padle

The Padle of our market is the male Lump fish (Cyclopterus Lumpus.) The female is called Hush by our fishers; but it is seldom brought to market, being much inferior to the male for the table.

1807, “Fish Market”, in The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, volume 69, page 364:

The male lump-fish, or padle, is brought to market in April and May.

1809, John Roberton, A Treatise on Medical Police, and on Diet, Regimen:

The Lump Fish or Padle, as it is named in Scotland is often taken in the Firth of Forth in the salmon-nets and Musselburgh and Queensferry, generally about the month of June, and entirely disappears after the month of August.

1838, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society for the years 1831-37, volume 7:

(Scotland, dated) Cyclopterus lumpus, the lumpsucker or lumpfish.


Asian palm civet

en-noun

Asian palm civet (plural Asian palm civets)

Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus#Translingual

A small civet, (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), of South and Southeast Asia up to the Wallace Line.


queltehue

southern lapwing
southern lapwing#English

(South America) Synonym of southern lapwing


leptonectid

Any ichthyosaur of the family Leptonectidae


parvicursorine

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Parvicursorinae


pecoran

(zoology) Any ungulate of the infraorder Pecora


ophthalmosaurine

Clipping of translingual Ophthalmosaurinae

clipping

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

Any ophthalmosaurid of the subfamily Ophthalmosaurinae


platypterygiine

Any thunnosaur of the subfamily Platypterygiinae


thunnosaur

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

Any ichthyosaur of the clade Thunnosauria


thunnosaurian

The best-known early thunnosaurian is Stenopterygius, from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) of England, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland.

2019, Hans-Dieter Sues, The Rise of Reptiles: 320 Million Years of Evolution, page 98:

Any extinct ichthyosaur of the taxon Thunnosauria.


sivathere

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

The sivatheres became extinct about two million years ago, but other giraffes, including the ancestors of the living giraffe species and the okapi, thrived.

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

Shins coated in mud, the sivathere strides out onto more solid ground, towards the shade to browse.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 28:

(paleontology) An extinct giraffid of the genus Sivatherium.


go walkies

en-verb

go walkies (third-person singular simple present goes walkies, present participle going walkies, simple past went walkies, past participle gone walkies)

goes walkies (present singular third-person)
going walkies (participle present)
went walkies (past)
gone walkies (participle past)

Synonym of go walkabout (“to go missing; to be lost or stolen”)


tawny pipit

Anthus campestris
Anthus campestris#Translingual

Anthus campestris, a medium-to-large passerine bird that breeds in much of temperate Europe and Asia, and northwest Africa.


flounderling

On such an one I came
All inadvertently,
Splashing the shallows
Where Atlantic ebb
Was making bare
The flats,
As when one
Wading
Sets unguarded step
Upon a lurking
Flounderling.

1918, Richard Darwin Ware, Rediscoveries, page 102:

At first flounderlings are thin-bodied but typically fishlike in other respects. Then suddenly striking anatomical changes take place, and the creature's behavior becomes fixed for an essentially two-dimensional way of life.

1979, John L. Culliney, The forests of the sea: life and death on the Continental Shelf, page 90:


bradyodont

Any extinct cartilaginous fish of the order Bradyodonti


common gundi

Ctenodactylus gundi, a species of rodent in the family Ctenodactylidae.


vegaviid

2017 October 7, F. L. Agnolín, F. B. Egli, S. Chatterjee, J. A. G. Marsà, F. E. Novas, Vegaviidae, a new clade of southern diving birds that survived the K/T boundary, Naturwissenschaften, 104(11-12):87, doi: 10.1007/s00114-017-1508-y,
Vegaviids share a combination of characters related to diving adaptations, including compact and thickened cortex of hindlimb bones, femur with anteroposteriorly compressed and bowed shaft, deep and wide popliteal fossa delimited by a medial ridge, tibiotarsus showing notably proximally expanded cnemial crests, expanded fibular crest, anteroposterior compression of the tibial shaft, and a tarsometatarsus with a strong transverse compression of the shaft. […] Moreover, vegaviids represent the first avian lineage to have definitely crossed the K-Pg boundary, supporting the idea that some avian clades were not affected by the end Mesozoic mass extinction event, countering previous interpretations.

Any species of the extinct family Vegaviidae of goose-like birds.


bunyip bird

Botaurus poiciloptilus
Botaurus poiciloptilus#Translingual

The Australasian bittern, Botaurus poiciloptilus.


yellow-billed chough

en-noun

yellow-billed chough (plural yellow-billed choughs)


Jerusalem pony

Jerusalem pony (plural Jerusalem ponies)


Cornish hen

Cornish game hen
Cornish game hen#English


Cornish game hen

Cornish game hen (plural Cornish game hens)

(US) A young broiler chicken (not an actual game bird, nor necessarily female) sold whole.


goitered gazelle

goitered gazelle (plural goitered gazelles)

A gazelle species found in Central Asia and the Near East (Gazella subgutturosa).


bell cow

When Carlos Hyde was selected in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft, it was presumed he would eventually take over Frank Gore's role as lead back for the Niners. Now that Gore signed in Indianapolis, the door is wide open for Hyde to seize that opportunity. "He looks the part as far as a bellcow running back," Bleacher Report NFL analyst Chris Simms said of Hyde.

2015 August 13, “Chris Simms: ‘Carlos Hyde can be a stud in the NFL’”, in FOX Sports:

Goldman is used to taking the lead. In fact, The Wall Street Journal’s Susanne Craig reported that other firms were standing by on a “Lloyd watch,” waiting to see what precedent would be set by Wall Street’s traditional bell-cow. As those firms now make their own inevitable bonus decisions, they will have to settle for “me-too” stories.

2008 November 17, Jack Flack, “How Goldman Spun the Inevitable Into Big News”, in The New York Times:

When the issue is a political one, reporters tend to watch for the reactions of certain “bell cow” journalists.

1986, Peter Hannaford, Talking Back to the Media, New York: Facts On File, page 29:

(US, figurative) A leader; an influencer.


Mariana snailfish

Mariana snailfish (plural Mariana snailfish)

After the Mariana Trench, where it was discovered.

Pseudoliparis swirei
Pseudoliparis swirei#Translingual

Pseudoliparis swirei, a snailfish considered to be the deepest-swimming fish on Earth.


Mexican walking fish

Mexican walking fish (plural Mexican walking fish)


bastard hartebeest

bastard hartebeest (plural bastard hartebeests or bastard hartebeest)

bastard hartebeests (plural)
bastard hartebeest (plural)

We saw a small herd of sassadybies, or bastard hartebeesten, and in getting a long shot at one of them I passed so close to a leopard or panther, that I might have killed it, had I seen it before it escaped.

1871 August 20, [Thomas] Baines, quotee, “Exploration. Exploration and Hunting in South Africa.”, in The Australasian, volume XII, number 323, Melbourne, Vic., published 1872 June 8, page 710, column 3:


dieb

The African jackal or dieb (C. anthus, same as in the preceding genus) […]

1869, George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, page 674:

A canine of northern Africa, the African golden wolf (Canis lupaster, formerly considered an African variant of the golden jackal, Canis aureus).


Bob Lincoln

Imitative of the bird's call, like bobolink.

[…] my first impression was, "there is a Bob Lincoln."

1840, Philip Henry Gosse, The Canadian naturalist : a series of conversations on the natural history of Lower Canada, page 131:

(US, Canada) The bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus).


fourspine sculpin

fourspine sculpin (plural fourspine sculpins)

Cottus kazika
Cottus kazika#Translingual

Cottus kazika, a freshwater sculpin found in Japan.


Japanese dace

Tribolodon hakonensis
Tribolodon hakonensis#Translingual

Any fish of species Tribolodon hakonensis.


common crossbill

common crossbill (countable and uncountable, plural common crossbills)

Loxia curvirostra
Loxia curvirostra#Translingual

Synonym of red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)


red crossbill

red crossbill (countable and uncountable, plural red crossbills)

Loxia curvirostra, a small passerine bird in the finch family, widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere.

чӑрӑш кукӑрсӑмси

čărăš kuk̬ărs̬ăms̬i


cowfinch

From cow + finch, after bull in bullfinch.

The cowfinch, for example, simply acquires the song of the lesbian who tends her, whether this lesbian is a cowfinch or not.

1988, S. Baboo, Guide to Gracious Lesbian Living, Lilitha, page 20:

'Do you get cowfinches?' she asked. 'Yup. Cowfinches are a sort of brownish grey, and they eat just as much blossom, but nobody notices because they're so unobtrusive.'

2016, Janet Shepperson, Vinnie's Wilderness, Liberties Press, →ISBN, page 23:


crocidurate

(zoology) Any shrew of the genus Crocidura.


bonytongue

bony + tongue, in reference to a toothed bone on the floor of the mouth.

They tell us that the fresh waters at Hainin must have been substantial, for they included the remains of a large predatorial fish known as a bonytongue, or saratoga.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 49:


arowana

Borrowed from New Latin, specific epithet of Osteoglossum arowana (now Osteoglossu bicirrhosum), borrowed from Guyanese Kari'na arawana (“the fish Osteoglossum bicirrhosum”; or a like form in Macushi), borrowed, probably via Nheengatu arawanã, from Old Tupi aruanã.

A freshwater bony fish of the family Osteoglossidae.

(US) Scleropages formosus (Asian bonytongue)


chicken paw

While most people in the United States prefer the meatier parts of the chicken, people in many foreign nations consider the chicken paw to be a delicacy.

2002, Neosho Christian Schools, Newton County Highlights, →ISBN, page 58:

Chicken feet or chicken paws have a high fat content without much meat. Meanwhile, U.S. chicken farmers are cashing in by exporting chicken feet to China. Once a worthless by-product, chicken paws or feet have become a major U.S. export (see Figure 26-3).

2011, Frank Flanders, Exploring Animal Science, →ISBN, page 611:

Inside the soup were a few pieces of carrot, potato, some macaroni, and one chicken paw with three nails on the top of it.

2014, Mayumi Yamada-Shimotai, A Japanese Vagabond: Bicycling 35,000 km Around Four Continents 1986-1989, →ISBN:

Looking at the glistening brown chicken feet, Boss Guan at first was worried about the grease but when he thought of the previous Jin'ling Grass dish, he started to pick up one chicken paw and eat without hesitation.

2017, Cat Who Cooks, Gourmet Food Supplier:

The foot of a chicken, cut off at the ankle, and used for food.


crested ibis

Nipponia nippon
Nipponia nippon#Translingual

An ibis of the nearly extinct species Nipponia nippon, formerly native to much of east Asia, being restored in the wild from captive populations.


Pom

(informal) Synonym of Pomeranian, a dog breed or a dog of this breed.


sand gazelle

slender-horned gazelle
slender-horned gazelle

slender-horned gazelle, Gazella leptoceros


ruticilla

The Ruticilla, or the small Redstart, Red-Tail, Fire-Tail, or Star-Finch, a beautiful song-bird, entertains us all summer, and disappears on the approach of winter.

1769, John Wallis, The Natural History and Antiquities of Northumberland:

Beside the Canary warbler I have only seen of small birds a couple of flame-coloured ruticillas (setophaga ruticilla,) a very rich-tinted bird, whose plumage of intermingled black and orange, as I would say, if oranges were always as ruddy as they are in this and the succeeding month, when they are luscious ripe, whose rich fiery plumage, never fails to arrest attention.

1855, Richard Hill, A week at Port Royal, page 7:


akialoa

Any of several extinct Hawaiian honeycreepers of the genus Akialoa.


buffalypso

If we were able to substantially increase the size of Trinidad and Tobago's buffalypso herd, we would have an extremely valuable export commodity.

1984, New Zealand Veterinary Association: Dairy Cattle Society, Proceedings of the Seminar, page 127:

These techniques would also promote the exploitation of unique material, such as the buffalypso of Trinidad and Tobago and blackbelly sheep of Barbados.

1989, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Strategy of Action for Reactivation of Agriculture in the Caribbean Countries, page 44:

Driving south from Port of Spain along the Uriah Butler highway, you will see sugar, citrus and rice fields, maybe a few buffalypso (buffaloes which have been selectively bred for meat), and Hindu temples and mosques.

2014, Sarah Cameron, Trinidad and Tobago Footprint Focus Guide, →ISBN, page 58..:

Bubalus bubalis
Bubalus bubalis#Translingual

A variety of water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), developed in 1949 by Trinidad veterinarian Stephen Bennett for meat and haulage.


sheltopusik

From Russian желтопузик (želtopuzik), literally "yellow-bellied".

Pseudopus apodus, a large glass lizard found from southern Europe to Central Asia.


retic

Perhaps the simplest of the traits bred for is the perpetuation of a yellow head. Retics having this also often have a degree of brighter than normal yellow in their otherwise normal body pattern.

2002, Richard D. Bartlett, Patricia Bartlett, Designer Reptiles and Amphibians:


sleepmarken

Unknown. Likely from Norwegian slepe (“drag”) + mark (“worm”). Attested from circa 1762; see quotations below.

3. Myxine glutinosa ["slepmark" or "pirål" in Norwegian], which Gunnerus has dissected himself, and where he had clearly observed the difference between the sexes. [The article published by Gunnerus was, "Om sleep-marken"].

1762 October 9, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, “Letter addressed to Carl Linnaeus”, in The Linnaean Correspondence, retrieved 2018-01-04:

Linné discussed the strange “lamprey” with Norwegian Bishop and naturalist Johan Ernst Gunnerus and they both classified it as a worm. In 1763, Gunnerus wrote about the creature and he then referred to it as a Sleep-Marken.

2011 December 19, Jancuk Jaran, “Hagfish”, in All Animals, retrieved 2018-01-04:

(uncommon) A hagfish, an eel-like marine fish, Myxine glutinosa.


saccopharyngiform

(ichthyology) Any fish in the order Saccopharyngiformes, the gulper eels.


lion's provider

The jackal, from its supposed practice of finding prey for the lion.

It isn't that Fan must not be a lion's provider — but she mustn't be any one else's but yours. I see now what brings you about our house so much. You want to get hold of Fan and her business and little savings for yourself, do you?

1870, Thomas Wright, The bane of a life, volume 2, page 109:

(figurative) Any humble friend or follower.


daily double

Other than this defect, the payoffs are remarkably similar; as it is, if your choice is between the daily double and the parlay, bet on the former!

1991, Peter Asch, Richard E. Quandt, Racetrack Betting: The Professor's Guide to Strategies, →ISBN, page 169:

(horse racing or dog racing) A bet on the first-place winners of two consecutive races.


Gabriel's hounds

(UK, dialect, obsolete) curlews or nightjars, whose cries are associated with various superstitions


siksik

Arctic ground squirrel
Arctic ground squirrel#English


water adder

From Middle English water addre, watyradyr, watir edyr, alteration (see adder) of water neddyr, watyrnedyre, from Old English wæternædre, wæternǣdre, equivalent to water + adder. Cognate with Dutch wateradder (“wateradder”), German Wassernatter (“watersnake”).

Natrix natrix
Natrix natrix#Translingual

Any of several aquatic snakes (none of which are true adders) including, among others:

A non-venomous European ringed snake or water snake (Natrix natrix).


basa fish

Pangasius bocourti, a species of shark catfish native to southeast Asia.


berkut

Borrowed from Russian бе́ркут (bérkut), itself a Turkic borrowing; ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bürküt.


goldentail moray

goldentail moray (plural goldentail morays)

A species of moray eel found in the western Atlantic, Gymnothorax miliaris.


goldentail

blue-throated goldentail
blue-throated goldentail#English

goldentail moray
goldentail moray#English


snail kite

Rostrhamus sociabilis
Rostrhamus sociabilis#Translingual

A kite of species Rostrhamus sociabilis, native to Florida, the Caribbean, and tropical South America, known for feeding mostly on apple snails.


swallow-tailed kite

swallow-tailed kite (plural swallow-tailed kites)

Elanoides forficatus
Elanoides forficatus#Translingual

Any of the species of kite native from southeastern North America through most of South America,Elanoides forficatus.

milà cuaforcat

various species of kite native to the Americas


shadine

A fish, the menhaden or American sardine.


wrentit

A small passerine bird, Chamaea fasciata, found in scrub along the west coast of North America.


brown creeper

A North American species of treecreeper, Certhia americana, known for walking up tree trunks looking for insects in the bark.


wedgefish

wedgefish (plural wedgefish or wedgefishes)

(by extension) Any member of the two other species in family Rhinidae, known as shark rays.


melliphagoid

(ornithology) A bird of the passerine superfamily Meliphagoidea, a diverse group native to Australia and elsewhere in the South Pacific.


garden warbler

Sylvia borin, a plain, but common warbler, Sylvia borin, that breeds in Europe and western Asia, wintering in sub-Saharan Africa.


Dartford warbler

Dartford warbler (plural Dartford warblers)

Named after Dartford, Kent, England, where the first specimens described were caught.

Sylvia undata
Sylvia undata#Translingual

A small warbler, Sylvia undata, native to western Europe and northern Africa.


whalebone whale

whalebone whale (plural whalebone whales)


gizzard shad

Any of several species of shad-like fish of Indo-Pacific waters, principally in subfamily Dorosomatinae of the herring family Clupeidae.


red-billed leiothrix

red-billed leiothrix (plural red-billed leiothrixes)

A small passerine bird, Leiothrix lutea, of the Himalayas, Myanmar, China and northern Vietnam; a common cagebird.


lesser kudu

lesser kudu (plural lesser kudus or lesser kudu)

lesser kudus (plural)
lesser kudu (plural)

A forest antelope found in East Africa (Tragelaphus imberbis).


flying phalanger

flying phalanger (plural flying phalangers)


coniasaur

Any extinct varanoid lizard of the genus Coniasaurus.


scolecophidian

Any blind snake of the infraorder Scolecophidia


acanthodid

Any extinct teleostome fish of the class Acanthodii


acanthuroid

Any surgeonfish (or related fish) of the suborder Acanthuroidei


acanthothoracid

Any extinct placoderm of the order Acanthothoraci


alligatorine

Any animal of the subfamily Alligatorinae


amphiaspid

Any extinct agnathan of the taxon Amphiaspidida


amphichelydian

Any extinct turtle of the suborder Amphichelydia


arctolepid

Any extinct fish of the family Arctolepidae


arctostylopid

Any extinct mammal of the order Arctostylopida


arthropterygium

Any ichthyosaur of the genus Arthropterygius


balbarine

Any macropod of the subfamily Balbarinae


astronesthid

From translingual Astronesthidae, an obsolete taxonomic family now synonymous with the family Stomiidae

bor

Any fish of the former family Astronesthidae, especially those of the genus Astronesthes.


buchanosteid

Any placoderm of the family Buchanosteidae


bulungamayine

Any extinct kangaroo in the potoroid subfamily Bulungamayinae


brachythoracid

Any extinct placoderm of the suborder Brachythoraci


bystrowianid

Any extinct chroniosuchian of the family Bystrowianidae


chroniosuchian

The recent end-Permian mass extinction struck as chroniosuchians were beginning to diversify, and it has nipped them in the bud.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 164:

An extinct tetrapod of the order Chroniosuchia.


Japanese needlefish

en-noun

Japanese needlefish (plural Japanese needlefish)


horned grebe

Podiceps auritus
Podiceps auritus#Translingual

A type of grebe native to the Northern Hemisphere, Podiceps auritus, that has tufts of feathers during the breeding season positioned like horns on the sides of the head.


hatfish

en-verb

hatfish (third-person singular simple present hatfishes, present participle hatfishing, simple past and past participle hatfished)

hatfishes (present singular third-person)
hatfishing (participle present)
hatfished (participle past)
hatfished (past)

If you've never seen the top of your Tinder date's head, he may be hatfishing you.

2017 August 23, Ben Yakas, “Extra, Extra: Liam Gallagher Ranks His Own Haircuts”, in Gothamist:

So basically, if you've got a great job, then fucking hatfish all you want - doesn't matter, Jean will be up for it!

2017 October 24, Gary Ogden, “'Hatfishing' is yet another dating trend – are you guilty of it?”, in Shortlist:

Looks aren’t everything — until you get on this app, where looks just happen to be everything. Be yourself and be honest. Filters and angles can help you look your best, but catfishing and hatfishing are real things.

2018 February 10, Lady Marmalade, “Things you probably shouldn't mention on your Tinder profile”, in Gauntlet, page 41, column 2:

The inclination to hatfish makes sense, given how sensitive men can be about their hair.

2018 April 3, Brittany Wong, “If You're On A Dating App, Chances Are You've Been Hatfished”, in Huffington Post:

You know he ain't hatfishing – there's a glorious grey mane under that woolen number.

2018 December 5, “'Fuckboy' Daniel Day-Lewis is a late entry for best look of 2018”, in Dazed:

To hide one's bald spot or bad hair under a hat in a profile picture for online dating.


shrew possum

Synonym of shrew opossum (Caenolestidae)


capitosaur

Capitosaurs had pachyostotic (extraheavy) skeletons and probably lived on the bottom of large water bodies as ambush predators.

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

Any extinct temnospondyl amphibian of the clade Capitosauria.


horse-comb

/ˈhɔːsˌkəʊm/

From Middle English horscomb, horsecombe, horskame, horskambe, from Old English horscamb (“horse-comb, curry-comb”), equivalent to horse + comb.

inh

A Horſe-comb. Strigilis.

1675, Christopher Wase, Dictionarium Minus, A Compendious Dictionary English-Latin and Latin-English […] , 2nd edition, page 599:

In the reign of Henry V, the service seems to have been changed to the annual delivery of a “horse comb, value four-pence.”

1837, “Driving to Cover:-Portrait of J. S. W. S. Erle Drax, Esq. Charborough Park, Dorsetshire.”, in The New Sporting Magazine, volume 13, number 79, page 262:

After six weeks in Belgium he arrived in England with only two possessions: an aluminium horse comb and a handkerchief.

2003, Pamela Howe Taylor, The Germans We Trusted: Stories of Friendship Resulting from the Second World War, →ISBN, page 34:

A curry comb (comb used for brushing a horse's coat)


spoggy

When the spoggy flew in at the window and thumped against the pane, Father couldn't touch it.

1978, Barbara Hanrahan, Where the Queens all Strayed, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 49:

A spoggy's nest and (this one's a bit hazy) a piece of cotton wool!

1991, Span: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, number 31, Wollongong: University of Wollongong, page 96:

Blue wrens and spoggies had been nibbling on the food they had left outside.

2011, K. J. Cherry, A Piece of My Heart, →ISBN, page 68:


cremello

A horse with a cream-coloured coat due to the presence of two copies of the cream genes

palomino

horse that has one copy of the cream gene


casichelydian

Any extinct turtle of the order Casichelydia


chamaeleontid

Any lizard of the clade Chamaeleontiformes


cladodont

Any of a group of sharklike Devonian fish that had distinctive, multicusped teeth.


clinostome

Any cyprinid fish (dace) of the genus Clinostomus


colobodontid

Any extinct fish in the family Colobodontidae.


congroid

clipping

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


crocodylotarsian

Any archosaur of the former clade Crocodylotarsi (now Pseudosuchia)


cryolophosaur

Any theropod of the genus Cryolophosaurus


ctenacanthid

Any extinct fish of the genus Ctenacanthus


desmodontine

Any vampire bat of the subfamily Desmodontinae


sisserou

Amazona imperialis
Amazona imperialis#Translingual

The parrot Amazona imperialis, found only on the island of Dominica.


dortokid

Any extinct turtle of the family Dortokidae


diprotodont

(biology) Any marsupial of the order Diprotodontia


elopocephalan

(biology) Any fish of the unranked taxon Elopocephala


elopoid

(biology) Any fish of the suborder Elopoidei.


leiothrix

From New Latin leio- (“smooth”) + Ancient Greek θρίξ (thríx, “hair”).

Either of two babblers of the genus Leiothrix within the family Leiothrichidae.


Moorish idol

From a popular belief associating Moors with them.

A fish of the species Zanclus cornutus, a colorful marine tropical fish often kept in aquaria.


whalehead

The shoebill, whalehead or boatbill, as it is sometimes called, is one of Africa's strangest and rarest endemics.

1999, Christ Stuart, Birds of Africa: From Seabirds to Seed-eaters, page 40:


wood quail

Any bird in the genus Odontophorus, native to the forests of the New World.


spinifex pigeon

en-noun

spinifex pigeon (plural spinifex pigeons)

Geophaps plumifera
Geophaps plumifera#Translingual

Geophaps plumifera, native to Australia.


topknot pigeon

A top-knot pigeon (Crested Pigeon), safe in its tangle of mimosa, breathes its little call of warning: `F'uff!'

1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 52:

Ocyphaps lophotes
Ocyphaps lophotes#Translingual

(colloquial) A medium-sized pigeon, Ocyphaps lophotes, of Australia, having a pointed crest.


great cat

Any large feline animal, especially one of the Panthera genus, including tigers, lions, jaguars and leopards.


crested pigeon

A flock of crested pigeons flashed through the timber out in the day.

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 223:

(Australia) A pigeon with a crest, especially Ocyphaps lophotes, widespread throughout Australia.


ensatina

A salamander native to western North America in the genus Ensatina.


titiwi

titiwi (countable and uncountable, plural titiwis)

At certain times of the year a delicious and diminutive fry of clear gray color, known as "titiri," is taken in sheets at the river mouths.

1938, Douglas Taylor, “Bulletin 119: The Caribs of Dominica”, in Anthropological Papers, number 3, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology:

In addition to these staples, the villagers are supplied animal proteins from wild animals and creatures such as manique (tree kangaroo), agoutis (Dasyprocta spp.) ciwiks (land crab), viyos (stream snail), cuibishes (cray fish), titiwis (sea fish), etc.

1987, Masao Yamaguchi, Masao Naitō, Social and festive space in the Caribbean:

Recent additions to the calendar of celebrations include the community-based Titiwi Festival held in Layou village and Cochrane's Rabbit Festival. At these events, against a backdrop of music and other entertainment, residents and visitors get to sample titiwi (a tiny translucent fish) or rabbit cooked in a variety of different ways.

2011, Ken Albala, Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 116:

We used to go and get watercress and titiwi - walking through the bushes, going to the garden.

2012, Celia Sorhaindo, Polly Pattullo, Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return, →ISBN:

Ackra is a kind of seasoned and fried fritter, often made from codfish, breadfruit, tannia and, from September to November, in the days after the moon's last quarter, titiwi, which is a juvenile goby caught in fine nets at the mouths of rivers.

2016, Paul Crask, Dominica, →ISBN, page 55:


worrel

The rat, called ichneumon, which has been fabled to destroy the crocodile, by leaping down it's throat and gnawing through it's belly; the cameleon; and the worrel, which is said to be affected by music; all are natives of Egypt.

1785, William Frederick Martyn, The Geographical Magazine; or, a New, Copious, Compleat, and Universal System of Geography, page 639:

Obsolete form of worral (“monitor lizard”).


awlbill

Any hummingbird of the genus Avocettula.


finless porpoise

finless porpoise (plural finless porpoises)

Neophocaena phocaenoides, a species of porpoise that lacks a true dorsal fin and is found in the coastal waters of Asia, especially around Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Bangladesh.


pygmy owl

Any of various species of small owl from the genus Glaucidium.


western barn owl

western barn owl (plural western barn owls)

A barn owl of the subspecies Tyto alba alba, endemic to western Eurasia and most of Africa.


Hudsonian godwit

Hudsonian godwit (plural Hudsonian godwits)

Limosa haemastica
Limosa haemastica#Translingual

An American wader, Limosa haemastica, gathering on the shores of Hudson Bay to migrate to South America each autumn.


scratch race

(horse racing) A catchweight horse race.


Leadbeater's possum

Leadbeater's possum (plural Leadbeater's possums)

Named in 1867 after John Leadbeater, taxidermist at the Museum Victoria.

Gymnobelideus leadbeateri, an endangered possum of Australia.


Icelandic raven

Icelandic raven (plural Icelandic ravens)

The Icelandic raven flits around us, and runs among the stones in a bold contemptuous manner, flinging us a disdainful croak when we pelt it.

1863, Sabine Baring-Gould, Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas, page 187:

Sometimes a black flag flickered for a moment above one of the distant bastions ; it was the wing of a raven—the great Icelandic raven that kills and devours the lambs.

1913, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, The Children of the Sea, page 111:

For it was and still is my belief that the bezoar must be much more potent in the Icelandic raven than in its namesake elsewhere, on account of its affinity with that king of fools, Odin, and his heathen tribe here in the north of the world…

2011, Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, From the Mouth of a Whale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 21:

A subspecies of the common raven, Corvus corax varius (including the extinct colour morph leucophaeus), native to Iceland and the Faroe Islands.


hairy armadillo

hairy armadillo (plural hairy armadillos)

Andean hairy armadillo
Andean hairy armadillo

Certain species of armadillo found in South America.

of species of Chaetophractus (family Chlamyphoridae)

Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi), present in Bolivia

big hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus villosus), one of the largest and most numerous armadillos in southern South America; peludo

screaming hairy armadillo
screaming hairy armadillo

screaming hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus), a burrowing armadillo found in the central and southern parts of South America

Dasypus pilosus
Dasypus pilosus#Translingual

hairy long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus pilosus) (family Dasypodidae), endemic to Peru


waldrapp

From German Waldrapp, from German Wald (“forest”) + Alemannic German Rapp (“raven”), the latter cognate with German Rabe, English raven.

Geronticus eremita
Geronticus eremita#Translingual

An endangered species of ibis, the northern bald ibis, Geronticus eremita.


Indiana bat

Myotis sodalis, a medium-sized mouse-eared bat native to North America.


mudhen

Fulica americana
Fulica americana#Translingual

(Western US) The American coot (Fulica americana).


Uinta chipmunk

Derives from the Ute word Yoov-we-teuh, meaning pine forest or pine tree.

Neotamias umbrinus, a chipmunk endemic to the United States.


murderbird

For quotations using this term, see Citations:murderbird.


lutefish

lutefish (plural lutefish or lutefishes)

Citharinids (commonly known as lutefishes), although not as morphologically and taxonomically diverse as distichodontids, are distributed throughout much of tropical Africa, and constitute an important component of the artisanal fisheries in the region [40].

2013 October, Jairo Arroyave, John S.S. Denton, Melanie L.J. Stiassny, “Are characiform fishes Gondwanan in origin? Insights from a time-scaled molecular phylogeny of the Citharinoidei (Ostariophysi: Characiformes)”, in PLOS One:

The Citharinidae is one of the less species-rich families in Africa with only eight species belonging to three genera. Citharinids, commonly known as lutefish, are distributed throughout much of tropical Africa and constitute an important part of artisanal fishing catches.

2017 January, Iva Přikrylová, Andrew P. Shinn, Giuseppe Paladini, “Description of Citharodactylus gagei n. gen. et n. sp. (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) from the moon fish, Citharinus citharus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire), from Lake Turkana”, in Parasitology research, volume 116, number 1:

Any of a family of characiform fish (Citharinidae), including the genera Citharidium (one species), Citharinops (one species), and Citharinus (6 species).


turkeyfish

turkeyfish (plural turkeyfish or turkeyfishes)

turkeyfish (plural)
turkeyfishes (plural)


zebra turkeyfish

zebra turkeyfish (plural zebra turkeyfish or zebra turkeyfishes)

zebra turkeyfish (plural)
zebra turkeyfishes (plural)

A venomous fish in the family Scorpaenidae (Dendrochirus zebra).


zebra lionfish

zebra lionfish (plural zebra lionfish or zebra lionfishes)

zebra lionfish (plural)
zebra lionfishes (plural)

zebra turkeyfish
zebra turkeyfish#English

Synonym of zebra turkeyfish (Dendrochirus zebra)


springfish

springfish (plural springfish or springfishes)

springfish (plural)
springfishes (plural)

Any of the fish in the goodeid genus Crenichthys.


scaleless dragonfish

scaleless dragonfish (plural scaleless dragonfish or scaleless dragonfishes)

scaleless dragonfish (plural)
scaleless dragonfishes (plural)

Chirostomias pliopterus, a species found in the Atlantic Ocean


atheriniform

(ichthyology) Any fish in the order Atheriniformes


snowfinch

Any of the passerine bird genus Montifringilla.


weedfish

1957, N. J. Berrill and Jacquelyn Berrill, 1001 Questions Answered about the Seashore, New York: Dover, p. 278,
In spite of fishermen’s opinions and complaints, cormorants feed principally on bottom fish of no commercial value, such as rockfish and weedfish.

They’d been crammed like weedfish aboard the boat for two days; the trip home would probably be longer.

1989, Roland J. Green, The Mountain Walks, New York: Ace, Prologue, page 3:

One of a variety of species of fish of the family Clinidae found in the waters off Australia and New Zealand.


weight for age

[H]e would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Flemington.

2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 243:

(horse racing) Handicapped according to the age of the racehorse competing (and certain other factors).


weight for age

"What did I say about Nightcap last week? Here he's won the Weight for Age at twelve to one."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 140:


lesser prairie chicken

lesser prairie chicken (plural lesser prairie chickens)

Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus#Translingual

greater prairie chicken
greater prairie chicken

Tympanuchus pallidicinctus, a species in the grouse family, is slightly smaller and paler than its near relative the greater prairie chicken.


dusky grouse

dusky grouse (plural dusky grouse or dusky grouses)

dusky grouse (plural)
dusky grouses (plural)

Dendragapus obscurus
Dendragapus obscurus#Translingual

A species of forest-dwelling grouse native to the Rocky Mountains in North America, Dendragapus obscurus.


tallywag

Unknown. Compare tallywhacker, which is attested later.

72. CENTROPRISTIS STRIATA. (the black sea-bass, black-fish, tally-wag, hannahill, black-will, black harry)

1890, David Starr Jordan, Carl Eigenmann, A Review of the Genera and Species of Serranidae Found in the Waters of America and Europe, page 391:

These are our five favorites: Black Sea Bass ¶ Also called black perch, rock bass, chub, and tallywag

2014, Bernard Guillas, Ronald Oliver, Two Chefs, One Catch: A Culinary Exploration of Seafood, page 220:

(uncommon) The black sea bass, Centropristis striata.


Caucasian grouse

Caucasian grouse (plural Caucasian grouse or Caucasian grouses)

Caucasian grouse (plural)
Caucasian grouses (plural)

Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi
Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi#Translingual

A large bird in the grouse family (Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi).


Siberian grouse

Siberian grouse (plural Siberian grouses)

Falcipennis falcipennis
Falcipennis falcipennis#Translingual

A medium-sized grouse, Falcipennis falcipennis.


rock ptarmigan

A medium-sized gamebird in the grouse family, Lagopus muta.


spruce grouse

Falcipennis canadensis
Falcipennis canadensis#Translingual

A medium-sized grouse closely associated with the coniferous boreal forests or taiga of North America (Dendrapagus canadensis, syn. Falcipennis canadensis).


white-tailed ptarmigan

white-tailed ptarmigan (plural white-tailed ptarmigans)

Lagopus leucura
Lagopus leucura#Translingual

The smallest bird in the grouse family, Lagopus leucura.


whistling kite

Haliastur sphenurus
Haliastur sphenurus#Translingual

A medium-sized bird of prey native to Australia and New Guinea, Haliastur sphenurus.


tufted tit-tyrant

tufted tit-tyrant (plural tufted tit-tyrants)


tit-tyrant

Any of a number of species of birds in the genera Anairetes and Uromyias


Pacman frog

The frog's round body and large mouth are reminiscent of the video game character Pac-Man.

(informal) Any frog of the genus Ceratophrys.


mountain nyala

An antelope native to mountain woodlands of central Ethiopia (Tragelaphus buxtoni).


Cape bushbuck

One of the two bushbuck species of sub-Saharan Africa, the imbabala (Tragelaphus sylvaticus).


harnessed bushbuck

harnessed bushbuck (plural harnessed bushbucks)

Tragelaphus scriptus
Tragelaphus scriptus#Translingual

(zoology) The more northern and westernmost of the two bushbuck species of sub-Saharan Africa (considered a single species by some sources), Tragelaphus scriptus


tragelaphine

Any such antelopes in the bovid tribe Tragelaphini


hippotragine

en-adj

hippotragine (comparative more hippotragine, superlative most hippotragine)

more hippotragine (comparative)
most hippotragine (superlative)

of, pertaining to or resembling antelopes in the bovid subfamily Hippotraginae, the oryxes, roan and sable antelopes, etc.


reduncine

reduncine (comparative more reduncine, superlative most reduncine)

more reduncine (comparative)
most reduncine (superlative)

Of, pertaining to or resembling antelopes in the bovid subfamily Reduncinae, which includes kobs, lechwes, reedbucks, waterbucks, etc.


reduncine

Any such antelope in the bovid subfamily Reduncinae.


deathbird

From a superstition of some North American Indians that it presages death. Compare Salentino Sicilian oceddu de la morte (“owl”, literally “death bird”) and Malagasy vorondolo (“owl”, literally “ghost bird”).


tree toad

And I listened for a voice;— / But my heart was all I heard; / Not a screech-owl, not a loon, / Not a tree-toad said a word.

1921, Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Blue-Flag in the Bog”, in Second April:

Any of the arboreal toads in the genus Pedostibes.


yellowfin sole

en-noun

yellowfin sole (plural yellowfin soles or yellowfin sole)

yellowfin soles (plural)
yellowfin sole (plural)

Limanda aspera, a flatfish of the northern Pacific.


upland moa

The relatively small upland moa had the most wide-ranging taste; its coprolites show that it consumed a diversity of mosses, ferns, and fungi, as well as aquatic plants.

2018 April 4, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:

A large extinct species of moa, Megalapteryx didinus.


little dodo

Today, the little dodo is at the very precipice of extinction, but it remains nearly as cryptic and little known as it did when Jardin gave it a scientific name in 1845.

2018 April 9, Jeremy Hance, The Guardian:

Didunculus strigirostris
Didunculus strigirostris#Translingual

The tooth-billed pigeon, Didunculus strigirostris.


little bush moa

little bush moa (plural little bush moas)

For instance, the little bush moa fed nearly exclusively on forest vegetation, whereas the heavy-footed moa was a grazer in open vegetation habitats.

An extinct species of moa, Anomalopteryx didiformis.


South Island giant moa

South Island giant moa (plural South Island giant moas)

The presence of these foods show how the upland moa was able to co-exist with the much larger South Island giant moa, by feeding on relatively inaccessible plants.

An extinct species of moa, Dinornis robustus, which may have grown up to 3.6 metres tall.


tooth-billed pigeon

tooth-billed pigeon (plural tooth-billed pigeons)

Any of species Didunculus strigirostris of large pigeon found on Samoa.


heavy-footed moa

heavy-footed moa (plural heavy-footed moas)

A large extinct species of moa, Pachyornis elephantopus.


nanook

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᓇᓄᖅ (nanoq, “polar bear”).

Let's build a nanook. A big one. Almost as big as a real one!

1935, Armstrong Sperry, One Day with Tuktu: An Eskimo Boy:

"I have a way with nanooks," Mazwuk explained, hoping that none would notice the tremor in his voice, […]

She dressed: white T-shirt, black jeans, blue sweatshirt with the gold UAF nanook on the front, white anklets, black-and-white Nike tennis shoes.

2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 110:

Promising in her Inaugural Address to protect the state like a "nanook defending her cub," she has continued to play down social issues as governor.

2008, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time - Volume 172, page 102:


trash panda

From a likening of the black patches around a raccoon's eyes to similar markings on a giant panda, it being in the same superfamily as the red panda, and a reference to its tendency to forage for garbage in urban environments.

Braddock Baskett of the Orlando-area attempted to give some raccoons food. […] Maybe he should’ve taken his own warning before feeding the “trash panda”.

2016 April 30, Zach Dennis, “Florida man tries to feed ‘trash panda’ in epic fail”, in Palm Beach Post, retrieved 2018-04-13:

[T]he family baby, Jack-Jack, sees a raccoon eating from the family’s garbage can while his father, Mr. Incredible, is sleeping, and uses his superpowers […] to do battle with the trash panda.

2017 July 14, Josh Rottenberg, “All the intel on Disney and Pixar's new slate of animated films”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2018-04-13:

A video posted to Facebook on Saturday shows a trash panda breaking into a “raccoon-proof” green bin in less than 30 seconds.

2018 April 12, Alanna Rizza, “It took this raccoon 30 seconds to break into a raccoon-proof green bin”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 2018-04-13:

(US, Canada, slang, humorous) A raccoon, especially one that forages in garbage cans.


Arabian ostrich

Arabian ostrich (plural Arabian ostriches)

Distinguished by its comparatively small size, the apparently extinct Arabian ostrich was fairly common until the time of World War I but as firearms became more plentiful in Arabia and it became possible to pursue birds in automobiles, numbers rapidly declined.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 32:

(now historical) An extinct subspecies of ostrich, †Struthio camelus syriacus, that lived on the Arabian Peninsula.


Alaotra grebe

In addition to several other problems, Alaotra grebes are in the process of being bred out of existence, a process that may, in fact, already be complete.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 54:

Tachybaptus rufolavatus
Tachybaptus rufolavatus#Translingual

An extinct species of grebe, Tachybaptus rufolavatus, endemic to the area around Lake Alaotra in Madagascar.


slender moa

A clue to the appearance of the slender moa may be provided by deep pits on the tops of some skulls, perhaps an indication that one of the sexes carried a crest.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 41:

North Island giant moa
North Island giant moa

(now historical) A formerly posited species of giant moa, now considered to be synonymous with the North Island giant moa, Dinornis novaezealandiae.


New Zealand king shag

The New Zealand king shag (Phalacrocorax carunculatus) has a total population of around 500 birds and is restricted to four rock stacks in the Cook Strait.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 66:

Leucocarbo carunculatus
Leucocarbo carunculatus#Translingual

A rare shag, of species Leucocarbo carunculatus, endemic to New Zealand.


Guadalupe storm petrel

Guadalupe storm petrel (plural Guadalupe storm petrels)

The species featured here as extinct is the Guadalupe storm petrel (Oceanodroma macrodactyla), which was lost during the early years of the twentieth century.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 60:

An extinct species of storm petrel, Oceanodroma macrodactyla.


Rodrigues night heron

Rodrigues night heron (plural Rodrigues night herons)

The Rodrigues night heron was an early casualty from the Mascarenes and is particularly interesting for a heron in that it was probably flightless.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 74:

An extinct species of heron, Nycticorax megacephalus, that lived on Rodrigues in the Mascarene Islands.


spectacled cormorant

spectacled cormorant (plural spectacled cormorants)

Inexperience of man, together with a general slowness of motion when on land, made spectacled cormorants easy prey.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 70:

An extinct species of cormorant, Phalacrocorax perspicillatus, that once lived on Bering Island.


pink-eared duck

pink-eared duck (plural pink-eared ducks)

The highly nomadic pink-eared duck is likely to be found over a vast area but depends for its living on floodwaters, which are, of course, ephemeral.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 82:

A species of duck, Malacorhynchus membranaceus, endemic to Australia.


blue duck

Trout, which have been introduced to New Zealand waterways, may also pose a threat to blue ducks since they almost certainly compete with them for the aquatic insects on which the birds depend.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 83:

Any of species Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos of ducks native to New Zealand.


Cape Barren goose

Cape Barren goose (plural Cape Barren geese)

Another species that seems to have been saved from immediate danger is the curious but handsome Cape Barren goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae) which survives on islands off the southern coast of Australia.

Cereopsis novaehollandiae
Cereopsis novaehollandiae#Translingual

An Australian species of goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae.


Auckland Islands merganser

Auckland Islands merganser (plural Auckland Islands mergansers)

The most curious aspect of the Auckland Islands merganser was its distribution, which at the time of discovery was very limited.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 87:

An extinct species of merganser, Mergus australis.


dumpster bandit

dumpster bandit (plural dumpster bandits)


kaloama

(Niue) The yellowstripe goatfish, Mulloidichthys flavolineatus.


hairy frog

A species of frog, Trichobatrachus robustus, found in Central Africa, that has dermal papillae on the skin


Gaboon forest frog

Gaboon forest frog (plural Gaboon forest frogs)

For example, although the reproductive biology of Gaboon forest frogs is poorly known, this species is commonly associated with slowly moving streams in which it is assumed to breed.

2017, D. M. Portik et al., “Evaluating mechanisms of diversification in a Guineo‐Congolian tropical forest frog […] ”, in Molecular Ecology, volume 26, number 19, →ISSN:

A species of frog, Scotobleps gabonicus, found in West Africa.


great albatross

great albatross (plural great albatrosses)

/ɡɹeɪt ˈæl.bəˌtɹɒs/

A seabird in the genus Diomedea in the albatross family.


ex-lax fish

From Ex-Lax, a brand of laxative, because the fish flesh contains wax esters that can cause diarrhea.

(slang, derogatory) Synonym of escolar (an oily marine fish with white flesh, reminiscent of, and fraudulently passed off as, tuna)


humpie

From the shape of the body, which has a hump behind the head.

There was a lot of snagging at first, of humpies too tired to resist, of deadfall trailing limbs in the water, but after a while Gregor caught and by a miracle landed a two-pound rainbow and everyone began fishing in earnest.

1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 44:

Humpies travel in schools on or near the surface, so the dorsal fin can be easily spotted.

2011, Warren Miller, Lurching from One Near Disaster to the Next, →ISBN:

The once-unthinkable to Hank became his concentrated project for the next several days: to hone his deckwise wife to the mysteries of spotting and capturing humpie salmon from the viewpoint of the wheelhouse.

2013, William B. McCloskey, Raiders: A Novel, →ISBN:

Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha#Translingual

A humpback salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha.


conilurine

Characteristic of rodents of the genus Conilurus


rusty blackbird

rusty blackbird (plural rusty blackbirds)

Euphagus carolinus, a medium-sized blackbird, closely related to the grackles.


rhinoceros auklet

rhinoceros auklet (plural rhinoceros auklets)

So called from its rhamphotheca, thought to resemble the horn of a rhinoceros.

Cerorhinca monocerata
Cerorhinca monocerata#Translingual

A seabird of species Cerorhinca monocerata.


glimmer-gowk

'[E] sit like a great glimmer-gowk wi' 'is glasses athurt 'is noase, […]

1880, Alfred Tennyson, “[Ballads and Other Poems.] The Village Wife; or, The Entail”, in Ballads and Other Poems, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza VII, page 75:


spinal butterfly ray

spinal butterfly ray (plural spinal butterfly rays)

A species of ray found in shallow waters in the Atlantic, taxonomic name Gymnura altavela


Tapanuli orangutan

Tapanuli orangutan (plural Tapanuli orangutans)

The Tapanuli orangutan survives in northern Sumatra and it is already the most endangered great ape in the world; researchers estimate less than 800 individuals survive.

2018 April 23, Jeremy Hance, The Guardian:

A species of orangutan, Pongo tapanuliensis, native to South Tapanuli in the Indonesian island of Sumatra.


King Island brown thornbill

King Island brown thornbill (plural King Island brown thornbills)

The most at-risk bird was the tiny King Island brown thornbill, which was rated as having little more than a 5% chance of survival under its current level of care.

2018 April 26, Adam Morton, The Guardian:

A subspecies of brown thornbill, Acanthiza pusilla archibaldi, endemic to King Island, Tasmania.


northern wolffish

northern wolffish (plural northern wolffish)

In 2009, Maasak Brower, a Utqiaġvik security guard, caught a northern wolffish just half a dozen miles from town.

2018 April 22, Oliver Milman, The Guardian:

Anarhichas denticulatus
Anarhichas denticulatus#Translingual

A species of wolffish, Anarhichas denticulatus, found in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans.


Colorado snapper

Colorado snapper (plural Colorado snappers)

A fish of the Pacific coast of Central America, Lutjanus colorado.


microchiropteran

From translingual Microchiroptera + -an.

suf

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

Any microbat of the suborder Microchiroptera


pakirikiri

(New Zealand) blue cod (Parapercis colias)


lake sturgeon

a freshwater fish in North America of family Acipenseridae, Acipenser fulvescens.


peramelian

Any marsupial of the former order Peramelia (now Peramelemorphia)


pangopup

(informal, neologism) A young pangolin; a scaly anteater pup.


teraglin

(Australia) any of several ocean fishes in the family Sciaenidae, especially:

Atractoscion aequidens (Geelbeck croaker)

Atractoscion atelodus (small lunate caudal fin croaker)

Otolithes ruber (tigertooth croaker, silver teraglin)


Mary River turtle

en-noun

Mary River turtle (plural Mary River turtles)

Conservationists trying to save the Mary river turtle have had to resort to selling turtle chocolates and soliciting donations from the United Arab Emirates to try to help save the endangered reptile from extinction.

A species of turtle, Elusor macrurus, endemic to the Mary River in southeastern Queensland.


bastard strangles

From bastard (“a variation that is not genuine”) + strangles.

When horſes have either the real or baſtard ſtrangles, or are changing their foal teeth, or are putting out their upper tuſhes, ſome of them have their ſight weak and troubled, [...]

1735, “EYE of a horse”, in The Sportsman’s Dictionary: Or, The Country Gentleman’s Companion, in All Rural Recreations: […], volume I, London: Printed for C. Hitch, […], and C. Davis, […]; and S. Austin, […], →OCLC, paragraph 3:

Monſieur Solleyſell, as well as our own Countryman Mr. Markham, has accounted for the Baſtard Strangles in a very odd kind of Manner.

1742, Henry Bracken, “Of the Bastard Strangles”, in Farriery Improv’d: Or, A Compleat Treatise upon the Art of Farriery. […], London: Printed for J. Clarke […]; and J. Shuckburgh […], →OCLC, page 29:

The origin of the term strangles arises from the fact that in some cases it is associated with symptoms of choking or strangulation, and it was divided by the old writers into simple and bastard strangles; the first form being that which ran a regular course, and the second consisting in the formation of multiple or successive abscesses. [...] Irregular or bastard strangles, on the other hand, is a very grave affection, in which the connective tissue of the lymphatics of the submaxillary region, and sometimes the salivary glands, are the seat of acute suppurative inflammation, [...]

1878, William Williams, “Terminations of Inflammation—Continued”, in The Principles and Practice of Veterinary Surgery, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, New York, N.Y.: Wm. Wood & Co. […], →OCLC, page 43:

The most common complication is bastard strangles, metastatic spread of the infection to lymph nodes and organs other than the nodes of the head.

2004, Bonnie Rush, Tim Mair, “Strangles”, in Equine Respiratory Diseases, Oxford, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Science, →ISBN, section III (Contagious Respiratory Diseases), page 164:

Isolation of infected animals can prevent epidemics of strangles and is recommended for new additions to a herd or group. In some horses, purpura hemorrhagica and even bastard strangles may follow vaccination, though this is relatively rare.

2005, Will A. Hadden III, “Head and Neck”, in Cheryl Rogers, G. Jeanne Wilcox, editors, Horseman’s Veterinary Encyclopedia, revised and updated edition, Guilford, Conn.: The Lyons Press, →ISBN, page 352:

Bastard strangles, in which abscessation develops in many organs, is a serious complication in about 1% of affected animals.

2011, P[atrick] J. Quinn et al., “Streptococci”, in Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease, 2nd edition, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, section III (Pathogenic Bacteria), page 192, column 1:

upper respiratory tract
upper respiratory tract

(veterinary medicine) A form of strangles, a bacterial upper respiratory tract infection of horses potentially causing airway obstruction, that has spread to other parts of the body and caused abscesses.

мыт

form of strangles that has spread to other parts of the body


cephalophine

Any duiker of the subfamily Cephalophinae


Arctic ground squirrel

Arctic ground squirrel (plural Arctic ground squirrels)

Any of various members of the genus Spermophilus that are native to the arctic, including (but not limited to) Spermophilus parryii and Spermophilus undulatus.


parka squirrel

So called because the Eskimos use the pelts of these squirrels to make parkas.

On the prairie there are little mounds made by generations of parka squirrels. The old-time Eskimo would find a bear that was hunting squirrels and then slip around into its path. Prone behind a parka squirrel's mound, the Eskimo would thrust up his forearm with fist doubled to imitate a squirrel, at the same time chirping like an alarmed squirrel.

2001, Larry Kaniut, Bear Tales for the Ages: From Alaska and Beyond, →ISBN, page 121:

They only had one parka squirrel coat.

2003, James Kari, James A. Fall, Shem Pete, Shem Pete's Alaska: The Territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina, →ISBN:

The wolves had not noticed the distant caribou, and Cris gave each a parka squirrel to hold them with him.

Arctic ground squirrel
Arctic ground squirrel#English


caluromyine

Any woolly opossum of the genus Caluromys


woolly opossum

Any of three opossums of the genus Caluromys.


marmosine

(zoology) Any mouse opossum of the tribe Marmosini.


pellonulid

Any freshwater herring of the subfamily Pellonulinae


heterodontosaur

Any dinosaur of the genus Heterodontosaurus.


Bemaraha woolly lemur

Bemaraha woolly lemur (plural Bemaraha woolly lemurs)

“I’m absurdly fond of the little creatures,” said Cleese, who made a documentary about lemurs in Madagascar in 1998, and now lives on there in name at least in the Bemaraha woolly lemur (Avahi cleesei).

A species of lemur, Avahi cleesei, native to western Madagascar.


demon duck of doom

demon duck of doom (plural demon ducks of doom)

(informal, humorous) The extinct flightless bird Bullockornis.


grinny

The phrase "grinny chipmunk" is first attested in 1898 (see quotation below). Perhaps from Etymology 1 above.

Reason thus, and if your heart beats till it hurts your ribs as a gray squirrel whisks across the dry leaves or a ‘grinny chipmunk’ waves you a derisive signal with his little flag from a log before your very nose, call yourself ‘fool,’ ‘idiot,’ anything that comes handy.

[1898 November, B. W. Mitchell, “A Thanksgiving Deer Hunt in West Virginia”, in Outing, page 143:

(Western Pennsylvania) An eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus.


hoiho

With an 80% loss rate for each year’s chicks, the hoiho’s existence is in peril.

2018 March 12, Murdo MacLeod, The Guardian:

Megadyptes antipodes
Megadyptes antipodes#Translingual

The yellow-eyed penguin, Megadyptes antipodes.


southern hairy-nosed wombat

southern hairy-nosed wombat (plural southern hairy-nosed wombats)

Scientists have spent two wombat breeding seasons seeking to better understand the sex lives of vulnerable southern hairy-nosed wombats, using 24-hour infrared cameras and urine samples.

2018 May 10, Christopher Knaus, The Guardian:

A species of wombat, Lasiorhinus latifrons, native to southern Australia.


Wegner's glass lizard

Wegner's glass lizard (plural Wegner's glass lizards)

Currently, Wegner’s glass lizard is listed as data deficient by the IUCN Red List, which means scientists don’t have enough information to even determine if the species is at risk of extinction.

2018 March 20, Jeremy Hance, The Guardian:

A species of glass lizard, Ophisaurus wegneri, found in Sumatra.


northern quoll

Cane toads, which were introduced into Queensland in the 1930s to control crop pests, have been responsible for wiping out many native animals, including local populations of the endangered northern quoll, the smallest of Australia’s four quoll species.

2018 March 19, Amy McNeilage, The Guardian:

A species of quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus, native to parts of northern Australia.


vaquita marina

The vaquita marina, known as the "panda of the sea" for the distinctive markings circling its eyes, has been pushed to the brink of extinction by illegal gillnet fishing.

The nets used to catch the totoaba have also contributed to the demise of another critically endangered species, the vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise.


Sumatran laughingthrush

Sumatran laughingthrush (plural Sumatran laughingthrushes)

The team also photographed the Sumatran laughingthrush on the forest floor – a rare behavior for this endangered species.

A species of laughingthrush, Garrulax bicolor, endemic to Sumatra.


gymnophionan

Any amphibian of the order Gymnophiona; a caecilian.


choke-children

From choke + children. The fish is noted for its boniness, which could prove a choking-hazard to children. May be related to folklore surrounding the Cornish saint St. Leven.

(obsolete) A fish, the allis shad (Alosa alosa) or rock herring.


New Caledonian crow

New Caledonian crow (plural New Caledonian crows)

The New Caledonian crow is known for creating tools from plant material to capture prey hiding in cracks and crevices.

Corvus moneduloides, a medium-sized crow, native to New Caledonia.


bangamary

She liked bangamary, tilapia, lukanani, and snapper, but the river fish with the dark curved scales—hassar or cascadoo, as the Trinidadians called it—was a delicacy for special occasions.

2008, Godfrey Wray, Beyond Revenge, page 95:

Andrew Doro, a Chinese-American food blogger intent on eating dishes from every nation in the world, without leaving New York City, favors Guyanese Chinese dishes like fried bangamary (a fish) and crispy cha chi gai.

2020 August 18, Richard Morgan, “In This Dinner Series, Chinese Food Is at Home Worldwide”, in The New York Times:


galeomorph

Any shark of the superorder Galeomorphii


grubfish

(especially Malaysia) Certain sandperches (Pinguipedidae)


hit the board

en-verb

hit the board (third-person singular simple present hits the board, present participle hitting the board, simple past and past participle hit the board)

hits the board (present singular third-person)
hitting the board (participle present)
hit the board (participle past)
hit the board (past)

(horse racing) To finish in first, second, third or fourth place, thus appearing on the winners' board.


ctenochasmatoid

Any pterosaur of the clade Ctenochasmatoidea


Klamath smallscale sucker

en-noun

Klamath smallscale sucker (plural Klamath smallscale suckers)

Catostomus rimiculus
Catostomus rimiculus#Translingual

A fish found in the Klamath river, Catostomus rimiculus.


Sulawesi warty pig

Sulawesi warty pig (plural Sulawesi warty pigs)

The genetic data (mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite data) for the Sulawesi warty pig specimens show that populations from different parts of the island diverged from an ancestral population that lived around 2.19m years ago.

2018 May 17, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:


sheefish

sheefish (plural sheefishes or sheefish)

Anglers who successfully locate, hook, and land sheefish usually accomplish the feat using stout 12- and 15-pound spinning gear cast into deep, moderate-flowing rivers, and retrieved deep along a graveled stream bottom.

1998, Dan Heiner, Fly Fishing Alaska's Wild Rivers, →ISBN, page 159:

I've been fortunate to taste a wide variety of fish from around the globe, and one whose flavor always makes my mouth water is the sheefish.

2003, Scott Haugen, Dan Busch, Flyfisher's Guide to Alaska, →ISBN, page 13:

Furthermore, sheefish in the Kuskokwim drainage come and go unpredictably, which meant we might be casting to fish that were actually hundreds of miles away.

2007, E. Donnall Thomas, Redfish, Bluefish, Sheefish, Snook, →ISBN:


moss-cheeper

Anthus pratensis
Anthus pratensis#Translingual

(Scotland) The titlark (Anthus pratensis).


neoselachian

Any shark, skate or ray of the clade Neoselachii


ornithocheiroid

Clipping of translingual Ornithocheiroidea

clipping

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

Any pterosaur of the clade Ornithocheiroidea


pearl mullet

Pearl mullets are the only species able to survive in the salty, alkaline waters of the lake but swim upstream to lay eggs in freshwater rivers.

2018 May 25, Eric Hilaire, The Guardian:

A species of cyprinid fish, Alburnus tarichi, found in Lake Van of the Armenian Highland in Turkey.


Hermann's tortoise

en-noun

Hermann's tortoise (plural Hermann's tortoises)

Named after the French naturalist Johann Hermann.

A girl strokes a Hermann’s tortoise in a flat in Paris.

A species of tortoise, Testudo hermanni, found throughout southern Europe.


grey reef shark

grey reef shark (plural grey reef sharks)

Grey reef sharks give birth to at least eight pups at a time, each a hungry, 60 centimetre (24 inch) long predator.

1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 132:

A species of requiem shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos.


halfmoon

en:Half Moon (disambiguation)
en:halfmoon

It is only when these alternative foods are in short supply that the halfmoons may seriously damage the kelp, totally stripping plants of their blades.

1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 70:

(biology) Any of certain fish in the subfamily Scorpidinae, such as:

A species of sea chub, Medialuna californiensis, native to the Pacific coast of North America.


giant kelpfish

One of the most cleverly disguised in the giant kelpfish, an elongated and largely kelp-coloured fish that grows to about 60 centimetres (24 inches) in length.

1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 79:

A species of clinid, Heterostichus rostratus.


flightless cormorant

flightless cormorant (plural flightless cormorants)

I was particularly fascinated by the endemic flightless cormorant, a mainly black bird with startling bright turquoise eyes.

1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 25:

Phalacrocorax harrisi
Phalacrocorax harrisi#Translingual

A species of cormorant, Phalacrocorax harrisi, endemic to the Galápagos Islands.


marine iguana

Marine iguanas line the shores of the islands, and are usually seen sprawled over lava rocks near the sea.

1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 44:

A species of iguana, Amblyrhynchus cristatus, native to the Galápagos Islands, that can forage in the water.


olive sea snake

olive sea snake (plural olive sea snakes)

Slithering amongst the luxuriant growth were olive sea snakes.

1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 114:

A venomous species of sea snake, Aipysurus laevis.


coral trout

Coral trout, red with purple spots, lay in wait, ready to ambush unsuspecting prey.

Coral trout as beautiful fish to spear because they're curious by nature[.]

2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 56:

A species of grouper, Plectropomus leopardus, native to the western Pacific.


Galápagos fur seal

Galápagos fur seal (plural Galápagos fur seals)

Like the penguins, the Galápagos fur seals tend to concentrate in the islands in the north-west near the cold upwelling and have to use many techniques to keep cool on land.

1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 32:

A small species of fur seal, Arctocephalus galapagoensis, endemic to the Galápagos Islands.


fangtooth snake-eel

fangtooth snake-eel (plural fangtooth snake-eels)

A burrow-dwelling eel of species Aplatophis chauliodus, native to the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.


snake-eel

Any member of the family Ophichthidae of eels (order Anguilliformes).


weedy sea dragon

weedy sea dragon (plural weedy sea dragons)

My gaze turned to the weedy seadragon, which was, I had to agree with Mr Hung, a magnificent creature.

2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 43:

A marine fish related to the seahorse, native to the waters off southern Australia (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus).


white-eye

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

(countable) Any of the passerine birds of the family Zosteropidae, native to Africa, Asia, and Australasia, typically having a ring of tiny white feathers around their eyes.

rilli

passerine bird of the family Zosteropidae


trace horse

One of the outside horses, in a team of three or more horses that are harnessed side-by-side, drawing a load or vehicle.

σειρᾱφόρος

outside horse in a team of three or more


bastard horn snake

bastard horn snake (plural not attested)

(US, dialectal, now rare) The common kingsnake.


bastard halibut

bastard halibut (plural bastard halibuts)


bastard big-footed mouse

bastard big-footed mouse (plural bastard big-footed mice)

From the taxonomic name, from the surname of the person who discovered it.

(rare) Macrotarsomys bastardi, a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae, found only in Madagascar.

Alphonse Milne-Edwards
Guillaume Grandidier


olive flounder

Paralichthys olivaceus, a temperate marine species of large-tooth flounder native to the north-western Pacific Ocean.


common kingsnake

common kingsnake (countable and uncountable, plural common kingsnakes)

Lampropeltis getula, a harmless colubrid kingsnake endemic to much of warm temperate northern Mexico and the United States.


bastard dory

(rare) An old wife: the fish Enoplosus armatus.


old wife

From Middle English ald wyf, eld wiif, olde wyffe.

A species of perciform fish endemic to the temperate coastal waters of Australia (Enoplosus armatus)


cryptobranchoid

Borrowed from translingual Cryptobranchoidea, from translingual Cryptobranchus.

Any salamander of the suborder Cryptobranchoidea.


carcharodontosaurine

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Carcharodontosaurinae


cubera snapper

Cubera snappers, whether Atlantic or Pacific, are the giants of the snapper family.

2015, Tom Boyd, Salt Water's Greatest Gamefish:

A commercially important species of snapper native to the western Atlantic Ocean, Lutjanus cyanopterus.


hedgy-boar

Aw loar! the owld gipsies what do live 'pon hedgyboors and that soort of mait, was more betterer off then we wor was regaard to livin'.

c. 1860, John Tabois Tregellas, “California”, in Cornish Tales, page 67:

He sought where grew, in aspect lew, / The skedgwith and the scow, / And he routed the sleepy hedgy-boar, / And the lively padgypaow.

1895, Joseph Thomas, “The Quest of the Gwidgy-gwee”, in Randigal Rhymes, page 15:

Billy was a forthy fellow, prickly as a hedgyboar.

2011, Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy; 2):

(Devon and Cornwall, now rare) A hedgehog.


bargander

Thanet has abundance of wild-fowl in a severe winter; and a bird, called the bargander, in Latin, chemaloper, often frequents the marshes and waters in it.

1801, The New Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs Guide:

Here he sees the whirlings of the ducks, hears the booming of the bitterns, the scream of the heron, the whistle of the plover; sees the figure of the wild geese, the deceit of the lapwing, the variegated beauty of the bargander, the single circling of the curlew, the rapid flight of the teal, the more noisy rush of the dunbird, and listens to the pleasing call of the widgeon: -- these are the varieties which set the embers of his soul on fire.

1829 November, “Wild Fowl Shooting”, in Sporting Magazine, volume 23, page 162:

Well, we remained at Petala from the 16th to the 24th -- eight shooting days, and killed between us sixty-seven and a-half brace of woodcock, twenty- seven brace of teal, thirty-three brace of widgeon, fifteen brace of ducks, seven and a-half brace of geese, two brace of sea-pheasants, one and a-half brace of barganders and one hare; so far as we were concerned, (that is, my friend and I) we would have been well satisfied to remain for another eight days; but below stairs the rumblings of a coming storm, the premonitory symptoms of a mutiny, at length made themselves so distince, that it was absurd to attempt to feign ignorand any longer: there was nothing for it but to never ourselves like brave men for the coming struggle.

1865, Arthur Kavanagh, The Cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva, page 146:

And such egs not only Doves do bring, but house hens also, Partridges, Peahens, Geese, and Brants, or the female Barganders.

1937, University of Pennsylvania. Botanical Laboratory, Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory and the Morris Arboretum, page 12:


antwren

Any member of a genus of small antbirds, Myrmotherula.


river shark

Any shark of the genus Glyphis (family Carcharhinidae).


Gila trout

Oncorhynchus gilae, a species of salmonid related to the rainbow trout, native to the Southwestern United States.


Tennessee warbler

Tennessee warbler (plural Tennessee warblers)

The Nashville's cousin, the Tennessee warbler, is just as badly named: neither can be found in Tennessee, except during migration. […] The Tennessee warbler always shows a dark line through the eye and a strong pale superciliary line over the eye.

2005, Bill Thompson III et al., Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 303:

Oreothlypis peregrina, a New World warbler that breeds in eastern North America and winters in Central America and South America.


designer dog

A cross-breed dog which has been intentionally bred from two or more recognized dog breeds.


snow pigeon

Columba leuconota
Columba leuconota#Translingual

A species of pigeon, Columba leuconota, native to the rocky hills of central Asia.


Brahminy kite

Haliastur indus
Haliastur indus#Translingual

Haliastur indus, a medium-sized bird of prey with reddish-brown plumage and a white head and breast, found in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Australia.


artiodactylan

Any even-toed ungulate of the order Artiodactyla


red-backed sea eagle

red-backed sea eagle (plural red-backed sea eagles)


cetancodontan

Any animal of the clade with the proposed name Cetancodonta (currently Whippomorpha)


cetancodontamorphan

The {anthracotheriid {Siamotherium is sister to the remaining cetancodontamorphans (Figure 2).

2009 September 20, Michelle Spaulding, ResearchGate:

Any artiodactyl of the clade Cetancodontamorpha


break-bones

From break + bones, calque of Spanish quebrantahuesos.

These southern seas are frequented by several species of Petrels: the largest kind, Procellaria gigantea, or nelly (quebrantahuesos, or break-bones, of the Spaniards), is a common bird, both in the inland channels and on the open sea. In its habits and manner of flight, there is a very close resemblance with the albatross; and as with the albatross, a person may watch it for hours together without seeing on what it feeds. The "break-bones" is, however, a rapacious bird, for it was observed by some of the officers at Port St. Antonio chasing a diver, which tried to escape by diving and flying, but was continually struck down, and at last killed by a blow on its head.

1839, Charles Darwin, chapter 13, in The Voyage of the Beagle, volume 29, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, published 1909:

Whilst we were at work on the beach, crowds of birds began to assemble, especially the Giant Petrel or "Breakbones" (Ossifraga gigantea), the "Nelly" or "Stinker" of sealers. This bird in its habits is most remarkably like the vulture.

1879, Henry Mottidge Moseley, “Kerguelen's Land”, in Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger, Cambridge University Press, published 2014, →ISBN, pages 205–206:

The titlark, sheath-bill, teal, and goose of South Georgia are wholly or in part vegetable feeders. The cormorant and the tern eat fish. The gull subsists chiefly on limpets and other shell-bearing mollusks. The penguins and Tubinares capture cuttlefish and pelagic crustaceans, the giant petrel, or "breakbones," alone obtaining part of its food on shore, since it has a relish for carrion. The skua feeds on any kind of animal food, dead or alive, especially upon other birds and their eggs.

1922 April 20, Robert Cushman Murphy, “South Georgia, An Outpost of the Antarctic”, in National Geographic, volume 41, number 4, page 429:

Any bird in the genus Macronectes, known as giant petrels.


Atlantic horse mackerel

Atlantic horse mackerel (plural Atlantic horse mackerels)

Trachurus trachurus
Trachurus trachurus#Translingual

A jack mackerel (Trachurus trachurus), of the family Carangidae.


African lion

A lion inhabiting Africa, formerly thought to comprise a subspecies.


greater mouse-eared bat

greater mouse-eared bat (plural greater mouse-eared bats)

Most at risk are the Scottish wildcat and the once-widespread black rat, while there is only a single male greater mouse-eared bat left.

2018 June 13, Damian Carrington, The Guardian:

A species of mouse-eared bat, Myotis myotis, native to Europe.


Nathusius's pipistrelle

Nathusius's pipistrelle (plural Nathusius's pipistrelles)

Nathusius’ pipistrelle bat may also be troubled by having to run a growing gauntlet of offshore wind farms on their migration from continental Europe.

A species of pipistrelle, Pipistrellus nathusii, widespread across Europe.


black-and-white ruffed lemur

black-and-white ruffed lemur (plural black-and-white ruffed lemurs)

Rustling branches and a canopy cacophony – part howl, part screech, part snigger – proclaim the presence of black-and-white ruffed lemurs as visitors enter Ivoloina zoological park in eastern Madagascar.

2018 February 24, Jonathan Watts, The Guardian:

A species of ruffed lemur, Varecia variegata, endemic to Madagascar.


Groves' dwarf lemur

Groves' dwarf lemur (plural Groves' dwarf lemurs)

The latest discovery – the Groves’ dwarf lemur from the south of the island – was only confirmed last month, but it may well follow rapidly on to the red list of threatened species.

A species of lemur, Cheirogaleus grovesi, first formally described in 2017.


Asian common toad

Asian common toad (plural Asian common toads)

The Asian common toad has invaded so far into the islands of Wallacea in Indonesia that biologists fear they will soon threaten the rare Komodo dragon.

A toad of species Duttaphrynus melanostictus, widespread throughout South and Southeast Asia.


pterosauromorph

Any extinct reptile of the clade Pterosauromorpha


hardun

Originally distributed from Arabia to western Turkey and on numerous islands of the Aegean Sea, more recently the hardun has been inadvertently transported to northern Greece, Corfu, and the vicinity of Alexandria (Egypt).

2013, Douglas M. Considine and Glenn D. Considine, Van Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia, page 60:


painted tree rat

painted tree rat (plural painted tree rats)

Callistomys pictus, a spiny rat from Brazil.


armored rat

Hoplomys gymnurus, a spiny rodent of Latin America.


house gecko

Any lizard in the genus Hemidactylus. Several species live in houses.


leopard lizard

Any member of the genus Gambelia, spotted lizards native to arid regions of the western US and northern Mexico.


fringe-toed lizard

fringe-toed lizard (plural fringe-toed lizards)

Any member of the genus Uma, sand-dwelling lizards of deserts in southwestern North America.


zebra-tailed lizard

zebra-tailed lizard (plural zebra-tailed lizards)

A lizard of southwestern US and northern Mexico deserts with black and white markings on its tail, of species Callisaurus draconoides.


Vallarta mud turtle

Vallarta mud turtle (plural Vallarta mud turtles)

The Vallarta mud turtle, the largest specimens of which are 10 centimeters long, has only been found in a few human-created or human-affected habitats such as small streams and ponds found only around the resort town of Puerto Vallarta.

A species of mud turtle, Kinosternon vogti, endemic to the area around Puerto Vallarta in Mexico.


collared lizard

collared lizard (plural collared lizards)

Any lizard in genus Crotaphytus, native to arid parts of southwestern North America and having distinctive markings on the back behind the head.


longnose lancetfish

longnose lancetfish (plural longnose lancetfish)

A large predatory lancetfish, Alepisaurus ferox, found in deep-water ocean.


hoof pick

A hooked tool, usually of metal, used to clean the hooves of a horse.

patakaparó

a hooked tool used to clean the hooves of a horse


common pochard

common pochard (countable and uncountable, plural common pochards)

Aythya ferina
Aythya ferina#Translingual

A diving duck of temperate and cool Eurasia (Aythya ferina)

tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ naalʼeełí bitsiiʼ halchíiʼii


James's flamingo

James's flamingo (plural James's flamingos or James's flamingoes)

James's flamingos (plural)
James's flamingoes (plural)

Named for British naturalist Harry Berkeley James, who studied the bird.

At Bolivia's Laguna Colorado, so-called because of the blood-red tinge to the water, the world's largest population of James's flamingoes may be caught by unseasonable freezing, with birds trapped permanently in the ice.

2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 45:

Phoenicoparrus jamesi
Phoenicoparrus jamesi#Translingual

A small species of flamingo, Phoenicoparrus jamesi, endemic to the high Andean plateaux.


long-tailed meadowlark

long-tailed meadowlark (plural long-tailed meadowlarks)

All around, wild flowers transform stark mountains into alpine paradises, and the song of the long-tailed meadowlark rises over open areas.

2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 52:

A passerine songbird, Leistes loyca, native to South America.


torrent duck

The mountain lakes are fed by streams that are frozen in winter but change overnight into raging torrents – the turbulent habitat of the torrent duck.

Merganetta armata
Merganetta armata#Translingual

A species of duck, Merganetta armata, found near fast-flowing rivers in the Andes.


austral parakeet

austral parakeet (plural austral parakeets)

The trees are home to austral parakeets, which travel through the forest in small, noisy flocks looking for food.

2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 56:

Enicognathus ferrugineus
Enicognathus ferrugineus#Translingual

A species of South American parrot, Enicognathus ferrugineus.


upland goose

Male upland geese are highly territorial and will battle it out with any intruders.

Chloephaga picta
Chloephaga picta#Translingual

A species of sheldgoose, Chloephaga picta, found in temperate grasslands.


Andean hillstar

Andean hillstar (plural Andean hillstars)

The gigantic flower is visited also by the Andean hillstar, which comes to feed on puya nectar.

A species of hummingbird, Oreotrochilus estella, found in the Andes.


chimango caracara

chimango caracara (plural chimango caracaras)

Chimango caracaras, birds the size of a crow but with the armoury of an eagle, follow the buzzard eagles everywhere, the commotion caused by the larger birds providing these scavengers with ample food in the form of exposed eggs – after all, caracaras have chicks to raise, too.

Milvago chimango
Milvago chimango#Translingual

A species of caracara, Milvago chimango, endemic to South America.


cottonwick

A grunt (fish) of the species Haemulon melanurum


Antarctic minke whale

Antarctic minke whale (plural Antarctic minke whales)

Some species have rebounded since then – humpbacks and Antarctic minke whales, for instance, are expected to reach their pre-whaling population numbers by 2050.

2018 June 20, Chelsea Murray, The Guardian:

Balaenoptera bonaerensis
Balaenoptera bonaerensis#Translingual

A species of minke whale, Balaenoptera bonaerensis, found mainly in the southern hemisphere.


plateosaurian

Any sauropodomorph dinosaur of the clade Plateosauria


marbled salamander

marbled salamander (plural marbled salamanders)

Through meticulous research, Urban found that in some ponds the marbled salamander heavily preyed upon the spotted salamanders, until there were few left.

2015 May 21, Victoria Schlesinger, “Backyard evolution”, in Aeon:

A species of mole salamander, Ambystoma opacum, having a dark body with marbled white markings,


spotted salamander

spotted salamander (plural spotted salamanders)

His study began when he noticed that spotted salamanders thrived in some vernal pools while in others, just 100 metres away, their numbers were limited.

A species of mole salamander, Ambystoma maculatum, endemic to the eastern US and Canada.


glass lizard

When it slithers through the grass, the legless glass lizard is indistinguishable from a snake.

2015 March 16, Andreas Wagner, “Possible creatures”, in Aeon:

A member of the genus Ophisaurus, comprising some fifteen species of legless lizards.


Madeiran wood pigeon

Madeiran wood pigeon (plural Madeiran wood pigeons)

Little can be said of the Madeiran wood pigeon except that it vanished from Madeira during the early years of the twentieth century.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 173:

An extinct subspecies of wood pigeon †Columba palumbus maderensis, that lived on the island of Madeira.


amazon parrot

Like the macaws, amazon parrots have suffered greatly during the last few centuries and due to human interference the numbers of many species have declined dramatically.

A New World parrot of the genus Amazona.


serpent eagle

Any of a number of species of birds of prey in the genus Spilornis


pupperino

An ice cream social is in the works for July 17 with pupperino-approved ice cream and popsicles.

2017, Jessica Elizarraras, “Food Court”, in San Antonio Current, 14-20 June 2017, page 33:

C'mon, we live in a society—can a man not keep a well-behaved pupperino in his own apartment?

2018, Hanna Jane Cohen, "The Dog Hating HOA", Reykjavík Grapevine, 10-23 August 2018, page 62

As dog owners it is your civic duty to spend your public Labour Day holiday by taking your special pupperino to a pool paddling puppy extravaganza in Belgrave.

2019 March 5, Derek Schlennstedt, “Splish, splash, doggos are taking a bath”, in Ferntree Gully Mail, page 6:

(Internet slang) Synonym of dog or puppy.


bumbarrel

One of Britain's most charming small birds, once known as the bumbarrel, has entered the garden birdwatch top 10 for the first time. The tiny long-tailed tit is so small – the tail is longer than the body – that it is very vulnerable to cold weather.

2009 March 25, Michael McCarthy, “Triumph of the bumbarrel (aka the long-tailed tit)”, in The Independent:

‘Bumbarrel’ is an old name for the long-tailed tit, everyone's favourite garden bird. And the reason they're called that is for the shape of their nest.

2012 March 12, Katie Fuller, “This weekend... spot a bumbarrel”, in RSPB.org:

Aegithalos caudatus
Aegithalos caudatus#Translingual

(dated) A long-tailed tit, a small passerine bird; Aegithalos caudatus.


gwelly

The best of the larger are the turbot, red snappers, gwellys and rockfish.

1883 October 18, “Down in Bermuda”, in Forest and Stream, volume 21, page 224:

Key to Bermuda Jacks, Gwellys, Amber-Fish, Bonitos, etc.

1970, William Beebe, John Tee-Van, Field Book of the Shore Fishes of Bermuda and the West Indies:

[…] making better use of formerly under-utilized species such as tuna, wahoo, parrot fish, grunts, porgy, amberjack, gwelly, shark and chub.

1984, Monthly Bulletin of the Bermuda Department of Agriculture & Fisheries:

Besides bonefish, gaff-topsail pompano and gray snapper, anglers fishing the beaches, shallow bays and coral heads of Bermuda can take barracuda, gwelly, chub, and occasionally a yellowtail or a prowling bonito.

2017, Joe Brookes, Greatest Fishing: Where to Go to Get the Best!:

(Bermuda) A large marine fish, Megalaspis cordyla.


Aldabra giant tortoise

Aldabra giant tortoise (plural Aldabra giant tortoises)

In 2004, an Aldabra giant tortoise washed ashore in Tanzania, 740 km from home (Gerlach et al., 2006).

20178, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian, 1 March

A species of giant tortoise, Aldabrachelys gigantea, found on the islands of the Aldabra atoll.


mammophant

However, several generations of “mammophant” breeding would be necessary before it would be possible to sire a genetically “pure” mammoth.

2002, Allen A. Debus, Diane E. Debus, Dinosaur Memories, page 186:

Herds of mammophants pining for the fjords aren’t quite within the realm of what’s possible.

2017 February 22, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:

Church and his team plan to create the mammophant by endowing the egg cell of an Asian elephant with the genes for red blood cells that operate efficiently at low temperature, an enhanced fat layer under the skin, and a luxuriant covering of hair and fur - all from the woolly mammoth genome.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 309:

A (hypothetical) cross between a woolly mammoth and an elephant.


ausktribosphenidan

From translingual Ausktribosphenidae + -an.

suf

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

Any therian of the family Ausktribosphenidae


eosauropterygian

Any extinct reptile of the order Eosauropterygia


aetiocetid

A 25-million-year-old fossil whale from Washington State, specimen NMV P252567 – or ‘Alfred’ to his friends – belongs to an extinct group of whales called aetiocetids.

2016 November 30, Elsa Panciroli, “How did the whale get its 'moustache'?”, in The Guardian:

A member of the extinct family of baleen whales Aetiocetidae.


patagornithine

Any extinct bird of the phorusrhacid subfamily Patagornithinae


pistosauroid

Any extinct marine reptile of the clade Pistosauroidea


pistosaur

Any extinct reptile of the genus Pistosaurus


probainognathian

Their evidence suggests that fur and whiskers appeared early on in the ancestry of mammals, in the earliest probainognathians.

2016 September 7, Elsa Panciroli, “Did milk and fur evolve before the earliest mammals?”, in The Guardian:

A members of the Probainognathia clade of therapsid animals.


psilopterine

Any extinct phorusrhacid of the genus Psilopterus


New Zealand wren

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New Zealand wren (plural New Zealand wrens)

Suboscines (Tyranni) are mostly found in the Neotropics, whereas the small New Zealand wrens (Acanthisitti) are limited to, you guessed it, New Zealand.

2016 October 19, Hanneke Meijer, “Why you can thank geology for your morning songbird chorus”, in The Guardian:

A passerine bird of the family Acanthisittidae, including two living and several extinct species in four or five genera.


placodont

From placo- + -odont, after scientific Latin Placodus (genus name).

The dentition of placodonts was very interesting, as they all had large crushing teeth on the palate.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 74:

An extinct marine reptile of the order Placodontia.


grey junglefowl

grey junglefowl (plural grey junglefowl or grey junglefowls)

grey junglefowl (plural)
grey junglefowls (plural)

Moreover, […] the gene for yellow legs, an^([sic]) ubiquitous characteristic of domesticated chickens, can be traced back to the closely related grey junglefowl (Gallus sonneratii) (Eriksson et al., 2008) rather than the red junglefowl.

2016 August 24, Hanneke Meijer, “How did the chicken, a shy, flight-impaired forest bird, migrate around the globe?”, in The Guardian:

Gallus sonneratii
Gallus sonneratii#Translingual

A species of fowl, Gallus sonneratii, endemic to India.


baudrons

Perhaps of Celtic origin. See beadrach (“a frolicsome girl”).


russellosaurine

Any extinct marine reptile of the subfamily Russellosaurina


largehead hairtail

largehead hairtail (plural largehead hairtails)

Trichiurus lepturus
Trichiurus lepturus#Translingual


rauisuchian

In Triassic times, when rauisuchians lived, the continents were still united in a large, coherent landmass, the supercontinent Pangea.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 79:

(paleontology) An extinct reptile of the taxon Rauisuchia, which lived during the Triassic.


anagalid

An extinct mammal of the family Anagalidae or genus Anagale


common linnet

common linnet (countable and uncountable, plural common linnets)

Linaria cannabina
Linaria cannabina#Translingual

A common small bird (Linaria cannabina), of Europe, western Asia and north Africa.

pardiellu

a common small bird (Linaria cannabina), of Europe, western Asia and north Africa


house lizard

Hemidactylus frenatus
Hemidactylus frenatus#Translingual

Common house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus), native to southeast Asia.


mimotonid

Any extinct lagomorph of the family Mimotonidae


zalambdalestid

Any extinct mammal of the family Zalambdalestidae


gaviiform

Any loon or diver of the order Gaviiformes


cow belt

From the widespread practices venerating cattle in that region in northern India. Influenced by the English term Bible Belt.

(India) A rural region of Northern India, extending over the BIMARU states.


common house gecko

common house gecko (plural common house geckos)


neoavian

All major lineages of songbirds or passeriforms, of which there are more than 5,000 living species altogether, are thought to have evolved from a common ancestor, and these diverse birds are commonly regarded as the most advanced neoavians.

2007, Luis M. Chiappe, Glorified Dinosaurs: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds:


prophaethontid

Any extinct seabird of the family Prophaethontidae


sphenisciform

Any penguin of the order Sphenisciformes


thescelosaur

So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids.

2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American:

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Thescelosaurinae.


pteranodontian

Any ornithocheiroid pterosaur of the clade Pteranodontia


graveldiver

Scytalina cerdale, a small, compact perciform fish with a snake-like head.


deinonychosaurian

Any theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria


kakkak

Ixobrychus sinensis
Ixobrychus sinensis#Translingual

The yellow bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis).


rhinodon

From Ancient Greek ῥίνη (rhínē, “rasp”) + -odon.

But there were stories told me of how a harpooned rhinodon, having by a lightning-like dive exhausted the supply of rope, which had been accidentally fastened to the boat, dived deeper still, and so pulled pirogue and crew to the bottom" — as, being a true fish, it remains at the bottom as readily as at the top.

1877, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Volume 54, page 154:

I was most interested to read in COUNTRY LIFE on June 28 the account of the rhinodon, or whale shark, in the Gulf of Akaba, who in the year 1943 bumped into a boat containing Fishery officials of the Palestine Government.

1946, Major C. S. Jarvis, “A countryman's Notes”, in Country Life, volume 100, page 111:

Several years ago in the English channel a man was swallowed by a rhinodon shark.

2012, Dr Leslie Henry, The Historicity of the Book of Jonah, page 16:

(very rare or nonstandard, archaic) A whale shark of the Indian Ocean.


bowmouth guitarfish

bowmouth guitarfish (plural bowmouth guitarfishes or bowmouth guitarfish)

bowmouth guitarfishes (plural)
bowmouth guitarfish (plural)

Rhina ancylostoma, a ray of the family Rhinidae.


ewe lamb

It was my first book, my only book, my ewe lamb; but it was not a “work,” not an “important publication, ” like Mr. Lecky's “Map of Life." The reviewers did not welcome it either eagerly or seriously.

1900, The Book Lover, numbers 5-10, page 234:

A poor person's sole possession (in reference to the Bible, 2 Samuel xii).