fishling

[…] said an older woman, bending over her, "hush, little fishling! Ichuk, my son, is dead, but we will get thee another man."

My fingers moved subtly, and now Fiacha was a tiny raven no bigger than a bee, a little speck of darkness that spun out of the fixing charm as easily as a fishling escapes the herring net, […]

2008, Juliet Marillier, Child of the Prophecy:


spinebill

Either of the Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus, types of honeyeaters.


thimbleeye

July 25, 1887, the schooner Peter Cooper caught 6000 thimbleeye mackerel off Manasquan N. J.

1904, Tarleton H. Bean, “Fishes of New York”, in New York State Museum 56th Annual Report, volume 2, page 383:

A schooling fish of temperate waters, chub mackerel or thimbleeye migrates in much greater numbers to New Jersey than into New York waters .

1978, John Laurence McHugh, Jay J. C. Ginter, Fisheries, page 68:

An Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias).


king of the doos

en-noun

king of the doos (plural kings of the doos)

From king + of + the + Scots doo (“dove”). Compare king of the mullets (Dicentrarchus labrax, Apogon imberbis) and similar terms.

Carrier Pigeon
English Carrier
Homing Pigeon


barrigudo

Native name, from Spanish barrigudo (“big-bellied”).


English Carrier

English Carrier (plural English Carriers)

Columba livia domestica
Columba livia domestica#Translingual

Columba livia domestica, an old breed of fancy pigeon.

(from the Origin of Species translation) Pigeon Messager anglais m (pigeon messager anglais m)

(from the Origin of Species translation) Messager anglais m (messager anglais m)

(from the Origin of Species translation) Messager m (messager m)


carangoid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Carangidae.


Dongola

The original form was Tungul, possibly from Old Nubian ⲧⲟⲩⳟ (touŋ, “to be secure”), hence fortress.

A horse of a large Middle Eastern breed.


abelisaurid

(paleontology) Any of the Abelisauridae, a family of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaurs.


put someone through their paces

en-verb

put<,,put> (someone) through (their) paces

put (someone) through (their) paces (third-person singular simple present puts (someone) through (their) paces, present participle putting (someone) through (their) paces, simple past and past participle put (someone) through (their) paces)

put through paces (canonical)
puts (someone) through (their) paces (present singular third-person)
putting (someone) through (their) paces (participle present)
put (someone) through (their) paces (participle past)
put (someone) through (their) paces (past)

She put Rosebud through his paces in the ring, and received her share of applause at the antics of the clever horse.

1916, Vance Barnum, Joe Strong on the Trapeze:

(literally, equestrianism) To direct a horse to walk, canter, trot, etc.


ceratosaurian

(zoology) Of or relating to the dinosaur infraorder Ceratosauria.


ceratosaurian

(zoology) Any of the dinosaur infraorder Ceratosauria.


papion

Probably from a native name: compare Spanish papión.

Mandrillus sphinx
Mandrillus sphinx#Translingual


sondeli

Suncus murinus
Suncus murinus#Translingual

An Asian house shrew, a muskrat (Suncus murinus).


pleuronectoid

en-adj

pleuronectoid (comparative more pleuronectoid, superlative most pleuronectoid)

more pleuronectoid (comparative)
most pleuronectoid (superlative)

Relating to the Pleuronectidae, or flounder family.


starthroat

Any hummingbird of the genus Heliomaster, with throat feathers having a glittering lustre.


sea canary

So called from the whistling sound which it makes.


Cochin fowl

(dated) A large variety of the domestic fowl.


tarpum

A large marine fish (Atlantic tarpon), of species Megalops atlanticus, of the southern United States and the West Indies, with large silvery scales.


scissorstail

A species of tyrant flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus) from the southern United States and Central America, with a long forked tail, and a red patch on the underwing coverts.


chondropterygian

(zoology, obsolete) Any member of the obsolete taxon Chondropterygii, which included both the cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes) such as sharks, rays, skates and chimaeras, and the more primitive bony fishes such as sturgeons that have some bones made of cartilage.


caparro

(dated) A large South American monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha), with a prehensile tail.


fer-de-lance

en-noun

fer-de-lance (plural fer-de-lances or fers-de-lance)

fer-de-lances (plural)
fers-de-lance (plural)

Borrowed from French fer de lance (“spearhead”).

Bothrops lanceolatus or other lancehead snakes of genus Bothrops.


scincoid

Latin scincus a kind of lizard, from Ancient Greek σκίγγος (skíngos), σκίγκος (skínkos), + -oid. Compare skink.


doegling

From a typographical variant of Danish døgling, from Faroese døglingur, which now refers to the northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus).

This acid is, moreover, not combined with oxide of lipyl in the Doegling train-oil, (at least it yields no glycerine on saponification,) but probably with doeglic oxide, C₂₄H₂₅O, a body similar to the ether-like haloid bases, whose existence and composition Scharling, however, only infers from the analysis of the unsaponified Doegling train-oil and the absence of glycerine.

1851, Karl Gotthelf Lehmann, Physiological Chemistry, London: Cavendish Society, page 116:

Doegling Train Oil. From the doegling (the Balœna rostrata of Chemnitz, Hyperodon of later zoologists), a kind of dolphin.

1866, Leopold Gmelin, Hand-Book of Chemistry, London: Cavendish Society, page 180:

An ointment base said to be a mixture of soap, carnauba wax, and doegling oil.

1904, George M. Gould, “Myronin”, in A Dictionary of New Medical Terms, Philadelphia, P.A.: P. Blakiston, page 374:

northern bottlenose whale
northern bottlenose whale

A northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus), from which oil was once obtained.


surucucu

From Portuguese surucucu, from Old Tupi surukuku.


batrachoid

en-adj

batrachoid (comparative more batrachoid, superlative most batrachoid)

more batrachoid (comparative)
most batrachoid (superlative)

Batrachoides + -oid (with haplology). Compare batrachian.

Batrachoid

of or pertaining to the family Batrachoididae

It applies, indeed, solely in its present state to the capillaries of the saurial and batrachoid reptiles; but there is every reason to believe, that the same arrangement takes place in the mammated class of animals.

1832, Marshall Hall, Art. II: A Critical and Experimental Essay on the Circulation of Blood: The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, page 167:

An idea, not undeserving attention, has been announced on this subject by M. Reynaud, who, observing that a similar anatomical arrangement is found in the batrachoid amphibia, or frog family during the whole period of existence, infers, though not very confidently, that it may be applied to explain the arrangement of the vascular system now under consideration, by referring it to the earliest periods of intra-uterine life in the Mammalia.

1841, David Craigie, Art. XII: Instance of Obliteration of the Aorta beyond the Arch: The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, page 461:

It gave, therefore, additional evidence of the existence of air-breathing vertebrata at the period of the deposition of the coal-strata, and extended the known geographical range of the batrachoid reptiles of the carboniferous epoch.

1853, The Literary Gazette, London, page 114:


kid glove

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

From kid gloves (made from the skin of a young lamb or goat), a particularly fine, soft material.

to handle with kid gloves

He's usually very sensitive about this sort of thing; make sure you put on your kid gloves before you see him.

His friend Penny Vieregge provided a glimpse into his actual experience when she described the "incredible fragility" in Dick at the time, "like fine, fine, porcelain. . . . I wanted to put on kid gloves and be there in case the shattering came."

2005, Jeffrey John Kripal, Glenn W. Shuck, On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture, page 154:

This time around the enemy took off the kid gloves. He saw that his previous plans to destroy me had failed. Instead of sending boys to do a man's job, he sent a man that he knew would win me over.

2008, Barbie Jones, The Power to Choose - A Victim No More, page 44:

Malcolm: Be gentle with them.
 Jamie: Oh, you know me Malc. Kid gloves, but made from real kids.

Unlike Bing, GPT-4 usually flat-out refused to take the bait when I tried to get it to talk about consciousness, or get it to provide instructions for illegal or immoral activities, and it treated sensitive queries with kid gloves and nuance.

2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times:

(figurative, usually in the plural) A metaphorical representation of careful handling.


shad-waiter

(US, dialect) A lake whitefish; the roundfish (Prosopium cylindraceum).


hairytail mole

Parascalops breweri, a medium-sized North American mole.


wingfish

en-noun

wingfish (plural wingfishes or wingfish)

A sea robin with large, wing-like pectoral fins.


guacharo

guacharo (plural guacharos or guacharoes)

Compare Spanish guácharo (“sickly, dropsical”), guacharaca (“a sort of bird”).

Steatornis caripensis
Wikispecies:Steatornis caripensis

(dated) the oilbird (A nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad (Steatornis caripensis)


cane rat

A large rodent of the genus Thryonomys, native to subsaharan Africa.


garrupa

Possibly from Portuguese garupa (“crupper”) or Portuguese garoupa (“grouper”). Compare grouper.

One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastes; a rockfish.


gopher tortoise

gopher tortoise (plural gopher tortoises)

Any of the species of the taxonomic genus Gopherus, which are burrowing tortoises of southern North America.


coaita

1830, Unnamed translator, Georges Louis Leclerc, The Natural History of Quadrupeds, [1749–1804, Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi], Volume 3, page 338,
All these facts, even the worms in the intestines, correspond with our coaitas. […] It is obvious, therefore, that the exquima of Marcgrave is a sapajou of the same species, or, at least, of a species very nearly allied to that of the coaita.

Even the coaita, screened by the intervention of the bodies, had, for the time, ceased to utter its cries of alarm.

1866, The Boys' Journal, volume 6, page 36:

The flesh of the Coaitas is much esteemed by the natives in this part of the country[…].

1896, Henry Ogg Forbes, A Hand-book to the Primates, volume 1, page 230:


hen pigeon

Coordinate term: cock pigeon


cock pigeon

Coordinate term: hen pigeon


bulau

The bulau, of Sumatra, has a few stout bristly hairs scattered among the fur of its back, and gives the first indication of a tendency toward the production of spines.

1884, Popular Science, volume 26, number 19, page 428:

(archaic) An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Echinosorex gymnura), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.


chogset

Shortening of cachogset, from an Algonquian language; probably Mohegan-Pequot cachauxet (“cunner”).


morgay

From Welsh morgi (“dogfish, shark”), from mor (“sea”) + ci (“dog”).

small-spotted catshark
small-spotted catshark

Scyliorhinus canicula
Scyliorhinus canicula#Translingual

The European small-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula


parraqua

Ortalis motmot
Ortalis motmot#Translingual

(archaic) The little chachalaca (Ortalis motmot), similar to the guan and other chachalacas.


parauque

A species of nightjar (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America.


mollemoke

Borrowed from Swedish mallemucke (“the stormy petrel”).

bor

Ivory gulls and mollemokes were seen farther on. They did not lose sight of the birds after this, as far as they went. The ivory gulls flew very high, but the mollemokes alit, and fed on the water, flying over it well out to sea, as we had seen them do in Baffin Bay.

1877, Daid Murray Smith, Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores:

Fulmarus glacialis
Fulmarus glacialis#Translingual

Any of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, such as Fulmarus glacialis of the North Atlantic and several species of Pterodroma of the Southern Ocean.


phatagin

The long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla).


aswail

From Marathi अस्वल (asval) or a related term in another Indian language.

An Aswail brought to me from the woods when quite young, and which lived some time in my possession, fed by choice almost exclusively upon roast mutton and fowl; rejecting all fruits and vegetables.

1832, William Henry Sykes, A Catalogue of the Mammalia and Birds Observed in Dukhun:

[…] mutilated parts of an Aswail from Ceylon together with parts of a three-toed Sloth […]

1953, Dirk Pieter Erdbrink, A Review of Fossil and Recent Bears of the Old World, volume 1:

Melursus ursinus
Melursus ursinus#Translingual

(dated) The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), an India bear.


nyan

From the Japanese onomatopoeia にゃん (nyan).

(anime and manga fandom) The cry of a cat; meow, miaow.


tatouay

From a compound word in a Tupi-Guarani language (compare tatu-ai), of which the first element is ultimately from Old Tupi tatu (“armadillo”). Compare Portuguese tatu, French tatou. The second element (ay or ai) may mean "wound" because of a belief that its fat was used on wounds, or "colored", or "worthless".

An armadillo (Cabassous tatouay), native to tropical South America; the broad-banded armadillo.


gier eagle

Compare Dutch gier (“vulture”), German gier, and English gyrfalcon.

The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Leviticus 11:18: “And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,”

Neophron percnopterus
Neophron percnopterus#Translingual

(obsolete) A bird referred to as unclean in the Bible, possibly the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus).


ipi

long-tailed pangolin
long-tailed pangolin

The long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla)


petaurist

From Latin petaurista (“a ropedancer, acrobat”), from Ancient Greek πετευριστής (peteuristḗs), from πετευρίζομαι (peteurízomai, “dance on a rope”), from πέτευρον (péteuron, “a pole, a stage for ropedancers”).

der

(zoology) Any flying marsupial of the order Phalangeriformes, such as those in genera Petaurista, Phalanger, Acrobates.


sapajou

Borrowed from French sapajou, borrowed from Old Tupi sapaîu.

etymon

Any of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, with long prehensile tails.


tetel

A large African antelope (Alcelaphus buselaphus tora) with widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.


chebec

Empidonax minimus
Empidonax minimus#Translingual

A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.


elasmosaurid

(zoology) Any of the family Elasmosauridae of long-necked plesiosaurs.


harehound

One of a small breed of dogs used for hunting hares.


sillock

From sill (“newly hatched young of fish, fry”) + -ock, ultimately from Old Norse síl, síld (“herring”), whence also dialectal Swedish sil (“the young of fish, fry”) and Norwegian sil (“sand-eel”). More at sile.

suffix

(Scotland) A pollock or a coalfish, sometimes especially a young coalfish.


pettychaps

Uncertain. Probably imitative of the bird’s call, with influence from petty (“small”) and either chap (“jaw; bill of a bird”) or chap (“person”). Alternatively, perhaps directly from petty (in turn from Middle English pety (“tiny”)) and chaps (“jaws”). Attested from the 1670s.

Phylloscopus trochilus
Phylloscopus trochilus#Translingual

western Orphean warbler
western Orphean warbler

Sylvia hortensis
Sylvia hortensis#Translingual

Any of several species of small European passerine songbirds, including the willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus), the chiffchaffs (Phylloscopus spp.), and the western Orphean warbler (Sylvia hortensis).


polewig

(UK, dialect, obsolete) sand goby (Pomatoschistus minutus).


margate fish

A white margate, an edible fish of the west Atlantic.


pickmire

From pick + mire, so called from its picking its food from the mire.

(UK, dialect, dated) The peewit, or black-headed gull.


dabb lizard

Dabb from Arabic ضَبّ (ḍabb, “spiny-tailed lizard”).


pickle-herring

The first who made the experiment was a merry-andrew, who was put into my hands by a neighbouring justice of peace, in order to reclaim him from that profligate kind of life. Poor Pickle-herring had not taken above one turn in it, when he came out of the cave, like a hermit from his cell, with a penitential look and a most rueful countenance.

1714 September 25 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “TUESDAY, September 14, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 599; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:


puffleg

Any of numerous species of hummingbirds of the genera Eriocnemis and Haplophaedia, with large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.


clupeoid

en-adj

clupeoid (comparative more clupeoid, superlative most clupeoid)

more clupeoid (comparative)
most clupeoid (superlative)

(zoology) Of or relating to fish closely related taxonomically to herring.


clupeoid

(zoology) Any of a group of fish closely related taxonomically to herring.


linchi

Possibly from Javanese lintye (“a kind of swallow”).


muscardin

From French muscadin (“a musk-scented lozenge”), from muscade (“nutmeg”), from Latin muscus (“musk”), so called from its odour. See muscadel.


pentail

A species of treeshrew (Ptilocercus lowii) of Borneo, with a very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip.


coryphene

From Ancient Greek κορυφή (koruphḗ, “head, summit, peak”).

(archaic, zoology) A fish of the genus Coryphaena.


turpin

From Old French [Term?], of Germanic origin: Tur (“god or divine”) + pin (“evergreen tree”).


parma wallaby

First element parma from Thurawal dama + wallaby.

The parma wallaby, Macropus parma, last seen in 1932 and thought to be extinct, was subsequently rediscovered in 1966.

1978, Derrick Ovington, Australian Endangered Species, page 42:

It was thought that parma wallabies were extinct in Australia in 1957, but it is now known that they exist in an area of coastal New South Wales, north of the Hunter River (Maynes 1977).

2003, John Long, Introduced Mammals of the World: Their History, Distribution and Influence, page 39:

The rest of the macropods are wallabies. They are usually smaller than kangaroos and wallaroos. The smallest is the parma wallaby (Macropus parma) of New South Wales in Australia. Adult parma wallabies average 18 inches (47 cm) or so in body length, with tails about the same length.

2007, Rebecca Stefoff, The Marsupial Order, page 65:

A rare species of wallaby, Macropus parma.


pauxi

From Spanish paují, pauxí, perhaps from a native name and/or imitative of its call.


singing fish

en-noun

singing fish (plural singing fishes or singing fish)

singing fishes (plural)
singing fish (plural)

A California toadfish (Porichthys porosissimus), noted for the humming sound it produces during the breeding season.


little bustard

Tetrax tetrax
Tetrax tetrax#Translingual

Tetrax tetrax, a migratory bird of the family Otididae (bustards) found in parts of Europe and Central Asia


redleg

A plant in the buckwheat family, lady's thumb.


leatherhead

The piping-crows, the laughing-jackasses, the odd leatherheads, and the coach-wheel birds, all gave us their old music, and brought back pleasant memories of travel.

1855, William Howitt, Land, labor and gold: or, Two years in Victoria, volume 2, page 38:


squalodon

(paleontology) Any of a genus of extinct whales with serrated teeth, belonging to the family Squalodontidae.


sea leopard

Hydrurga leptonyx
Hydrurga leptonyx#Translingual

Any of several species of spotted seals, all in family Phocidae.

Hydrurga leptonyx, of the Antarctic Ocean


studfish

studfish (plural studfishes or studfish)

Any of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, such as Fundulus catenatus.


burgall

Tautogolabrus adspersus
Tautogolabrus adspersus#Translingual


racket-tail

Any of several species of hummingbirds of the genera Ocreatus and Loddigesia (formerly Steganura or Spathura), having two of the tail feathers very long and racket-shaped.

Prioniturus spp., parrots with similar tails.


supercock

[…] You know, I could understand your anxiety if you were betting on just any rooster. But when you wager on a supercock like this, why, it's just like putting your money on San Miguel."

1959, Alejandro Roces, Of Cocks and Kites, and Other Short Stories, Regal Publishing Co, published 1959, page 61:

(Philippines, dated) A formidable gamecock.


friarbird

/ˈfɹʌɪəbəːd/

The friar birds drove their beaks into the sweet white flesh of Bacchus Marsh apples.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 186:

From the sandalwood ridge behind him a friarbird repeated its ardent call again and again, warning off the intruders. Ar-coo! Ar-coo! Ar-coo!

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 55:

Any of several species of large Australian honeyeaters in the genus Philemon.


megalonyx

(paleontology) An extinct ground sloth of the genus Megalonyx.


he-ass

From Middle English hee assis pl; equivalent to he- + ass.


canon bit

From French canon, from Latin canon (“a rule”).

[…] A goodly person, and could menage faire
His stubborne steed with curbed canon bit

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

blind the disunions of complaining nature in chains together, and curb them with a canon bit

1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:

(obsolete, rare) The part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.


fishing owl

Any member of a group of three species of African owls within the genus Bubo resembling the eagle owl.


Romney

From a name of a village in Kent (see Old Romney), from a compound of Latin rumen (“gullet”) and Old English ēa (“river”).

Hampshire County
Hampshire County#English

A city, the county seat of Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States, named after Romney in Kent.


white-nosed coati

white-nosed coati (plural white-nosed coatis)

A common species of coati (Nasua narica), native to many wooded areas of the Americas.


Ural owl

A Eurasian species of owl, Strix uralensis

tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ tsinyiʼ néʼéshjaaʼ łigaaígíí


zaprorid

(zoology) Any of the family Zaproridae of prowfish.


ornithurine

suf

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

Not only is the specimen a long-coveted ornithurine, but it is also breathtakingly well preserved.

2001 January 12, Erik Stokstad, “PALEONTOLOGY: New Fossil Fills Gap in Bird Evolution”, in Science, volume 291, number 5502, →DOI:


bird of passage

en-noun

bird of passage (plural birds of passage)

/ˌbɜːd əv ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/

/ˌbɝd əv ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/

Probably a calque of Middle French oiseau de passage: oiseau (“bird”), passage (“part of a journey or route, passage”).

calque

There is a wonderful conformity between the vegetation of ſome plants, and the arrival of certain birds of paſſage. [Carl] Linnaeus obſerves that the wood anemone blows in Sweden on the arrival of the ſwallow; and the marſh mary-gold, Caltha, when the cuckoo ſings.

1789, [Erasmus Darwin], The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. […], London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1791, →OCLC, part II (The Loves of the Plants; 3rd edition), footnote, page 33:

And now the ladies, with their gay plumage, have flown away like foreign birds of passage, and the jolly old priests of Bacchus, in the parlour, make their libations of claret; […]

1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Two Young People Understand One Another Better, Perhaps, than Ever They Did Before, without Saying So”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 237:

(ornithology) A migratory bird, especially a passage migrant (“a bird that stops somewhere for a short time during a seasonal migration”).

oiseau de passage

migratory bird — see also migratory bird


stellion

From Latin stellio (“a newt with starlike spots on its back”), from stella (“star”).

der

A lizard (Laudakia stellio or Stellagama stellio). It is olive-green with small stellate spots, commonly found in the rocky areas around the Mediterranean.


oont

Borrowed from Hindustani اُونْٹ / ऊँट (ū̃ṭ, “camel”).

refn

From the collection of the Wellcome Library, London, UK.

Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire? / It isn't standin' up to charge nor lyin' down to fire; / But it's everlastin' waitin' on an everlastin' road / For the commissariat camel an' 'is commissariat load. / O the oont [footnote: Camel:—oo is pronounced like u as in 'bull,' but by Mr. Atkins to rhyme with 'front.'], O the oont, O the commissariat oont! / With 'is silly neck a-bobbin' like a basket full o' snakes; / We packs 'im like an idol, an' you ought to 'ear 'im grunt, / An' when we gets 'im loaded up 'is blessed girth-rope breaks.

1892, Rudyard Kipling, “Oonts (North India Transport Train)”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 27:

Very badly wounded man—inaccessible position—stretcher-parties all out of sight—aeroplane can't land for any first-aid nor to pick up the casualty—excellent problem and demonstration. That oont [footnote: Camel.] will simplify it, though. [...] You bring the beast up—you'll be able to ride most of the way if you zig-zag, and lead him most of the rest. Then you'll have to carry the casualty to the oont and bring him down.

1914, Percival Christopher Wren, “Vultures and Luck—Good and Bad”, in Snake and Sword: A Novel, London, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co. […], →OCLC, part III (The Saving of a Soul), page 308:

Ugliness must not be confused with inutility. Most parts of Northern India and Jammu are infested with Oonts and in the dry sandy regions of Rajasthan and Kutch Oonts proliferate.

1969, C. L Proudfoot, “All about Oonts”, in The LOH (Lady of the House), Bombay: Thacker, →OCLC, page 78:

[M]ost people are aware of their presence, and are likely to harbor opinions (mostly negative) about feral livestock. A few words pertaining to these animals have been coined or adopted to enrich the national vocabulary. [...] Oont, an appellation for camel, was introduced from British India in the nineteenth century and is now of historical interest only.

1976, Tom McKnight, “Introduction”, in Friendly Vermin: A Survey of Feral Livestock in Australia (University of California Publications in Geography; 21), Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif., London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 7:

'It's a trap!' A furious Goad shouted to the Highlanders: 'Bastards knew it was coming! Grab an oont, lads, one each, lead 'em on!' Seizing headropes they began hauling their animals towards the defile mouth. Gripping the halter just under his camel's jaw to avoid being bitten Colin was nearly swung off his feet as blood ran from its flank. Bullet – or flying chip of rock?

2004, James Macdonald, “Tribals”, in Visions of Snows: A Tale of Highlanders and War, Hertford, Hertfordshire: Authors OnLine, →ISBN, page 128:

A baggage camel is expected to carry from 220 to 270 kilograms. Ours are bearing less than half that, yet all day long they whinge like the sound of their own name in Marwari language, the onomatopoeic "oont". [...] And I can't hear the dashboard clock just his graphically salacious gurglings whenever Rocky [a camel] is down-whiff of a female oont.

2010, John Borthwick, “The Charge of the Vindaloonies”, in Summer in Siam: Tales of Thai and Other Lands, 2nd extended ebook edition, [Bangkok]: Bangkok Book House, →ISBN, page 178:

The young man managed to get a small place for himself at Yusuf Bakar Road in a suburb of Dubai which he shared with three aides of Anis Ibrahim. It was located in the Oont Bazaar (Camel Market) area and was separated from Dubai proper by a creek. Oont Bazaar had been set up in the early 1970s as a market for the sale of cattle. Since camels were the most popular form of cattle in this part of the world, the market became their fiefdom, so to speak.

2014, S. Hussain Zaidi, “Despair in Dubai”, in My Name is Abu Salem, Gurgaon, Haryana, India: Penguin Books India, →ISBN:

(British India, Australia, colloquial) A camel.


chousingha

The four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis), a small antelope found in open forest in India and Nepal.


tammar

en-noun

tammar (countable and uncountable, plural tammars)

Macropus eugenii
Macropus eugenii#Translingual

(zoology) Macropus eugenii, a small Australian wallaby with a thick, dark coat.


aasvoel

(South Africa, archaic) Alternative form of aasvogel


chiropter

Coined by William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French chiroptère.


bitzer

Unknown. Originally used of dogs. Perhaps from bits + -er, in reference to the dog's composition from multiple different "bits". The spelling with tz may be influenced from other names of breeds (e.g. spitz, shih tzu, etc.) or in imitation of German names. Compare also German Betze (“bitch, female dog”).

And a bit Welsh on your father's side. And a bit Irish. There's even some Chinese in there. You're a bitzer, Stevie.

2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN:

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A person of mixed race or ethnicity.


zanclid

(zoology) Any of the fish family Zanclidae.


luvarid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Luvaridae.


petromyzontid

(zoology) Any jawless fish in the family Petromyzontidae.


odobenid

(mammalogy) Any of the family Odobenidae; a walrus


dinomaniac

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

(informal) One who has dinomania; a dinosaur enthusiast.


Etruscan shrew

Of particular interest is the Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus), the smallest living mammal, whose adult body mass averages no more than 2 g.

a. 1980, Ewald R. Weibel et al., "The respiratory system of the smallest mammal". Published in: 1980, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Liana Bolis, Charles Richard Taylor, Comparative Physiology: Primitive Mammals, Cambridge University Press, page 181

Not much is known about the habits of the Etruscan shrew, but it swims well - most shrews do - and climbs well, but only if it has to.

1983, David Black, Animal wonders of the world, Exeter Books, page 15:

In spite of its small size, the Etruscan shrew is a fearsome predator for any living prey, provided it is small enough to be tackled: insects, worms, myriapods, and snails are all eaten voraciously because its survival requires incessant feeding.

1999, Jacques Blondel, James Aronson, Biology and Wildlife of the Mediterranean Region, Oxford University Press, page 82:

Suncus etruscus, a species of shrew native to Eurasia.


hadrosaurid

(zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.


noseleaf

noseleaf (plural noseleafs or noseleaves)

Vampire bats are capable of perceiving infrared radiation (heat) through the pocketings in their noseleaves that can allow them to find a feeding spot on their prey that is well supplied with blood vessels.

2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 23:

The elaborate structure of skin surrounding the nostrils of many species of bat.


tercel gentle

tercel gentle (plural tercel gentles or tercels gentle)

tercel gentles (plural)
tercels gentle (plural)

Ultimately from Latin tertius (“third”) (for complete etymology, see tercel) + gentle (in the archaic sense of "well-born, noble"), ultimately from Latin gens (“[Roman] clan”) (for complete etymology, see gentle)

Like as a fearefull Dove, which through the raine / Of the wide ayre her way does cut amaine, / Having farre off espyde a Tassell gent, / Which after her his nimble winges doth straine, / Doubleth her hast for feare to bee for-hent [...].

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

O for a Falkners voice, / To lure this Tassell gentle backe againe [...].

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

Marry, out upon thee, foul kite, that would fain be a tercel gentle.

1820, [Walter Scott], chapter 4, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:


Abert's towhee

From Abert (“a surname”), after American soldier and ornithologist James William Abert.

Melozone aberti (syn. Pipilo aberti), a predominantly brown towhee of the southwestern United States.


louvar

From Sicilian lùvaru (“common pandora”).

Luvarus imperialis, a large ellipsoidal perciform fish related to the surgeonfish.


potoo

(birds) Any species of the genus Nyctibius related to the nightjars (same order Caprimulgiformes), and found from southern Mexico to southern Brazil.


shrewmouse

A shrew, especially the common show (also called the erd shrew).


hickwall

From Middle English hyghwhele; also highwale (1500s) or highawe (1600s). Rarely attested before the sixteenth century, making the original form difficult to trace. Probably imitative of the bird's cry; compare yaffle (“green woodpecker”). Possibly influenced by witwall, woodwall.

lesser spotted woodpecker
lesser spotted woodpecker

Dryobates minor
Dryobates minor#Translingual

(UK, regional) A lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).

[…]at Shenington for example, the churchwardens paid 4d for each Hickwall (green woodpecker) killed, but there is no record of any payment for weasels, which were worth 3d at Bodicote. One would like to know if Hickwalls were rare at Bodicote and weasels at Shenington, or if in fact they were not considered to be vermin in these parishes.

1975, Banbury Historical Society, Cake & Cockhorse, volume 6, page 126:

European green woodpecker
European green woodpecker

Picus viridis
Picus viridis#Translingual

(UK, regional) A European green woodpecker (Picus viridis).

Tomtit, Blue Tomtit, Nun, Blue-cap, Blue-bonnet, Billy-biter, Hickwall, Blue Mope. One of the most impudent of an impudent lot.

1861, John Christopher Atkinson, British Birds' Eggs and Nests, Popularly Described, page 43:

Cyanistes caeruleus
Cyanistes caeruleus#Translingual

(UK, regional, archaic) A blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus.


mottled mallard

mottled mallard (plural mottled mallards)


whale fall

A whale carcass that has fallen to the seafloor, which in deeper water can sustain a diverse local ecosystem for decades.


abrocome

From New Latin abrocoma, from Ancient Greek ἁβροκόμης (habrokómēs, “with delicate hair”), from ἁβρός (habrós, “splendid, delicate”) + κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

der

Either of the ratlike rodents that form the genus Abrocoma; rat chinchilla.


stoater

El Hakim's party won a mere trifle, but stood what poor Captain Scott was wont to term "a stoater" on Merlin, a good but uncertain horse, who had "lost" him in the trial at home.

1858, The Irish metropolitan magazine, page 117:

Owners back their horses for such “stoaters,” in short distance races, where a start is everything, that, in too many cases, woe betide the backs and pockets of the lads if they do not jump off in a twinkling.

1860, Sporting Magazine - Volume 36, page 306:

When it was known before starting the sum Lord Portsmouth stood on his filly, there was a perfect furore to back her, as a pony would be ' a perfect stoater ' for him ; and his commission, it was understood, considerably exceeded that sum.

1863, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes - Volume 5, page 96:

(Scotland, Ireland, horse racing) A horse that wins against the odds.


horse cock

en-noun

horse cock (countable and uncountable, plural horse cocks)

Well, if anybody had a big cock it was Bill Woodruff. It was a veritable horse cock.

1962, Henry Miller, Sexus, Grove Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 184:

(countable, vulgar, figuratively, slang) A very large penis.


Eurasian jay

Garrulus glandarius
Garrulus glandarius#Translingual

A widespread species of jay, usually crested and with pinkish-brown plumage and a harsh screech (Garrulus glandarius).


longneck eel

A type of pelagic fish found in the middle and depths of most oceans, of the family Derichthyidae.


rochet

From Middle English roget, from Middle French rouget.


pleurodont

(zoology) Any reptile with teeth of this kind.


mersnake

From mer- + snake. Compare Middle English mereneddre (“sea-snake, lamprey”), from Old English merenǣddra, merenǣddre, merenǣdre (“lamprey, sea snake”, literally “sea-adder”).

cog

I asked casually while we walked past a few buildings with split columns painted with a pit of mersnakes eating raw flesh.

The first drowned in a cthulhoid's multitentacular clasp, the second was poisoned by multiple mersnake bites, and the third bled to death after his flesh was seared and scarified by a shoal of lumpreys.

2005, Brian M. Stableford, Donna Scott, Gabriel Strange, Curse of the Coral Bride:


pit adder

The two chief poisonous families of the rest of the globe, the vipers (Viperidae) and the pit-adders (Crotalida;), are entirely absent, their place being supplied by the Elapidae, [...]

1893, Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Henry Hill Guillemard, Australasia:

The venom of some snakes, Rogers says, contains a mixture of the above-mentioned venoms (among such snakes are the Australian colubrines and the American pit-adders).

1910, John Chalmers Da Costa, Modern surgery, general and operative:

There is the pit adder called Habu. This kind is the worst of the three. These snakes are three inches thick and six feet long, and resemble our diamond back rattlers at home.

Goblins which surrounded you, crowding closer and closer with their eye stalks vibrating, goblins which hissed like pit adders, were perhaps something he had not reckoned with.

1973, The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction:

They are neither lovable nor loving because they are innately poisonous or repulsive, like a pit adder or a skunk.

1974, Edgar Berman, The politician primeval: from the amoeba to the White House:

"[...] I hope the events of the day haven't so unbalanced your sense of values that you're going to turn on your pilot like a maddened pit adder at the mere suggestion of something pleasurable."

2002, Raymond Hamel, Luftgangsters: a novel:

Any of various venomous snakes of the family Crotalinae, found in Asia and the Americas, with a deep pit or groove on either side of the head which enables them to detect prey by infrared sensing; a pit viper.


planigale

The kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei) might pass for a kangaroo rat, except for being about half the size, and the pygmy planigale (Planigale maculata) looks very much like a house mouse (Mus musculus), but smaller.

2006, Michael Allaby, Tropical Forests, page 156:

The two main contenders^([for smallest marsupial]) are the rare long-tailed planigale (Planigale ingrami), a flat-skulled shrew-like creature found in northern Australia, and the rather similar pilbara ningaui (Ningaui timealeyi) from northwestern Australia.

2008, Mark Carwardine, Animal Records, page 79:

Dunnarts in turn compete with smaller native mammals, such as ningauis and planigales.

2013, Astrid Judge, Plant and Animal Conservation, page 12:

Any species of the genus Planigale of small insectivorous marsupials endemic to Australia and New Guinea.


deepwater cardinalfish

en-noun

deepwater cardinalfish (plural deepwater cardinalfishes)

Any of the small perciform fishes in the family Epigonidae


peasweep

(UK, dialect, archaic) The peewit, or lapwing.


cardinalfish

cardinalfish (plural cardinalfishes or cardinalfish)

cardinalfishes (plural)
cardinalfish (plural)

Any of the family Apogonidae of mostly marine ray-finned fishes.


footballfish

Any of the species of deep-sea anglerfishes in the family Himantolophidae.


greenlet

Any of various birds in the genus Hylophilus.


pied wagtail

A small passerine bird, Motacilla alba yarrellii.


soulili

(obsolete) A long-tailed, crested Javan monkey (Presbytis melalophos, syn. Semnopithecus mitratus).


Diana monkey

In reference to their crescent-shaped browband, held to resemble the crescent on the brow of the goddess Diana.

Cercopithecus diana, an Old World monkey found in West Africa.


teetan

(UK, dialect) A pipit (Anthus spp. etc.).


shore snipe

A sandpiper, a bird in the Scolopacidae family.


shore lark

(UK) A horned lark (Eremophila alpestris).


shore dotterel

Thinornis novaeseelandiae
Thinornis novaeseelandiae#Translingual

A plover of the endangered New Zealand species Thinornis novaeseelandiae


shore plover

A plover of the endangered New Zealand species Thinornis novaeseelandiae.


mercow

From mer- + cow, modelled after sea-cow.

Ma ruffled my crew cut. "If you'd been the lookout, you'd've told them these were sea cows, not mermaids, right?" "Right," I said. "Mercows," said Mr. Drake behind us. "Moo. Glub glub glub. Moo."

Mercow. The description of pretty mermaids frolicking in the water is so widespread that it was thought there must be a real creature lurking behind the legends.

2012, QI: quite interesting facts about mythical creatures - Telegraph

Any of several marine mammals of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong; sea-cow.


horned lark

(US) A lark, Eremophila alpestris, with distinctive facial markings.


shore cod

Any cod-like fish caught close to shore, but especially the Atlantic cod.


shore pit viper

shore pit viper (plural shore pit vipers)

A pit viper of the species Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus, of venomous snakes found in India and Southeast Asia.


Atlantic cod

Atlantic cod (usually uncountable, plural Atlantic cod or Atlantic cods)

Atlantic cod (plural)
Atlantic cods (plural)

Originally known as cod. The Atlantic was added later to distinguish this species from the related but distinct Pacific cod.


shield-toad

From shield + toad. Compare shelled-toad, shell-toad, shellpad, shell-paddock. Compare also West Frisian skyldpod (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), Dutch schildpad (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), German Schildkröte (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), Swedish sköldpadda (“tortoise”), Icelandic sjaldbaka (“turtle”, literally “shield-back”).

cog

But we already know that a shield-toad is a Frenchman, while the sun is Apollo's shield.

2010, Hugh Peter McGrath, Michael Comenetz, Valery's Graveyard:

For quotations using this term, see Citations:shield-toad.

(very rare, nonstandard, puristic) A turtle or tortoise.


shellpad

From earlier shell padde, equivalent to shell + pad (“toad”). Compare Saterland Frisian Skildpudde (“turtle, tortoise”), West Frisian skyldpod (“tortoise”), Middle Dutch schildpadde (Dutch schildpad, Afrikaans skilpad), Middle Low German schildpadde, Danish skildpadde. See also shield-toad.

Of other he was called shilpad, that is to say, shelt-toad; for that he, being a short grundy, and of little stature, did ride commonly with a great broad hat, as a churl of the country.

1868, John Foxe, The Church Historians of England:

(now dialectal, rare, puristic) A turtle or tortoise.


merlion

/ˈmɜːˌlaɪən/

/ˌmɜːˈlaɪən/

Merlion Park
Singapore River
Singapore Tourism Board

From mer- + lion; sense 1 promoted by the Singapore Tourism Board as the name of a statue installed at the mouth of the Singapore River on 15 September 1972.

In 1995, a second Merlion was built on the island of Sentosa. This new Merlion is actually a 37-metre high panoramic tower, from which it is possible to view mainland Singapore and the Straits of Singapore[…]. A new "ancient legend" was created for this creature with this tower. The legend alleged that the Merlion landed on Sentosa and saved Singapore from a storm. It would save Singapore again if the island ran into trouble (according to a film in the Merlion Tower). […] Some locals are upset by this fabrication. The STB [Singapore Tourism Board] maintains that the Merlion reflects the combination of Singapore's national animal (the lion) and Singapore being an island. Many Singaporeans have come to accept this mythical creature as a quintessential symbol of Singapore. To the unaware tourists, the product was packaged in a convincing manner, with the legend, film clip, and chronotopic dimensions of when and where the Merlion supposedly visited Singapore.

2002, Can-Seng Ooi, Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures: The Business of Mediating Experiences in Copenhagen and Singapore, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, →ISBN, pages 109–110:

Like Changi Airport or the Merlion, Singlish is something that is quintessentially Singaporean. It is a dialect that everyone speaks and understands and is something that could provide the cornerstone for a unifying cultural identity.

2005, Neil Humphreys, chapter 11, in Notes from an Even Smaller Island: Singapore through a Young Brit’s Eyes, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, →ISBN, page 174:

Yeah, well, he went into a tourist shop, not the one with postcards and plastic Merlions. That one ah, the one in here for the towkays and businessmen for conference centres. They sell gold-plated Merlions, Eiffel Towers and Empire State Buildings, you know.

2015, Neil Humphreys, chapter 9, in Marina Bay Sins, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, →ISBN:

And in the fourteenth century / Because of Nila Utama's river mouth encounter with a merlion / The Lion City surged into being / And its people could travel the wide world

2015, Wong Yoon Wah, “Metamorphosis: Temasek”, in Jeremy Tiang, transl., edited by Gwee Li Sui with Tan Chee Lay, Sa'eda bte Buang, and Azhagiya Pandiyan, Singathology: 50 New Works by Celebrated Singaporean Writers, volume I (Life), Singapore: National Arts Council; Marshall Cavendish Editions, →ISBN, stanza 1 (Temasek):

At his favorite, familiar hotel on busy Orchard Road, he paid his fare, hefted his small bag and walked past the gorgeous garden with flowers and a fountain. Under the spray of water was a statue of the so-called merlion, the mythical beast that was the symbol of the tourist industry here. Its top half was a lion and the bottom half a fish. A couple of years ago, when he'd taken a stuffed merlion home to Lexi, she'd insisted on calling it Lion King Little Mermaid from her two favorite Disney movies at that time.

2016, Karen Harper, chapter 1, in Chasing Shadows (A South Shore Novel), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin MIRA, →ISBN:

(Singapore) Often Merlion: a symbolic creature having the head of a lion and the body of a fish, which is a national symbol of Singapore; an image, statue, or other depiction of this creature.


striped bass

en-noun

striped bass (countable and uncountable, plural striped bass)

A popular fish among sport fisherman along Atlantic coast north of Virginia to Canada, Morone saxatilis.


deinonychosaur

Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria


alaunt

From Old French alans, alanz, itself from Old Spanish alán, itself possibly from Gothic *𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐍃 (*alans), designating the Alan tribe of Eastern Iranian origin who were active in Western Europe during the Migration Period and were associated with the breed.

The gentle alaunt is built exactly like a greyhound, except that he has a short, thick head.

1917 trans., Yale University, Transactions - The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 21, page 133:

The alaunt was considered a reckless animal, and had been known to attack domestic animals, or even its owner.

2007, Robert Low, An Ancient History of Dogs: Spaniels Through the Ages, page 121:

There was a streak through the grass, a fast-moving brindle arrow, rough-haired and uncombed. It struck the flank of the alaunt in midleap ...

2011, Ed Judah, The Lion Wakes, page 65:

A domesticated dog of an extinct breed related to the modern bulldog and mastiff, or modern breeds created in imitation of it.


supersaurus

Any of the large herbivorous diplodocid dinosaurs of the genus †Supersaurus.


superb parrot

Polytelis swainsonii
Polytelis swainsonii#Translingual

A species of parrot, Polytelis swainsonii, native to Australia.


ruddock

From Middle English ruddocke, ruddok, roddok, from Old English rudduc, ruduc (“robin, ruddock”, literally “little red one, red-ling”), equivalent to rud (“redness”) + -ock (diminutive suffix). The Welsh rhuddog, and Cornish rudhek (“the redbreast”) are probably from the English, although a derivation from a British Celtic *roudākos (< *roudos "red") for all three cannot be ruled out. More at rud.

suffix

(obsolete) A variety of red apple, used for cidermaking.


superb lyrebird

en-noun

superb lyrebird (plural superb lyrebirds)

A species of songbird, Menura novaehollandiae, endemic to Australia.


pteropodid

(zoology) Any of the bat family Pteropodidae.


sigmodont

Ancient Greek σῖγμα (sîgma) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”). So called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars.

(zoology) Any of the Sigmodontinae subfamily of rodents, including New World rats and mice.


head shy

en-adj

head shy (comparative more head shy, superlative most head shy)

more head shy (comparative)
most head shy (superlative)

And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all over.

1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, →LCCN, →OL:

But let's say the horse is neither head shy, nor rank, and you can bridle him without fuss.

1975 September, Bill Tarrant, “The gun dog horse: part II”, in Field & Stream, volume 80, number 5, →ISSN, page 129:

When we climb up to ride the horse, if we have not taken care of any fear he may have of our touching his ears, and we reach down to pet him while we're on his back, he may get scared and begin bucking, because he is head shy.

1991, John Lyons, Lyons on Horses: John Lyons' Proven Conditioned-Response Training Program, Doubleday, →ISBN, →OL, page 78:

(of an animal) Disposed to evade having one's head touched.


common shelduck

en-noun

common shelduck (plural common shelducks)

Tadorna tadorna
Tadorna tadorna#Translingual


fringillid

(zoology) Any of the Fringillidae; a finch.


sauropodomorph

Any of the long-necked dinosaurs in the Sauropodomorpha clade.


suboscine

Crucial to my model, however, are two suboscines, one of which is the threewattled bellbird (Procnias tricarunculata), that do not quite fit into the current picture of oscine versus suboscine classification.

2007, Irene M. Pepperberg, “19: Emergence of Linguistic Communicetion”, in Caroline Lyon, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Angelo Cangelosi, editors, Emergence of Communication and Language, page 376:

Sequence data unequivocally support the paraphyly of suboscine passerines (Figure 9.5). This is not too surprising when it is considered that prior to Sibley's DNA hybridization work, which recovered suboscine monophyly, relationships of suboscines had been controversial on morphological grounds.

2011, F. Keith Barker, “Phylogeny and Diversification of Modern Passerines”, in Gareth Dyke, Gary Kaiser, editors, Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds, page 244:

New Zealand wrens (Acanthisittidae) are the most basal passerines, suboscines are mostly South American, and most taxa originally included in the oscine group Corvida are Australasian.

2012, Darren Naish, “20: Birds”, in M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz, James Orville Farlow, editors, The Complete Dinosaur, page 418:

Any of the passerine birds of suborder Tyranni, which includes broadbills, asities, pittas, antbirds and others.


foxling

The tender foxling, not arrived at the maturity of slyness, who never tasted chicken of his own stealing, shall take him without a ruffle of his plumage — only by pronouncing its dingy brown to be rich crimson.

1837, The Idler, and breakfast-table companion

The foxling made himself thoroughly at home. Seizing on a huge turkey's foot from the Sprite's larder, he dragged it into a dark corner, where he growled over it quite horribly.

1904, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, New Outlook:

A little or young fox; kit; a fox whelp.


horseling

Two of these that she was about to chase and fondle, were not aristocratic horselings, they were but the rough and sturdy children of rough and sturdy dams and sires ; born to the plough, and the heavy waggon, [...]

1874, Bertha De Jongh, The sisters Lawless:

Thork astride the pony raced after, the horseling running in sheer panic.


bonnet monkey

Macaca radiata, a macaque endemic to southern India.


salmon trout

salmon trout (plural salmon trout or salmon trouts)

salmon trout (plural)
salmon trouts (plural)

Salmo gairdneri
Salmo gairdneri#Translingual


Biwa trout

Oncorhynchus rhodurus, an anadromous salmonid fish.


alburn

Borrowed from Late Latin alburnus. Cognate with alburnum and auburn.

In the total yield of cyprinids, the dominating fish is alburn, […] a small delicate fish which in dense shoals inhabits the pelagial waters of the lake.

1960, Monographiae biologicae: Volume 9:

It took patience to catch alburns, those hand-sized fish in the Stolpe.

1998, George Grosz, George Grosz: An Autobiography, page 7:

The bleak, a small European fish with silvery scales.


king eider

Somateria spectabilis
Somateria spectabilis#Translingual

A large sea duck that breeds along Arctic coasts, Somateria spectabilis.


merling

From Middle English merlynge, from Old French merlenc, from Latin merula.

1995, Maryanne Kowaleski, footnote, Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter, page 310,
The types were cod, conger eel, common eel, dried fish (most probably cod and hake), hake, herring, lamprey, ling, mackerel, merling (whiting), mulwell, pike, pilchard, pollack, porpoise, ray, salmon, stockfish (probably cod), sturgeon, and whiting; they arrived fresh, dried, salted, or smoked.

Merlangius merlangus
Merlangius merlangus#Translingual

The fish Merlangius merlangus, endemic to the North Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, western Baltic Sea and Black Sea.

English whiting

Merlangius merlangus): whiting (UK; in countries outside the range of Merlangius merlangus


odacid

(ichthyology) Any of the family Odacidae of perciform fishes


aplodactylid

(zoology) Any marblefish in the family Aplodactylidae.


labrid

(zoology) Any of the family Labridae of marine fishes.


scarid

(ichthyology) Any of the family Scaridae; parrotfishes.


marblefish

marblefish (plural marblefishes or marblefish)

marblefishes (plural)
marblefish (plural)

Any of the family Aplodactylidae of perciform fishes.

kehe

a member of the Aplodactylidae of fishes


tapoa tafa

brush-tailed phascogale
brush-tailed phascogale

(zoology, obsolete) A small carnivorous marsupial, the brush-tailed phascogale.


fig-eater

A large beetle (Cotinis nitida) which has elytra that are velvety green with pale borders, which ranges from eastern Canada to central Texas, and which in the southern United States destroys figs.

A beetle (Cotinis mutabilis) which ranges from central Texas across the southwestern United States and Mexico.

Sylvia hortensis
Sylvia hortensis#Translingual

A bird (Sylvia hortensis) that feeds on figs and grapes, and that people eat as a delicacy.


bobac

(dated) The bobak marmot (Marmota bobak).


fanfoot

A gecko of the genus Ptyodactylus, having toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion.


atherine

From Ancient Greek ἀθερῑ́νη (atherī́nē, “a kind of smelt”).

uder

A small marine fish of the family Atherinidae having a silvery stripe along the sides.


swiftfoot

en-adj

swiftfoot (comparative more swiftfoot, superlative most swiftfoot)

more swiftfoot (comparative)
most swiftfoot (superlative)

The hauke, the hound, the hinde, the swift-foot hare

1610, “Robert, Duke of Normandy”, in Richard Niccols, editor, The Mirror for Magistrates:


beaked salmon

Any of several species of long, thin ray-finned fish in genus Gonorynchus (family Gonorynchidae) that live on sandy bottoms near shorelines.


tucan

Native to Mexico, from Nahuatl tuçan, togan.

THE TUCAN, OR MEXICAN GOPHER (G. mexicanus, (Licht.) Rich.) is a Mexican species, with the coloration much […]

1862, Sir John Richardson, The Museum of Natural History: Being a Popular Account of the Structure, Habits, and Classification of the Various Departments of the Animal Kingdom:

Geomys mexicanus, (Licht.) Baird. Tucan. Mexican Pocket-Gopher. Mexico. / Geomys hispidus, Le Conte. Quackil. Central American Pocket-Gopher […]

1885, Frederick William True, A Provisional List of the Mammals of North and Central America, and the West Indian Islands:

(rare, possibly obsolete) The hispid pocket gopher (Heterogeomys hispidus).


scalie

About the same size as the valley quail and the Gambel's quail, the scaled quail is often referred to as the "drab shirttail relative." Gray-blue in color (often known locally as "blue quail"), with a slight black tipping of the chest and breast plumage that creates scalelike markings, (hence the nickname "scalies"), […]

2003, Durwood Hollis, Hunting Upland Game & Waterfowl, Krause Publications, →ISBN, pages 40–41:

I sensed the birds' presence, but I had no idea if they were Gambel's or scalies, even though the habitat read scaled quail.

2003, Ben O. Williams, Winston: The Life of a Gun Dog, Willow Creek Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 165:

Then the exploding whirr of wings in the wind — a mixed covey of bobwhites and scalies.

2007, Jeffrey Engel, Sherol Engel, & James A. Swan, Chasing The Hunter's Dream: 1,001 of the World's Best Duck Marshes, Deer Runs, Elk Meadows, Pheasant Fields, Bear Woods, Safaris, and Extraordinary Hunts, HarperCollins, published 2007, →ISBN, page 212:

Scalies are more prone to be in open grass away from cover.

2008, Tom Arnhold, Web Parton, Wingshooter's Guide to Kansas Upland Birds and Waterfowl, Wilderness Adventures Press, Inc., published 2008, →ISBN, page 56:

Callipepla squamata
Callipepla squamata#Translingual

(US, informal) A scaled quail (Callipepla squamata).


white-beaked dolphin

en-noun

white-beaked dolphin (plural white-beaked dolphins)

A marine mammal belonging to the family Delphinidae (dolphins) in the suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales), Lagenorhynchus albirostris.


kivikivi

Imitative of its notes. From a Polynesian language.

Apteryx australis
Apteryx australis#Translingual

(dated) Any species of Apteryx, especially Apteryx australis.


Hawaiian goose

The Hawaiian goose or nene (Branta sandvicensis) is perhaps chiefly celebrated for the great success with which it has been reared in captivity.

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

Branta sandvicensis
Branta sandvicensis#Translingual


Brazilian Shorthair

Brazilian Shorthair (plural Brazilian Shorthairs)

A medium size, shorthaired domestic cat breed, originating in Brazil.


rotche

A small alcid of the north Atlantic, the little auk, Alle alle.


chevin

From Old French chevesne (“chub”), perhaps from chef (“head”). Compare chavender.


marsupialian

(archaic, zoology) Any of the Marsupialia; a marsupial.


sparassodont

(zoology) Any of the Sparassodonta, an extinct order of carnivorous metatherian mammals native to South America.


lechwe

From Tswana [Term?], or from Sotho letsa (“antelope”).

Kobus leche, an African antelope that inhabits marshy regions.


poor-john

Poor-john and apple pies are all our fare.

1653, John Harington, A Briefe View of the State of the Church:

A small European fish, of inferior quality to the cod.


witwall

Akin to German Wittewal, Wiedewall. Compare wittol.

great spotted woodpecker
great spotted woodpecker

(UK, dialect) The great spotted woodpecker.


Marysole

(UK, archaic) A large British fluke, or flounder (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis)


triple-tail

Alternative form of tripletail (Lobotes spp.)


craig flounder

A fish of the North Atlantic, pole flounder, Glyptocephalus cynoglossus.


Denisovan

From Denisova Cave, where Denisovan remains were discovered, + -an.

Denisovan Man is the first human relative to have been identified purely from DNA, extracted from the bone and a tooth found in the Denisova cave in the Altai mountains of southern Siberia.

2010 December 23, Hannah Devlin, “Unknown Species of Man Identified from Cave DNA”, in The Times, page 17:

A molar tooth, measuring around 1.5cm on each side and found at the site in 2000, also belongs to a Denisovan individual.

2010 December 23, Ian Sample, "Finger Bone Points to New Human Line", The Guardian, international section, page 18

It is the only known place on the planet where three types of humans — Denisovan, Neanderthal and modern — lived, probably not all at once.

2012 February 1, Alanna Mitchell, “DNA Turning Human Story Into a Tell-All”, in The New York Times, page D1:

Of or pertaining to an extinct grouping of the genus Homo that lived in the Altay Mountains some 41,000 years ago.


Denisovan

And yet, despite their having the entire genome of a Denisovan, Dr. Paabo cannot say much yet about what they were like.

2010 December 23, Carl Zimmer, “Scant Remains Reveal Ancient Neanderthal Cousins”, in The New York Times, page A14:

…this was only the third fossil ever found of a Denisovan, the others being the bit of finger bone and another molar, also from Denisova cave.

2011 August 26, Ann Gibbons, “Who Were the Denisovans?”, in Science, volume 33, page 1084:

The researchers were even able to split and analyze the two strands of the Denisovan's DNA, and thus differentiate the contributions of each parent.

2012 August 31, John Lauerman, "Ancient Genome, Modern Brains", The Gazette (Montreal), page A2

A member of an extinct grouping of the genus Homo that lived in the Altay Mountains some 41,000 years ago.

denisovano

a member of an extinct grouping of Homo that lived in the Altay Mountains


doucker

(UK, dialect) Any of a number of swimming birds that dive underwater:


piapec

(archaic) Ptilostomus afer, a West African magpie.


puffling

These fish are brought to the fluffy little Puffins in their snug nests inside of a burrow or under a slab of rock. The babies are called “Pufflings.”

1962, Robert Porter Allen, The Giant Golden Book of Birds: An Introduction to Familiar and Interesting Birds of the World, New York, N.Y.: Golden Press, →OCLC, page 54, column 2:

Visit Iceland this August and you could help to rescue pufflings – baby puffins – who get confused by town street lights and crash into towns when leaving their burrows to fly over the Atlantic for the first time.

2006 May 7, “Escape’s picks of the week: The wildlife holiday”, in The Observer, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-09-22:

Whee-er-er, whee-er-er! the puffling cries because he is hungry. Mama puffin arrives and lays her mouthful of live fish close to the front of the burrow.

2007, Katherine Zecca, A Puffin’s Year, [Camden, Me.]: Down East Books, →ISBN:

When they're old enough the young puffins, or pufflings as they're called, have to fly off to find food.

2009 September 3, “Kids patrol to help lost puffins”, in CBBC Newsround, archived from the original on 2016-03-06:

Both parents feed the infant puffling until it is very fat, then leave the chick, who must make its own way to the sea.

2012, Arin Murphy-Hiscock, “Puffin”, in Birds: A Spiritual Field Guide: Explore the Symbology & Significance of These Divine Winged Messengers, Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, →ISBN, page 155:


bluehead

The blunt-headed wrasse or blue-headed wrasse, a fish of the species Thalassoma amblycephalum or Thalassoma bifasciatum.


Zuni bluehead sucker

Zuni bluehead sucker (plural Zuni bluehead suckers)

Catostomus discobolus jarrovii, a North American fish with a slender fusiform body and subterminal mouth.


menobranch

/ˈmɛnəbɹæŋk/

From Ancient Greek μένω (ménō, “to remain”) + βράγχιον (bránkhion, “gill”).

(archaic) A large aquatic American salamander of the genus Necturus (formerly Menobranchus), with permanent external gills.


spikebill

Lophodytes cucullatus
Lophodytes cucullatus#Translingual

A hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus).


teeter-tail

Actitis macularius
Actitis macularius#Translingual

A bird, the spotted sandpiper, Actitis macularius.


peele

(archaic) A kind of antelope, the rhebok, Pelea capreolus.


warsaw

Probably a corruption of Spanish guasa, possibly from an Amerind language.

A fish, the black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus).


worral

From Arabic وَرَل (waral, “monitor lizard”).

The Worral is a Sort of Lizard, which sometimes is thirty or forty Inches in Length, usually of a bright reddish Colour […]

1744, The travels of the late Charles Thompson, Esq.:

(obsolete) a monitor lizard of Egypt, including both the Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) and desert monitor (Varanus griseus).


scrubfowl

scrubfowl (plural scrubfowl or scrubfowls)

A bird of the genus Megapodius; stocky, medium-large chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet.


beefeater

(historical) A kind of hat worn by women resembling the headwear of a Beefeater (Yeoman Warder).


speckled-belly

greater white-fronted goose
greater white-fronted goose

Anser albifrons
Anser albifrons#Translingual

The greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)


corsac

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


klipdas

A small mammal (Hyrax capensis), found in South Africa, that closely resembles the daman.


alcid

Some alcids remain underwater as long as two minutes, exceptionally even longer, and dive to depths of thirty metres.

1977, Jan Hanzák, Jiří Formánek, translated by Olga Kuthanová, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds, London, published 1992, page 177:

(ornithology) A bird of the family Alcidae, including auks, auklets, razorbills, dovekies, guillemots, and puffins.

alkefugl

seabird of the family Alcidae - an alcid


gonorynchiform

The milkfish is a gonorynchiform.

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


whiting-mop

This pretty whiting-mop.


dog-child

A feral child who lives as a dog, outside human society.


cultus cod

From Chinook Jargon cultus (“worthless, of little worth”), probably from a Chinook word kaltas/kə́ltas ("only", "in vain").

bor

Synonym of lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus).


blackgame

en-noun

blackgame (plural blackgames or blackgame)


Roosevelt elk

Named after US president Theodore Roosevelt.

Cervus canadensis roosevelti, the largest of the four surviving subspecies of elk in North America.


harle

red-breasted merganser
red-breasted merganser

(archaic) A bird, the red-breasted merganser.


chinook salmon

chinook salmon (usually uncountable, plural chinook salmon or chinook salmons)

chinook salmon (plural)
chinook salmons (plural)

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha#Translingual

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, the largest species in the Pacific salmon group.


gerbillid

(zoology) Any member of the murid subfamily Gerbillinae; a gerbil.


cricetid

(zoology) Any member of the Cricetidae, a family of rodents.


dog

dog (countable and uncountable, plural dogs)

Australian Kriol: dog

Bislama: dog

Gullah: dog

Sranan Tongo: dagu

Tok Pisin: dok

Torres Strait Creole: dog

desc

→ American Sign Language: Kop@Inside-PalmForward 1o@Inside

→ Dutch: dog

→ Esperanto: dogo

Ido: dogo

→ French: dogue

→ German: Dogge

→ Italian: dogo

→ English: dogo

→ Portuguese: dogue

→ Russian: дог (dog)

→ Spanish: dogo

→ Volapük: dog, doeg

Inherited from Middle English dogge (akin to Scots dug), from Old English dogga, docga, of uncertain origin.
The original meaning seems to have been a common dog, as opposed to a well-bred one, or something like 'cur', and perhaps later came to be used for stocky dogs. Possibly a pet-form diminutive with suffix -ga (compare frocga (“frog”), *picga (“pig”)), appended to a base *dog-, *doc- of unclear origin and meaning. One possibility is Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”) (compare frocga from frox). Another proposal is that it derives from Proto-West Germanic *dugan (“to be suitable”), the origin of Old English dugan (“to be good, worthy, useful”), English dow, Dutch deugen, German taugen. The theory goes that it could have been an epithet for dogs, commonly used by children, meaning "good/useful animal". Another is that it is related to *docce (“stock, muscle”), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā (“round mass, ball, muscle, doll”), whence English dock (“stumpy tail”).
In 14th-century England, hound (from Old English hund) was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog. By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting. In the 16th century, the word dog was adopted by several continental European languages as their word for mastiff.
Despite similarities in forms and meaning, not related to Mbabaram dog.

hond

morally reprehensible person — see also scoundrel

it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

This includes the development of hyena-like bone crushers (Osteoborus and Borophagus), a large bone-crushing hunting dog (Aelurodon), and another borophagine frugivorous dog (Carpocyon).

1989, John L. Gittleman, Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, page 561:

Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.


Philippine eagle

en-noun

Philippine eagle (plural Philippine eagles)

Pithecophaga jefferyi
Pithecophaga jefferyi#Translingual

Pithecophaga jefferyi, a species of eagle endemic to forests in the Philippines that has brown and white-coloured plumage, and a shaggy crest.

Shqiponja Filipinase

species of eagle endemic to the Philippines


gedd

Alternative spelling of ged (“The European pike”)


wejack

From Cree ocêk, otchek (“fisher”) or Ojibwe ojiig (“fisher, marten”). Doublet of woodchuck and woodshock.

Pekania pennanti
Pekania pennanti#Translingual

Martes pennanti
Martes pennanti#Translingual

(US, Canada, rare) A fisher, Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti.


moonack

Borrowed from Unami munhake, from a root meaning "to dig".

(US, Maryland, Virginia, possibly dated) A woodchuck.

With close-shut eyes she listened to the steps of the devils and moonacks as they gradually went away from the house.

1898, Alice Morse Earle, In old Narragansett: romances and realities, page 74:

(US, Maryland, Virginia, possibly dated) A frightful mythical forest creature.


paugie

Shortened form of the Narragansett word mishcùppaûog ("porgies", plural). Another shortening of the same word yields the synonym scup. The full word was borrowed as scuppaug. The singular was borrowed as mishcup.
Possibly reinforced by its similarity to porgy, especially in non-rhotic accents.


lemurine

en-adj

lemurine (comparative more lemurine, superlative most lemurine)

more lemurine (comparative)
most lemurine (superlative)


tree rabbit

(Southern England, especially Hampshire) A squirrel


woodshock

From the same Cree term ocêk, otchek (“fisher, marten”) or Ojibwe term ojiig (“fisher, marten”) which was taken into English as wejack in reference to the marten and as woodchuck in erroneous reference to the groundhog. Woodchuck may derive from woodshock.

(US, Canada, dialects, obsolete) The marten, or its pelt.

(US, Canada, dialects, obsolete) The groundhog, or its pelt.


cryptobranchid

(zoology) Any of the Cryptobranchidae of giant salamanders.


pauhagen

Related to poghaden; probably ultimately from Abenaki or Penobscot.


poghaden

Related to pauhagen; probably ultimately from Abenaki or Penobscot.


sea-purse

Named because it is shaped like a small purse.

The egg case of skate, shark or ratfish; a mermaid's purse.


lesula

A monkey (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) found in parts of the Congo


lyrie

(obsolete) Agonus cataphractus, a European fish having the body covered with bony plates, and with three spines projecting in front of the nose.


tayra

Borrowed, via Spanish tayra or Portuguese taira, from Old Tupi eîrara. (Compare Portuguese irara, Spanish irará, eirá, connected to Guaraní eíra (“honey”), a food the animal is fond of, whence also Portuguese papa-mel, another vernacular name.)

Cope considered it partly arboreal, as tayras are, and possibly omnivorous as well as herbivorous, yet he thought he saw how it could have evolved into hulking Coryphodon in a relatively short time.

2004, David Rains Wallace, Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution, page 66:

A few tayras are known to live in areas of tall grass.
Tayras forage for food on the ground and also in the trees, where their long tail helps them to balance as they move through the branches.

2006, Tom Jackson, Michael Chinery, The New Encyclopedia of American Animals, page 152:

Tayras can be tamed and make interesting but fairly destructive pets.

2010, Carlos L. de la Rosa, Claudia C. Nocke, A Guide to the Carnivores of Central America, unnumbered page:

A South American omnivore, Eira barbara, allied to the grison, with a long thick tail.


Pallas' cat

Named for the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas.


drama llama

/ˈdɹɑːmə ˈlɑːmə/

Drama is consuming. It destroys relationships. It opens a door for gossip, lying, and jealousy and is a big, fat time-sucker. The Scripture above says it all! You and I both know when the drama llama, has not just paid a visit, but also made herself right at home. It is time to evaluate your life—starting with yourself—and kick that Llama out the door.

2011, Gillian M. Henriques, Toshana N. Sledge, Tina Turner, Marcy Bomhak, Hers to Treasure: 100 Devotional/Journal from Sisters in Christ (Women's Fellowship), Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 173:

"Aw, Mom. Don't be a drama llama." / "Excuse me?" / "You know, don't make a fuss about nothing." / "But why a llama?" / "Because a drama llama throws drama around like a llama spits. Everywhere!"

2012, Mary Griggs, Crash Stop, Tallahassee, Fla.: Bella Books, →ISBN:

It was certainly true that Lewie was no ordinary llama. Other llamas didn't spend their days singing and dancing and acting! Even his parents, Mama and Papa Llama, had to admit that Lewie was a bit of a Drama Llama.

2013, Rose Impey, Llama Drama – In It To Win It! (Awesome Animals), HarperCollins Children's Books, →ISBN:

I try not to pay too much attention to the drama-llamas and gossip.

2015, Dena Celeste, Her Master's Gift (The Edge), Klawock, Ak.: Decadent Publishing, →ISBN, page 19:


Jerusalem haddock

en-noun

Jerusalem haddock (plural Jerusalem haddocks or Jerusalem haddock)

Jerusalem haddocks (plural)
Jerusalem haddock (plural)


poebird

Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae
Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

(obsolete) Alternative form of poë-bird (“the tui, a species of honeyeater (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae), a bird which is endemic to New Zealand”)


hylobatid

The principal resemblances between pliopithecines and living hylobatids are found in the skull and dentition (Zapfe 1958).

1972, Elwyn L. Simons, David R. Pilbeam, “Hominoid Paleoprimatology”, in Russell Tuttle, editor, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, page 55:

In the absence of an obvious cause, it must be considered unlikely that hylobatids and great apes (including fossil great apes) would have acquired all of these characters independently.

2001, D. R. Begun, “10: African and Eurasian Miocene hominoids and the origins of Hominidae”, in Louis de Bonis, George D. Koufos, Peter Andrews, editors, Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe, volume 2, page 238:

However, in cercopithecoids and in hylobatids, the transverse processes are completely embedded in the septum.

2007, Aaron G. Filler, Axial Character Seriation in Mammals, page 120:

(zoology) Any species of the family Hylobatidae; a gibbon.


shrimpfish

shrimpfish (plural shrimpfishes or shrimpfish)

shrimpfishes (plural)
shrimpfish (plural)

Any of the fish in the subfamily Centriscinae that swim with their heads pointed downward.


pigfish

Any of several other fishes thought to resemble pigs, including


penk

Now for the Minnow, or Penk: he is not easily found and caught till March, or in April, for then he appears first in the river,[…].

1676, Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, “The Compleat Angler”, in James Rennie, editor, The Complete Angler; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, published 1833, page 98:


sea titling

(archaic, dialectal) A bird, the rock pipit.


sea hen

Any of various seabirds, especially the common guillemot.


spinetail

Oxyura jamaicensis
Oxyura jamaicensis#Translingual

(US, dialect) A ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis).


pellack

Did not the devil appear in the midst of the Tay, dressed in a priest's scapular, gambolling like a pellack amongst the waves

1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC:

(Northern England, Scotland, archaic) A porpoise.


indri

Possibly from Malagasy endrina (“the lemur Indri indri”). A common explanation asserts that the word comes from the Malagasy indry (pronounced /ˈiɳɖʐʲ/) meaning “lo!” or “behold!”, or from indry izy (“There he is!”), which guides shouted to the French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat (1748–1814) upon seeing the animal, and which Sonnerat mistook for its name, but it has been suggested that Sonnerat studied indris too closely for this story to be plausible.

der

Indri, the ſecond new genus, conſiſts at preſent but of two ſpecies, the Linnæan lemur indri and the laniger; the former of which is lemur brevicaudatus of Geoffroy [i.e., Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire]; and the latter indri longicaudatus of the ſame author.

1819, “LEMUR”, in Abraham Rees, editor, The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. [...] In Thirty-nine Volumes, volume XX, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, […], →OCLC, column 2:

The indris are distuinguished by having only thirty teeth. [...] The Indri (Indris laniger) is the largest known species of the lemurine Quadrumana, measuring when erect more than three feet in height, and is of very remarkable form. [...] The indris inhabit the forests of Madagascar. They are very gentle, and although not remarkable for intelligence, are trained by the natives (who call the indri, "the man of the woods"), to hunt, probably for birds.

[1873], Thomas Rymer Jones, “Order II. Quadrumana. Four-handed Mammals.”, in Mammalia: A Popular Introduction to Natural History, London: Frederick Warne and Co., […]; New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, →OCLC, family IV (Lemuridæ. The Lemurs.), sub-family IV (Lichanotinæ. The Indris.), page 61:

The Indri (Indri indri; top left), the largest prosimian at up to three feet long (excluding tail) and 22 pounds, eats plant matter.

1993, Jan Sovak, Zoo Animals Coloring Book (Dover Pictorial Archive Series), New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 20:

The indri inhabits coastal and montane rainforest from sea level to about 1,800 meters.

1999, Ernest Pillsbury Walker, Ronald M. Nowak, “Avahi, Sifakas, and Indri: Indriiae”, in Walker’s Primates of the World, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 84, column 2:

Indris are known for their calls, some of which are truly eerie and can be heard for miles in the dense undergrowth.

2011, William Powell, Ochan Kusuma-Powell, “Knowing Our Collegial Relations”, in How to Teach Now: Five Keys to Personalized Learning in the Global Classroom, Alexandria, Va.: ASCD, →ISBN, page 134:

One of the largest living lemurs (Indri indri), native to Madagascar.


caprimulgid

(zoology) Any of the Caprimulgidae, or nightjar family.


chuck-will's-widow

Antrostomus carolinensis, a goatsucker of the southern United States.


blenniid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Blenniidae; a combtooth blenny.


combtooth blenny

en-noun

combtooth blenny (plural combtooth blennies)

Any of the perciform marine fish of the family Blenniidae, with large spiny dorsal fins.


kokanee

A lacustrine (that is, land-locked, found in lakes and not in the ocean) sockeye.


bellowsfish

A fish in the genus Notopogon, resembling a bellows in shape.


pinefinch

Pinicola enucleator
Pinicola enucleator#Translingual

The pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator).


red-eared terrapin

red-eared terrapin (plural red-eared terrapins)

Red-eared slider
red-eared slider#English


rhinaster

From Ancient Greek ῥινός (rhinós) (genitive of ῥίς (rhís, “nose”)) + ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”).


cercopithecin

Any monkey of the cercopithecine tribe Cercopithecini


sand dab

I commanded him. “Stand up.” He looked down, his mouth disobedient and wide and flat and ugly as a sand dab’s, and would not.

2013, Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees, New York: Doubleday, Part 6, p. 336:

Any of various small flatfish of the genus Citharichthys native to the Pacific coast of the Americas.


alfione

(dated) A species of surfperch found in the eastern Pacific California (Rhacochilus toxotes).


methy

From Woods Cree mathay (“burbot”); compare Cree miyay.

The occow, or river perch, termed also horn-fish, piccarel, or doré, is common, but is not so much esteemed as the attihhawmeg. It attains the length of twenty inches in these lakes. The methy is another common fish; it is the gadus lota, or burbot, of Europe.

1824, John Franklin, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, volume 1, page 144:

In addition to the sturgeon, the fishery occasionally yields the white-fish, pike, various kinds of trout, the methy, and several sucking-carp.

1836, Richard King, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, volume 1, page 53:

Our Loche or Methy is not a fashionable fish, […]

1873, Anual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, for the year ending the 30th June, 1872, page 191:


paguma

Paguma larvata
Paguma larvata#Translingual

(dated) The masked palm civet (Paguma larvata), resembling a weasel.


mudcat

A flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris, syns. Silurus olivaris, Leptops olivaris), flatty or shovelhead cat, of central North America.


assapan

From Eastern Algonquian, probably Powhatan, first recorded as assapanick in 1706.

Other Taguans and Assapans belong to the genus Sciuropterus, or winged squirrels. Like most of the active rodents, the Flying Squirrels are very capable of domestication, and will soon learn to prefer the society of human beings […].

1875, John George Wood, Trespassers: showing how the inhabitants of earth, air, and water are enabled to trespass on domains not their own, page 299:

A very keen observation, prolonged for some time, is necessary to follow an Assapan at all, to distinguish and understand the purport of its different movements, […]

1896, Brehm's Life of animals, translated from the third German edition by Pechuel-Loesche, Haacke and Schmidtlein, page 312

Assapans are fond of living in colonies, and where they have not been disturbed come together in great numbers for what can be no other purpose than play.

1909, Wallace Rice, Animals: a popular natural history of wild beasts, page 66

southern flying squirrel
southern flying squirrel

Glaucomys volans
Glaucomys volans#Translingual

(Southern US, now uncommon) A southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans), found in the southern and eastern United States.


toddy cat

Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus#Translingual

The Asian palm civet or musang (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus).


slepez

From Russian слепец (slepec, “blind man; mole rat”).

bor

(zoology, archaic) A type of mole rat, Spalax microphthalmus.


pediculate

(obsolete, ichthyology) Of or relating to the Pediculati, an order of fish now classified as Lophiiformes.


bridle path

A party came round the angle of a rock, along the narrow bridle-path, in single file; two ladies on horseback, followed by as many gentlemen on foot, and preceded by the usual guide.

1835, James Fenimore Cooper, The Monikins, Introduction:

It was not a bridle-path—merely a pedestrian's track, and the boughs spread horizontally at a height not greater than seven feet above the ground, which made it impossible to ride erect beneath them.

1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 3, in Far from the Madding Crowd:

Then in the evening, he came suddenly upon Sue riding a spirited black horse in a bridle path at the upper end of the park.

1916, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 5, in Windy McPherson's Son:

Some complaints about the Prospect Park trails seem to reflect the ever-present realities of urban horseback riding. Joggers and even bikers wander onto the bridle path.

2008 June 2, Kareem Fahin, “For Riders and Mounts, Rough Going in Prospect Park”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-03:

(equestrianism) An established trail used by riders mounted on horses.


Irish setter

/ˈaɪɹɪʃ ˈsɛt.ə/

A breed of gun dog with a moderately long coat of a red or chestnut color.


terraranan

(zoology) Any frog of the genus Pristimantis.


posthorse

His name was Joe, and he lived at Skroperud in Ullensaker. He built himself a new house there, and he had two or three fat cows and a horse, the like of which was not to be found in the whole parish; the horse was often used as post-horse between Mo and Trogstad, and Joe didn't seem to care much how the beast was used, for fat he was and fat he remained.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 262:

A horse ridden by a postrider to carry mail.


tenrecid

(zoology) Any member of the family Tenrecidae, the tenrecs


coryphaenid

(zoology) Any dolphinfish in the family Coryphaenidae.


cabrilla

Any of various edible fishes of Serranus and related genera, inhabiting the Mediterranean, the coast of California, etc.


nimravid

From translingual Nimravidae, ultimately from Nimrod + Latin avus (“ancestor”).

The earliest nimravids, Dinictis and Hoplophoneus of western North America, were already saber-toothed, with large, serrated, and laterally compressed upper canine teeth and a protective bony flange on the mandible.

2006, Kenneth D. Rose, The Beginning of the Age of Mammals, unnumbered page:

Feliformia includes the more catlike carnivorans: nimravids and barbourofelids (the extinct, so-called false sabertooths, though "false" alludes to their relationship to sabertooth felids, because their upper canine teeth were quite large in some forms), felids (true cats), herpestids (mongooses), viverrids (civets), and hyaenids (hyenas), among others.[…]The nimravids survived into the Miocene (Tseng et al., 2010), and some of their members early developed a large size and large canine saber teeth.

2013, Richard A. Fariña, Sergio F. Vizcaíno, Gerry De Iuliis, Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America, page 125:

The nimravids are not known after the Miocene. Features that distinguish nimravids from felids include the lack of an auditory bulla in most species and the absence of a cruciate sulcus (a conspicuous, deep groove) on the brain.

2013, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, page 287:

Any of the large extinct feliforms of the family Nimravidae, of the Middle to Late Miocene (40—7 million years ago).


danionin

Any of a group of small minnow-like cyprinid fish


glowlight

A fish, the glowlight danio (Danio choprae).


sperling

Osmerus eperlanus
Osmerus eperlanus#Translingual

(Scotland, obsolete) A European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).


pinfish

From pin + fish, from its sharp dorsal spines.

Lagodon rhomboides, a saltwater sparid fish.


psophiid

(zoology) Any member of the Psophiidae; a trumpeter.


leptolepid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Leptolepidae.


chirocentrid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Chirocentridae; a wolf herring.


palaeoniscid

(zoology) Any extinct fish of the family Palaeoniscidae


curtail dog

(obsolete) A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running.


seasnail

From Middle English *se-snail, from Old English sǣsnæġl (“seasnail”), equivalent to sea + snail. Cognate with Danish søsnegl (“seasnail”), Norwegian sjøsnegl (“seasnail”), Icelandic sjósnigill (“seasnail”).
The fish name likely a clipping of seasnail(fish).

Alternative form of sea snail (“shelled marine gastropod mollusk”)


snailfish

en-noun

snailfish (plural snailfishes or snailfish)

Any member of the Liparidae, a family of scorpaeniform marine fish.


opakapaka

opakapaka (plural opakapakas or opakapaka)

Pristipomoides filamentosus, the crimson jobfish.


chelydrid

Some of the chelydrids are extinct.

(zoology) Any turtle in the family Chelydridae.


jobfish

Any of various fishes of the family Lutjanidae.


monocentrid

(zoology) Any of the family Monocentridae of pinecone fishes.


trachichthyid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Trachichthyidae.


liparid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Liparidae.


squirefish

(Australia) Chrysophrys auratus, the Australasian snapper, an edible porgy found in the coastal waters of Philippines, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.


acanthisittid

(Ornithology) Any member of the Acanthisittidae.


acanthizid

(Ornithology) Any member of the Acanthizidae.


pholidophorid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Pholidophoridae.


amphisbaenid

From scientific Latin Amphisbaenidae (family name).

Today, four species of amphisbaenids survive in Europe—two on the Iberian Peninsula and two in Turkey.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 51:

(zoology) Any member of the Amphisbaenidae; a worm lizard.


acanthoclinid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Acanthoclinidae now considered the plesiopid subfamily Acanthoclininae, the longfins.


acanthurid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Acanthuridae of surgeonfishes, tangs, and unicornfishes.


acropomatid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Acropomatidae.


acrobatid

feather-tailed glider
feather-tailed glider

(mammalogy) Any marsupial of the family Acrobatidae; a feather-tailed glider.


acrochordid

(herpetology) Any member of the family Acrochordidae.


actinolepid

(zoology) Any of the extinct placoderms in the family Actinolepidae.


adapisoricid

(zoology) Any of the extinct mammals in the family Adapisoricidae.


adapid

(zoology) Any extinct primate of the family Adapidae


adelogyrinid

(zoology) Any amphibian in the extinct family †Adelogyrinidae.


adrianichthyid

(Ichthyology) Any member of the Adrianichthyidae.


nannygai

Any of various fish found around Australia, of the families Lutjanidae, Berycidae, and Glaucosomatidae.


adocid

(zoology) Any of the extinct turtles in the family Adocidae.


aegothelid

(zoology) Any member of the Aegothelidae.


aepyornithid

(zoology) Any member of the Aepyornithidae.


ageneiosid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Ageneiosidae, which is now considered to be part of the family Auchenipteridae.


agonid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Agonidae.


alepisaurid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Alepisauridae, the lancetfishes.


albulid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Albulidae.


akysid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Akysidae.


pomacentrid

(Ichthyology) Any of the Pomacentridae, a family of perciform fish comprising the damselfishes and clownfishes


alestid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Alestidae.


accipitrid

(ornithology) Any member of the family Accipitridae of birds of prey.


alcedinid

(ornithology) A kingfisher, any member of the family Alcedinidae.


amblycipitid

Any catfish in the family Amblycipitidae.


lutjanid

Among other families, the lutjanids appear to be gonochoristic throughout life although the population sex ratio as well as the sex ratio at size may frequently be skewed resulting from differential growth and mortality rates among the sexes (Grimes, 1987).

1993, Andrew Wright, “Chapter 8: Shallow Water Reef-associated Finfish”, in Andrew Wright, Lance Hill, editors, Nearshore Marine Resources of the South Pacific, page 225:

Smaller species of lutjanids require fewer resources per individual and can form schools year-round.

1996, M. L. Domeier, C. Koenig, F. Coleman, “Reproductive Biology of the Gray Snapper (Lutjanus griseus), with Notes on Spawning for other Western Atlantic Snappers (Lutjanidae)”, in Francisco Arreguín-Sánchez, J. L. Munro, M. C. Balgos, Daniel Pauly, editors, Biology, Fisheries, and Culture of Tropical Groupers and Snappers, page 199:

The tightly coiled gut, small gas bladder, pigment pattern, early-forming head spination and early-forming spines of the pelvic fin and dorsal fin are useful distinguishing characteristics of the lutjanids.

2000, J. M. Leis, D. S. Rennis, “52: Lutjanidae (Snappers and Fusiliers)”, in Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, editors, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 336:

(zoology) Any member of the family Lutjanidae; a snapper.


allosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Allosauridae.


ambassid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Ambassidae.


ailurid

From New Latin Ailuridae, as Ailurus + -id.

(mammalogy) Any member of the family Ailuridae.


amblyopsid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Amblyopsidae: several species of North American cavefish, and the swampfish or ricefish.


ambystomatid

(zoology) Any salamander of the family Ambystomatidae


danio

From Bengali ধানি (dhani, “relating to paddy”).

bor

1995, Mary Bailey, The Ultimate Aquarium, Smithmark, page 158,
Danios are very similar to barbs but are much slimmer-bodied.

To me, however, they are more reminiscent of leopard danios than livebearers.

2007, Tropical Fish Hobbyist, volume 56, numbers 1-4, TFH Publications, page 51:

2019, Madelaine Francis Heleine, Freshwater Aquariums For Dummies, Wiley (For Dummies), page 155,
For example, danios need to be fed often because they have high metabolism rates.

(chiefly in combination) Any of various fish of the genera Danio or Devario.


wynyardiid

(zoology) Any extinct marsupial in the family Wynyardiidae.


ambulocetid

(zoology) Any extinct cetacean in the family Ambulocetidae.


xenicid

(zoology) Any member of the family Xenicidae, which is currently considered to be a synonym of the Acanthisittidae.


xenisthmid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Xenisthmidae.


xenosaurid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Xenosauridae.


bluestripe

(zoology, chiefly attributive) Any of various fishes or other animals bearing a blue stripe.


whaitsiid

(zoology) Any therapsid in the family Whaitsiidae.


xenopeltid

(zoology) Any snake in the family Xenopeltidae.


albanerpetontid

The bones of strange amphibians known as albanerpetonids (sic), and the ancestors of the midwife toads, which are among the most ancient of European creatures, have been recovered, as have the bones of python-like snakes known as matsoiids, terrestrial crocodiles with serrated teeth, legless lizards, ancestral skink-like creatures, and whiptail lizards.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 25:

(paleontology) Any member of the family Albanerpetontidae.


abrocomid

The Andean families (chinchillids, octodontids, abrocomids, and many ctenomyids) are not subject to the same climatological forces affecting species in the lowland tropics.

1982, Michael A. Mares, Hugh H. Genoways, Mammalian Biology in South America: A Symposium Held at the Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, May 10-14, 1981, page 427:

Caviids are grassland-scrubland species, while abrocomids are small herbivores of xeric Andean habitats.

1985, Francis Greenough Stehli, Sawney David Webb, The Great American Biotic Interchange, page 492:

This is likely to be the plesiomorphic state, as it is thus in capromyids, octodontids, abrocomids, and cuniculids.

2005, Louise H. Emmons, “A Revision of the Genera of Arboreal Echimyidae (Rodentia: Echimyidae: Echimyinae), With Descriptions of Two New Genera”, in Eileen A. Lacey, Philip Myers, editors, Mammalian Diversification: From Chromosomes to Phylogeography, page 262:

Any of the caviomorph rodents of the family Abrocomidae of chinchilla rats.


xiphiid

(zoology) A fish in the family Xiphiidae; a swordfish.


xenacanthid

(paleontology) Any prehistoric shark of the family Xenacanthidae.


younginid

(paleontology) Any member of the Younginidae.


xiphodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Xiphodontidae.


zanclodontid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile in the family Zanclodontidae.


zatrachydid

(zoology) Any member of the Zatrachydidae.


zatracheid

(zoology) Any of the extinct amphibian-like tetrapods in the family Zatracheidae.


wuttagoonaspid

This view is not followed by Young (e.g., 1980, 2005c) who considered the wuttagoonaspids and the phyllolepids as close related taxa, […]

2008, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 28, numbers 1-3, page 17:

(zoology) Any placoderm of the family Wuttagoonaspidae.


zosteropid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Zosteropidae; a white-eye.


ambystomid

(zoology) Any salamander in the family Ambystomidae.


yunnanosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the Yunnanosauridae.


zeid

Most zeids have spiny projections or bucklers at the dorsal- and anal-fin bases and bony plates on the ventral surface of the abdomen.

2000, Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 186:

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Zeidae.


amphidontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Amphidontidae.


amphignathodontid

(zoology) Any frog in the family Amphignathodontidae.


amphilestid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Amphilestidae.


ammodytid

Feeds initially on zooplankton, later small fish (clupeids and ammodytids) dominate the diet.

(Can we date this quote?), “Hyperoplus lanceolatus”, in Fishbase:

(zoology) Any member of the Ammodytidae.


anarhichadid

(zoology) Any member of the Anarhichadidae.


amphiumid

(zoology) Any member of the Amphiumidae.


anacoracid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Anacoracidae.


anablepid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Anablepidae.


amphiliid

(zoology) Any member of the Any catfish in the family Amphiliidae.


anacanthobatid

(zoology) Any skate in the family Anacanthobatidae.


anchariid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Anchariidae.


anguillid

(zoology) Any member of the family Anguillidae of eels.


anchisaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Anchisauridae.


aniliid

(zoology) Any snake in the monotypic family Aniliidae, consisting of just Anilius scytale, the false coral snake.


anhimid

(ornithology) Any member of the family Anhimidae, the screamers.