beachmaster

There being so large an excess of males of breeding age, they crowded each other to the extent of leaving only fighting-room, averaging one beachmaster to seven females. The beachmasters were continually fighting for the possession of the females, often killing each other in their struggles, while many more became so crippled as to have to retire from the breeding-grounds, so that during the season the injured and exhausted amounted to fully 30 per cent.

1880, Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921, History of North American pinnipeds : a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America, →OCLC:

At the start of the breeding season, the bulls take up their positions on the beaches. Here they fight to hold on to their territory and the females that gather there. The bull that wins the battles becomes the beachmaster. His group of females is called a harem. Each beachmaster mates with as many cows as he can control. An average harem contains ten to fifteen cows, but a few beachmasters guard even larger harems.

1987, Sanford, William R. (William Reynolds), 1927-, The Elephant Seal, →OCLC:

Full reproductive status (social maturity) is deferred until full size and competitive vigour are developed. Males normally do not reach breeding or “beachmaster” status until about 10 y (Rand, 1949b; Stewardson et al., 1998). Some never attain breeding status.

2010, Linnean Society of New South Wales, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, →OCLC:

(zoology) In pinnipeds, the dominant male of a territory with whom the females exclusively mate.


beach rubbing

(zoology) The practice among killer whales of scraping the body along rocks in shallow water.


craspedophyllid

Either the precursors of the known craspedophyllids and zaphrentids evolved during this time in areas where no record has been preserved or recognized, or […]

1975, Geological Survey Professional Paper, volumes 868-869, page 23:

(zoology) Any member of the Craspedophyllidae.


nervuration

(zoology) The arrangement or distribution of nervures.


ophiopluteus

(zoology) A free-swimming larval stage of some brittle stars, having four pairs of rigid arms lined with cilia.


ur-myth

(anthropology, mythology) A myth believed to be a precursor or prototype to all existing myths.


hoghouse

It is a long recognized fact that a greenhouse roof admits the maximum amount of sunshine, but it is only recently that the sunlit hoghouse has been actually put into use. It has been conceded by leading stockmen that the best hoghouse is the one admitting the most sunlight, but it remained for the agricultural engineers of the Iowa State College to demonstrate the practicability of the greenhouse type of roof for the hoghouse.

1916 September, “Getting sunlight into the hoghouse”, in American Co-operative Journal, volume 12, number 1, page 60:

There is no building on the farm that needs ventilation any more than the type of hoghouse that is being built today. The pigs are not only suffering for fresh air but the temperature varies greatly, often getting too high, and the frost nuisance is worse in the hoghouse. We cannot expect to build a hoghouse warm, with walls and roof practically air tight, put aerators on top, and expect it to be ventilated.

1920 April, “Hoghouse ventilation”, in Extension Circulars, number 31: Farm Building Ventilation, South Dakota State College of Agriculture, page 9:

One Amish farmer, confronted with the problem of scours in his hogs, handled the problem in the following way. After first trying to save as many animals as he could, he then discontinued raising them in the hoghouse and instead turned his chickens loose in that building. He noted that the disease did not bother the chickens and that the "chicken bugs seemed to destroy the hog bugs." After about a year when he turned the chickens out and once again began to raise hogs in the hoghouse, the animals were no longer bothered with scours.

1975, Elmer Schwieder, Dorothy Schwieder, A Peculiar People: Iowa's Old Order Amish, Iowa State University Press, →ISBN, page 39:

(agriculture) A house (barn or shed) for hogs (pigs).


testicondy

(zoology) The state of being testicond (Having the testicles naturally concealed within the abdomen)


zygolobous

(zoology) Of the prostomium: not demarcated from the peristome.


stylopize

en-verb

stylopize (third-person singular simple present stylopizes, present participle stylopizing, simple past and past participle stylopized)

stylopizes (present singular third-person)
stylopizing (participle present)
stylopized (participle past)
stylopized (past)

(entomology, transitive) Of a strepsipteran insect: to parasitize.


book gill

(zoology) A gill found in horseshoe crabs consisting of membranous folds, resembling the leaves of a book.


subcentric

en-adj

subcentric (comparative more subcentric, superlative most subcentric)

more subcentric (comparative)
most subcentric (superlative)

(zoology, botany) Nearly or almost in the center of something; subcentral.


cellspot

A heavily suffused fuscous median fascia separates the cellspots and widens towards the hindmargin where it fuses with the postmedian fascia

1988, Walter Wittmer, Willi Büttiker, Friedhelm Krupp, Fauna of Saudi Arabia, volume 9:

the hindwings are a little narrower and longer the light maculation of the upperside of the forewing is markedly reduced and the cellspot only faintly suggested.

2001, Oliver Schäffler et al, Butterflies of the World: Papilionidae. - 6:

(entomology) A circular marking found on the wings of some butterflies and moths; orbicular stigma.


hearst

Uncertain. Perhaps related to Middle English hert (“male or female deer”), whence English hart.

cog

(zoology, hunting) A hind in her second or third year.


contagious abortion

en-noun

contagious abortion (plural contagious abortions)

(zoology) A type of brucellosis in cattle caused by Brucella abortus.


hermit-bird

(ornithology) A hummingbird of the genus Phaethornis.

(ornithology) A Halcyonide bird of the genus Monasa.


Australo-Melanesian

(archaic, anthropology) A member of a grouping of various people indigenous to Melanesia and Australia, sometimes also including some groups found in parts of South and Southeast Asia.


spot-tailed

(zoology) Of birds and mammals, having distinct or remarkable marks or spots on the tail.


penis-cover

(anthropology, Egyptology, very rare) A covering or concealment of the penis found on certain statues in Ancient Egypt.


wyliei

Named after Wylie J. Tuttle, the grandson of Lee B. Foster, one of the donors to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

(zoology) A specific name, found in several species.


semnopitheque

(obsolete, zoology) A semnopithecine monkey.


dobsegna

From Lower Grand Valley Dani [Term?] or Angguruk Yali [Term?]

(cryptozoology) An animal resembling a thylacine, rumored to live in the New Guinea highlands.


Micoquien

(archaeology) An early middle Paleolithic industry, found in the Eemian and in an early episode of the Würm glaciation (about 130,000 to 60,000 BCE), and distinguished technologically by the appearance of distinctly asymmetrical bifaces.


powder-down feather

powder-down feather (countable and uncountable, plural powder-down feathers)

(ornithology) A down feather which grows continuously and disintegrates, forming fine particles of keratin, which appear as a powder, or "feather dust".


powder-down patch

powder-down patch (plural powder-down patches)

(ornithology) A patch or tuft of powder-down feathers.


Nordid

(anthropology) A member of the Nordic race according to Swedish anthropologist Bertil Lundman. They are light-eyed, generally light-haired, tall and slender, with low and long skulls.


circulation time

circulation time (countable and uncountable, plural circulation times)

tracing the precise circulation routes and circulation time of exchange goods may offer finer detail on social questions, cf. Frankenstein and Rowlands ( 1978 ).

1984, John L. Bintliff, European Social Evolution: Archaeological Perspectives, page 28:

This would seem to confirm our hypothesis that increasing circulation time reflects periods of declining supplies of bronze.

1984, Matthew Spriggs, Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology, page 92:

Swords were classified according to degree of wear—that is, circulation time.

2005, Kristian Kristiansen, Michael Rowlands, Social Transformations in Archaeology, page 93:

During its circulation time, capital does not function as productive capital, and therefore produces neither commodities nor surplus-value.

We can think of the capitalist's desire to reduce circulation time in terms of turnover time.

Industrial capital requires —to a greater or lesser degree—time (circulation time) and costs (circulation costs) for the sale.

2018, Teinosuke Otani, A Guide to Marxian Political Economy, page 295:

(economics, archaeology) The time in which capital is bound up the form of a commodity; the time in which a manufactured item is in use.


pace-of-life syndrome

(biology, zoology) A hypothesis positing that there exists a correlation between behavior, life history, and physiology continuing along an axis ranging from slow to fast.


Chinese hamster ovary cell

Chinese hamster ovary cell (plural Chinese hamster ovary cells)

(biology, zoology, cytology) A family of immortalized cell lines derived from the epithelial cells of the ovary of the Chinese hamster, often used in biological and medical research and commercially in the production of recombinant therapeutic proteins.


Old Bering Sea

The culture was initially named the Bering Sea culture by Canadian archaeologist Diamond Jenness in 1928, following the discovery on the Diomede Islands of distinctively decorated objects such as whaling and sealing harpoon heads. The adjective "Old" was added by Smithsonian archaeologist Henry B. Collins to distinguish the culture from younger materials with similar design elements.

archaeological culture
archaeological culture

(archaeology, historical) An archaeological culture associated with a distinctive, elaborate circle-and-dot aesthetic style and centered on the Bering Strait region.


ancestor spirit

ancestor spirit (plural ancestor spirits)

(anthropology, religion) The spirit of a human that has died, often venerated in religious ceremonies.


homalozoan

Most homalozoans have long flexible appendages.

1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 225:

(zoology) Any member of the extinct subphylum Homalozoa.


homoiostele

Homoiosteles are superficially similar to stylophorans: the column or stele resembles the aulacophore and the theca in younger genera develope^([sic]) distinct marginal and somatic plate patterns. The earliest homoiosteles are attached by a holdfast, at least in juvenile stages, and this fixation may have imprinted some morphological features on steles of vagile genera. Earliest homoiosteles share significant characters with coeval species of the eocrinoid Gogia and it serves as outgroup.

(zoology) A member of the class Homoiostelea.


ankyroid

en-adj

ankyroid (comparative more ankyroid, superlative most ankyroid)

more ankyroid (comparative)
most ankyroid (superlative)

/ˈæŋ.kɪ.ɹɔɪd/

/ˈæŋ.kə.ɹɔɪd/

From Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor, hook”) + -oid. Cognate with French ancyroïde.


ankyroid

/ˈæŋ.kɪ.ɹɔɪd/

/ˈæŋ.kə.ɹɔɪd/

Stylophorans are divided into two orders the Cornuta and Ankyroida: cornutes have asymmetrical thecae, aulacophores with stylocones and cover plates over the food groove that open widely; ankyroids have essentially bilaterally symmetrical thecae, aulacophores with styloids and in most the cover plates do not open widely.

(zoology) A member of the order Ankyroida.


long-eared

(zoology) Of an animal, possessing long ears, ear tufts, or wattles.


beloid

en-adj

beloid (comparative more beloid, superlative most beloid)

more beloid (comparative)
most beloid (superlative)

From Ancient Greek βέλος (bélos, “arrow, dart”) + -oid.

der

In norma verticalis his cranium is distinctly ovoid, almost beloid, i.e. it is not broad enough to permit us to state definitely that it is not Egyptian, although its shape is by no means a common one in the pure Egyptian.

1987, Ahmed Osman, Stranger in the Valley of the Kings, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, Publishers, →ISBN, pages 124–125:

I managed a slight nod. Even that sent paroxysms of beloid agony through my neck and throat.

2005, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., The Eternity Artifact, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 222:

(especially zoology, anthropology, rare) Resembling an arrow, particularly in having a narrow and pointed shape; arrowlike.


branchiform

en-adj

branchiform (comparative more branchiform, superlative most branchiform)

more branchiform (comparative)
most branchiform (superlative)

From Latin branchia, branchiae (“gills”) + -form.

The ear-shaped or branchiform stigma of Otostigma and Branchiostoma is due to the oblique form of the cone along a small part of its length; on the base of the stigmata of these forms there appear a few of those irregular darkly coloured patches, beset with small hooks, which are so common in the Chilopoda.

1887, “Summary or Current Researches Relating to Zoology and Botany […]”, in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, Part I, London, Edinburgh: […] Williams & Norgate, page 386:


nasutiform

From nasute (“a kind of termite with a nasus”) + -iform.

af

The large subfamily Nasutitermitinae includes many species which have soldiers with a pear-shaped, nasutiform head and several species build nests of carton.

1970, Kumar Krishna, Frances M. Weesner, editors, Biology of Termites, volume II, New York, N.Y., London: Academic Press, page 374:


xyphus

Mesosternum tumid with wide, punctured, longitudinal furrow between halves, xyphus quadrangular also punctured, its apex truncate.

1965 September, Herbert Ruckes, “Several New Genera and Species of Discocephaline Pentatomids (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)”, in Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume LXXIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: New York Entomological Society, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 123:

Rostrum reaching to the end of the metasternum; first joint stout, reaching to the apex of the xyphus of the prosternum .

1865, John William Douglas, John Scott, The British Hemiptera: Hemiptera-Heteroptera - Volume 1, page 35:

(entomology) A triangular part of the prosternum that is found between the bases of the anterior coxae.


scalpeliform

en-adj

scalpeliform (comparative more scalpeliform, superlative most scalpeliform)

more scalpeliform (comparative)
most scalpeliform (superlative)

Ostiolar peritreme elevated, scalpeliform, apex ending abruptly near middle of metapleuron.


embolium

From New Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek ἐμβόλιον (embólion, “insertion”).

der

Hemelytral membranes small, not reaching apex of abdomen; costal margin of embolium rather evenly arcuate, hardly ampliate toward base. Connexivum well exposed, segmental angles rectilinear, not at all produced.

1965 September, Herbert Ruckes, “Several New Genera and Species of Discocephaline Pentatomids (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)”, in Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume LXXIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: New York Entomological Society, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 117:

(entomology) A narrow piece separating the costa and corium in certain insects of the suborder Heteroptera.


vergiform

en-adj

vergiform (comparative more vergiform, superlative most vergiform)

more vergiform (comparative)
most vergiform (superlative)

Dana's statements that the feet are all vergiform and that the first and second peraeopods, though a little stouter than the gnathopods, are still slender, are irreconcilable with the undoubtedly subchelate character of those peraeopods in Haswell's I. punctatus.

1909, Scientific Results of the Trawling Expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" Off the Coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, Sydney, NSW: Australian Museum, page 626:

(zoology) Of the feet of certain crustaceans: resembling a rod; rod-like.


turbinately

en-adv

turbinately (comparative more turbinately, superlative most turbinately)

more turbinately (comparative)
most turbinately (superlative)

(zoology) Spiral and decreasing sharply in diameter from base to apex.


cicada-geddon

cicada + -geddon or blend of cicada + armageddon.

(entomology, neologism) The rapid emergence of cicadas from underneath the ground after a long dormant period.


Ertebølle

Named after the type site in the village of Ertebølle on Limfjorden in Danish Jutland.

(archaeology) A pottery-making, hunter-gatherer and fisher culture dating to the end of the Mesolithic period, and concentrated in southern Scandinavia.


oedymerous

From Ancient Greek οἰδέω (oidéō, “I swell”) + -merous.

af

Coordinate term: gynaecoid

Female, forma brachyptera.—Much like preceding form in color and general structure, but usually distinctly œdymerous and male-like in appearance; eyes reduced in size, ocelli nearly or quite wanting, genal tooth usually more prominent; sense-cones shorter; pronotum usually fully 1.5 times as long as head.

1933 December, J. Douglas Hood, “New Thysanoptera from Panamá”, in Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume 41, number 4, page 427:

Macropterous, brachypterous and apterous forms of females and males are known in their populations. Two forms – oedymerous and gynaecoid – occur in males: they are characterized by the allometry of some body parts.

2015 June 30, Halina Kucharczyk, Łukasz Wyrozumski, “Hoplothrips carpathicus Pelikán, 1961 (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) – a new thrips species in the Polish fauna”, in Polish Journal of Entomology, volume 84, →DOI, pages 73-74:

(entomology) Of certain Thysanoptera, having strongly thickened forelegs.


Yakutian horse

(zoology) A horse breed that originated in Sakha Republic (Yakutia).


Chellean

After the town of Chelles, a suburb of Paris, France.

(archaeology, dated) Synonym of Abbevillian


time discipline

(anthropology, sociology) A concept applied to social and economic rules, conventions, customs, and expectations governing the measurement of time, the social currency and awareness of time measurements, and people's expectations concerning the observance of these customs by others.


whelping ice

(zoology) The section of ice where seals give birth to their young.


Proto-Australoid

(anthropology, historical) Belonging or relating to a prehistoric racial group, propounded by Roland Burrage Dixon in 1923, that developed into the later Australoids.


Proto-Australoid

(anthropology, historical) A member of this racial group.


chimabachid

(entomology) Any member of the Chimabachinae subfamily of moths


Turkana Boy

Named after Lake Turkana, Kenya, near which the fossil was discovered in 1984 by Kenyan palaeontologist Kamoya Kimeu, on the bank of the Nariokotome River.

The prime importance of the Turkana Boy is that he represented the earliest kind of human we know of whose general body proportions matched those of living people.

1995, Ian Tattersall, The Fossil Trail, Cambridge University Press, page 118:

1999, Barry Bogin, Patterns of Human Growth, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, page 202,
As Homo erectus is no chimpanzee, Turkana boy’s true age at death was probably between seven and 11 years. What is clear is that the Turkana boy followed a pattern of growth that is neither that of a modern human nor that of a chimpanzee.

2009, Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth, Simon & Schuster (Free Press), page 197,
The most famous specimen of Homo ergaster, and one of the most complete pre-human fossils ever found, is the Turkana Boy, or Nariokotome Boy, discovered by Kamoya Kimeu, star fossil-finder of Richard Leakey's team of palaeontologists.
The Turkana Boy lived approximately 1.6 million years ago and died at the age of about eleven.

Homo ergaster
Homo ergaster#Translingual

(archaeology) The nearly complete fossilised skeleton of a Homo ergaster youth (estimated 7–11 years old at death) who lived 1.5 to 1.6 million years ago.

KNM-WT 15000

fossil designation by National Museums of Kenya


PPNA

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A#English

(archaeology) Abbreviation of Pre-Pottery Neolithic A.


Pre-Pottery Neolithic B

Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Pre-Pottery Neolithic

(archaeology) the second stage of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic


Pre-Pottery Neolithic A

(archaeology) the first stage of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic


white blood

From white + blood. First appears c. 1398 in a publication by John Trevisa.

(biology, zoology, uncommon) Blood devoid of red blood cells, commonly found in invertebrates.


prionopterous

(entomology) Having the costal edge of the forewing serrate and thickened (in butterflies).


cold-aridiphilous

(malacology) Liking cold and arid conditions.


postcleithrum

(ichthyology) A bone in the pectoral girdle of teleost fishes.


Nubian woodpecker

en-noun

Nubian woodpecker (plural Nubian woodpeckers)

(ornithology) A species of bird in the family Picidae.


early Helladic

(history, archaeology) related to or referring to the early Bronze Age period (3000–2000 BCE)


Phalian

From German Fälish, deriving from Fälen, meaning "plain", coined by Hans F. K. Günther.

(anthropology, Nazism) Of or relating to a postulated member of a subtype of the Caucasoid race.


Phalian

(anthropology, Nazism) A postulated member of a subtype of the Caucasoid race.


archaeological culture

archaeological culture (plural archaeological cultures)

(archaeology) A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.


Lower Xiajiadian culture

Calque of Mandarin 夏家店下層文化／夏家店下层文化 (Xiàjiādiàn xiàcéng wénhuà), from 夏家店 (Xiàjiādiàn, “Xiajiadian”) + 下層／下层 (xiàcéng, “lower strata”) + 文化 (wénhuà, “culture”), with Xiajiadian being the location of the type site, which was discovered at a lower level than that of the Upper Xiajiadian culture. By surface analysis, lower + Xiajiadian + culture.

surf

Coordinate term: Upper Xiajiadian culture

(archaeology) An archaeological culture found throughout southeastern Inner Mongolia, northern Hebei and western Liaoning in China, who thrived from approximately 2200 to 1600 BCE.


Upper Xiajiadian culture

Calque of Mandarin 夏家店上層文化／夏家店上层文化 (Xiàjiādiàn shàngcéng wénhuà), from 夏家店 (Xiàjiādiàn, “Xiajiadian”) + 上層／上层 (shàngcéng, “upper strata”) + 文化 (wénhuà, “culture”), with Xiajiadian being the location of the type site, which was discovered at a higher level than that of the Lower Xiajiadian culture. By surface analysis, upper + Xiajiadian + culture.

surf

Coordinate term: Lower Xiajiadian culture

(archaeology) An archaeological culture found throughout southeastern Inner Mongolia, northern Hebei and western Liaoning in China, who thrived from approximately 1000 to 600 BCE.


Liaoning bronze dagger culture

Partial calque of Mandarin 遼寧青銅文化／辽宁青铜文化 (Liáoníng qīngtóng wénhuà), from 遼寧／辽宁 (Liáoníng, “Liaoning”) + 青銅／青铜 (qīngtóng, “bronze”) + 文化 (wénhuà, “culture”), with Liaoning being the location of the type site, and the fact that the culture is characterised by its manufacture of bronze daggers. By surface analysis, Liaoning + bronze + dagger + culture.

surf

(archaeology) An archaeological culture dating from the Bronze Age in north-eastern China and parts of the Korean Peninsula, characterised by the high zinc content of the bronze daggers which it manufactured.


European sting winkle

en-noun

European sting winkle (plural European sting winkles)

(zoology) Common name of Ocenebra erinaceus, a species of predatory sea snail in the family of Muricidae.


bryobia

Descriptions of these two new Bryobias are here given:

1921, H. E. Ewing, “New Nearctic Spider Mites of the Family Tetranychidae.”, in Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 59, archived from the original on 2024-06-04, page 662:

All other known Bryobias hibernate in the egg stage.

1953, G. S. Roosje and J. B. M. van Dinther, “The genus Bryobia and the species Bryobia praetiosa Koch”, in Natuurtijdschriften, archived from the original on 2024-04-13, page 333:

Bryobias infest the leaves and unripe fruits.

2002, “Date Palm”, in Organic Farming in the Tropics and Subtropics, 1st edition, Naturland e.V., archived from the original on 2023-08-12, II Special section: Organic Date Palm Cultivation, page 9:

(arachnology, taxonomy) A spider mite of the genus Bryobia.

Bryobia

maintaining capitalization from the genus name


schistocerca

Borrowed from translingual Schistocerca.

All the other schistocercas, except for the desert locust, schistocerca gregaria, (responsible for biblical and modern day plagues in Africa) are found in the New World.

2006 October 12, vanessa cardui, “What better day than Columbus Day?”, in Am I Bugging You Yet?: Bug sightings in and around Tustin, California., archived from the original on 2023-11-23:

Schistocercas shouldn't be such fussy eaters. We give them dried oats and green cabbage but they should also be able to survive on grass, carrots, anything really.

2013 May 24, mister_moustachio, “We got our grasshoppers in today. I love how they go towards the light”, in r/Entomology, Reddit:

(entomology, taxonomy, rare) Any large grasshopper of the genus Schistocerca.


Epigravettian

Coordinate term: Magdalenian

Other parts of southern Europe that were occupied during the last glacial maximum showed industries that were essentially a continuation of the Gravettian into the so-called Epigravettian, characterized by much variation in types of points and other tools.

2011, Sarunas Milisauskas, editor, European Prehistory: A Survey, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 97:

A late Paleolithic culture following the Gravettian, c. 21000–10000 BCE.


polyplocodont

(zoology) Having a highly folded inner boundary to the dentine of a tooth.


glyptograpsid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Glyptograpsidae.


scutigerellid

(zoology) Any pseudocentipede in the family Scutigerellidae.


scolopendrellid

(zoology) Any in the family Scolopendrellidae of pseudocentipedes.


zygometrid

(zoology) Any echinoderm in the family Zygometridae.


questid

(zoology) Any annelid in the family Questidae.


terebratellid

(zoology) Any brachiopod in the family Terebratellidae.


spadellid

(zoology) Any chaetognath in the family Spadellidae.


plagioeciid

(zoology) Any bryozoan in the family Plagioeciidae.


lungless salamander

lungless salamander (plural lungless salamanders)

(herpetology) Any of numerous salamanders in the family Plethodontidae, who do not have lungs, and instead respirate through their skin and the lining of their mouths.


arhynchobatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Arhynchobatid.


asteronychid

(zoology) Any brittle star in the family Coeloplanidae.


coeloplanid

(zoology) Any comb jelly in the family Coeloplanidae.


tripedaliid

(zoology) Any box jellyfish in the family Tripedaliidae.


barentsiid

(zoology) Any entoproct in the family Barentsiidae.


torquaratorid

(zoology) Any hemichordate in the family Torquaratoridae.


austrognathiid

(zoology) Any gnathostomulid in the family Austrognathiidae.


centroderid

(zoology) Any kinorhynch in the family Centroderidae.


dasydytid

(zoology) Any gastrotrich in the family Coeloplanidae.


pilciloricid

(zoology) Any loriciferan in the family Pilciloricidae.


chordodid

(zoology) Any nematomorph in the family Chordodidae.


chaetodermatid

(zoology) Any mollusc in the family Chaetodermatidae.


plectid

(zoology) Any nematode in the family Plectidae.


coliiform

(ornithology) Any member of the Coliiformes order of birds.


dilepidid

(zoology) Any flatworm in the family Dilepididae.


tubulanid

(zoology) Any nemertean in the family Tubulanidae.


acarnid

(zoology) Any sponge in the family Acarnidae.


flosculariid

(zoology) Any rotifer in the family Flosculariidae.


hofsteniid

(zoology) Any acoel in the family Hofsteniidae.


halechiniscid

(zoology) Any tardigrade in the family Halechiniscidae.


rasborin

(ichthyology) Any member of the Rasbora genus of fishes, or similar (Trigonostigma and Boraras).


bariliin

(ichthyology) Any member of an informal group of fishes including Barilius, Aspidoparia, Macrochirichthys, Oxygaster, Parachela, Raiamas, Salmostoma, Securicula.


esomin

(ichthyology) Any member of the Esominae subfamily of fishes.


demodecid

(zoology) Any member of the Demodecidae family of mites.


bird point

She had watched the turned ground passing and had snatched up three partial arrowheads and a flint scraper and one fine complete bird point.

1997, Charles Frazier, “Ashes of Roses”, in Cold Mountain, New York: Atlantic:

Flint chips and flakes were scattered about. Here and there, every so often, one would find a point or blade. Occasionally, a tiny arrow-point (birdpoint) would surface.

1999, Bob Rampani, “Yesterday In Bridgeton, Site #6”, in Central States Archaeological Journal, volume 46, number 1, pages 9-10:

(US, archaeology) A small flint arrowhead


transpalaearctic

trans- + palaearctic Used by P Sushkin in 1925

(zoology) Covering the palaearctic from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans.


-grade

From Latin gradus (“step, degree”) and gradior (“walk”).

(zoology) Describes a specified way of walking or locomotion, especially according to the limbs or organs utilized.


vetulicolian

(zoology) Any of the extinct marine animals of the phylum Vetulicolia.


vetulicolian

(zoology) Pertaining to the Vetulicolia.


gnathosomatic

(zoology) Of or pertaining to gnathosoma.


neostigmata

(zoology) Secondary tracheal openings in mites.


oligohumic

(zoology) Feeding on soil 20-40 cm deep.


pretornal

Upper and under sides similar to those in ♂; the differs in the black markings which are broader, the red ocelli on the hind wing that are considerably larger, and in the obliquely placed pretornal short bar that is always centred with red.

1907, Lieut. Colonel CT Bingham, The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma., volume II Butterflies, London: Taylor and Francis, page 127:

In the male, the forewing is lighter and without the greyish clouding; the pretornal mark is reduced to a few fuscous scales or is sometimes completely absent.

1953, Bulletin of Entomological Research, volume 43, London: Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, pages 686-687:

(entomology) Close to the margin of an insect’s wing towards the posterior angle; near the tornus.


vulvar opening

(anatomy, zoology) Orifice between the labia vulvae where offspring and urine exit from; opening of the urogenital sinus.


labia vulvae

(anatomy, zoology) The vulva's pair of thin lip-like structures that protect the urogenital sinus/vulval vestibule.


urogenital sinus

urogenital sinus (plural urogenital sinuses)

(anatomy, zoology) An internal structure where the vagina and urethra open into in many female mammals.


identicide

(anthropology, sociology) The deliberate, systematic and targeted demoralization and destruction of the cultural elements representing the identity of a people, with the intent to erase the cultural narrative and memory of that people.


spermaceti organ

spermaceti organ (plural spermaceti organs)

(zoology) An organ present in the heads of toothed whales of the family Physeteroidea, in particular the sperm whale.


allomark

en-verb

allomark (third-person singular simple present allomarks, present participle allomarking, simple past and past participle allomarked)

allomarks (present singular third-person)
allomarking (participle present)
allomarked (participle past)
allomarked (past)

[…] dholes, Cuon alpinus, may allomark from a handstand.

1985 August 15, Social Odours in Mammals: Volume II (Oxford Science Publications):

Cats allomark (mark each other) by rubbing the cheek and perioral regions against each other. The initiator of such a rubbing interaction may thereby deposit scent on the recipient (and/or pick it up).

1988, Turner, Dennis C., The Domestic Cat : the Biology of its Behaviour:

The frequency with which dwarf mongooses allomark before, during, and after estrus in the dominant female.

1989, Gittleman, John L, Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution:

Two types of allomarking have been distinguished: sequential allomarking, whereby a badger marks the flank or rump of another individual, and mutual allomarking, in which both badgers press their subcaudal glands together (probably thereby swapping the bacterial communities that determine the nuances of their olfactory signature).

2005, Nowak, Ronald M, Walker's carnivores of the world:

(zoology) To scent mark onto the body of a individual of the same species.


ardipith

(anthropology, paleontology) Any of the hominids of the extinct genus Ardipithecus.


ardipith

en-adj

ardipith (comparative more ardipith, superlative most ardipith)

more ardipith (comparative)
most ardipith (superlative)

(anthropology, paleontology) Of or pertaining to the hominids of the extinct genus Ardipithecus.


neon skimmer

neon + skimmer (“type of dragonfly”), in reference to the species' vibrantly orange color.

(entomology) Libellula croceipennis, a New World species of bright orange dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.


hybrid monkey

(zoology, primatology) The offspring of two different species of monkeys.


yellow-green brushfinch

en-noun

yellow-green brushfinch (plural yellow-green brushfinches)

Calque of translingual Atlapetes luteoviridis.

calque

New World sparrow
New World sparrow#English

(ornithology) Any New World sparrow of the species Atlapetes luteoviridis, endemic to a thin stretch of inland Panama.


animal cabinet

(zoology, sciences) A controlled environment designed for breeding animals, often used in biomedical research laboratories.


king quail

(ornithology) A bird of the species Synoicus chinensis.


iduna

Hundreds of warblers made the mass - mainly Blackcap and Lesser Whitethroat but also quite many Reed Warblers and an assortment of other sylvias, locustellas, idunas and phyllos, plus some other bits and pieces.

2012 April 14, Yoav Perlman, “Busy busy”, in Yoav Perlman (blog):

Most Idunas share a rather peculiar jizz.

2016 August 26, “Focus On: Booted Warbler”, in BirdGuides:

Booted Warblers are the more northerly breeders of the two sibling Idunas.

2019, Sudhir Vyas, Indian BIRDS, Indian BIRDS Monographs, Booted Warbler Iduna caligata Passage migrant (Fairly common), page 92:

(ornithology) Any warbler of the genus Iduna.


prey drive

(zoology) The instinctive inclination of a carnivore to locate, pursue, and capture prey.


small-toothed

en-adj

small-toothed (comparative smaller-toothed, superlative smallest-toothed)

smaller-toothed (comparative)
smallest-toothed (superlative)

(zoology) Of an animal, having small teeth.


sharp-toothed

sharp-toothed (comparative sharper-toothed, superlative sharpest-toothed)

sharper-toothed (comparative)
sharpest-toothed (superlative)

(zoology) Of an animal, possessing sharp teeth.


red-toothed

(zoology) Of an animal, having a reddish enamel at the tips of the teeth.


large-toothed

large-toothed (comparative larger-toothed, superlative largest-toothed)

larger-toothed (comparative)
largest-toothed (superlative)

(zoology) Of an animal, having large teeth.


dipteron

The next species of Diptera are two female specimens of Trichomyia, bred about the end of May, following which is a dipteron new to the British list, Brachycoma erratica, Mgn., of the family Tachinidæ, kindly identified with the other Diptera of our cherry stump, by Dr. Meade, of Bradford, who has fully described this new species on page 110 in the May number of The Entomologists Monthly Magazine, 1894.

1895, C. J. Watkins, “The Denizens of an Old Cherry Tree, With Notes of its Surroundings”, in The Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science, volume 14, page 9:

A larval dipteron which has been interpreted as a roundworm.

1905, Charles Wardell Stiles, Albert Hassall, The Determination of Generic Types and a List of Roundworm Genera, with Their Original and Type Species:

This gall was brought to me ten years ago. From my notes I gather it was probably made by a dipteron, but I failed to rear the flies.

1910 June, E. W. Swanton, “Notes on British Galls”, in Knowledge: A Monthly Record of Science, volume 7, page 209:

(entomology) Any fly of the taxonomic order Diptera.


behavioral sink

en-noun

behavioral sink (plural behavioral sinks)

(zoology, ethology) A collapse in behavior that can result from overpopulation.


ocular spark

(ichthyology) A type of ocular radiance, reflecting it into the visual field to illuminate the field of vision, for diurnal active photolocation.


pilosan

(zoology) Any member of the order Pilosa, an anteater or a sloth.


diurnal active photolocation

diurnal active photolocation (uncountable)

Coordinate term: nocturnal active photolocation

(ichthyology) The use of daylight for phosphorescence, fluorescence, or reflection, which then illuminates the visual field.


nocturnal active photolocation

nocturnal active photolocation (uncountable)

Coordinate term: diurnal active photolocation

(ichthyology) The use of nighttime light such as phosphorescence or fluorescence to navigate or locate objects at night.


passive photolocation

Coordinate term: active photolocation

(ichthyology) The use of standard vision in order to locate objects in the environment.


valid name

(zoology) The correct scientific name for a taxon, or group of organisms.


achilixiid

(zoology) Any hemipteran of the family Achilixiidae


udonellid

(zoology) Any flatworm of the family Udonellidae


blepharipodid

(zoology) Any sand crab in the family Blepharipodidae


deirochelyine

(zoology) Any turtle in the subfamily Deirochelyinae.


emydine

(zoology) Any turtle in the subfamily Emydinae.


geoemydine

(zoology) Any turtle in the subfamily Geoemydinae.