beluga whale

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

Delphinapterus leucas
Delphinapterus leucas#Translingual

beluga

Synonym of beluga (“a cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean”)


Bryde's whale

Named after Johan Bryde, Norwegian consul to South Africa who helped establish the first modern whaling station in the country.

Balaenoptera brydei
Balaenoptera brydei#Translingual

Balaenoptera brydei, a species of rorqual.


barking squirrel

en-noun

barking squirrel (plural barking squirrels)


zebra wolf

Thylacinus cynocephalus
Thylacinus cynocephalus#Translingual


slow loris

Any of several species of strepsirrhine primates which make up the genus Nycticebus, with a round head, narrow snout, large eyes, and a toxic bite.


woolly rhinoceros

An extinct rhinoceros (†Coelodonta antiquitatis), common throughout Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene epoch.


blue-capped ifrit

blue-capped ifrit (plural blue-capped ifrits)

Any of species Ifrita kowaldi of a small insectivorous passerine bird endemic to the rainforests of New Guinea. It has yellowish-brown plumage with a blue and black crown.


fairy martin

Petrochelidon ariel, an Australian bird of the swallow family.


American longhair

American longhair (plural American longhairs)


leaf-tailed gecko

leaf-tailed gecko (plural leaf-tailed geckos)

Saltuarius eximius, in the family Carphodactylidae, native to the Melville Range in Northeastern Australia.


habu

An aircraft nicknamed for these snakes, the SR-71.


ribbon snake

Thamnophis sauritus, a common garter snake endemic to eastern North America.


earth dog

Any dog that digs in the earth, for example to catch foxes in holes


wolf eel

Anarrhichthys ocellatus, a superficially eel-like fish found in the northern Pacific Ocean.


chicken snake

So called because they like to eat chicken eggs.

Any of various North American colubrid snakes.


thunder snake

Lampropeltis getula getula, the eastern kingsnake.


scarlet shiner

A fish of species Lythrurus fasciolaris, a native of fresh waters of the eastern United States.


black cattle

(UK, dated) Any bovine cattle reared for its meat, as opposed to dairy cattle.


mud sunfish

Acantharchus pomotis, a sunfish widely distributed in the fresh waters along the Atlantic coast of North America.


dandy brush

A kind of hard-bristled brush used in grooming horses.


false vampire bat

false vampire bat (plural false vampire bats)

A New World bat, Vampyrum spectrum; spectral bat.


house wren

Troglodytes aedon, a very small songbird of the wren family.


spectral bat

Vampyrum spectrum, the largest carnivorous bat.


choupique

From Cajun French choupique, from Choctaw shupik (“mudfish”).

Them choupiques and ugly alligator gar done wanted to snap his damn hands off when he pulled them in the boat.

2001, M. F. Korn, Skimming the Gumbo Nuclear, page 25:


ostrich dinosaur

ostrich dinosaur (plural ostrich dinosaurs)


swallow tanager

swallow tanager (plural swallow tanagers)

Tersina viridis, a tanager found widely throughout South America.


Entlebucher

Borrowed from German Entlebucher Sennenhund, from Entlebuch, a municipality in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

A dog of a breed traditionally used by herders in the Swiss Alps.


Cane Corso

/ˌkɑːneɪ ˈkɔːsəʊ/

From Italian cane corso (literally “Corsican dog”), with adjective corso being more likely derived from Latin cohors (“farmyard; enclosure”).

bor

A dog of an Italian breed valued as a companion, guardian and hunter.


pharaoh's chicken

en-noun

pharaoh's chicken (plural pharaoh's chickens)

So called because it is often found in Ancient Egyptian sculpture.

Egyptian vulture
Egyptian vulture#English


brambling finch

brambling finch (plural brambling finches)

Fringilla montifringilla
Fringilla montifringilla#Translingual

The brambling, Fringilla montifringilla.


Pekin duck

Either of two breeds of domestic duck used primarily for egg and meat production.


Miss Lucy

Chrysoblephus gibbiceps, a species of sea bream in South Africa.


ooaa

/ˈoʊˌoʊˌɑːˌɑː/

/ˌoʊˌoʊˈɑːˌɑː/

bor

Hawaiian ʻōʻōʻāʻā

Only the ooaa still lives in the forests of Hawaii, feeding on insects and some nectar.

1985, Graham Bateman, Songbirds, page 102:

The strongest contenders [for rarest bird][…]must be the Ooaa (Moho braccatus) of Kauai, Hawaii, which was down to a single pair in 1980[…]

1986, Norris McWhirter, Guinness Book of World Records 1986, page 75:

Any member of the extinct species †Moho braccatus of oo birds of Hawaii.


Mississippi kite

en-noun

Mississippi kite (plural Mississippi kites)

Ictinia mississippiensis
Ictinia mississippiensis#Translingual

Ictinia mississippiensis, a small bird of prey found across the central and southern United States.


Kitti's hog-nosed bat

Kitti's hog-nosed bat (plural Kitti's hog-nosed bats)

Named after Kitti Thonglongya, the Thai zoologist who discovered it.

Craseonycteris thonglongyai, a small bat with a distinctive pig-like snout, found in western Thailand and southeast Burma.


Atlantic puffin

Atlantic puffin (plural Atlantic puffins)

Fratercula arctica
Fratercula arctica#Translingual

A species of puffin (Fratercula arctica).


magpie tanager

Cissopis leverianus, a South American tanager.


Asian badger

Meles leucurus, a badger native to China, Kazakhstan, the Korean Peninsula and Russia, generally lighter in colour than the European badger.


widow monkey

Either of two small South American monkeys, collared titi (Callicebus torquatus) or yellow-handed titi (Cheracebus lucifer), black except for the dull whitish arms, neck, and face, and a ring of pure white around the face.


umbrellabird

A large tropical cotinga found in the forests of South America, with black plumage, a radiating crest on the top of its head, vaguely resembling an umbrella, and typically long wattles.


Poland China

A large, mostly black domestic pig of a breed from Ohio, United States, deriving from many breeds including the Berkshire and Hampshire.


ghost-faced bat

ghost-faced bat (plural ghost-faced bats)

Bats of genus Mormoops, found mainly in South America.


ophidiiform

(zoology) Any ray-finned fish of the order Ophidiiformes


mouse opossum

Any of the didelphids in the genera Marmosa, Thylamys, and Tlacuatzin.


freetail

Mexican free-tailed bat
Mexican free-tailed bat

Mexican free-tailed bat, Tadarida brasiliensis


mouse-eared bat

mouse-eared bat (plural mouse-eared bats)

The wildcat and mouse-eared bat are on the brink, but deer are spreading and otters bouncing back, according to a comprehensive analysis.

2018 June 13, Damian Carrington, The Guardian:

Any of the genus Myotis of bats within the family Vespertilionidae.


fox squirrel

Sciurus niger, the largest tree squirrel native to North America.


menobranchus

From the superseded genus name Menobranchus (Harlan, 1824), from Ancient Greek μένω (ménō, “to remain”) + βρᾰ́γχῐον (bránkhion, “gill, branchia”), because the external branchiae are permanent, unlike those of some other amphibians.


pocket mouse

A mouse of the subfamily Perognathinae
Perognathus species

A mouse of the subfamily Perognathinae
Chaetodipus species


mulgara

A marsupial carnivore of the genus Dasycercus, closely related to the Tasmanian devil and the quolls.


deerslaughter

From deer + slaughter. Compare manslaughter.

Some centuries ago, in the royal forests of England the penalty was higher for deerslaughter than for manslaughter; but that was unreasonable, and the present arrangement shows the progress of law-reform.

1883, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature:

They have behaved badly: charges against them now stand at murder of one kitten, chickenslaughter in the second degree, deerslaughter in the first degree, conspiracy to kill more deer, attempted murder of a goat (two overt acts), ...

... until I noticed a mangled carcass splayed across the breakdown lane, decided to stop and inspect it and took notes on the anatomy of victims of vehicular deerslaughter.

2009, Nate Jordon, Various, Monkey Puzzle #6, Monkey Puzzle Press, →ISBN, page 7:

(rare) The killing of a deer, the slaughter of deer; cervicide.


catslaughter

From cat + slaughter. Compare manslaughter.

After a long and patient investigation of facts, the Coroner returned a verdict of wilful catslaughter against a party or parties unknown.

1862, Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Aunt Judy's Letters, page 93:

Bill intends to file a charge of "catslaughter" against the villian when caught.

'... And then he committed — catslaughter.'
Caleb, although sensible that his leg had been pulled, roared with laughter.

1934, Horace Annesley Vachell, Nether Applewhite: A Story of Strange Lives in an English Village:

Had Barkley done in the Topeka cat, it may have been manslaughter, or catslaughter, I guess, but not murder.

2006, Al Martinez, Barkley: A Dog's Journey, →ISBN:

The woman was suing the fire service for catslaughter.

2010, Michael Lawrence, Jiggy McCue: Kid Swap, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

The killing of a cat, the slaughter of cats.


black durgon

Melichthys niger, a triggerfish with bright white lines running along its dorsal and anal fins.


smallie

(fishing, informal) A smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu).


Namaqua rock rat

Namaqua rock rat (plural Namaqua rock rats)

Aethomys namaquensis, an African rodent.


Campo flicker

Colaptes campestris, a bird in the woodpecker family, found in South America.


western rat snake

western rat snake (plural western rat snakes)

Pantherophis obsoletus, a non-venomous colubrid found in North America.


treefish

treefish (plural treefishes or treefish)

Sebastes serriceps, a marine fish native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, with large spines on top of its head.


cotton mouse

Peromyscus gossypinus, an omnivorous rodent of the southeastern United States, often using cotton for nest construction.


common frog

Rana temporaria
Rana temporaria#Translingual


seamew

From Middle English semewe, semawe (“seagull”), equivalent to sea + mew (“gull”).

Now dance the lights on lawn and lea,
The flocks are whiter down the vale,
And milkier every milky sail
On winding stream or distant sea;
Where now the seamew pipes, or dives
In yonder greening gleam, and fly
The happy birds, that change their sky
To build and brood

1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto CXV:


diamond python

Morelia spilota spilota, a species of python, of Australia.


mutton snapper

Lutjanus analis, a snapper native to the Atlantic coastal waters of the Americas from Massachusetts to southern Brazil.


mock nightingale

mock nightingale (plural mock nightingales)

Sylvia atricapilla
Sylvia atricapilla#Translingual

A bird, the Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla).


bullsnake

Pituophis catenifer sayi, a large non-venomous colubrid snake endemic to the central United States, northern Mexico, and southwestern Canada.


evening grosbeak

evening grosbeak (plural evening grosbeaks)

Coccothraustes vespertinus, a large finch.


black snake

Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:

Coluber constrictor, a non-venomous North and Central American species of snake.

Coluber constrictor
Coluber constrictor#Translingual


sugarbird

Any of the genus Promerops of passerine birds of southern Africa, with brownish plumage, the long downcurved bill typical of passerine nectar feeders, and long tail feathers.


pilot snake

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

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


indigo snake

A snake of the genus Drymarchon, species of which are found the southeastern US, Texas, and northern South America.


red hake

Urophycis chuss, an edible phycid hake of the genus Urophycis, found in the Atlantic Ocean.


shrew-faced squirrel

shrew-faced squirrel (plural shrew-faced squirrels)

Rhinosciurus laticaudatus, a sciurid rodent of Asia.


trawl whiting

southern school whiting
southern school whiting

southern school whiting (Sillago bassensis)


race cloth

(historical or archaic) A cloth worn by a racehorse, having pockets to hold the weights prescribed.


southern school whiting

A coastal marine fish of species Sillago bassensis, in the smelt-whiting family that inhabits the south and south-west coasts of Australia.


King George whiting

A coastal marine fish of species Sillaginodes punctatus.


silver whiting

silver whiting (countable and uncountable, plural silver whitings)

A southern school whiting (Sillago bassensis)


chimpkind

The one percent of difference between human and chimpkind, as it turns out, makes all the difference.

2007, Max Oelschlaeger, “Boundaries and Darwin: Bridging the Great Divide”, in Charles S. Brown, Ted Toadvine, editors, Nature's Edge: Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 7:

He achieved great PR for chimpkind and even made the front cover of Life magazine.

2008, BBC Wildlife, volume 26, numbers 1-7, page 83:

It's another seamless motion-capture performance by Andy Serkis (though to me Caesar looks more like chimpkind's answer to Sean Bean) and the film's biggest weakness is that homo sapiens offers little to rival it.

2014 July 1, Steve Rose, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review”, in The Guardian:


tuxedo cat

From the similarity between the cat's coloration and a tuxedo.

A domestic cat with a white front and black fur elsewhere.


Russell's viper

Russell's viper (plural Russell's vipers)

Named in honour of Patrick Russell (1726–1805), Scottish herpetologist who first described many of India's snakes.

Some weeks before, one of the masters at the College, an unpopular Parsee, had found a Russell's viper nosing round his classroom.

1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 164:


common moorhen

Gallinula chloropus
Gallinula chloropus#Translingual

A member of the species Gallinula chloropus.

Tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ tóidoozohii bidaaʼ łichíʼígíí


European moorhen

European moorhen (plural European moorhens)


star finch

An Australian species of estrildid finch, Neochmia ruficauda.


leatherjack

leatherjacket (fish in genus Oligoplites)


sand darter

Ammocrypta is the smallest genus of darters and in many respects is the most distinctive. We refer to them collectively as the sand darters, though some authorities would exclude the crystal darter.

2015, Robert A. Kuehne, The American Darters, page 25:

Any of the small perches of the genus Ammocrypta.


silver eel

Ariosoma mellissii, a rare tropical marine eel.


fish crow

Corvus ossifragus, a wetland crow of the eastern and southeastern United States that feeds largely on fish.


ground roller

Any of the Brachypteraciidae, a small family of non-migratory near-passerine birds restricted to Madagascar, and related to the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers.


silver chub

Macrhybopsis storeriana, a cyprinid fish of North America.


sand lizard

Any of many species of lizards found in sandy environments

especially, Lacerta agilis, a lizard distributed across most of Europe and eastwards to Mongolia.


bristlehead

Pityriasis gymnocephala, a passerine bird endemic to Borneo, having short barbless feathers on the crown.


Cape petrel

Daption capense
Daption capense#Translingual

Daption capense, a common seabird of the Southern Ocean from the family Procellariidae.


fox sparrow

Passerella iliaca, a large American sparrow, sometimes split into four species in Passerella.


alligator snapping turtle

alligator snapping turtle (plural alligator snapping turtles)

A large freshwater turtle of the Eastern United States (Macrochelys temminckii).


micromammal

(zoology) Any very small mammal (such as a shrew or mouse)


cawquaw

From Cree kâkwa / ᑳᑲᐧ (kaakay, “porcupine”).

The Cawquaw or Urson of North America also inhabits trees. It has not, however, a prehensile tail, that member being merely used as a weapon of offence, the short, sharp quills witb which it is armed sticking in the wounds […]

1872, Samuel Orchart Beeton, Beeton's Brave tales, bold ballads, and travels and perils, page 540:

Erethizon dorsatum
Erethizon dorsatum#Translingual

(rare, possibly dated) A Canadian porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum).


cyprinodontoid

Any of the family Cyprinodontidae of pupfish.


spoonhead sculpin

spoonhead sculpin (plural spoonhead sculpins)

Cottus ricei, a North American freshwater fish.


coastrange sculpin

coastrange sculpin (plural coastrange sculpins)


one-horse race

Since riding Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee has twice broken into the news in unconventional fashion. A fortnight ago, he won a one-horse race ("walkover") at Belmont Park, N. Y.

1927 June 13, “Sport: Again, McAtee”, in Time, retrieved 2014-07-26:

Sinister Minister . . . kept extending his lead and turned the stretch run into a one-horse race.

2006 April 16, Bill Finley, “Sinister Minister Joins Baffert's Derby Stable”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-07-26:

(horse racing, informal) A horse race in which a single horse takes such a considerable lead that the other horses are no longer contenders to win.


rat snake

Any of many medium to large colubrid constrictors of a kind found through a great portion of the Northern Hemisphere, primarily feeding on rodents and birds.


ornithomimosaurian

Any theropod dinosaur of the clade Ornithomimosauria


oviraptorosaurian

Any maniraptoran dinosaur of the clade Oviraptorosauria


oviraptosaurian

Any maniraptoran dinosaur of the clade Oviraptorosauria.


calloo

This is how the luckless feel / how the calloos [translating allit] think— / like hard snow under a ridge / like water in a deep well.

1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section IV:

The Scots called it the ‘wild calloo’ from the unearthly call it had which seemed almost to bewitch fisher-folk hunting for herring in calm autumn nights off the Scottish Isles.

2012 January 8, Richard Williamson, West Sussex Gazette:

Clangula hyemalis
Clangula hyemalis#Translingual

(chiefly Scotland) The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck.


diamond dove

Geopelia cuneata
Geopelia cuneata#Translingual

Geopelia cuneata, a bird resident in Australia.


diamond firetail

diamond firetail (plural diamond firetails)

Stagonopleura guttata, an estrildid finch endemic to Australia.


paradisefish

paradisefish (plural paradisefishes or paradisefish)

paradisefishes (plural)
paradisefish (plural)

Macropodus opercularis, a freshwater gourami of East Asia.


long-tailed duck

long-tailed duck (plural long-tailed ducks)


shorthead redhorse

shorthead redhorse (plural shorthead redhorses)

Moxostoma macrolepidotum, a fish native to central and eastern North America.


frogness

Rather than empathy with what I might imagine a snake or frog might feel, I was sufficiently absorbed in snakeness and frogness as to wonder how the humans around me might feel.

1988, Stanislav Grof, The Adventure of Self-Discovery, page 58:

I am obligated to explain frogness at this point, but I will let it go for now, lest we be led into a discussion regarding instinct and into speculations on nature you might have felt lurking in the original question the minute you saw it.

1998, Sondra Horton Fraleigh, Penelope Hanstein, Researching Dance: Evolving Modes of Inquiry, page 198:

Just as in Roux's case, it takes work to learn to use a frog, and more work still to strip it of its frogness and transform it into a standard organism that works the same as all other species.

the state, quality, or condition of a frog.


grolar bear

A hybrid of the grizzly bear and the polar bear.


gooseling

I reared her myself—my little white gooseling;

1898, William Canton, A Child's Book of Saints:


northern hairy-nosed wombat

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

The decline of the northern hairy-nosed wombats has been largely human-related.

2018 May 10, Christopher Knaus, The Guardian:

A species of wombat, Lasiorhinus krefftii, now found only in Queensland, Australia.


leopardine

en-adj

leopardine (comparative more leopardine, superlative most leopardine)

more leopardine (comparative)
most leopardine (superlative)

My leopardine beauties are rarer

1901, Thomas Hardy, 'The Mother Mourns' in Poems of the Past and the Present, Macmillan (1903), page 73

Resembling or characteristic of a leopard.


cutthroat eel

Any of the family Synaphobranchidae of eels.


military macaw

The green plumage has been likened to a military uniform.

Ara militaris
Ara militaris#Translingual

Ara militaris, a large parrot with mostly green plumage.


wallcreeper

A passerine bird of species Tichodroma muraria, closely related to the nuthatches, breeding in temperate Asia, found more widely in much of temperate Eurasia.


Winnie the Pooh

en-proper noun

Winnie the Pooh (plural Winnie the Poohs)

From a bear cub named Winnie, short for Winnipeg, and a swan named Pooh.

No amount of Winnie the Poohs on the wall could distract you from seeing the huge bloodstain on the carpet.

2004, John A. Miller, Jr, The Victorian Mansion Murders, Pima Books, →ISBN, page 40:

Even in Europe, where killer bees are not much a menace, we have developed a kind of Winnie-the-Pooh attitude to the bees: they are dangerous, they are unpredictable, and they are usually acting to thwart us.

2007, Bee Wilson, The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us, Macmillan, page 221:

The Stop commander was one Colonel Zimin, a loud, round, cheerful Winnie the Pooh type, who was always in excellent spirits, always joking and liked to pat the soldiers affectionately on the cheek when talking to them.

2009, Arkady Babchenko, “The Diesel Stop”, in Jeff Parker, Mikhail Iossel, editors, Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia, Tin House Books, page 160:

Awake each day with excitement; there are pirates to fight, a yellow brick road to find, and new parts of Winnie the Pooh's forest to explore.

2011, Mark Grant, Out of the Box and onto Wall Street, John Wiley & Sons, page 375:

Winnie the Poohs can be a little smug and take great pride in the fact that while the rest of us are spinning like crazy tops, they're walking calmly through life.

2012, Kay Warren, Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough, Baker Books, page 44:

They had all, to a man and woman, been rumbled, like so many Winnie The Poohs with their hands in Rabbit's honey pot.

2013, Douglas Lindsay, The End Of Days, Blasted Heath Ltd, page 11:

Like the time Mum made the Winnie the Pooh chocolate lollies for the cake sale, before cakes got banned. And I COULDN’T WAIT for them to set and go hard, so I could have one. So I kept taking them out of the fridge and drinking a bit out of the mould. And then when Mum went to get them in the morning, none of the Winnie the Poohs had any legs, and Eeyore didn’t have a head.

2014, Pamela Butchart, The Spy Who Loved School Dinners, Nosy Crow, →ISBN:

Censored photos included one of Winnie the Pooh in a car (Internet users in China have long likened Mr. Xi to images of the pudgy bear) and another of the Obama family purportedly watching the parade on television.

2015 September 3, Patrick Boehler, “Trending on Chinese Social Media: Xi’s Salute, an Autocrat’s Son and Winnie the Pooh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-31, World:

When I returned, I said, “My daughter’s doing the nursery in Winnie the Pooh.” “Pooh?” she said. “Yes,” I said. “Winnie the.” “Pooh,” she repeated. I sensed that she wasn’t happy with me for some reason or another. “Pooh,” I reiterated. She said (very patronizingly, I might add), “Sir, we have at least four different Winnie the Poohs in our collection. You have your classic Pooh, your Disney Pooh …”

2016, Gene Perret, New Tricks for Old Dogs: 28 Laughable Lessons for People Too Stiff to Change … or Bend … or Move, Familius LLC, →ISBN:

A talking bear from an English children's book series carrying the same name, noted for his sweet, simple nature, and his love of honey.

Joanica-Puff (Portugal, Terramar's book translation)

Winny de Puh m (1980's book translation)

Winnie-the-Pooh

A. A. Milne used hyphens, while the Disney version does not


dolphinkind

[…] one dedicated to the notion that the proper study of dolphinkind is dolphin: a man who believes that any discoveries made about the mammals should remain private and not be put to cheap, practical use.

1974, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 233, page 7:

So there is something a little odd about this solitary animal, who rarely allows anyone to touch him and seems to have no need of other dolphinkind.

1995, Patricia Levy, Direct from Southwest Ireland: Kerry and West Cork, page 179:

The Tillek said those points were the spaceships that had brought humankind and dolphinkind to Pern.

2002, Anne McCaffrey, The Dolphins of Pern, page 4:


Chiweenie

A dog that is a crossbreed of Chihuahua and dachshund.


cisticola

One of several small passerine birds in the genus Cisticola.


porcupinefish

en-noun

porcupinefish (plural porcupinefishes or porcupinefish)

porcupinefishes (plural)
porcupinefish (plural)


burrfish

burrfish (plural burrfishes or burrfish)

Chilomycterus schoepfi, a fish of the family Diodontidae distinguished from the porcupinefish by the shorter and blunter spines covering the somewhat spherical body.


daggertooth

Any of the genus Anotopterus of aulopiform fish, with large mouths and sharp teeth.


northern three-toed jerboa

northern three-toed jerboa (plural northern three-toed jerboas)

Dipus sagitta, a rodent in the family Dipodidae.


crombec

Borrowed from Afrikaans krombek (literally “curved beak”).

bor

Any of several small passerine birds in the genus Sylvietta.


donacobius

A monotypic passerine bird of tropical South America, Donacobius atricapilla, also known as the black-capped donacobius.


gorgonopsian

(zoology) Any member of the extinct suborder Gorgonopsia of therapsid synapsids.


nicator

West African nicators (amapopo) are closely associated with chimpanzees, which are said to be found where this bird sings beautifully.

1996, African Study Monographs: Supplementary issue - Issues 22-27:

The nicators, which resemble a cross between a greenbul and a bushshrike, comprise just three species, all found in Africa.

2016, Warwick Tarboton, Guide to Birds of the Kruger National Park, →ISBN:

With relatively large, hooked bills, the nicators feed on a variety of invertebrates and small vertebrates.

2016, Irby J. Lovette, John W. Fitzpatrick, Handbook of Bird Biology, →ISBN, page 55:

Any of several passerine birds in the genus Nicator.


Coopworth

A sheep of a breed developed in New Zealand, used for both meat and wool.


rose robin

Petroica rosea, a small passerine bird native to Australia. The male has a distinctive pink breast.


tsessebe

A large African antelope, Damaliscus lunatus (formerly Alcelaphus lunata), similar to the hartebeest, but having its horns regularly curved.


New Zealand bellbird

en-noun

New Zealand bellbird (plural New Zealand bellbirds)

Anthornis melanura, a greenish passerine bird endemic to New Zealand, with a distinctive bell-like song.


korimako

New Zealand bellbird
New Zealand bellbird


besra

Accipiter virgatus
Accipiter virgatus#Translingual

A bird of prey of southern Asia, Accipiter virgatus.


kukang

Of the genus Loris are two species, the Kukang or Lemur tardigradus, and the Nycticebus Javanicus, the latter of which however I have not seen.

1838, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, volume 7, page 69:

[…] leaving the poor fellow to make his way unarmed down to the sea, where he ran upon a pair of half-starved kukangs, a vicious species of Malay chimpanzee, in fleeing from which he fell over the cliff and was dashed to pieces.

(archaic) Nycticebus coucang, the Sunda slow loris.


firefinch

From fire + finch, from the colour of its plumage.

Any of several species of finch in the genus Lagonosticta, found across sub-Saharan Africa.


gerygone

/d͡ʒəˈɹɪɡənɪ/

Any of several species of Australasian warblers (family Acanthizidae) in the genus Gerygone.


camaroptera

Any of several passerine birds in the genus Camaroptera.


grandala

An insectivorous passerine bird of South Asia, Grandala coelicolor.


cordon-bleu

One of two species of passerine birds in the genus Uraeginthus.


nail-tail wallaby

nail-tail wallaby (plural nail-tail wallabies)

nailtail wallaby
nailtail wallaby#English


mohol bushbaby

mohol bushbaby (plural mohol bushbabies)


Narina trogon

Apaloderma narina, a medium-sized, largely green bird in the family Trogonidae of Afrotropical forests.


nagapie

From Afrikaans nagapie (literally “night monkey”).


kioea

Any of the species †Chaetoptila angustipluma of extinct Hawaiian birds.


slender loris

Any of the genus Loris of lorises native to India and Sri Lanka.


thamnornis

A bird endemic to Madagascar of species Thamnornis chloropetoides.


jery

Any of several species of bird, endemic to Madagascar, in the genera Neomixis and Hartertula.


water snake

A snake that resides in, or spends a lot of time in, fresh water

It slips out of your hands easily, like a water-snake toy.

2020 November 12, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 64:

Trying to pin him down on any one topic, much less a specific time and place, is like trying to hold onto a Water Snake toy—as soon as I think I have a firm grip, he comes gooshing out the other side.

2010 November 1, Mike McMullen, I, Superhero!! :: We Wear Tights So You Won't Have To, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN:

Each time I tried to define it and pin it down to take a closer look, it seemed to slip away from me like one of those water snake toys that you can never hold on to. And then one day I finally discovered the problem.

2015 September 15, M. R. O'Connor, Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 221:

Or to put it differently, tactility reveals the body as a single self-enclosed surface, like a Klein bottle or one of those “water snake” toys, a kid's novelty, in its own way a polymorphous sleeve or screen over which libidinous and[…]

2017 November 28, Keith Leslie Johnson, Jan Svankmajer, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN:

In this Order, "toy water snake” means a toy that is a flexible tube which contains water and which is made of any rubber or plastics.

1968, Great Britain, Statutory Instruments:

She imagined a long pink tube with a winking hole at the end sliding from a body, like a grisly penis or one of those water-snake balloon toys kids give hand jobs to.

2016 August 22, Michelle Tea, Black Wave, The Feminist Press at CUNY, →ISBN, page 155:

A toy consisting of a liquid and (optionally) plastic trinkets encased in a long, soft, plastic torus. It is difficult to grip.


tetraka

Any of several species of warbler in the genus Xanthomixis, native to Madagascar.


hypocolius

The grey hypocolius, the sole member of the family Hypocoliidae.


samandarin

Salamandra salamandra
Salamandra salamandra#Translingual

The main steroidal alkaloid of the skin glands of the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra). It is extremely toxic.


akepa

A bird in the Hawaiian honeycreeper genus, Loxops coccineus.


akekee

A bird in the Hawaiian honeycreeper genus, Loxops caeruleirostris.


white pointer

Carcharodon carcharias
Carcharodon carcharias#Translingual

Carcharodon carcharias, a species of shark.


woodstar

Any one of about fifteen species of hummingbird found in the Americas.


akalat

Any of several species of African birds in the genus Sheppardia.


megatherium

en-noun

megatherium (plural megatheriums or megatheria)

megatheriums (plural)
megatheria (plural)

A ground sloth of the extinct genus Megatherium


thousand-year-old egg

thousand-year-old egg (plural thousand-year-old eggs)


walkie

A pallet truck, beside which the operator must walk.


lambie

Your lambies aren't lambies anymore, but they're pining for you just the same, and I'll drop them off on my way back if you want.

2008, Karen J. Hasley, Waiting for Hope, page 226:

The part I don't like about sheep and wool festivals? The part where the little lambies aren't considered part of the fiber-bearing aspect but as part of the snack-food aspect. Lambies on a stick or ground up into sausage are not nearly as much fun to imagine as gamboling lambies waiting happily to be shorn.

2011, Mary Beth Temple, The Secret Language of Knitters, page 113:

They are misguided by misinformation, and talking the Undisputed Truth is a physical means of weaning these little lambies from their childish and sheep like behaviour.

2014, Lee Maddaford, True Enlightenment, page 29:


over medium

(US) Of an egg prepared as food, fried on both sides so as the whites are cooked, and the yolks are soft, but not runny.


thousand-year egg

thousand-year egg (plural thousand-year eggs)


inland taipan

(zoology) Oxyuranus microlepidotus, a highly venomous snake endemic to semiarid regions of central east Australia.


crescentchest

Any of several species of birds from South America, in the genus Melanopareia.


landfowl

Any of the heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds in the order Galliformes, which includes chickens, turkeys, peafowl, pheasants, grouse, quail, and other related species; gamefowl.


dibatag

A medium-sized slender antelope endemic to Ethiopia and Somalia, Ammodorcas clarkei.


wormfowl

From Middle English wermfoul, equivalent to worm + fowl.


flathead mullet

flathead mullet (plural flathead mullets)

An edible fish, of the family Mugilidae, found worldwide in tropical and subtropical coastal waters.


pizzly

This means that ʽPizzlies’ (as recent polar bear/brown bear hybrids are known), are not a new phenomenon, but have been produced for hundreds of thousands of years.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 155:


purrfect

en-adj

purrfect (comparative more purrfect, superlative most purrfect)

more purrfect (comparative)
most purrfect (superlative)

but often with greater emphasis on the first syllable

Obligatory cat pun coming up . . . this book is a purrfect gift for the cat lady or cat dude in your life.

2013, NPR book review, quoted on the praise page of John Bradshaw, Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, Basic Books (2013), unnumbered page

For a “purrfect” Halloween costume, I make a black tail and pin it to the back of my dress, glue two black felt ears onto a hair band, and draw little black whiskers below my nose that I've rouged slightly pink.

2013, Sandra Magsamen, Living Artfully: A Heart-full Guide of Ideas and Inspirations That Celebrate Life, Love, and Moments That Matter, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

Now, Oscar was the most wonderful pet; attentive, affectionate, strangely thoughtful for a cat, a purrfect cat.

2015, Marty Whelan, That’s Life, Gill & Macmillan, →ISBN:

(colloquial, humorous) Perfect, in contexts relating to cats.


eastern kingsnake

en-noun

eastern kingsnake (plural eastern kingsnakes)

common kingsnake
common kingsnake#English

Synonym of common kingsnake (“Lampropeltis getula, a harmless colubrid kingsnake endemic to much of warm temperate northern Mexico and the United States”); especially Lampropeltis getula getula which is native to the southeastern and mid-Atlantic states.


Pel's fishing owl

Pel's fishing owl (plural Pel's fishing owls)

Scotopelia peli, a large owl that feeds nocturnally on fish and frogs snatched from the surface of lakes and rivers.


pectoral quail

Coturnix pectoralis
Coturnix pectoralis#Translingual


pectoral sandpiper

pectoral sandpiper (plural pectoral sandpipers)

Calidris melanotos
Calidris melanotos#Translingual

Calidris melanotos, a small migratory wader that breeds in North America and Asia, wintering in South America and Oceania, and eats small invertebrates.


rustic bunting

Emberiza rustica
Emberiza rustica#Translingual

Emberiza rustica, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.


logperch

logperch (plural logperches or logperch)


pupfish

From pup + fish, said to derive from the mating habits of the males, whose activities vaguely resemble puppies at play.

Any of a group of small killifish belonging to ten genera of the family Cyprinodontidae.


Goeldi's monkey

Goeldi's monkey (plural Goeldi's monkeys)


Indian cobra

A cobra of the species Naja naja, having on its hood two circular ocelli patterns connected by a curved line.


Pekin robin

red-billed leiothrix
red-billed leiothrix

A bird, the red-billed leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea).


moeriki

Borrowed from the Moriori and Maori moeriki.

An extinct bird, Dieffenbach's rail (†Gallirallus dieffenbachii).


Dieffenbach's rail

Dieffenbach's rail (plural Dieffenbach's rails)

The only recorded living specimen was captured in 1840 by Ernst Dieffenbach.

Any member of species †Gallirallus dieffenbachii of extinct birds endemic to the Chatham Islands.


pinyon jay

Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus, a bluish-grey jay of North America.


pinecone fish

pinecone fish (plural pinecone fishes or pinecone fish)

pinecone fishes (plural)
pinecone fish (plural)

A beryciform marine fish of the family Monocentridae, with a rounded, compressed body covered in strong plate-like scales fortified with ridges.


plains bison

Bison bison bison
Bison bison bison#Translingual

Bison bison bison, one of the two subspecies of the American bison, the other being the wood bison.


beryciform

Here, cold water rises from the depths, sometimes bringing with it deep-dwelling oddities such as the big-eyed beryciforms: shiny slimeheads and fangteeth.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 83:


Eurasian sparrowhawk

Eurasian sparrowhawk (plural Eurasian sparrowhawks)

Accipiter nisus
Accipiter nisus#Translingual


patas monkey

Erythrocebus patas
Erythrocebus patas#Translingual

Erythrocebus patas, a ground-dwelling African monkey.


California kingsnake

California kingsnake (plural California kingsnakes)

Lampropeltis getula californiae, a non-venomous colubrid snake endemic to the western United States and northern Mexico.


California corbina

California corbina (plural California corbinas or California corbina)

California corbinas (plural)
California corbina (plural)

Menticirrhus undulatus, a saltwater fish in the croaker family.


Lipizzan

A horse of a breed closely associated with the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria.


piping shrike

White-backed Magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen telonocua


Chinese muntjac

Chinese muntjac (plural Chinese muntjacs)


anableps

The most striking example is a family of small fish living in tropical American waters called the Poeciliidae among whom guppies, mosquito fish and the four-eyed anableps are best known.

1999, Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life:

Any of the genus Anableps of "four-eyed" fishes (having eyes raised above the top of the head and divided into two parts) found in brackish waters in northern South America and Trinidad.


addra

The M'horr is found in Western Africa, in the territories of the Sheikh of Wedroow; the Nanguer in Senegal; and the Addra in Nubia and Kerdofon.

1835, Sir William Jardine, The Natural History of the Ruminating Animals:

Almost white, addras lack the black side stripe that is found in most gazelles […]

1965, Leslie Brown, Africa: A Natural History:


tunnyfish

tunnyfish (plural tunnyfishes or tunnyfish)

In the morning as soon as he woke up he at once started smoking, drinking and eating the tunnyfish in oil, and writing quantities of letters in a tearing hurry, and he upset a bottle of ink on a carpet in his room […]

1989, Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays:


sewer rat

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

The black rat [...] became extinct in Britain following the Roman withdrawal, only to reappear in Norman times. Thereafter the black rat prospered - until the arrival of the larger brown rat (also known as the sewer rat or Norway rat), which reached Britain at about the time of the Hanoverian succession in the eighteenth century.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 272:

Rattus norvegicus
Rattus norvegicus#Translingual

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Any rat that lives in sewers.


Jafarabadi

One of a breed of water buffalo from Jafarabad, India. It is known for its large size.


noisy miner

'Miner' is a spelling variant of 'myna', a name given to this bird due to its superficial resemblance to the myna.

By keeping small birds out of huge areas and fatally degrading their habitat, the noisy miner has had a devastating effect on dry woodlands and the birds that ought to live in them.

2016 December, Nigel Andrew, “Beware the Cassowary”, in Literary Review:

A grey honeyeater, Manorina melanocephala, that has a large range of songs, calls, and alarms, is endemic to eastern and south-eastern Australia, and has a black head, orange-yellow beak and feet, and a yellow patch behind the eye.


bankiva

Gallus gallus bankiva, a subspecies of the red junglefowl


faunch

en-verb

faunch (third-person singular simple present faunches, present participle faunching, simple past and past participle faunched)

faunches (present singular third-person)
faunching (participle present)
faunched (participle past)
faunched (past)

Uncertain. Used in Midland American English and Western American English. Entered the fanspeak body of slang after writer Noel Loomis used it in a review in Pro-Phile.

Instead of the fine faunching black mare he usually rode he was on a light grey today, a little slower if it came to a run from the Indians or a buffalo stampede, but much less conspicuous against the snow.

1954, Mari Sandoz, The Buffalo Hunters, published 2008, →ISBN, page 6:

Ecstatic, they faunched and gamboled and I could hardly get them in the traces.

1986, Jerry Bumpus, Heroes and Villains, →ISBN, The Outdoorsman, page 59:

(US, equestrianism) To bite the bit, especially when restless; to champ.


eastern ratsnake

en-noun

eastern ratsnake (plural eastern ratsnakes)

A constrictor snake of the species Pantherophis alleghaniensis, native to eastern and central US and adjoining Canada.


erpornis

A bird of Southeast Asia, Erpornis zantholeuca.


eggling

Presumably from *eggle (“to sell eggs”) + -ing. Compare English eggler (“seller of eggs”).

No eggler will allow eggs to be contaminated, because he wants to sell at the best price he can get […] If the House says it is, then in my opinion the majority of those people must get out of eggling […]

1938, Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil, Parliamentary debates; official report, volume 73, page 734:

The death of Dobbin of old age had put an end to his master's eggling, for he had no capital with which to buy another horse.

1945, Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford:

(archaic) The sale of eggs; the trade of an eggler.


eggling

"Ode X" in 1834, Charles L. S. Jones, American Lyrics
One Lovling scarcely's fledg'd. One, yet,
An eggling still remains;
A third, from forth the broken shell,
In chirping notes, complains.

But now the little Other eggling was making loud peeping sounds. It was hungry.

A small, miniature, undersized, or underdeveloped egg.


shark catfish

shark catfish (plural shark catfishes or shark catfish)

shark catfishes (plural)
shark catfish (plural)

Any sharklike catfish of the family Pangasiidae, found across southern Asia.


swai

iridescent shark
iridescent shark#English

Synonym of iridescent shark (“a shark catfish of species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus”)


iridescent shark

iridescent shark (plural iridescent sharks)

A shark catfish (not a true shark) of species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.

থাই পাঙ্গাশ

Pangasianodon hypophthalmus — see also panga, pangasius


wood-pigeon

If Sémiramis be a Wood-pigeon in Greece, it may, perchance have been an House-pigeon in the Countrey of Ajhur.

1671, John Gregory, Gregorii Opuscula : or, Notes & Observations upon some Passages of Scripture, with other learned Tracts, page 236:

ONE of the most interesting and controversial problems connected with the wood-pigeon is the huge winter flocks which many believe are reinforced by migrants or 'foreigners' from abroad.

1955, “Scottish Agriculture”, in Fisheries, volumes 35-36, Scotland: Department of Agriculture, page 209:

For a decade, up to 60% of the wood-pigeon population were removed each winter.

2001, Michael R. Conover, Resolving Human-Wildlife Conflicts, page 155:


Indian myna

Acridotheres tristis, an omnivorous open woodland bird of the family Sturnidae with a strong territorial instinct that has adapted extremely well to urban environments.


white rhinoceros

white rhinoceros (plural white rhinoceros or white rhinoceroses)

white rhinoceros (plural)
white rhinoceroses (plural)

Perhaps simply from the color (compare black rhino), or perhaps from Dutch wijd (“wide”). See White Rhinoceros#Naming.

Ceratotherium simum
Ceratotherium simum#Translingual

An African species of rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum).

White Rhinoceros#Naming
White rhinoceros


pipipi

A bird of New Zealand, Mohoua novaeseelandiae.


seabream

Any of several species of marine fish of the families Sparidae or Bramidae found in shallow temperate and tropical waters around the World.


poison arrow frog

poison arrow frog (plural poison arrow frogs)


brown falcon

Falco berigora
Falco berigora#Translingual

Falco berigora, a member of the falcon genus found in the drier regions of Australia.


blackline tilefish

blackline tilefish (plural blackline tilefishes or blackline tilefish)

blackline tilefishes (plural)
blackline tilefish (plural)

Caulolatilus cyanops, a tilefish native to the western Atlantic Ocean.


velvetfish

velvetfish (plural velvetfishes or velvetfish)

velvetfishes (plural)
velvetfish (plural)

From velvet + fish, from its skin texture.

Any of a family of scorpaeniform fish (Aploactinidae).


waryfish

waryfish (plural waryfishes or waryfish)

Waryfishes are near-bottom (demersal) fishes at 200–3000 m of all oceans.

1989, C. D. Paulin, New Zealand Fish: A Complete Guide, page 107:

A deep-sea aulopiform fish of the family Notosudidae.


wallago

/ˈwɑ.ləˌɡoʊ/

From the translingual genus name Wallago, from Telugu వాలగ (vālaga).

A member of the genus Wallago of catfishes of the family Siluridae, native to Asia.


northern house martin

northern house martin (plural northern house martins)

Delichon urbicum
Delichon urbicum#Translingual

The common house martin (Delichon urbicum).


vimba

Any member of the genus Vimba of cyprinid fish.


common house martin

common house martin (plural common house martins)

A migratory bird of the species Delichon urbicum, breeding in Europe, North Africa and temperate Asia.

къалэпцӏащхъуэ

qalɛpcʼaśχʷɛ


land-salamander

From land + salamander. Compare Dutch landsalamander, German Landsalamander.

They think they can turn him into something rich and strange —turn him in a single generation—even as certain ingenious experimentalists turned what Nature meant for a land-salamander into a water-salamander, with new ruddertail and gills instead of lungs and feet suppressed, by feeding him with water animals in oxygenated water and cajoling his functions.

1888, The Athenæum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts

A salamander (Order Caudata) that habitually or permanently lives its life on land.

A name given to the terrestrial phase of a newt; eft.


water-salamander

From water + salamander. Compare Dutch watersalamander (“newt”).

(zoology) Any salamander (Order Urodela) which habitually or permanently lives in water.


Australian white ibis

Australian white ibis (plural Australian white ibis or Australian white ibises)

Australian white ibis (plural)
Australian white ibises (plural)

Threskiornis molucca
Threskiornis molucca#Translingual

Threskiornis molucca, a species of wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae, which is widespread across much of Australia and has a predominantly white plumage with a bare, black head, long downcurved bill and black legs.

Nahatʼeʼiitsoh Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ tsídiidaashiyishí bitsiiʼ halzhinígíí


emys

From the translingual genus name Emys and its etymon, the Classical Latin emys, from the Ancient Greek ἐμύς (emús).

Certain Emydes…tend to the Sea-tortoises or Turtles…and yet exhibit characters peculiar to themselves.

1843, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, XXV, page 57/2:

Remains of the elephant…the beaver, the emys…and goats.

1873, James Murdoch Geikie, The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man, page 492, Appendix:

(zoology) Any member of the small Emys genus of freshwater pond tortoises.


Philippine flying lemur

Philippine flying lemur (plural Philippine flying lemurs)

Cynocephalus volans, a kind of flying lemur.


kagwang

Philippine flying lemur
Philippine flying lemur

(Philippines) The Philippine flying lemur.


sportive lemur

(zoology) Any of the lemurs in the family Lepilemuridae.


red river hog

A bush pig of species Potamochoerus porcus, native to forested areas of western and central Africa.


king vulture

/kɪŋ ˈvʌltʃəɹ/

Sarcoramphus papa
Sarcoramphus papa#Translingual

A widespread species of New World vulture, Sarcoramphus papa.


Simmental

An alpine valley in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland.


eastern gray squirrel

eastern gray squirrel (plural eastern gray squirrels)

Sciurus carolinensis
Sciurus carolinensis#Translingual

The typical squirrel of eastern North America, of the species Sciurus carolinensis, invasive elsewhere.


great blue heron

great blue heron (plural great blue herons)

Ardea herodias
Ardea herodias#Translingual

A large wading bird of the species Ardea herodias.


deer mouse

In the wild, deer mice and oldfield mice never interbreed.

2017 April 19, Carl Zimmer, “Why Are Some Mice (and People) Monogamous? A Study Points to Genes”, in The New York Times:

Peromyscus maniculatus
Peromyscus maniculatus#Translingual

Any of the muroid rodents in the genus Peromyscus, especially Peromyscus maniculatus.

Many of the muroid rodents with notable jumping capability within the subfamily Neotominae (family Cricetidae), including all species in the genera Peromyscus and Habromys, as well as some species in several others.


northern bobwhite

northern bobwhite (plural northern bobwhites)

Colinus virginianus
Colinus virginianus#Translingual

A bird of the species Colinus virginianus, native to eastern North America.


round herring

round herring (plural round herrings or round herring)

round herrings (plural)
round herring (plural)

Any of the family Dussumieriidae of clupeiform fish.


clupeiform

(zoology) Belonging or relating to the order Clupeiformes of ray-finned fish, including herrings and anchovies


English sparrow

English sparrow (plural English sparrows)

Passer domesticus
Passer domesticus#Translingual

A very common small bird of the species Passer domesticus.


bouvier des Flandres

bouvier des Flandres (plural bouviers des Flandres)

Borrowed from French bouvier des Flandres (“cattle-dog of Flanders”).

bor

A breed of very large black dog with terrier-like appearance.


common blackbird

en-noun

common blackbird (plural common blackbirds)

Turdus merula
Turdus merula#Translingual

A common bird of the species Turdus merula, native to Eurasia.


northern raccoon

northern raccoon (plural northern raccoons)

Procyon lotor
Procyon lotor#Translingual

A mammal of the species Procyon lotor, native to North America.


American brook char

American brook char (plural American brook chars)

Salvelinus fontinalis
Salvelinus fontinalis#Translingual

The brook trout, a fish of the species Salvelinus fontinalis, native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada.


western osprey

Pandion haliaetus
Pandion haliaetus#Translingual

A fish-eating bird of prey of the species Pandion haliaetus.


red junglefowl

red junglefowl (plural red junglefowl or red junglefowls)

red junglefowl (plural)
red junglefowls (plural)

Gallus gallus
Gallus gallus#Translingual

A junglefowl of the species Gallus gallus, native to south and east Asia.


European plaice

European plaice (plural European plaices)

Pleuronectes platessa
Pleuronectes platessa#Translingual

A commercially important flatfish of the species Pleuronectes platessa, native to European waters.


ring-necked pheasant

ring-necked pheasant (plural ring-necked pheasants)

Phasianus colchicus
Phasianus colchicus#Translingual

A bird of the species Phasianus colchicus, native principally to temperate parts of Asia, naturalized elsewhere.


Eurasian magpie

Eurasian magpie (plural Eurasian magpies)

A well-known black-and-white corvid species, Pica pica, of Eurasian distribution.


rosy boa

Lichanura trivirgata, a snake of the Boidae family.


rosy barb

Pethia conchonius, a subtropical freshwater cyprinid fish of southern Asia.


northern pintail

northern pintail (plural northern pintails)

A large duck of the species Anas acuta, of wide geographic distribution.

бабыщкӏэпсы́гъуэ

babəśkʼɛpsə́ğʷɛ


common pheasant

common pheasant (plural common pheasants)


orange-winged amazon

orange-winged amazon (plural orange-winged amazons)

Amazona amazonica
Amazona amazonica#Translingual


orange-winged parrot

orange-winged parrot (plural orange-winged parrots)


roofed turtle

Any of the obsolete genus Kachuga of Asian turtles, now placed in Batagur and Pangshura.


common tern

Sterna hirundo
Sterna hirundo#Translingual

A small, gull-like shore bird of the species Sterna hirundo, of wide geographic distribution.


coarse fish

coarse fish (plural coarse fishes or coarse fish)

coarse fishes (plural)
coarse fish (plural)

Any fish that is not a game fish, and thus historically disdained by recreational anglers.


dogtooth tuna

Gymnosarda unicolor, a pelagic marine fish of the family Scombridae.


cryptodire

(zoology) Any member of the Cryptodira, the taxonomic suborder of Testudines that includes most living tortoises and turtles.


tommy ruff

Arripis georgianus, an Australasian fish; the Australian herring.


Bowen technique

Named after Thomas Ambrose Bowen (1916–1982).

alternative medicine
alternative medicine

A form of bodywork in alternative medicine, involving gentle rolling motions along the muscles, tendons, and fascia.


European starling

European starling (plural European starlings)

Sturnus vulgaris
Sturnus vulgaris#Translingual


common starling

common starling (plural common starlings)

Calque of translingual Sturnus vulgaris, via common + starling.


common rabbit

Oryctolagus cuniculus
Oryctolagus cuniculus#Translingual

An animal of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus, native to southwestern Europe and northwest Africa, introduced and invasive elsewhere.


European rabbit

European rabbit (plural European rabbits)


dendrocolaptine

(zoology) Of or relating to the bird subfamily Dendrocolaptinae of woodcreepers.


actinistian

Relating to coelacanths (and related fish) of the subclass Actinistia.


jollytail

Galaxias maculatus (common galaxias), a freshwater fish with a marine larval stage, found from western Australia to the Falkland Islands.


duckmole

We can form a fairly clear idea from the duckmole and the kangaroo how the whole class of mammals have arisen from reptiles, but when we turn to geology we find the case greatly strengthened.

1906, Dennis Hird, A Picture Book of Evolution, volume 1, page 147:

“Duckmoles? I never heard of them.” His fleshy bill was the same shape as a duck's, but with comblike ridges inside the bottom half. “May I pick you up?” He nodded. “Mind the spurs on my hind feet, though. I've poison in them.”

2009, Tamora Pierce, The Realms of the Gods, page 39:

“Tell me, sir,” she says, “does this duckmole, does it quack?”

2023, Kevin M. Miller, Wigs on the Green:


pintail duck

Any of a group of dabbling ducks, all in genus Anas, having a characteristic pointed tail.


sheldgoose

Any of several larger bird species in the subfamily Tadorninae of the duck family Anatidae.


Lantian Man

a long-extinct hominid who lived in prehistoric China


Ceprano Man

a long-extinct hominid who lived in prehistoric Italy


Heidelberg man

Homo heidelbergensis
Homo heidelbergensis#Translingual

Homo heidelbergensis: A long-extinct hominid, of the Old World, from which modern humans are derived.


Flores Man

An extinct hominid who lived in Indonesia.


Rhodesian man

A long-extinct hominid who lived in Africa.


heath hen

Any of an extinct subspecies of grouse that once lived in North America (†Tympanuchus cupido cupido).


American black bear

American black bear (plural American black bears)

Ursus americanus
Ursus americanus#Translingual

A bear of the species Ursus americanus, native to cooler climates in North America.


Peking Man

A long-extinct hominid who lived in prehistoric China.


Guadalupe fur seal

Guadalupe fur seal (plural Guadalupe fur seals)

Arctocephalus townsendi, a fur seal found on Mexico's Guadalupe Island.


jewelfront

A species of hummingbird, Gould's jewelfront (Heliodoxa aurescens).


Gould's jewelfront

Gould's jewelfront (plural Gould's jewelfronts)

Commemorating the English ornithologist and bird artist John Gould (1804–1881)

A species of hummingbird, Heliodoxa aurescens.


chowchilla

Orthonyx spaldingii, a passerine bird in the logrunner family Orthonychidae, endemic to Australia.


chasmosaurine

Any ceratopsid dinosaur of the subfamily Chasmosaurinae


hyperoartian

(zoology) Any vertebrate of the class Hyperoartia


grey plover

black-bellied plover
black-bellied plover


babax

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βάβαξ (bábax).

lbor

Any of four species of passerine birds within the genus Pterorhinus in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae.


tetrapodomorph

Clipping of translingual Tetrapodomorpha

clipping

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

Any vertebrate tetrapod of the clade Tetrapodomorpha


pebble toad

Oreophrynella nigra, a South American toad that can fold up its limbs and roll down a slope when threatened.


blynx

(rare) The hybrid offspring of a bobcat and a Canada lynx.


La Plata dolphin

en-noun

La Plata dolphin (plural La Plata dolphins)

Pontoporia blainvillei, a dolphin found in the coastal Atlantic waters of southeastern South America.


Piltdown Man

The Piltdown man of Sussex, England. Antiquity variously estimated at 100,000 to 300,000 years. The ape-like structure of the jaw does not prevent the expression of a considerable degree of intelligence in the face.

1914, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art:

(taxonomy) A supposed early human theorized from bone fragments said to have been found in a gravel pit in Piltdown, England, in 1912, but later identified as a forgery.


spring salmon

spring salmon (plural spring salmons or spring salmon)

spring salmons (plural)
spring salmon (plural)

(Canada) A chinook salmon; especially an average-sized one (less than 13.5 kg).


springer antelope

springer antelope (plural springer antelopes)

Antidorcas marsupialis
Wikispecies:Antidorcas marsupialis

(archaic) springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis)


springing cow

A cow or heifer which is close to calving.


ceratopsoid

Any marginocephalian dinosaur of the superfamily Ceratopsoidea


coronosaur

Any centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur of the genus Coronosaurus.


symmetrodont

clipping

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

(zoology) Any Mesozoic mammal of the order Symmetrodonta


pink fairy armadillo

en-noun

pink fairy armadillo (plural pink fairy armadillos)

Chlamyphorus truncatus
Chlamyphorus truncatus#Translingual

Chlamyphorus truncatus, a species of armadillo native to Argentina.


blind snake

Any snake of the infraorder Scolecophidia


Dutch nightingale

Dutch nightingale (plural Dutch nightingales)

Dutch (“imitation, poor substitute”) + nightingale.


paradigalla

Either of two species of birds of the genus Paradigalla in the bird-of-paradise family Paradisaeidae.


Australian plainhead

Australian plainhead (plural Australian plainheads)

A breed of domestic canary that was created for show purposes.


cacholote

Any of several species of passerine birds in the genus Pseudoseisura, found in South America.


ashy minivet

A passerine bird, Pericrocotus divaricatus, of eastern Asia that belongs to the minivet genus Pericrocotus in the cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae.


dreamfish

dreamfish (plural dreamfishes or dreamfish)

Any fish whose flesh can produce hallucinations when eaten.


Titicaca water frog

Titicaca water frog (plural Titicaca water frogs)

Telmatobius culeus, a large frog found around Lake Titicaca in South America.


eutheriodont

Any therapsid of the clade Eutheriodontia.


baurioid

Any therocephalian therapsid of the superfamily Baurioidea.


therocephalian

Any eutheriodont therapsid of the suborder Therocephalia


fistulous withers

It is now generally believed that fistulous withers are the result of a germ, probably picked up from the grass, although at one time they were thought to be caused by saddle or roller pressure.

1962, Catherine Harris, “Ailments”, in Practical Pony Keeping, London; Glagsow: Blackie, →OCLC, part 2 (Care of Your Pony), page 100:

The sooner fistulous withers is treated, the more likely that a cure is effected.

1997, Tony Pavord, Marcy Pavord, “Fistulous Withers”, in The Complete Equine Veterinary Manual: A Comprehensive and Instant Guide to Equine Health, Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, published 1998, →ISBN, part III (A–Z of Diseases), page 154, column 2:

(veterinary medicine, pathology, equestrianism) Inflammation of the serous bursa of withers in horses which bursts outside, creating a fistula.


hupehsuchian

Any diapsid reptile of the order †Hupehsuchia


hermit thrush

Catharus guttatus
Catharus guttatus#Translingual

A species of solitary thrush native to North America (Catharus guttatus).


ichthyosauriform

Any extinct reptile similar to an ichthyosaur


pristerognathid

Any therocephalian of the genus Pristerognathus


kiskadee

They always come out after the storm and join the kiskadees, the best way of telling when the rain well and truly over.

2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 104:

Either of two species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family.


titanosuchian

From translingual Titanosuchidae + -ian.

suf

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

Any dinocephalian of the family Titanosuchidae.


Orphean warbler

en-noun

Orphean warbler (plural Orphean warblers)

western Orphean warbler
western Orphean warbler

Sylvia hortensis
Sylvia hortensis#Translingual

Curruca hortensis
Curruca hortensis#Translingual

the bird western Orphean warbler, Sylvia hortensis, now sometimes Curruca hortensis

eastern Orphean warbler
eastern Orphean warbler

Sylvia crassirostris
Sylvia crassirostris#Translingual

Curruca crassirostris
Curruca crassirostris#Translingual

the bird eastern Orphean warbler, Sylvia crassirostris, now sometimes Curruca crassirostris


thalattosaur

The preferred habitat of the thalattosaurs was apparently the sea.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 75:

A prehistoric marine reptile of the extinct order †Thalattosauria.


poulard

poulard (countable and uncountable, plural poulards)

From French poularde, from poule (“hen”) + -ard.


graveteiro

A pink-legged graveteiro, a bird of species Acrobatornis fonsecai, endemic to Brazil.


diucon

A passerine bird of South America in the tyrant flycatcher family, the fire-eyed diucon (Pyrope pyrope, syn. Xolmis pyrope).


pauraque

Any of species Nyctidromus albicollis of nightjars found from the far southern part of the US through Central and South America.


asity

From Malagasy (Sakalava dialect) asity, asaity.

Any of the family Philepittidae of small suboscine passerine birds.


caprimulgiform

Either from Caprimulgus + -form, or from Caprimulgiformes

A bird in the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes: the nightjars, oilbirds, frogmouths, potoos, etc.


Otsego bass

From Otsego Lake (New York), in central New York State.

A whitefish in species Coregonus artedi, found in lakes of the Great Lakes region of North America.


ostariophysian

(zoology) A member of the fish superorder Ostariophysi.


osteolepiform

(zoology) Any extinct fish of the order Osteolepiformes


avetheropod

Any birdlike theropod of the clade Avetheropoda


microsaur

Any of the order †Microsauria of extinct lepospondyl amphibians.


abelisauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Abelisauroidea


coelophysoid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Coelophysoidea


zemni

In the seal, the mole rat, the zemni rat, and the walrus, the auricle is absent.

1875 June 20, J. P. Pennefather, “The Sense of Hearing”, in The Dublin University Magazine, page 735:

(archaic) The Podolsk mole-rat (Spalax zemni)


house finch

(US) A passerine bird in the family Fringillidae, Haemorhous mexicanus


brubru

Borrowed from French brubru, ultimately imitative of the call of the male of the species.

L[anius] Capensis, Shaw. le Brubru, Le Vaill.; Brubru Shrike. […] Native of the Cape of Good Hope. From its peculiar note brubru, it derives its trivial name.

1845, “LANIUS”, in Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, editors, Encyclopædia Metropolitana; or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, […], volume XXI, London: B. Fellowes; […], →OCLC, page 305, column 2:

It was in the trees south of Timbuktu that I saw most of the Brubrus, […]

1932, The Ibis, a Magazine of General Ornithology, London: N[icholas] Trübner and Co., […], →OCLC, page 688:

A pair of adult brubrus taken at Moroto, Uganda, 3,500 feet, on May 15, are referrable to the nominate race, although they are not wholly typical of it.

1966, Herbert Friedmann, A Contribution to the Ornithology of Uganda: Scientific Results of the 1963 Knudsen-Machris Expedition to Kenya and Uganda, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, →OCLC, page 43, column 2:

I distinguished the rasping whistles of bru-brus, the clarion choruses of red and yellow barbets, the feverish chattering of superb starlings and the harsh squawks of white-headed buffalo weavers.

1989, Tom Heaton, In Teleki’s Footsteps: An East African Journey, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 75:

This bird of dry scrub could be confused with a variety of other similar-looking species, including the tchagras[…], but the Brubru is short-tailed and very white in the face and breast. […] The song is a distinctive rolling trill, "prrrrrrrp-prrrrrrrrp", not dissimilar to an old telephone ringing, which is far-carrying.

2014, Adam Scott Kennedy, “Shrikes – Brubru, Taita Fiscal and Magpie Shrike”, in Birds of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Conservation Area (Wild Guides), Princeton, N.J., Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 170:

They also saw some tasty representatives of the local avian wildlife in the form of bru-brus, crombecs, tawny eagles and marico flycatchers.

2015, David Fletcher, chapter 16, in The Country-cides of Namibia and Botswana (Brian’s World), Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN:

Also more fully as brubru shrike: a bird in the bushshrike family found in sub-Saharan Africa (Nilaus afer).

boubou

bird in the bushshrike family of the genus Laniarius


mud shark

The courtships were called off. The guys all joked about it afterward, said Mr. Bloussé was a nigger-lover and a mud shark.

2008, Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba, page 26:

(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A non-black person, usually a white woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men.


crocodyloid

Any crocodilian of the superfamily Crocodyloidea.


allodaposuchian

From translingual Allodaposuchus + -ian.

Any eusuchian crocodylomorph of the genus Allodaposuchus


otariine

This region is also rich in numbers and diversity of pinnipeds, including the odobenine walrus and four species of otariine or eared seals (the northern and southern fur seals, the California and Steller sea lions).

1978, Whalewatcher: Journal of the American Cetacean Society:


varanine

(zoology) A monitor lizard; a member of the subfamily Varaninae.


gavialoid

Any crocodylian of the superfamily Gavialoidea


planocraniid

(zoology) Any crocodylian of the family Planocraniidae.


striped skunk

Mephitis mephitis
Mephitis mephitis#Translingual

A carnivore of the species Mephitis mephitis, known for the persistent pungent aroma of the scent it sprays when threatened.


whitebelly

whitebelly puffer

whitebelly tree frog

whitebelly damselfish

The only kind of tree frog I've seen around here is the whitebelly.

(often used attributively) An animal characterized by a white belly


common squirrel monkey

common squirrel monkey (plural common squirrel monkeys)

Saimiri sciureus
Saimiri sciureus#Translingual

An arboreal monkey of the species Saimiri sciureus, native to tropical South America.


Brussels griffon

Brussels griffon (plural Brussels griffons)

On Dec. 4, 2021, Twixie and Cowboy, both 2-year-old Brussels Griffons, were married at the Dallas home of the bride (Twixie), in the backyard. She wore an appliquéd lace bodice with a ruffle of layered tulle at the waist. The groom donned a handmade silk-cotton tuxedo and top hat.

2022 March 16, Sean Malin, “Love Is in the Air. So Is Dander.”, in The New York Times:

Any of several related breeds of toy dog from Belgium.


South American squirrel monkey

South American squirrel monkey (plural South American squirrel monkeys)

South American squirrel monkeys (plural)


European toad

A common European toad, of the species Bufo bufo.


red-winged blackbird

red-winged blackbird (plural red-winged blackbirds)

Agelaius phoeniceus
Agelaius phoeniceus#Translingual

A bird of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, native to North and Central America.


house sparrow

Passer domesticus
Passer domesticus#Translingual

A bird of the species Passer domesticus, native to much of Eurasia, introduced in many other temperate environments.


long-tailed macaque

long-tailed macaque (plural long-tailed macaques)

Macaca fascicularis
Macaca fascicularis#Translingual

A primate of the species Macaca fascicularis, native to Southeast Asia.


channel catfish

channel catfish (plural channel catfishes or channel catfish)

channel catfishes (plural)
channel catfish (plural)

Ictalurus punctatus
Ictalurus punctatus#Translingual

A fish of the species Ictalurus punctatus, native to eastern North America.


shiny cowbird

Molothrus bonariensis
Molothrus bonariensis#Translingual

A passerine bird (Molothrus bonariensis) of the Icteridae family.


cowcod

cowcod (countable and uncountable, plural cowcods)

A fish of species Sebastes levis, found off the coasts of California and northern Mexico.


jacopever

(South Africa) Any of certain species of marine fish in the genus Sebastes.


western roe deer

western roe deer (plural western roe deer)

Capreolus capreolus
Capreolus capreolus#Translingual

A species of small deer (Capreolus capreolus) native to Europe and Asia Minor.


common chaffinch

common chaffinch (plural common chaffinches)

Fringilla coelebs
Fringilla coelebs#Translingual

A bird of the species Fringilla coelebs, principally native to Europe.


American perch

American perch (plural American perches or American perch)

American perches (plural)
American perch (plural)

Perca flavescens
Perca flavescens#Translingual

A fish of the species Perca flavescens, native to eastern and central North America.


blackmouth

From black + mouth.
For the origin of the pejorative "Presbyterian", several theories exist:
* A specialisation of a dialect sense "liar, slanderer, foul-mouthed person" applied to political radicals.
* Ulster Scots refusing to take the "Black Oath" imposed in 1639;
* Covenanters eating blackberries or blaeberries while hiding in the wilds during the The Killing Time.

(derogatory, Ireland, dated) a Presbyterian


subbrachian

(ichthyology, obsolete) Any fish of the order Subbrachiales (syn. Malacopterygii)


pigtail macaque

pigtail macaque (plural pigtail macaques)

southern pig-tailed macaque
southern pig-tailed macaque

Macaca nemestrina
Macaca nemestrina#Translingual

Any of two closely related SE Asian species of macaque:

A southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina);

A northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina).


southern pig-tailed macaque

southern pig-tailed macaque (plural southern pig-tailed macaques)

An Old World monkey of the species Macaca nemestrina, native to Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay peninsula.


manumea

Stirnemann saw her first manumea when she was working on conserving another local bird, the mao.

2018 April 9, Jeremy Hance, The Guardian:


Malayan night heron

Malayan night heron (plural Malayan night herons)

Gorsachius melanolophus
Gorsachius melanolophus#Translingual

A medium-sized heron, Gorsachius melanolophus, distributed in southern and eastern Asia, and breeding in India, Taiwan, China, and the Philippines.


Gunnison's prairie dog

Gunnison's prairie dog (plural Gunnison's prairie dogs)

Cynomys gunnisoni, a species of prairie dog primarily distributed in the Four Corners region of the United States.

Gunnison's prairie dog
John Williams Gunnison


rosy-red minnow

rosy-red minnow (plural rosy-red minnows)

Pimephales promelas
Pimephales promelas#Translingual

A strain of the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas).


Japanese macaque

Japanese macaque (plural Japanese macaques)

Japanese macaques have long red faces and eyes that are close-set like those of George W. Bush.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 152:

Macaca fuscata
Macaca fuscata#Translingual

A species of macaque, Macaca fuscata, native to Japan.


catty-mount

"He would have rid that horse, too," pa says, "if I hadn't a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount. A deliberate flouting of her and me."

1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 67:


Japanese night heron

Japanese night heron (plural Japanese night herons)

Gorsachius goisagi
Gorsachius goisagi#Translingual

An endangered species of night heron, Gorsachius goisagi, which breeds in Japan and winters in the Philippines and Indonesia, and can also be seen in the spring and summer in Korea and the Russian Far East.


black-crowned night heron

black-crowned night heron (plural black-crowned night herons)

Nycticorax nycticorax
Nycticorax nycticorax#Translingual

A medium-sized heron, Nycticorax nycticorax, found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia.


acouchi

From French acouchi, probably from the same Old Tupi name akuti as agouti.

Any of several rodents of the genus Myoprocta of the family Dasyproctidae, smaller than agoutis, which inhabit Amazonia.


chorus frog

Any of the frogs of the genus Pseudacris, which produce a repeated rasping trill.


Trike

(informal) An endearing diminutive name given to an individual Triceratops.


Rexy

Tyrannosaurus rex
Tyrannosaurus rex#English

(informal) An endearing diminutive name given to an individual Tyrannosaurus rex.


dinosaurology

(informal) The branch of paleontology that focuses on studying dinosaurs.

dinosaurologia

(informal) branch of paleontology that focuses on studying dinosaurs


Steggy

(informal) An endearing diminutive name given to an individual Stegosaurus.


dinosaurologist

(informal) A paleontologist who focuses on studying dinosaurs.


Philomela

From Latin Philomela, from Ancient Greek Φιλομήλη (Philomḗlē), from φίλος (phílos, “love”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple; fruit; sheep”), but folk-etymologized since at least Ovid's time as "lover of song".


rufous-collared sparrow

en-noun

rufous-collared sparrow (plural rufous-collared sparrows)

American sparrow
American sparrow#English

Zonotrichia capensis, an American sparrow found in Latin America.


agathaumid

(obsolete, paleontology) Any of the Agathaumidae, an obsolete family of ceratopsian dinosaurs.


kereru

Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae
Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae#Translingual

(New Zealand) The New Zealand pigeon (species Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae).


pelican eel

An eel-like deep-sea fish (Eurypharynx pelecanoides), the only known member of the genus Eurypharynx and family Eurypharyngidae, which is rarely seen by humans, although occasionally caught in fishing nets.


salamanderfish

salamanderfish (plural salamanderfishes or salamanderfish)

salamanderfishes (plural)
salamanderfish (plural)

Lepidogalaxias salamandroides, a small fish of Western Australia.


shovelfish

From shovel + fish, from the shape of its snout.


duckbill cat

The paddlefish (Polyodon spathula), locally known as "spoonbill," "duckbill cat," and "shovelfish, " is found in all the larger streams of the Mississippi Valley

1911, United States. Bureau of the Census, United States. Bureau of Fisheries, Fisheries of the United States, 1908, page 75:

Polyodon spathula
Polyodon spathula#Translingual

The American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula)


eastern buzzard

eastern buzzard (plural eastern buzzards)

Buteo japonicus
Buteo japonicus#Translingual

A species of buzzard, Buteo japonicus, similar to the common buzzard, but with less variability in plumage and smaller dark carpal spots, and with usually dark-brown upperparts, pale nearly-white underparts, and darkish primaries.


dusky thrush

Turdus eunomus
Turdus eunomus#Translingual

A species of thrush, Turdus eunomus, which breeds eastwards from central Siberia.


brown snake

Any of certain snakes that are brown in color of species:

Pseudonaja spp., Australian brown snakes

Storeria spp., North American brown snakes

Elapognathus minor, Australian short-nosed snake or little brown snake

Pseudechis australis, Australian mulga or king brown snake


horned puffin

So called because of the significant fleshy "horn" above each eye.

Fratercula corniculata
Fratercula corniculata#Translingual

A species of puffin, Fratercula corniculata, similar in appearance to the Atlantic puffin except with different bill colours and a significant fleshy "horn" above each eye.


tufted puffin

Named from the distinctive pair of tufts on its head.

Fratercula cirrhata
Fratercula cirrhata#Translingual

A species of puffin, Fratercula cirrhata, easily distinguished by its thick bill and the pair of tufts on its head.


desert cottontail

desert cottontail (plural desert cottontails)

A common species of cottontail rabbit native to the southwestern United States as well as northern and central Mexico, extending northward into Montana, Sylvilagus audubonii.


brush rabbit

A species of small cottontail rabbits found in the Pacific Slope of the western United States and Baja California, Sylvilagus bachmani.


crab-eating macaque

crab-eating macaque (plural crab-eating macaques)

Macaca fascicularis
Macaca fascicularis#Translingual

A primate of the species Macaca fascicularis, native to Southeast Asia.


dogsicle

If this had been Noriega's old powerful glory days, my Jazzy could have ended up a dogsicle.

2004, Cindy Adams, The Gift of Jazzy, page 220:

My fur catches the flakes like Velcro and I freeze into a dogsicle.

2009, Berkeley Breathed, chapter 12, in Flawed Dogs: The Novel: The Shocking Raid on Westminster:

Though you weren't cold, you were shivering like a dogsicle.

2010, Terry Bain, You Are a Dog: Life Through the Eyes of Man's Best Friend, page 28:

(informal, humorous) A cold or frozen dog.


banded archerfish

banded archerfish (plural banded archerfish)

An archerfish of species Toxotes jaculatrix, known for its ability to spit a jet of water to "shoot down" prey, found in coastal waters from India to the Philippines, Vanuatu, and Australia.


largescale archerfish

largescale archerfish (plural largescale archerfishes or largescale archerfish)

largescale archerfishes (plural)
largescale archerfish (plural)

An archerfish of species Toxotes chatareus, which is sooty in colour compared to the silveriness of most archerfish.


frogsicle

When spring comes, the frogsicle defrosts and shivers back to life.

1997, James Martin, Frogs, Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 22:

Some frogs can become frogsicles and still live! The North American wood frog can withstand brutal winters.

2005, Aimee H. Bakken, What's Inside a Frog, Tangerine Press/Scholastic, →ISBN:

The Canadian wood frog turns into a frozen frogsicle every winter […]

2008, William Hanson, The Edge of Medicine: The Technology That Will Change Our Lives, Palgrave Macmillan, published 2009, →ISBN, page 182:

(informal, humorous) A cold or frozen frog.


fishsicle

This would certainly be a perfect time to replace it [your aquarium's heater] — if something goes wrong you'll either have fishsicles or bouillabaisse.

1994, Aquarium Fish Magazine, volume 7, number 3, page 8:

Fish can swim in the icy waters without turning into fishsicles because many of them make chemicals that keep their blood from freezing.

2008, Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, & Laura Silverstein Nunn, Adaptation, Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 51:

[…] The ice boat had carried them home with their baskets of fish. Elsa froze the fish and snuck them into the kitchens.
"Fishsicles!" five-year-old Anna shouted in delight.

2015, Memory and Magic, Disney Press, →ISBN:

(informal, humorous) A cold or frozen fish.


catsicle

He slipped out the back door, and we did not see him for two full days. The temperature dropped dramatically, it was close to freezing those two nights. We figured, too bad, the little bugger had it made, with us, and now he'll be a catsicle or a catsplat in the road...So we gave up on him, and went to the Humane Society, and adopted a bouncing bruiser named Smokey.

1995 November 21, Virtuanna [username], “Re: A Pox Upon The Kitten Dumpers”, in rec.pets.cats (Usenet):

'The cat's gone,' my father said. 'Face it, that cat can hardly stay alive inside the house. She's not coming back. And if you hold the door open much longer, the rest of us will freeze to death too.'
'Poppy!' my stepmother shouted.
'She's frozen now,' I said helpfully. 'She's a catsicle.'

2003, David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever, Random House, published 2004, →ISBN, page 145:

I know for damn sure watching catsicles form outside my kitchen window would drive me out of my mind with guilt.

2006, Nina Malkin, An Unlikely Cat Lady: Feral Adventures in the Backyard Jungle, Globe Pequot, →ISBN, page 48:

(informal, humorous) A cold or frozen cat.


pigsicle

Of course, I jokingly offered the girls our frozen pig. After wiping away the snow and rapping my knuckles on it to demonstrate that it was a solidly frozen pigsicle, the girls looked at each other in amazement and politely refused.

2006, Ben Applebaum, Ryan McNally, & Derrick Pittman, Class Dismissed: 75 Outrageous, Mind-Expanding College Exploits (and Lessons That Won't Be on the Final), Villard, →ISBN, page 24:

I was buried with only my snotty snout sticking out. I was frozen. I could become a pigsicle.

2011, James V. Shubert, Salami's Fire: A Piggy's Trial by Fire, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 31:

“I don't have to worry about my bed partner turning into a pigsicle any longer.”

2013, Chris Kurtz, The Adventures of a South Pole Pig, Harcourt Children's Books, →ISBN, page 173:

(informal, humorous) A cold or frozen pig.


striped threadfin

striped threadfin (plural striped threadfins)

A threadfin of species Polydactylus plebeius, of the Indo-Pacific.


dotted gizzard shad

dotted gizzard shad (plural dotted gizzard shads or dotted gizzard shad)

dotted gizzard shads (plural)
dotted gizzard shad (plural)

Konosirus punctatus
Konosirus punctatus#Translingual

A species of fish (Konosirus punctatus) native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean, where it occurs along the Asian coastline.


western fence lizard

western fence lizard (plural western fence lizards)

Sceloporus occidentalis, a North American lizard.


lion tamarin

Named so because of the mane surrounding their face.

Any of four species of small New World monkeys that constitute the genus Leontopithecus.

leeuwaapje

any of four species of small New World monkeys that constitute the Leontopithecus genus


alfonsino

Any of several deep-sea food fishes of the genus Beryx.


water moccasin

Agkistrodon piscivorus
Agkistrodon piscivorus#Translingual

A semiaquatic venomous snake native to the southeastern United States, Agkistrodon piscivorus.


black rhino

black rhinoceros
black rhinoceros#English


lamprophiid

(zoology) Any member of the snake family Lamprophiidae.


maned rat

Lophiomys imhausi, a nocturnal, long-haired and bushy-tailed East African rodent that superficially resembles a porcupine.


spotted skunk

Any animal of the genus Spilogale, native to North and Central America.


hog-nosed skunk

hog-nosed skunk (plural hog-nosed skunks)

Any animal of the genus Conepatus, native to the Americas.


Bili ape

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo

A gorilla-like type of chimpanzee found in the Bili Forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo


kokako

Callaeas cinerea, a wattlebird endemic to New Zealand.


sharksploitation

Hunky James Caan look-alike Andrés Garcia – the nominal hero who is apparently sponsored by Adidas – became a pin-up of these adventures, appearing in the sharksploitation movie Tintorera! (1977), Tonino Ricci's Cave of the Sharks and in The Bermuda Triangle (1978), with John Huston and Claudine Auger.

2011, Howard Hughes, Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult, I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, →ISBN, page 282:

After their yacht runs aground in Australian waters, four of them decide to swim for land but are soon stalked by a huge great white shark. While the story stutters and starts, sharksploitation fans will lap it up.

2011 January 21, David Edwards, “New Releases; DVDs”, in The Mirror, UK:

Spoofing the sharksploitation genre is Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws (“And for God's sake, stay out of the water!”).

2014, Gene Helfman, George H. Burgess, Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 210:

(film) A genre of exploitation films focusing on sharks and shark attacks.


ground sloth

ground sloth (countable and uncountable, plural ground sloths)

Any of various extinct species of sloth in several families which are believed, due to their size and/or body type, to have lived on the ground rather than in trees.


Pig War

(historical) A diplomatic dispute involving the United States and the United Kingdom over the Oregon Treaty boundary around the San Juan Islands, which began with an American farmer shooting a British company's pig in 1859.


crurotarsan

(zoology) Any of the Crurotarsi, a taxonomic group including the archosaurs and phytosaurs.


mombie

A mombie is a woman who "changes" after having a baby. She's been brainwashed by motherhood, […]. She loves nothing more than joining an army of other mombies, so don't be surprised if your old friend-turned-mombie begins to spend her time primarily with other mombies who are all covered in some kind of murky baby secretion.

2013, Blair Koenig, STFU, Parents, →ISBN:

The woman who used to start the day with a Spin class with Suzanne turned into a mombie—a mom zombie who was a shadow of her former self. Showering was no longer important. Why bother?

2016, Suzanne Riss, Jill Sockwell, The Optimist's Guide to Divorce: How to Get Through Your Breakup:

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A mother who is consumed by raising her children to the point of being sleep-deprived or simply obsessed, and hence zombie-like.


eggceptional

en-adj

eggceptional (comparative more eggceptional, superlative most eggceptional)

more eggceptional (comparative)
most eggceptional (superlative)

In the contest, food service operators have the opportunity to win a $2,000 first prize, $1,000 second prize and $500 third prize in both commercial and non-commercial divisions for their "eggceptional" egg entrees.

1990, The Poultry Times, volume 37, page 40:

A veteran executive of such eggceptional breakfast-oriented chains as The Good Egg and First Watch, […]

1994 June 15, Steve Weiss, “It's a marvelous morning for a Moondance”, in Restaurants & Institutions:

An 'eggceptional' Easter Egg Hunt takes place around the Dock on April 23 and 24, from 1pm-3pm.

2011 April 19, “A Cracking Time for the Kids”, in Liverpool Echo:

(informal, humorous) Exceptional, when referring to eggs or Easter.


yelting

(obsolete) A fish, the mangrove snapper or gray snapper, Lutjanus griseus.


Neanderthalian

Homo neanderthalensis
Homo neanderthalensis#Translingual

Neanderthal (member of Homo neanderthalensis)


pad elephant

An elephant that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of a howdah for carrying passengers.


greeneye

Any of the deep-sea fish of the family Chlorophthalmidae, that have large iridescent eyes with green lenses.


matajuelo

A large squirrelfish of Florida and the West Indies, of species Holocentrus adscensionis.


matajuelo blanco

(archaic) A West Indian food fish (Malacanthus plumieri), a type of tilefish.


Columbus egg

Presumably in reference to the apocryphal story behind the egg of Columbus, since the eggs in this dish would have their ends crushed to allow them to stand upright like bowls.

A hard-boiled egg cut in half and filled with a mixture of its yolk with ham, cream, and nutmeg.


friar's omelette

en-noun

friar's omelette (plural friars' omelettes)

A dish of beaten eggs fried with apples and breadcrumbs.


keta

The rivers in June, July, and August, abound with ketas, and hump-backed salmon.

1810, John Smith, A System of Modern Geography:

Oncorhynchus keta
Oncorhynchus keta#Translingual

A small salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) of North America.


thirst snake

Any of various species of snake of the genus Dipsas, native to Central America.


Thomson's gazelle

Thomson's gazelle (plural Thomson's gazelles)

Named after the Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson

A gazelle of species Eudorcas thomsonii.


three-toed sloth

three-toed sloth (plural three-toed sloths)

A sloth of the genus Bradypus having three toes on each limb.


delphinologist

An expert on dolphins, someone who studies delphinology


delphinology

And yet, only some of the mysteries I wanted to explore lay within the limited purview of delphinology. There were associated spiritual, even paranormal, issues—taboo lines of inquiry shunned by modern science—that were too integrally bound up in the whole enigma for dismissal or avoidance.

2016, Frank Joseph, Our Dolphin Ancestors: Keepers of Lost Knowledge and Healing Wisdom:


common crane

Grus grus, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family


tambourine dove

tambourine dove (plural tambourine doves)

Turtur tympanistria
Turtur tympanistria#Translingual

A dove of species Turtur tympanistria, found in parts of Africa.


Teeswater

From Tees + water, after the river in northern England.

One of an old English breed of sheep, allied to the Leicester.


Tamworth

Tamworth
Tamworth pig
Tamworth, Staffordshire

Lennox and Addington County
Lennox and Addington County#English

A community of Stone Mills, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.


American alligator

American alligator (plural American alligators)

Alligator mississippiensis
Alligator mississippiensis#Translingual

An alligator of a species native to the southeastern United States, Alligator mississippiensis.


tomtate

The grunt Haemulon aurolineatum, or various allied fishes.


Terek sandpiper

Terek sandpiper (plural Terek sandpipers)

First observed near the Terek River, which flows into the west of the Caspian Sea.

Xenus cinereus
Xenus cinereus#Translingual

Xenus cinereus, a small migratory Palearctic wader.


pilotbird

Pycnoptilus floccosus, an Australian acanthizid.


salmon shark

A mackerel shark of species Lamna ditropis.


violetear

Any of the American hummingbirds of the genus Colibri, whose males have a violet-blue patch running back and down from the eye.


American lion

An extinct lion of subspecies †Panthera leo atrox or species †Panthera atrox, endemic to North America and northwestern South America during the Pleistocene epoch.


seecatch

Borrowed from Russian сека́ч (sekáč, “adult male boar, hog or seal”).

bor

Callorhinus ursinus
Callorhinus ursinus#Translingual

(Alaska) A full-grown male northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus).


beaded lizard

In reference to the many small bead-like protrusions on its skin.

Any venomous lizard of family Helodermatidae.

Especially, a species of venomous lizard found principally in Mexico and southern Guatemala, Heloderma horridum.


nutbreaker

Nucifraga caryocatactes
Nucifraga caryocatactes#Translingual

The nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes).


nuthacker

The common names nuthatch and nuthacker refer to the way the bird takes a nut in its claws and hacks at it with its bill or wedges it in the bark of a tree and hacks it with hard strokes to break it open.

2013, George Adams, George Martin Adams, Gardening for the Birds: How to Create a Bird-friendly Backyard - Page 346:


flying carp

The fish leaps high out of the water when frightened.

A fish of the species Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, native to east Asia, cultivated as a food fish, highly invasive in US, also known as a silver carp.


bighead carp

en-noun

bighead carp (plural bighead carps or bighead carp)

bighead carps (plural)
bighead carp (plural)

Any of the species of genus Hypophthalmichthys, a genus of fish having a large, scaleless head, a large mouth, and eyes located very low on the head

Hypophthalmichthys nobilis
Hypophthalmichthys nobilis#Translingual

especially Hypophthalmichthys nobilis, the species reaching the largest size, native to east Asia.


silver carp

silver carp (plural silver carps or silver carp)

silver carps (plural)
silver carp (plural)

A fish of the species Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, native to East Asia, cultivated as a food fish.


Yangtze dolphin

Yangtze dolphin (plural Yangtze dolphins)


Chinese river dolphin

Chinese river dolphin (plural Chinese river dolphins)


Chinese white dolphin

Chinese white dolphin (plural Chinese white dolphins)

Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin
Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin

A subspecies of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis chinensis), of the Pearl River Delta, which become whitish pink coloured as they age.


whitefin dolphin

whitefin dolphin (plural whitefin dolphins)


European bitterling

European bitterling (plural European bitterlings)

A fish of species Rhodeus amarus, originating in Europe, ranging from the Rhone River basin in France to the Neva River in Russia.


dartfish

dartfish (plural dartfish or dartfishes)

Any fish of the subfamily Ptereleotrinae of the perciform (or gobiiform) family Microdesmidae.


waybung

(Australia) The white-winged chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos)


milwell

From Middle English milwell (amid many other forms), from Anglo-Norman meluel (amid other forms) and Old French moluel, probably from moruel, from Old Breton mor (“sea”) (from Proto-Brythonic *mor) + Old French lus and luz (“pike, [as sea-luce] hake”) + -el (diminutive suffix).

(Scotland, dialectal or historical) The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).


puddingwife wrasse

puddingwife wrasse (plural puddingwife wrasses)

Perhaps corrupted from the Spanish name in Cuba, pudiano verde.

Halichoeres radiatus, an American wrasse.


Japanese crucian carp

Japanese crucian carp (plural Japanese crucian carps)

Carassius cuvieri
Carassius cuvieri#Translingual

A species of crucian carp, Carassius cuvieri, found in Japan and as an introduced species in Taiwan.


Clydesdale terrier

Clydesdale terrier (plural Clydesdale terriers)

One of a breed of small silky-haired terriers related to, but smaller than, the Skye terrier, having smaller and perfectly erect ears.


bonaci

(dated) A large grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci) of Florida and the Caribbean. Grey, with an oblong, laterally compressed body, it is a food fish.


ophidiarium

ophidiarium (plural ophidiariums or ophidiaria)

ophidiariums (plural)
ophidiaria (plural)

From Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”) + -arium.


long-eared guinea pig

long-eared guinea pig (plural long-eared guinea pigs)

Due to the keeping of rabbits as pets being illegal in some places.


peppershrike

Any vireo of the genus Cyclarhis, of Central and South America.


sapayoa

A passerine bird of a species (Sapayoa aenigma) found in lowland rainforests in Panama and northwest South America.


Ariel toucan

Ramphastos vitellinus ariel, subspecies of the channel-billed toucan.

tucano-de-bico-preto

Ramphastos vitellinus ariel, a subspecies of the channel-billed toucan


laboratory mouse

laboratory mouse (plural laboratory mice)

A small mammal of the order Rodentia, usually Mus musculus, which is bred and kept for scientific research.

實驗鼠

small mammal of the order Rodentia which is bred and kept for scientific research


ratton

From Middle English ratoun, from Anglo-Norman ratoun and Middle French raton, corresponding to rat + -oon.

'A Yorkshire burr,' he affirmed, 'was as much better than a cockney's lisp as a bull's bellow than a ratton’s squeak.'

1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:

To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.

1873, Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat, “Glossarial Index”, in Specimens of Early English, volumes II: From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298—A.D. 1393, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 490:

(now Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A rat.


grass carp

grass carp (plural grass carp or grass carps)

grass carp (plural)
grass carps (plural)

Partial calque of Chinese 草魚／草鱼 (cǎoyú, literally “grass fish”).

pcal

Ctenopharyngodon idella
Ctenopharyngodon idella

A freshwater fish species of the family Cyprinidae (Ctenopharyngodon idella), native to eastern Asia.


white amur

Partial calque of Russian бе́лый аму́р (bélyj amúr) for the same fish, as also sometimes black amur has been used for чёрный аму́р (čórnyj amúr, “Mylopharyngodon piceus”).

бе́лый аму́р

A freshwater fish species of the family Cyprinidae (Ctenopharyngodon idella), the grass carp, native to Asia from Vietnam to the Amur River.


sea perch

en-noun

sea perch (countable and uncountable, plural sea perch or sea perches)

Any of various species of saltwater fish in various families, or a specimen thereof, many species in the genus Sebastes.


flapling

The flaplings, with short faces and only very little teeth, must seek out their own food, and restrict themselves to land, agilely snapping at insects until they are old enough to venture out to the fishing waters with their relatives.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 148:

(paleontology, informal) A juvenile pterosaur.