sea pigeon

At length my son asked for the telescope, and on returning it carelessly remarked, "There are a couple of black guillemots." Macleod was alive in a moment—"That's the sea-pigeon."

1880, John Colquhoun, The Moor and the Loch:

One of the most numerous sea birds, of this whole region, is the Black Guillemot, or Sea Pigeon. This bird in the breeding season is jet black , except a white patch on each wing . In the winter the plumage changes to a gray with black streaks , and in this dress the Sea Pigeon comes to the waters of Casco Bay quite plentifully.

1904, W. H. Brownson, “A Visit to Grand Manan Island”, in The Journal of the Maine Ornithological Society, page 75:

While swimming, the Sea Pigeon nervously ducks its head at frequent intervals, appearing to be dabbing at the water.

1905, Charles Wendell Townsend, The Birds of Essex County, Massachusetts, page 83:

During mid-winter we have little auks from Spitsbergan, and the pretty coral-footed sea-pigeon, or tystie from Shetland .

1907, Abel Chapman, Bird-life of the Borders on Moorland and Sea, page 379:

Cepphus grylle
Cepphus grylle#Translingual

The pigeon guillemot, or sea pigeon, comes next. Its home is to be found close to the water's edge, in the little coves and clefts of the rocks, and it delights to sit on a rock where it is almost reached by every return of the swell.

1892 September, Charles S. Greene, “Los Farallones De Los Frayles”, in Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, volume 20, number 21, page 235:

The nests of the sea pigeon were for the most part inaccessible, being far in the recesses of crevices in the roofs of caves.

1915, George Willett, “Summer Birds of Forrester Island, Alaska”, in The Auk, volume 32, page 299:

The pigeon guillemot, often called sea pigeon or bank duck , is a diving bird belonging to the family Alcidae , which includes the auks , murres and puffins .

1958, Asa Clifford Thoresen, Breeding Activities of the Pigeon Guillemot, page 1:

In the early spring, the sea pigeon, more widely known as the guillemot ( Cepphus columba ) , moves silently out of its winter haunts to join in large, noisy rafts.

1976, Oceans - Volume 9, Issue 5, page 53:

Cepphus columba
Cepphus columba#Translingual

MANDT's GUILLEMOT (C. mandtii) is a northern variety of the Sea Pigeon, differing from grylle in lacking the black bar on the wing-patch, and having a somewhat stouter bill.

1896, Thomas Nuttall, Montague Chamberlain, A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America:

The Mandt's guillemot (Cepphus mandtii).

Bonaparte's Gull. Little bass gull; sea pigeon (from its general figure and small size among gulls).

1956, The Kingbird - Volumes 6-10, page 9:

Bonaparte's gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia).


milky stork

Mycteria cinerea
Mycteria cinerea#Translingual

Mycteria cinerea, a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.


skullfish

(nautical, whaling, obsolete) A whale more than two years old.


hairbird

From hair + bird. It uses animal hair to line its nest.

(dated) A chipping sparrow (Spizella passerina).


halicore

From Late Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “sea”) + κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).

I constitute the fourth order or stem of mammalia out of the suborders of Whales, Dolphins, Halicores, Seals, and Carnivoræ […]

1849, Johann Jacob Kaup, Monograph of the Falconidæ:

[…]the dugong or halicore, of which the distribution is rather widespread, from the Red Sea and East African coasts to the west coast of Australia.

1884, Robert Armitage Sterndale, Natural history of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon, page 268:


furzeling

Sylvia undata
Sylvia undata#Translingual

(UK, archaic, dialect) An English warbler, Sylvia undata, the furze wren or Dartford warbler.


woodcreeper

Any of many neotropical passerine birds of the subfamily Dendrocolaptinae.


ularburong

A large, nonvenomous, nocturnal tree-snake, Boiga dendrophila, from the East Indies


haberdine

en-noun

haberdine (countable and uncountable, plural haberdines)

From Dutch abberdaan, labberdaan, or a French [Term?] form. Compare Old French habordeau, from the name of a Basque district, and French Labourd, adjective Labourdin. The letter l was misunderstood as the French article l’.

Yet can I set my Gallio's dieting,
A pestle of a lark, or plover's wing;
And warn him not to cast his wanton eyne
On grosser bacon, or salt haberdine


woofell

Turdus merula
Turdus merula#Translingual


woolhead

Bucephala albeola
Bucephala albeola#Translingual

A species of duck, the bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)


woodhack

The woodhacke, that syngeth ‘chur’,
Horsly, as he had the mur; […]

c. 1505, John Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 82, lines 418–419:


woodwall

From Middle English wodewale, of uncertain origin, probably from Old English, but perhaps from Middle Dutch wedewale with 1st element reanalyzed as from Middle English wode (“wood”).

The yaffle bird; the European green woodpecker.


sea pig

A sea cucumber in the genus Scotoplanes.


wallbird

From wall + bird, from its frequent choice of nesting site.

(UK, dialect, obsolete, Norfolk, Suffolk) A bird, the spotted flycatcher.


desmognathous

(zoology, obsolete) belonging to a former taxonomic group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), having the maxillopalatine bones united


wreckfish

wreckfish (plural wreckfishes or wreckfish)

From wreck + fish, since it often comes in with wreckage.

Any of the perciform marine fish of the family Polyprionidae, often inhabiting caves and shipwrecks.


witchuck

(UK, dialect, obsolete) The sand martin, or bank swallow.


black bass

black bass (plural black basses or black bass)

black basses (plural)
black bass (plural)

Micropterus salmoides
Micropterus salmoides#Translingual

Any fish of the genus Micropterus, such as the smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) or the largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides).


sea gudgeon

The Sea-Gudgeon is a slender roundish Fish, about six Inches long, and sometimes more.

1766, Richard Brookes, The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing:

(obsolete) European black goby (Gobius niger).


lucern

Probably adapted from obsolete German lüchsern (“pertaining to the lynx”, adjective) (attested 1600s), as applied to the fur or skin of the lynx, from Luchs (“lynx”).

der

The pole-cat, martern, and the rich-skin'd lucern / I know to chase.

c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii:

(obsolete) The lynx, viewed as an animal hunted for its fur or skin.


shortwing

A common name for the family Perilestidae, damselflies in the order Odonata.


tercellene

the first produceth a female and large hawk, the second of a middler sort, and the third a smaller bird, tercellene , or tassel, of the male sex

c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:


taguan

From the native name in the East Indies.


marsipobranch

One of the Marsipobranchia, a former classification roughly equivalent to the cyclostomes.


gilthead

Sparus aurata
Sparus aurata#Translingual

A marine fish, Sparus aurata (gilt-head bream), with a golden-coloured head; the giltpoll.

Symphodus melops, a coastal fish; the golden maid, conner, or sea partridge.


bloodstick

1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
A bloodstick - a piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead — is used to strike the fleam into the vein

(farriery) A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, used to strike the fleam into the vein.


whinyard

Compare English dialect and Scots whingar, whinger; perhaps from Old English winn (“contention, war”) + geard, gyrd (“a staff, rod, yard”); or compare Old English [Term?] (“whistle”, verb), English whine.

It is not a necessary inference that he was wounded, though she says they struck him over her shoulder with whinyards; their object, undoubtedly, was to get him out of the queen's presence in the first place.

1905, John Hill Burton, The History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection, volume 4:

(UK, dialect, obsolete) The shoveler, a type of duck.

(UK, dialect, obsolete) The pochard, a type of duck.


dalatiid

(zoology) Any member of the shark family Dalatiidae.


butteris

Related to buttress (noun). From French bouter (“to push”).

(farriery) A cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the operator's shoulder, used in paring the hoofs of horses.


mygale

Wikispecies
Borrowed from Late Latin mygale (“field mouse”) (Vetus Latina), from Ancient Greek μυγαλέη (mugaléē, “shrew”) (used in the Septuagint to translate Hebrew אֲנָקָה, now generally thought to indicate a gecko or similar small reptile).

The Mygales are the most interesting creatures, and are called Mason spiders because they build their own houses in a very remarkable manner.

1865, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, editor, Once A Week, volume XII:

Any of the former genus Mygale of large, hairy trapdoor spiders with four lungs and four spinnerets, now distributed in Mygalomorphae.


bluewing

(usually in the plural) Torenia (wishbone flower)


white-handed gibbon

en-noun

white-handed gibbon (plural white-handed gibbons)


lar gibbon

A primate in the Hylobatidae family, Hylobates lar, with black or brown fur and white hands and feet.


beaverling

The wife stumbled into the water, and as soon as her loot was wet, she immediately resumed her old shape as a beaver, her son became a beaverling, and the brooklet, changing to a roaring river, bore them to the lake.

(diminutive) A small, young, or juvenile beaver.


bearling

From Middle English berling, equivalent to bear + -ling.

While waiting at the inn up drove a Pau acquaintance in the person of the Marquis de Cherizet, out of whose pony-carriage was lifted a square box, which proved to contain a poor little bearling of about a month old, whose mother had been shot, and itself captured, […]

1871, “May-Day among the Mules”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round:

(diminutive) A small, young, or juvenile bear.


parseltongue

Coined as Parseltongue by J. K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998). J. K. Rowling stated that she based the term on an "old word for someone who has a problem with the mouth, like a hare lip".

Now I can't get this out of my head - them hissing and whispering at one another like they're speaking in parseltongue.

2005 December 1, Aisling Willow Grey, “Re: AMC -- Kendall (and Ryan too)”, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet), message-ID <0001HW.BFB4D67000210837F0284550@news.verizon.net>:

Slither around Santa Fe's Rattlesnake Museum while practicing your parseltongue.

2007 April 3, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go Roadtripping USA: The Complete Coast-to-Coast Guide to America, 2nd edition, Macmillan, page 496:

“Parseltongue, that's what I need,” I murmured out loud as I brushed my teeth. A language for communicating with snakes.

2009 September 22, Sara Paretsky, Hardball: A V.I. Warshawski Novel, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →OL:

A fictional language of snakes in the Harry Potter universe.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J. K. Rowling


giraffid

An animal of the family Giraffidae (such as the giraffe and okapi).


cobblerfish

cobblerfish (plural cobblerfish or cobblerfishes)

cobblerfish (plural)
cobblerfishes (plural)

Common pompano, carolina pompano, cobblerfish, butterfish.

1958, C. Richard Robins, Check List of the Florida Game and Commercial Marine Fishes, Including Those of the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies, with Approved Common Names:

Florida Pompano--Trachinotus carolinus. Other names: pompano, cobblerfish, palometa

2008, David A. McKee, Fishes of the Texas Laguna Madre: A Guide for Anglers and Naturalists:

Also known as cobblerfish, the Carolina or Florida pompano is so similar in body construction to the permit that an ichthyologist may be needed to distinguish 2- or 3- pounds specimens of these species.

2016, Nick Karas, Sight Fishing the Flats and Beyond:


whistlewing

common goldeneye
common goldeneye#English

Bucephala clangula
Bucephala clangula#Translingual

(dated, Canada, US) The common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula


sea drake

The gardener found birds frozen to their branches, yet at the base of the same tree, a flock of sea-drakes and hens were perfectly unharmed!

2024, David Marcum, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XLIV:

(UK) The pewit gull, or sea cormorant (Corvus marinus)


sea lark

Anthus petrosus
Anthus petrosus#Translingual

Any of several small sandpipers and plovers, such as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling.


cycloganoid

(zoology) Any of the obsolete taxon Cycloganoidei, a group of fishes which included the bowfin.


rubican

There are other mixt kind of colours, such as the Rubican; which is when a black or sorrel Horse hath white Hairs here and there scattered upon his Body, but especially upon his Flanks.

1729, Jacques de Solleysel, translated by William Hope, The Compleat Horseman: or, Perfect Farrier, page 65:

The grayish and the flea-bitten differ from the rubican, in that the white hairs which form these markings are sufficiently numerous to change, locally, the nature of the base of the coat.

1904, Armand Goubaux, Gustave Barrier, translated by Simon J.J. Harger, The Exterior of the Horse, page 788:

When both parents are brown, foals may be of any colour, also gray if one parent is rubican. The majority of foals, however, will likewise be brown.

1909, Burchard von Oettingen, Horse Breeding in Theory and Practice, page 331:

(rare, of a horse) Colored mostly red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or grey especially on the flanks.


dolphinet

The lyon chose his mate, the turtle dove / Her deare, the dolphin his owne dolphinet

1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


meminna

Indian spotted chevrotain
Indian spotted chevrotain

(archaic) Any spotted chevrotain of genus Moschiola, especially the Indian spotted chevrotain (Moschiola indica)


tittlebat

“Speculations on the Source of the Hampstead Ponds, with Some Observations on the Theory of Tittlebats;”.

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 1”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 1:

(UK, dialect, archaic) The three-spined stickleback.


falcade

From French falcade, ultimately from Latin falx, falcis (“a sickle or scythe”).

let him make two or three Falcades or Times , to firm his Haunches the better, and to turn with the better Grace.

1717, Jacques de Solleysel, The Compleat Horseman:

A horse's movement of throwing itself on its haunches two or three times, bending in very quick curvets.


chinchillid

Chinchillids like Eoviscaccia are not yet strongly adapted to the cooler climates found in either high altitudes or southerly altitudes.

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

(zoology) Any rodent in the family Chinchillidae.


pipra

(zoology) Any member of the bird genus Pipra; a manakin.


stonehatch

(UK, dialect, archaic) The ringed plover.


bungarum

(dated) A krait (venomous snake of the genus Bungarus)


cownose ray

Rhinoptera bonasus, an eagle ray found throughout a large part of the western Atlantic and Caribbean.


forty-spot

forty-spotted pardalote
forty-spotted pardalote

Pardalotus quadragintus, the forty-spotted pardalote, a rare Tasmanian bird.


crookbill

Anarhynchus frontalis
Anarhynchus frontalis#Translingual

(archaic) wrybill (Anarhynchus frontalis).


myxinoid

en-adj

myxinoid (comparative more myxinoid, superlative most myxinoid)

more myxinoid (comparative)
most myxinoid (superlative)

(zoology) pertaining to, the hagfish class Myxini.


popeye

en-noun

popeye (countable and uncountable, plural popeyes)

Coryphaenoides cinereus (syn. Macrurus cinereus), a deep sea fish.


cat litter

Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet cats.

貓砂

material used to create a soiling area for cats — see also litter


algazel

Borrowed from Arabic الغَزَال (al-ḡazāl)

(obsolete) A gazelle, probably the Arabian gazelle.


dollarfish

dollarfish (plural dollarfishes or dollarfish)

dollarfishes (plural)
dollarfish (plural)

An American butterfish (Peprilus triacanthus).


lafayette

A fish, the goody or spot (Leiostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.


flyfish

(obsolete) Sebastes ensifer (the name given in most sources,Sebastichthys rhodochloris, seems to be a synonym for this), a brightly-coloured scorpaenoid fish of California.


chlamydoselachid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Chlamydoselachidae of frilled sharks, which comprises two extant species in genus Chlamydoselachus and several extinct species in the genera Chlamydoselachus and †Proteothrinax.


heterodontid

(zoology) Any member of the family Heterodontidae of bullhead sharks.


hexanchid

clipping

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

Hexanchid sharks (Family Hexanchidae) are extremely rare in Lower Cretaceous deposits and are known only from isolated teeth.

1995, P.J.Smart, Hexanchid shark teeth (Chondrichthyes, Vertebrata) from the Lower Cretaceous Albian sediments of Leighton Buzzard, South-central England:

(zoology) Any member of the family Hexanchidae, of cow sharks.


titterel

(UK, dialect, obsolete) A bird, the whimbrel.


sea cob

lesser black-backed gull
lesser black-backed gull

great black-backed gull
great black-backed gull

(obsolete, UK) The gull (either the lesser black-backed gull or great black-backed gull)


furzechat

(archaic) the whinchat ( Saxicola rubetra).


hell-diver

Tachybaptus ruficollis
Tachybaptus ruficollis#Translingual

A dabchick, or little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis).


cervicide

Latin cervus (“deer”) + -cide, from the combining form of the Latin verb caedō (“I kill”).


zoarcid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Zoarcidae; an eelpout.


frilled shark

Referring to the frilled appearance of the gill slits.

Any member of two extant species of shark in genus Chlamydoselachus or their extinct close relatives,

Chlamydoselachus anguineus, of wide distribution in mostly in outer continental shelves

franjehaai

member of the Chlamydoselachus anguineus

Chlamydoselachus africana (Southern African frilled shark)


whetile

(UK, dialect) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.


thricecock

(UK, dialect, obsolete) the mistle thrush


garefowl

From Icelandic geirfugl, from Old Norse geirfugl (“great auk”), related to Swedish garfågel, Danish geirfugl, Faroese geirfuglur, gorfuglur, French gorfou.

The Faroese men were able to catch more than a dozen gare-fowl along with 200 guillemots and numerous gannets, collecting them from rocks which the Icelanders were not brave enough to climb.

2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 81:


zeuglodont

(zoology) Any of the family †Basilosauridae of extinct cetaceans, formerly under the taxonomically invalid name Zeuglodontidae.


tetraonid

Latin tetrao (“a heath cock, grouse”), from Ancient Greek. Compare French tétraonide.

The grouse, partridge and quail are tetraonids.

(zoology) A bird belonging to the tribe Tetraonini, of which the genus Tetrao is the type.


pluvian

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


scatch

From French escache, from Italian scaccia.


reedling

A bird, the bearded reedling or bearded tit.


thornback

From Middle English thornbak; equivalent to thorn + back.

Any animal with a thorny back, especially marine animals, such as:

The thornback skate (Dentiraja lemprieri), a fish endemic to Australia.


coalmouse

en-noun

coalmouse (plural coalmouses or coalmice)

From Middle English colmose, collemase, from Old English colmāse (“coalmouse”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolamaisā, equivalent to coal + (tit)mouse. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Koolmeeske, Dutch koolmees, German Low German Kohlmeeske, German Kohlmeise.

Periparus ater
Periparus ater#Translingual

Any of species Periparus ater of small titmouses with a black head; a coaltit.


bathorse

From French bat (“packsaddle”) (compare cheval de bat (“packhorse”)) + English horse. See bastard and batman.

1857 Washington Irving, Life Of George Washington Vol IV
About ten o’clock the wagons and bat horses laden with Indian corn were returning, covered by a party of infantry, with Tarleton and his dragoons as a rear-guard.

(obsolete) A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign


lancehead

Any of many South American venomous pitvipers of the genus Bothrops.


anticor

From anti- + Latin cor (“heart”); compare French anticœur.

(obsolete, equestrianism) A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.


banstickle

From Middle English banstikel from Old English bān (“bone”) + sticel (“prickle, sting”). See bone (noun) and stickleback.

three-spined stickleback
three-spined stickleback

Gasterosteus aculeatus
Gasterosteus aculeatus#Translingual

(now US, dialectal) three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).


bouri

A mullet (Liza ramada, syn. Mugil capito) found in the rivers of southern Europe and in Africa.


whip-tom-kelly

(archaic) A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native to the West Indies and Florida.


latration

From Latin lātrātio, from lātrāre (“to bark”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”). Equivalent to latrate + -ion.

If a dog bite a pig, the narrative teems with ‘virus’, the ‘rabid animal’, and the ‘latration’ of the patient

1828, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 23, page 194:

But for this barrier, the theological Cerberus would find himself turning so few passengers from its gate, that he would soon, himself, weary of his wearisome latrations.

What then must have been the effect upon the eminent philologist of the midnight latrations of Fernando Wood's yellow dog?

1925, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Notes and anecdotes of many years, page 75:

And rather a latration of yaps and yowls as a harum-scarum of dogs swept past.

(now rare) Barking, an instance of barking.


earthwolf

Calque of Afrikaans aardwolf, equivalent to earth + wolf.


rockling

Australian rockling

Genypterus blacodes from the family Ophidiidae

fourbeard rockling

Enchelyopus cimbrius from the family Lotidae

shore rockling

Gaidropsarus mediterraneus from the family Gadidae

three-bearded rockling

Gaidropsarus vulgaris from the family Lotidae

Any of various fishes of the Lotidae family.


eartheater

The ibigau or great potoo (Nyctibius grandis).


paradisaeid

(zoology) A member of the bird family Paradisaeidae; a bird of paradise


riflebird

From rifle + bird, from the resemblance of their black and green plumage to the uniform of early nineteenth-century British army riflemen.

Any of four species of birds of paradise in the genus Ptiloris.


unbit

en-verb

unbit (third-person singular simple present unbits, present participle unbitting, simple past and past participle unbitted)

unbits (present singular third-person)
unbitting (participle present)
unbitted (participle past)
unbitted (past)

(equestrianism, transitive) to remove the bit from (a horse's mouth)


rupchanda

Borrowed from Bengali রূপচাঁদা (rupcãda).

Rupchanda were darker than the folia chanda among the two groups. Control group rupchanda had stronger rancid odour than the folia chanda of the same group.

1983, D. James, The production and storage of dried fish:

Among the varieties of fish caught are the marine rupchanda, or pomfret, and the freshwater hilsa, a relative of the shad.

There are plenty of fish dishes − koi, hilsa, rupchanda and ayer all get a mention − but the menu has its chaotic moments and plenty of crossing out.

2008, Charles Campion, London Restaurant Guide 2009, page 196:

(South Asia, cooking) A Chinese silver pomfret, Pampus chinensis.


gourdy

en-adj

gourdy (comparative more gourdy, superlative most gourdy)

more gourdy (comparative)
most gourdy (superlative)

Either from gourd, or less likely from French gourd (“benumbed”).

(farriery, of a horse, obsolete) Having swollen legs


mugiloid

(archaic) A fish of the genus Mugil or family Mugilidae — the mullets


wistiti

From French ouistiti, imitative of the animal's cry.

(dated) A marmoset, principally in family Callitrichidae.


edder

winges like a bird she hase,
Fete as an edder, a mayden's face,
Her kinde I'll take

1816, J. H. Hansall, The Stranger in Chester:


edible frog

A member of a hybrid species of frog, Pelophylax kl. esculentus, a hybrid of the pool frog (Pelophylax lessonae) and the Central Asian marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus).


ursal

One of these, the Ursal, an inhabitant of the shores of the North Pacific Ocean, […]

1844, William Benjamin Carpenter, in the Popular Cyclopaedia of Natural Science, Zoology, volume 1, page 233

The Ursal (Ph. ursina, Gm. [Arctocephalus ursinus, F. Cuv. fig. 40.]—Eight feel long, no mane, varying from brown to whitish. From the north of the Pacific Ocean.

1851, Georges Cuvier (baron), Edward Blyth, Robert Mudie, George Johnston, John Obadiah Westwood, William Benjamin Carpenter, The animal kingdom: arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy, page 100

ARCTOCEPHALUS URSINUS. The Ursal; a species of Seal, from the north of the Pacific Ocean.

1852, Samuel Maunder, The Treasury of Natural History, or a Popular Dictionary of Animated Nature, page 34:

The sea-lions (Phoca jubata), the sea-bears (ursal seal), the shags (commorants), and penguins seemed to live in harmony, […]

1883, The Shipwrecked Mariner, page 254:

Callorhinus ursinus
Callorhinus ursinus#Translingual

(rare, archaic) The ursine seal or sea bear, better known as the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus.


Indian rhinoceros

en-noun

Indian rhinoceros (plural Indian rhinoceros or Indian rhinoceroses or Indian rhinocerotes)

Indian rhinoceros (plural)
Indian rhinoceroses (plural)
Indian rhinocerotes (plural)

Rhinoceros unicornis
Rhinoceros unicornis#Translingual

A rhinoceros of species Rhinoceros unicornis, in the family Rhinocerotidae.


grasswren

Any of the birds in the malurid genus Amytornis.


emu-wren

Any of several Australian passerine birds in the genus Stipiturus with long barbless tail feathers like those of the emu.


Sumatran rhinoceros

Sumatran rhinoceros (plural Sumatran rhinoceros or Sumatran rhinoceroses)

Sumatran rhinoceros (plural)
Sumatran rhinoceroses (plural)

Dicerorhinus sumatrensis
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis#Translingual

A rhinoceros of species Dicerorhinus sumatrensis (family Rhinocerotidae).


malurid

Only a few of the 26 malurids have been studied sufficiently closely to reveal their social organization.

1990, I. Rowley, E. Russell, “1: Splendid Fairy-wrens: demonstrating the importance of longevity”, in Peter B. Stacey, Walter D. Koenig, editors, Cooperative Breeding in Birds: Long Term Studies of Ecology and Behaviour, page 3:

A number of typical riparian, reed-dwelling, woodland and tall open forest species that forage in the shrub and ground layers were possibly reduced in abundance and absent (e.g. muscicapids, cuculids, malurids, acanthizids, sylviids).

1991, Queensland Naturalists' Club, Queensland Naturalist, volumes 31-35, page 56:

Fairywrens and Grasswrens, an account of the malurids by well-known ornithologists Ian Rowley and Eleanor Russell, is more than a field guide, but illustrated in guide style, three species to a plate, by Marsack.

2001, Penny Olsen, Feather and Brush: Three Centuries of Australian Bird Art, page 98:

(zoology) Any bird of the family Maluridae, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea.


phainopepla

Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “shine”) + πέπλος (péplos, “robe”)

A small crested passerine bird, Phainopepla nitens.


skout

We were all shipped in open skouts or boats

[His] breach of the Sabbath in carying turf … in a skout to Rothesay

(Scotland, possibly obsolete) Alternative spelling of shout (“boat”).


gallinacean

(zoology, archaic) One of the former taxonomic order Gallinae (gallinaceous birds) of birds resembling fowl.


waggel

Larus marinus
Larus marinus#Translingual

(UK, dialect) The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species.


blesmol

From Afrikaans blesmol, from bles (“blaze (fleck of colour on animal coat)”) + mol (“mole”). Compare blesbok.

Any mole-rat in the family Bathyergidae.


delphin

(organic chemistry) A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise.


snakebird

From snake + bird, from its snake-like neck.

A darter: any bird of the genus Anhinga.


chrysochlore

From chryso- + Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”). compare French chrysochlore.


steamer duck

A bird of the genus Tachyeres in the family Anatidae, the family of duck, goose and swan.


sengi

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
Borrowed from Kongo sengi, senki, from French cinq (“five”) (in the sense of five sous). Doublet of cinque, five, pimp, ponzu, and punch.

doublet

(historical) A former (1967–1993) monetary unit of Zaire, one hundredth of a likuta, and one ten-thousandth of a zaire; it was issued only in ten sengi coins.


darr

Possibly from dorrhawk (“the nightjar”), from its similar diet and appearance in flight.

(UK, dialect, Norfolk, archaic) A bird, the black tern.


malaconotid

(zoology) One of the family Malaconotidae of bushshrikes.


European seabass

en-noun

European seabass (plural European seabass)

Dicentrarchus labrax
Dicentrarchus labrax#Translingual

A highly appreciated marine food fish found in the coastal waters of eastern Atlantic from Cape Verde to southern Norway and in the Mediterranean, (Dicentrarchus labrax).


bush shrike

An African passerine bird of the family Malaconotidae.


whistling duck

Any bird of the genus Dendrocygna in the family Anatidae, the family of duck, goose and swan.


thamnophile

From Ancient Greek, meaning "bush-loving"; see θάμνος (thámnos, “bush”) and -phile.

A grasshopper that lives in trees (as opposed to underbrush).


elopid

(zoology) A member of the family Elopidae of ray-finned fishes, the ladyfish or tenpounders.


caddow

From Old English cadāwe, probably from ċēo, ċeahhe (“chough”) + *dāwe (“jackdaw”). Compare Scottish Gaelic cadhag, cathag. Compare chough, daw.


hominine

en-adj

hominine (comparative more hominine, superlative most hominine)

more hominine (comparative)
most hominine (superlative)

Of or relating to the Homininae, a subfamily of Hominidae that includes humans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and some extinct relatives.


hominine

To judge from its sinuses, Hispanopithecus crusafonti is the earliest known hominine (the group including all great apes except orangs).

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 115:


sycock

(UK, dialect, rare, obsolete) The mistle thrush.


muscovy

The clerks have rejected it as much as they liked; I am told that they admitted somewhere about six thousands of muscovy; during our administration there were 28 or 30 thousands received, which is a large difference without taking into account other qualities, and all this does not give the French much trouble, and at the most for the year we were not informed.

1906, A. C. Laut, Pathfinders of the West:


nickle

European green woodpecker
European green woodpecker

Picus viridis
Picus viridis#Translingual

European green woodpecker (Picus viridis).


bharal

On the way we disturbed the peace of three bharals and the female of a snow-cock ; the latter, with her brood hardly a week old, rose almost from my feet as I clambered round a rock tower.

1955, The Alpine Journal, volume 60, page 262:

In appearance, the bharal resembles both a sheep and a goat. Its horns are smooth, rounded and form a curve backwards over the neck. The fur is brownish grey in colour which attains a slaty grey hue in winter and becomes browner in summer. In Kumaun the bharal is found in the desolate tracts of northern Pithoragarh, usually on the slopes of the main Himalayan range where it lives between the timberline and the snowline.

1993, Sharad Singh Negi, Kumaun: The Land and the People, page 106:

1997, A. David, Shivakumar, Animal World, page 52,
The bharal or the Blue Sheep also is a Tibetan animal found in Ladakh, Sikkim and Nepal. It is about 90 cm. high. The bharal is brownish-grey in colour, tinted with slaty-blue, more brown in summer and more slaty-blue in winter.

2013, Q. Ashton Acton (general editor), Advances in Conservation Research and Application, 2013 Edition, page 142,
Among the wild prey, bharal (blue sheep/naur) Pseudois nayaur was by far the most common species (92%).

A blue sheep, being any species of the genus Pseudois, goatlike bovids of the Himalayas and western China with a bluish-grey coat; Himalayan blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur).


dickcissel

But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels.

1901, Sylvester D. Judd, The Relation of Sparrows to Agriculture, page 91:

The American black-throated bunting (Spiza americana).


mooruk

Casuarius bennetti
Casuarius bennetti#Translingual

The dwarf cassowary (Casuarius bennetti) found in New Britain, New Guinea, and Yapen Island. It is noted for its agility. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary.


hagdon

Unknown. Compare later haglet (“shearwater, petrel”). Attested (as hagden) from the 17th century.

Ardenna gravis
Ardenna gravis#Translingual

(regional, now rare) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus, especially, Ardenna gravis (syn. Puffinus gravis, Puffinus major), the great shearwater, and Puffinus stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater.


balistoid

(zoology) Any fish of the genus Balistes


Clumber spaniel

en-noun

Clumber spaniel (plural Clumber spaniels)

Named from the estate of the Duke of Newcastle.

A spaniel of a British breed, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.


phyllostomid

As I mentioned previously, pteropodid bats have been much less studied than phyllostomids

1988, Theodore H. Fleming, The Short-Tailed Fruit Bat:

Any bat of the family Phyllostomidae, having large, lance-shaped noses; a leaf-nosed bat.


buansuah

The wild dog of northern India and Nepal (Cuon primaevus, now Cuon alpinus); the dhole.


nursehound

Scyliorhinus stellaris
Scyliorhinus stellaris#Translingual

Scyliorhinus stellaris, a species of catshark.


anadrom

(zoology) Any anadromous fish, a fish that lives in the sea and goes up rivers to breed in fresh water.

anádromo

fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers


New World vulture

New World vulture (plural New World vultures)

Any of the large scavenging birds in the family Cathartidae.


forest falcon

Any of the small New World falcons of the genus Micrastur.


toxodont

(zoology) Any of the †Toxodontia, an extinct notoungulate suborder of Mammalia with long curved incisors, found in the South American Tertiary formation.


lookdown

An oddly-shaped Atlantic marine fish, Selene vomer.


elaphure

Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), a Chinese deer with unusual antlers.


stingfish

stingfish (plural stingfishes or stingfish)


paseng

Capra aegagrus
Capra aegagrus#Translingual


cottoid

en-adj

cottoid (comparative more cottoid, superlative most cottoid)

more cottoid (comparative)
most cottoid (superlative)

(zoology) Of or pertaining to fish of the genus Cottus.


cottoid

(zoology) A fish belonging to the genus Cottus.


Skye terrier

The purest dogs of the breed were once found on the Isle of Skye.


countermark

(farriery) An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.


tullibee

Perhaps from Cree *otonabi (“water mouth”) or Ojibwe odoonibii (“water mouth”).

A whitefish (Coregonus artedi tullibee, formerly Coregonus tullibee) found in the Great Lakes of North America.


swordick

(Orkney) The spotted gunnel (Muraenoides gunnellus).


oblatration

From Latin oblātrātio, from oblātrāre (“to bark at, to rail against”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”), from ob- (“ob-: against, at”) + lātrāre (“to bark, to rant”). Equivalent to ob- + latration.

February 18 1629, Bishop Joseph Hall, Salvation from an Untoward Generation
The Apostle fears none of these currish oblatrations...

He that feareth oblatration must not travel.

1661, John Stephens, An Historical Discourse..., Prol.

1867, William Gifford (of Leith), Memorials of the life and work of the Rev. William Johnston
You were never a very hot Voluntary, even when some, who are now among the dumb dogs that cannot or will not bark, were keeping up a most violent oblatration...

(obsolete) The act of barking at someone or something; (figuratively) the act of ranting at someone or something; an instance of these.


Peabody bird

white-throated sparrow
white-throated sparrow

Zonotrichia albicollis
Zonotrichia albicollis#Translingual

(US, dated) white-throated sparrow, an American sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) with a conspicuous white throat.


bluebreast

Luscinia svecica
Luscinia svecica#Translingual

A small European bird, the bluethroat (Luscinia svecica).


reedbird

One of several small Asiatic songbirds of the genera Schoenicola and Laticilla.


hydrophid

From hydro- + Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “a small serpent”).

der

(zoology) Any sea snake of the subfamily Hydrophiinae, venomous, preying on fishes, with a flattened tail for swimming.


procellarian

(zoology) Any of a family of oceanic birds (Procellaridae) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters.


gummy shark

2005, Marine Resources Service (United Nations), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Review of the State of World Marine Fishery Resources, page 123,
Quotas also apply to school and gummy shark bycatch in the South East Trawl and Great Australian Bight Trawl fisheries.

2006, Steve Cooper, Fishing Techniques: Salt and Fresh Water, Australian Fishing Network, page 100,
Best time for gummy sharks is on moonlit nights when they will move into knee-deep water on a rising tide to feed.

Many gummy sharks are caught off the surf beaches every season. Night time is best and big baits are needed to combat lice and other menaces like crabs.

2008, Rex Hunt, Fishing Guide to Melbourne and Surrounds, page 77:

(Australia) A species of shark, Mustelus antarcticus, endemic to southern and south-eastern Australia, the meat of which is sold as flake.


gayal

From Bengali গয়াল (goẏal), from Sanskrit गौर (gāŭra) or Sanskrit गौः (gāŭra). Compare gaur.

Bos frontalis, a Southern Asiatic species of domestic cattle.


water turkey

Anhinga anhinga
Anhinga anhinga#Translingual


fence month

Merfis vetitus, fence month, or defence month

1644, Edw[ard] Coke, The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for W[illiam] Lee, and D[aniel] Pakeman, →OCLC:

(colloquial, dated) The month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited.


black-billed capercaillie

en-noun

black-billed capercaillie (plural black-billed capercaillies)

western capercaillie
western capercaillie

Tetrao parvirostris
Tetrao parvirostris#Translingual

A large black grouse endemic to Siberia, closely related to western capercaillie; Tetrao parvirostris.


New Zealand falcon

New Zealand falcon (plural New Zealand falcons)

Falco novaeseelandiae
Falco novaeseelandiae#Translingual

A species of falcon endemic to New Zealand (Falco novaeseelandiae).


hemidactyl

(zoology) Any species of Old World geckos of the genus Hemidactylus; house gecko


chipping squirrel

chipping squirrel (plural chipping squirrels)


river horse

Calque of Ancient Greek ἱπποπόταμος (hippopótamos), equivalent to river + horse. Compare Middle English water hors (“hippopotamus”).

cog

The river-horse feeds upon the herbage of the Nile, and the behemoth is said to eat grass like an ox.

1808, Thomas Shaw, Travels Or Observations:

Liverpool started and snorted like a river-horse roused amongst his reeds by thunder.

1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “The Winding-Up”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 303:

It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Loomings”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 4:

Here, before a feast that would prick the dead with appetite, were shapes of beasts with heads of men, asses, elephants, bulls, horses, swine, foxes, riverhorses, dromedaries; […]

1909, George Meredith, The Palace of Aklis:


mercat

December 22 1678, Thomas Sprat, A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall
With irresistible majesty and authority our Saviour removed the exchange, and drove the mercat out of the temple.


crab plover

Dromas ardeola
Dromas ardeola#Translingual

Any of species Dromas ardeola, sole member of the family Dromadidae.


lemurid

(zoology) Any lemur in the family Lemuridae.


enaliosaur

/ɪˈnæliəˌsɔɹ/

/ɪˈnælɪəˌsɔː/

(paleontology, obsolete) One of the Enaliosauria (now known as the ichthyosaurs or sauropterygians.


ornithorhynchus

/ˌɔː(ɹ)nɪθəˈɹɪŋkəs/

From translingual Ornithorhynchus (genus name).


insessor

(ornithology, obsolete) Any of the former taxonomic order Insessores, which included many songbirds.


anhima

From a Tupian word of the form nha um, meaning "black bird" (compare nhandu, una).


thamnophilid

(zoology) Any of the Thamnophilidae; an antbird.


longbeak

Limnodromus scolopaceus
Limnodromus scolopaceus#Translingual

The American red-bellied snipe (Limnodromus scolopaceus).


dollardee

(US, dated, dialect) Lepomis pallidus, the blue sunfish or copper-nosed bream.


musteline

en-adj

musteline (comparative more musteline, superlative most musteline)

more musteline (comparative)
most musteline (superlative)

From the Latin mūstēlīnus, from mūstēla (“weasel”), from mūs (“mouse”, “rat”).

(zoology) Like or relating to the family Mustelidae, or the weasels and martens.


musteline

(zoology) Any member of the family Mustelidae.

More specifically, any member of the mustelid subfamily Mustelinae.


binny

Unknown. The species name was spelled binny by one early taxonomist.

Niger barb (Labeobarbus bynni or Barbus bynni), a species of yellowfish found in the Nile.


ichthyosaurian

(paleontology) Any of the Ichthyosauria; an ichthyosaur.


buffel duck

(archaic) A kind of duck, the bufflehead.


crankbird

Dryobates minor
Dryobates minor#Translingual

(dialect, dated) A small European woodpecker (Dryobates minor, formerly Picus minor).


crotaloid

crotaloid (comparative more crotaloid, superlative most crotaloid)

more crotaloid (comparative)
most crotaloid (superlative)

(zoology) Resembling the genus Crotalus of venomous snakes, including the rattlesnake.


hewhole

(UK, dialect) The European green woodpecker.


grindle

(US, dated, dialectal) A fish, (bowfin, Amia calva).


shadbird

From shad + bird, since it appears at the same time as the shad (a fish).

Gallinago delicata
Gallinago delicata#Translingual

(dated, UK, dialect) The American snipe; Wilson's snipe (Gallinago delicata).


pigfoot

The pigfoot is commonly thought of as "soul" food, the assumption being that it and hog jowls and the like were something Southern blacks developed a taste for out of necessity, on account of whites saving all the good parts of the pig for themselves.

2003, Francis Davis, The History of the Blues:

A marine fish (Scorpaena porcus), native to Europe.


squalodont

In squalodonts, the maxillae extend posteriorly over the parietals to reach the exoccipitals in adult specimens.

2002, A. Rus Hoelzel, Marine Mammal Biology:

(zoology) Any of the extinct genus Squalodon of whales.


liza

The white mullet (Mugil curema), of the subtropical Americas.


encoubert

From French encoubert, from Portuguese encorberto, encuberto (“covered”).

One of several species of armadillo of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, with five toes on both the fore and the hind feet.


countertime

en-noun

countertime (countable and uncountable, plural countertimes)

From counter- + time. Compare contretemps.

(equestrianism, obsolete) The resistance of a horse that interrupts its cadence and the measure of its manège, caused by bad horsemanship or the bad temper of the horse.


threadfish

threadfish (plural threadfishes or threadfish)

threadfishes (plural)
threadfish (plural)

Any of the genus Alectis of fish, noted for their filamentous anal and dorsal fins.


odontocete

Learned borrowing from New Latin Odontoceti, From Ancient Greek ὀδόντος (odóntos, “teeth”) + κῆτος (kêtos, “whale”).

noncog

Sperm whales and dolphins are odontocetes.

(zoology) Any member of the cetacean parvorder Odontoceti; a toothed whale.


air jacket

1765, George Alexander Stevens, The Celebrated Lecture on Heads, London: R. Richards, Part 3, p. 16,
[…] our army all should wear a new uniform; all our horse infantry should wear air jackets, and all our foot cavalry should wear cork waistcoats; and then ye know why they’d be all over the sea before you could say Jack Robinson.

Anna Sparks shrugged into her air jacket and slipped her bib over the top of it. There was a time when she'd have felt invincible in the lead-up to the cross-country, especially if she'd posted a personal best of 40.3 to lie third behind David Powell and Sam Tide after the dressage, but today nerves roared through her system like ocean waves, building and crashing.

2014, Lauren St John, The One Dollar Horse:

If a competitor chooses to wear an inflatable air jacket during the cross country phase it must be placed over the top of a body protector, whereas in the other phases/other disciplines the air jacket can be worn without a body protector.

2017, Guy N. Rutty, Essentials of Autopsy Practice, page 94:

(equestrianism) An inflatable vest worn to cushion falls.


greenbone

From green + bone, because the bones are green when boiled.

(New Zealand) A common food fish, Odax pullus


brownback

In the fall and winter I shot in the lagoons and in the harbor of Greytown blue-wing and green-wing teal and gadwalls; also sickle-bill curlews, peeps or least sandpipers, and brownbacks or grass birds.

1897, Forest and Stream - Volume 48, page 142:

Two "brownbacks," as they are known on Cape Cod where these came from, are shown in Figure 36. The one whose head is held forward represents the male in fall plumage — the back slate gray and the breast a cinnamon pink.

1974, George Ross Starr, Decoys of the Atlantic flyway, page 88:

A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.

The color work on the postage stamps will not be new to the bureau. In addition to the work which it has done on proprietary stamps, it has mixed and used every shade of color in its other work. Brown was used on the “brownbacks,” green on the "greenbacks;" different blues on customs stamps and on the backs of bonds.

1893, The Philatelic Journal of America:

Of course the printers are not all doing the same kind of work: some are printing the greenbacks, some the brownbacks, some the faces, and others the backs and faces, of the revenue stamps.

1894, St. Nicholas - Volume 21, page 221:

A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.

There are greenbacks for one department of the tithing-house, brownbacks for another, and so on. By using this scrip the Church is able to create a market for considerable quantities of the tithing.

1889, John Albert Sleicher, Leslie's - Volumes 67-69, page 335:

These notes were printed on paper the reverse of which was of a brown color, and very soon after their appearance they were nicknamed the brownbacks, and continued to bear this name during the whole time they were in circulation.

1896, The American Stationer - Volume 40, page 357:

A notable instance of this character was the issue by the city in 1873 of the "Brownbacks,” so called, as circulating notes, which were not regarded as a violation of this provision of the charter, and which were retired by the proceeds of a special tax levied and collected for that purpose after the present charter came in force.

1900, St. Louis Public Library Magazine Vol. V, page 11:

The brownbacks come into circulation by creating a debt and involving double interest.

1900, The Medical World - Volume 18, page 282:

In the emergency of a shortage of cash the city resorted to a temporary issue of scrip called "brownbacks."

1911, Walter Barlow Stevens, St. Louis: The Fourth City, 1764-1911 - Volume 1, page 249:

In order to prevent consumers from supplementing their current cash allowance out of cash hoards, it would be necessary either to stamp all dollar bills when the scheme is put into operation or to change them completely; e.g., by printing "brownbacks" instead of "greenbacks."

1942, Review of economic statistics - Volume 24, page 123:

At least two banknotes of the First national Bank of Albion are known to exist today. Both are $10 brownbacks.

1985, Frank Passic, Albion's Banks and Bankers, page 41:

Come tomorrow morning you say we are going to have pinkbacks or brownbacks and make everybody turn their currency in to the Federal Government.

1989, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Crime, Violence, and Drug Abuse in South Florida:

As is known, there are two opinions among financial experts and economists:.one holds that without administrative interference in the regulations governing hard currency circulation, which by itself is harmful for the social economy, one cannot achieve financial stabilization; the other, on the opposite, is against any administrative restrictions, and advocates a natural stabilization of the money supply, as a result of which all "greenbacks," "graybacks," and "brownbacks" will disappear from circulation on their own.

1993, FBIS Report: Central Eurasia - Issues 134-139, page 35:

Among the large collection of historic criminal daguerreotypes, tintypes, and ambrotypes on display was that of Louis Degurie, who was one of the first to use photography to make counterfeit "brownbacks," in 1862.

A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.


laroid

en-adj

laroid (comparative more laroid, superlative most laroid)

more laroid (comparative)
most laroid (superlative)

We now come to a small group of Laroid birds, remarkable for their curious bill, the lower mandible of which has been compared with a "short-handled pitchfork," and for their long wings, viz., the skimmers, the Rhynchopinæ, not less remarkable for their peculiar habits and their geographical distribution, parts of America, Asia, and Africa being inhabited by one species each.

1888, Friedrich von Hellwald, The Riverside Natural History, volume 4, page 83:

The whole form of the skull is, indeed, essentially Laroid, and quite unlike that of the Kingfishers;

(zoology) Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of the gull family, Laridae.


solenette

A small European sole (Buglossidium luteum).


catchweight

They'll break from the gate in full tack with jockeys riding catchweight in silks.

1976 December 3, “Oldtimers race is well received”, in El Paso Herald-Post:

to ride catchweight

(horse racing) Without any weight restrictions; without being handicapped.


blacktail

[…] the blacke taile Perch [which ſome take for a Ruffe, others for a ſea Breame:]

1601, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, London: A. Islip, published 1634, page 452:

Melarunus, the Black-tail, a kind of Perch of Ruff, a Fiſh; it alſo taken for a Sea-bream: […]

1706, Edward Phillips, compiler, J[ohn] K[ersey the younger], “Melarunus”, in The New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary. […], 6th edition, London: […] J. Phillips, […]; N. Rhodes, […]; and J. Taylor, […], →OCLC:

A perch-like fish of European waters, the blacktail, striped or stone perch, is also known as a ruff or ruffe.

1912, Harry Thurston Peck, The Standard Illustrated Book of Facts, New York, N.Y.: Syndicate Publishing Company, page 764:

Gymnocephalus cernua
Gymnocephalus cernua#Translingual

A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua)

A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon.

Certain fish with black tails:
(UK) Salmo trutta

Certain fish with black tails:
Salmo trutta

(South Africa, Namibia) Diplodus capensis, Diplodus sargus

Certain fish with black tails:
Diplodus capensis, Diplodus sargus

Diplodus sargus
Diplodus sargus#Translingual

Certain fish with black tails:
(Jamaica) Haemulon carbonarium

Certain fish with black tails:
Haemulon carbonarium


surfbird

Aphriza virgata
Aphriza virgata#Translingual

A small sandpiper, Aphriza virgata, endemic to the northwestern parts of North America.


devil screecher

en-noun

devil screecher (plural devil screechers)

My informant seemed to look upon the swift as an uncanny bird, and called it by a name I had never heard before, devil-screecher.

1883, Edgar MacCulloch, “Notes, Queries, Notices and News”, in The Folk-Lore Journal, volume 1, number 12, page 394:


divvy duck

Tachybaptus ruficollis
Tachybaptus ruficollis#Translingual

(obsolete, West Country, Herefordshire) A little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis).


swelltoad

Any of the genus Cyclichthys of blowfishes.


procoelian

(obsolete, zoology) Any of the Procoelia, a former suborder of Crocodilia.


gorebill

From Middle English gore, gare (“spear”) + bill. More at gar.


ooh-ah-ah

/ˈʔuːˌʔɑːˌʔɑː/

onomatopoeic

Imitative

(onomatopoeia) Synonym of oo oo aa aa (“used to represent the sound of a monkey's cry”)


coaxation

en-noun

coaxation (countable and uncountable, plural coaxations)

From Ancient Greek κοάξ (koáx, “the noise of frogs”).

der

The importunate, harsh, and disharmonious coaxations of frogs.


elodian

(zoology, obsolete) Any of a group of tortoises (Elodites obs.) including the terrapins, in which the head and neck can be withdrawn.


gauffre

There, too, may be seen the “barking-wolf” and the “swift fox.” It is the favourite home of the marmots, and the gauffres or sand-rats; and there, too, the noblest of animals, the horse, runs wild.

1854, Thomas Mayne Reid, chapter 1, in The Young Voyageurs:


Royston crow

Named after the town Royston, in Hertfordshire, England.


sea partridge

A gilthead or corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops), a fish of the British coasts.


castlebuilder

Synallaxis albescens, a bird that constructs a spherical nest of sticks.


tirma

(obsolete, Scotland, dialect, Hebrides) A bird, the oystercatcher.


hairtail

Any of a number of species of marine fishes of the family Trichiuridae, long, band-like, with a slender, pointed tail.


rhinopome

rhino- + Ancient Greek πῶμα (pôma, “a lid”)

(obsolete) Any member of the bat genus Rhinopoma.


crampfish

A type of electric ray
Atlantic torpedo (Torpedo nobiliana)

A type of electric ray
common torpedo (Torpedo torpedo)


phascolome

Ancient Greek φάσκωλος (pháskōlos, “pouch”) + μῦς (mûs, “mouse”). Compare Greek φασκωλόμυς (faskolómys, “wombat”).

uder

(zoology, obsolete) A marsupial of the former genus Phascolomys; a wombat.


cypseliform

en-adj

cypseliform (comparative more cypseliform, superlative most cypseliform)

more cypseliform (comparative)
most cypseliform (superlative)

Latin cypselus (“a kind of swallow”), from Ancient Greek.

(zoology) Like or belonging to the swifts (Cypselidae, now known as the Apodidae.)


coendou

A prehensile-tailed tree-dwelling porcupine found in Central and South America (genus Coendou)


moustached warbler

en-noun

moustached warbler (plural moustached warblers)

A passerine bird, Acrocephalus melanopogon.


cestraciont

Ancient Greek κέστρα (késtra, “hammer; a kind of fish”) + κίων (kíōn, “pillar; uvula; nasal septum”).

uder

(zoology, archaic) Any shark historically placed in the genus Cestracion, now in Heterodontus (bullheads, and the horn shark and Port Jackson shark), Sphyrna (certain hammerheads), and Eusphyrna (winghead shark).


emyd

(zoology) Any freshwater tortoise of the family Emydidae.


ringbird

From ring + bird, because of its collar of white feathers.


flatbill

Any of various tropical primarily olive-green flycatchers, having a wide flat bill, members of the genera Ramphotrigon, Rhynchocyclus, or Platyrinchus.


barbastel

Alternative form of barbastelle (“type of bat”)


tyrannid

(zoology) A member of the Tyrannidae; a tyrant flycatcher.


balloonfish

en-noun

balloonfish (plural balloonfishes or balloonfish)

balloonfishes (plural)
balloonfish (plural)


slimehead

Any of the long-lived deep-sea fish forming the family Trachichthyidae.


orange roughy

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

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

An edible deep-sea fish (Hoplostethus atlanticus), of the slimehead family (Trachichthyidae).


etheostomoid

(archaic) Any of the fish of Etheostoma and related genera.


amberfish

amberfish (plural amberfishes or amberfish)


bolty

An edible fish of the Nile, the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus, formerly Chromis nilotica).


guitguit

(archaic) One of several species of small tropical American birds (the honeycreepers), especially Cyanerpes caeruleus.


argala

From Latin argala, from Bengali হাড়গিলা (haṛgila), also transcribed hurghila.

The greater adjutant, a stork native to Africa, India, and Southeast Asia.


teleosaur

(paleontology) Any of several species of marine crocodylomorphs belonging to Teleosauridae . They are similar to the modern-day gharial.


drumfish

drumfish (plural drumfishes or drumfish)

Any fish of the family Sciaenidae; they make a loud noise by means of an air bladder.


hodmandod

' Recorded at the Essex sites of Little Baddow and Little Bentley in the Atlas Linguarum Europae.

(Norfolk, dialectal, obsolete) A hedgehog.


shovelbill

A bird with a spatulate bill; the shoveler.


goosefish

goosefish (plural goosefishes or goosefish)


sciaenid

Sciaenids constitute about 70,000 tonnes of the present demersal catch of the west coast. George, et al. estimated an additional potential of about 90,000 tonnes of sciaenids from the west coast.

1985, K. M. Joseph, “3: Marine Fishery Resources of India”, in G. R. Kulkarni, Uma K. Srivastava, editors, A Systems Framework of the Marine Foods Industry in India, page 112:

In the Indo-West Pacific, sciaenids are important in the equatorial regions of South East Asia but much less so elsewhere.

1997, S. J. Blaber, Fish and Fisheries in Tropical Estuaries, page 107:

It can often be difficult to distinguish an individual's call when a hydrophone is lowered into a chorus of sciaenids.
Like damselfishes, sciaenids tend to have species-specific sounds (Fig. 9.8).

2008, David A. Mann, Anthony D. Hawkins, J. Michael Jech, “9: Active and Passive Acoustics to Locate and Study Fish”, in Jacqueline F. Webb, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay, editors, Fish Bioacoustics, page 298:

(zoology) Any fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae.


carangid

The total catch in 1976 was probably about 3.5 million tons and was mainly composed of pelagic species such as sardines, mackerels and various carangids.

1983, T.J. Pitcher, P. Hart, Fisheries Ecology, page 56:

Carangids occur in a variety of habitats: coral and rocky reefs, in the surf along sandy beaches, and in estuaries.[…]Most carangids are swift predators, and the larger species are prized as sport fish and for their excellent eating qualities.

2004, Phillip C. Heemstra, Coastal Fishes of Southern Africa, page 299:

Carangids may use DMSP as a cue to locate productive areas for foraging. Carangids generally feed on smaller fish, shrimps, and other invertebrates (Böhlke and Chaplin 1993).

2008, Jennifer Leigh DeBose, Investigating the Role of Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) as an Aggregation Cue for Coral Reef and Reef-associated Fishes, page 64:

(zoology) Any fish belonging to the family Carangidae, the jackfish.


koha

Borrowed from Sinhalese කොහා (kohā, “cuckoo”), probably from Sinhalese කෝ + හඩ (kō + haḍa, “cuckoo”) or ultimately as the abbreviation of the word tells, the imitation of the chirping and trilling sound.

Our species, the Koel or Koha also belongs to this sub-family of Cuculinae. The male cuckoo is dark in colour, while its female is speckled (called the Gomara Koha).

1997, Gamini de S. G. Punchihewa, Vignettes of Far Off Things: Introducing the History, Tank Civilization, Jungle Lore, Fauna, & Flora and Adventure of the Walawe Basin, Nugegoda, Colombo, Sri Lanka: State Printing Corporation, →ISBN, page 199:

The sound of the koha is associated with the advent of the Sinhala and Tamil new year; the bird is often called the Avurudu koha—the New Year Cuckoo. The koha is an early bird, and its call is strident, plaintive, and easy to imitate. The legend has it that the koha never makes a nest of its own. It takes a free ride by laying its eggs in the crow's nest.

2006, Swarna Wickremeratne, “Festival of New Beginnings: The New Year”, in Buddha in Sri Lanka: Remembered Yesterdays, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 31–32:

The adult male koels (or kohas as they are locally known) start calling in March, and are in full voice come April. Most Sri Lankans associate the call—a shrieking 'koo-Ooo' or 'ko-Haa' more penetrating than the mellifluous European cuckoo—with the start of a new year, as both the Sinhalese and the Tamils celebrate this in the middle of that month.

2010, M. G. Ratnayake, “The Koel in the Nest”, in That Blue Thing: An Engineer’s Travel, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 21:

The Koha or Asian Koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus) is considered the harbinger of Sinhala and Tamil New Year for its beautiful song aimed at attracting a mate.

2017 April 9, Malaka Rodrigo, “Koha’s call overseas comes from another species”, in The Sunday Times, Colombo, Sri Lanka, archived from the original on 2018-06-09:

Eudynamys scolopaceus
Eudynamys scolopaceus#Translingual

(chiefly Sri Lanka) The koel (Eudynamys), a genus of cuckoos from Asia, Australia, and the Pacific with a distinctive loud call; specifically, the Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus).


beetlehead

From beetle + head. See beetle (“a mallet”).

black-bellied plover
black-bellied plover

Pluvialis squatarola
Pluvialis squatarola#Translingual

The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Pluvialis squatarola).


swanmark

None may have a Swanmark, unless it be by Grant of the King

(UK) A mark of ownership cut on the bill of a swan.


chikara

The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis).


prongbuck

Thus the whitetail deer had thrust forward along the very narrow river bottoms into the domain of the mule-deer and the prongbuck among the foothills of the Rocky Mountains

1905, Theodore Roosevelt, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter:


three-quarter sibling

three-quarter sibling (plural three-quarter siblings)

A sibling with whom one shares about 37.5% of one's genes, as opposed to 25% for half-siblings and 50% for full siblings.

(horse breeding) The offspring of a horse's sire/dam that is by/out of a sibling of its other parent.

(horse breeding) The offspring of a horse's dam and a son of its sire.

(horse breeding) The offspring of a horse's sire and a daughter of its dam.


three-quarter brother

three-quarter brother (plural three-quarter brothers)

(horse breeding) The male offspring of a horse's sire/dam that is by/out of a sibling of its other parent.


three-quarter sister

three-quarter sister (plural three-quarter sisters)

(horse breeding) The female offspring of a horse's sire/dam that is by/out of a sibling of its other parent.

(horse breeding) The female offspring of a horse's dam and a son of its sire.

(horse breeding) The female offspring of a horse's sire and a daughter of its dam.


rhinolophid

(zoology) Any of the genus Rhinolophus or family Rhinolophidae; a horseshoe bat.


chameck

Peruvian spider monkey
Peruvian spider monkey

(dated) Peruvian spider monkey; Ateles chamek


hoglet

At birth, newborn hoglets are pink, blind, and completely helpless.

In nature, hoglets that age would follow their mother out of the nest and learn from her how to procure food by digging in the ground.

2018, Massimo Vacchetta, Antonella Tomaselli, A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart, unnumbered page:

If the hog parents develop the disease, you can be pretty sure the hoglets will too—even when they’re raised in different places, fed different diets, cared for by different owners.

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


cercopithecid

In the rhesus monkey, proboscis monkey, and gibbon, representatives of cercopithecids and hylobatids, respectively, neonatal cranial dimensions approach the corresponding pelvic inlet dimensions, however, without exceeding them.

1982, Este Armstrong, Primate Brain Evolution: Methods and Concepts, page 90:

2011, Terry Harrison, Chapter 6: Cercopithecids (Cercopithecidae, Primates), Terry Harrison (editor), Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context, Volume 2: Fossil Hominins and the Associated Fauna, page 134,
More importantly, perhaps, is the observation that cercopithecids are significantly under-represented in the lowermost horizons of the Upper Laetolil Beds below Tuff 5.

In North Africa, cercopithecids assigned to the genus Prohylobates are known from two Early Miocene localities: Wadi Moghara, Egypt (Simons 1969), and Gebel Zelten, Libya (Delson 1979).

2013, Meave G. Leakey, Mark F. Teaford, Carol V. Ward, “6.1: Cercopithecidae from Lothagam”, in Meave G. Leakey, John Michael Harris, editors, Lothagam: The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa, page 202:

(zoology) Any species of the family Cercopithecidae, the Old World monkeys.


Percheron

A draught horse of a large, strong, usually dapple-grey breed originating in Perche, a former district of France.


scurrit

Sternula albifrons
Sternula albifrons#Translingual

(UK, dialect) The lesser tern (Sternula albifrons).


tataupa

Psophia and palamedea species also aid in feeding these Indians, as likewise tataupas, ypacahas, yahamis, mbatuitis, and chloritos forms. They eat nearly every feathered creature, however, from a gull upward, deriving great advantages ...

1901, “United States of Brazil: A geographical sketch”, in Bureau of the American Republics, Washington, D.C., page 52:

In the case of the Tataupas bred in 1904, no less than fourteen young birds were reared in the one season from a single female and two males. When male No. 1 commenced to incubate his batch of four pink eggs, the female was transferred ...

1921, The Avicultural Magazine, page 89:

Crypturellus tataupa
Crypturellus tataupa#Translingual

A South American tinamou (Crypturellus tataupa).


roughhead

A fish, the common shiner, Luxilus cornutus.


witfish

(obsolete) Alternative form of whitefish.


sea devil

Lophius piscatorius
Lophius piscatorius#Translingual

An angler fish of species Lophius piscatorius


coolung

(archaic, India) The common crane (Grus grus).


spheniscan

(zoology, rare) A penguin of any species.


shieldtail

Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native to Sri Lanka and Southern Asia.


sauropsid

From Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “face”) literally "lizard face".

(zoology) A member of the Sauropsida, a comprehensive group of vertebrates comprising the reptiles and birds.

sauropside

a member of the Sauropsida, a comprehensive group of vertebrates comprising the reptiles and birds


embiotocoid

en-adj

embiotocoid (comparative more embiotocoid, superlative most embiotocoid)

more embiotocoid (comparative)
most embiotocoid (superlative)

(ichthyology) Belonging to the fish family Embiotocidae.


coucal

Any bird of the genus Centropus in the cuckoo family Cuculidae.


cetacea

Of cetacea, or whale-like mammals, sixty-five; ruminantia, or cud-chewers, one hundred and seventy-seven; pachydermata, or thick-skinned mammals, such as the horse, hog, and elephant, forty-one; edentata, like the sloth and ant-eater, thirty-five; rodentia, or gnawers, such as the rat, squirrel, and beaver, six hundred and seventeen; carnivora, or flesh-eaters, four hundred and forty-six; cheiroptera, or bats, three hundred and twenty-eight; quadrumana, or monkeys, two hundred and twenty-one; and marsupialia, or pouched mammals, like the opossum and kangaroo, one hundred and thirty-seven.

1882, William Denton, The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science:

But here we give no such extracts, but content ourselves with four short skits, having the cetacea for their subject.

--Acalephae[1] are plentiful, so much so, indeed, that they occasionally tempt the larger cetacea into the Gulf of Manaar.

1861, J. Emerson Tennent, Sketches of Natural History of Ceylon:

PORPOISES AT MORETON BAY. Among the marine animals of Moreton Bay are two cetacea of great interest.

1852, John MacGillivray, Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. To Which Is Added The Account Of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition For The Exploration Of The Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist To The Expedition. In Two Volumes. Volume 1.:


sirkeer

Any of several species of Asiatic cuckoos of the genus Taccocua.


petromyzont

(zoology) Any of the family Petromyzontidae of northern lampreys.


sheartail

Sterna hirundo
Sterna hirundo#Translingual

A hummingbird of any of several species of the genus Thaumastura, having a long forked tail.


gymnodont

(zoology, obsolete) One of a former family of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates on each jaw.


fausen

The wave-sprung entrails, about which fausens and other fish
Did shoal,

[1611?], Homer, “Book XXI”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:


suckstone

[H]is Admirall-gally was in her course staied by that little fish, the Latines call Remora, and the English a Sucke-stone, whose property is, to stay any ship he can fasten himselfe unto.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:


skimback

(US) A fish, the quillback (Carpioides cyprinus).


stenoderm

(zoology) Any of the bats resembling that of the genus Stenoderma.


borele

/ˈbɔɹ.əˌleɪ/

Probably from Tswana bodile (“black rhinoceros”).

Diceros bicornis
Diceros bicornis#Translingual

(dated) A black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis).


psittacid

(zoology) Any member of the family Psittacidae of African and neotropical parrots


Joe Blake

‘[…]Snakes kill. Nobody fools around with Joe Blakes, girlie. Bloke who fools around with snakes is a flamin′ idiot.’

1998, Bryce Courtenay, Jessica, unnumbered page:

There was Bill, holding the biggest flamin′ snake I have ever seen.[…]And away he trundles, with his Joe Blake wrapped around himself.

2007, Archie Gerzee, WOW! Tales of a Larrikin Adventurer, page 68:

“I really don′t think ...” Jim laughs, “I really don′t think the Russian knew the Joe Blake was in there when he passed you the pannikin at Kelly′s Bore. And then, when you drank from it —”

2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 7:


amadavat

Variant of Ahmedabad, city in Gujarat, India, from which the bird was imported to Europe.

An estrildid finch, Amandava amandava, of India and Southeast Asia, commonly kept and bred as a cagebird.


spider goat

A goat that has a spider's genes, and produces silk during lactation.


sharpling

From sharp + -ling. Compare German Schärfling (“stickleback”).


deloul

We had a seven hours' ride on the delouls, leaving the caravan to follow, to the large ruin of Abou Maria.

1853, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon:

A breed of dromedary used for rapid travel; a swift camel.


tibrie

(UK, dialect, dated) A fish, the pollock.


ornithoscelidan

/ˌɔː(ɹ)nɪθəˈsɛlɪdən/

comparing the pelvis and hind limb of the ornithoscelidan with that of the crocodile[…]

1893, Thomas Henry Huxley, Science and Hebrew tradition:

(zoology, now historical) Any of the Dinosauria, formerly known as Ornithoscelida.


oxbird

An African weaverbird (Bubalornis albirostris).


alouatte

From French alouatte, alouate, from a Cariban language; compare Kari'na arawata, Trió arawata, Wayana alawata, Ye'kwana adawa'ta, Apalaí arauta, Akawaio arawta, Pemon arauta, Macushi arauta. Compare araguato.

I understood what he meant, and said, ‘Alouattes are shot every day.’

1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XI, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 91:

(now rare) A South American howler monkey (of the genus Alouatta).


glyptodon

From the New Latin genus name Glyptodon (from Ancient Greek Ancient Greek γλυπτός (gluptós, “sculptured”) + -odon (“tooth”), 'grooved or carved tooth').

af

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

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

Statues of beasts stood with their backs to the four walls of the court, eyes turned to watch the canted dial: hulking barylambdas; arctothers, the monarchs of bears; glyptodons; smilodons with fangs like glaives.

1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter IV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 43:

(paleontology) A member of the genus Glyptodon of extinct giant armadillos.


penduline

The pendulines had hung their white nests / To the reeds and willows;

1867 December, Frédéric Mistral, “Canto VII”, in An English Version […] of Mr Frédéric Mistral's Mirèio […], Avignon, page 154:


sciaenoid

Latin sciaena (“a kind of sea fish, perhaps a kind of grayling or ombre: Thymallus thymallus”), from Ancient Greek σκίαινα (skíaina, “a sea fish, probably either Sciaena umbra or Umbrina cirrosa”), + -oid.

uder

(zoology) Of or relating to the Sciaenidae, a family of marine fishes.


sciaenoid

(zoology) Any of the Sciaenidae, a family of marine fishes.


ingena

/ɪnˈd͡ʒiːnə/

Furthermore, Thomas Edward reports that the Ingenas carry 'their infant dead, closely pressed to them, until they drop away in putrefaction'.

1998, Silke Strickrodt, Those Wild Scenes: Africa in the Travel Writings of Sarah Lee (1791-1856), page 97:


enaliosaurian

en-adj

enaliosaurian (comparative more enaliosaurian, superlative most enaliosaurian)

more enaliosaurian (comparative)
most enaliosaurian (superlative)

(paleontology) Relating to the Enaliosauria.


goeland

A white tropical tern (Gygis alba candida).


goldfinny

One of two or more species of European labroid fishes, Symphodus melops and Ctenolabrus rupestris.


paradoxure

Ancient Greek παράδοξος (parádoxos, “incredible, paradoxical”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”). So called because its tail is unlike that of the other animals to which it was supposed to be related.

uder

Any member of the species of genus Paradoxurus, Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet.


chubsucker

Any of various freshwater suckers of the genus Erimyzon, native to North America.


medregal

A bonito or greater amberjack (Seriola fasciata).


dog-fox

From Middle English dogge fox. By surface analysis, dog + fox.


rusine

en-adj

rusine (comparative more rusine, superlative most rusine)

more rusine (comparative)
most rusine (superlative)

(zoology) Of, like, or relating to, a deer of the genus Rusa.


ember-goose

There is the distant cry of an embergoose, and then the moon slips up out of the grasp of the trees.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 406:


piewipe

(UK, archaic, dialect, East Anglia, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire) A bird, the lapwing or peewit.


merhorse

[…] super-otter, merhorse (a kind of sea horse), marine saurian and father-of-all-the-turtles.

1988, DeWitt Wallace, Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, The Reader's digest:

But there seems enough evidence to suggest that the merhorse may possibly be a distinct and genuine species. The creature is described as […] but there was no reappearance. A local expert was of the opinion that it was a 'real sea-horse'.

1998, Nigel Suckling, Bob Eggleton, The book of sea monsters:


greenfish

en-noun

greenfish (plural greenfishes or greenfish)

Pomatomus saltatrix
Pomatomus saltatrix#Translingual

Certain of the fish called bluefish
especially, Pomatomus saltatrix

Pollachius pollachius
Pollachius pollachius#Translingual

Pollock (Pollachius spp., esp. Pollachius pollachius).


unke

European fire-bellied toad
European fire-bellied toad

(dated) The European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina).


mhorr

Aoudads, korins, mhorrs and mambas. Hartebeests. Wild asses. Rats the size of piglets […]

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 64:

A large gazelle native to the Sahara desert, Nanger dama, formerly Gazella dama.


orfray

From French orfraie. Compare osprey, ossifrage.


weet-weet

So called from its piping cry when disturbed.

(UK, dialect) The common European sandpiper.


horsefish

horsefish (plural horsefishes or horsefish)

Any of several species of fish in the family Congiopodidae.


pacu

From Portuguese pacu, from Old Tupi paku.

Any of several South American freshwater fishes related to the piranha.

paku

any of several species of South American fishes

red-bellied pacu

Piaractus brachypomus or Colossoma macropomum


sylvicoline

en-adj

sylvicoline (comparative more sylvicoline, superlative most sylvicoline)

more sylvicoline (comparative)
most sylvicoline (superlative)

From Latin sylva, silva (“forest”) + colere (“to inhabit”).

(ornithology, obsolete) Of or relating to the Sylvicolinae or Sylvicolidae, former names for the family Parulidae, the New World warblers.


mishcup

From the same Narragansett name for the fish (mishcùp) as scuppaug, scup and paugie.

(US, dialect, obsolete) A fish: the scup or porgy.


stockdove

From stock + dove, because once believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or perhaps from its breeding in the stocks (trunks) of trees.

Columba oenas
Columba oenas#Translingual

A common European wild pigeon (Columba oenas).


dodo bird

When a typical gaffe has him invading the Beagle and trying to rob Charles Darwin (David Tennant), he learns that his beloved "parrot" Polly is actually a dodo bird.

2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “The Pirates! Band of Misfits”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-11-15:


nerfling

Leuciscus idus
Leuciscus idus#Translingual

(dated) A small freshwater cyprinoid fish (Leuciscus idus, syn. Idus idus).


pygopod

(zoology) Any species of serpentiform lizards of the family Pygopodidae, which have rudimentary hind legs near the anal cleft, but lack forelegs.


malmag

Perhaps from Tagalog malmág (“tarsier”) (possibly via French).

(zoology, possibly obsolete) The tarsier; any of several tarsiers found in the Philippines, Malaysia, and adjacent areas.


alco

1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. lxxviii-lxxix,
[…] the alco, a mute little dog, caressing and sequacious, once loved and cherished by its poor Indian masters, is like them exterminated.

A small South American dog, domesticated by the natives, now thought to be extinct.


merluce

From French merluche, merlus. Compare Spanish merluza.


utia

Any species of large West Indian rodents of the genera Capromys or Utia, resembling large rats.


dorhawk

From dor + hawk. So called because it eats the dorbeetle.

September 13 1668, Thomas Browne, letter to Dr. Merritt
A dorhawk, a bird not full so big as a pigeon, somewhat of a woodcock colour, and paned somewhat like a hawk, with a bill not much bigger than that of a titmouse, and a very wide throat[…]

Caprimulgus europaeus
Caprimulgus europaeus#Translingual

(obsolete) A European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).


staggard

From Middle English staggard, stagard; equivalent to stag + -ard.


nowd

A grey gurnard (Trigla gurnardus, now Eutrigla gurnadus), a fish of European waters.


fish owl

Any of group of four species of Asian owls within the genus Bubo resembling the eagle owl.


hareld

Clangula hyemalis
Clangula hyemalis#Translingual

(UK, archaic) A long-tailed duck, of species Clangula hyemalis.


mackerel bird

Jynx torquilla
Jynx torquilla#Translingual

(Guernsey) The Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla).


long-nose

I liked the long-nose better. The English are funny about the long-nose; or orfi, as we call it. They say it is poison because it got green bones.

1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 15:


water spaniel

Shee hath more qualities then a Water-Spaniell, […] Shee can fetch and carry: why a horſe can doe no more; nay, a horſe cannot fetch, but onely carry, therefore is ſhee better then a Iade.

c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 30, column 2:

A large breed of spaniel used in hunting waterfowl.


baldpate

Peri is in his 70s and has a thick silver mustache and a baldpate covered by a yarmulke.

2013 September 16, Natasha Vargas-Cooper, “What If the Best Remedy for a Broken Family Is No Family at All?”, in Pacific Standard:


synsacrum

en-noun

synsacrum (plural synsacrums or synsacra)

(anatomy, ornithology) The bone in birds composed of the sacrum and some lumbar or caudal vertebrae fused together.


tion

A cross between a male tiger and a lioness.


cackerel

From Old French caquerel, cagarel, from the root of English cack.

The mendole, Spicara maena; a small Mediterranean fish considered poisonous in ancient times.


parotoid gland

An external skin gland on the back, neck, and shoulder of toads and some frogs and salamanders, which secretes a milky alkaloid substance to deter predators.


tiburon

Borrowed from Middle French tiburon, from Spanish tiburón, of uncertain origin.

Other unlucky accidents happen in these seas to vexe them, as when (in most becalmings) they swim in the bearing Ocean, the greedy Tuberon or Shark arm'd with a double row of venemous teeth pursues them [...].

1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I:

Sphyrna tiburo
Sphyrna tiburo#Translingual

Negaprion brevirostris
Negaprion brevirostris#Translingual

A shark; now specifically, Sphyrna tiburo or Negaprion brevirostris.


wallhick

lesser spotted woodpecker
lesser spotted woodpecker


barred owl

Two barred owls, lugubrious and beautiful, call across a great distance.

2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 546:

A large American owl (Strix varia) with dark brown transverse bars on the breast.


furbaby

Mrs. Jackson still kept doggie biscuits in her pockets, even though her furbaby had died two months ago.

2007, Barbara Karmazin, Night Moves, Loose Id, published 2007, →ISBN:

As I took the satiny-furred cat into my arms, his purring ratcheted up a couple of notches. Brian stood looking at the two of us, grinning, then said of the malnourished creature, “I guess we have a furbaby!”

2012, Marion Arnott, “Another One in from the Cold”, in Marie O'Regan, editor, The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women, Constable & Robinson, →ISBN:

He looked down at the puppy fast asleep in his arms. Maybe this furbaby would slow down the ticking of her biological clock, too.

2015, Kallypso Masters, Nobody's Dream, →ISBN:

(informal, endearing) A furry pet considered a child by a human.


wou-wou

A gibbon, the agile gibbon, or silvery gibbon.


megaderm

Any of several species of Old World blood-sucking bats of the genus Megaderma; the false vampire bat.


Suleah fish

(dated) The Indian threadfin (Leptomelanosoma indicum). .


geckotian

The Geckotians, is composed of nocturnal lizards, so much resembling each other that they might be left in one genus.

1831, Georges Cuvier, The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, page 140:

It proved to be nothing more that a lizard of the geckotian family, hideously ugly, but, in common with all of his kind, perfectly harmless.

1871, Arthur Morelet, Travels in Central America: Including Accounts of Some Regions Unexplored Since the Conquest, page 278:

Other saurians have folds of skin along the flanks; but in no other of them is this disposition so developed as in a curious geckotian, the Ptychozoon homacephalum of Java and other Sunda Islands.

1890, M. Maurice Maindron, “Dragons, fabled and real”, in The Popular Science Monthly, volume 36:


suilline

en-adj

suilline (comparative more suilline, superlative most suilline)

more suilline (comparative)
most suilline (superlative)

(zoology) Of or relating to the suborder Suina of (especially) pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.


suilline

The temporal fossa has a capacity in its proportions and form more resembling that of carnivores than that of the ordinary suillines.

1869, Joseph Leidy, “Elotherium Mortoni”, in The Extinct Mammalian Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska. Including an Account of Some Allied Forms from Other Localities, Together with a Synopsis of the Mammalian Remains of North America, […] (Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; volume VII, second series), Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [F]or the Academy, by J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., page 176:

The Oregon Pliocene has afforded the Suillines, Platygonus Condoni Mh., and Dicotyles Hesperius Mh., besides Rhinoceros Oregonensis Mh.

1874, James D[wight] Dana, Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special Reference to American Geological History, […], 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Co., […], published 1875, page 511:

The genus Platygonus is represented by several species, one of which was very abundant in the Post-Tertiary of North America, and is apparently the last example of a side branch, before the American Suillines culminate in existing Peccaries.

1877 August 30, O[thniel] C[harles] Marsh, Introduction and Succession of Vertebrate Life in America. An Address Delivered before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Nashville, Tenn., […], →OCLC, page 37:

Any artiodactyl of the suborder Suina of pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.


carpet python

Morelia spilota
Wikispecies:Morelia spilota

A carpet snake (snake of the species Morelia spilota).


tolypeutine

(zoology, rare) The apar, a kind of armadillo.


allmouth

Any of the order Lophiiformes of anglerfish, such as Lophius piscatorius.


carpet snake

A harmless colubrid species of snake found in North America, a pine snake (Pituophis melanoleucus).


rotchet

A fish, the European red gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).


cargoose

Perhaps from Gaulish and Irish cir, cior (“(pronounced kir, kior), crest, comb”) + English goose.


mockbird

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
Acrocephalus schoenobaenus#Translingual

A bird, the European sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus).


Dorking fowl

One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double.


schelly

(Scotland) A fish, the powan (Coregonus clupeoides).


squeteague

Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

The Injuns get to Naturmitgefuhl by the metaphor of a family: if you don't throw the roe-plump squeteague back, that is a sort of nepoticide.

2001, Adrian Trehorse, The Last Angry White Man, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 154:

A weakfish, a silvery edible American sciaenoid fish of species Cynoscion regalis.


tocororo

From American Spanish tocororo, of uncertain origin: possibly onomatopoeic, possibly from a Native American word.

A Cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus) with a serrated bill and a tail that is concave at the end.


sahui

From a Tupian language in the area of Bahia, Brazil. A variant form or cognate of sagoin.


orycterope

From translingual Orycteropus (genus name), from Ancient Greek ὀρυκτήρ (oruktḗr, “miner”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).


foxfish

An Australian fish, Bodianus frenchii, and related species.


grundel

From Middle English grundel, grundyl, perhaps from Old English gryndle (“herring”). Compare also Middle Dutch grondele, grondel, Middle Low German grundele, grundel (“groundling”). See groundling.

(UK, dialect, archaic) A kind of fish, the groundling.


chlamyphore

Ancient Greek χλαμύς (khlamús, “cloak”) + φορός (phorós, “one who bears”)

Chlamyphorus truncatus
Chlamyphorus truncatus#Translingual

(zoology, dated) A small South American armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus and Chlamyphorus retusus, now Calyptophractus retusus), covered with a leathery shell.


hocco

(archaic) A bird, the crested curassow or royal pheasant, Crax alector.


tubfish

(UK, dialect) The sapphirine gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna).


soricine

en-adj

soricine (comparative more soricine, superlative most soricine)

more soricine (comparative)
most soricine (superlative)

From Latin soricinus, from sorex (“a shrew”).

the soricine bat

(zoology) Of or relating to the shrew family (Soricidae); resembling a shrew in form or habits.


soricine

(zoology) Any member of the shrew family (Soricidae).


becuna

Sphyraena sphyraena, a Mediterranean fish.


beshow

From Makah bishowk, cognate to Nootka mišawiḥ.

A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; the candlefish or sablefish.


houtou

The houtou shuns the society of man: the plantations and cultivated parts are too much disturbed to engage it to settle there […]

1839, Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South America:


swartback

Larus marinus
Larus marinus#Translingual

(UK, dialect) The black-backed gull (Larus marinus), or swarbie.


forkbeard

A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head.


scuppaug

From the Narragansett term mishcùppaûog, actually a plural, the singular being mishcùp(p), whence mishcup. Compare scup, paugie.


thick wind

(archaic, equestrianism, patholgy) A defect of respiration in a horse, not associated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.


araguato

From or cognate to French araguate (whence the rare older English spelling araguate), likely from Cariban; compare Kari'na arawata and the other cognates listed at alouatte. The Century Dictionary suggests a possible relation to guariba and/or araba (an obsolete word for a howler monkey of the genus Mycetes). On the other hand, Merriam-Webster attributes it to Cariban.

A South American howler monkey, the ursine howler (Alouatta arctoidea).

araguato

a South American monkey, Mycetes ursinus


sparhawk

(UK, dialect) Alternative form of sparrow hawk


dunter

"Here an old woman, thinking to help her pastor out of a dead lift, cried out, 'Aiblins, Sir, it was a dunter.' (The vulgar name of a species of whale common to the Scotch coast.)

1845, Thomas Ingoldsby [pseudonym; Richard Barham], The Ingoldsby Legends, New York, N.Y.: W. J. Widdleton, published 1865, page 80:

Porpoises, it is true, and "dunters" may be seen gambolling along the coast of Durham, but even that royal fish, the sturgeon, often caught in the last century, as the files of the Newcastle Courant prove, is a rarity on the coast.

1883, “Local Records and Notes”, in Newcastle Courant, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, page 2:

The sperm whale is of course the best producer, but this species is not flagrant in the southern seas. The whale usually found is small in size and the head reservoir does not contain very large quantities of the oil. Among the smaller Cataceans, the porpoises, the puffy dunters, and grampuses, an excellent grade of oil is secured for commercial purposes by the natives who ply the waters many days and nights seeking the specie.^([sic])

1904, “South Sea Fish Oils”, in Pacific Oil Reporter, volume 6, number 1, San Francisco, C.A.: Pacific Oil Reporter, page 5:

(dialect, Scotland, Northumberland) A porpoise.


flathe

From Middle English flathe (“flat fish”), from Old English *flaþa ("flatcake"; found only in compound flæþecomb, fleþecomb (“weaver's comb”)), from Proto-West Germanic *flaþō (“flatcake”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“broad, flat”). Cognate with Dutch vla, vlade (“baked custard, pancake”), Middle Low German vlade (“flatcake”), German Fladen (“a flatcake, cowpatty”). Related to flan.


polatouche

Siberian flying squirrel
Siberian flying squirrel

A Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans, syn. Sciuropterus volans), native to much of boreal Eurasia, from Finland east.


dogly

en-adj

dogly (comparative more dogly, superlative most dogly)

more dogly (comparative)
most dogly (superlative)

From Middle English *dogly, *doglich, equivalent dog + -ly. Compare doglike.

I had a little dog who practiced all the dogly virtues. He never tried to get into any chairs or on any couches.

1908, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, The Outlook:

[Seminole Sam to the Dog:] It ain't dogly to bark "ahem".

1959 June 4, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 47:

If a chicken invades your garden to steal seed and your dog barks at it in the line of dogly duty, the chicken's owner has the legal right to kill your dog.

It was a halfhearted attempt to get him to stop, because truly, I was hoping the dog would do the dogly thing and chew up the Frisbee.

2006, Linda Johns, Hannah West in Deep Water:

Of, like, or pertaining to dogs or the dog family; canine.


pipemouth

(rare) Any fish of the genus Fistularia; the tobacco pipefish (Fistularia tabacaria).


tayassuid

(zoology) Any peccary of the family Tayassuidae


octodont

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Octodontidae, a family of rodents including the degu (Octodon degus) and 12 other South American species.


silverfin

(zoology) A small North American freshwater cyprinoid fish (Notropis whipplei, now Cyprinella whipplei).


bergander

From berg (“burrow”) + gander (“a male goose?”). Compare German Bergente, Danish gravgaas.

Tadorna tadorna
Tadorna tadorna#Translingual

A European duck (Tadorna tadorna), a sheldrake.


pondfish

en-noun

pondfish (plural pondfishes or pondfish)

Any of numerous species of American freshwater fishes belonging to the family Centrarchidae.


pedimane

(archaic, zoology) A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum.


shovelard

From Middle English schovelerd, schulerde, schevelard, from schovel (“shovel”), perhaps influenced by malard (“mallard”), on model of Middle Dutch lepelaar (“spoonbill”), with Middle English -ard replacing -aar, but not completely certain.

(UK, dialect) A kind of dabbling duck; the shoveler.


flerd

Dean M. Anderson, research animal scientist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is bonding sheep to cattle into a cohesive unit termed a "flerd."

1996, Small Farm Today, Clark, Mo.: Missouri Farm Pub., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35:

Flerds can help reduced coyote predation of small ruminants because cows will instinctively intimidate approaching canines. […] Even though dietary differences among flocks, herds and flerds remain similar on arid landscapes with abundant standing crop, animal distribution does differ.

2010, D[ean] M. Anderson, R. E. Estell, “Behavior – the Keystone in Optimizing Free-ranging Ungulate Production”, in Victor R. Squires, editor, Range and Animal Sciences and Resources Management (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems), volume 1, [Oxford?]: Eolss Publishers, →ISBN, page 335:

Sheep and goats often co-graze with other animals, such as cows or horses. This grouping of species is sometimes called a flerd.

2015, Dina Rudick, Erik Jacobs, “Sheep & Goats”, in Barnyard Kids: A Family Guide for Raising Animals, Beverly, Mass.: Quarry Books, Quarto Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 81:

A mixed group of ruminants, such as sheep and cattle.

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pirarucu

Etymology tree
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pira
Old Tupi pirá
Proto-Tupian *ɨrʲuku
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *uruku
Old Tupi uruku
Old Tupi pirauruku
Nheengatu pirarukúbor.
Brazilian Portuguese pirarucubor.
English pirarucu
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese pirarucu.


papabote

From Cajun French papabote, pape-a-bote. See Old French bote (“high shoe, boot”).

(Louisiana, dated) A bird, the upland sandpiper.


standard-wing

From standard + wing; see standard (“vertical pole”).

A bird of paradise (Semioptera wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.


piculet

A small woodpecker of the genus Picumnus and other genera in subfamily Picumninae.


dogling

The day she came home to find that our dogling had gone to live permanently with the man who spaded up our back yard it seemed for a time that there was no balm in Gilead.


rainbowfish

en-noun

rainbowfish (plural rainbowfishes or rainbowfish)

rainbowfishes (plural)
rainbowfish (plural)

Any of the small colourful freshwater fish in the family Melanotaeniidae, native to northern and eastern Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia.


chimaeroid

(zoology) Any fish of the suborder Chimaeroidei


deerhorn

deerhorn (countable and uncountable, plural deerhorns)

Pick made of deerhorn, used by flint miners in the New Stone Age.

1930, Carl Whiting Bishop, Charles Greeley Abbot, Aleš Hrdlička, Man from the farthest past: