whitetip

Triaenodon obesus
Triaenodon obesus#Translingual

Any of various animals having a white tip or tips on the body.

The whitetip reef shark, Triaenodon obesus.


barracudina

Any of the elongated ray-finned fish of the order Paralepididae.


oceanic whitetip shark

en-noun

oceanic whitetip shark (plural oceanic whitetip sharks)

Carcharhinus longimanus
Carcharhinus longimanus#Translingual

a large pelagic shark, taxonomic name Carcharhinus longimanus, characterized by the white tips on the fin, often prone to attack humans.


whitetip reef shark

whitetip reef shark (plural whitetip reef sharks)

A small species of requiem shark, Triaenodon obesus.


thistlewarp

An asse overwhelmed a thisselwarps nest; the little bird pecked his gaul'd back in revenge […].

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 7:


harlequin duck

Histrionicus histrionicus
Histrionicus histrionicus#Translingual

A North American wild duck, Histrionicus histrionicus.


vontsira

From Malagasy vontsira (“several similar mongoose-like animals”), from Swahili nguchiro.

uder

A member of either of two species of small, brown, mongoose-like mammals Salanoia concolor and Salanoia durrelli, from Madagascar.


snipefish

en-noun

snipefish (plural snipefishes or snipefish)

Either of the two species of fish of the genus Macroramphosus.


snaggletooth

snaggletooth (plural snaggleteeth or snaggletooths)

snaggleteeth (plural)
snaggletooths (plural)

(plural: snaggletooths) A predatory fish of the genus Astronesthes, so-called because of its teeth.


stinkpot

Macronectes giganteus
Macronectes giganteus#Translingual

A southern giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus).


star-nosed mole

star-nosed mole (plural star-nosed moles)

A mole of species Condylura cristata, identified by the 22 sensory appendages around the snout.

naadoobooʼíinii bíchį́į́h sǫʼ nahalinígíí


thornbill

Any of the passerine birds of the genus Acanthiza, native to Australia.

Any of the hummingbirds of the genera Chalcostigma and Ramphomicron, native to the Americas.


silurus

(zoology) Any fish of the genus Silurus; a sheatfish.


prowfish

prowfish (plural prowfishes or prowfish)

Subtropical perciform saltwater fish found in the North Pacific; Zaprora silenus.


chum salmon

From Chinook Jargon tzum (“spotted, marked”) (from Chinook) + English salmon.

Oncorhynchus keta
Oncorhynchus keta#Translingual


Barbary macaque

Barbary macaque (plural Barbary macaques)

Macaca sylvanus
Macaca sylvanus#Translingual

Macaca sylvanus, an Old World monkey found in Gibraltar and the Atlas Mountains in Algeria and Morocco.


allice

Both species of this fish resemble an overgrown herring: of these the allice is the largest, being often met with of as much as two feet in length[…]

1843, William Hughes, Fish, how to choose and how to dress, page 105:


pumpkinseed

From pumpkin + seed. The fish is so named for its small body that is shaped much like a pumpkin seed.

A North American sunfish; Lepomis gibbosus.


birdling

Clasped, love, close to thy heart, thy birdling Foldeth her wings in peace-- Trusts, love! feeling nor cold nor shadow, Finding at last her ease, From fear a safe release, Heart's love, with thee."

1872, John Hay et al., Not Pretty, But Precious:

Nay, fear not, birdling! let me gently Uplift and hold thee in my hand; Thou gazest on me so intently, Thou must my motive understand.

A little bird; birdie; a nestling (young bird, baby bird).

birdeto

small bird; birdie; nestling (young bird, baby bird)


eleutherodactyline

Scientists at Penn State have penciled in the branches of the evolutionary tree of a major group of frogs, the eleutherodactylines, in the process making a surprising discovery: the species dispersed from South America to Central America and the Caribbean over water, not land.

2007 June 12, Henry Fountain, “Warming in the Arctic? Blame the Snow. The Dirty Snow, That Is.”, in New York Times:

(zoology) Any of the frogs of the family Eleutherodactylidae.


korrigum

Damaliscus korrigum korrigum, an antelope of a subspecies of the topi.


desmostylian

Of or pertaining to the Desmostylia, an extinct order of marine mammals.


sergeant major loach

sergeant major loach (plural sergeant major loaches)

A South Asian freshwater fish, commonly held in aquarium, Botia rostrata.


erd

Sorex vulgaris
Sorex vulgaris#Translingual

(zoology) The common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse or erd shrew.


greater bamboo lemur

greater bamboo lemur (plural greater bamboo lemurs)

Prolemur simus
Prolemur simus#Translingual

a large, greyish brown lemur with white ear tufts, Prolemur simus


finnock

A possible anglicisation of Scottish Gaelic fionnag (“young salmon”). Compare fionnag (“whiting”), a calque of English whiting, from fionn (“white”).

der

Previous to their descent, I caught in all, not far from the tideway, about half-a-dozen finnocks, on two or three different occasions.

1866, Thomas Tod Stoddart, An Angler's Rambles and Angling Songs, page 46:

Have you ever had a day's finnock-fishing? If you have not, and you happen to be a keen disciple of Izaak Walton, take my advice and seize the first opportunity of doing so.

Emigrating smolts were captured by fyke net in 1998 and early 1999. […] The returns to date suggest that the sea survival of stocked fish returning as finnock is consistently lower than that of wild smolts and that the survival of both groups to mature sea trout is almost non-existent at present.

2006, Graeme Harris, Nigel Milner, editors, Sea Trout:

(Scotland) A young sea trout, in the year after they return to fresh water after their smolt migration stage.


musk cat

As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still, / As that which from chaf'd muskats pores doth trill […]

(chiefly obsolete) An animal which secretes musk, such as a civet, or musk deer.


arapaima

/ˌɑːɹəˈpaɪmə/

A large carnivorous predatory South American tropical freshwater fish of species Arapaima gigas.


narrowtooth shark

en-noun

narrowtooth shark (plural narrowtooth sharks)


bronze whaler

Below you, two bronze whalers, tiny with distance, begin to wind their way up to you as if on submarine updraughts, and you register them, in your slow glide to the surface, as hardly bigger than the bubbles in your trail.

1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 51:


copper shark

Carcharhinus brachyurus, a species of requiem shark characterized by its narrow, hook-shaped upper teeth, lack of a prominent ridge between the dorsal fins, and plain bronze coloration.


Nile perch

Nile perch (plural Nile perches or Nile perch)

Nile perches (plural)
Nile perch (plural)

Lates niloticus
Lates niloticus#Translingual

Lates niloticus, a species of freshwater fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes.


rose fish

rose fish (plural rose fishes or rose fish)

From rose + fish, since it is usually bright red when fully grown.

Sebastes norvegicus
Sebastes norvegicus#Translingual

A large marine food fish, of species Sebastes norvegicus, that lives off the North Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America.


bluefin tuna

bluefin tuna (usually uncountable, plural bluefin tunas)

Any member of genus Thunnus of tuna, having blue fins, including:

Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), found in both the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean, and also
in the Mediterranean Sea.

longtail tuna (Thunnus tonggol), found in tropical Indo-West Pacific waters.

Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis), found widely in the northern Pacific Ocean and locally in the south.

southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) of waters of the southern hemisphere.

The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […] But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.

2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:


Atlantic halibut

Atlantic halibut (plural Atlantic halibuts or Atlantic halibut)

Atlantic halibuts (plural)
Atlantic halibut (plural)

Hippoglossus hippoglossus
Hippoglossus hippoglossus#Translingual

Hippoglossus hippoglossus, a species of halibut, a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae.


Cheshire cat

the Cheshire cat (canonical)
Cheshire cats (plural)

/ˌtʃɛʃə ˈkat/

/ˌtʃɛʃɚ ˈkæt/

Term attested since at least the 1780s in the expression grin like a Cheshire cat. The reason why Cheshire was combined with cat is disputed: see here for more information.

CHESHIRE CAT. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing.

1788, Francis Grose, A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue, 2nd corrected and enlarged edition, London:

“Please would you tell me,” said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, “why your cat grins like that?” “It’s a Cheshire-Cat,” said the Duchess, “and that’s why.”

1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:

‘It’s almost as if we’ve gone silly with happiness,’ said Marcus two days later. ‘Everyone in the house going round grinning like a lot of Cheshire Cats! The family I mean.’ ‘And Jess,’ said Kitto quickly. ‘Oh well, Jess is as good as family,’ said Fanny comfortably. Jessamy said nothing, but she looked up quickly and her smile would have rivalled any Cheshire Cat.

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 127:

A fictional cat with a broad fixed grin, made popular by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).


Caspian roach

Rutilus caspicus
Rutilus caspicus#Translingual

a fish found in brackish coastal waters of the northern and northwestern Caspian Sea (Rutilus caspicus, formerly recognized as subspecies of the common roach)


coho salmon

Oncorhynchus kisutch
Oncorhynchus kisutch#Translingual

A species of anadromous fish in the salmon family (Oncorhynchus kisutch)


Danube bleak

Chalcalburnus chalcoides
Chalcalburnus chalcoides#Translingual

Alburnus chalcoides
Alburnus chalcoides#Translingual

A species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family (Chalcalburnus chalcoides, Alburnus chalcoides)


huchen

Hucho hucho, a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae) of order Salmoniformes.


spiny dogfish

Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:

Squalus acanthias
Squalus acanthias#Translingual

Squalus acanthias, one of the best known of the dogfish which are members of the family Squalidae in the order Squaliformes


vobla

The „vobla“ (Leuciscus rutilus Lin.) is one of the most important food fishes of this region. […] This vobla is very fat and is more stoutly built, than the northern roach, but cannot otherwise be distinguished from the same.

1900 September, Einar Lönnberg, “Short notes on Caspian fishes”, in Revue Internationale de Pêche et de Pisciculture, Volume II, Number 2, Russian Imperial Society of Fishculture and Fisheries, page 4

In this connexion, the cost of “vobla,”¹ which to some extent replaces the herring, has soared upwards. […] Dried “vobla,” which is a popular article of food, and was formerly sold at one copeck per fish, now sells at from 5 to 10 copecks for the smaller fish, and 20 copecks for the larger. ¶ […] ¶ The only exceptions to the general rule are white sturgeon, salmon and to some extent “vobla.”
¹ An inferior species of herring.

1918, I. Pelferoff, “Fisheries”, Chapter IX of Arthur Raffalovich (editor), Russia: Its Trade and Commerce, P. S. King & Son, page 221

For most it was bread and vobla, an awful salt-fish, nicknamed “Soviet ham,” whose bones would splinter and damage the intestines. […] But in the spring of 1921, […] the average employee was back to a half pound of bread, one pound of cereal, and two pounds of vobla.

1989, Mary McAuley, “Bread without the Bourgeoisie”, in Diane Koenker et al., editors, Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 167:

The Caspian roach (Rutilus caspicus), formerly considered a subspecies of the common roach.


guck

The hybrid offspring of a goose and a duck


brandling

brandling (countable and uncountable, plural brandlings)

And you also find another kind of worm called a brandling, which is striped and smells like an earwig, and which is very good bait for perch.

1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, part 2, chapter 4:

A small, red earthworm, Eisenia fetida, used for bait in freshwater fishing.


haye

From Dutch haai (“shark”) or West Flemish haaie (formerly haeye), from the Old Norse hái, a short form of hákarl (“shark”) (a compound of há- (“marks fish of the shark kind”) + karl (“a man”)). The German Hai, the Swedish haj and the Danish haj are from the same source.

prefix

They have of Hayens or Tuberons which devour men, especially such as fish for Pearles.

1613, Samuel Purchas, Pilgrimage, page 504:

Other unlucky accidents oft-times happen in these seas, as, when (especially in becalmings) men swim in the bearing ocean, the greedy Hayen, called Tuberon or Shark, armed with a double row of venomous teeth, pursue them, directed by a little rhombus or musculus, variously streaked and coloured with blue and white, that scuds to and fro to bring the shark intelligence.

1665, Sir Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile Begunne Anno 1626, into Afrique and the Greater Asia, page 6:

They do not fling away the Hays in Spain, but sell them.

1694, Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries, book 2, page 139:

The Haye doth not spawn like other fishes, nor lay eggs (as the tortoise does), but casts its young in the manner of quadrupeds. [¶]These fish do no manner of damage on the whole Gold Coast; but as Fida and Ardra, where the slave-trade is managed, they are extraordinarily ravenous, and in my opinion fiercer than the most voracious animal in the world. […]
[¶]When the Haye seizes his Prey, he is obliged to turn himself on his Back, because his mouth is placed far behind and low, wherefore he cannot come at any thing upwards. [¶]When we sometimes take one of these fish and haul him on board with a rope, we are always obliged to keep a distance; for besides his sharp teeth, he strikes with his tail, which is prodigiously strong, and whoever comes near him loses either an arm or a leg, or at least hath it broken to pieces.

1705, an English translation of Letter XV of William Bosman’s 1704 Dutch Nauwkeurige Beschryving vande Guinese Gould- Tand- en Slave-kust (New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea), published in A general collection of the best and most interesting voyages, by John Pinkerton, in 1814; volume 16, pages 451

There are in the Cape sea two sorts of Sharks. The Cape-Europeans call ‛em Hayes.

1731, P. Kolben, translated by Guido Medley, Present State of the Cape of Good Hope, volume 2, page 193:

The Frozen Ocean, likewise, teems with the NARHWAL, the POTT-FISH, from whose brain spermaceti is prepared, the SEA-DOG, DOLPHIN, SEA-HOG, HAY-FISH, sea-cow, the sea-bear, the sealion […]

1799, William Tooke, View of the Russian Empire During the Reign of Catherine II, volume 3, page 105:

Haye, a peculiar ground-shark on the coast of Guinea.

1867, Admiral William Henry Smyth, The Sailor’s Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Haye


severum

The banded cichlid, Heros severus (previously Cichlasoma severum), a freshwater tropical fish of South America.


jurel

The jack, edible fish of the genera Caranx or Trachurus.


New Forest pony

en-noun

New Forest pony (plural New Forest ponies)

A horse of a breed indigenous to the New Forest in Hampshire, England.


toothed whale

(marine biology) A whale of the Odontoceti parvorder of the cetaceans, including sperm whales, beaked whales, dolphins, and others.


brush-tailed penguin

brush-tailed penguin (plural brush-tailed penguins)


Waitaha penguin

Waitaha penguin (plural Waitaha penguins)

Megadyptes waitaha
Megadyptes waitaha#Translingual

†Megadyptes waitaha, an extinct species of New Zealand penguin.


Bengal fox

Vulpes bengalensis
Vulpes bengalensis#Translingual

Vulpes bengalensis, a fox endemic to the Indian subcontinent.


corsac fox

From Russian корса́к (korsák), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *karsak.

Vulpes corsac
Vulpes corsac#Translingual

a medium-sized Asiatic fox, of species Vulpes corsac.


hwamei

From Mandarin 畫眉／画眉 (huàméi, “painted eyebrow”).

Either of two passerine birds of the genus Garrulax, family Leiothrichidae, of mainland China and Taiwan.


Tibetan fox

Vulpes ferrilata
Vulpes ferrilata#Translingual

Vulpes ferrilata, a species of true fox endemic to the high Tibetan Plateau in Nepal, China, and India


large-headed water snake

large-headed water snake (plural large-headed water snakes)

Natrix megalocephala
Natrix megalocephala#Translingual

Natrix megalocephala, a species of snake in the Colubridae family.


dice snake

The black spots on its belly may resemble those on dice.

Natrix tessellata
Natrix tessellata#Translingual

Natrix tessellata, a European non-venomous snake belonging to the family of Colubridae, subfamily Natricinae.


ladder snake

Any of the species Rhinechis scalaris of European snakes in the Colubridae family


savannah monitor

savannah monitor (plural savannah monitors)

Varanus exanthematicus
Varanus exanthematicus#Translingual

Varanus exanthematicus, a species of monitor lizard.


Grévy's zebra

Equus grevyi, the largest species of zebra


dendrobatid

(zoology) Any member of the family Dendrobatidae of poison dart frogs.


chinquapin

Like its cognate / alternative form chinkapin, chinquapin is an alteration of chechinquamin / chincomen (the form found in early records), from an Algonquian language (sometimes said specifically to be from Powhatan). The final element is *mini (“berry, fruit”). Hewitt suggested that the first element was a word meaning "large, great" cognate to xinkw- (“big, large, great”).

A redear sunfish, a freshwater fish of the southeastern US (Lepomis microlophus).


jack mackerel

Any of various edible fish, especially of genus Trachurus, but also genera Caranx, Acanthocybium and Euthynnus.


pikehead

A type of mouthbrooder (fish) of the family Luciocephalidae.


garpike

(especially US) A freshwater fish in the family Lepisosteidae.

(especially UK) A saltwater fish in the family Belonidae.


corn bunting

Emberiza calandra
Emberiza calandra#Translingual

A passerine bird (Emberiza calandra, syn. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra) whose male and female plumages are (untypically for buntings) similar.


spadger

Originally British dialect (1850s), from spadge (fronted variant of northern dialect spag) + -er. The northern dialect term spag is a derhoticised form of Scots spurg (“sparrow”), from spur (from Old Norse spǫrr (“sparrow”), suffixless cognate of Old English spearwa) + diminutive suffix -ock, with loss of vowel and voicing of -k to -g after r.

Genuine cockney ‘spadgers’ have appeared at Bulli. The little hoppers are spreading rapidly all over the colony.

1884 September 24, The Newcastle Morning Herald, Newcastle, NSW, page 3, column 7:

The broadcasting blokes are twittering away like spadgers over there.

1961, Margery Allingham, Three cases for Mr. Campion, page 82:

'If you think spadgers is easy,' the father said, 'go get yourself a jenny wren. Jenny wrens is 'alf the size of spadgers and they never sit still for one second. Get yourself a jenny wren before you start shootin' yer mouth off about 'ow clever you is.'


reed bunting

Emberiza schoeniclus
Emberiza schoeniclus#Translingual

A passerine bird, Emberiza schoeniclus, sparrow-sized but slim and with a long, deeply notched tail.


faulcon

On Felony for ſtealing a Faulcon.
Every perſon that findeth any Falcon ... that is loſt of his Lords,...forthwith he ſhall bring to the Sherif of the County[.]

1648 Edward Coke, The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England


sandre

From French sandre, from German Zander. Doublet of zander.


jacobin

From Jacobin (“Dominican friar”), comparing the dark colors above and white underneath with a Jacobin's black cloak and white habit.


Big Bad Wolf

An evil fictional wolf that appears in fairy tales or fables.


foodfish

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

While the present conservation of Maryland fisheries is largely concerned with the oyster, which promises such great future returns, the foodfishes should not be neglected.

1904, “Report of the Conservation commission of Maryland for 1908-1909”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), number 3:

There was little discussion of tilapia as a foodfish during the 1950s and 1960s, but there was interest in using some tilapia species for weed control.

1996, Robert R. Stickney, Aquaculture in the United States: a historical survey, page 186:

Most of the 30 or so emperors are valuable foodfishes in the Indo-Pacific region.

2003, G. K. Yearsley, P. R. Last, Robert D. Ward, Australian seafood handbook: an identification guide to imported species, →ISBN, page 64:

Reported harvests were in the order of 19 600 tonnes for fishmeal, 1 250 tonnes for processed sharks, 150 tonnes for shells, and 1 300 tonnes for foodfishes.

2006, Cassandra De Young, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Review of the state of world marine capture fisheries management: Indian Ocean, →ISBN, page 216:


mutton bird

He dubbed them mutton-birds, for they came like lambs to the slaughter.

1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 186:

Mutton Bird (Puffinus tenuirostris) Ornithosis
Early in 1953 Dr. D. L. Serventy sent us twelve mutton birds from the Bass Strait Islands for another investigation. One of these birds died shortly after reaching Adelaide.

1959, Monographiae Biologicae, volume 8, page 422:

The oil he sprayed on his customers was derived from the oil glands of mutton birds hunted in the islands of the Bass Strait by the descendants of nineteenth-century sailors and the Tasmanian Aboriginal women they had kidnapped.

1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 17:

Thousands of small birds, Tasmania′s entire population of mutton birds, take flight at the crack of dawn, headed toward Antarctica.

2000, Donna Eden, David Feinstein, Brooks Garten, Caroline Myss, Energy Medicine, page 260:

Puffinus griseus
Puffinus griseus#Translingual

Puffinus tenuirostris
Puffinus tenuirostris#Translingual

(chiefly Australia, New Zealand) Any of various seabirds whose flesh is said to taste like mutton when cooked, especially Puffinus griseus, Puffinus tenuirostris, or a petrel of the genus Pterodroma.


gwarda

At the time he was recovering from another snake bite, a gwarder, and not himself.

1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 152:

A very venomous Australian snake, Pseudonaja nuchalis.


acorn woodpecker

acorn woodpecker (plural acorn woodpeckers)

A species of woodpecker native to the area from the southwestern United States to Colombia, Melanerpes formicivorus.


soricomorph

Any member of the order Soricomorpha of shrew-like mammals.


pitohui

A bird of the genus Pitohui in the family Oriolidae (formerly in Pachycephalidae), endemic to New Guinea, some of which have powerful batrachotoxins in skin and feathers.


viperfish

viperfish (plural viperfishes or viperfish)

Any of the genus Chauliodus of deepwater fishes, fierce predators with long, needle-like teeth and hinged lower jaws, found mainly in tropical and temperate waters.


weaverfish

weaverfish (plural weaverfishes or weaverfish)

weaverfishes (plural)
weaverfish (plural)

A fish in family Trachinidae, with venomous dorsal spines, the weever.


zone-tailed hawk

zone-tailed hawk (plural zone-tailed hawks)

Buteo albonotatus
Buteo albonotatus#Translingual

(Buteo albonotatus), a medium-sized hawk of warm, dry parts of the Americas


white-throated hawk

white-throated hawk (plural white-throated hawks)

Buteo albigula
Buteo albigula#Translingual

Buteo albigula, a species of hawk living in the Andes mountains of South America


white-tailed hawk

white-tailed hawk (plural white-tailed hawks)

Buteo albicaudatus
Buteo albicaudatus#Translingual

Buteo albicaudatus, a species of hawk found in tropical or subtropical environments across the Americas


jackal buzzard

Buteo rufofuscus
Buteo rufofuscus#Translingual

(Buteo rufofuscus), an African bird of prey with three main subspecies


red-backed hawk

red-backed hawk (plural red-backed hawks)

Buteo polyosoma
Buteo polyosoma#Translingual


red-necked buzzard

red-necked buzzard (plural red-necked buzzards)

Buteo auguralis
Buteo auguralis#Translingual

Buteo auguralis, a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family found in Africa


white-rumped hawk

white-rumped hawk (plural white-rumped hawks)

Buteo leucorrhous
Buteo leucorrhous#Translingual

Buteo leucorrhous, a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family found in South America.


Madagascar buzzard

Madagascar buzzard (plural Madagascar buzzards)

Buteo brachypterus
Buteo brachypterus#Translingual

Buteo brachypterus, a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family endemic to Madagascar.

Mágí Bitseeʼ Noodǫ́zí Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ atsáłchííʼ


short-tailed hawk

short-tailed hawk (plural short-tailed hawks)

Buteo brachyurus
Buteo brachyurus#Translingual

(Buteo brachyurus), an American bird of prey in the family Accipitridae


red-shouldered hawk

red-shouldered hawk (plural red-shouldered hawks)

Buteo lineatus
Buteo lineatus#Translingual

A medium-sized hawk native to North America, of species Buteo lineatus.


ferruginous hawk

ferruginous hawk (plural ferruginous hawks)

Buteo regalis
Buteo regalis#Translingual

Buteo regalis, a large bird of prey. It is not a true hawk like sparrowhawks or goshawks, but rather belongs to the broad-tailed buteo hawks, known as "buzzards" in Europe


Hawaiian hawk

Buteo solitarius
Buteo solitarius#Translingual

Buteo solitarius, a raptor of the Buteo genus endemic to Hawaiʻi.

Kéyah Ałkééʼ Naaznilgo Dah Ndaaʼeełídę́ę́ʼ atsáłchííʼ


snake eagle

Any bird of prey in the Circaetinae subfamily, especially the Circaetus genus.


mountain buzzard

mountain buzzard (plural mountain buzzards)

Buteo oreophilus
Buteo oreophilus#Translingual

Buteo oreophilus, a bird of prey endemic to East Africa.


rufous-vented ground-cuckoo

rufous-vented ground-cuckoo (plural rufous-vented ground-cuckoos)

Neomorphus geoffroyi
Neomorphus geoffroyi#Translingual

Neomorphus geoffroyi, a large terrestrial species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family


broad-winged hawk

broad-winged hawk (plural broad-winged hawks)

Buteo platypterus
Buteo platypterus#Translingual

Buteo platypterus, a small hawk of the Buteo genus.


long-legged buzzard

long-legged buzzard (plural long-legged buzzards)

Buteo rufinus
Buteo rufinus#Translingual

Buteo rufinus, a bird of prey in the Buteo genus, resident or breeding from North Africa to central Asia.


freckled duck

The chief stronghold of the freckled duck is the Murray Darling Basin of southeastern Australia.

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

Stictonetta naevosa
Stictonetta naevosa#Translingual

A moderately large, broad-bodied duck, Stictonetta naevosa, native to southern Australia.


elanid kite

Any of several small, long-winged, hovering raptors of the Elaninae subfamily.


roadside hawk

Buteo magnirostris
Buteo magnirostris#Translingual

Buteo magnirostris, a relatively small bird of prey found in Latin America


deductor

From deduct + -or under influence from Latin dēductor.

One who deducts something, particularly one who deducts tax from wages or deducts certain expenditures from payment of tax.


deductor

From Latin dēductor (“guide; founder”). See deduce.

(historical) The formal patron of a Roman colony.


zebrule

A cross between a male zebra and a female horse.


rough-legged buzzard

rough-legged buzzard (plural rough-legged buzzards)

Buteo lagopus
Buteo lagopus#Translingual

Buteo lagopus, a medium-large bird of prey.


rufous-tailed hawk

rufous-tailed hawk (plural rufous-tailed hawks)

Buteo ventralis
Buteo ventralis#Translingual

Buteo ventralis, a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family, found in southern Argentina and Chile


Alexandrine

He is hardly distinguishable from an ordinary cock Alexandrine except for his slightly smaller size and rather less massive head and beak—the latter a distinct improvement.

1950, Edward Boosey, “Breeding Results at the Keston Foreign Bird Farm”, in The Avicultural Magazine, volumes 56–57, page 19:

My own experiences of a liberty Alexandrine were of a very different nature. One Christmas Eve, above the pre-dusk cacophony which will be heard in any collection of parrots, I detected an unfamiliar voice. I soon sighted an Alexandrine flying towards the neighbouring garden.

1980, Rosemary Low, Parrots: Their Care and Breeding, Blandford Press, →ISBN, page 222:

The nominate Alexandrine has green plumage and an immense beak. As with many of the ringnecked variety, color mutations are becoming more available, including lutino (yellow) and blue. The Alexandrine has five distinct subspecies, some slightly larger or smaller than the nominate bird.

2005, Nikki Moustaki, Parrots For Dummies®, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

Alexandrine parakeet
Alexandrine parakeet#English


lacertine

en-adj

lacertine (comparative more lacertine, superlative most lacertine)

more lacertine (comparative)
most lacertine (superlative)


lacertian

/ləˈsəːtɪən/


Hottentot teal

Anas hottentota
Anas hottentota#Translingual

Anas hottentota, a species of dabbling duck.


red-crested pochard

en-noun

red-crested pochard (plural red-crested pochards)


henwife

A woman in charge of domestic fowl; sometimes used contemptuously about men.


stiff-tailed duck

stiff-tailed duck (plural stiff-tailed ducks)


chestnut teal

Anas castanea
Anas castanea#Translingual

Anas castanea, a dabbling duck found in southern Australia.


Cape teal

Anas capensis
Anas capensis#Translingual

Anas capensis, a dabbling duck of open wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa


Mexican duck

Anas diazi, a dabbling duck in the genus Anas which breeds in Mexico and the southern USA.


Labrador duck

Camptorhynchus labradorius
Camptorhynchus labradorius#Translingual

†Camptorhynchus labradorius, an extinct sea duck that was never common, believed to be the first bird to become extinct in North America after 1500.


Laysan duck

Anas laysanensis
Anas laysanensis#Translingual

Anas laysanensis, an endangered dabbling duck endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.


musk duck

Biziura lobata
Biziura lobata#Translingual

Biziura lobata, a highly aquatic, stiff-tailed duck native to southern Australia.


mottled duck

Anas fulvigula
Anas fulvigula#Translingual

A medium-sized dabbling duck, Anas fulvigula.


bucktail

Chris used a spinning rod with a green-and-white bucktail jig while I cast a chartreuse Angel Hair and white-bucktail Clouser minnow with my 8-weight fly rod.

2007 June 23, Norm Zeigler, “The Low-Profile Westport River Offers a High Yield of Fish”, in New York Times:

The tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure.


linesider

These were chunky, feisty linesiders; most were between 20 and 24 inches.


ferruginous duck

ferruginous duck (plural ferruginous ducks)

Aythya nyroca
Aythya nyroca#Translingual

Aythya nyroca, a medium-sized diving duck from Eurasia


northern shoveler

northern shoveler (plural northern shovelers)

Spatula clypeata
Spatula clypeata#Translingual

Anas clypeata
Anas clypeata#Translingual

Spatula clypeata, formerly Anas clypeata, a duck breeding in northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and across most of North America.


bigeye

Any fish in the taxonomic family Priacanthidae, which have large eyes.

There were Port Jackson sharks with a brown back, a whitish belly, and eleven rows of teeth, bigeye sharks with necks marked by a large black spot encircled in white and resembling an eye, and Isabella sharks whose rounded snouts were strewn with dark speckles.

2001, Jules Verne, translated by F. P. Walter, 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas:

The relatively large eyes may enable the bigeye to feed at lower light intensity than other tunas.

1986, Robin Mahon, Report and proceedings of the Expert Consultation on Shared Fishery Resources of the Lesser Antilles Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations:

The percentages of bigeye in the catches were relatively high during the early to mid 1950s, but then levelled off at less than 5 percent of the total catches.

2007, William H. Bayliff, Jacek Majkowski, editors, Methodological Workshop on the Management of Tuna Fishing Capacity:

Any of certain fish or shark species identified by their large eyes, in particular bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus.


chiengora

Blend of French chien (“dog”) and angora.


Baikal teal

Anas formosa, a dabbling duck that breeds within the forest zone of eastern Siberia


greater scaup

Aythya marila
Aythya marila#Translingual

A scaup of the species Aythya marila, a bluebill.

naalʼeełí táłtłʼááh nálnoʼí bidaaʼ dootłʼizhígíí


motmot

Any bird in the taxonomic family Momotidae, endemic to the neotropics.


western diamondback rattlesnake

western diamondback rattlesnake (plural western diamondback rattlesnakes)

western diamondback rattlesnakes (plural)

At the furthest point west, I recalled having seen during a previous visit a western diamondback rattlesnake a bit further to the west, so I continued to the spot hoping to see another.

2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:

Crotalus atrox
Crotalus atrox#Translingual

Crotalus atrox, a venomous pit viper species found in the United States and Mexico


hognose snake

A colubrid snake, from any of three genera, characterized by an upturned snout and notorious for playing dead when threatened.

Heterodon (United States and northern Mexico)


pygarg

From Latin pygargus from Ancient Greek πύγαργος (púgargos), a compound of Ancient Greek πῡγή (pūgḗ, “rump”) + ἀργός (argós, “white”).

(biblical) An unidentified large animal with horns, possibly the addax, mentioned in the Bible (Deuteronomy 14:5) as one of the animals permitted for food.

pikareka

A large unidentified animal mentioned in the Bible.


school shark

Galeorhinus galeus
Galeorhinus galeus#Translingual

Galeorhinus galeus, a hound shark of the family Triakidae, the only member of the genus Galeorhinus.


black-footed cat

black-footed cat (plural black-footed cats)

Felis nigripes
Felis nigripes#Translingual

Felis nigripes, the smallest African cat, endemic in the south west arid zone of the southern African subregion.


bay cat

Pardofelis badia
Pardofelis badia#Translingual

Catopuma badia (syn. Pardofelis badia), a small feline endemic to the island of Borneo.


flat-headed cat

flat-headed cat (plural flat-headed cats)

Prionailurus planiceps
Prionailurus planiceps#Translingual

Prionailurus planiceps, a small wild cat patchily distributed in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra.


unguligrade

/ʌŋˈɡjuːlɪˌɡɹeɪd/

/ʌŋˈɡjuːləˌɡɹeɪd/

From Latin ungula (“claw, hoof”) + -grade (“means of walking]”) (from Latin gradus). Compare French ongulograde.

Dr. [Philip] Sclater submitted a classification of the Ruminating Artio-dactyls to the Section, in which he separated the Antilocapra from the other Unguligrades.

1866 October, “[The British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting at Nottingham, August, 1866.] Biology. (Section D.)”, in James Samuelson, William Crookes, editors, The Quarterly Journal of Science, volume III, London: John Churchill and Sons, New Burlington Street, →OCLC, page 543:

Unguligrades (L. ungula, hoof) have reduced the number of digits present in their limbs. The unguligrade foot makes contact with the ground at the tips of the most distal digits and hooves have replaced claws. Unguligrades include ungulates such as ruminants, horses and pigs.

2010, Seth M. Kisia, “Skeletal System”, in Vertebrates: Structures and Functions (Biological Systems in Vertebrates), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press; Enfield, N.H.: Science Publishers, →ISBN, page 112:

A cheetah is a digitigrade and moves faster than a horse, an unguligrade.

2011, Michael D. Mattesi, “The FORCE Animal”, in Force: Animal Drawing: Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators, Waltham, Mass., Kidlington, Oxford: Focal Press, →ISBN, page 13:

(zoology) An animal that walks on hooves.


guga

It is well known that young gannets or gugas are not only highly edible but their fat has remarkable curative properties.

(Scotland) solan goose or northern gannet


Galápagos hawk

Buteo galapagoensis
Buteo galapagoensis#Translingual

(Buteo galapagoensis), a large hawk endemic to the Galápagos Islands.


white-crowned plover

white-crowned plover (plural white-crowned plovers)

Vanellus albiceps
Vanellus albiceps#Translingual

(Vanellus albiceps), a bird, a medium-sized wader, which despite its name is a lapwing rather than a typical plover.


rosy-lipped batfish

rosy-lipped batfish (plural rosy-lipped batfishes)


red-lipped batfish

red-lipped batfish (plural red-lipped batfish)

A variety of batfish, Ogcocephalus darwini, native to the Galapagos Islands and Peru, which is noted for its bright red lips and inability to swim.


northern flicker

northern flicker (plural northern flickers)

Colaptes auratus
Colaptes auratus#Translingual

Colaptes auratus, a medium-sized member of the woodpecker family, native to most of Central and North America.


western gorilla

western gorilla (plural western gorillas)

Coordinate term: eastern gorilla

Gorilla gorilla
Gorilla gorilla#Translingual

Gorilla gorilla, a great ape and the most populous species of the genus Gorilla.


kitefin shark

Kitefin sharks (Dalatias licha) have been known about since the 18th century, but it was only in January 2020 that scientists saw them glowing in the dark for the first time.

2022 November 9, Helen Scales, The Guardian:

A small sharks of the family Dalatiidae, especially of species Dalatias licha.


coley

Pollachius virens
Pollachius virens#Translingual


myxinid

Any member of the taxonomic class Myxini, the hagfish.


eely

en-adj

eely (comparative eelier, superlative eeliest)

eelier (comparative)
eeliest (superlative)

The great ugly sharky fish was hooked forward by Josh and placed in a great basket, where it lay writhing its eely tail, and flapping its wing-like fins as the boat slowly progressed, and bait after bait was replaced, many being untouched, the thornback, skate, or ray being the only fish taken.

That was a great long eely thing; but Joe Cross here says this was more like a great turtle, with flippers and a long neck, and a head like a snake."

1904, George Manville Fenn, The Ocean Cat's Paw:

Any eely creature that manages to blow itself up from “Pink, lank and warm” to a long wiener doing the hula tends to seize the imagination of us moderns.

Veteran alto saxist Lou Donaldson faces the audience with a raised eyebrow and a toothy grin, and his horn's high-pitched, eely timbre--which still has plenty of the grease that made him a soul-jazz hero in the 60s and 70s--complements his squeaky voice.

2004 August 13, Neil Tesser, “Lou Donaldson Quartet with Dr. Lonnie Smith”, in Chicago Reader:

Resembling an eel: long, thin and slippery.


orf

From Middle English orf, from Old English orf (“cattle, livestock”), from Proto-West Germanic *arbī.
Akin to Old English ierfe (“inheritance, livestock, cattle”). More at erf.


pileated gibbon

en-noun

pileated gibbon (plural pileated gibbons)

Hylobates pileatus
Hylobates pileatus#Translingual

a primate of species Hylobates pileatus, in the Hylobatidae or gibbon family.


black-handed gibbon

black-handed gibbon (plural black-handed gibbons)

Hylobates agilis
Hylobates agilis#Translingual

Hylobates agilis, a primate in the Hylobatidae or gibbon family


agile gibbon

A primate of species Hylobates agilis, in the Hylobatidae or gibbon family.


mummichog

Fundulus heteroclitus
Fundulus heteroclitus#Translingual

Any of species Fundulus heteroclitus, hardy killifishes, found in brackish and coastal waters of the United States and Canada.


tapeti

A small South American cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus brasiliensis).


welcome swallow

welcome swallow (plural welcome swallows)

A small passerine bird, taxonomic name Hirundo neoxena


giant salamander

giant salamander (plural giant salamanders)

Any of the large amphibians in the family Cryptobranchidae.


wall lizard

A small, thin species of lizard found in Europe and North America, Podarcis muralis.


gulper eel

Any of many fish of the order Saccopharyngiformes that resemble eels, and which are sometimes treated as true eels, members of Anguilliformes.

A pelican eel of species Eurypharynx pelecanoides of deep-sea eels.


blue cod

Any member of species Parapercis colias of temperate marine fish of the family Pinguipedidae.


Rin Tin Tin

From the name of a good-luck charm that French children often gave to American soldiers.

A name given to several related fictional German Shepherd dogs, particularly from the 1920s and the 1930s.


hen harrier

Circus cyaneus
Circus cyaneus#Translingual

A bird of prey, Circus cyaneus, which breeds in the northern parts of Eurasia.


Scooby-Doo

Frank Sinatra
Scooby-Doo
Strangers in the Night

Uncertain. scooby doo appears as a vocable scatted in "The Boppenpoof Song" written in 1954, as the name of a band (The Scooby-Doo All-Stars) in 1956 and the title of a song by the Jerry Lieber Beat Band published by Zephyr Records in 1959 (both of which were signed to Zephyr Records). It is likely that such uses were an influence on the creators of the cartoon but they may also have been partially influenced by Frank Sinatra's "doo-be-doo-be-doo" improvisation in "Strangers in the Night" released in 1963 a few months prior to the first episode of Scooby-Doo being shown (also in 1963).

I knew I had to be very careful when I was crafting the story, so that it wouldn't be a Scooby Doo moment—you know, the one where the villain rips off his mask and tells you why he did it—and that he would have gotten away with it, if not for those pesky kids!

2007, Jodi Picoult, "Reader's Companion" (Washington Square Press) to the author's Plain Truth (Simon and Schuster, 2000) p.414

A mile out of town, off the Combe Martin road, discover a real Scooby Doo experience at Chambercombe Manor. It's shrouded in ghost stories and has starred in TV shows about the paranormal.

2008, Simon Heptinstall, Devon (Crimson Publishing) page 137

It was a Scooby-Doo moment: everybody looks down, everybody looks up. Maddy looks surprised. Pat looks guilty. Oh, those meddlesome kids.

2010, J. Wachowski, In Plain View, Carina Press, page 314:

"I love the Scooby-Doo of it all." And it was fun, combing through old books and papers for recognizable names.

2010, Buzzy Jackson, Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist, Simon and Schuster, page 171:

An American cartoon franchise, named for one of the main characters, a large dog, and featuring as protagonists four "meddling" teenagers who unravel seemingly supernatural mysteries.


bear-whelp

From Middle English bere-hwelp, equivalent to bear + whelp.


rough collie

A dog of a long-haired breed originating from Scotland, originally used as sheepdogs.


tiglon

Panthera tigris
Panthera tigris#Translingual

A fertile hybrid cross between a male tiger (Panthera tigris) and a lioness (Panthera leo).


flattie

Flat-coated Retriever
Flat-coated Retriever


gray squirrel

Sciurus griseus, a species of squirrel, found along the western coast of the United States and Canada, the western gray squirrel.

Sciurus carolinensis
Sciurus carolinensis#Translingual

eastern gray squirrel
eastern gray squirrel

Sciurus carolinensis, a species of squirrel, found in the eastern and midwestern United States and Canada, and western Europe, eastern gray squirrel.


irbis

The tiger and the irbis (felis irbis) reach the northern limit of their distribution in the reeds of Balkhash, but occasionally stray northward into the neighbourhood of the Alatau.

1893, John Martin Crawford, U.S. Consul General to Russia, transl., The Industries of Russia, volumes 5: Siberia and the Great Siberian Railway, St Petersburg, Chapter VI. The Kirghiz Steppe Region, page 83 ᴳᴮ:

(uncommon) snow leopard (large feline mammal, Uncia uncia, native to mountain ranges of central Asia)


mustela

From Latin mūstēla and translingual Mustela.

Almost all of the mustelas have a power of secreting and discharging a most fetid and intolerable stench at their will; and many of them do it as a mean of defence: and often so effectually that the very beast that pursues them is compelled to relinquish the chace, so completely is he overpowered by its noisome vapour.

1826, John Mason Good, “Lecture I. On Zoological Systems, and the Distinctive Characters of Animals”, in The Book of Nature, volume II, London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], page 56:

Skull.—The skull of the Felis yaguarundi, in general shape, exhibits a close relationship to that of F. eyra, and, like it, much narrower and elongated than in the Felida concolor or pardalis; calling to mind the mustelas as much as the cats.

1859, S. F. Baird, “Part II. Zoology of the Boundary”, “Mammals”, in William H. Emory, editor, Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Made under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior, volume II, Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, “9. FELIS YAGUARUNDI, Desm. (p. 88)”, page 12:

Among the carnivores researched, the brain of bear seems to be the most highly differentiated as can be confirmed in the comparative anatomical features of the thalamus and hypothalamus (ITÔ, 1952; KOIKEGAMI, 1947), and that of the mustela is regarded as minimally developed, contrary to the opinion of JESERICH (1945).

1962, Acta Medica et Biologica, volume 10, page 193:

Any of the carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela.


greater bilby

Macrotis lagotis
Macrotis lagotis#Translingual

An endangered and the only known extant species of bilby, a rabbit-sized marsupial, Macrotis lagotis, endemic to arid regions of central Australia but previously more widespread.


chiru

Pantholops hodgsonii
Pantholops hodgsonii#Translingual

The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii.


Tibetan antelope

Tibetan antelope (plural Tibetan antelopes)

An endangered species of antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii, endemic to areas of the Tibetan Plateau.


lesser bilby

Macrotis leucura
Macrotis leucura#Translingual

An extinct species of bilby, a rabbit-sized marsupial, Macrotis leucura, previously endemic to arid regions of central Australia.


spotted hyena

Crocuta crocuta
Crocuta crocuta#Translingual

Any of species Crocuta crocuta of the largest of hyenas.


brown hyena

It is now well established that brown hyenas, at least when rearing cubs, deliberately hunt other carnivores (up to the size of cheetahs, on the Kruger Park evidence) and take them to the breeding dens as food for the cubs.

1981, C. K. Brain, The Hunters Or the Hunted?: An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy, page 77:

Because they are scavengers in a semiarid ecosystem where carrion is often limited, brown hyenas naturally occur in small numbers.

1984, Mark Owens, Delia Owens, Cry of the Kalahari, page 324:

The brown hyena has evolved to live in desert systems throughout southern Africa, where it occurs at low densities.

2014, Chris McIntyre, Botswana Safari Guide: Okavango Delta, Chobe, Northern Kalahari, 4th edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 428:

Parahyaena brunnea
Parahyaena brunnea#Translingual

A comparatively rare species of hyena, Parahyaena brunnea, endemic to desert and semi-desert areas and open woodland savannahs of southern Africa.


striped hyena

Hyaena hyaena
Hyaena hyaena#Translingual

The smallest of the true hyenas, Hyaena hyaena.


shark attack

(US military, informal) Shouting and yelling by drill instructors at enlistees on their first day of training.


rogue elephant

A solitary, old, male elephant that has become dangerously and unpredictably violent.


bald erne

From bald + erne (“eagle”). More at erne.


askerd

ASKERD, lizard. "Dry lizard," a land lizard. "Watter askerd," a newt.

1865, William Stott Banks, Wakefield Words, page 4:


cassican

An American bird (Psarocolius decumanus, syn. Cassicus cristatus), allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest.

Cracticus tibicen (syn. Gymnorhina tibicen), Australian magpie.

Cracticus tibicen
Cracticus tibicen#Translingual

Gymnorhina tibicen
Gymnorhina tibicen#Translingual


Australian magpie

Australian magpie (plural Australian magpies)

A magpie-like black-and-white passerine bird of species Gymnorhina tibicen, native to Australia and southern New Guinea, and introduced to New Zealand, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands.


lavy

en-adj

lavy (comparative lavier or more lavy, superlative laviest or most lavy)

lavier (comparative)
more lavy (comparative)
laviest (superlative)
most lavy (superlative)

(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Lavish; liberal.


rocketer

To see a real workman knocking down rocketer after rocketer at a height which would be considered impossible by half the men who go but shooting is to witness an exhibition of skill and correct timing which can only be attained by the most assiduous practice and the quickest of eyes.

1918, J. Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village:

(hunting) A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.


snow skink

Any skink in the taxonomic genus Niveoscincus, endemic to south-eastern Australia (Tasmania and Victoria).


short-tailed parrot

en-noun

short-tailed parrot (plural short-tailed parrots)

Graydidascalus brachyurus
Graydidascalus brachyurus#Translingual

A species of parrot, Graydidascalus brachyurus, native to tropical rain forests of South America.


mowyer

Numenius americanus
Numenius americanus#Translingual

(zoology) The long-billed or sickle-billed curlew (Numenius americanus).


cave bear

The more striking phenomena first and most strongly impress the mind, which contrasts for example, the great Cave-Bears of Europe with the actual Brown Bear, the Megatheriods of South America with the small existing sloths, and the gigantic Glyptodons with the Armadillos.

1851 June 11, The Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, page 1, column 2:

It begs the question: why did the Neanderthals “fail,” since the cave-dwelling hominin, like the cave bear, faltered during the last glaciation, not afterward?

2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 7, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:

A large extinct species of bear, †Ursus spelaeus.


drever

A short-legged scenthound of a Swedish breed.


insular gray fox

insular gray fox (plural insular gray foxes)


island gray fox

island gray fox (plural island gray foxes)


California Channel Island fox

California Channel Island fox (plural California Channel Island foxes)

California Channel Island foxes (plural)


short-tailed fox

short-tailed fox (plural short-tailed foxes)


island fox

Urocyon littoralis
Urocyon littoralis#Translingual

A fox (Urocyon littoralis) endemic to the Channel Islands of California.


goliath frog

A large anuran, Conraua goliath, from Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.


saltwater crocodile

saltwater crocodile (plural saltwater crocodiles)

A very large aquatic carnivorous crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), from Australia and South-East Asia


dragonfish

dragonfish (plural dragonfishes or dragonfish)

dragonfishes (plural)
dragonfish (plural)

long-tailed dragonfish (Pegasus volitans

Other fish thought to resemble dragons or fish of the family Stomiidae:

Short dragonfish (Eurypegasus draconis).

Any fossil fish of genus †Draconichthys.


Nile crocodile

A large fierce carnivorous semi-aquatic African crocodile of species (Crocodylus niloticus).


kronosaurus

A giant extinct plesiosaurian sea reptile with crocodile-like head in the genus Kronosaurus.


albertosaurus

A large carnivorous tyrannosaur dinosaur, of genus Albertosaurus, discovered in Alberta, Canada.


oryzomyine

Any member of the rodent tribe Oryzomyini, including the rice rats.


spinosaurus

From New Latin Spinosaurus, from Latin spīna (“a thorn; a prickle, spine”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

der

A large, extinct, carnivorous dinosaur of genus Spinosaurus, with a long snout like that of a crocodile and with a sail on its back. It is considered to be the largest theropod dinosaur.


leopard frog

Any of several North American frogs, most of which are green with black spots.


tiger snake

Wikispecies tiger snake (canonical)
tiger snakes (plural)

We found boa constrictors or pythons, whip snakes, the handsome but deadly tiger snake, so called from the peculiar marks on its skin[.]

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 94:

Any of several large venomous Australian snakes of the genus Notechis.


tiger salamander

en-noun

tiger salamander (plural tiger salamanders)

Wikispecies tiger salamander (canonical)
tiger salamanders (plural)

A long slender salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum, having black skin and yellow markings.


horned frog

But among all the harmless reptiles of Texas, decidedly the most singular is the horned frog; it resembles the common frog […]

1855, John Wright, William Wright, Recollections of Western Texas, published 1995, page 41:

The horned frog is a native of Texas and Lower California, where he is found inhabiting the sandy soil of the prairies and the pockets of the small boy. / The horned frog is really no frog at all, but a lizard traveling incognito.

1912, J. W. Reading, “Locomotive Engineers Journal”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 47:

I have always had aspecial affinity for horned toads, probably because I went to Texas Christian University, whose mascot is the horned frog

2012, Lonn Taylor, Texas, My Texas: Musings of the Rambling Boy:

(US) Synonym of horned lizard; genus Phrynosoma, especially the Texas horned lizard.


lepospondyl

(zoology) Any member of the Lepospondyli.


longnose gar

Longnose Gar, with jaws twice as long as head, may be 5 feet long.

1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128:

A large freshwater garfish with very long slender snout, Lepisosteus osseus.


browband

Helmet of Buggenum-Montefortino type, from Anatolia, end of the first century AD […] The browband — riveted to the dome on each side — was part of its reinforcing structure, protecting the legionary from direct blows ...

2009, Graham Summer, Raffaele D'Amato, Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier, Frontline Books, →ISBN, page 111:

Of course it was nothing to compare with the authentic crown, with its inlays and chasings of seven different precious metals, its finials of rare gems, its three gleaming diniaba-stones mounted on the browband.

2012, Robert K. Silverberg, Lord Valentine's Castle: Book One of the Majipoor Cycle, Penguin, →ISBN:

A band of metal, part of a (person's) helmet or crown, which covers the brow.


blue shark

The blue shark is long in almost all respects; long snout, long tail, long body, and especially long, curved pectoral fins.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 126:

A long blue shark, resembling a great white shark but smaller, of the species Prionace glauca.


shishamo

Borrowed from Japanese 柳葉魚 (shishamo, literally “willow leaf fish”), ultimately from Ainu スサㇺ (susam).

bor

Spirinchus lanceolatus, a Japanese smelt.


Titicaca frog

Titicaca water frog
Titicaca water frog#English


Sonoran Desert toad

en-noun

Sonoran Desert toad (plural Sonoran Desert toads)

A large olive-green or brown toad, Incilius alvarius, native to parts of the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.


ornate horned toad

ornate horned toad (plural ornate horned toads)

A large carnivorous horned toad of species Ceratophrys ornata, with sharp tooth-like projections in its very large mouth.


crownpiece

A strap in the bridle that goes over the horse's head just behind the animal's ears.


black caiman

A large black carnivorous South American caiman (Melanosuchus niger).


reticulated python

reticulated python (plural reticulated pythons)

Malayapython reticulatus, a species of python found in Southeast Asia, that is the world's longest snake.


green anaconda

A large green carnivorous anaconda, Eunectes murinus, with a very long body and black spots.


fire salamander

fire salamander (plural fire salamanders)

Fire salamanders, which are common on forested hillsides in southern and central Europe, extrude secretions onto their skin containing a neurotoxic alkaloid, Samandarin, when they think they are under attack.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 6:

Salamandra salamandra
Salamandra salamandra#Translingual

A medium-sized black salamander with yellow spots (Salamandra salamandra), native to Europe, related to the tiger salamander.


wolfpack

(historical, nautical, military) During World War II, any of various marauding groups of submarines, especially German submarines that patrolled the North Atlantic and preyed upon merchant ships.


elke

Cygnus cygnus
Cygnus cygnus#Translingual

(obsolete) The European wild, whistling, or common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus).


Mangalica

/mɑŋɡəˈliːtsə/

Borrowed from Hungarian mangalica (“Mangalica”).

A domestic pig of a Hungarian breed developed in the mid-19th century, which grows a thick, curly coat of hair.


mapinguary

Tales of mapinguary encounters are common in Rio Branco.

2007 July 8, Larry Rohter, “A Huge Amazon Monster Is Only a Myth. Or Is It?”, in New York Times:

A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.


eckle

From a variation of ickle (“icicle”), from Middle English ikil, ykle, from Old English ġicel (“ice, icicle”), from Proto-West Germanic *jikil, from Proto-Germanic *jekulaz (“piece of ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“icefloe, icicle”). More at ickle.


eckle

en-verb

eckle (third-person singular simple present eckles, present participle eckling, simple past and past participle eckled)

eckles (present singular third-person)
eckling (participle present)
eckled (participle past)
eckled (past)

(intransitive, Northern England) To aim; intend; design.


Old World flycatcher

en-noun

Old World flycatcher (plural Old World flycatchers)

Any of various small birds of the passerine family Muscicapidae, of Africa and Eurasia; a muscicapid.


Java cat

Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus#Translingual

A viverrid of species Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, musang.


Java sparrow

Still there was a cheerful appearance; a capital fire burnt in the bright grate; there were some stands of thriving plants in the windows; and some canaries and Java sparrows chirped as if they were quite content to be "hereditary bondsmen.

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 133:

Any of species Padda oryzivora of finches, native of Java, but very commonly kept as a cage bird.


doggess

The sound even called back the departing senses of the dying doggess. She drew me to her with her paws, and made an effort to lick me. The action quite melted me.

1856, Pictures of Comical People, with Stories about Them, page 158:


scup

Shortened form of Narragansett mishcùp (“porgy”) or its plural mishcùppaûog. The singular was also borrowed as mishcup, while another shortening of the plural yields the synonym paugie. The word was also borrowed as scuppaug.

1995, “sheepshead”, entry in Percy Russell, Anita Williams, The Nutrition and Health Dictionary, page 391,
A saltwater fish, a cousin of porgies and scups. The sheepshead has large, broad incisor teeth, much like a sheep.

Scup, in the Bay also called porgy, maiden, and fairmaid, are rather plain-looking fish — dull silver with 12 to 15 indistinct vertical stripes, flecked with light blue on their sides.

2006, Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson, Life in the Chesapeake Bay, page 276:

On a lark, he took a small scup, or porgy, and a stamp pad and demonstrated how to make a print.

2007 August 8, Brett Martin, “First a Hook, Then Ink: An Artist’s Catch”, in New York Times:

A common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy.


mojarra

I assumed they were farm fish, but Gorinsky, a friend and local fishing guide who has cast a line for everything from 6-inch mojarra to 300-pound marlin, assured me otherwise.

2007 August 16, Dave Sherwood, “Above the Clouds, It’s Almost Heaven, Costa Rica”, in New York Times:

Any perciform fish in the family Gerreidae, often used as bait.


ponyskin

ponyskin (countable and uncountable, plural ponyskins)

The ponyskin Chrissie (left) is a tribute to — no surprise here — Chrissie Hynde, the outspoken frontwoman of the Pretenders, while the marbleized leather-and-suede Angie presumably riffs on the dissolute glamour of the ultimate groupie and former Mrs. Bowie.

2007 August 26, Angela Gaimari, “Hogan’s New Guitar Handbags”, in New York Times:


spectacled bear

spectacled bear (plural spectacled bears)

Some specimens have spectacle markings on the face.

Tremarctos ornatus
Tremarctos ornatus#Translingual

Tremarctos ornatus, a species of small, short-faced bear native to South America.


squaretail

A perciform fish of the genus Tetragonurus, found in tropical and subtropical oceans.

Salvelinus fontinalis
Salvelinus fontinalis#Translingual

(Maine) The brook trout, a fish of the species Salvelinus fontinalis, found in North America.


brookie

From Afrikaans broekie, diminutive of broek (“pants”), from Dutch broek (“pants”). Cognate with Dutch broekje (“shorts”). Doublet of breeches and britches.

And the few skirts which are past remaking are carefully cut down into small brookies for the young hopeful, who will get the last ounce of wear out of them.

1920, The Homestead - Issues 228-243, page 19:

[…] you cannot do a poopy in your brookie, […]

1973, Elseviers Magazine - Volume 29, Issues 35-43, page 137:

I notice, too, that the child is wearing red brookies [shorts].

2023, Martin Brunt, No One Got Cracked Over the Head for No Reason:


emberizid

Any member of the taxonomic family Emberizidae of passerine birds.


petrale sole

petrale sole (plural petrale soles or petrale sole)

petrale soles (plural)
petrale sole (plural)

Eopsetta jordani, an edible demersal flatfish.


humuhumu

Shortening of Hawaiian humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa, under influence from humuhumu (“triggerfish”).

And so he does: Jules travels the globe to hug, among others, a chimpanzee, a giraffe, a gnu, a panda, a wombat and a humuhumu fish (fun to read aloud, whether you know how to pronounce it or not).

2007 November 11, Bruce Handy, “Escapes”, in New York Times:


cuculid

(zoology) Any of the family Cuculidae of near-passerine birds, the cuckoos.


tenontosaur

Any of the genus †Tenontosaurus of ornithopod dinosaurs.


willet

Onomatopoeic, from the bird's cry ("pill-will-willet").

Tringa semipalmata
Tringa semipalmata#Translingual

Tringa semipalmata (or formerly Catoptrophorus semipalmatus), a large shorebird in the family Scolopacidae.


trumpeter pigeon

trumpeter pigeon (plural trumpeter pigeons)

/ˈtɹʌmpətɚ ˈpɪdʒən/

Columba livia domestica
Columba livia domestica#Translingual

Columba livia
Columba livia#Translingual

Any of a number of breeds of domestic fancy pigeon, Columba livia domestica, descendants of the wild rock pigeon, Columba livia, of the family Columbidae (pigeons and doves) (originally bred for their peculiar gurgling voice, a prolonged coo called "trumpeting" or "drumming").

trommelduif

trumpeter pigeon (Columba livia domestica)


orfe

19th century. Borrowed from German orfe, orf, possibly from French orphe or Old High German orvo, from Latin orphus (“gilt-head bream”), from Ancient Greek ὀρφώς (orphṓs, “sea perch”).
May be related to Old English eorp, earp (“dark, dusky”), Old High German erpf (“brown”), Old Norse jarpr (“brown”), and Ancient Greek ὀρφνός (orphnós, “dark”).

der

Leuciscus idus
Leuciscus idus#Translingual


plethodontid

From scientific Latin Plethodontidae (family name), from Plethodon (genus name), from Ancient Greek πλῆθος (plêthos, “great number”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”).

The family of salamanders known as plethodontids are unusual in many ways.

2007 December 4, Henry Fountain, “Inveterate Wanderer: An Intercontinental Salamander Family”, in New York Times:

In Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri, for example, they are—if you count them by weight—the dominant form of life, with 1400 tonnes of plethodontids lurking in the leaf litter and wetlands of its 600,000 hectares.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 127:

(zoology) Any of the Plethodontidae, a family of lungless salamanders.


whalefall

From whale + fall, possibly modelled after snowfall. Compare also marine snow.

But the ocean floor is not exactly wall-to-wall whalefalls.

2007 December 18, Henry Fountain, “Whales Are Tasty, but Bone-Eating Worms Might Not Discriminate”, in New York Times:

A whale carcass that has fallen to the ocean floor.


guapote

I had caught wild trout in the mountains, small snook in the surf, even a rainbow-colored guapote in a city park pond in the country's capital, San José.

2007 December 25, Dave Sherwood, “Fishing and Floating in Costa Rica”, in New York Times:

Parachromis managuensis, a cichlid fish native to Nicaragua.


doctorfish

en-noun

doctorfish (plural doctorfishes or doctorfish)

doctorfishes (plural)
doctorfish (plural)

Walking at the Brixton market among the parrotfish, doctorfish and butterfish, Effa Edusie is surrounded by pieces of her childhood in Ghana.

2008 January 15, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Europe’s Appetite for Seafood Propels Illegal Trade”, in New York Times:

Either of the fish Garra rufa and Cyprinion macrostomus, which feed on dead skin while leaving the healthy skin intact.


Russian Wolfhound

Russian Wolfhound (plural Russian Wolfhounds)


honey badger

From their badger-like appearance and their liking for honey.
The slang sense was inspired by the 2011 viral video The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger, for which original narration (including variations of "honey badger don't care") was dubbed over preexisting footage of a honey badger fending off various dangerous situations.

Not only is the honey badger fond of hunting and eating venomous snakes and stealing honey from angry bees, it is also disregarding of animals many times its own size. Lions and leopards have been known to kill and eat honey badgers, but on the whole, they will give them a wide berth.

2007, Ross Piper, Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual Animals, page 48:

There are in fact records of Honey badgers being stung to death in their quest for this much-relished source of food. Reptiles are also a major food source. Venomous snakes are neither ignored nor respected by the honey badger.

2008, Lee Gutteridge, The South African Bushveld: A Field Guide from the Waterberg, page 97:

Co-operative relationships between mammals and birds are unusual, but the honey badger enjoys two. Its association with the greater honeyguide is well known. This small bird uses a distinctive song to lure the honey badger to a bee′s nest, whereupon it feasts on the grubs after the badger has ransacked the nest and had its fill of honey.
Less well known is the honey badger′s association with the pale chanting goshawk.

2010, Chris McIntyre, Botswana: Okavango Delta, Chobe, Northern Kalahari, page 201:

Mellivora capensis
Mellivora capensis#Translingual

Mellivora capensis, a badger-like mustelid native to Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.


Swedish Vallhund

Swedish Vallhund (plural Swedish Vallhunds)

From Swedish + Swedish vallhund (“herding dog”), from valla (“herd”) + hund (“dog”).

A dog of a small, powerful breed associated with the Vikings.


hedgie

The average life span of the captive hedgie is 3 to 8 years.

2003, Chris Pinney, The Complete Home Veterinary Guide, page 502:

Still, some hedgies will run for hours at night.

2008, Hugh Warwick, A Prickly Affair: My Life with Hedgehogs, unnumbered page:

Still, the original imported hedgies were enough to establish a stable North American population.

2021 August 12, Noelle Mateer, “Looks That Quill: The Dark Side of Hedgehog Instagram”, in Wired:

Despite the best, or worst, efforts of those overextended hedgies and subprime-sters, it did, but not as high as hems, and it yo-yoed squeamishly along the way.

2009 March 3, Alice Rawsthorn, “Power Play”, in New York Times:

Most hedgies currently lack conviction. Incidentally, that's a good sign, not an ill omen.

2020, Barton Biggs, Diary of a Hedgehog: Biggs' Final Words on the Markets, page 28:

(finance, informal) A hedge fund trader.


alleycat

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

Having dropped just nine games in two matches – two short of Jimmy Connors's 1980 record – [Roger] Federer was reduced to fighting like an alleycat.

2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2016-11-15:

There are also competitions called alleycats, in which bicyclists pick their own routes between a series of checkpoints where monitors stamp their paper manifests.

2008 March 9, Colin Moynihan, “Add Alleycat Races to List of Bike Messengers’ Risks”, in New York Times:


alleycat

en-verb

alleycat (third-person singular simple present alleycats, present participle alleycatting, simple past and past participle alleycatted)

alleycats (present singular third-person)
alleycatting (participle present)
alleycatted (participle past)
alleycatted (past)


stubtail

Any of the three species of passerine birds in the genus Urosphena, native to Asia.


beautiful fruit dove

en-noun

beautiful fruit dove (plural beautiful fruit doves)

Ptilinopus pulchellus
Ptilinopus pulchellus#Translingual

crimson-capped fruit dove
crimson-capped fruit dove

crimson-crowned fruit dove
crimson-crowned fruit dove

A frugivorous dove of the species Ptilinopus pulchellus, also known as the rose-fronted pigeon or crimson-capped fruit dove (leading to easy confusion with the crimson-crowned fruit dove): small, approximately 19 cm (7½ in) long, mainly green fruit dove.

belega fruktokolombo

the fruit dove species Ptilinopus pulchellus


atoll fruit dove

atoll fruit dove (plural atoll fruit doves)

Ptilinopus coralensis
Ptilinopus coralensis#Translingual

A fruit-eating dove (Ptilinopus coralensis) in the family Columbidae, endemic to French Polynesia.

ато́лловый пёстрый го́лубь

the fruit dove species Ptilinopus coralensis


golden fruit dove

golden fruit dove (plural golden fruit doves)

From the males' bright golden-yellow colour.

Ptilinopus luteovirens
Ptilinopus luteovirens#Translingual

Ptilinopus luteovirens, a small, approximately 20 cm (8 in) long, short-tailed fruit dove in the pigeon and dove family Columbidae.

Goldtaube

the fruit dove species Ptilinopus luteovirens


coachwhip

Masticophis flagellum, a colubrid snake of North America.


willow ptarmigan

willow ptarmigan (plural willow ptarmigans)

Lagopus lagopus
Lagopus lagopus#Translingual


grassie

The one thing I didn’t want to do was spook ^([sic]) a grassie by hastily walking down the sidewalk.

2010, Jeff Currier, “Not All Carp Species are Equal”, in JeffCurrier.com, archived from the original on 2014-04-27:

my pattern is a lot less glamorous, which is also why i think the grassie took it

2013 December 30, Josh Cohn, Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders (Usenet):

2023, theloniousbunk, “Picked this grassie out of the canal. 5wt with 9lb leader.”, in Reddit.com, archived from the original on 2023-11-10

(recreational fishing) A grass carp; a white amur.


dwarf rabbit

A small-sized variety of the domestic rabbit.


jairou

(archaic) An Asian gazelle, the chinkara.


zamouse

Ultimately from Arabic جاموس (jāmūs, “buffalo”).

A West African buffalo, Syncerus caffer brachyceros, with short horns and large ears.


zati

Macaca radiata, a macaque native to India and Sri Lanka with a hairstyle similar to a centre parting.


qua-bird

From qua (“the sound of its call”) and bird.

American night heron
American night heron


quillback

Carpiodes cyprinus, a freshwater fish of the sucker family with a long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin, native to the eastern and central United States.


American night heron

American night heron (plural American night herons)

Nyctanassa violacea
Nyctanassa violacea#Translingual

Nyctanassa violacea, a fairly small heron found in the Americas, especially warmer coastal regions.


agouara

Procyon cancrivorus
Procyon cancrivorus#Translingual

(archaic) Procyon cancrivorus, the crab-eating raccoon


yellowfish

yellowfish (plural yellowfishes or yellowfish)

yellowfishes (plural)
yellowfish (plural)

Certain species of the genus Labeobarbus of mid-sized ray-finned fish.


iguanian

Any of the suborder Iguania of iguanas, chameleons, agamids, and "New World lizards".


agamid

Bright male colors are exhibited primarily during sexual and aggressive displays in iguanids, agamids, chamaeleonids, gekkonids, lacertids, and teiids.

1992, William E. Dooper, Neil Greenberg, “Reptilian Coloration and Behavior”, in Carl Gans, David Crews, editors, Hormones, Brain, and Behavior, page 398:

Agamids and chamaeleonids are sister-groups, presumably with the chameleons diverging early from an agamid stock. Agamids and chameleons uniquely share an acrodont dentition on the dentary and posterior maxillary.

1993, George R. Zug, Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles, page 439:

Whereas Chamaeleonidae and Iguanidae now appear to be monophyletic, Agamidae is not (Macey et al. 1997) because chameleons evolved from agamids, though they have traditionally been excluded (a problem easily resolved by recognizing a clade called Acrodonta, which includes both agamids and chameleons).

2006, Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, page 144:

(zoology) Any of the family Agamidae of lizards, including many dragons.


lagopus

From the Latin lagōpūs, from the Ancient Greek λαγώπους (lagṓpous), from λαγώς (lagṓs, “hare”) + πούς (poús, “foot”); compare lagopod, lagopode. The bird was given this name because its feet resemble those of a hare.


ziphiid

(zoology) Any of the family Ziphiidae of beaked whales and bottlenose whales.


Chinese paddlefish

Chinese paddlefish (plural Chinese paddlefish)

An extinct freshwater paddlefish (†Psephurus gladius).


pachypleurosaur

A primitive sauropterygian reptile of the Triassic period, vaguely resembling aquatic lizards.


zenik

Unknown, likely from a native African name.

The enormous elephant, the tall giraffe, and the stately ostrich, being found in the same spot with a species of mouse, called the black-streaked, weighing only a quarter of an ounce; the zenik, an animal only three inches in height; and the creeper, a bird not much larger than a cherry.

1857, J. Bezant, William Cooke Stafford, Key to the Geographical questions, page 107:


zerda

From Arabic [script needed] (zerdawā), probably of Persian origin; compare Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”) and the dialectal suffix و (-ow, -aw) that creates nouns from adjectives.


starry sturgeon

starry sturgeon (plural starry sturgeons)


Russian sturgeon

Russian sturgeon (plural Russian sturgeons or Russian sturgeon)

Russian sturgeons (plural)
Russian sturgeon (plural)

A Eurasian species of sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii).


pibble

In many ways, one-year-old Posey is just an average "pibble."

2015 October 7, Elizabeth Medora, “Posey: The Little Pibble That Can”, in The Foothills Focus, page 10:

Meet Jax! He is a sweet, wiggly pibble.

2017 November 23, “Adopt me!”, in Inlander, page 93:

Our Liz jumps with all her feet off the floor when we spell w- a- l- k, now with that pibble smile ear to ear.

2019, Suzanne Allard, "Liz Makes a Comeback," 4 Legs & a Tail, Winter 2019, pages 8-9

(informal, endearing) A pit bull terrier.


payara

In his career as a producer and host of hunting and fishing shows for cable television, Trevor Gowdy has tangled with a wide range of trophy game fish, including 1,000-pound hammerheads in the Florida Keys, giant stingrays off the coast of Thailand and razor-toothed payara below Venezuela’s Uraima Falls.

2008 June 21, Peter Kaminsky, “Taking His Cue From the Fish”, in New York Times:

Hydrolycus scomberoides, a Venezuelan gamefish with two long fangs protruding from the lower jaw.


spotted wolffish

spotted wolffish (plural spotted wolffishes or spotted wolffish)

spotted wolffishes (plural)
spotted wolffish (plural)

A North Atlantic species of wolffish, Anarhichas minor.


trochil

From Latin trochilus (“a small bird”, probably applied to a wren).

bor

1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique., 2. ed. revised and enlarged.
The crocodile […] opens his chaps to let the trochil in to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding.

Pluvianus aegyptius
Pluvianus aegyptius#Translingual

The crocodile bird, Pluvianus aegyptius.


ngina

It traverses the whole range of animal life in tropical Africa, from the ngina or gorilla to the butterflies and ants: he makes the animals tell their own stories; and his text is illustrated with some telling drawings.

1902, Percy Watkins Myles, James Britten, George Simonds Boulger, The Selborne magazine and "Nature notes", volume 13:

The nginas can see wonderfully well through the jungle.

1914, Paul Belloni Du Chaillu, In African forest and jungle:


desert hare

American desert hare
American desert hare

Lepus californicus
Lepus californicus#Translingual

black-tailed jackrabbit
black-tailed jackrabbit

American desert hare, Lepus californicus, the black-tailed jackrabbit.

Lepus capensis
Lepus capensis#Translingual


turdid

(zoology) Any of the family Turdidae of passerine birds; a thrush


moor macaque

Macaca maura, a macaque, endemic to Sulawesi, with brown to black body fur, a pale rump patch, and pink bare skin on the rump.


black-tailed jackrabbit

en-noun

black-tailed jackrabbit (plural black-tailed jackrabbits)

Lepus californicus, a common hare of the western United States and Mexico


yowley

They're just as feerce as untyem'd goats, / An' all liked sowlgers dress'd; / They've a bunch ov hair upon their jaws / Just like a yowley's nest.

1863, Edward Corvan, A choice collection of Tyneside songs, page 56:

(dated, UK, dialect) The European yellowhammer.


volcano rabbit

Romerolagus diazi
Romerolagus diazi#Translingual

A small rabbit, Romerolagus diazi, that resides in the mountains of Mexico.


yacare

Portuguese jacaré, from Old Tupi îakaré.

The yacare is not found farther south than the 32nd degree of south latitude. In its habit completely aquatic; and is never found excepting in the water or on the bank.

1859, Cassell's popular natural history, page 24:


boiling frog

/ˈbɔɪlɪŋ ˌfɹɒɡ/

/ˈbɔɪlɪŋ ˌfɹɑɡ/

From a widespread misconception describing a frog slowly being boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.

Environmental pollution and the overconsumption of nonreplenishable resources is the boiling frog syndrome of the 21st century.

You can guess what the politicians said back then, too. "Don't worry," I'll bet they claimed, "tax rates will never rise!" It's the Boiling Frog Syndrome all over again.

2005, Ric Edelman, “The Greatest Discovery of the 20th Century”, in The Truth about Money, 3rd edition, Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, Inc., →ISBN, part I (Introduction to Financial Planning), page 26:

The greatest challenge to an accurate current self-image (that is, seeing yourself as others see you and in a way consistent with your other internal states, beliefs, emotions, and so forth) is the boiling frog syndrome. Several factors contribute to this syndrome. First, people around you may not let you see a change. They may not give you feedback or information about how they see it. Also, they may be victims of the boiling frog syndrome themselves, adjusting their perception daily.

2009, Richard Boyatzis, “How and Why Individuals are Able to Develop Emotional Intelligence”, in Cary Cherniss, Daniel Goleman, editors, The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace: How to Select for, Measure, and Improve Emptional Intelligence in Individuals, Groups, and Organizations (The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series), San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 244:

The boiling frog syndrome portrays how people react to change. Dramatic sudden changes instigate resistance and even anger in many individuals. Conversely, people do well at adjusting to slow change that occurs over a long period of time.

2010, Anne [Elizabeth] Makzulak, “Green Biotechnology”, in Sustainability: Building Eco-friendly Communities (Green Technology), New York, N.Y.: Facts On File, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 39:

DotCloud was a "boiling frog." That's how [Solomon] Hykes and early investor Peter Fenton of Benchmark now describe dotCloud as it struggled in 2012. Put a frog in water and gradually heat it, the folk legend goes, and the frog won't notice that it's being cooked until it's too late.

2015 July 1, Alex Konrad, “Meet Docker’s Solomon Hykes, the Godfather of Software’s Container Craze”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 2015-07-02:

Look at Facebook: Every company moved their brand presence to Facebook, sending out messages for their customers to receive. Now, you have to pay to send out your messages to people who chose to follow you. [You’ve become] a boiling frog.

2016 May 4, Shaun Prescott, quoting Tim Sweeney, “Tim Sweeney Renews Attack on Microsoft’s UWP [Universal Windows Platform]”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 2016-05-06:

The World Health Organisation’s latest data on air pollution proves there are more boiling frogs in India than anywhere else. People in 14 Indian cities are breathing the world’s most toxic air. Yet, like the metaphorical frogs who boil to death slowly without being aware of the danger, they are completely oblivious to the tragic fate that awaits them.

2018 May 2, Sandipan Sharma, “WHO Report on Pollution: Politicos Playing Petty Politics while People Choke, Citizens Need to Demand More”, in Firstpost, archived from the original on 2018-05-08:

Some people have described Theresa May’s approach to the hard Brexiters in her cabinet as boiling frogs: raising the temperature of the water so gradually that [David] Davis, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Liam Fox don’t realise they are being cooked.

2018 June 7, John Rentoul, “The David Davis resignation crisis is over for today – but this is just the start of troubles to come”, in The Independent, London, archived from the original on 2018-06-12:

Our attractiveness as a location for investment is diminished. Unfortunately the pain is a boiling frog, as we can never know the investment and growth opportunities we will forsake.

2018 August 22, Nassim Khadem, Patrick Hatch, quoting Paul Abbey, “‘Boiling frog’: Business, tax experts slam rejection of corporate cuts”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, N.S.W., archived from the original on 2018-11-03:

(idiomatic, often attributively) A person who, or thing which, is in a gradually worsening situation without any realization of the peril until it is too late.

溫水煮青蛙

person or thing in a gradually worsening situation without any realization of the peril


black scabbardfish

black scabbardfish (plural black scabbardfish or black scabbardfishes)

black scabbardfish (plural)
black scabbardfishes (plural)

A North Atlantic fish of the cutlassfish family Trichiuridae with an extremely elongated, eel-like body, Aphanopus carbo.


Atlantic tomcod

Atlantic tomcod (plural Atlantic tomcods or Atlantic tomcod)

Atlantic tomcods (plural)
Atlantic tomcod (plural)

Microgadus tomcod
Microgadus tomcod#Translingual

A gadiform fish of the northwest Atlantic, Microgadus tomcod.


papionine

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the monkey tribe Papionini.


papionine

(zoology) Any member of the monkey tribe Papionini.


mejiro

A small passerine bird, Zosterops japonicus, the Japanese white-eye.


gospel bird

Fried chicken was often served on Sunday, the day of attending church.


European smelt

Osmerus eperlanus
Osmerus eperlanus#Translingual

Any smelt of species Osmerus eperlanus, common in fresh waters of northern Europe.


Arctic cod

Arctic cod (plural Arctic cod or Arctic cods)

Arctic cod (plural)
Arctic cods (plural)

A north Atlantic fish of the family Gadidae (Boreogadus saida).


greater argentine

greater argentine (plural greater argentines)

A northern Atlantic fish, herring-smelt (Argentina silus, syn. Salmo silus)


unau

The unau, or two-toed sloth, has no tail, and only two nails on the fore feet. The ai, or three-toed sloth, has a short tail, and three nails on every foot. The nose of the unau, is likewise much longer, the forehead higher, and the ears longer than those of the ai.

1834, Augustus Addison Gould, editor, A System of Natural History, page 264:

Linnaeus's two-toed sloth
Linnaeus's two-toed sloth

Choloepus didactylus
Choloepus didactylus#Translingual

Linnaeus's two-toed sloth, Choloepus didactylus, a two-toed sloth native to South America.


hypsilophodontid

Named after the Hypsilophus genus of iguana lizard

An informal grouping of small ornithopod dinosaurs, regarded as fast, herbivorous bipeds on the order of 1–2 meters long (3.3-6.6 feet).


blacksmelt

Any of various ray-finned fish in the genus Bathylagus.


stone loach

Barbatula barbatula, a species of ray-finned fish in the family Nemacheilidae or subfamily Nemacheilinae in family Balitoridae (hillstream loaches).


Kermadec petrel

Kermadec petrel (plural Kermadec petrels)

Pterodroma neglecta
Pterodroma neglecta#Translingual

Pterodroma neglecta, a petrel of the Kermadec Islands.


firefish

firefish (plural firefishes or firefish)

Any of various fish of the genera Pterois and Parapterois.


queenfish

queenfish (plural queenfishes or queenfish)


fruiteater

Any of the Pipreola genus of thickset birds, or Ampelioides tschudii; they live in humid areas of South America.


quandy

Many were the coots, quandies, sheldrakes and loons that my father and the captain brought home from the Gurnet gunning trips.

1916, Edmund Brownell Weston, In memoriam, my father and my mother:


oldsquaw

Clangula hyemalis
Clangula hyemalis#Translingual

(dated) A medium-sized seaduck (Clangula hyemalis), a long-tailed duck.


Caspian tern

Hydroprogne caspia
Hydroprogne caspia#Translingual

Hydroprogne tschegrava
Hydroprogne tschegrava

A widely distributed species of tern, Hydroprogne caspia syn. Hydroprogne tschegrava.


duck-billed dinosaur

duck-billed dinosaur (plural duck-billed dinosaurs)

Derived from the similarity of the heads of certain members of the family to those of modern ducks.

The scientists' report, published in Biological Reviews, found that while, largely, the dinosaurs were faring well at the time of the asteroid impact, the big plant-eating types, including the horned triceratops and duck-billed dinosaurs, had suffered a loss of biodiversity.

(informal) Any ornithopod dinosaur of the family Hadrosauridae.


ægagrus

But this difference is leſs perceptible, in comparing the bouquetin with the Siberian ibex, the ibex with the ægagrus, and the ægagrus with the tame goat.

1789, William Coxe, Travels in Switzerland, volume II, pages 51–52:


quata

Acosta, in his History of the West Indies, relates the following anecdote of a quata which belonged to the Governor of Carthagena […]

1833, George Long, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 2, page 547:

To be sure the Quatas will, when they meet with a learned traveller, or any other strange animal, descend to the lower branches of their trees, to examine the phenomenon[…]

1837, The New Monthly Magazine, page 366:

The quatas, or large black spider monkeys, spent a good deal of their time in trying to open them by beating them against the branches of trees, or on hard logs upon the ground[…]

1876, Charles Barrington Brown, Canoe and camp life in British Guiana:


yeldrin

Alteration of earlier yowlring, equivalent to yellow + ring.

Bless the bramble and its berries —nor can we conjecture why it should be “a maltreated shrub,” any more than why the “Yellow Yeldrin” should in Scotland—and we believe in England too—be a maltreated bird.

1834, “The moral of flowers”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 35 (review of The Moral of Flowers by Rebecca Hey), page 811:

(archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland) The yellowhammer.


polar cod

polar cod (plural polar cod or polar cods)

A north Atlantic fish of the family Gadidae (cod, haddock, whitings and pollock), Boreogadus saida.


gentleman cow

One day he attempted to help out by leading a gentleman cow back to the ranch, a distance of about a mile.

1914, “Catering industry employee”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 23, page 44:


Atlantic pomfret

Atlantic pomfret (plural Atlantic pomfrets)

Brama brama, the largest species of the pomfret family Bramidae, found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.


waxbird

(rare) A bird, the waxwing (Bombycilla spp.).


warmouth

From war + mouth; the fish has stripes around the mouth that resemble war paint.

Lepomis gulosus, a species of freshwater sunfish native to America.


whistlefish

(dialect, archaic) A fish: the gossat or rockling.


whitewing

From white + wing. The street sweepers were so called because of the white uniforms they used to wear.


crinet

Probably from Middle French crin (“hair”) + -et.

His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak.

1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 555:

(historical) A set of metal armour plating worn around a horse's neck.


polyodont

Any paddlefish of the family Polyodontidae.


red bandfish

A species of bandfish found in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean from Senegal to Norway, Cepola macrophthalma (syn. Cepola rubescens).


tundra wolf

Canis lupus albus
Canis lupus albus#Translingual

A subspecies of grey wolf, Canis lupus albus.


Bombay duck

Uncertain. The first component may be a modification of Marathi बोंबील (bombīl), the local Marathi name for the fish. The second has been dubiously associated by folk etymology with dak (“Indian postal system”).

For her sake he recounted his Indian experiences — told of his arrival in India; […] of the Bombay Ducks, that celebrated European regiment, of whom every man could drink a quart of rum a day, and fight a pitched battle if need were.

1872, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Three to One, page 42:

(India, historical, slang) A member of the Bombay regiments of the East India Company's army.


xantusiid

(zoology) Any of the family Xantusiidae of night lizards.


Pacific herring

Pacific herring (plural Pacific herring)

A species of the herring family native to north Pacific Ocean from Yellow Sea to Baja California; Clupea pallasii.


tomcod

From French tacaud?, probably influenced by Tom, tom.

Any of species Microgadus tomcod, of edible cod found in the Atlantic.


thread snake

Any of the fossorial snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae.


marena

Borrowed from German Maräne (“whitefish”).

bor+

(archaic) A European whitefish Coregonus maraena.


stinkbird

From stink + bird, referring to the strong smell of the bird.


night lizard

These lizards were once (wrongly) thought to be nocturnal.

Any of the family Xantusiidae of very small, viviparous lizards.


parrotlet

A miniature parrot of the New World of the genera Forpus, Nannopsittaca and Touit.


coua

From French coua, from Malagasy koa, an onomatopoeia for its cry.

A terrestrial bird of the genus Coua, in the cuckoo family.


keelie

(Scotland, Northern England) A sparrowhawk or kestrel.


Weimaraner

/ˈvaɪməɹɑːnəɹ/

A breed of gun dog with an athletic build and short coat.


pangasius

Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus.

haimonni

fish of the genus Pangasius — see also iridescent shark, panga


kyloe

From Scottish Gaelic gaidhealach (“Gaelic, Highland”); see Gàidheal.

der

One of a breed of small Highland cattle.


Holstein

From the animals' region of origin: the horses came from Schleswig-Holstein, the cows came from the area of Frisia and Holstein.

etymid

livestock breeds originated in Schleswig-Holstein

A breed of dairy cattle, distinctively colored in splotches of black and white.


mouse lemur

Any of the nocturnal lemurs of the genus Microcebus native to Madagascar.


boodie

However, the boodie, once common over much of southern Australia, is now only found in numbers on offshore islands on the mid-west coast. Boodies are sociable animals and since they dig burrows, considerable warrens can be formed.

1968, Vincent Serventy, Wildlife of Australia, page 34:

The bettongs live in moderately dry country and with the exception of the Boodie, which digs burrows, all make nests of grass on the ground.

1985, Australia's Amazing Wildlife, page 304:

The work on Boodie Island was the first attempt in Australia to eradicate black rats in the presence of a threatened, non-target mammal.[…]It is likely that as many as 200-300 boodies now inhabit the island.

2002, C. R. Veitch, Michael Norman Clout, editors, Turning the Tide: the Eradication of Invasive Species: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Eradication of Island Invasives, page 224:

(Australia) A species of bettong, Bettongia lesueur.


umbrine

Borrowed from translingual Umbrina, coined by French zoologist Georges Cuvier in 1817 on page 174 of Volume I of Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation as a Latinization of French Ombrines (“shadowy ones”) from ombre + -ines, Old French onbre, ombre, from Latin umbra, probably from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂mr-u-, *h₂mrup-.

coin

Any of several food fishes of the genus Umbrina of drums.


arson dog

Identifying 1/1000th of a drop of 50 percent evaporated gasoline is an easy task for a well-trained arson dog.

2006, Jenni Bidner, Dog Heroes: Saving Lives and Protecting America, page 98:

A dog trained to use its sense of smell to locate traces of accelerant at sites of a suspected arson.

放火犬

dog trained to locate traces of accelerant


detection dog

A specialized form of police dog; trained to use its sense of smell to detect and locate evidence of illicit substances, from illegal drugs to explosives materials, which may be carried on a person in their effects.


pihoihoi

The pihoihoi live in the island's interior, and the torea on its rocky shore.

2003, Margaret Rose Orbell, Carolyn Lagahetau, Birds of Aotearoa: a natural and cultural history:

(New Zealand) Anthus novaeseelandiae, the Australasian pipit.


piopio

Either of two extinct passerine songbirds of New Zealand comprising the genus Turnagra: the North Island piopio (Turnagra tanagra) and South Island piopio (Turnagra capensis).


Finnhorse

A Finnish breed of horse with both riding and draught horse characteristics.


attack dog

Any dog bred, trained or used for the purpose of attacking a target, either on command or on sight; trained either as a specialized form of police dog or a security force dog.

hyökkäämään koulutettu koira

dog trained to protect or attack targets


pygopodid

/ˈpaɪɡəʊˌpɒdɪd/

(zoology) Any member of the family Pygopodidae, the legless lizards.


gekkonid

Non-gekkotans and non-gekkonid gekkotans were used as outgroups and/or in establishing calibrations for the timetree analysis ....

2013 January 8, Aaron M. Bauer et al., “A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications”, in Zootaxa, volume 3599, number 4, page 306:

(zoology) Any member of the family Gekkonidae, the largest family of geckos.


rhebok

Borrowed from Afrikaans reebok (“rhebok”), from Dutch reebok (“roebuck”), from Middle Dutch reeboc. Doublet of roebuck.

A medium-sized, deerlike South African antelope, Pelea capreolus, having pale-gray, curly fur and straight horns.

rheeboc

given as alternative forms in Webster 1913


roan antelope

A savanna antelope, Hippotragus equinus, found in West, Central, East Africa and Southern Africa.


turaco

Any of the birds in the Musophagidae family with vivid colouring and prominent crest.


xenopid

Concerning this latter point, however, it should be recalled that the xenopid larvae are equally microphagous and yet their manicotto structure is essentially of the ranid type.

1961, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: Volume 137:

On the tails of some tadpoles the melanophores which were scattered on the surface of the body are visible, in the same way as in the tadpoles of the xenopids.

1972, Zdeněk V. Špinar, Tertiary frogs from Central Europe:

(zoology) Any of the genus Xenopus of clawed frogs.


deergut

“The tradecraft of the modern-day special operator, parachuting into the Hindu Kush after the Taliban,” echoes “the efforts of men from a preindustrial community struggling through New England winters on hickory and deergut snowshoes,” Ross writes.

2009 June 28, Marc Tracy, “Nonfiction Chronicle”, in New York Times:

The gut of a deer, traditionally used as a material.


tarek

From Armenian տառեխ (taṙex). Doublet of bottarga.


naked mole rat

A burrowing rodent (Heterocephalus glaber), native to parts of East Africa.


sixgill

“Shark After Dark” features scientists swimming with their subjects as they investigate their nocturnal feeding habits; residents of the Seattle area will be interested to know that well inside Puget Sound, quite large sixgill sharks come to the surface for dinner within 150 feet of shore.

2009 August 1, Mike Hale, “Ah, That Jersey Shore: The Fish Are Really Biting”, in New York Times:

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


sixgill

A shark with six pairs of gill slits (Hexanchus spp.).