.

2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 102:

Stercorarius skua
Stercorarius skua#Translingual

(UK, chiefly Shetland) The great skua, Stercorarius skua.


cygnine

en-adj

cygnine (comparative more cygnine, superlative most cygnine)

more cygnine (comparative)
most cygnine (superlative)

From Latin cygnus (“swan”), with English -ine.

The genus Choristopus, Eyton, apparently Anserine rather than Cygnine, is said to possess this character […]

1869, Elliott Coues, On the Classification of Water Birds, Merrihew & Son, published 1870, page 26:

(zoology) Being of the genus Cygnus (swan), within subfamily Anserinae of the family Anatidae, though sometimes considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae.

But, in the cutting of it, if thou dost shed / One drop of cygnine blood, thy clumsiness...

1848, Edmund Saul Dixon, Ornamental and Domestic Poultry, page 20:

On the whole, then, the bones of the pectoral arch in Dendrocygna — if we may judge from the two North American species of the genus — are more anatine than they are either anserine or cygnine.

1915, Zoologische Jahrbücher: Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und […] , volume 38, page 44:

1949, G. L. Hendrickson, Classical Philology, Vol. 44, No. 1, page 30 alternate
...scarcely a translator can be found who conveys any other impression than that Horace becomes a swan before our eyes. One almost wonders in what cygnine dialect the rest of the poem was spoken.

Of, concerning, pertaining to, resembling, or having the characteristics of a swan or swans.


cygnine

From the Swan River, in Western Australia where the toxic plants were discovered.

(dated) An alkaloid from plants of genus Gastrolobium, found in Australia, principally Western Australia, highly toxic to introduced animals.


shorthair

Any of several breeds of domestic cat with relatively short hair, slender body and large head.


ragdoll

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

Alternative form: Ragdoll

A modern American breed of domestic cat with a longhair colourpoint coat that relaxes completely when picked up.


brown oriole

Oriolus szalayi
Oriolus szalayi#Translingual

A passerine songbird, Oriolus szalayi, of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.


olive-backed oriole

en-noun

olive-backed oriole (plural olive-backed orioles)

Oriolus sagittatus
Oriolus sagittatus#Translingual

An olive and black passerine songbird, Oriolus sagittatus, of northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea.


yellow oriole

A yellow or green passerine songbird
Icterus nigrogularis, of the New World.


golden oriole

Oriolus oriolus
Oriolus oriolus#Translingual

A bright yellow and black passerine songbird, Oriolus oriolus, of Europe and western Asia.


asker

From Middle English ascre, a variant (with uncertain suffix) of Middle English aske (“newt”). More at ask.

Great crested newts, “askers”, used to be common in the Marshwood Vale.

2018 April 21, Sara Hudston, The Guardian:


hyracoid

An animal of the order Hyracoidea, i.e. a hyrax.


hyracoid

en-adj

hyracoid (comparative more hyracoid, superlative most hyracoid)

more hyracoid (comparative)
most hyracoid (superlative)

(zoology) Of or relating to the hyraxes (order Hyracoidea).

Displaying characteristics typical of hyraxes.


spermaceti

From Latin sperma (“sperm”) + Latin cētī (“of the whale”, genitive of cētus).

af

genitive of <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">cētus</i>

Moreover, as that of Heidelburgh was always replenished with the most excellent of the wines of the Rhenish valleys, so the tun of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 77, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

A wax obtained from the head of sperm whales and used to make cosmetics, etc.


ichthyosaur

/ˈɪkθiəsɔːɹ/

Any of several fishlike marine reptiles of the extinct order †Ichthyosauria of the early Triassic to the late Cretaceous period, that had a body somewhat like a porpoise.


arctic tern

Sterna paradisaea
Sterna paradisaea#Translingual

A migratory bird that travels between the Arctic and Antarctic, Sterna paradisaea.

крячо́к поля́рний m (krjačók poljárnyj, literally “polar tern”)


barnacle goose

Because this goose nests in the far north, Europeans never saw its chicks, and invented a theory that the goose barnacle is the larval form of the barnacle goose.

Branta leucopsis
Branta leucopsis#Translingual

A black and white species of bird within the family Anatidae from the northern hemisphere, Branta leucopsis.


diablotin

Pterodroma hasitata
Pterodroma hasitata#Translingual

The black-capped petrel, Pterodroma hasitata, of Caribbean waters.


hominin

From translingual Hominini, from the stem of Latin homo (“man”). Compare hominid.

[...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.

Caspari and Lee carried out comparisons ranging from ancient hominins such as australopithecines through to Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons, assessing the ratios of young adults to old adults.

2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin, published 2012, page 151:

This means that, in addition to democracy and gorillas, we must now credit Greece with being the cradle of the hominins - of which we humans are the only living representatives.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 119:

(paleontology) Any member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini, the evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now-extinct bipedal relatives.


croyn

en-verb

croyn (third-person singular simple present croyns, present participle croyning, simple past and past participle croyned)

croyns (present singular third-person)
croyning (participle present)
croyned (participle past)
croyned (past)

(obsolete) Cry as deer do at rutting time; murmur deeply.


kagu

Rhynochetos jubatus
Rhynochetos jubatus#Translingual

A New Caledonian endemic bird species, Rhynochetos jubatus, the only surviving member of the family Rhynochetidae.


junglefowl

en-noun

junglefowl (plural junglefowl or junglefowls)

junglefowl (plural)
junglefowls (plural)

The red junglefowl is said to be the original “chicken” from which all domestic chickens are descended, based on comments and observations made by Darwin.

Any of four semiflightless, gallinaceous game birds of the genus Gallus, native to southeast Asia, including the red junglefowl or domestic chicken.


mallee fowl

mallee fowl (plural mallee fowls or mallee fowl)

mallee fowls (plural)
mallee fowl (plural)

He found a couple of mallee fowl who opened their mound each morning to let the autumn sun warm their eggs […].

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

Leipoa ocellata
Leipoa ocellata#Translingual

An Australian ground-dwelling bird, Leipoa ocellata, in the megapode family.


phasianid

en-adj

phasianid (comparative more phasianid, superlative most phasianid)

more phasianid (comparative)
most phasianid (superlative)

New Latin phasianida from Latin phasianus (“pheasant”).

The chukar, a bird of the phasianid family, is distributed in Israel across a sharp climatic cline from Mediterranean regions in the north to extremely arid areas only ~200 km away in the Negev Desert.

Of or relating to semiflightless, gallinaceous game birds, such as pheasants, quails, peafowl, junglefowl, and guinea fowl.

The megapode is viewed as a ‘specialised’ galliform, having extended the phasianid incubation period and producing superprecocial hatchlings that have developed in the egg for a further four weeks.

Specifically, belonging to the zoologic family Phasianidae, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.


phasianid

It is a medium-sized phasianid: males can weight even 600 grams and are bigger than the females. Moreover, unlike the females, they have ergots on the claws.

Typical of many phasianid birds, guinea fowl are capable runners that have strong burst-flight capacities but little endurance in flight.

Any semiflightless, gallinaceous game bird.


genet

en-noun

genet (countable and uncountable, plural genets)

From Middle English genet, ionet, from Anglo-Norman genette, Middle French genette, jenette et al., of uncertain origin.

Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus Genetta in the family Viverridae, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail.


red-eye

red-eye (countable and uncountable, plural red-eyes)

The noun is derived from red + eye; sense 2.3 (“strong but poor-quality whiskey”) and sense 3 (“overnight airplane flight”) are probably so named because they may cause people to develop bloodshot eyes.
The verb is derived from the noun.

Agkistrodon contortrix Linnaeus.—Cotton-mouth, Highland Moccasin, Rattlesnake Pilot, Red-eye.

[1905, F. N. Notestein, “The Ophidia of Michigan with an Analytical Key”, in Seventh Report of the Michigan Academy of Science: […], Lansing, Mich.: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., state printers, →OCLC, page 120:

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

(countable) Any of various animals that have red eyes.

(US) Either of two subspecies of the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), a venomous pit viper native to the United States: either the broad-banded copperhead or Texas copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus), or the highland moccasin or northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen).


great black-backed gull

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

Larus marinus
Larus marinus#Translingual

A large European and American gull, Larus marinus.


kouprey

A wild, forest-dwelling ox, Bos sauveli, from Vietnam and surrounding countries.


Afrikander

Alternative form of Afrikaner (“breed of cattle”)


banteng

A wild ox, Bos javanicus, found in Borneo, Malaysia and the Indochina peninsula.


aua

When the eyes of those who fish for eels are closed, the eyes of those who fish for the aua are open.

1855, Richard Taylor, Te Ika a Maui: Or, New Zealand and Its Inhabitants, page 133:

The Picton Herring, a dried fish commonly known throughout the colony, is the Aua preserved by smoking.

1872, Frederick Wollaston Hutton, Sir James Hector, Fishes of New Zealand: Catalogue with Diagnoses of the Species:

(New Zealand) Aldrichetta forsteri, a mullet of the family Mugilidae.


gnateater

Any of the South American passerine birds in the family Conopophagidae.

töpökkä

any of the South American passerine bird in the family Conopophagidae


ceratopsid

Any member of the family †Ceratopsidae of dinosaurs.


protobird

(informal) Any of several extinct animals proposed as an evolutionary link between fossil reptiles and fossil birds; a proavian.


protohominid

Although the ethological studies of chimpanzees cannot present us with a picture of the life of the protohominids, they can give us some insights into what these conditions may have been like.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:

Any of several primitive animals that were evolutionary ancestors of the hominids.


psittacosaur

Any dinosaur of the family Psittacosauridae; a psittacosaurus.


psittacosaurus

Coined in 1923 by Henry Fairfield Osborn from Ancient Greek ψιττακός (psittakós, “parrot”) + Ancient Greek σαύρα (saúra, “lizard”), due to its parrot-like beak

der

Any of several dinosaurs, of the genus Psittacosaurus, that lacked horns


psittacosaurid

en-adj

psittacosaurid (comparative more psittacosaurid, superlative most psittacosaurid)

more psittacosaurid (comparative)
most psittacosaurid (superlative)

From the taxonomic name for the family, itself derived from the name of the type genus Psittacosaurus, coined in 1923 by Henry Fairfield Osborn from Ancient Greek ψιττακός (psittakós, “parrot”) + Ancient Greek σαύρα (saúra, “lizard”), due to its parrot-like beak.


pteropodine

Of or pertaining to the flying foxes and similar bats of the subfamily Pteropodinae


saun

1810, Decoy Elephants Catching a Male, in Enos Bronson (editor), Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines, Volume 3, page 123,
Though on some occasions the mahouts accompany the koomkies up to the saun, yet it is safer, and generally the most sure and easy mode, for them to dismount in some contiguous cover with their blankets and ropes, leading the koomkies to the saun, towards which they proceed in the most cunning style.

A male elephant that is not part of a herd; a rogue.


vaquita

From Spanish vaquita (“little cow”), diminutive of vaca (“cow”).

THE world’s smallest porpoise may have a fighting chance. The vaquita might be saved from extinction by an agreement at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Portoroz, Slovenia, last week.
Unique to the Gulf of California, the vaquita has seen its numbers collapse to 59 in 2015.

2015 November 5, “Whale of a deal”, in New Scientist, number 3098, page 6:

A critically endangered porpoise, the smallest of its kind, Phocoena sinus, endemic to the northern part of the Gulf of California, Mexico.


allosaurus

en-noun

allosaurus (plural allosauri or allosauruses)

allosauri (plural)
allosauruses (plural)

From Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other, different”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

der

A large, carnivorous dinosaur, of genus Allosaurus, that lived in the Jurassic period.


boongary

The boongary sleeps during the day, nestled in a fork in the branches high among the tree-tops.

1990, Reader's Digest, Did You Know?: New Insights Into a World That Is Full of Astonishing Stories:


hairy-eared dwarf lemur

en-noun

hairy-eared dwarf lemur (plural hairy-eared dwarf lemurs)


diademed sifaka

diademed sifaka (plural diademed sifakas)

Propithecus diadema, an endangered species of sifaka, one of the lemurs endemic to certain rainforests in eastern Madagascar.


taimen

From Russian тайме́нь (tajménʹ, “Hucho taimen”), from Middle Russian таймень (tajmenʹ), from Old Novgorodian таимень (taimenĭ), from Finnish taimen (“Salmo trutta”).

der

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

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

A species of salmon (Hucho taimen), living in Siberia.


freemartin

unk

Etymology unknown.

"Has your cat been spayed?" "I didn't need to: she's a freemartin."

Any female animal born sterile or otherwise infertile.


karanteen

karanteen sea bream
karanteen sea bream#English

A saltwater fish of any of several varieties found in the waters near southern Africa.

A white karanteen or karanteen sea bream (Crenidens crenidens).


dromaeosaurid

(paleontology) A bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.


ridgeback

Any of three breeds of dog with a distinctive ridge of hair that runs against the grain of the rest of the coat along the spine: the Rhodesian Ridgeback, the Phu Quoc Ridgeback and the Thai Ridgeback.


redbird

Any of various red cars formerly used in the New York City subway system; or a train of such cars.


redbreast

From Middle English redbreste, equivalent to red + breast.

There was a pleasant frosty sun glittering through the twigs of the leafless shrubs, and flashing on the ripples and undulations of the Liffey, and the redbreasts and sparrows were picking up the crumbs which the housekeeper had thrown for them outside.

1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “How a Gentleman Paid a Visit at the Brass Castle, and There Read a Paragraph in an Old Newspaper”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 17:

I felt comforted by the song of the redbreast, and I thought I felt less lonely and deserted as long as I heard the merry notes of the thrush.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 281:

Any of several unrelated birds that have a red breast

Erithacus rubecula
Erithacus rubecula#Translingual

Turdus migratorius
Turdus migratorius#Translingual


sheldrake

From Middle English sheld- (“parti-colored”) (akin to Middle Dutch shillede) + drake (“male duck”).

An Old World duck of the genus Tadorna (shelducks).


agami

Psophia crepitans
Psophia crepitans#Translingual

(zoology) A South American bird, Psophia crepitans, allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated.

trubač agami

a South American bird, Psophia crepitans


threespine stickleback

en-noun

threespine stickleback (plural threespine sticklebacks)

Gasterosteus aculeatus
Gasterosteus aculeatus#Translingual

Gasterosteus aculeatus, an endangered species of European stickleback.


frogspawn

A gelatinous mass of frogs' eggs, laid in ponds and ditches.


yakalo

“Yakalos” breed true to type, are sturdy and able to forage for themselves, he said.

1924 July 8, “Breed Yaks with Bison: New Animal Called Yakalo Good Beef Producer”, in Ogden Standard-Examiner, Ogden, Utah, page 8:

The meat of yakalos is said to be almost identical with beef aside from being finer-grained.

1926 December 23, “Yakalos, New Stock Breed, May Solve Meat Problem”, in Indiana Weekly Messenger, Indiana, Pennsylvania, page 7:

Instead of beefalo, he would have yakalo.

1975 November 2, D.K. Woodman, “The Case of the Reluctant Tibetan Yak”, in Mansfield News-Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, page 4C:

A hybrid cross of a yak (Bos grunniens) and an American bison (Bison bison).


blue flyer

So named from their bluish-grey fur and speed. Recorded since the 1860s.

The female red kangaroo is referred to as a Blue Flyer, whilst the male is generally known as a Marloo or Boomer.

2006, Lynda Staker, The Complete Guide to the Care of Macropods:


geochelone

Any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone.


terrapene

Any of several large turtles of the genus Terrapene, the box turtles.


brocket

Borrowed from Middle French brocart, broquart.

Before fighting, brockets rear and jump in display; when fighting, they jump over each other, striking the opponent with the hooves of the forelegs or hind legs in passing.

1998, Valerius Geist, Deer of the World, page 118:

A genus, Mazama, of short-horned deer from Brazil.


pricket

From Middle English precat, preket, priket, pryket; equivalent to prick + -et. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames and borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman.

Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter

he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?

1816, John Keats, For there's Bishop's Teign:

A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.


Cavachon

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

A breed of dog that is a cross between a Bichon Frisé and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.


tokay

The tokay gecko, a spotted lizard native to Asia and some Pacific islands.


escolar

From Spanish escolar, because of a resemblance of the rings around the eyes to a scholar's spectacles. Doublet of scholar.
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And Oceana's study revealed that 94 per cent of “white tuna” was not tuna at all, but escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum). Consumption of more than 100 grams or so of this species causes severe diarrhoea.

2013 February 20, Helen Thomson, “News Focus: Meat Scandal: What's On Your Plate?”, in New Scientist, volume 217, number 2904, page 7:

Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, one of the snake mackerels.

Any fish of species Ruvettus pretiosus, oilfish.

Any of several other perciform fish of the family Gempylidae (snake mackerels).


amberjack

amberjack (countable and uncountable, plural amberjacks)

From amber (“yellow color”) + jack (“fish of family Carangidae”).

It was an amberjack, and twice as large as any I had ever seen before. As I drew up the captain's snapper this amberjack came to the surface, and I certainly yelled.

1925, Zane Grey, Tales of Fishing Virgin Seas, published 2000, page 111:

Greater amberjacks have 11-19 gill rakers, a long anal fin base, 7 dorsal fin spines, and 30-34 dorsal fin rays.

2006, Jerald Horst, Mike Lane, Angler's Guide to Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, page 223:

The greater amberjack is the largest of the jacks, the most important amberjack to anglers, and, like most of its brethren, a strong fighter.

2011, Ken Schultz, Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Saltwater Fish, page 31:

Any of several large food and game yellowtail fishes of the genus Seriola, found in warm waters of all oceans.


moho

The North Island takahē, an extinct rail of New Zealand.


birdlife

Introduction to California Birdlife describes the representative birds in California's seven major bioregions: ocean, seashore, coastal ranges, Central Valley, mountains and foothills, Great Basin, and deserts.

The birds (e.g. of an area) collectively.


springer spaniel

springer spaniel (plural springer spaniels)

A dog of either of two different breeds (the English springer spaniel and the Welsh springer spaniel).


hoofstock

Ruminants and members of the horse family.


spotted dolphin

spotted dolphin (plural spotted dolphins)

Atlantic spotted dolphin
Atlantic spotted dolphin

Any of two species of dolphins of the genus Stenella.

Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis)

pantropical spotted dolphin
pantropical spotted dolphin

pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata)

Spotted dolphins perform ‘genital buzzing’, in which an adult directs a rapid stream of low-pitched clicks at the genital area of another, usually a calf.

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


pollan

A freshwater fish, Coregonus pollan, resembling a herring


European eel

Anguilla anguilla
Anguilla anguilla#Translingual

A snake-like fish, reaching between 60 cm and 1.5 m in length, Anguilla anguilla.


mouse deer

mouse deer (plural mouse deers or mouse deer)

mouse deers (plural)
mouse deer (plural)


antvireo

Any of eight species of birds in the genus Dysithamnus.


sabre-toothed tiger

sabre-toothed tiger (plural sabre-toothed tigers)

Any of numerous species of extinct cat-like mammals, of the †Machairodontinae subfamily of the Felidae.


doncella

Borrowed from Spanish doncella (“maid”). Doublet of damsel, demoiselle, and donzella.

doublet

A fish of Florida and the West Indies (Halichoeres radiatus).


she-goat

From Middle English sche-geyt; equivalent to she- + goat.


gunner

Cebuano: gunner

gonna (non-rhotic, based on the /ˈɡʌn.ə/ pronunciation)

From Middle English gonner; equivalent to gun + -er.

Pagellus bogaraveo
Pagellus bogaraveo#Translingual

(UK, Ireland, dialect) The sea bream, especially Pagellus bogaraveo (blackspot sea bream)


squaloid

From Latin squālus (“a large sea fish; a shark”) + -oid.

af

Several species of squaloids have light-emitting organs, but none can glow as brightly as the monotypical Isistius brasiliensis.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 136:


centzontle

Borrowed from Spanish cenzontle, from Classical Nahuatl centzontleh, shortened form of centzontlahtōleh (“mockingbird”, literally “possessor of four hundred words”), from centzontli (“four hundred, a count of four hundred”) + tlahtōlli (“language, word, statement”) + -eh (“possessor of”).

He had bought young centzontles and it was Roberto's and Manuel's job to whistle at them until they learned to sing. But the birds picked at the cane and made an opening through which a dozen and a half escaped.

1961, Oscar Lewis, The Children of Sánchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family:


man's best friend

Refers to the millennia-long history of close relations, loyalty, friendship, and companionship of dogs with humans.

An affectionate term for a dog, or dogs in general.


spadefoot

en-noun

spadefoot (plural spadefoots or spadefeet)

Any member of several groups of burrowing toads, with a spadelike appendage on the hind legs.

Borneophrys (Edwardina's spadefoot toads)


tyee

(Canada) A large chinook salmon that weighs more than 13.5 kg.


jakie

(archaic) A South American striped frog, Pseudis paradoxa, remarkable for having tadpoles larger than the adults.


koel

From Hindi कोयल (koyal), from Sanskrit कोकिल (kokila) which is of onomatopoeic origin.

It's a beautiful night / a koel starts up / its one weird note.

1994, Dorothy Porter, The Monkey's Mask, page 49:

A cuckoo of the genus Eudynamys, native to Asia, Australia and the Pacific.


basker

We'd had our first encounter with a basking shark, and, metaphorically at least, this gigantic, strange beast had me firmly in its jaws. Out of our wetsuits and back on dry land, we headed for the marine laboratories at Port Erin on the south of the island to meet biologist Jill Strawbridge. Coming face to face with a basker had whetted my appetite, and I was keen to get to the bottom of some of the mysteries surrounding Cetorhinus maximus.


dhole

Unknown, possibly from Kannada ತೋಳ (tōḷa, “wolf”).

Mowgli's wanderings had taken him to the edge of the high grassy downs of the Dekkan, and he had seen the fearless dholes sleeping and playing and scratching themselves in the little hollows and tussocks that they use for lairs.

This whistling, a means of communication for a pack of dhole regrouping after an unsuccessful hunt, inspired the other common name of this species—the whistling dog.

2001, “Dhole”, in Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, page 451:

(zoology) An Asian wild dog, Cuon alpinus.


choodle

(slang) A mixed breed dog that is partially chihuahua and partially poodle.


yellowfin

yellowfin (plural yellowfin or yellowfins)

yellowfin cutthroat trout (†Oncorhynchus clarkii macdonaldi, in the family Salmonidae)

yellowfin sea bream, any of several species in family Sparidae

Any of various fish with yellow fins.
yellowfin sole (Limanda aspera)


weero

From wiru, its name in several north-western Australian Aboriginal languages.

Nymphicus hollandicus
Nymphicus hollandicus#Translingual

(Western Australia) A cockatiel, Nymphicus hollandicus.


wee juggler

Major Mitchell's cockatoo
Major Mitchell's cockatoo

Lophochroa leadbeateri
Lophochroa leadbeateri#Translingual

Major Mitchell's cockatoo, Lophochroa leadbeateri.


gang-gang

He carried the two gang-gang cockatoos in a ferret box.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 433:

Callocephalon fimbriatum
Callocephalon fimbriatum#Translingual

A kind of cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum).


glossohyal

From glosso- + -hyal, from Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter upsilon”).

uder

the letter <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">upsilon</i>

(zoology anatomy) The tongue bone, specifically the lingual plate, which is a dermal toothed bone that covers or fuses with the basihyal.


wedge-tailed eagle

en-noun

wedge-tailed eagle (plural wedge-tailed eagles)

In the front paddock a wedge-tailed eagle was skimming down the line of the fence-posts.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 85:

A wedge-tailed eagle that was part of a birds of prey show at Alice Springs Desert Park flew at a young boy and latched on to his head with its talons instead of flying over to a perch as it had been trained to.

2016 July 12, Melissa Davey, The Guardian:

A large Australian bird of prey, Aquila audax; the eaglehawk.


windhover

From wind + hover, due to the bird’s habit of hovering by beating the wind with its wings; compare the earlier word windfucker.

Falco tinnunculus
Falco tinnunculus#Translingual

(British) The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).


blackfish

blackfish (plural blackfishes or blackfish)

(chiefly Scotland) The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.

Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).

(Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).

The creek was reputed to contain blackfish and Nathan […] arranged the extraordinary collection of American lures he had inherited from an uncle.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 337:

(Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.


blackfish

en-verb

blackfish (third-person singular simple present blackfishes, present participle blackfishing, simple past and past participle blackfished)

blackfishes (present singular third-person)
blackfishing (participle present)
blackfished (participle past)
blackfished (past)

Blend of black + catfish (“(to create) a fake online profile”)

blend

Judging from not only various records of campus life but also the numerous Instagram accounts of women appearing as "black" personalities — a phenomenon known as "blackfishing" — many do not know better.

2019, Wil Haygood, “Why Won’t Blackface Go Away? It’s Part of America’s Troubled Cultural Legacy”, in The New York Times:

On Sept. 28, Tumblr user wickedghastly posted allegations that the rapper has blackfished her fans. “Literally if you just look at images of her you can physically see her morphing herself over the years into looking Black,” wickedghastly wrote.

2020, Kris Seavers, “Newsletter: Princess Nokia accused of blackfishing”, in Daily Dot:

(Internet slang, derogatory, of a non-black person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).


goburra

Dacelo novaeguineae
Dacelo novaeguineae#Translingual

(obsolete) The laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae).


gunnel

From Middle English gonnewalle, itself from gonne (“gun”) + wale, as it used to support the ship's guns; equivalent to gun + wale.

A small eel-shaped marine fish of the family Pholidae, especially Pholis gunnellus.


gemsbok

From Afrikaans gemsbok, from Dutch gemsbok, from gems (“chamois”) + bok (“buck”), the former from German Gämse, of uncertain origin.

A large African antelope (Oryx gazella).

gemsbok

a large African antelope of the Oryx genus


claiming race

In a claiming race, each horse is in a sense up for sale. That is, any owner who has raced a horse at the track during the meet in progress may put in a claim to buy any horse racing in a claiming race.

1968, Marvin B. Scott, The Racing Game, page 15:

(horse racing) A race in which the competing horse can be claimed by anyone at the specified claiming price for the race.


fishify

en-verb

fishify (third-person singular simple present fishifies, present participle fishifying, simple past and past participle fishified)

fishifies (present singular third-person)
fishifying (participle present)
fishified (participle past)
fishified (past)

[…] I have found a cure for his lunatic excellency. Water expelleth fire—marry, when he talks of being an archbishop, souse him, good Tio,—fishify him straight,—may be his madness is a dog madness which flieth from the fountain.

1822 December, “Vargas [Vargas: A Tale of Spain, in three volumes. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. 1822.]”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume XII, number LXXI, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T[homas] Cadell, Strand, London, →OCLC, page 740:

For although unable to recognise in water an universal and infallible panacea for all the ills that flesh is heir to, we can yet bear a large testimony in its favour, and send it out to service with the highest character. It is our deliberate and mature conviction that the inhabitants of the Cumbraes and the adjacent islands of Great Britain and Ireland may, to their own infinite advantage, fishify their flesh a great deal more than they do at present.

1846 September, Richard J[ames] Lane, “The Water-Cure [Life at the Water-Cure; or, a Month at Malvern. A Diary. By Richard J. Lane. London: 1846]”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume LX, number CCCLXXI, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T[homas] Cadell, Strand, London, →OCLC, page 385:

(transitive, figuratively) To make as wet as a fish; to drench with water.


crab-eating raccoon

en-noun

crab-eating raccoon (plural crab-eating raccoons)

Procyon cancrivorus
Procyon cancrivorus#Translingual

A species of raccoon Procyon cancrivorus, found in the jungles of Central and South America.


mound builder

A member of any of several Native American peoples who constructed large mounds for ceremonial or burial purposes.


cyprinid

en-adj

cyprinid (comparative more cyprinid, superlative most cyprinid)

more cyprinid (comparative)
most cyprinid (superlative)

Of, pertaining to or characteristic of the Cyprinidae family of fish that includes carps and minnows.


cyprinid

Romanichthys, commonly known as the Romanian darter, is a very primitive cyprinid which has two dorsal fins and a covering of rough scales.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 122:


wolffish

en-noun

wolffish (plural wolffishes or wolffish)


coal tit

Periparus ater
Periparus ater#Translingual

One of the smallest birds of the tit family Paridae (Periparus ater), with a black cap, white nape patch and greyish body with buff underparts.


corbeau

Borrowed from French corbeau m (“raven”).

The local corbeaux, black, heavy, hunched, hopped about the slopes of rubbish; the children of the shanty town ran between the traffic on the rubbish-strewn highway to get to the dump.

2011, V. S. Naipaul, A Way in the World, →ISBN:

A whale man, if you see a whale. It beach. It taking up the whole of La Tinta. You not see the corbeaux? The Marines say they think it must be dead.

2014, Lawrence Scott, Night Calypso, →ISBN:

Across the blue sky, a big black bird, a vulture, a corbeau. It swooped down low and landed, its long, ringed legs trembling as it anchored itself on the branch of a thick-trunked tree. Around it, more corbeaux, cemetery gargoyles guarding the dead.

2016, Elizabeth Nunez, Prospero's Daughter, →ISBN, page 317:

Coragyps atratus
Coragyps atratus#Translingual

By 8 August, it was necessary to conscript beggars to bury the dead because the corbeaux, special bearers of plague-striken corpses, no longer sufficed for the task.

1972, David Victor Glass, Roger Revelle, Population and social change, page 234:

The next day she died and her body was removed by the corbeaux (the men who carted away the dead) - an ignominious death like that of Jesus Christ, wrote the annalist.

2001, A Social History of the Cloister, →ISBN, page 212:

By late summer, the magistrates themselves admitted their helplessness. They called in the notorious and dreaded corbeaux—convicts promised a commutation of their sentence in exchange for performing the dangerous task of removing the bodies.

2012, Marie-Hélène Huet, The Culture of Disaster, →ISBN, page 28:

(historical) A man who carts away the dead plague victims.


chelonian

en-adj

chelonian (comparative more chelonian, superlative most chelonian)

more chelonian (comparative)
most chelonian (superlative)

Chelonian eggs may be leathery or parchment-shelled that indent easily when laid and expand due to water uptake during incubation; harder-shelled but expansible eggs which behave much like parchment eggs during incubation; and brittle-shelled eggs which do not indent when laid and usually take up little or no external water during incubation (Ewert, 1979, 1985; Kuchling, 1999).

2004, Don Moll, The Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation of River Turtles, page 46:

Of, relating to, or belonging to the order Chelonia (Testudines), which includes the turtles and tortoises.


chelonian

A reptile of the order Chelonia (Testudines).


partlet

Origin unknown; perhaps a diminutive form of pert, or from its habit of ruffling the feathers round its neck; see Etymology 2 below.

unknown

Origin unknown

How now, dame Partlett the hen?

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

(now rare, archaic) A hen (originally in the form Dame Partlet).


formel

"There was a serpent in the gryphon's eye, he realized slowly, a snake and a hawk that danced and circled one another. The formel's voice lilted, drifting in and out of his thoughts."

1987, Meredith Ann Pierce, Birth of the Firebringer, page 39:

"... and as, in “The Assembly of Fowls,” the formel or female eagle, who is supposed to represent the Lady Blanche, ..."

1879, David Laing Purves, The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems:


Barbary sheep

Ammotragus lervia
Ammotragus lervia#Translingual

A wild North African caprid (not a true sheep), Ammotragus lervia


aoudad

Aoudads compete with native deer and actually run them off shared range, according to TPWD^([Texas Parks and Wildlife Department]) ethnobotanist David Alloway. There is no doubt that the aoudad must be removed from the ranch; the only question is how.

1995, Dick Bartlett, Saving the Best of Texas: A Partnership Approach to Conservation, page 183:

In captivity the aoudad seems to like water and to enjoy taking a bath. The diet consists of grass, herbaceous plants, and stunted bushes.

1999, Ronald M. Nowak, “Aoudad, or Barbary Sheep”, in Walker′s Mammals of the World, volume 1, page 1231:

New Mexico addressed this anxiety by issuing game department personnel a shoot-on-sight order for any aoudad found inside known bighorn boundaries in New Mexico. By comparison, Arizona′s intent was to eliminate any aoudad loose anywhere inside its jurisdiction, and its neighbor′s other additions were not welcome either.

2007, Elizabeth Cary Mungall, Exotic Animal Field Guide: Nonnative Hoofed Mammals in the United States, page 12:


macchi

(India, cooking) Any of several white fish used in Indian cooking


behind the bit

(idiomatic, of a horse) Evading the bit.


tree kangaroo

Any of several Australian macropods, of the genus Dendrolagus, adapted for life in the trees.


poison dart frog

en-noun

poison dart frog (plural poison dart frogs)

So called because a few species were used by Native Americans as a source of poison for blowdarts.

Any of the poisonous frogs of the family Dendrobatidae.


scaly anteater

Any of several species of pangolin (Manis spp.).


ground pangolin

ground pangolin (plural ground pangolins)

A pangolin of species Smutsia temminckii (syn. Manis temminckii).


Sunda pangolin

A pangolin of species Manis javanica, of Southeast Asia.


tree pangolin

A pangolin of species Phataginus tricuspis (syn. Manis tricuspis), found in southeastern Asia and northern Australia, especially in mangroves.


giant pangolin

A pangolin of species Manis gigantea of tropical parts of western Africa and western central Africa.


long-tailed pangolin

long-tailed pangolin (plural long-tailed pangolins)

A pangolin of species Phataginus tetradactyla (syn. Manis tetradactyla).


Cape buffalo

Syncerus caffer
Syncerus caffer#Translingual

A large African bovid, of species Syncerus caffer.

(specifically) of the subspecies Syncerus caffer caffer found in southern and eastern Africa.


Chinese pangolin

Chinese pangolin (plural Chinese pangolins)

Any of species Manis pentadactyla of pangolins.


banded anteater

banded anteater (plural banded anteaters)

Myrmecobius fasciatus
Myrmecobius fasciatus#Translingual

(former common name) The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus).


African buffalo

African buffalo (plural African buffalos)


silky anteater

A species of anteater (Cyclopes didactylus, formerly Myrmecophaga didactyla).


collared anteater

collared anteater (plural collared anteaters)


lesser anteater

lesser anteater (plural lesser anteaters)


Indian pangolin

Indian pangolin (plural Indian pangolins)

A pangolin of species Manis crassicaudata.


African anteater

African anteater (plural African anteaters)


numbat

A small marsupial carnivore, Myrmecobius fasciatus, endemic to western Australia, that eats almost exclusively termites.


saddle pad

A pad placed under a saddle on a horse, like a saddle blanket but thicker.


saddlecloth

A blanket placed under a saddle, a saddle blanket.

çul

blanket placed under a saddle — see also saddle blanket


saddle blanket

a blanket that is placed under a saddle as a cushion and to protect the horse's back.

տապճակ

blanket under saddle — see also saddlecloth


leopard gecko

The markings on its body resemble those of a leopard.

A nocturnal ground-dwelling gecko, Eublepharis macularius.


froglet

(ethnic slur) A little or insignificant French person.


hajeen

(archaic) A domesticated camel or dromedary used for riding


brasse

Perhaps a transposition of barse; but compare German Brasse (“bream”), and English bream.

Sander lucioperca
Sander lucioperca#Translingual

The zander (Sander lucioperca), a European freshwater fish.


struthious

en-adj

struthious (comparative more struthious, superlative most struthious)

more struthious (comparative)
most struthious (superlative)

From Latin strūthiō (“ostrich”) + -ous (“relating to”).

af

(ornithology) like an ostrich or other ratite


brisling

From Norwegian brisling and Danish brisling, from Low German bretling, from bret (“broad”), from Middle Low German *brêd, from Old Saxon brēd.

Sprattus sprattus
Sprattus sprattus#Translingual

A sprat (small herring), especially Sprattus sprattus.


spitter

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

(herpetology, slang) Synonym of spitting cobra.


cattitude

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

It took a lot of Rosie and Ernie to forgive their "bad cattitude" kitty.

2011, M. R. Wells, Connie Fleishauer, & Dottie Adams, The Cat Lover's Devotional, Harvest House Publishers, →ISBN, page 64:

Rani, the cat, was a different ball game. She liked to keep her distance, had considerable cattitude, and preferred to live in a world of her own. She loved (and lived) her name – the queen, the royal one.

2013, Rohini Singh, Free Fall: The Journey Home, Hay House Publishers, →ISBN:

He adjusted to domesticated life remarkably well, retaining his regal feral “cattitude.”

2014, Kathleen M. Downey, Legendary Locals of Newburyport, Legendary Locals, →ISBN, page 18:


mops

Borrowed from German Mops (“pug”), from Dutch mops.


jump off

en-verb

jump off (third-person singular simple present jumps off, present participle jumping off, simple past and past participle jumped off)

jumps off (present singular third-person)
jumping off (participle present)
jumped off (participle past)
jumped off (past)

(sports, equestrianism) To participate in the final round of an equestrian showjumping event.


docodont

Any of several extinct mammals of the order Docodonta.


prizzly

A hybrid between a polar bear and a grizzly bear.


Siberian crane

Baby Siberian cranes learning to fly rose briefly against the sky.

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 870:

Grus leucogeranus
Grus leucogeranus#Translingual

(ornithology) A large white crane, Grus leucogeranus, which breeds in Arctic Russia and western Siberia.


ant bear

Myrmecophaga tridactyla
Myrmecophaga tridactyla#Translingual

giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)


weaner

"I mean she's too young to get married," said Oscar. "Doesn't know she's alive yet—like calfing a weaner."

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, page 138:

An animal that has been recently weaned.


togue

Via Canadian French from an Algonquian word.

Salvelinus namaycush
Salvelinus namaycush#Translingual

Lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, a freshwater char of northern North America.


Jacobin

From Middle French jacobin, ultimately from Latin Jacōbus (“Jacob”).

A breed of domestic pigeon (known for its feathered hood over its head).


sausage dog

A draught excluder in the shape of a dog.


raoellid

Any of a group of extinct hoofed mammals of the family †Raoellidae from Eocene India, thought to be ancestors of the whales.


puttock

From Middle English puttock, puttok, potok, puttoc, of uncertain origin; perhaps representing an unattested Old English *putta (“hawk”) + -ock; or perhaps from Old English *pūthafoc (literally “pout-hawk”), equivalent to pout (“a kind of fish”) + hawk. Compare also pout (“a young bird”), poult.

inh

Some like to hounds, some like to Apes, dismayd, / Some like to Puttockes, all in plumes arayd: / All shap't according their conditions […]

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

Who finds the partridge In the puttock's nest, But will suspect 'twas he that did the deed? " But then Shakespeare knew the habits of partridges and puttocks as well as Milton knew his Bible or his Tacitus.

1873, Appletons' Journal - Issues 224-249, page 724:

(now British regional) Any of several birds of prey including the red kite, buzzard and marsh harrier


pyrrhuloxia

/ˌpɪɹəˈlɒksiə/

From translingual former genus name, Pyrrhuloxia.

Cardinalis sinuatus (desert cardinal), a North American bird with grey and red plumage


sea trout

en-noun

sea trout (plural sea trouts or sea trout)

A fish of the species Salmo trutta morpha trutta, closely related to salmon and a subspecies of brown trout. It is lighter in colour than the brown trout, and lives in salt water, returning to fresh water only to spawn.


King Charles spaniel

King Charles spaniel (plural King Charles spaniels)

First brought into notice by King Charles II.

A breed of toy dog originating from England.


quey

So I sent away the two queys, one of them is pranded and the other plack.^([eye dialect, meaning: branded... black])

1875, William Robertson, Sketches of Highland Character: Sheep-farmers and Drovers, Edmonston and Douglas, page 13:

The blue ribbon in the section for two-year-old queys in calf was carried away by a sweet little animal owned by Mr. Frame, Blantyre Park, which had never been shown at any other exhibition.

1878, The Farmer's Magazine, Volume 53: January-June 1878, page 461:

Ewan, who with others was giving friendly help to the manager and herds, was in charge of the queys, which were disposed of and driven out while Mary was still taking instructions from the executor at the auctioneer's stand.

1890, The Highland Monthly, Volume 1, page 584:


jackass penguin

jackass penguin (plural jackass penguins)

Refers to its call, which sounds similar to that of a donkey, even though most other penguins produce a similar sound.

South African National Biodiversity Institute


Humboldt penguin

Humboldt penguin (plural Humboldt penguins)

Named for Alexander von Humboldt, an explorer.

Spheniscus humboldti
Spheniscus humboldti#Translingual

Spheniscus humboldti, a species of penguin which live in coastal Peru and Chile.

Dibénééz Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ tsídii naʼałkʼaiʼí


Adelie penguin

Named after Adélie, the wife of explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville

Pygoscelis adeliae
Pygoscelis adeliae#Translingual

Pygoscelis adeliae, a species of penguin with distinctive white rings surrounding the eyes.


chinstrap penguin

chinstrap penguin (plural chinstrap penguins)

Pygoscelis antarcticus
Pygoscelis antarcticus#Translingual

A species of penguin, Pygoscelis antarcticus, with a distinctive black strip under the head.


rockhopper penguin

rockhopper penguin (plural rockhopper penguins)

Any of three closely related crested penguins, in genus Eudyptes.


little penguin

Eudyptula minor
Eudyptula minor#Translingual

The smallest species of penguin, Eudyptula minor, found in New Zealand, southern Australia, and the Chatham Islands.


African penguin

African penguin (plural African penguins)

Spheniscus demersus
Spheniscus demersus#Translingual

A species of penguin, Spheniscus demersus, which live on the south-west coast of Africa.

Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ tsídii naʼałkʼaiʼí


fairy penguin

1970, Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Wildlife in Australia, Volumes 7-9, page 40,
Captain James Cook and party on 31st March, 1773, first discovered the fairy penguins at Duskey Bay, New Zealand.

The Fairy Penguin, for example, teaches us to picture in our mind′s eye a desired outcome, and coaches us to physically and abundantly bring it to fruition.

2007, Scott Alexander King, Animal Dreaming: The Symbolic & Spiritual Language of the Australasian Animals, 2nd edition, page 151:

‘Bluey’ is a fairy penguin (more widely known as ‘little penguins’). Bluey is one of the 70000 who make their home on Phillip Island, near Melbourne.

2011, Ute Wegmann, Wild Whiskers and Tender Tales: Close Encounters with Australian Wildlife Rescue and Conservation, page 60:

(Australia) The little penguin, Eudyptula minor.


erect-crested penguin

erect-crested penguin (plural erect-crested penguins)

Eudyptes sclateri
Eudyptes sclateri#Translingual

A medium-sized species of penguin, Eudyptes sclateri from New Zealand.


royal penguin

Eudyptes schlegeli
Eudyptes schlegeli#Translingual

A species of white-faced penguin, Eudyptes schlegeli, which breed on Macquarie Island, in the south-west Pacific.


white-flippered penguin

white-flippered penguin (plural white-flippered penguins)

A subspecies of small penguin, Eudyptula minor albosignata, with distinctive white marks on the flippers, which breed on South Island.

Łeesdísí Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ tsídii naʼałkʼaiʼí yázhí


macaroni penguin

macaroni penguin (plural macaroni penguins)

Compound of macaroni (“dandy, fop”) + penguin.

Eudyptes chrysolophus
Eudyptes chrysolophus#Translingual

A species of penguins, Eudyptes chrysolophus, with distinctive yellow and black plumes on the top of their heads.


yellow-eyed penguin

yellow-eyed penguin (plural yellow-eyed penguins)

Megadyptes antipodes
Megadyptes antipodes#Translingual

Any of a species of small penguin, Megadyptes antipodes, with a distinctive yellow band around its eyes, native to New Zealand.


crested penguin

crested penguin (plural crested penguins)

A group of penguins in the genus Eudyptes, which all have in common a crest atop their heads.


gentoo penguin

Pygoscelis papua
Pygoscelis papua#Translingual

A species of penguin, Pygoscelis papua, with a distinctive wide white stripe extending like a bonnet across the top of its head.


Ridgen's penguin

Ridgen's penguin (plural Ridgen's penguins)

The remains were found in 1968 by schoolboy Alan Ridgen.

Aptenodytes ridgeni
Aptenodytes ridgeni#Translingual

An extinct species of penguin (†Aptenodytes ridgeni), from New Zealand during the Pliocene epoch.


Chatham Islands penguin

Chatham Islands penguin (plural Chatham Islands penguins)

†Eudyptes warhami, an extinct species of crested penguins, which lived on the Chatham Islands.


Snares penguin

From The Snares, the group of islands on which they live.

Eudyptes robustus
Eudyptes robustus#Translingual

A species of crested penguin, Eudyptes robustus, which breed on The Snares, an island group off South Island, New Zealand.

Shádiʼááhjí Łeesdísí Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ tsídii naʼałkʼaiʼí


Fiordland penguin

Fiordland penguin (plural Fiordland penguins)

From Fiordland, the coast along which it breeds.

Eudyptes pachyrhynchus
Eudyptes pachyrhynchus#Translingual

A species of crested penguin, Eudyptes pachyrhynchus, with distinctive blue-grey upperparts, which breed on the Fiordland coast and on nearby islands.

Łeesdísí Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ tsídii naʼałkʼaiʼí


Magellanic penguin

Magellanic penguin (plural Magellanic penguins)

Named for Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer.

Spheniscus magellanicus
Spheniscus magellanicus#Translingual

A species of penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus, found in coastal South America.


pittie

pittie (countable and uncountable, plural pitties)

I was used to slammed doors, rumbling buses, shouting, snarling pitties, police sirens, […]

2012, Marta Acosta, Dark Companion, page 33:

Maybe he'd want a signal from me that he should rush to the carrier and retrieve a pittie on his own— a small one, alive, our new class pet.

2014, Ellen Cooney, The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances, page 247:

Lori and I rescued a pittie from a local rescue organization and our lives have never been the same.

2015 August, Sara Ernest, “Love in Rescue”, in Quorum, page 6:

(informal, endearing) A pit bull terrier.


chilver

The chilver and pur lambs, at 2d. per head for about 40 weeks, will cost

1812, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Dorset, page 407:

For the last few years I have put out my Chilver lambs to keep from the middle of October til Lady-day upon a dry, sheltered, and healthy farm, andd as the result of this plan, I have found that the lambs did quite as well there with cut swedes and hay as they would on my high exposed farm during the winter upon the same allowance of roots and hay, with the addition of a quarter of a pound of best cake per day for each lamb.

1868, British Farmer's Magazine - Issue 54, page 114:

Among the purchasers of the Chilver lambs were Mr. Morrison, a lot at £170; Mr. Taylor, £80; Mr. Buxton, :£33 10s, Mr Holdsworth £34

1874, The Farmer's Magazine - Volume 76, page 259:

To repairing Hurne bridge 1 chilver shepe.

1898, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, page 66:

If anything has to go short, it will not be the heifers or chilver lambs, as they call their yearling ewes ; and in fact , as I have already said, except in the occasional seasons of drouth, the Dorset ewe during the four or five years of her life never knows what it is to want.

1898, Wool Markets and Sheep - Volumes 8-9, page 2:

In the summer and autumn, the chilver lambs are frequently folded, being fed on grass, rape, turnips, and hay, from the latter end of summer till the following spring.

1970, William Marshall, Southern and peninsular departments, page 280:


pilot whale

Either of two species of whale in the genus Globicephala, dark grey in colour.


nyaa

From the Japanese onomatopoeia にゃあ (nyā).

(anime and manga fandom) The cry of a cat; meow, miaow.


northern red-backed vole

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

Myodes rutilus
Myodes rutilus#Translingual

A species of vole, Myodes rutilus, former genus names Clethrionomys and Evotomys.


ifrit

→ Japanese: イフリート (ifurīto)

blue-capped ifrit
blue-capped ifrit#English

A species of passerine bird endemic to New Guinea, in full the blue-capped ifrit.


Mexican hairless

Mexican hairless (plural Mexican hairlesses)


latrant

From Latin lātrans (“barking, ranting”), present participle of lātrāre (“to bark, to rant”). Equivalent to latrate + -ant.

Thus—All triangles are all trilaterals. 2°, It may designate a class considered as undivided, though not positively thought as taken in its whole extent; and this may be articulately denoted by (:.). Thus—The triangle is the trilateral;—The dog is the latrant.— (Here note the use of the definite article in English, Greek, French, German,^α &c.)

1860, William Hamilton, “Appendix”, in H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume IV, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 279:

(rare, obsolete) One who is barking, a dog, (figurative) a complainer.


soko

Old hunters and travellers say that they would rather steal the child of a native savage than to take one of the sokos.

1918, Royal Dixon, The Human Side of Animals, page 232:

(dated) A species of African ape, supposedly a variety of the chimpanzee.


white-fronted goose

white-fronted goose (plural white-fronted geese)

Named for the patch of white feathers bordering the base of its bill.

Anser albifrons
Anser albifrons#Translingual

A goose that has bright orange legs and mouse-coloured upper wing-coverts, Anser albifrons.


grunter

Dalton, the winner of nine grand slam doubles titles, claims she would have been prepared to forfeit a match against the grunter par excellence, Maria Sharapova — and has urged the current generation of tennis players to do so.

2007 December 19, Linda Pearce, “Tennis grunters told to stop the racket”, in The Age:

Any of a group of fish of the family Terapontidae, which make a grunting sound when caught.


mandarin duck

Coordinate term: wood duck

Mandarin ducks usually pair for life. In Asia they are thought to be a symbol of love and good luck. Mandarin ducks feed mainly on insects, snails, fish, plants and seeds.

2019, Kate Baker, Wild In The City, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 94:

Aix galericulata
Aix galericulata#Translingual

A colorful perching duck that has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face, Aix galericulata.


worm lizard

Most species of worm-lizard still retain remnants of their pelvis and pectoral girdle (hips and shoulders), but only four species from Mexico out of the 180 currently known around the world still have functioning forelimbs.

2016 July 13, Elsa Panciroli, “How did legless worm-lizards cross the Atlantic?”, in The Guardian:

Any of many small limbless burrowing tropical squamate reptiles, of the family Amphisbaenidae or of the superfamily or suborder Amphisbaenia, that resemble worms.


gwan

From various English dialects, notably Gullah.

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of going on.

“Aw, gwan, you slave driver,” the boy said, dashing from the room.

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 199:

(nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of go on.

I need to get to gwan.

(nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of going.


gwan

(neologism, rare) A hybrid between a goose and a swan, especially the offspring of a gander (male goose) and a pen (female swan).


British Semi-Longhair

British Semi-Longhair (plural British Semi-Longhairs)

A semi-longhair domestic cat breed with a cobby conformation, originating in Great Britain.


thagomizer

/ˈθæɡ.ə.maɪ.zəɹ/

Coined by cartoonist Gary Larson in 1982. His comic strip (image on the right) shows a caveman giving a lecture illustrating this part of a dinosaur, with the caption "Now this end is called the thagomizer... after the late Thag Simmons". See -ize, -er.

coinage

Like the thagomizer of the stegosaur, the ankylosaurid tail club was probably used to smash into attackers.

2001, Thomas R. Holtz with Terry Riley, The Little Giant Book of Dinosaurs, page 54:

An Allosaurus backbone had a hole in which a Stegosaurus thagomizer fitted perfectly. Over the years, many of the fossil thagomizers that have been dug up have had broken tips.

2008 August 1, Gary Jeffrey, Stegosaurus: The Plated Dinosaur, Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 30:

"Not like that," Snap growled, raising her four fists, swishing her thagomizer around threateningly.

2008 September 17, L. E. Simmons, The Lady of Gold (SnapDragon Adventures 1), 1st edition, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 135:

An arrangement of spikes found on the tails of various stegosaurs.


Bombay cat

A domestic cat of a medium-sized shorthair breed, having a glossy black color and bright copper-golden eyes, developed in Kentucky during the 1950s.


common redstart

en-noun

common redstart (plural common redstarts)

Phoenicurus phoenicurus
Phoenicurus phoenicurus#Translingual

A small passerine bird (Phoenicurus phoenicurus).


giant panda

→ Japanese: ジャイアントパンダ (jaianto panda)

Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Ailuropoda melanoleuca#Translingual

A rare, black and white mammal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, in the ursid (bear) family.


lagomorph

A member of the mammalian taxonomic order Lagomorpha, a hare, a rabbit, or a pika.

lagomorf

member of the mammalian taxonomic order, Lagomorpha, which includes hares, rabbits, and pikas


morepork

/ˈmɔɹˌpɔ(ə)ɹk/

The word is imitative of the bird's call.

onom

imitative

[T]he eye of the Morepork or Greater Night Jarr,^([sic]) which I lately had the opportunity of examining, is wonderfully adapted for enabling it to see the insects in the dark, on which it feeds.

1843, James Backhouse, chapter XVIII, in A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies, London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co. […]; York, Yorkshire: John L. Linney, […], →OCLC, page 213:

Although the living figure of our owl may be unknown to most persons, from the nature of its habits, yet few, perhaps very few, of the older settlers are unacquainted with the human-like cry of the More-pork.

1871 May, T[homas] H[enry] Potts, “Art. XI.—On the Birds of New Zealand. … (Part II.)”, in James Hector, editor, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1870, volume III, Wellington: James Hughes, printer, […]; London: Trübner 7 Co., […], →OCLC, page 61:

[I]t was better fun wandering about with the old man at night than moping in my hut, listening to the morepoke.

1876, Richard Rowe, “The Bunyip”, in A Child’s Corner Book: Stories for Boys and Girls, London, Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo. […], →OCLC, page 182:

When Heke and Kawiti were making an attack on the Europeans in the Bay of Islands, the native parties, in taking up their positions before daybreak, communicated their movements to one another by imitating the cry of the morepork, which the sentries were accustomed to hear, and of which they therefore took no notice.

1909, F[rederick] W[ollaston] Hutton, James Drummond, “[Aves.] The Morepork.—Kuru or Koukou. Ninox novae-zealandiae.”, in The Animals of New Zealand: An Account of the Dominion’s Air-breathing Vertebrates, 3rd revised and enlarged edition, Christchurch, Wellington, Dunedin: Whitcombe and Tombs, →OCLC, page 170:

Moreporks and laughing owls were both recorded from the Punakaiki karst in small numbers, although the presence of laughing owls was inferred only from prey remains. [...] Because moreporks were extremely rare in fossil deposits, Millener (1991) suggested that they were recent colonists. In Punakaiki, one of the morepork records is of bones beneath an entrance tomo.

1993 September, T[revor] H[enry] Worthy, R. N. Holdaway, “Quaternary Fossil Faunas from Caves in the Punakaiki Area, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand”, in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, volume 23, number 3, Wellington: SIR Publishing, Royal Society of New Zealand, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 216:

I remember that at night there was usually a morepork in the tree, whose eerie calls scared me as I lay still in bed, with firmly closed eyes, waiting for a possible attack.

2000, L. C. Woods, “Growing Up”, in Against the Tide: An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider, Bristol, Philadelpha, Pa.: Institute of Physics Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:

[T]wo New Zealand Moreporks (Ninox novaeseelandiae) were introduced to Norfolk Island in 1987, where only one individual of the closely related Norfolk Island Boobook (Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata) survived [...]. Nest boxes were erected across the island to supplement the dearth of natural hollows. By early 1995, the population had risen to 11 birds [...].

2002, Philip Gibbons, David Lindenmayer, “The Role of Nest Boxes in Research and Management”, in Tree Hollows and Wildlife Conservation in Australia, Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, published 2003, →ISBN, page 146:

I heard the harsh rasping of a weta, a mega-cricket. Then a pair of Morepork owls began a duet. Few birds are as aptly named as the Morepork. From dusk to sun-up and from forest to suburban garden, this medium-sized owl emphatically calls for "more pork."

2008, David Stirling, “Belly Up in the Kauri Trees”, in Birds, Beasts and a Bike under the Southern Cross, Victoria, B.C.: Agio Publishing House, →ISBN, page 14:

Moreporks’ inquisitive, searching eyes, / scan the hiding places, search the ground, / it stares ’round … from flattened rounded face.

2012, Robert Taylor, “Predators”, in Driftwood: Another Voice, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 47:

We were a family of odd bods and every summer we spent by the river. At night the morepokes called again and again.

2016, Brigid Lowry, “My Inky Life: Thoughts about Writing Memoir”, in Still Life with Teapot: On Zen, Writing and Creativity, North Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Press, →ISBN:

(chiefly New Zealand) The Tasmanian spotted owl (Ninox novaeseelandiae), a small brown owl indigenous to New Zealand and Tasmania.


American robin

Turdus migratorius
Turdus migratorius#Translingual

A New World passerine bird; Turdus migratorius.


European robin

Erithacus rubecula
Erithacus rubecula#Translingual

A small passerine Old World bird; Erithacus rubecula.


busser

(historical) A mid-sized horse used to pull a bus.


tota

From a native word for it, perhaps Amharic ጦጣ (ṭoṭa, “monkey, ape”).


common nightingale

en-noun

common nightingale (plural common nightingales)

Luscinia megarhynchos
Luscinia megarhynchos#Translingual


thrush nightingale

thrush nightingale (plural thrush nightingales)

Luscinia luscinia
Luscinia luscinia#Translingual

A small passerine bird of species Luscinia luscinia, related to the common nightingale.


rusa deer

Cervus timorensis, a species of deer native to the islands of Java.


K-9 unit

Humorous homophone of canine from an old vaudeville show.

(US) A police dog or a police dog and its handler.


guard dog

A dog used to protect a property or its owner.


antilopine wallaby

antilopine wallaby (plural antilopine wallabies)


western grey kangaroo

western grey kangaroo (plural western grey kangaroos)

A kangaroo of species Macropus fuliginosis, found in most of southern Australia.


antilopine wallaroo

antilopine wallaroo (plural antilopine wallaroos)


eastern grey kangaroo

eastern grey kangaroo (plural eastern grey kangaroos)

Macropus giganteus
Macropus giganteus#Translingual

A species of kangaroo, with a distinctive soft grey coat, Macropus giganteus


antilopine kangaroo

antilopine kangaroo (plural antilopine kangaroos)

A kangaroo of species Macropus antilopinus, found in northern Australia.


police dog

A man who attacked three police officers and a police dog at Nottingham on April 4 has pleaded guilty to two counts of actual bodily harm, assault with intent to resist arrest, assault of an emergency worker, possession of a bladed article, possession of an offensive weapon, and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.

2020 April 22, “Network News: Man attacks BTP officers after being refused travel”, in Rail, page 11:

A dog trained and employed by the police to pursue suspects or sniff out contraband.


kaluta

Dasykaluta rosamondae, a carnivorous nocturnal marsupial of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.


mangue

The kusimanse, a genus of mongoose, Crossarchus.


whydah

Alteration of the first component of widow bird, after Whydah (now Ouidah) in Benin.

Any of various black and white African weaverbirds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds.


carpintero

Borrowed from Spanish carpintero (“carpenter; woodpecker”). Doublet of carpenter.

bor+

The acorn woodpecker, Melanerpes formicivorus, a woodpecker of southwestern North America, noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees.


cavefish

en-noun

cavefish (plural cavefishes or cavefish)

Any of various fish, typically blind and lacking pigment, that inhabit subterranean waters.


Tukeit Hill frog

Tukeit Hill frog (plural Tukeit Hill frogs)

A small frog of variable colouration, until recently the only described species in the genus Allophryne, found in South America.


tongueless frog

tongueless frog (plural tongueless frogs)

One of a group of aquatic frogs in the Pipidae family.


litter frog

Any of a group of frogs in the family Megophryidae, notable for their camouflage abilities.


tailed frog

A one of two species of frogs in the genus Ascaphus, distinctive by virtue of having what looks like a tail.


painted frog

Any of various frogs with colorful markings:

Discoglossus nigriventer (Hula painted frog), of Palestine.


parsley frog

Any of a group of frogs in the family Pelodytidae, of which only genus Pelodytes is extant, some of which have the appearance of being garnished with parsley.


shovelnose frog

shovelnose frog (plural shovelnose frogs)

Shovelnose frogs, fat little things, lumpy-backed and moss-coloured, come together to mate, the male climbing on the back of the female as she digs down into the ground away from the river.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 25:

Any of a group of moderate-sized frogs in the genus Hemisus and family Hemisotidae, which have a small upturned nose.


ghost frog

Compound of ghost + frog. Perhaps because of their occurrence in Skeleton Gorge.

Any of a group of frogs in the family Heleophrynidae, which live in mountain streams in South Africa.


sedge frog

Any in family Hyperoliidae of medium-sized frogs.


marsupial frog

Any of a group of frogs in the family Amphignathodontidae, found in Central America and South America.


screeching frog

screeching frog (plural screeching frogs)

Any of a group of frogs in the family Arthroleptidae, with distinctive high-pitched calls.


clawed frog

Any of a group of aquatic carnivorous frogs in the genus Xenopus, which are very small and have small claws.

żaba szponiasta (also refers to xenopus laevis)


glass frog

Any of a group of frogs in the family Centrolenidae, with distinctive light-coloured or translucent skin.


disc-tongued frog

disc-tongued frog (plural disc-tongued frogs)

Today, the common midwife toad can be found from the lowlands of southern Belgium to the sandy wastes of Spain, making it the most successful and widely distributed member of Europe’s oldest surviving vertebrate family, the Alytidae, a group comprising the midwife toads, the disc-tongued frogs, the firebellies and the painted frogs.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 36:

Any frog in the former family Discoglossidae, now known as the Alytidae.


moss frog

A group of tropical frogs in the Rhacophoridae family, mostly arboreal.


Amazon milk frog

Amazon milk frog (plural Amazon milk frogs)

A large frog native to South America, of species Trachycephalus resinifictrix.


long-fingered frog

long-fingered frog (plural long-fingered frogs)

Any of a group of frogs of the genus Cardioglossa.


true frog

Any frog of the large family Ranidae, found worldwide, typically with smooth and moist skin; large, powerful legs; and extensively webbed feet.


Darwin's frog

Rhinoderma darwinii, a species of frog native to Chile and Argentina, with a distinctive feature of raising the tadpoles in the male's vocal sac.


blue-sided leaf frog

blue-sided leaf frog (plural blue-sided leaf frogs)

A species of tree frog native to Costa Rica, Agalychnis annae, noted for the blue stripes running down both of its sides.


Malabar flying frog

Malabar flying frog (plural Malabar flying frogs)

A species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae, found in western India, Rhacophorus malabaricus, having the ability to glide due to the webbing between its toes.


vocal sac

The flexible membrane of skin possessed by most male frogs, used for amplification of the voice.

häälepõis

flexible voice-amplifying membrane of male frog


Schnoodle

Now there are dozens of mixes, most of which are a poodle blend. There is the goldendoodle, labradoodle, maltipoo, schnoodle, shihpoo, and the puggle, a mix of a pug and a beagle.

2007, Earl Mindell, Elizabeth Renaghan, Dr. Earl Mindell’s Nutrition and Health for Dogs, Basic Health Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 117:

Puggles, poogles and schnoodles. Schnockers, dorkies and doodles. Dog lovers have hundreds of breeds to pick from when selecting a new family pet, and crossbreeds, sometimes called hybrids or designer dogs, offer unusual choices.

2008 March 30, Brenda Showalter, “Designer dog breeds collar attention”, in The Republic, Columbus, Ind., page C1:

A dog that is a hybrid between a poodle and a schnauzer.


heronsew

From Middle English heronsewe, from Old French haironcel, diminutive of heiron.

As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / At an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […].

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Pages, with ready blade, were there, / The mighty meal to carve and share: / O'er capon, heron-shew, and crane, / And princely peacock's gilded train […].

1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

(now dialectal) A heron (originally specifically when small or young).


grey-winged trumpeter

grey-winged trumpeter (plural grey-winged trumpeters)

Psophia crepitans
Psophia crepitans#Translingual

Psophia crepitans, a member of a small family of birds, the Psophiidae, which occur only in the Amazon basin in tropical South America.


cageling

Am I as a child perhaps, chasing a flown cageling, who among the branches free plays and peeps at the offered cage?

1869, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 20, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor:

Semmacherib says that he cooped up King Hezekiah of Judah in Jerusalem like a cageling.

1918, Paul Haupt, “English 'coop' == Assyrian 'Quppu',”, in Modern Language Notes, volume 33, number 7, page 434:

(uncommon) A bird that is kept confined in a cage.


common kestrel

Falco tinnunculus
Falco tinnunculus#Translingual


aetosaur

(paleontology) Any of an extinct group of heavily armoured herbivorous archosaurian reptiles, of the order †Aetosauria.


angel shark

A member of the unusual genus Squatina of sharks with flattened bodies and broad pectoral fins resembling skates or rays. There are approximately 16 known species, which are the only members of their taxonomic genus, family and order. They occur worldwide in temperate and tropical seas.

àngel

a member of the unusual genus Squatina of sharks


merry cocker

In fact the modern human beater — the fustian-clad yokel, with a long and stout stick and a stentorian cry of "Cock ! cock ! cock !" — has very long ago pretty well ousted the merry cockers or the more staid Clumber for driving the coverts; certainly an innovation not at all a desirable one.

1897, Rawdon Briggs Lee, A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland, page 227:

The merry Cocker now is one of the most popular of breeds.

1931 February 8, “Garden Dog Show to Start Tuesday”, in New York Times:

Again, the merry cocker is coming back.

1967 September 1, Fresno Bee, The, Fresno, California:


boarhound

A large dog, descended from breeds originally used to hunt boars.


bush antelope

Tragelaphus scriptus
Tragelaphus scriptus#Translingual


bushbuck

Either of two species of antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus or Tragelaphus sylvaticus, considered by some sources to be the single species Tragelaphus scriptus) found in Sub-Saharan Africa.


cartilaginous fish

cartilaginous fish (plural cartilaginous fishes or cartilaginous fish)

cartilaginous fishes (plural)
cartilaginous fish (plural)

Any member of the taxonomic class Chondrichthyes, having a skeleton made of cartilage rather than bone. They can be contrasted with the Osteichthyes or bony fishes.


stentor

Borrowed from Latin Stentōr, from Ancient Greek Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), the name of a herald in the Iliad who had a loud voice.

Ere long a solitary amœba and stentor were found engaged in a struggle, which continued for some time with varying success, finally ending with the escape of the latter.

1894, James H. Logan, Observations on Amœba and Stentor: Western Druggist, volume 16, page 7:

When the stentors become too numerous it is a simple matter to subdivide the culture and add the requisite amount of spring water to each culture.

1943, The Biological Review, volumes 5-18, page 15:

It can be an irritant even for humans and is certainly toxic to tiny animals like stentor. He added carmine to the water tank in which the stentor was living, and simply watched to see what happened.

2004, Helen Saul, Phobias: Fighting the Fear, page 42:


scape

From Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.

The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).


scape

though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape

c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

(obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.


lolcat

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

(Internet, neologism) An image macro of, usually, a kitten or a cat with a humorous caption.

lolcat

image macro of a kitten or cat with a humurous caption


reremouse

From Middle English reremous, from Old English hrēremūs, hrœ̄remūs (“bat”). By surface analysis, rear (“to move, shake, stir”) + mouse.

surf

Argent, a reremouse sable,[…]

(rare, archaic, poetic or heraldry) A bat (flying mammal).


Airedale Terrier

en-noun

Airedale Terrier (plural Airedale Terriers)


great auk

Probably from an early Scandinavian word (compare Old (West) Norse álka, Norwegian alke (“razorbill”)).

The last great auk ever seen in the UK was captured off Stac an Armin, St Kilda, in 1840.

2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 82:

Pinguinus impennis
Pinguinus impennis#Translingual

A large extinct auk (†Pinguinus impennis).

大海烏

おおうみがらす, オオウミガラス, ōumigarasu


little auk

A dovekie, a bird of the species Alle alle.


saddle tree

(equestrianism) The base on which the rest of the saddle is built, usually based on wood or a similar synthetic material, and is eventually covered in leather or a leatherlike synthetic.


DSLD

suspensory ligament
suspensory ligament#English

(pathology, equestrianism) Initialism of degenerative suspensory ligament desmitis, an equine skeletal disorder characterized by a hyperabundance of a certain proteoglycan in equine connective tissue which causes degeneration and eventually death.

equine systemic proteoglycan accumulation


riding halter

A type of rope halter specifically designed to be used for riding horses. It is considered a type of bitless bridle. Ithas two rings set low on the noseband for the purpose of attaching reins. Horse control is achieved by direct pressure on the nose.


kelt

I know fine hoo a kelt should be pit on, though I'm no Highlander mysel'

1895, “Sketches from Scotland”, in Punch:


gooney bird

Phoebastria nigripes
Phoebastria nigripes#Translingual

Any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) and the Laysan albatross, that dwell primarily on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.