Kromfohrlander

From German Kromfohrländer, from Krom Fohr, a district that Isle Schleifenbaum (a woman who adopted “Peter”, considered the breed’s origin) lived near, + Land + -er.

A breed of dog that originated in Germany, most commonly used as a companion breed.


Mountain Cur

A type of working dog that is bred specifically for treeing and trailing small game, like squirrel and raccoons.


Picardy Spaniel

en-noun

Picardy Spaniel (plural Picardy Spaniels)

Blue Pircardy Spaniel
Blue Picardy Spaniel#Noun

A breed of dog developed in France for use as a gundog related to the Blue Pircardy Spaniel.


Flat-coated Retriever

Flat-coated Retriever (plural Flat-coated Retrievers)

A gundog breed originating from England.


French Spaniel

A breed of dog of the Spaniel-like setter. It was developed in France and Canada as a hunting dog, descended from dogs of the 14th century.


Pudelpointer

A versatile hunting dog breed from Germany.


noisy scrubbird

noisy scrubbird (plural noisy scrubbirds)

The bird Atrichornis clamosus, endemic to southwestern Australia.


Boykin Spaniel

South Carolina
South Carolina#Proper noun

A medium-sized breed of dog, a spaniel bred for hunting wild turkeys and ducks in the Wateree River Swamp of South Carolina, in the United States.


rat terrier

In a few moments he returned and introduced an individual of about his own age, who seemed to be a cross between a rat terrier and a bull-dog, so exactly blended in his countenance and general appearance were the evidences of cunningness, activity and ferocious strength.

1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 19:

An American dog breed with a background as a farm dog and hunting companion.


Lakeland terrier

Lakeland terrier (plural Lakeland terriers)

A dog breed, which takes its name from its place of origin, the Lake District in England.


Neapolitan Mastiff

Neapolitan Mastiff (plural Neapolitan Mastiffs)

An Italian breed of large dog of mastiff type.


Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever

Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever (plural Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers)

Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers (plural)

A medium-sized gundog bred primarily for hunting.


he-elephant

At a word from Aslan, the He-Elephant, the Ravens, and all the rest of them drew aside.


Slovensky Kopov

Slovensky Kopov (plural Slovensky Kopovs)

A medium-sized breed of hunting dog of the scenthound type.


Standard Schnauzer

Standard Schnauzer (plural Standard Schnauzers)

A German breed of dog in the Pinscher and Schanuzer group.


Treeing Tennessee Brindle

Treeing Tennessee Brindle (plural Treeing Tennessee Brindles)


Wirehaired Pointing Griffon

Wirehaired Pointing Griffon (plural Wirehaired Pointing Griffons)

A breed of dog used in hunting as a gundog.


West Highland White Terrier

West Highland White Terrier (plural West Highland White Terriers)

A breed of dog from Scotland with a distinctive white harsh coat / pelage with a somewhat soft white undercoat.


Bearded Collie

A herding breed of dog once used primarily by Scottish shepherds, but now mostly kept as a pet.


Catalan Sheepdog

Catalan Sheepdog (plural Catalan Sheepdogs)

A breed of Catalan Pyrenean dog used as a sheepdog.


D'Orbigny's slider

D'Orbigny's slider (plural D'Orbigny's sliders)

A species of water turtle (Trachemys dorbigni) in the family Emydidiae.


Highland cattle

Highland cattle (plural Highland cattle)

A breed of beef cattle originating in the Scotland, with long horns and a long shaggy coat.


emo skink

/ˌiːməʊ ˈskɪŋk/


Pont-Audemer Spaniel

Pont-Audemer Spaniel (plural Pont-Audemer Spaniels)


foxess

The fox said he must stay with his foxess, who was in a delicate way, and one of the little ones had been out too late at a hen-roost, and had caught a very bad cold.

Well, you know what goes with the fox–the foxess, or the foxina.

1903, James Lane Allen, The Mettle of the Pasture, page 78:


flowerpiercer

Any of the tropical birds in the genus Diglossa, found in Central and South America.


marshbird

Any of the tropical birds in the genus Pseudoleistes, found in South America.


xenops

From translingual Xenops, from Ancient Greek.

PLAIN XENOPS Xenops minutus 12cm Separable from other xenopses by lack of streaking (check this carefully!). Short, level series of 4-5 very high, piercing notes. Understorey of humid forest and woodland. <1,000m, locally higher.

2015 09, Birds of South America: Passerines, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 60:

[...] xenopses hang chickadeelike while searching the underside of a leaf. Ovenbirds of various species are often members of mixed foraging flocks. Woodcreepers were once placed in their own family, the Dendrocolaptidae, but are now grouped[…]

2017 March 7, John Kricher, The New Neotropical Companion, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 298:

Xenopses can hammer! The xenops has an upturned beak that it uses to hammer into decaying wood, to look for insects.

2021 June 29, Anna Lazowski, T. Rexes Can't Tie Their Shoes, Doubleday Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:

Any of the tropical birds in the genera Xenops, Megaxenops and Microxenops, found in Central and South America.


stipplethroat

Any of the tropical birds in the genus Epinecrophylla, found in Central and South America.


bushbird

Any of the tropical birds in the genera Neoctantes or Clytoctantes, found in South America.


antthrush

Any of the tropical birds in the family Formicariidae, found in Central and South America.


myiobius

Any of the tropical birds in the genus Myiobius, found in Central and South America.


schiffornis

Any of the tropical birds in the genus Schiffornis, found in Central and South America.


fruitcrow

Any of the tropical birds in the genera Querula, Pyroderus, Haematoderus or Gymnoderus. They are found in Central and South America.


berryeater

Any of the tropical birds in the genus Carpornis, found in South America.


sirystes

Any of the tropical birds in the genus Sirystes, found in Central and South America.


bentbill

Any of the tropical birds in the genus Oncostoma, found in Central and South America.


fernwren

A bird of the species Oreoscopus gutturalis, native to Queensland, Australia.


goldenface

A bird of the species Pachycare flavogriseum, native to New Guinea.


straightbill

Any of the birds in the genus Timeliopsis, found in Australia.


myza

Any of the tropical birds in the genus Myza, found in Sulawesi, Indonesia.


fieldwren

Any of the birds in the genus Calamanthus, found in Australia.


casiornis

Any of the tropical birds in the genus Casiornis, found in Central and South America.


rockwarbler

desc

রকওয়ারব্লার

→ Bengali: রকওয়ারব্লার (rokōẇaroblar)

A bird of the species Origma solitaria, native to New South Wales, Australia.


tchagra

Any of the birds in the genus Tchagra, found in the dry forests and savannahs of the Afrotropics.


newtonia

Any of the birds in the genus Newtonia, found in Madagascar.


shrikebill

Any of the birds in the genus Clytorhynchus, found in Melanesia and western Polynesia.


astrapia

Any of the birds in the genus Astrapia, found in New Guinea.


parotia

Any of the birds in the genus Parotia, found in New Guinea.


lophorina

Any of the birds in the genus Lophorina, found in New Guinea.


philentoma

Any of the birds in the genus Philentoma, found in parts of South East Asia.


songlark

A bird of the species Cincloramphus cruralis or Cincloramphus mathewsi, native to Australia.


finchbill

Any of the birds in the genus Spizixos, found in Southeast Asia and China.


speirops

A bird of any of the species Zosterops brunneus, Zosterops leucophoeus, Zosterops lugubris, or Zosterops melanocephalus, native to the islands of the Gulf of Guinea and a mountain in Cameroon.


barwing

Any of the birds in the genus Actinodura, found in South and Southeast Asia.


silverbird

A bird of the species Empidornis semipartitus, native to eastern Africa.


puaiohi

A bird of the species Myadestes palmeri (small Kauai thrush), native to Kauai.


fruithunter

A bird of the species Chlamydochaera jefferyi, native to Borneo.


flamecrest

A bird of the species Regulus goodfellowi, native to the mountains of Taiwan.


crimsonwing

Any of the birds in the genus Cryptospiza, found in Sub-Saharan Africa.


elanet

black-winged kite
black-winged kite#English

Elanus caeruleus
Elanus caeruleus#Translingual

Synonym of black-winged kite (“the bird Elanus caeruleus”)


ctenodactyloid

(zoology) Any member of the Ctenodactyloidea superfamily of rodents.


plushcap

A bird of the species Catamblyrhynchus diadema, native to the Andes.


wrenthrush

A bird of the species Zeledonia coronata, native to certain montane forests of Costa Rica and Panama.


owl-faced monkey

en-noun

owl-faced monkey (plural owl-faced monkeys)


Hamlyn's monkey

Hamlyn's monkey (plural Hamlyn's monkeys)

Cercopithecus hamlyni, a rare Old World monkey that inhabits the bamboo and primary rainforests of the Congo.


Wangus

A breed of beef cattle, a cross-breed of wagyu and American Angus stock.


waterfrog

Compound of water + frog. Compare German Wasserfrosch, Danish vandfrø.

(zoology) Any type of frog that lives primarily in an aquatic environment.


pale fox

Another species is the pale fox (C. pallidus) a native of Senegambia, Nubia, and Kordofan. It is smaller in size but has larger ears than the kama fox. Its colour is pale yellow.

1936, Richard Clapham, The Book Of The Fox, page 96:

Vulpes pallida
Vulpes pallida#Translingual

Vulpes pallida, a fox endemic to the Sahel region of Africa.


tule shrew

Sorex ornatus juncensis, a possibly extinct subspecies of the ornate shrew, confined to the Baja California peninsula in Mexico.


lesser spot-nosed monkey

lesser spot-nosed monkey (plural lesser spot-nosed monkeys)

Cercopithecus petaurista, a primate in the family Cercopithecidae, found in parts of Africa.


vulpid

According to Hottentot legend, the cape fox feeds on ostrich eggs by rolling them over rocks until they break open. Little is known about reproductive behavior and life span of this small vulpid.

1972, Bernhard Grzimek, Grzimek's Animal life encyclopedia, page 253:

The three vulpids under discussion here are the Pale Fox (Vulpes pallidus; the Sand Fox (V. rueppelli); and the Cape Fox (V. chama).

1979, Maxwell Riddle, The wild dogs in life and legend, page 151:

(zoology) Any member of the true fox genus (Vulpes).


hookeared sculpin

hookeared sculpin (plural hookeared sculpins)

A small fish of the family Cottidae, in the genus Artediellus.


false map turtle

false map turtle (plural false map turtles)

Graptemys pseudogeographica, a turtle endemic to the United States.


Cape fox

A fox (Vulpes chama) native to the Cape of south Africa.


assfish

assfish (countable and uncountable, plural assfish or assfishes)

From ass + fish, probably from a mistranslation of onus in the genus name Acanthonus, which is from Ancient Greek ἄκανθος (ákanthos, “acanthus”, literally “prickly flower”) + ὄνος (ónos, “hake”): the latter word can mean either an ass (donkey) or less commonly a type of fish.

clq

Any of several types of fish:
bony-eared assfish, Acanthonus armatus

Any of several types of fish:
cavernous assfish, Porogadus gracilis

any of various species in the genus Bassozetus:

abyssal assfish, Bassozetus compressus or Bassozetus elongatus


chat-tanager

Any of the birds of the genus Calyptophilus


neatbeast

(archaic, regional) A domesticated bovine animal (cow, bull, steer etc).


plainfin midshipman

en-noun

plainfin midshipman (plural plainfin midshipmen)

The batrachoid toadfish Porichthys notatus.


Izak catshark

Holohalaelurus regani, a catshark commonly found off the coasts of South Africa and southern Namibia.


Pomsky

Participating pooches must be between 12-20 weeks old at the time of taping. This year, two labradoodles, a pomsky and a corgi are among members the Central Florida contingent. […] At 20 pounds, Jimmy Kibble is a lovable, beautiful pomsky — a cross between a Pomeranian and a husky. But he has a lot of energy.

2023 January 27, Patrick Connolly, “Meet the Orlando rescue dogs playing in Puppy Bowl XIX”, in Orlando Sentinel:

A mixed breed dog that is a cross between the Pomeranian and Siberian Husky.


Amur tiger

Amid the torrent of bad environmental news in recent years, the story of Amur tigers in Russia offered a flicker of optimism. […] In Russia, the Amur tiger was once found as far as Lake Baikal in central Siberia, some 2,000 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, and in China and North Korea.

2009 November 23, Michael Schwirtz, “Data Show a Decline for Tigers in Russia”, in The New York Times:


rivuline

A killifish of the family Nothobranchiidae (African rivulines) or Aplocheilidae (Asian rivulines).


scrotum frog

Titicaca water frog
Titicaca water frog#English


arrau turtle

In the times of Soini's arrival, the arrau turtle was a real rarity.

2013, Matti Salo, Anders Sirén, Risto Kalliola, Diagnosing Wild Species Harvest: Resource Use and Conservation, page 122:


giant elk

Synonym of Irish elk (†Megaloceros giganteus)


sunwatcher

One who tracks the movement of the Sun, as to keep time.


zebra mouse

Any of the small, striped, mouselike African rodents of genus Lemniscomys.


kusu rat

A small mouselike African rodent of the genus Arvicanthis.


de Brazza's monkey

de Brazza's monkey (plural de Brazza's monkeys)

Named after the Italian naturalist and explorer Jacques Savorgnan de Brazza.

Cercopithecus neglectus, an Old World monkey endemic to the riverine and swamp forests of central Africa.


cackle-fart

He grabbed the last four of yesterday's eggs and a fistful of oats mixed with dried peas, making a mental note to see Fern Thorburn this day for more cackle-farts

2017, Tale Monger, Blood Line - Secrets:


Nemo

Audio (US)

The "clownfish" meaning comes from the film Finding Nemo, where Nemo is a clownfish.

A diminutive of the male given name Geronimo


southern tigrina

southern tigrina (plural southern tigrinas)


downy woodpecker

downy woodpecker (plural downy woodpeckers)

A small woodpecker native to North America, Dryobates pubescens


bear otter

Searching for hard-shelled prey – molluscs, crabs and the like – there are two species of bear otter in Kanapoi.

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

An extinct genus of otters, Enhydriodon, that lived in the late Miocene and early Pleistocene.


Sardinian pika

The Sardinian pika – the last of the larger Mediterranean species of Prolagus – was almost wiped out through competition and predation from invasive species introduced by the Romans, only holding on in isolated communities until becoming extinct perhaps within the last 200 years.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 53:

An extinct species of pika, Prolagus sardus, endemic to Sardinia, Corsica, and neighbouring Mediterranean islands.


St Kilda field mouse

St Kilda field mouse (plural St Kilda field mice)

The St Kilda field mice that live on that isolated Hebridean island, introduced by hitchhiking on Viking longships only about a thousand years ago, are already much heavier than those on the mainland.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 54:

A subspecies of wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus hirtensis, endemic to the Hebridean island of St Kilda.


SANU

There are SANU equivalents for almost every group of hoofed mammal from the rest of the world […].

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 63:

Radinsky (1981) carried out studies on the brain of litopterns in the context of brain evolution in extinct SANUs.

2023, María Teresa Dozo, Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Thomas E. Macrini, Stig Walsh, editors, Paleoneurology of Amniotes, page 812:

Any of a group of South American native ungulates, extinct ungulate-like mammals sharing uncertain affinities.


Devils Hole pupfish

Devils Hole pupfish (plural Devils Hole pupfish)

In modern North America, too, seemingly uncrossable barriers have been traversed – the Devil's Hole pupfish, found only in a single cave in Nevada, is closely related to species in Death Valley and the Gulf of Mexico.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 66:

A species of pupfish, Cyprinodon diabolis, found only in a single water-filled canyon in Nevada.


lorilet

A small Australian parrot; Coxen's fig parrot, Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeni.


Chinese grosbeak

Chinese grosbeak (plural Chinese grosbeaks)


black-backed grosbeak

black-backed grosbeak (plural black-backed grosbeaks)

A small bird native to South America, Pheucticus aureoventris


yellow-billed grosbeak

yellow-billed grosbeak (plural yellow-billed grosbeaks)


black-tailed hawfinch

black-tailed hawfinch (plural black-tailed hawfinches)


black-and-yellow grosbeak

black-and-yellow grosbeak (plural black-and-yellow grosbeaks)


black-tailed flycatcher

black-tailed flycatcher (plural black-tailed flycatchers)

A South-American flycatcher, Myiobius atricaudus


olive-sided flycatcher

olive-sided flycatcher (plural olive-sided flycatchers)

a small to medium sized passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, Contopus cooperi


smoke-colored pewee

smoke-colored pewee (plural smoke-colored pewees)

a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae Contopus fumigatus


eastern wood pewee

eastern wood pewee (plural eastern wood pewees)

a small tyrant flycatcher from North America, Contopus virens


ashy woodpecker

ashy woodpecker (plural ashy woodpeckers)

Any of species Mulleripicus fulvus, a woodpecker native to Indonesia


red-necked woodpecker

red-necked woodpecker (plural red-necked woodpeckers)

A woodpecker native to South America, Campephilus rubricollis


odontopterygian

Bone of a presumed Odontopterygian bird from the Miocene of New Zealand.

1972, RJ Scarlett, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, article title:

Riding on the edge of the wind on long, narrow wings are the masters of the ocean sky, small, tube-nosed albatrosses and petrels, and the huge, false-toothed odontopterygians.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 84:

An extinct pelican-like pelagornithid seabird of the suborder Odontopterygia.


gondwanathere

The gondwanathere, along with oppossums, monitos and birds, is after the Nothofagus nuts that have not yet been eaten, a crop of little pursed cups containing seven or eight seeds still littering the ground.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 91:


eye-ringed flatbill

eye-ringed flatbill (plural eye-ringed flatbills)

Rhynchocyclus brevirostris
Rhynchocyclus brevirostris#Translingual

A bird native to Central America, of species Rhynchocyclus brevirostris


white-crested spadebill

white-crested spadebill (plural white-crested spadebills)

A bird native to South America, Platyrinchus platyrhynchos


yellow-throated spadebill

yellow-throated spadebill (plural yellow-throated spadebills)

A bird native to South America, Platyrinchus flavigularis


golden-crowned spadebill

golden-crowned spadebill (plural golden-crowned spadebills)

A bird native to The Americas, Platyrinchus coronatus


grey-hooded attila

grey-hooded attila (plural grey-hooded attilas)


bright-rumped attila

bright-rumped attila (plural bright-rumped attilas)

A bird native to the Americas, Attila spadiceus


ochraceous attila

ochraceous attila (plural ochraceous attilas)

A bird native to South America, Attila torridus


cinnamon attila

cinnamon attila (plural cinnamon attilas)

A bird of species Attila cinnamomeus, native to South America


white-eyed attila

white-eyed attila (plural white-eyed attilas)

A bird native to South America, Attila bolivianus


golden-naped finch

golden-naped finch (plural golden-naped finches)

A bird native to Asia, Pyrrhoplectes epauletta


black-billed flycatcher

black-billed flycatcher (plural black-billed flycatchers)

A bird native to the Americas, Aphanotriccus audax


sorshe ilish

Borrowed from Bengali সরষে ইলিশ (śorśe iliś, literally “mustard hilsa”).

bor+

a Bengali dish made from hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha), a type of herring, cooked in mustard gravy.


coffee snake

A Central American colubrid snake of the genus Ninia.


stag moose

Cervalces scotti, an extinct species of large deer that lived in North America.


hepatic tanager

en-noun

hepatic tanager (plural hepatic tanagers)

A bird native to the Americas, Piranga flava


southern masked weaver

southern masked weaver (plural southern masked weavers)

A bird native to Africa, Ploceus velatus


Virginia rail

Rallus limicola
Rallus limicola#Translingual

a small waterbird in the family Rallidae, Rallus limicola


masked crimson tanager

masked crimson tanager (plural masked crimson tanagers)

A bird native to South America, Ramphocelus nigrogularis


pajama cardinalfish

pajama cardinalfish (plural pajama cardinalfishes)

A small marine fish (up to 8.5 cm) of the Indo-Pacific, Sphaeramia nematoptera, usually found near coral reefs, popular as an aquarium fish.


Australasian robin

Australasian robin (plural Australasian robins)

Any of numerous robinlike passerine birds of the family Petroicidae, endemic to Australasia.


eastern yellow robin

eastern yellow robin (plural eastern yellow robins)

A species of Australasian robin, Eopsaltria australis, endemic to eastern Australia, having a bright yellow breast and underparts.


yellow bob

eastern yellow robin
eastern yellow robin

(Australia, colloquial) The eastern yellow robin.


yellow-billed tit-tyrant

yellow-billed tit-tyrant (plural yellow-billed tit-tyrants)

A bird native to South America, Anairetes flavirostris


water anole

Most anoles live in trees, but the water anole lives along the banks of streams[…].

2004, Daniel J. Bickel, Glenn M. Shea, Encyclopedia of Discovery: Reptiles and Insects, Fog City Press, page 216:

A type of anole, Anolis aquaticus; a dactyloid lizard native to the western coast of Costa Rica.


zebra duiker

A small striped antelope, of species Cephalophus zebra, found in parts of Africa.


ground dove

Columbina passerina
Columbina passerina#Translingual

Birds of family Columbidae that feed mainly on the ground.

in subfamily Claravinae (American ground dove)

especially, common ground dove (Columbina passerina).

black-winged ground dove (Metriopelia melanoptera'


ancodont

Any mammal in the infraorder Ancodonta— hippos and their extinct relatives.


bumperfish

bumperfish (countable and uncountable, plural bumperfishes)

A fish, Chloroscombrus, of tropical and temperate continental shelves or estuaries in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.


camas pocket gopher

camas pocket gopher (plural camas pocket gophers)


painted partridge

painted partridge (plural painted partridges)

painted francolin
painted francolin#English


painted francolin

painted francolin (plural painted francolins)

Francolinus pictus
Francolinus pictus#Translingual

Francolinus pictus, a francolin of the grasslands of India and Sri Lanka.


Orinoco crocodile

Orinoco crocodile (plural Orinoco crocodiles)

A South American crocodile of species Crocodylus intermedius.


Welsh terrier

A sturdy, compact kind of terrier from Wales, with tan head, legs and underbelly and a black or sometimes grizzle saddle; females are sometimes a simple darker tan all over.


Brazilian teal

Amazonetta brasiliensis
Amazonetta brasiliensis#Translingual


sand-pride

Any of species Lampetra fluviatilis (syns. Petromyzon branchialis, Ammocaetes branchialis) of lampreys found in the rivers of Britain.


Large White

A domestic pig of a breed originating in Yorkshire.


mosaic-tailed rat

mosaic-tailed rat (plural mosaic-tailed rats)

Any of various rodents of the genus Melomys.


jutjaw

Parascorpis typus, a perciform fish found on the eastern coast of southern Africa.


antbed parrot

(Australia) Any parrot of the genus Psephotus (or Psephotellus) that dig nestholes in termite mounds.


spinifexbird

A species of locustellid grassbird, Poodytes carteri, endemic to spinifex grasslands of outback Australia.


true toad

Any in the family Bufonidae of amphibians.


Jesus bird

So called because they appear to walk on water; walking on water was one of the miracles ascribed to Jesus Christ.


aplomado falcon

aplomado falcon (plural aplomado falcons)

Falco femoralis
Falco femoralis#Translingual

A medium-sized falcon, of species Falco femoralis, of the Americas.


snowtrout

Any of various Himalayan fishes in the genus Schizothorax resembling trout.


spectacled salamander

spectacled salamander (plural spectacled salamanders)

The study also revealed that the gloriously colourful Italian spectacled salamanders diverged from the rest of the salamandrid family while the dinosaurs still lived.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 35:

Either of two species of European salamander of the genus Salamandrina.


sideneck

Today, side-necks are found only in the southern hemisphere, where they inhabit rivers and ponds in Australia, South America and Madagascar.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 29:

side-necked turtle
side-necked turtle#English


fire-bellied newt

fire-bellied newt (plural fire-bellied newts)

Even later, around 29 million years ago, some salamandrids reached Asia, and they in turn gave rise to the fire-bellied newts, paddle-tailed newts, and other Asian types.

Any species of Asian newt of the genus Cynops.


bombinator toad

bombinator toad (plural bombinator toads)

In a separate experiment, Dr Hans Spemann forced the bombinator (firebelly) toad to grow eye lenses on the back of its head - a remarkable feat[.]

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 39:


paddle-tailed newt

paddle-tailed newt (plural paddle-tailed newts)

Any species of Chinese newt of the genus Pachytriton.


obstetric toad

His greatest triumphs involved manipulating the love life of the ‘obstetric toad’ (the common midwife toad).


mud skate

bowmouth guitarfish
bowmouth guitarfish#English


sharp-beaked ground finch

sharp-beaked ground finch (plural sharp-beaked ground finches)


earless dragon

Any of the Australian lizards of the genus Tympanocryptis.


koa finch

An extinct Hawaiian honeycreeper of the genus Rhodacanthis.


fire hawk

(Australia) Any of certain types of bird of prey that spread fires by carrying burning material to new locations.


curlytail

A Caribbean lizard of the family Leiocephalidae.


oyan

For quotations using this term, see Citations:oyan.

(uncommon) The African linsang (Poiana spp.).


king salmon

king salmon (plural king salmons or king salmon)

king salmons (plural)
king salmon (plural)


king mackerel

king mackerel (plural king mackerels or king mackerel)

king mackerels (plural)
king mackerel (plural)

A species of mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)


terminator pig

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

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


pallid bat

The bat Antrozous pallidus, ranging from western Canada to central Mexico.


Krider's hawk

Named after John Krider, the gunsmith from Philadelphia who collected the type specimen.

The red-tailed hawk Buteo jamaicensis kriderii.


shadow snake

A South American snake of the genus Synophis.


bristly mouse

A small, spiny-furred rodent of South America, genus Neacomys


Eurasian dotterel

Eurasian dotterel (plural Eurasian dotterels)

Charadrius morinellus
Charadrius morinellus#Translingual

The common dotterel of Europe, Charadrius morinellus


pearl danio

Danio albolineatus, a tropical fish of the minnow family.


Ovambo sparrowhawk

Ovambo sparrowhawk (plural Ovambo sparrowhawks)

Accipiter ovampensis
Accipiter ovampensis#Translingual

The African bird of prey Accipiter ovampensis.


red owl

Tyto soumagnei
Tyto soumagnei#Translingual


Traill's flycatcher

Traill's flycatcher (plural Traill's flycatchers)

Named after Thomas Stewart Traill, a friend of John James Audubon.

A supposed species of tyrant flycatcher, now regarded as two distinct but closely related species: the alder flycatcher (Empidonax alnorum) and the willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii).


camas rat

camas pocket gopher
camas pocket gopher#English


pygmy blue whale

pygmy blue whale (plural pygmy blue whales)

A small kind of blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda


Aldabra rail

The last remaining flightless bird of the Indian Ocean is the Aldabra rail, Dryolimnas aldabranus. Confined to Aldabra, the rails are surviving well on the islands of Picard, Polymnie and Malabar, which are the best places to see[…]

2008, Lyn Mair, Lynnath Beckley, Seychelles, Bradt Travel Guides, →ISBN, page 37:

The Aldabra rail bird is the only animal to return from extinction without being cloned. I don't mean people thought it was extinct and it was rediscovered. The Aldabra rail bird was completely wiped out but returned from the dead.

(Can we date this quote?), James Egan, 3000 Facts About Animals, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 99:

The Aldabra Rail is a flightless bird found only on the remote coral atoll of Aldabra, 420 km to the north-west of the northern tip of Madagascar. On Madagascar itself lives another rail, called the White-throated Rail,[…]

2013 June 12, Clifford Frith, The Woodhen: A Flightless Island Bird Defying Extinction, CSIRO PUBLISHING, →ISBN, page 28:

Fossils of Aldabra rails have been found that date back 136,000 years, but it is known that the atoll was submerged by rising sea levels during the late Pleistocene (126,000 to 11,000 years ago). This would have wiped out the [population].

2020 October 20, Marianne Taylor, The Story of Life in 10 1/2 Species, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 182:

Dryolimnas aldabranus
Dryolimnas aldabranus

Dryolimnas cuvieri
Dryolimnas cuvieri#Translingual

A flightless bird which inhabits Aldabra in the Indian Ocean (variously considered a distinct species Dryolimnas aldabranus or a subspecies of Dryolimnas cuvieri), noted for having gone extinct about 136,000 years ago and then reevolved 100,000 years ago.


ball python

Python regius, a python native to West and Central Africa that coils into a ball when threatened.


lion-tailed macaque

lion-tailed macaque (plural lion-tailed macaques)


mangrove cuckoo

mangrove cuckoo (plural mangrove cuckoos)

Coccyzus minor
Coccyzus minor#Translingual

Coccyzus minor, a cuckoo native to the neotropics.


Shaw Mayer's astrapia

Shaw Mayer's astrapia (plural Shaw Mayer's astrapias)

Named to commemorate the naturalist and explorer Fred Shaw Mayer.

ribbon-tailed astrapia
ribbon-tailed astrapia#English


Hanoverian rat

The name was introduced by English naturalist Charles Waterton, a devout Catholic, as a slur on Protestant Hanoverians whose British rule began in 1714, shortly before the species first appeared in Britain.

Rattus norvegicus
Rattus norvegicus#Translingual


war elephant

During the Second Punic War, 218-201 BCE, Hannibal trekked 37 war elephants across the Alps from what is now Spain into Italy.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 273:

(military, historical) Any elephant trained and guided by humans for combat.


magnificent bird of paradise

magnificent bird of paradise (plural magnificent birds of paradise)


African long-tailed shrike

African long-tailed shrike (plural African long-tailed shrikes)


magpie-robin

Any of various medium-sized birds of the genus Copsychus, found in Africa and Asia.


magpie shrike

The African bird Urolestes melanoleucus.


sawtail

A sawtail grouper (Mycteroperca prionura)


drum horse

The soul of the Regiment lives in the Drum-Horse who carries the silver kettle-drums. He is nearly always a big piebald Waler. That is a point of honour; and a Regiment will spend anything you please on a piebald.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Rout of the White Hussars”, in Plain Tales from the Hills:

“Alexander,” The Life Guards' drum horse, kindly lent for the occasion, carried the 5th Lancer's silver kettle-drums draped with the 16th Lancer's drum banners.

1963, Cyril Nelson Barclay, History of the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers, 1925-1961, page 194:

As they drew closer, I recognized the horse— it was none other than Clarence, the regimental drum horse of the mounted band of the Life Guards, who on parade bears a vast, heavy silver kettle drum on either side just ahead of the saddle.

2009, Michael Korda, Horse People: Scenes from the Riding Life:

A drum horse called Apollo would not behave, skittering sideways determinedly.

6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian:

(UK) A horse that carries a rider and two silver kettle drums in certain ceremonies of state.

The Queen, whose profound knowledge of the breeding of horses is well known, became interested in breeding drum-horses in recent years and has provided some to the Household Cavalry and has further potential stock at Hampton Court.

1993, William Lloyd, Challengers and Chargers: A History of the Life Guards, 1945–92, page 74:

Inspections for licensing of stallions are the same for both the Drum Horse and Gypsy Cob.

2009, The Official Horse Breeds Standards Guide, page 381:

There are very few of them in the world, and it is very rare to see Drum Horses, whose antecedents are also small in number.

2017, Élise Rousseau, Horses of the World, page 55:

The drum horse is a breed of draft (or draught) horse originally bred in England to carry kettledrum players and their heavy 300-pound drums during processions that included the English royal family's Household Cavalry.

2023, Bernadette Johnson, The Big Book of Horse Trivia for Kids:

A breed of heavy riding horse with thick main and tail and abundant feathers starting at the knees and hocks.


eider goose

And that will mean farewell to the edelweiss, adieu the eider goose.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 297:

Somateria mollissima
Somateria mollissima#Translingual

The common eider (Somateria mollissima).


swift tern

greater crested tern
greater crested tern#English


greater crested tern

greater crested tern (plural greater crested terns)

Thalasseus bergii
Thalasseus bergii#Translingual

Thalasseus bergii, a bird of the tern family.


Patagonian hare

Patagonian hare (plural Patagonian hares)


Patagonian cavy

Patagonian cavy (plural Patagonian cavies)


Patagonian mara

Patagonian mara (plural Patagonian maras)

Dolichotis patagonum
Dolichotis patagonum#Translingual

A large rabbit-like rodent of species Dolichotis patagonum, found mainly in Argentina.


turquoise parrot

turquoise parrot (plural turquoise parrots)

Neophema pulchella
Neophema pulchella#Translingual

Neophema pulchella, a parrot native to eastern Australia.


blue-wattled crow

blue-wattled crow (plural blue-wattled crows)

North Island kokako
North Island kokako#English


North Island kokako

Callaeas wilsoni, an endangered forest bird endemic to the North Island of New Zealand.


crested auklet

Aethia cristatella
Aethia cristatella#Translingual


crested duck

Lophonetta specularioides
Lophonetta specularioides#Translingual

A duck of species Lophonetta specularioides, of South America.


crested caracara

crested caracara (plural crested caracaras)

Caracara plancus
Caracara plancus#Translingual


Audubon's caracara

Audubon's caracara (plural Audubon's caracaras)

Named after the ornithologist John James Audubon.

crested caracara
crested caracara#English

Synonym of crested caracara (“the bird Caracara plancus”)


Bullock's oriole

Bullock's oriole (plural Bullock's orioles)

Named after the English naturalist William Bullock.

Icterus bullockii, a small New World blackbird.


Blanding's turtle

Blanding's turtle (plural Blanding's turtles)

Named after the American naturalist Dr. William Blanding.

A semiaquatic turtle of species Emydoidea blandingii, native to central and eastern parts of Canada and the United States.


Brewer's blackbird

Brewer's blackbird (plural Brewer's blackbirds)

Named after the ornithologist Thomas Mayo Brewer.

Euphagus cyanocephalus, a medium-sized New World blackbird.


Bell's vireo

Named by Audubon after John Graham Bell, who accompanied him on his trip up the Missouri River in the 1840s.

Vireo bellii, a songbird, dull olive-gray above and whitish below, with a faint white eye ring and faint wing bars, that migrates between a breeding range in Western North America and a winter range in Central America.


Chapman's zebra

Chapman's zebra (plural Chapman's zebras)

Named after its describer, James Chapman.

Equus quagga chapmani, a subspecies of the plains zebra.


Hutton's vireo

Calque of translingual Vireo huttoni, named after the US surveyor William Rich Hutton.

Vireo huttoni, a small songbird found from southern British Columbia in Canada to central Guatemala in Central America.


Bewick's wren

Named by John James Audubon after his friend Thomas Bewick, an engraver.

Thryomanes bewickii, a North American wren.


Grant's zebra

Equus quagga boehmi, the smallest subspecies of the plains zebra.


Harlan's hawk

Buteo jamaicensis harlani, a subspecies of the red-tailed hawk.


Burmese python

Python bivittatus, a large python native to Southeast Asia and invasive in Florida.


Cuban crocodile

Cuban crocodile (plural Cuban crocodiles)

A crocodile of species Crocodylus rhombifer, endemic to Cuba.


margate grunt

Haemulon album
Haemulon album#Translingual

white margate (Haemulon album), a food fish of the western Atlantic.


white margate

Cyprinus carpio
Cyprinus carpio#Translingual

margate fish, margate grunt, Margaret fish, Margaret grunt

An edible fish, a grunt of the west Atlantic (Cyprinus carpio).


Hawaiian duck

Anas wyvilliana
Anas wyvilliana#Translingual

Anas wyvilliana, a bird endemic to Hawaii.


demon catshark

That led to a fact-finding mission that eventually revealed a new species of demon catshark. […] The Apristurus genus, the second-most diverse group of sharks that counts about 40 species, is commonly known as the ghost or demon catshark.

2023 May 12, Lauren McCarthy, “‘A Bit Spooky’: The New Shark Species With Bright, White Eyes”, in The New York Times:

Any of the catsharks of the genus Apristurus.


Jew lizard

eastern bearded dragon
eastern bearded dragon#English

Synonym of eastern bearded dragon (“Pogona barbata”)


eastern bearded dragon

eastern bearded dragon (plural eastern bearded dragons)


LeConte's bunting

LeConte's bunting (plural LeConte's buntings)

LeConte's sparrow
LeConte's sparrow#English


LeConte's sparrow

LeConte's sparrow (plural LeConte's sparrows)

Disputed. The name was assigned in 1844 by John James Audubon, who wrote, "I have named this interesting species after my young friend Doctor Le Conte, son of Major Le Conte, so well known among naturalists, and who is, like his father, much attached to the study of natural history." It is generally believed that he meant John Lawrence LeConte (whose father had been an Army surveyor with the rank of major).

Ammospiza leconteii, a small New World sparrow.


fringed sole

Gymnachirus texae, a fish from the United States and Mexico.


Azara's dog

Cerdocyon thous azarae, a subspecies of the crab-eating fox, found in Brazil.


Nairobi grass rat

Nairobi grass rat (plural Nairobi grass rats)


desert whale

Sometimes it is called the desert whale because its winter mating and calving grounds lie along a desolate stretch of Mexico's Pacific shore.

1971 Mar, National Geographic, page 396:


Biscayan right whale

Biscayan right whale (plural Biscayan right whales)

Other early hunters of whales included [...] the Basques, who developed the first organized whale fishery [...] in the Bay of Biscay, and who managed through overfishing virtually to eliminate an entire stock of great whales - those known as the Biscayan right whales.

1971 Dec, National Geographic, page 725:

A species of baleen whale, Eubalaena glacialis, of the north Atlantic Ocean.


great whale

Any of the largest thirteen species of whale currently extant (a polyphyletic grouping, all of which are baleen whales except the sperm whale).


Somali giraffe

reticulated giraffe
reticulated giraffe#English


Ugandan giraffe

Ugandan giraffe (plural Ugandan giraffes)

Rothschild's giraffe
Rothschild's giraffe#English


Baringo giraffe

Baringo giraffe (plural Baringo giraffes)


Saint Lawrence Island shrew

Saint Lawrence Island shrew (plural Saint Lawrence Island shrews)

Sorex jacksoni, a mammal found only on Alaska's St. Lawrence Island.


reticulated giraffe

reticulated giraffe (plural reticulated giraffes)

Giraffa reticulata or Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata, a species or subspecies of giraffe native to the Horn of Africa.


Rothschild's giraffe

Rothschild's giraffe (plural Rothschild's giraffes)

Named after the Tring Museum's founder, Walter Rothschild.

Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi, a subspecies of northern giraffe.


squinney

thirteen-lined ground squirrel
thirteen-lined ground squirrel


striped gopher

thirteen-lined ground squirrel
thirteen-lined ground squirrel#English

Synonym of thirteen-lined ground squirrel


leopard-spermophile

(obsolete) Synonym of thirteen-lined ground squirrel


California newt

California newt (plural California newts)

Taricha torosa, a species of newt, endemic to California, whose skin produces tetrodotoxin.


thirteen-lined ground squirrel

thirteen-lined ground squirrel (plural thirteen-lined ground squirrels)

thirteen-lined ground squirrels (plural)

Ictidomys tridecemlineatus, a ground squirrel that is widely distributed over grasslands and prairies of North America, having 13 alternating brown and whitish longitudinal lines (sometimes partially broken into spots) on its back and sides.


leopard ground squirrel

leopard ground squirrel (plural leopard ground squirrels)


cave swallow

A medium-sized, squarish-tailed swallow (Petrochelidon fulva).


Indian bison

Indian bison (plural Indian bison or Indian bisons)

Indian bison (plural)
Indian bisons (plural)

[…] I am sure that the American bison is the grandest of them all. His only rivals for the kingship are the Indian bison, or gaur (Bos gaurus), of Southern India, and the aurochs, or European bison, both of which really surpass him in height, if not in actual balk also.

1889, William T. Hornaday, The Extermination of the American Bison:


barbtail

Any of the birds in the genera Premnornis, Premnoplex and Roraimia, found in South America.


visorbearer

A hummingbird of the genus Augastes, native to Brazil.


hooded merganser

hooded merganser (plural hooded mergansers)

While scoping out the flyways and byways of our city for nature news this week (within my family I refer to this rather solitary activity as bunny-hunting — they know what I mean) I came across a dozen or so hooded mergansers at Humber Bay Park East.

2014 December 4, Margaret Bream, “Wild in the City: hooded mergansers”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, O.N.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-10-30:

Lophodytes cucullatus
Lophodytes cucullatus#Translingual

A species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus.


barbthroat

Any of the birds in the genus Threnetes, found in Central America and South America.


capuchinbird

A bird of the species Perissocephalus tricolor, native to northeastern South America.


bristlefront

Any of the birds in the genus Merulaxis, found in Brazil.


Kentucky warbler

Kentucky warbler (plural Kentucky warblers)

Geothlypis formosa, a small, mostly ground-dwelling New World warbler with a short tail.


royal flycatcher

royal flycatcher (plural royal flycatchers)


San Blas jay

Cyanocorax sanblasianus, a corvid endemic to Mexico.


rabbit bandicoot

rabbit bandicoot (plural rabbit bandicoots)


goldenthroat

A hummingbird of the genus Polytmus, native to South America.


emutail

A bird of the species Bradypterus seebohmi or Bradypterus brunneus, native to Madagascar.


madanga

A bird of the species Anthus ruficollis, native to island of Buru.


lancebill

A hummingbird of the genus Doryfera, native to South America.


liocichla

A bird of the genus Liocichla, native to China, Southeast Asia and India.


monkeyess

Here’s monkey Wieland, the youth of Old Drury, / Whose acting alone filled the manager’s purse; / His ma wa’n’t a monkeyess, I can assure ye, / But he certainly must have had one for his nurse. / Dear creatures: we can’t do without one, &c.

1828, “The Monkey; or, Dear Creatures, We Can’t Do Without Them”, in The Universal Songster; or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete, Extensive, and Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English Language: […], volume III, London: […] Jones and Co. […], page 98, column 1:

The gown of the small shopkeeper’s wife may have been made by the dressmaker of the duchess, and the former may be the more ladylike woman of the two; but being without the substance that warrants the show, she is a monkeyess.

1854 December, “Monkeyism”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox; […], page 749, column 1:

I say if this theory be correct, and man was originally a monkey and woman a monkeyess, then the job was not such a big thing after all—for any enterprising Yankee could, for a small consideration, have half a dozen generations of mixed varieties running in less than a month manufactured out of our Iowa soil.

1872 January 18, Paddy Miles, “Hygiene and Darwinianism”, in The Weekly Oskaloosa Herald, volume 22, number 19, Oskaloosa, Ia., page [2], column 5:

Darwin’s Monkey.—If Adam’s father was a monkey, / And Eve’s mother a monkeyess; / Then mastiffs firstly sprang from poodles, / A kennel of sprightly yankey doodles; / And that accounts for style and dress.

1873 October 18, J. W. B., “Quaint Home Proverbs”, in Appleton Crescent, volume XXI, number 18, Appleton, Wis., front page, column 8:

Monkeys are the best mimickers, the more civilized and refined imitate them in extracting labial sweetness from the monkeyesses.

1877 November 15, Amicus, “A Leatherwood Melange, Containing Little Sense and Much Nonsense, Wherein Ah Sin Portrays His Beauideal”, in The Pulaski Citizen, volume 19, number 46, Pulaski, Tenn., page [3], column 6:

It is these leaping tree-snakes probably which have given to monkeys their frantic terror at sight of a snake; and if in the anthropoid period any superior monkey and monkeyess had gained a securer place, defended by precipices from quadrupedal beasts, they might still have found one of these Leapers in their simial Eden.

1878 July 20, “African Magnates in London: The King of Bonny and the Liberian Premier Seeing European Civilization”, in The Daily Gazette, volume LXXXVI, number 292, Wilmington, Del., page [3], column 4:

One of the rajahs of India spent 100,000 rupees in the marriage of two monkeys. […] It was twelve days before the monkey and monkeyess were free from their round of gay attentions.

1894 January 3, “Rev. Dr. Talmage; The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday Sermon. Subject: “The Burning of the Dead.””, in Marion Record, volume 4, number 1, Marion, N.C., page [3], column 3:

Three urchins were feeding a monkey and a monkeyess candy.

1894 June 25, “Found the Lost Link. The Schenley Park Reporter Establishes Mr. Darwin’s Theory. Gusy Like a U. S. Senator. Two Female Human Buzzards and a Juvenile Fox. Odious Comparisons at the Zoo.”, in The Pittsburgh Post, page 2, column 5:

Here is what Charles Dana Gibson, the famous artist, thinks of the American girl: “They are, beyond question, the loveliest of all their sex. Evolution has selected the best things for preservation as the man and woman have climbed up from the monkey and the monkeyess.[…]”

1911 April 3, “American Girls the Most Beautiful”, in The Hattiesburg News, volume XV, number 73, Hattiesburg, Miss., page three:

[…] so after dinner, while the big man was otherwise engaged, O’Praty—who owned a pet monkeyess named Lutchmi—decided to pack her off that night to the temple.

1913, H. Hervey, “The Globe-Trotter”, in The European in India, London: Stanley Paul & Co […], page 93:

The face into which the baby monkey looks is such that one may fancy himself peering through the wrong end of a telescope at some feminine human being. The resemblance is still further emphasized by the whiteness of the little face, its smoothness and the pinkness of the cheeks. The secret of those roses? Rouge! Actually feminine rouge! And daintily pencilled eyebrows! And a beauty spot, scintillant below the coquettish feminine eyes! Talk about the eternal feminine! There it is, continued below—or is it above?—species. Does the monkeyess apply all this feminine beautifying? Here is a secret that in courtesy to the wife of the manager is not betrayed. But every one may do some guessing.

1915 January 17, “Monkey Mother Love. Rouged and Pencilled Little Foster-Parent Fondles Affectionate Baby at Society Circus.”, in The Los Angeles Times, part V, page 16, column 5:

Why should we monkey with the interstital^([sic]) glands of any monkey? What have we to do with foolish young monkey? Or with a monkey that may look, and be, Bolshevik? If it happened to be a decent, settled, middle-aged monkey, with about $100,000 in bonds of the Victory issue, we’d be glad to consider it. But with a fresh young monkey without even a cocoanut in the cache, and his fortune to make, all the while embarrassed by losing time in chasing from tree to tree after giggling and tittering young monkeyesses, not for us.

1921 January 8, “Russian Scientist Has New Scheme for Growing Young: By Grafting Interstitial Glands of Monkey Upon Old People, Dr. Voronoff Says That He Can Restore Feelings of Twenty-one Years of Age”, in St. Louis Saturday Night, volume one, number 34, page 5, column 5:

Somebody had left about a copy of a French romance called “Les Aventures de Polydore Marasquin.” It was of things that happened to a man in a kingdom of monkeys. It went very well, with an occasional use of the dictionary, until I discovered that the gentleman was about to engage himself to a very attractive monkeyess. I gave up the book in disgust, but I have since discovered that there have been lately several imitators of these adventures, which I think were written by an author named Léon Gozlan.

1922, Maurice Francis Egan, “My Boyhood Reading”, in Confessions of a Book-Lover, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 13:

[…] man may admit that his grandfathers and grandmothers were mon[keys a]nd monkeyesses if he want^([sic]) to; that is his privilege.

1923 May 17, “ […] Advertiser and Mr. Bryan”, in The Progressive Age, Scottsboro, Ala.: James S. Benson, page [4]:

In a few weeks, Mike sickened and died and not long after Pete followed him on the long trail. Mona plainly showed her sorrow, according to the caretakers; she hasn’t been the same monkeyess since then.

1926 March 27, “Mona’s Mourning Days Are Over; She Cuts Monkey Shines Now”, in Kenosha Evening News, volume XXXII, number 121, Kenosha, Wis., page one, column 6:

Now the white man is a sort of extraordinary white monkey that, by cunning, has learnt lots of semi-magical secrets of the universe, and made himself boss of the show. Imagine a race of big white monkeys got up in fantastic clothes, and able to kill a man by hissing at him ; able to leap through the air in great hops, covering a mile in each leap; able to transmit his thoughts by a moment’s effort of concentration to some great white monkey or monkeyess, a thousand miles away: and you have, from our point of view, something of the picture that the Indian has of us.

1927, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Mozo”, in Mornings in Mexico, London: Martin Secker, page 58:

Want to know what the people in Washington call the Capitol? “The Monkey House!” But it’s all in fun for they get considerable out of that monkey house and they do not care to antagonize the head monkies^([sic]) . . . and monkeyesses.

1933 April 13, G. C. T., “Little Stories About Washington”, in Tri-County Press, volume 77, number 23, Polo, Ill., page two, column 2:

“My dear, dear husband,” the monkeyess cried. “Why don’t you ever take me leaping from tree to tree any more?” Hamish, the monkey husband, gave a tremendous grunt. “What are you doing, dear husband?” “I’m trying to evolve.” The monkeyess made a face. “I bet it was that blonde that got over the line just before evolution stopped — I bet you want to be with her.[…]”

1939 February 14, John Rhodes Sturdy, “Under Our Roof”, in The Gazette, volume CLXVIII, number 38, Montreal, Que., page 3, column 2:

Next to a lamentable story concerning the untimely passing of Able, the Kansas-born monkeyess, who had no trouble with outer space but couldn’t survive the tender ministrations of an anesthetist, was another of doubtful “feeling” in our favorite Kansas newspaper.

1959 June 4, “NewsBeaMs”, in Shawnee News-Star, volume 65, number 41, Shawnee, Okla., page 10:

When they entered the monkeys’ meeting, / They both were given a fine greeting. / The man of virtue looked at them. / The emperor then questioned him / About his court – Now did he find / That it was lovely and refined. / To this the honest man returned, / That they were monkeys he discerned. / ‘Of me and of my wife, let’s hear – / And of my son, whom you see here – / What do you think? Now nothing hide!’ / ‘Here’s how it seems,’ the man replied. / ‘You’re monkey and she’s monkeyess – / Ugly, wicked, hideous. As for your son, all folks can see / He’s just a very small monkey.’ / Then to the comrade who was base / The monkey posed the selfsame case: / The same inquiry word for word.

1987, Marie de France, translated by Harriet Spiegel, Fables, Toronto, Ont., Buffalo, N.Y., London: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 117, lines 27–45:


babooness

The aunt is a skinny old hag, with sharp eyes, a great deal of frizzy grey hair, that looks like a tangled mass of tow on a distaff, a turned-up nose, with large nostrils, and two rows of very perfect grinning teeth, like a monkey’s. Indeed, she principally resembles a middle-aged babooness; she is active, strong, and upright in her figure, about fifty years old.

1854 January, “St. Januarius’ to St. Constantius”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XXXV, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 139:

‘Fred.’ need n’t send us any monkeys: we are afraid of them. A babooness fell in love with us once, at Barnum’s Museum: in fact, she became so much attached to us, that it was as much as we could do to get away from the affectionate ‘creetur!’

1859 March, “Editor’s Table”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume LIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: John A. Gray, […], page 328:

Rev. G[ilbert]. Haven, in the Christian Advocate, reports a visit to the slave quarters connected with the estate, from which we extract the following:— / “[…] I asked the mother, (dam, perhaps I ought to say, madam somebody will some time say,) ‘Who do you belong to?’ ‘Mrs. Lee.’ ‘Are you a member of the church?’ ‘Yes, the Baptist.’ ‘How many children have you?’ (Pardon me for using the word children; she talked and acted so much like a Christian mother, I didn’t like to say ‘young ones.’) ‘Seven.’ ‘Do you expect to be free?’ ‘Yes, sir; in about a year our time is up.’ ‘Do you want to be free?’ ‘Yes, sir, I do.’ ‘What for?’ ‘Because I do.’ Didn’t that reason show the woman as much as the babooness? Not being acquainted with the latter’s method of reasoning, I cannot be sure, but it struck me as a very familiar and conclusive answer.[…]”

1861 August 23, “Gen. Lee’s Negro Quarters”, in Lewiston Daily Evening Journal, volume 1, number 107, Lewiston, Me., page [2], columns 3–4:

[…] these same wild dogs being in the habit of constantly harassing any unlucky baboon or babooness that they found alone, besides having stolen into the village of the baboons at night, when dogs can see better than baboons, and killed and eaten several baboonies who were sleeping with their mothers.

1864, “King Lion”, in S[amuel] O[rchart] Beeton, editor, The Boy’s Own Volume of Fact, Fiction, History, and Adventure, London: S. O. Beeton, […], chapter XXIII (I attend the great assembly—The lions think my rifle a portion of myself—I resign the office of royal archiver, &c.—[…]), pages 476–477:

She is not your wife, she is not even a woman; she was not in her conception divine, she is purely animal; she is the babooness of the land of Nod, she is the female of Cain: slay her!

1873, Alexandre Dumas fils, “Advice to a Son; Love, Marriage, etc.”, in George Vandenhoff, transl., Man-Woman; or, The Temple, the Hearth, the Street, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass., page 106:

Alas for the days when my baboon ancestral / In Japanese woods from the lithe limb was pendant, / Instructing, kind hearted, each babooness vestal / How best to achieve for herself a descendant.

1882 March 3, “The Devil’s Dictionary”, in The Wasp, volume VIII, number 292, San Francisco, Calif., page 134, column 3:

Saturday was always a holiday, and each of us had a barrowful of nuts as pocket-money, so most of the fellows used to spend their time guzzling at the tuck-shop, which was kept by a lame old babooness in a little clump of bushes not far off; and a nice business it must have been to her, for her customers generally stole twice as much as they bought!

1883, Ascott R. Hope [pseudonym; Robert Hope Moncrieff], “The Day after the Holidays”, in Evenings Away from Home: A Modern Miscellany of Entertainment for Young Masters and Misses, London: John Hogg, […], pages 188–189:

Uttering plaintive little cries, the “babooness” trotted back, sniffing the ground as though trying to find the trail of the lost one, and, having arrived opposite the tree which protected the two hunters, she stopped, and seemed to be staring straight at it.

1909, H. W. G. Hyrst [pseudonym; Sidney Harry Wright], “Adventures among the Great Monkeys of the South and South-East”, in Adventures among Wild Beasts: Romantic Incidents & Perils of Travel, Sport, and Exploration throughout the World, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott Company; London: Seeley & Co. Limited, page 110:

According to the jar-us theory of the descent of man which I read not long ago, and which jarred me considerably, Almighty God made the first baboons in the Garden of Eden. Adam was the baboons^([sic]) and Eve was the babooness, and God commanded them not to eat of the fruit of one particular tree—probably a cocoanut tree—but the serpent tempted them and they did eat.

1909 January 2, Ricardo, “Vagaries of Pseudo Scientists”, in The Intermountain Catholic, volume 10, number 12, Salt Lake City, Ut., Denver, Colo., page 5, column 3:

I WUZ out ter de Parker Karnival Kumpany’s layout terday, and say, bo, you orter see all de anymules wot dey got. Lines, tagers, monks, baboonesses; everyting wot dey is in de anymule line is dere.

1912 April 5, “Mike Huff’s Weather”, in The Leavenworth Post, volume VII, number 198, Leavenworth, Kan., page 1, column 4:

No Hags were there to sympathize, / So Eve grew pale and thin— / Until she called, to hear her lies, / The Baboonesses in. / The Baboons—who were only men— / They got it hot and soon; / They sympathized with Adam then— / They did, to a baboon. […] And so to-day, you’ll find it true, / Where pampered wives are found, / They lie about their husbands to / The Baboonesses round. / They leave the broken plates and let / The fowls roost on the shelves, / Till men (they’re only baboons yet) / Fall out amongst themselves. / The human Baboonesses stir / The muck of married life, / And force the poisoned cup on her— / “The poor ill-treated wife”! / Until she takes the case to court, / Assisted to the tune / Of dirty Costs by any sort / Of legalized baboon.

1917 June, Henry Lawson, edited by Colin Roderick, Henry Lawson: Collected Verse, volumes 3 (1910–1922), Angus and Robertson, published 1969, pages 228–229, lines 49–56 and 65–80:

But the uther nite I bloze into the Savoy Theayter to see these heer ejakated munkeys and baboons […] I cooden’t notis no striking rezemblance between Marry the acktoress and Marry the babooness, but it mite of bin becauz I was prejidist.

However, finding a lovely for a male baboon isn’t so easy, and it may be some time before a suitable one can be discovered. Even then, the matter of a dowry will have to be arranged. So, it appears that Tommie, however lonely, will have to spend a few more months in his bachelor quarters before the sunshine of a babooness’ company will come to cheer his solitude.

1938 September 11, Frank Drake, “Tommie, Bachelor Baboon, To Get Mate: Zoo Officials To Brighten Life of Veteran (and Grumpy) Inmate”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LXXI, number 91, Atlanta, Ga., page four A:

Picasso, among his superb illustrations to Buffon’s ‘Natural History’ has just such a baboon that is a marvel of exact observation and of insight. And they treat their females rough. The babooness is kept in her right place, that is to say she lets the poor male show off because she knows that she has something she can trade for what the male has fought for.

1950, Alan Houghton Brodrick, Pillars of Hercules: The Iberian Scene, Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, page 46:

“There was a blue baboon,” I might begin, / “Who opened a swank saloon,” he’d continue, / “In fact, it was a salon,” I’d say, / “Where the elite conversed with élan,” / “About topics essential to man,” / “And the baboonesses ate flan,” / “And gossiped like devious hens,” / “And felt pure and religious and cleansed.”

Run forever and a day the camcorder tape of L.A. cops beating that black thug, who has now sold his life story to a film company, but keep the ferocious antics of those Detroit baboonesses under wraps.

1991 August, “[Inklings] Selective TV News”, in Instauration, volume 16, number 9, page 19, column 2:

Consider the baboon in his cage. Watch how he dons his virility to please his babooness, see how he beats his chest like jungle drums, observe how he struts with head held high like the colonel of a parachute regiment. (He strode round the room, hammering on his chest to be a baboon. With head held high, he looked elegant and innocent, young and carefree.) Then he rattles the bars of his cage, and the melting, captivated babooness realizes that he is a brute, that he is assertive, that he has Character, that she can rely on him.

1995, Albert Cohen, translated by David Coward, Belle du Seigneur, Viking, →ISBN, page 354:

Old lionesses and baboonesses live for only a few years after they stop reproducing, long enough just to ensure that their last-born offspring receive the mothering they need.

2009, David P. Barash, Judith Eve Lipton, “[The Menopause Mystery] Good Grandmothers, Part I”, in How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories: Evolutionary Enigmas, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 159:

When the only thing that gets done is Boucicault or Uncle Tom or their ilk, then it’s slander, and the fact that both plays were so popular, made so much money, makes the case that the appetite for Black baboons and baboonesses is insatiable. […] In one sense, the tragic mulatto heroine is baboon—babooness, if you will—since she has to deny, or at least denigrate, her Blackness in order to be tragic.

2020, Clifford Mason, Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:


common genet

common genet (countable and uncountable, plural common genets)

Genetta genetta
Genetta genetta#Translingual

Genetta genetta, endemic to subtropical Africa, north Africa, south Africa, and parts of the Arabian peninsula; introduced into southwestern Europe.


rein-back

(equestrianism) The two-beat movement in which a horse is asked to back up. The horse picks up and sets down its feet almost in diagonal pairs, and moves straight backwards with the line of the forelegs following those of the hind legs.


Harris's hawk

Named after Edward Harris by John James Audubon.

Provided by Rentokil, specially trained birds of prey - such as Harris's hawks - are flown to deter gulls and other pest birds without causing them harm.

2023 May 31, “Network News: Rail Minister a keynote speaker at Rail Live 2023”, in RAIL, number 984, page 19:

Parabuteo unicinctus
Parabuteo unicinctus#Translingual

Parabuteo unicinctus, a hawk native to North and South America, and used elsewhere in falconry.

Edward Harris (ornithologist)
John James Audubon


piedtail

A hummingbird of the genus Phlogophilus, native to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.


bustard quail

Synonym of buttonquail (Turnix spp. etc.)


cactus mouse

A rodent of species Peromyscus eremicus, native to desert areas of western North America.


cactus deermouse

cactus deermouse (plural cactus deermice)

Synonym of cactus mouse (Peromyscus eremicus)


recurvebill

A bird of the genus Syndactyla, native to Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.


plovercrest

A hummingbird of the genus Stephanoxis, native to Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.


reedhaunter

A bird of the genera Limnornis or Limnoctites, native to South America.


rockrunner

A bird of the species Achaetops pycnopygius, native to Angola and Namibia.


treehunter

Any bird of the genera Thripadectes, Cichlocolaptes or Heliobletus, native to South America.


treerunner

A bird of the genera Margarornis or Pygarrhichas, native to Central and South America.


tachuri

A bird of the genus Polystictus, native to South America.


tuftedcheek

A bird of the genus Pseudocolaptes, native to Central and South America.


canyon wren

Catherpes mexicanus, a small North American songbird of the wren family.


egg-eater

Any of various snakes of the genus Dasypeltis, which feed exclusively on eggs.


common hill myna

common hill myna (plural common hill mynas)

Gracula religiosa
Gracula religiosa#Translingual

Gracula religiosa, a starling native to Asia, commonly used in aviculture

tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ chʼagii yáłtiʼí ntsaaígíí


latrability

From Latin lātrābilis (“barking, able to bark, characterized by barking”) + English -ity (“forming abstract nouns”). Equivalent to latrate + -ability.

der

But now in the ſecond place, Hylobares, let us ſuppoſe that all the Planets or Earths be inhabited with rational Creatures, yet theſe rational Creatures may be as ſpecifically diſtinct as the Earths or Planets the inhabit, but agree all in Rationality; as the ſundry ſpecies of Dogs here on Earth agree in Latrability.

1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The Third Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Joseph Downing […], published 1713, →OCLC, paragraph XXXIV, page 272:

I do not thereby deny either the Being of Witches, nor other properties that they may have, for which thev may be ſo called: no more than if I deny that a Dog hath rugibility (which is only proper to a Lion) doth it follow that I deny the being of a Dog, or that he hath latrability?

1677, John Webster, chapter I, in The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft. […] , London: Printed by J[onas] M[oore] […] , →OCLC, pages 10–11:

[…] and therefore if ſome be born Dum, Deaf, or Blind, they are not to be accounted perfect Men. In like manner Latrability in a Dog, Boability in a Cow, or an Ox, Hinnibility in a Horſe, &c. are all Second Properties immediately following internal Senſation, or rather Senſibility in Beaſts, […]

1702, Gideon Harvey, The vanities of philosophy and physick: […] , 3rd edition, London: Printed for A. Roper […] , →OCLC, page 94:

(rare, obsolete, philosophy) The ability or tendency to bark.


red gurnard

Chelidonichthys cuculus, a ray-finned fish belonging to the family Triglidae.


rice tenrec

Either of the two species in the Malagasy genus Oryzorictes.


squinch owl

“I heard a squinch owl that night.” T.P. said.

1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury:


German Wirehaired Pointer

en-noun

German Wirehaired Pointer (plural German Wirehaired Pointers)

A medium to large-sized griffon-type breed of dog developed in the 19th century in Germany for versatile hunting.


Mearns quail

Mearns quail (plural Mearns quails or Mearns quail)

Mearns quails (plural)
Mearns quail (plural)


common possum

Didelphis virginiana
Didelphis virginiana#Translingual

The Virginia opossum, Didelphis virginiana

Trichosurus vulpecula
Trichosurus vulpecula#Translingual

The common brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula

Pseudocheirus peregrinus
Pseudocheirus peregrinus#Translingual

The common ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus


Indian wolf

Canis lupus pallipes, a subspecies of grey wolf that ranges from Southwest Asia to the Indian subcontinent, intermediate in size between the Himalayan wolf and the Arabian wolf, and lacking the luxuriant winter coat of the former.


ursine howler

A kind of howler monkey, Alouatta arctoidea.


freshwater drum

freshwater drum (plural freshwater drums)

Aplodinotus grunniens, a fish endemic to North and Central America.


swamp harrier

Other than the usual clamour of seabirds, ravens and swamp harriers, the only other birds of note in this area are orange-bellied parrots […] and a few black-faced cormorants that venture up from the tannin-stained waters of Bathurst Harbour.

2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 95:

Circus approximans
Circus approximans#Translingual

(Australia, New Zealand) A large hawk, Circus approximans, of Australia, New Zealand, and several Pacific islands.


Pyrenean desman

Pyrenean desman (plural Pyrenean desmans)

Galemys pyrenaicus, a small semiaquatic mammal related to moles and shrews.


social weaverbird

social weaverbird (plural social weaverbirds)


sociable weaverbird

sociable weaverbird (plural sociable weaverbirds)


northern slimy salamander

northern slimy salamander (plural northern slimy salamanders)

Plethodon glutinosus, a terrestrial salamander of the eastern United States.


Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier

Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier (plural Soft-coated Wheaten Terriers)

A kind of pure-breed terrier originating from Ireland.


spotfin croaker

spotfin croaker (plural spotfin croakers)

Roncador stearnsii, a marine ray-finned fish of the family Sciaenidae.


tiger quoll

A carnivorous marsupial, of species Dasyurus maculatus, native to Australia.


meaow

en-verb

meaow (third-person singular simple present meaows, present participle meaowing, simple past and past participle meaowed)

meaows (present singular third-person)
meaowing (participle present)
meaowed (participle past)
meaowed (past)


mastodonian

en-adj

mastodonian (comparative more mastodonian, superlative most mastodonian)

more mastodonian (comparative)
most mastodonian (superlative)

The British parliament is now considering the proposition of a Liverpool ship-builder to build six "mastodonian steamships," to be used for the transportation of troops to distant possessions.

1859, Executive Documents Printed by Order of The House of Representatives during the Second Session of the Thirty-Fifth Congress, 1858-'59, page 503:

These brutes are huge mastodonian animals that tower to an immense height even beside the giant green men and their giant thoats; […]

1919, Edward Rice Burroughs, The Warlord of Mars, page 115:

Since Mother Eve made history by eating too many apples, all peoples in every time have been prone to mark special occasions with Mastodonian meals.

1937 November 14, Lona Gill, “Let's Stop The Holiday Gorging!”, in Los Angeles Times Magazine, page 6:

Of, related to, or characteristic of a mastodon; large; powerful.


cicadabird

A bird of the species Edolisoma tenuirostre, native to Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.


Dutch rabbit

A compact breed of rabbit with a distinctive coat having separate lighter and darker portions.


valley quail

en-noun

valley quail (usually uncountable, plural valley quails)

California quail
California quail#English

Callipepla californica
Callipepla californica#Translingual

Synonym of California quail (Callipepla californica)


Virginia quail

Virginia quail (usually uncountable, plural Virginia quails)

northern bobwhite
northern bobwhite#English

Colinus virginianus
Colinus virginianus#Translingual

Synonym of northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus)


New World quail

New World quail (usually uncountable, plural New World quails)

Any bird in the New World family Odontophoridae (which also includes the African genus Ptilopachus), resembling but not closely related to the Old World quails (which belong to the family Phasianidae).


elegant quail

elegant quail (usually uncountable, plural elegant quails)

Callipepla douglasii
Callipepla douglasii#Translingual

A New World quail of northwestern Mexico which is related to the California, Gambel's and scaled quails, Callipepla douglasii.


California valley quail

California valley quail (usually uncountable, plural California valley quails)


cuberow

From Amharic ቀበሮ (ḳäbäro, “jackal”). Cognate to caberù from the same source.


manky mallard

Said to have been coined by British birder Charlie Moores.

A mallard bred from wild mallards and domestic ducks, with variable and uneven plumage patterns.

anas unox

mallard of mixed wild and domestic stock


Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (plural Cavalier King Charles Spaniels)

A small breed of spaniel having a flat head, short muzzle, long ears, and long silky coat of various colors.


German Shorthaired Pointer

German Shorthaired Pointer (plural German Shorthaired Pointers)

A breed of gundog of German origin that has a liver or liver and white short coat.


dog breeding

Dogs that compete in dog shows are the result of careful dog breeding.

The practice of mating domestic dogs for profit, typically using selective breeding.


painted hound

Lycaon pictus
Lycaon pictus#Translingual


Graham's tilapia

Graham's tilapia (plural Graham's tilapias)


Caucasian shepherd dog

Caucasian shepherd dog (plural Caucasian shepherd dogs)

However, the director of a circus in the Teltow area told local media he was not aware of any lions being held in circuses or private zoos in the area and said the animal could be a misidentified Caucasian shepherd dog.

2023 July 20, Philip Oltermann, “Lioness believed to be on loose in Berlin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Caucasian shepherd
Caucasian shepherd#English


peacock bass

peacock bass (plural peacock basses or peacock bass)

peacock basses (plural)
peacock bass (plural)

Any of the large freshwater cichlids of the genus Cichla.


mountain parrot

mountain parrot (plural mountain parrots)


mottled owl

Strix virgata, a medium-sized owl of parts of Central and South America, having the head and back mottled brown and the underparts whitish, with vertical bars on the chest and throat.


naked catfish

naked catfish (plural naked catfishes or naked catfish)

naked catfishes (plural)
naked catfish (plural)

Any bagrid (family Bagridae) of African and Asian catfishes.


Torres Strait pigeon

Torres Strait pigeon (plural Torres Strait pigeons)

Torresian imperial pigeon
Torresian imperial pigeon#English


Australian pied imperial pigeon

Australian pied imperial pigeon (plural Australian pied imperial pigeons)

Australian pied imperial pigeons (plural)


Torresian imperial pigeon

Torresian imperial pigeon (plural Torresian imperial pigeons)

Ducula spilorrhoa
Ducula spilorrhoa#Translingual


white nutmeg pigeon

white nutmeg pigeon (plural white nutmeg pigeons)


leopard snake

The non-venomous colubrid snake Zamenis situla.


pencil fever

(horse racing, slang, obsolete) The situation where punters discover that a horse is almost certain to lose, and so become eager to lay bets against it.


X-ray fish

X-ray fish (plural X-ray fishes or X-ray fish)

X-ray fishes (plural)
X-ray fish (plural)


giant coot

Fulica gigantea
Fulica gigantea#Translingual

A large species of coot, Fulica gigantea.


stubble quail

stubble quail (plural stubble quails or stubble quail)

stubble quails (plural)
stubble quail (plural)

Coturnix pectoralis
Coturnix pectoralis#Translingual

Coturnix pectoralis, an Australian bird.


slender-billed curlew

slender-billed curlew (plural slender-billed curlews)

Numenius tenuirostris
Numenius tenuirostris#Translingual

A bird of species Numenius tenuirostris, now probably extinct.


savanna glider

A species of arboreal marsupial, Petaurus ariel, of northern Australia (alternately classified as a subspecies of the sugar glider, Petaurus breviceps ariel).


Gobi argali

Ovis ammon darwini, a subspecies of the argali.


Chinese goose

The domestic goose Anser cygnoides domesticus.


bobtail skink

Tiliqua rugosa, an Australian blue-tongued skink.


kelp goose

Chloephaga hybrida
Chloephaga hybrida#Translingual

A goose (Chloephaga hybrida), native to southern South America.


worm-eating warbler

worm-eating warbler (plural worm-eating warblers)

Helmitheros vermivorum, a small New World warbler that breeds in the Eastern United States and migrates to southern Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America for the winter.


blue-fronted jay

blue-fronted jay (plural blue-fronted jays)


blue-and-yellow macaw

blue-and-yellow macaw (plural blue-and-yellow macaws)

Ara ararauna, a large South American parrot with a mostly blue dorsum, light yellow/orange venter, and gradient hues of green on top of its head.


kaluga

Huso dauricus, a sturgeon of the Amur river basin in northeast China and southeast Russia.


American shad

Alosa sapidissima, an anadromous clupeid fish naturally distributed on the North American coast of the North Atlantic, from Newfoundland to Florida, and as an introduced species on the North Pacific coast.


common chipmunk

common chipmunk (plural common chipmunks)

Siberian chipmunk
Siberian chipmunk#English

Synonym of Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus)


Wilson's warbler

Wilson's warbler (plural Wilson's warblers)

Formally described in 1811 by the ornithologist Alexander Wilson.

The New World warbler Cardellina pusilla.


Siberian chipmunk

Siberian chipmunk (plural Siberian chipmunks)

A chipmunk of species Eutamias sibiricus.


snowy sheathbill

snowy sheathbill (plural snowy sheathbills)

A seabird of species Chionis albus, of the southern hemisphere.


euphractine

Any of the armadillos of the Euphractinae.


jaglion

For instance, the jaguar's optic nerve contains two lion genes, which means a fertile jaglion once existed in the wild.

2022, Jeff Campbell, Glowing Bunnies!?, Lerner Publishing Group, →ISBN:

Maybe he should leave her there until she could hold no and fall to the ground into the jaws of one humongous jaglion.

2021, Tezi Beach, Battle of the Cherubs, Christian Faith Publishing, Incorporated, →ISBN:

Businesses he wants to invest in when Grandma Lorna dies and makes him rich: Jaglion hybrids, ostrich farming to produce eggs with low cholesterol, Nap World where business people can power nap, and rocketry to thrust garbage barges into outer space for quasars and solar flares to fry.

2007, Matthew Limpede, Carve Magazine 2007 Anthology, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 73:

An animal born to a female lion and a male jaguar.


huangana

white-lipped peccary
white-lipped peccary

Tayassu pecari
Tayassu pecari#Translingual

A white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari).


chart caller

The chartcallers' routine goes something like this: When the horses come onto the track, chartcallers jot down equipment information -- which runners are wearing blinkers, bandages on their forelegs, special horse shoes. While this is going on, they memorize and match the color of each jockey's silks to his mount's name. Or, as is the case with Feustle and most newer chartcallers, the number on the saddle cloth.

2003 May 16, John Scheinman, “Chartcallers, Setting the Track Record”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-18:

When Jim Bishop was an Equibase chartcaller himself several seasons back, he would sometimes stray from the pre-programmed database comments and get creative with his past performance charts. For sorry horses such as Regal Bishop, he liked to utilize his favorite selfcoined disparity: Appeared to dislike racing.

2007, T. D. Thornton, Not by a Long Shot: A Season at a Hard Luck Horse Track, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, →ISBN, page 42:

The technology has been sufficiently accurate that Equibase has changed its method of charting races at tracks using the system. Historically, the details of every race have been gathered by a chart-caller who watches the action through binoculars and calls out numbers to a partner. Now Trakus produces the charts, though the data still requires oversight and tweaking by Equibase personnel.

2012 February 8, Andrew Beyer, “New racing technology could offer vast amounts of data to handicappers”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-18:

Another, Jamie Zoeller, was a Pavement superfan. He met Nastanovich at a bar in Chicago in the '90s, and Nastanovich told him about his Derby house. Nastanovich (now a chart caller at Prairie Meadows racetrack in Altoona, Iowa) wrote down the address on a bar napkin, and Zoeller carried it around in his wallet until one day he made it, in 1999.

2021 May 1, Melissa Hoppert, “At This Kentucky Derby Party House, Everyone Is ’Like Family’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-04-28:

(horse racing) A person who is responsible for systemically recording the performance of the racehorses throughout a horse race.


sand asp

a ruin’d well, / Where the shy sand-asps bask and swell

1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Love’s Apparition and Evanishment”, in The Poetical Words of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, page 132:

the Saint began / Upon his flute to breathe his magic tune, / Such as the serpent-charmers use to charm / The sand-asps forth,

1876, Walter Thornbury, “The Legend of St. Vitus”, in Historical and Legendary Ballads and Songs, London: Chatto and Windus, page 44:

For several days they roll around in style, and then the inevitable snafu strikes like a sand asp: it turns out the new Humvees are registered on the books of one of the other 425th teams, and even though the other guys aren’t using them they want them back:

2005, Rob Schultheis, chapter 14, in Waging Peace: A Special Operations Team’s Battle to Rebuild Iraq, New York: Gotham Books, page 167:

Vipera ammodytes
Vipera ammodytes#Translingual

The horned viper or sand viper (Vipera ammodytes).


lark buttonquail

Ortyxelos meiffrenii
Ortyxelos meiffrenii#Translingual

Synonym of quail-plover (Ortyxelos meiffrenii)


quail-plover

Any of species Ortyxelos meiffrenii of small ground-dwelling birds of the buttonquail family, found in parts of Africa.


least sandpiper

least sandpiper (plural least sandpipers)

Calidris minutilla
Calidris minutilla#Translingual


least bittern

Ixobrychus exilis
Ixobrychus exilis#Translingual

Ixobrychus exilis, a small heron found in the Americas.


least tern

Sternula antillarum
Sternula antillarum#Translingual

Sternula antillarum, a small tern that breeds in North America and locally in northern South America.


bat ray

Myliobatis californica, a kind of eagle ray.


clerk of the course

clerk of the course (plural clerks of the course or clerks of courses)

clerks of the course (plural)
clerks of courses (plural)

(horse racing) An official responsible for track management and raceday preparation at a racecourse.


citril

Any of various yellow or green finches of the genera Carduelis or Crithagra; especially Carduelis citrinella (Alpine citril).

Any of various damselflies of the genus Ceriagrion.


swamp partridge

swamp partridge (plural swamp partridges)


swamp francolin

swamp francolin (plural swamp francolins)

Ortygornis gularis, a francolin native to the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India and Nepal.


drakelet

The copulatory organ looks like a pinkish root tip and its presence denotes a drakelet. In the cloaca of a ducklet no such organ can be seen.

1932, The Harper Adams Utility Poultry Journal, volume 17, page 553:


snowy plover

Charadrius nivosus
Charadrius nivosus#Translingual


New Zealand goose

New Zealand goose (plural New Zealand geese)

A large bird of the extinct genus Cnemiornis of the family Anatidae, endemic to New Zealand.


red hind

A marine ray-finned fish, Epinephelus guttatus.


Bennett's wallaby

Bennett's wallaby (plural Bennett's wallabies)

From the name of Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836), English zoologist.

All winter he has been looking for the track, living in caves […] ; for food he has had nothing but Bennett's wallaby, the odd pademelon.

1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 22

A subspecies of red-necked wallaby, Notamacropus rufogriseus rufogriseus, native to Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands.


red-necked wallaby

red-necked wallaby (plural red-necked wallabies)

Notamacropus rufogriseus, a species of wallaby.


angora rabbit

a breed of rabbit, bred for its hair (angora wool)


brush warbler

A Madagascan warbler of the genus Nesillas.


rough-legged hawk

rough-legged hawk (plural rough-legged hawks)

rough-legged buzzard
rough-legged buzzard


blue tang

Any of various surgeonfishes, including Acanthurus coeruleus, Acanthurus leucosternon, and Paracanthurus.


speckled teal

Anas flavirostris
Anas flavirostris#Translingual

Anas flavirostris, a South American teal.


Celebes crested macaque

Celebes crested macaque (plural Celebes crested macaques)

Macaca nigra, an Old World monkey found on Sulawesi and neighbouring islands.


Beardslee trout

Named after Admiral Lester Beardslee (1836–1903).

named-after

Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus f. beardsleei, a kind of rainbow trout that is endemic to Lake Crescent in Washington.


yellow-billed teal

en-noun

yellow-billed teal (plural yellow-billed teals)


Nicobar pigeon

Caloenas nicobarica
Caloenas nicobarica#Translingual

A bird of species Caloenas nicobarica, found on small islands and in coastal regions from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, east through the Indonesian Archipelago, to the Solomons and Palau.


stick-nest rat

Any of the rodents of the genus Leporillus.


thistlefinch

From thistle + finch. Cognate with Dutch distelvink and German Distelfink; compare also the derivation of Latin carduelis. Goldfinch favor thistle seeds for food, and use thistle down as nest material.

European goldfinch
European goldfinch#English

Carduelis carduelis
Carduelis carduelis#Translingual

Synonym of European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)


Eurasian goldfinch

Eurasian goldfinch (plural Eurasian goldfinches)

A small brightly colored Eurasian bird, with yellow wing feathers (Carduelis carduelis).


European anchovy

European anchovy (plural European anchovies)

Engraulis encrasicolus
Engraulis encrasicolus#Translingual

A common food fish found in European waters from the Sea of Azov to the North Sea and in west African waters (Engraulis encrasicolus).


European sprat

Sprattus sprattus
Sprattus sprattus#Translingual

A fish of European waters from the Black Sea to the North Sea and the Baltic sea (Sprattus sprattus).


wrinkled hornbill

wrinkled hornbill (plural wrinkled hornbills)

Rhabdotorrinus corrugatus, a hornbill of Malaysia and Indonesia.


true flycatcher

true flycatcher (plural true flycatchers)

Old World flycatcher
Old World flycatcher


New World flycatcher

New World flycatcher (plural New World flycatchers)

Any of various passerine birds of the American family Tyrannidae.


antelope squirrel

antelope squirrel (plural antelope squirrels)

Any of a group of sciurids of the genus Ammospermophilus, found in the desert and dry scrub areas of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.


Bernedoodle

Bernese mountain dog
Bernese mountain dog

A dog that is a cross between a Bernese mountain dog and a poodle.


bnuuy

Popularised during mid-2020; Know Your Meme tracks the usage of the term to an image posted to Reddit on 29 May 2020.

fucking bnuuy who gave you the right to be as cute as your owner [followed by a photograph of a black bunny]

Selen's bnuuy ears just being her wings lmao
Also Enna with the floppy ears is so cute wtf

Bnuuys are cute, people should hug them more

(Internet slang, childish, humorous, endearing) Deliberate misspelling of bunny.


Baillon's crake

Baillon's crake (plural Baillon's crakes)

Named after French naturalist and collector Louis Antoine François Baillon (1778–1855).

named-after

Porzana pusilla
Porzana pusilla#Translingual

A small rallid, Zapornia pusilla (syn. Porzana pusilla), distributed unevenly throughout Africa, Eurasia, and Australasia.


Illawarra Shorthorn

en-noun

Illawarra Shorthorn (plural Illawarra Shorthorns)

An Australian breed of horned, large-framed dairy cattle of a predominantly red colour, with some whites or roans.


wolf-child

Mr. Neilson also adds that a jemidar told him that when he was a lad he remembered going with others to see a wolf-child which had been netted.

1898 January 20, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Philadelphia, page 121:

A human child that has been raised by wolves from infancy.


scrub jay

Any bird of four species in the genus Aphelocoma of New World jays.


hooded oriole

Icterus cucullatus, a medium-sized New World oriole.


American bully

American bully (plural American bullies)

The Metropolitan police seized 44 American bullies in 2023 up to May, almost three times as many as the next most common breed, Staffordshire bull terrier crossbreeds.

2023 August 16, Jessica Murray, “Perfect pets or dangerous dogs? The sudden, surprising rise of American bully XLs”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A dog of a modern breed developed in the United States in the 1980s, known for its size, strength, and aggression.


goliath grouper

goliath grouper (plural goliath groupers)

Any of the species Epinephelus itajara of grouper


golden lion tamarin

golden lion tamarin (plural golden lion tamarins)

A monkey of species Leontopithecus rosalia.


leaden flycatcher

leaden flycatcher (plural leaden flycatchers)

Myiagra rubecula, a passerine bird in the family Monarchidae.


squatarole

black-bellied plover
black-bellied plover#English

(obsolete) Synonym of black-bellied plover


peanut bunker

They’ll also tell you how important these fish, both in juvenile “peanut bunker” size and full-grown adult size, are to feeding sport fish like striped bass, bluefish and bluefin tuna.

2012, Kevin Blinkoff, “Managers to Make Big Decision on Bunker”, in On The Water:

The place was choking with peanut bunker, and everywhere I looked, birds were diving and stripers were feeding in a surface frenzy.

2020, Dave Pickering, “Early Action: Peanut Bunker Explosion”, in The Fisherman:

In August, only a small percentage of the young-of-year peanut bunker will have left their nurseries for the open ocean.

2022, Billy Mitchell, “The Peanut Bunker Boom”, in On The Water:


paperbark flycatcher

paperbark flycatcher (plural paperbark flycatchers)

A species of monarch flycatcher, Myiagra nana, of northern Australia and southern New Guinea.


monarch flycatcher

monarch flycatcher (plural monarch flycatchers)

Any oscine passerine bird of the family Monarchidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australaasia.


Mission golden-eyed treefrog

Mission golden-eyed treefrog (plural Mission golden-eyed treefrogs)

Amazon milk frog
Amazon milk frog#English


Temminck's cat

Asiatic golden cat
Asiatic golden cat#English


yellow-necked field mouse

yellow-necked field mouse (plural yellow-necked field mice)


little tunny

little tunny (countable and uncountable, plural little tunny)

A small tuna of species Euthynnus alletteratus, native to the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Black Sea.


false albacore

false albacore (countable and uncountable, plural false albacore)

A small species of tuna, a little tunny.


palmate newt

Lissotriton helveticus, a newt found in Western Europe.


dwarf cassowary

dwarf cassowary (plural dwarf cassowaries)

Casuarius bennetti
Casuarius bennetti#Translingual

Casuarius bennetti, the smallest of the three extant species of cassowaries.


northern oriole

northern oriole (plural northern orioles)

Icterus galbula, a species of North American bird from 1973 to 1995, now divided into the eastern Baltimore oriole and the western Bullock's oriole.


harlequin snake

harlequin snake (plural harlequin snakes)

Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead, a venomous viper found in the eastern United States.

Micrurus fulvius, the eastern coral snake, a venomous elapid found in the eastern United States.

Micrurus tener, the Texas coral snake, a venomous elapid found in the southern United States and northern/central Mexico.


greater one-horned rhinoceros

Indian rhinoceros
Indian rhinoceros#English


Krefft's glider

Krefft's glider (plural Krefft's gliders)

Named after German-Australian zoologist and paleontologist Gerard Krefft.

(zoology) Petaurus notatus, a species of arboreal nocturnal gliding possum, a type of small marsupial.


New Mexico whiptail

New Mexico whiptail (plural New Mexico whiptails)

Aspidoscelis neomexicanus, a parthenogenetic female-only species of lizard found in the southwestern United States in New Mexico and Arizona, and in northern Mexico in Chihuahua.


red-fronted tinkerbird

red-fronted tinkerbird (plural red-fronted tinkerbirds)


rufous-chested sparrowhawk

rufous-chested sparrowhawk (plural rufous-chested sparrowhawks)

Any of species species, of southern and eastern Africa.


sawtooth eel

Any of the Serrivomeridae family of eels.


rufous-breasted sparrowhawk

rufous-breasted sparrowhawk (plural rufous-breasted sparrowhawks)

Accipiter rufiventris
Accipiter rufiventris#Translingual

Any of the species Accipiter rufiventris, of southern and eastern Africa.


spectacled porpoise

spectacled porpoise (plural spectacled porpoises)

A species of porpoise, Phocoena dioptrica


trumpet-tailed rat

trumpet-tailed rat (plural trumpet-tailed rats)


white-breasted nuthatch

white-breasted nuthatch (plural white-breasted nuthatches)

A nuthatch found in North America, Sitta carolinensis


short-finned eel

short-finned eel (plural short-finned eels)


centipede-eater

Any of various snakes, of the genus Aparallactus, native to Africa.


reddish egret

Egretta rufescens
Egretta rufescens#Translingual

Egretta rufescens, a medium-sized heron.


fish-eating

Near-synonym: pescetarianism

The practice or habit of eating fish; ichthyophagy.


Italian greyhound

Italian greyhound (plural Italian greyhounds)


Italian sighthound

Italian sighthound (plural Italian sighthounds)

Italian greyhound
Italian greyhound#English


Irish water spaniel

Irish water spaniel (plural Irish water spaniels)

A spaniel of the tallest breed, a sturdy, cobby dog native to Ireland, with a densely curled coat of a liver or puce color.


Nubian ibex

A desert-dwelling ibex (Capra nubiana) found in mountainous areas of northern and northeast Africa, and the Middle East.


purrito

2016, @cats_of_instagram, Cats on Instagram
Did someone order a purrito?

My cat is mad because: I made her into a purrito.

2020, Heloísa Nora, Reasons My Cat is Mad:

Dad bundled Studmuffin into a purrito with the blue towel, but my familiar had stopped purring.

2023, Maddy Savanna, Witchy Business Mysteries: Books 1-5:

(informal, humorous) A cat wrapped in a blanket or towel etc.


sooty-headed bulbul

sooty-headed bulbul (plural sooty-headed bulbuls)

Pycnonotus aurigaster
Pycnonotus aurigaster#Translingual

A bird of species Pycnonotus aurigaster, of the bulbul family Pycnonotidae, of southeastern Asia.


Alexandrine parakeet

Alexandrine parakeet (plural Alexandrine parakeets)

Named after Alexander the Great, who transported numerous birds from Punjab to various European and Mediterranean countries and regions, where they were prized by the royalty, nobility and warlords.

Alexandrine parakeets are among those parrot species that also come in a mutant blue color variety due to the suppression of yellow pigmentation.

2004, The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide, San Francisco, Calif.: Fog City Press, →ISBN, page 298:

She’s a parrot, children, a special kind – an Alexandrine parakeet. Notice her head, it’s bigger than most other parrots, and when she gets feathers she’ll have these pretty red shoulder patches ....

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

In the thirteenth century, Frederick II acquired an umbrella cockatoo from the Sultan of Babylon, and in the fourteenth century, Charles IV of France had an Alexandrine parakeet in his aviary.

2021, Marcy Norton, “Going to the birds: animals as things and beings in early modernity”, in Paula Findlen, editor, Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500–1800 (Early Modern Themes), 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, part I (The ambiguity of things), page 60:

Psittacula eupatria
Psittacula eupatria#Translingual

A medium-sized parrot, Psittacula eupatria, native to South Asia and Southeast Asia.


broad-billed flycatcher

broad-billed flycatcher (plural broad-billed flycatchers)

A species of monarch flycatcher, Myiagra ruficollis, of northern Australia, southern New Guinea, and the Lesser Sundas, having a bill that is much broader than other species of the same genus.


alpine salamander

alpine salamander (plural alpine salamanders)

Salamandra atra, a black salamander found in certain mountainous parts of Europe.


Leadbeater's cockatoo

Leadbeater's cockatoo (plural Leadbeater's cockatoos)

Named after the London naturalist and taxidermist Benjamin Leadbeater, who provided what would become the type specimen.

Major Mitchell's cockatoo
Major Mitchell's cockatoo#English


pink cockatoo

A big pink cockatoo that had sat in a tulip tree and watched the maneuvers of the intruders with a great show of interest, fled squalling from her perch[…]

1922, Charles Billings Stilson, Charles Beahan, The Island God Forgot:


bony bream

Steadman told me that the fish in the photograph is birrngi, a type of bony bream that has now been lost.

2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 75:

(Australia) A freshwater fish, Nematalosa erebi, of mainland Australia; the pyberry.


red-tailed squirrel

red-tailed squirrel (plural red-tailed squirrels)

A species of tree squirrel native to Central and South America, Sciurus granatensis.


fawn antechinus

fawn antechinus (plural fawn antechinuses)

A species of dasyurid marsupial, Antechinus bellus, of the Northern Territory, Australia.


pouched mouse

A species of rodent, Saccostomus campestris, family Nesomyidae, of southern Africa.


brush-tailed phascogale

brush-tailed phascogale (plural brush-tailed phascogales)

A species of arboreal carnivorous dasyurid marsupial, Phascogale tapoatafa, endemic to Australia.


European green woodpecker

European green woodpecker (plural European green woodpeckers)

Picus viridis
Picus viridis#Translingual

A large, green woodpecker resident in much of Europe, Picus viridis.


strawberry roan

strawberry roan (plural strawberry roans)