aposematic

en-adj

aposematic (comparative more aposematic, superlative most aposematic)

more aposematic (comparative)
most aposematic (superlative)

Episematic characters are far less common than aposematic, and these than cryptic; although, as regards the latter comparison, the opposite impression is generally produced from the fact that concealment is so successfully attained.

1911, “Colours of Animals”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, volume V, page 732:

Contrasting patterns of red and black are classic aposematic warnings that signal would-be predators to “back off, leave me alone … if you do not, you will regret the consequences.”

2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 6:

(zoology, of a coloration or marking) That serves as a warning to predators, as of toxicity, especially falsely.


inequivalve

inequivalve (comparative more inequivalve, superlative most inequivalve)

more inequivalve (comparative)
most inequivalve (superlative)

(zoology, of the shells of a bivalve mollusc) Having valves of different sizes


equivalve

Shell transverse , equivalve , inequilateral , with a large oblique anteal opening

1828, John Fleming, History of British Animals:

(zoology, of the shells of a bivalve mollusc) Having valves of the same size (as is normal)


metachrosis

(zoology) The ability to change colour by the expansion and contraction of chromatophores


pileated

(zoology) Having a crest covering the pileum


penicillate

penicillate (comparative more penicillate, superlative most penicillate)

more penicillate (comparative)
most penicillate (superlative)

(botany, zoology) Having tufts of fine hairs, or in the form of a tuft of fine hairs.


pileum

(zoology) The top of a bird's head, from the base of the bill to the nape.


cubital

(entomology) Of or pertaining to the cubitus and/or the areas of the wing next to it.


cubital

Second cubital cell irregularly quadrangular, trapezoid, placed in a direct line with the first and third cubitals

1865, The record of zoological literature:


chlamydate

chlamydate (comparative more chlamydate, superlative most chlamydate)

more chlamydate (comparative)
most chlamydate (superlative)

(zoology, of some molluscs) Having a mantle or fringe


multivalve

a multivalve mollusk

Having or involving multiple valves (in any context); thus:

(anatomy, zoology, medicine) Having multiple biological valves.

multivalve heart disease

(anatomy, zoology, medicine) Involving multiple heart valves.


subsong

en-noun

subsong (countable and uncountable, plural subsongs)

(ornithology) A sequence of sounds uttered by a young bird before it has learned to produce normal birdsong.


pothunter

From pot + hunter – in hunting sense, “for the (cooking) pot (to eat)”; in the archeology sense, “seeking old pots (to sell)”.

But hundreds, perhaps thousands of artifacts have been taken by amateur pothunters, whose activities can disturb the soil and ruin the chance of serious research.

2007 December 12, Anthony Depalma, “An Island in the Hudson, Plundered in Search of Indian Artifacts”, in New York Times:

(archaeology) A person who seeks artifacts for their personal collection or to sell without regard to their cultural importance.


platyrrhine

(zoology) Any New World monkey of the Platyrrhini


prothorax

prothorax (plural prothoraxes or prothoraces)

prothoraxes (plural)
prothoraces (plural)

Holonym: thorax

Comeronyms: mesothorax, metathorax

(entomology) The anterior segment of the insect thorax; it carries the first pair of legs.


pupiparous

(entomology) Producing young that are ready to pupate.


callitrichid

(zoology) Any New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae.


uniface

(archaeology) A prehistoric stone tool that has been flaked on one surface only.


lophodont

(zoology) Having molar teeth that have ridged grinding surfaces.


fenestrate

en-adj

fenestrate (comparative more fenestrate, superlative most fenestrate)

more fenestrate (comparative)
most fenestrate (superlative)

From Latin fenestrō, from fenestra (“window”).

(zoology, botany) Having transparent spots, like the wings of certain butterflies.


lophophorate

From lophophore + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).


lophophorate

From a substantivation of the above adjective through the associated clade's name. Equivalent to lophophore + -ate (noun-forming suffix).

The presence of a lophophore, combined with other features including a U-shaped gut, means that hyoliths are also lophophorates, and not molluscs.

2017 January 18, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian:

(zoology) A member of the Lophophorata, a clade of invertebrate animals.


mesorostral

(zoology) In the middle of the rostrum (beak)

(zoology) Having a medium-sized beak or bill


cercopithecoid

In East Africa the first evidence of cercopithecoid diversity appeared in the Pliocene at sites such as Lothagam, East Turkana, and Laetoli where papionins were the dominant cercopithecoids.

2005, Meave G. Leakey, “3: Evolution of Theropithecus in the Turkana Basin”, in Nina G. Jablonski, editor, Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus, page 117:

Concerning systematics, while extinct monkeys from the early and middle Miocene of Africa are widely accepted as true cercopithecoids, there remains some discussion as to their precise phylogenetic position.

2006, Tom Gundling, Andrew Hill, “7: Geological context of fossil Cercopithecoidea from eastern Africa”, in Paul F. Whitehead, Clifford J. Jolly, editors, Old World Monkeys, page 181:

The latest major anthropoid radiation, and in some ways the most successful, was that of the Old World monkeys, the Cercopithecoidea. Cercopithecoids appear to have originated from early African catarrhines during the late Oligocene gap in the Old World fossil record.

2011, Matt Cartmill, Fred H. Smith, The Human Lineage, page 128:

(zoology) Any species of the superfamily Cercopithecoidea (the Old World monkeys).


sailyard

From Middle English saylyerde, sailyerd, seilȝerd, from Old English seġlġyrd, seġelġyrd (“sailyard”), from Proto-West Germanic *seglagaʀdī and *seglagaʀd (“sailyard, mast”, literally “sail-rod, sail-staff”), equivalent to sail + yard (“staff, rod, stick”). Cognate with German Segelgerte.

(entomology, obsolete) An antenna of an insect.


gemmule

Borrowed from French gemmule, from Latin gemmula (“small bud; small gem”), from gemma (“bud of a plant; gem, jewel; thing made of precious stones”) (further etymology uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth; to produce”), but see further at that entry) + -ula (feminine form of -ulus (diminutive suffix)).

der

Sponges are propagated by gemmules, which originate in the organic mucus, and are carried out of the body by the effluent currents just described. In some sponges these gemmules are ciliated and locomotive when mature; but it seems probable that the majority of the species produce only unciliated gelatinous grains, which are nevertheless endowed with a very active motility, like the ultimate particles of even inorganic matter.

1860, G. J., J. Y. J., “ZOOPHYTES”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. […], 8th edition, volume XXI, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, →OCLC, part VI (Sponges), page 1008, column 2:

The increase in size of the gemmule takes place by means of cell growth and division, and by the fusion of neighboring small gemmules.

1891 July–December, Henry V[an Peters] Wilson, “Notes on the Development of Some Sponges”, in Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, volume VIII, part 2, Raleigh, N.C.: E. M. Ezzell, […], published 1892, →OCLC, page 97:

The green fresh-water sponge dies away in autumn, all but little pinhead clusters of cells called gemmules, which eventually float away from the dead skeleton and start new sponges in the spring.

1931, J[ohn] Arthur Thomson, Patrick Geddes, “Ecological”, in Life: Outlines of General Biology, volume 1, London: Williams & Norgate, →OCLC, page 54:

All fresh-water and some marine sponges reproduce asexually by means of gemmules; these embryos are formed simply by assembly of a few amoebocyte cells. Reproduction is also accomplished sexually by the union of sperm and egg cells.

1964 March, John F. Storr, “Introduction”, in Ecology of the Gulf of Mexico Commercial Sponges and Its Relation to the Fishery […] (United States Fish and Wildlife Service Special Scientific Report—Fisheries; no. 466), Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of the Interior, →OCLC, page 2:

The actual formation of gemmules by fresh-water sponges is so clearly an adaptation to seasonal climatic changes, that at first it was reasonable to believe that seasonal alternation itself induced the gemmulation. However, conflicting reports on the relationship of gemmule production to seasonal temperature changes required that an alternative hypothesis be developed.

1978, Patricia R[ose] Bergquist, “Reproduction and Development”, in Sponges, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 125–126:

Asexual reproduction in the sponge begins with the formation of small particles, known as gemmules, within the parent sponge tissue. […] Gemmule formation has been studied in a number of species, especially in E. fluviatilis[…], as gemmule formation can be induced in vitro[…]. Specific stages in the process of gemmule formation have been proposed based on the time-lapse microscopic study of Rasmont and De Vos (1974).

2008, Noriko Funayama, “Stem Cell System of Sponge”, in Thomas C. G. Bosch, editor, Stem Cells: From Hydra to Man, Dordrecht: Springer, →ISBN, page 23:

(archaic) Synonym of gemma (“an asexual reproductive structure, as found in animals such as hydra (genus Hydra) and plants such as liverworts (division Marchantiophyta), consisting of a cluster of cells from which a new individual can develop”)

(specifically, zoology) A small gemma or bud of dormant embryonic cells produced by some freshwater sponges (phylum Porifera) that develops into a new sponge.

芽球

small gemma or bud of dormant embryonic cells produced by some freshwater sponges that develops into a new sponge


conterminal

From Latin conterminus, from con- (“with”) + terminus (“border, end”) + -al.

The latter consists of closely attached conterminal joints.

1866, William Edward Shuckard, British Bees: An Introduction to the Study of the Natural History and Economy of the Bees Indigenous to the British Isles, page 28:


iguanid

(zoology) Any lizard of the family Iguanidae.


echinoid

(zoology) Any sea urchin or sea dollar of the class Echinoidea.


peripatus

(zoology) Any onychophoran of the genus Peripatus


obelia

From Ancient Greek ὀβελία (obelía, “a round cake”).

uder

All the polyps and branches of obelias are supported and protected by a thin, transparent, horny covering which is made by the outer layer of cells. About each polyp the horny covering is in the shape of a goblet or cup.

1970, Marie M. Jenkins, Animals Without Parents, page 55:

Fragile but menacing, obelias are colonies ranging from one to eight inches in length which grow on seaweeds, rocks, and piles. The medusa, only one stage in the obelia’s life cycle, has anywhere from eight to 24 tentacles,[…].

1975, Jacques Cousteau, The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau: The Act of Life, page 42:

[…]some [hydroids], like obelias, live in stalked colonies[…].

1999, Martin Walters, Jinny Johnson, The World of Animals, published 2011, page 31:

(zoology) Any of various colonial marine hydroids of the genus Obelia.


syngnathid

(zoology) Any member of the family Syngnathidae of seahorses, sea dragons, and pipefish, all with fused jaws.


jugulum

Borrowing from New Latin jugulum (“the collarbone; the hollow part of the neck above the collarbone; the throat”), diminutive of jugum (“a yoke, collar”).

bor

(entomology) The jugum of an insect's wing.


physeterid

(zoology) Any sperm whale of family Physeteridae


level staff

en-noun

level staff (plural level staffs or level staves)

level staffs (plural)
level staves (plural)

(surveying, archaeology) A graduated rod used by surveyors to measure differences in level.


quaker

(entomology) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Pithecops.


pleuron

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλευρόν (pleurón, “rib, side”).

bor

(zoology) A lateral sclerite of a thoracic segment of an arthropod between the tergum and the sternum.


parabiosis

en-noun

parabiosis (countable and uncountable, plural parabioses)

(ecology, ethology) A form of symbiosis, typically among ants, in which different species share common nest galleries but maintain distinct broods and do not practice mutualism other than incidentally.


arachnological

en-adj

arachnological (comparative more arachnological, superlative most arachnological)

more arachnological (comparative)
most arachnological (superlative)

(zoology) Of or relating to arachnology, the study of arachnids.


arachnologic

arachnologic (comparative more arachnologic, superlative most arachnologic)

more arachnologic (comparative)
most arachnologic (superlative)

arachnologisch

of or relating to arachnology, the study of arachnids


icterine

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Icteridae family of passerine birds.


brumate

en-verb

brumate (third-person singular simple present brumates, present participle brumating, simple past and past participle brumated)

brumates (present singular third-person)
brumating (participle present)
brumated (participle past)
brumated (past)

My snake is starting to brumate.

(zoology) To be in a lethargic state, somewhat analogous to hibernation but not the same. Commonly found in reptiles and in some other animal species, such as bears.


diphycercal

From Ancient Greek διφυής (diphuḗs, “of double nature”) (compare δι- (di-) and φύω (phúō)) + κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”).

der

(zoology) Describing a symmetric tail fin in which the vertebral column extends to the tip.


parenchymatous

From the stem of Koine Greek παρέγχυμα (parénkhuma) + -ous. Compare parenchymal, parenchymous, parenchymatic.

(anatomy, zoology) Consisting of or pertaining to parenchyma; parenchymal.


mirid

Mirids continued to be underappreciated as predators even after several species had been used successfully in classical biological control in the 1920s and 1930s.

2000, A. G. Wheeler, Jr., “Chapter 28: Predacious Plant Bugs (Miridae)”, in Carl W. Schaefer, Antonio Ricardo Panizzi, editors, Heteroptera of Economic Importance, page 657:

Interestingly, the reproductive consequences of hornworm and mirid attack are very different for the plant. While the plant metabolically responds very similarly to hornworm and mirid attack and gains resistance to hornworms, attack by mirids (in contrast to attack by hornworms) does not reduce the reproductive success of the plant, although the damage from these piercing-sucking insects can be substantial.

2006, Marcel Dicke, Willem Takken, Chemical Ecology: From Gene to Ecosystem, page 29:

Green mirids may be present at any crop stage from seedlings to podding. Mirid populations are typically low during the vegetative phase, but can increase rapidly after budding as a result of in-crop breeding.

2007, H. Brier, “7: Pulses—Summer (including Peanuts)”, in P. T. Bailey, editor, Pests of Field Crops and Pastures: Identification and Control, page 186:

(entomology) Any insect of the family Miridae, a plant bug.


scolopacid

(ornithology) Any member of the family Scolopacidae of waders or shorebirds.


urodele

Although courtship and other mating behaviors of many urodele amphibians in the laboratory have been described in great detail (Arnold, 1977; Halliday and Verrell, 1986; Verrell, 1989), little is known about such behavior in natural populations (MacMahon, 1964; Lynch and Wallace, 1987).

1989 December 27, Fredric J. Janzen, Edmund D. Brodie, III, “Tall Tails and Sexy Males: Sexual Behavior of Rough-Skinned Newts (Taricha granulosa) in a Natural Breeding Pond”, in Copeia, volume 1989, number 4:


capitellum

Borrowed from Latin capitellum, diminuitive of Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head), itself from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capital, caudillo, and Kadet.

doublet

(botany, anatomy, arachnology) Synonym of capitulum


tegmen

From New Latin, from Latin tegmen, syncopated form of tegimen.

(entomology) In insects such as winged cockroaches and locusts, the tegmina are the stiff, membranous fore wings; in many species they are not primarily used for flight, but serve as protective covering for the delicate hind wings, which are the main organs of flight. Note that the more heavily armoured fore-wings of most beetles are called elytra, not tegmina.


charadriid

Darting among the penguins on the foreshore are little charadriids, members of the plover and lapwing family who feed on the insects that the massed animals attract […].

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

(ornithology) A bird of the taxonomic family Charadriidae.


malacostracan

(zoology) Any of very many crustaceans of the class Malacostraca.


pregenital

(zoology) In front of the genital region


leporid

(mammalogy) Any mammal of the family Leporidae: the hares and rabbits.


ankylosaurid

(zoology) Any of the dinosaurs of the family Ankylosauridae.


nodosaurid

(zoology) Any of the ankylosaurian dinosaurs of the family Nodosauridae.


loxodont

(zoology) Having teeth with several parallel oblique ridges on the surface.


loxodont

(zoology) A creature with teeth of this kind.


dilambdodont

(zoology) Having teeth with a pair of lambda-shaped ridges on each.


labyrinthodont

en-adj

labyrinthodont (comparative more labyrinthodont, superlative most labyrinthodont)

more labyrinthodont (comparative)
most labyrinthodont (superlative)

Ancient Greek λαβύρινθος (labúrinthos, “labyrinth”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”).

uder

(zoology) Having teeth with a labyrinthine (maze-like) internal structure


dissepiment

From Latin dissepimentum (“a partition”).

(botany, zoology) partition (in an organ); septum


mesothorax

en-noun

mesothorax (plural mesothoraxes or mesothoraces)

mesothoraxes (plural)
mesothoraces (plural)

Holonym: thorax

Comeronyms: prothorax, metathorax

(entomology) The middle of the three segments of the thorax of an insect, carrying the second pair of legs, and the forewings when present.

středohruď

the middle of the three segments of the thorax of an insect


statocyst

Despite their tiny size, statocysts encode significant information about an animal's buoyancy and swimming ability, as we know from studying statocyst variability among modern cephalopods.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 110:

(zoology) An organ of balance found in some aquatic invertebrates, consisting of a sac-like structure containing a statolith and numerous innervated setae. Ancestral to vertebrate otolith (their organ of hearing and balance).


hemipenis

hemipenis (plural hemipenes or hemipenises)

Charles […] found her stroking the goanna in such a way – no one else could do it – that its pale hemipenes emerged pale and spiky from their sheaths.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 475:

(anatomy, zoology) Each of a pair of intromittent organs of male snakes and lizards, usually held inverted within the body but everted for reproduction via erectile tissue.


monodactyly

(zoology) The presence of a single digit on a limb


anemochory

From anemo- (“wind”) + -chory (“seed dispersal”).

confix

(entomology) The dispersal of young (mites, spiders, etc.) by wind.


anteclypeus

(entomology) The lower part of a divided clypeus, between the postclypeus and the labrum


mirrnyong

Along the Creek′s west bank there were three small mirnyongs or native ovens, the first of which, about 200 yards north of the Princes Highway, was the best preserved, until it was bull-dozed out of existence in March 1966 by the Country Roads Board[…].

1969, Aldo Massola, Journey to Aboriginal Victoria, page 26:

(Australia, archaeology) A mound of cooking debris accumulated by Aborigines; a kitchen midden.


pneumatophore

Portuguese man-of-war
Portuguese man-of-war

(zoology) A gas-filled sac or float of some colonial marine coelenterates, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.


subungulate

(zoology) Any of various mammals, thought to have evolved from ungulates, sometimes grouped in the taxon Paenungulata.


subungulate

(zoology) Hoofed, but with several digits.


curvirostral

en-adj

curvirostral (comparative more curvirostral, superlative most curvirostral)

more curvirostral (comparative)
most curvirostral (superlative)


eyestripe

Dama. [i.e., the dama gazelle] Horns hooked forward at the ends; body white; dorſal and eye-ſtripes tawny.

1806, Charles Linné [i.e., Carl Linnaeus], “Order V. Pecora.”, in William Turton, transl., A General System of Nature, through the Three Grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals: […] In Seven Volumes, volumes I (Animal Kingdom.—Mammalia. Birds. Amphibia. Fishes.), London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. […], →OCLC, section 38 (Antilope), page 112:

MALIMBA BEE-EATER. [...] Cinereo-violaceous Bee-Eater, sanguine rose-coloured beneath, with black eye-stripe, white throat, and two lengthened tail-feathers.

1812, George Shaw, General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History, volume VIII, part 1 (Aves), London: Printed for Kearsley, Wilkie and Robinson, [et al.], →OCLC, page 174:

These two birds somewhat closely resemble each other, but the Sedge Warbler is russet-brown above, the feathers with dark centres, the pale buff eyestripe is very clearly defined, and the underparts are buffish white; the Reed Warbler is more olive on the upper parts, the feathers having no dark centres, the underparts are more inclined to buff, and the eyestripe is nearly obsolete.

1891, Charles Dixon, “Ramble VI. By Lakes and Streams.”, in The Birds of Our Rambles: A Companion for the Country, London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, →OCLC, page 130:

The plumage pattern of the red-backed shrike male is conspicuous from a long distance. This pattern, not the feathering, is all-important since a plain plastic model is as effective as a stuffed mount in eliciting mobbing by pied flycatchers. Removal of the conspicuous eye stripe (including the equally dark eye) renders the model almost ineffective[…].

1993, E. Curio, “Proximate and Developmental Aspects of Antipredator Behavior”, in Advances in the Study of Behavior, volume 22, San Diego, Calif., London: Academic Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, section II (Causal Aspects of Enemy Recognition), page 150:

Once in a while a design feature shows up in animals that are not closely related. A good example is the eyestripe coloration pattern, which appears in sparrows, antelopes, and chipmunks. In all these creatures, a dark facial stripe runs from the snout to the eye. [...] Presumably eyestripes serve as protective coloration in all these prey animals, disguising their eyes from predators.

2009, James Gurney, “Dinosaurs”, in Imaginative Realism: How to Paint what Doesn’t Exist, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 94, column 1:

The eye-stripe is exactly that: a stripe through the eye. When present, this is a dark line that usually extends from the bill back through the eye. On some birds, it extends just from the eye back, leaving the lores (the area between the eye and the bill) pale and unmarked.

2014, Keith Vinicombe, “Topographical Tips”, in The Helm Guide to Bird Identification: An In-depth Look at Confusion Species, London: Christopher Helm, →ISBN, page 14:

(zoology) A stripe on each side of the head of an animal that includes the eye, and is of a different colour from the rest of the head; in particular (ornithology) such a stripe on each side of the head of some birds.


cowhouse

From Middle English cowhous, cowehous, equivalent to cow + house.

A colony of Elves had taken up their abode under the floor of the cowhouse, or, it is more likely, were there before it was made a cowhouse.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 138:

When he had churned some time he recollected that the cow, which they kept at home, hadn't been let out of the cow-house, and hadn't had a straw of hay or anything to drink, although it was late in the day.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 42:

A house (barn or shed) for keeping cows.


signate

(zoology) Having definite colour markings; bearing spots resembling letters.


macruran

(zoology, obsolete) Any of many decapod crustaceans, such as the lobster and shrimp, that were once included in the subdivision Macrura


octamerous

(biology, zoology) Having parts in groups of eight


scalpellum

(zoology) One of the four filamentous organs in the proboscis of hemipterous insects.


terebrant

/ˈtɛɹəbɹənt/

/ˈtɛɹəbɹənt/

The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin terebrantem, the accusative masculine or feminine singular of terebrāns, the present active participle of terebrō (“to bore through, perforate, pierce”), from terebra (“instrument for boring, borer, gimlet”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Terebra is derived from ter(ō) (“to rub; to wear away”) (from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, pierce; to rub; to turn”)) + -bra (suffix denoting an instrument, forming nouns).
The noun is either derived from the adjective, or is a back-formation from Terebrantia (“suborder of thrips”).

back-formation

The other terebrant hymenoptera feed in the same state either on larvæ, caterpillars particularly, of which they gnaw the interior, without attacking the essential principle of life at first, or on nymphs or eggs of insects, bodies in which they have been deposited under this last form by the mother.

1832, Edward Griffith, Edward Pidgeon, “Supplement on the Hymenoptera”, in Baron Cuvier [i.e., Georges Cuvier], translated by [Edward Griffith], The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization […], volume 15 (The Class Insecta, volume 2), London: […] [Gilbert & Rivington] for Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 395:

(entomology) Of an insect: that bores (“makes holes”); specifically, belonging to the Terebrantia suborder of thrips which bore using their ovipositors.

poraava

of an insect: that bores; specifically, belonging to the Terebrantia suborder of thrips which bore using their ovipositors


terebrant

/ˈtɛɹəbɹənt/

/ˈtɛɹəbɹənt/

(entomology) An insect that bores (“makes holes”); a borer; specifically, one belonging to the Terebrantia suborder of thrips which bore using their ovipositors.

pistinripsiäinen

insect belonging to the Terebrantia suborder of thrips which bore using their ovipositors


tellin

From New Latin Tellina, from Ancient Greek τελλίνη (tellínē, “a small bivalve shellfish”)

der

(zoology) A marine bivalve mollusc, of the genus Tellina, that burrows in the sand, from where it siphons detritus.


attine

(zoology) Belonging to the Attini tribe of fungus-growing ants


ctenidium

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κτενίδιον (ktenídion, “comb”). By surface analysis, cteno- + -idium.

bor

(zoology) A respiratory system, in the form of a comb, in some molluscs

(zoology) A row of spines in some insects


urite

Ancient Greek οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -ite.

(zoology) One of the segments of the abdomen or postabdomen of arthropods.


multituberculate

(zoology, of teeth) Having molars with multiple rows of cusps.


digitule

From Latin digitulus, diminutive of digitus.

(zoology) A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.


hirudine

en-adj

hirudine (comparative more hirudine, superlative most hirudine)

more hirudine (comparative)
most hirudine (superlative)

Other factors may contribute to the development of a hirudine constitution by causing primarily a decrease in the water and mineral content of the body.

1933, Eugene Földes, A New Approach to Dietetic Therapy, page 196:

(zoology) Of or relating to the leeches.


anautogeny

(entomology) The condition, found in many insects, where a gravid female has to feed before oviposition (egg laying), in order for the eggs to mature. This is particularly important in insects that are considered vectors (e.g. mosquitos), as without the necessary feeding, no eggs will be produced.

anautogenia

condition where a gravid insect has to feed before oviposition


holocyclic

holocyclic (comparative more holocyclic, superlative most holocyclic)

more holocyclic (comparative)
most holocyclic (superlative)

(entomology) pertaining to an insect that undergoes sexual reproduction during at least part of its life cycle.


pantherine

en-noun

pantherine (countable and uncountable, plural pantherines)

From panther + -ine. In the biochemical sense, refers to the Amanita pantherina fungus.

(zoology, countable) Any animal of the genus Panthera.

(zoology, countable) Any animal of the subfamily Pantherinae.


hectocotylus

From New Latin, corresponding to hecto- + Ancient Greek κότυλος (kótulos, “small cup”).

der

When not in use, the male's hectocotylus hides in a pouch, leaving him to go about his business with only seven arms.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 170:

The hectocotylus, like many other genitals, is made of soft tissues which are unlikely to be fossilised.

2018 January 24, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:

(zoology) A modified arm of any of several male cephalopods that functions as a reproductive organ by transferring sperm to the mantle of the female.


protopodite

(zoology) The basal segment of the limb of a crustacean


micropterous

en-adj

micropterous (comparative more micropterous, superlative most micropterous)

more micropterous (comparative)
most micropterous (superlative)

(entomology) Having small, sometimes merely vestigial, wings.


ramulus

(zoology) A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms.


urochordate

(zoology) Any marine invertebrate of the subphylum Urochordata; the sea squirts.


tetrapterous

(entomology) Having four (two pairs of) wings.


siblicide

en-noun

siblicide (countable and uncountable, plural siblicides)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-siblicide.wav

From sibli(ng) + -cide (suffix meaning ‘killing; killer’).

suffix

I continue to question the interpretation of "fatal sibling aggression" and active brood reduction as a means of maximizing productivity[…]. To me, the data clearly indicate a simple response to food availability, with the oldest young passively out-competing its smaller sibling for a limited resource. I still have not seen data to support "siblicide" as a strategy.

1981 winter, Ralph W. Schreiber, “Book Review: The Eastern Bering Sea Shelf: Oceanography and Resources, 1981. Edited by D. W. Hood and J. A. Calder. 2 Volumes. 1339 pp. Available from the University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA 98105. $65.00/volume.”, in Pacific Seabird Group Bulletin, volume 8, number 2, Stinson Beach, Calif.: Pacific Seabird Group, →OCLC, page 111:

Oophagy and adelphophagy, which are forms of embryonic cannibalism, occur in both cartilaginous and bony fishes. They are variations on the tactic of siblicide (Mock, 1984) as a reproductive strategy. In oophagy, embryos feed upon sibling eggs. […] Adelphophagy, literally eating one's brother, is also known in sharks as intrauterine embryonic cannibalism[…].

1988, John P. Wourms, Bryon D. Grove, Julian Lombardi, “The Maternal–Embryonic Relationship in Viviparous Fishes”, in W. S. Hoar, D. J. Randall, editors, Fish Physiology, volumes XI (The Physiology of Developing Fish), part B (Viviparity and Posthatching Juveniles), San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 43:

Obligate siblicide is best known in various eagles, boobies, and pelicans. All lay two eggs, hatching is asynchronus, and usually the elder sib kills its younger sib soon after hatch. From the parent's perspective, the second egg/chick serves as insurance against the unexpected failure of the first[…]. Interestingly, obligate siblicide seems to be independent of prevailing food at the time of the junior sibling[']s demise.

1994, L. Scott Forbes, Douglas W. Mock, “Proximate and Ultimate Determinants of Avian Brood Reduction”, in Stefano Parmigiani, Frederick S. vom Saal, editors, Infanticide and Parental Care […] (Ettore Majorana International Life Sciences Series; 13), Chur, Switzerland, Camberwell, Victoria: Harwood Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 245:

If siblicides are victim-based, a mother clearly cannot improve her fitness by producing fewer eggs. Less obviously, mothers may eventually be able to gain by laying more, until eventually they are constrained by the costs of eggs.

1997, Douglas W. Mock, Geoffrey A[lan] Parker, The Evolution of Sibling Rivalry (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 230:

One of the more recent examinations of siblicide cases is [John M.] Dawson and [Patrick A.] Langan's Special Report on Murder in Families, published through the Bureau of Justice Statistics (1994). […] According to their findings, 85% of siblicide offenders and 73% of siblicide victims were male. […] Alcohol was reported to play a role in approximately one half of the siblicides in Dawson and Langan's study.

2003, Rocky Underwood, “Family Homicide”, in edited by Eric Hickey, Encyclopedia of Murder & Violent Crime, Thousand Oaks, Calif., London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 167, column 2:

Infanticide, siblicide, cannibalism, rape, and lethal combat have been documented in many kinds of animals.

2011, Steven Pinker, “The Pacification Process”, in The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 39:

(chiefly zoology) The killing of a sibling, especially as observed among certain species of animals.


edaphosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the genus Edaphosaurus of prehistoric reptiles with a dorsal sail.


arietine

en-adj

arietine (comparative more arietine, superlative most arietine)

more arietine (comparative)
most arietine (superlative)

The great public, who follow the bell-wether with trusting confidence, and with the greater eagerness if the scent of scandal comes from his direction, tumbled pell-mell through the gap in the fence discovered by their arietine leader, and the whole pasture resounded with ovine voices of dismay.

1871 June 1, “Morality in Fiction”, in The Literary World, page 8:

(zoology, rare) Of, like, or pertaining to rams.


bose

en-verb

bose (third-person singular simple present boses, present participle bosing, simple past and past participle bosed)

boses (present singular third-person)
bosing (participle present)
bosed (participle past)
bosed (past)

This criticism applies also to bosing in which the ground is thumped with a heavy rammer; over filled-in pits, tombs, […] Bosing is successful where the top-soil is thin and firm, with an unstratified rock such as chalk beneath.

1974, Martin Jim Aitken, Physics and archaeology:

(usually archaeology) To strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.


narrowhead

(zoology) Applied to various kinds of animals with a narrow head.


whitetip

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

(entomology) Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Episynlestes, endemic to Australia.


silurus

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


trochus

From New Latin Trochus, from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”).

(malacology) Any member of the genus Trochus, or more generally of the family Trochidae; in non-specialist usage, including species formerly classified in that family, particularly Tectus niloticus.


eleutherodactyline

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

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

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


erd

Sorex vulgaris
Sorex vulgaris#Translingual

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


archaeozoologist

(archaeology) a person who studies archaeozoology


tornaria

en-noun

tornaria (plural tornarias or tornariae)

(zoology) The free-swimming larva of Balanoglossus.


harpagone

...a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9...

1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 45:

(entomology, usually in the plural) The clasping organ of male genitalia, one of the gonopods


reliquiae

(archaeology) Artifacts; things made or modified by human art.


remigrant

In host-alternating aphids the remigrants, which give birth to the mating females, are the first to arrive on the primary host […]

2012, A. F. G. Dixon, Aphid Ecology: An optimization approach, page 51:

(zoology) An insect that migrates back to a previous host.


dendrobatid

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


eponychium

/ɛpəʊˈnɪkɪəm/

From Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí, “on top of”) + ὀνῠ́χιον (onúkhion, “little claw”, diminutive of ὄνυξ (ónux)).

The hooves are tipped with collagenous eponychia, which prevents damage to the amnion and beyond.

2012, Paul McGreevy, Equine Behavior: A Guide for Veterinarians and Equine Scientists, 2nd edition, page 163:

2014, Kevin T. Corley, Jonna M. Jokisolo, Chapter 172: Evaluation of the Compromised Neonatal Foal, Kim A. Sprayberry, N. Edward Robinson, Robinson's Current Therapy in Equine Medicine, 7th Edition, page 720,
The presence of eponychium (also called “foal slippers”) on the feet (Figure 172-3) is indicative that the foal has not yet stood.

In ungulates, this is apparently exaggerated by the presence of the eponychia, or collagenous pads over the sole of the fetal hoof.

2015, Donald M Broom, Andrew F Fraser, Domestic Animal Behaviour and Welfare, 5th edition, page 196:

(zoology, veterinary medicine) The protective capsule that surrounds the hoof of foetuses and neonates of hoofed animals, which disappears soon after birth, but remnants of which remain as part of the permanent hoof.


consute

(entomology) Marked as if with stitches, like the wing-covers of some beetles.


hostry

From Old French hosterie, from hoste (“host”). Doublet of osteria.

An Hoſtry now for Waggons;

1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 112:


lacertian

/ləˈsəːtɪən/


cerambycid

The branch was obviously infested and showed a few emergence holes indicative of both buprestids and cerambycids, and when I broke into it I found two unemerged adult Agrilus (different species), which caused me to cut and bundle the branch to being back for rearing.

2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:

(coleopterology, entomology) Any member of the family Cerambycidae of longhorn beetles.


coleopterologist

A person who studies or practices coleopterology (the science that studies beetles).


-merous

From French -mère and its etymon Ancient Greek -μερής (-merḗs, “having (the specified number of) parts”, “sharing”): the combining form of μέρος (méros, “part”)) with the English suffix -ous; compare the English -mer and -mere, as well as the French -mère and the German -mer.

der

(chiefly botany and zoology, forming adjectives) Comprising the specified number of parts.


paxillus

(zoology) A kind of pillar-like spine with a flattened summit covered with minute spinules or granules, covering the surface of certain starfishes.


unguligrade

/ʌŋˈɡjuːlɪˌɡɹeɪd/

/ʌŋˈɡjuːləˌɡɹeɪd/

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

It has perhaps not been observed hitherto that the terms Digitigrada, Unguligrada, and Plantigrada fully apply to the Arthropoda, or that the manner in which the animals treat the ground and the corresponding structure of their feet deserve special attention as distinctive characters of classes and orders in this series of the animal kingdom; yet it is so. […] All Crustacea (including the Myriapoda, which merely exhibit the Crustacean type modified for terrestrial life) are Unguligrada; and the same is the case with all larvæ of Insects with complete metamorphosis, and with some of the lower groups of Insects, especially Thysanoura and Siphunculata—the unguligrade Arthropoda being at the same time, with few exceptions, also Solipeda.

1865 March, J. C. Schjödte [i.e., Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte], “XXII.—On the Classification of Cerambyces, with Particular Regard to the Danish Fauna. [Translated from the Naturhistorsk Tidsskrift (1864), ser. 3, vol. ii, p. 483.]”, in Prideaux John Selby, Charles C. Babington, John Edward Gray, William Francis, editors, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology, volume XV (3rd series), number 87, London: Printed and published by Taylor and Francis, →OCLC, pages 182–183:

That excessive development of the epidermis which gives rise to a nail takes place, in the Horse, not only upon the dorsal surface of the terminal joint of the digit, but upon its ventral surface and sides, and thus produces a hoof. The animal is supported by these greatly-developed nails, and hence is said to be unguligrade.

1872, Thomas H[enry] Huxley, “The Classification and Organization of the Mammalia”, in A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, 549 & 551 Broadway, →OCLC, pages 297–298:

The subjects of this book are the animals I will designate as megaherbivores. […] Such animals have been colloquially designated pachyderms; but a thick skin is a minor feature, and it is their very large body size that sets these few species apart from the numerous smaller species of unguligrade herbivore that occupy a wide variety of terrestrial ecosystems today.

1988, R. Norman Owen-Smith, “Prologue”, in Megaherbivores: The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology (Cambridge Studies in Ecology), Cambridge, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press; 1st paperback edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, →ISBN, page 1:


unguligrade

/ʌŋˈɡjuːlɪˌɡɹeɪd/

/ʌŋˈɡjuːləˌɡɹeɪd/

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

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

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

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

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

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

(zoology) An animal that walks on hooves.


Loch Ness Monster

Loch Ness monster
Loch Ness monster#English

(cryptozoology) Alternative spelling of Loch Ness monster


seclusion lodge

en-noun

seclusion lodge (plural seclusion lodges)

The huts were seclusion lodges, where we were to live isolated from society.

1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 30:

The seclusion lodge houses circumcision initiates, keeping them separate from the rest of the community.

1996, Jerry D Moore, Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes, page 140:

The birth lodge, the puberty rite lodge, the menstrual seclusion lodge, as well as the family dwelling built and owned by the woman, show that previously the Plateau-built environment was almost exclusively under women's purview.

2006, Mary C Wright, in Kelm & Townsend, In the Days of our Grandmothers, p. 265

(chiefly anthropology) A traditional dwelling placed apart from a community, tribe etc., for the use of those under ceremonial or taboo restrictions.


reptant

(chiefly botany, zoology) Creeping along the ground.


lacinia

Borrowed from Latin lacinia, the lappet or flap of a garment.

(zoology) The posterior inner process of the stipes on the maxillae of insects.


stragulum

From Latin stragulum (“a spread or covering”).

der

(zoology) The mantle, or pallium, of a bird.


plagate

en-adj

plagate (comparative more plagate, superlative most plagate)

more plagate (comparative)
most plagate (superlative)

From plaga + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

(zoology) Having plagae, or irregular elongated spots of colour.


praecoces

(zoology) Alternative form of precoces (“precocial birds”)


gynæcophore

English compound: gynæc- + -o- + -phore: originates from Ancient Greek conjunction: γῠναικο- (gunaiko-, “female”) plus -φορος (-phoros, “bearing”).

Diœcious Trematodes are very rare, the most important being the formidable Bilharzia, the male of which is the larger and retains the female in a gyncæcophore, or canal, which is formed by the infolding of the margins of the concave side of the body.

1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, A manual of the anatomy of invertebrated animals, page 202:

(zoology) Receptacle in the bodies of certain male animals (such as schistosomes) in which females may be contained.


coenosarc

From coeno- + Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx).

(zoology) Living body held in common by many organisms included in a composite zoophyte, by which they are in connection with each‐other.


coenoblast

From coen- + o + blast, from Ancient Greek: κοινός (koinós, “common”) + βλαστός (blastós, “germ”).

(zoology) Germinal tissue of Porifera that forms cores or developing mesoderms


coenosteum

en-noun

coenosteum (plural coenosteums or coenostea)

From coen- + o, from Ancient Greek: κοινός (koinós, “common”), + ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).

(zoology) The calcareous skeletal ectodermal tissue of a coenosarc


aegid

(zoology) Any of the isopods in the family Aegidae.


psammophilous

en-adj

psammophilous (comparative more psammophilous, superlative most psammophilous)

more psammophilous (comparative)
most psammophilous (superlative)

Psammophis, the genus of so-called "sand-snakes", does include several psammophilous species.


arribada

That this week’s arribada came early illustrates the olive ridley’s unpredictability, said Roldán Valverde, a sea turtle biologist from Southeastern Louisiana University.

2015 September 25, Nicholas St. Fleur, “Costa Rica to Shield Sea Turtles”, in New York Times:

(zoology) A mass nesting of marine turtles.


litura

(zoology) A spot growing paler at one end.


pulvillus

From Latin pulvillus (“a little cushion”).

(entomology) One of the tiny cushions or pads on the feet of certain insects.


palæologist

From palæ- + -ologist, from Ancient Greek: παλαιός (palaiós, “old”) in combination with -λογία (-logía, “explanation, oration”).

But to whatever conclusions the palæologist may come on that head, the original scientific and logical veto on that hypothesis of two or more independent evolutions of the human species must for the present hold good.

1929, John Mackinnon Robertson, “Pagan Christs”, in American Racial Origins, second edition, page 349:

(archaeology) One that researches and studies pre‐historic antiquities.


intermediae

(zoology) The middle pair of tail feathers, or middle rectrices.


sustentaculum

en-noun

sustentaculum (plural sustentacula or sustentaculums)

sustentacula (plural)
sustentaculums (plural)

From Latin sustentaculum; compare sustentate. Attested since the eighteenth century.

The ligamentum talocalcaneum mediale lies obliquely on the medial side of the joint, and consists of fibres which extend from the medial posterior tubercle of the talus to the posterior roughened border of the sustentaculum tali.

1818, Daniel John Cunningham, Cunningham's Textbook of Anatomy, page 355:

While of only moderate size, the sustentaculum is very thick and prominent; its astragalar facet is of irregularly oval shape and nearly plane.

1912, William Berryman Scott, Toxodonta (Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899), volume 6, page 171:

(anatomy, zoology) A supporting structure, a body part that supports one or more other parts.


war dance

There was a greyness in the east by the time we had completed the Navajo war dance on the front lawn.

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 20:

(anthropology) A ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory, usually by a tribe.


discrimen

discrimen (plural discrimina or discrimens)

Except for the coxal socket, the most constant landmarks of the subcoxal region are the midventral discrimen, resulting from the meeting of opposite subcoxae whose contiguous margins have been infolded posteriorly to form the sternal apophyses, and the pleural suture extending from the dorsal articulation of the coxa to the pleural wing process.

1944, Charles Duncan Michener, Comparative external morphology, phylogeny, and a classification of the bees (Hymenoptera), page 173:

Mid-ventrally the sternopleurites unite in a suture, the discrimen, whose inflection forms the very high transparent lamella of the discrimen.

1960, Fred A. Urquhart, The monarch butterfly, page 227:

In a number of forms the discrimen appears to bifurcate at its anterior end, as well seen in Odontosphex.

1998, Michael Andrew Prentice, The Comparative Morphology and Phylogeny of Apoid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), page 420:

The eusternum may be reduced to form a tiny furcasternum (= to the portion sometimes called the sternellum) or an internal cryptosternum indicated externally by a single median, longitudinal line called the discrimen.

2005, David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel, Evolution of the Insects, →ISBN, page 121:

(entomology) A visible dividing line where two structures come together.


mowyer

Numenius americanus
Numenius americanus#Translingual

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


jugum

/ˈd͡ʒuː.ɡəm/

Borrowing from Latin jugum (“a yoke, collar; a pair of anything; the summit, ridge”). Doublet of yoke and yuga.

bor

(entomology) A lobe on the forewing of some moths which interlocks with the hindwing in flight.


luticole

Certain South-east Asian snakes are luticoles and have a special side-winding gait for moving over muddy surfaces.

(biology, zoology) A creature that lives, feeds, or breeds in muddy places, or even in mud itself.


lepospondyl

(zoology) Any member of the Lepospondyli.


nidamental

From Latin nidamentum (“materials for a nest”) + -al.

uder

(zoology) Used to describe an internal organ, in some elasmobranchs and molluscs, that secretes egg cases or the gelatinous covering of eggmass.


Cushite

From Cush + -ite, coined in the 1820s. In the early 19th century, the term referred to the tan to dark-skinned people of the Horn of Africa (synonymous with Herodotus' Ethiopians) in general. The technical linguistic sense is due to Friedrich Müller (1876).

(anthropology, dated in academic contexts) A member of one of various peoples native to the Horn of Africa, generally restricted to those that speak Cushitic languages.

Kuschite

member of one of the peoples of the Horn of Africa


siphonostomatoid

(zoology) Any member of the Siphonostomatoida, an order of maxillopods.


maplet

(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Chersonesia, having map-like marking on the wings.


gonidium

(zoology) A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa.


calamistrum

Borrowed from Latin calamistrum (“a curling-iron”).

(zoology) A comb-like structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibres in the construction of their webs.


food plant

I would have eggs or larvae rushed to me here by plane from all over North America, with their foodplants [...].

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 44:

(chiefly entomology) A plant which is a source of food for a given species.


otocyst

If the otocysts were removed from these animals, they swam normally and no peculiarities were observed in their behavior.

1898, E. P. Lyon, “The Functions of the Otocyst”, in The Journal of Comparative Neurology, volume 8:

(invertebrate zoology) An organ involved in balance and orientation.


runestone

(archaeology) An ancient monument consisting of a typically raised stone with a runic inscription.


cuculid

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


Ubaid

(archaeology) A prehistoric period of Mesopotamia, circa 6500 to 3800 BCE.


primatal

en-adj

primatal (comparative more primatal, superlative most primatal)

more primatal (comparative)
most primatal (superlative)


plethodontid

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

der

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

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

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

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

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


neoprimitivism

en-noun

neoprimitivism (countable and uncountable, plural neoprimitivisms)

From neo- + primitivism, taking its name from Aleksandr Shevchenko's book Neo-primitivizm (1913).

cultural anthropology
cultural anthropology

(cultural anthropology) The loss of cultural complexity due to environmental factors and forms of social interaction.


birdlore

The Birds and Birdlore of Samoa sets out with admirable objectives: [...]

1983, Pacific islands monthly, volume 55:

In her non-technical approach to birdlore, and in her frank delight in every personal discovery of well-known scientific facts, Mrs. Baker writes nature essays much in the manner of John Burroughs, [...]

2005, Sarah R. Jackson, Texas woman of letters, Karle Wilson Baker:

(puristic) The knowledge, science, or study of birds; ornithology.


isognomonid

(zoology) Any of the family Isognomonidae (a synonym of the Pteriidae) of marine bivalve mollusks, related to the pearl oysters.


cabbage white

The name refers to the fact that many butterflies of this genus favor cabbages (among other plants) as host plants for their eggs.

Pieris brassicae
Pieris brassicae#Translingual

(entomology) Any of various largely white butterflies with dark markings in the family Pieridae, especially the species Pieris brassicae, Pieris canidia, and Pieris rapae.


siricid

(zoology) Any of the family Siricidae of horntails, certain woodwasps.


megachilid

(zoology) Any of the family Megachilidae of mostly solitary bees whose scopa is restricted to the ventral surface of the abdomen.


xiphosurid

(zoology) Any member of the order Xiphosura; a horseshoe crab.


agamid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


blens

(UK, dialectal, zoology, archaic) The common cod; codfish

(Cornwall, zoology, archaic) The bib or pout (Trisopterus, or Gadus, luscus), a common fish of the cod family, Gadidae.


superciliary

(zoology) A distinct streak of colour above the eyes, as in some birds.


bombycid

(zoology) Any of the moths of the family Bombycidae.


ziphiid

(zoology) Of, pertaining to, or being a beaked whale.


ziphiid

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


zoocytium

(zoology) The common support, often branched, of certain kinds of social infusoria.


hexacoral

(zoology) Any of the subclass Hexacorallia of water-based organisms formed of colonial polyps generally with sixfold symmetry.


zoochlorella

(zoology) One of the small green granulelike bodies found in the interior of certain stentors, hydras, and other invertebrates.


zooecium

From New Latin zōoecium, from Ancient Greek ζῷον (zôion, “animal”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).

(zoology) One of the cells or tubes which enclose the feeding zooids of Bryozoa.

zoeci

One of the cells which enclose the zooids of Bryozoa


neotenin

Moreover, as we shall see, evidence has accumulated to show that this hormone brings about suppression of adult characters by favouring the differentiation of larval characters. It has therefore been called fore preference the 'juvenile hormone'. If a Greek term is preferred it might be called 'neotenin'.

1954, F. W. Wrigglesworth, The Physiology of Insect Metamorphosis:

Neotenin, also known as the juvenile hormone, is secreted by the corpora allata.

1974, Dennis William Wood, Principles of Animal Physiology, page 318:

“Bound” neotenin should be readily “given up” to “acceptor” molecules, but the authors found evidence that it was to a considerable degree protected from attack by neotenin-specific esterases in the haemolymph; it was surmised that such proteins might play an important part in regulating the action of the hormone.

2013, R. A. Crowson, The Biology of the Coleoptera, page 201:

(entomology) A juvenile hormone, present in insects, which ensures growth of the larva while preventing metamorphosis.


turdid

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


papionine

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


papionine

(zoology) Any member of the monkey tribe Papionini.


tortricid

(zoology) Any moth of the family Tortricidae


unipennate

We applied this method to the proximal aponeurosis of the unipennate medial gastrocnemius muscle (MG) of the cat during active force production at fixed muscle length.

1998, E. J. Brill, Netherlands Journal of Zoology, volume 48, page 324:

The most distal region of the muscle was again unipennate, with fibers oriented between the posterior aponeurosis and the anterior surface of the muscle (Fig. 1D,E).

2006, Journal of Morphology, volume 267, Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, page 593:

Although only one component of the muscle fiber force is used effectively to move the tendon, the advantage of the unipennate muscle system is that an increased number of sarcomeres can be placed in parallel to increase the effective force of the muscle (figure 2.19).

2008, William Charles Whiting, Ronald F. Zernicke, Biomechanics of Musculoskeletal Injury, 2nd edition, page 44:

(medicine, anatomy, zoology) Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of a muscle, the parallel fibres of which attach to a tendon at an acute angle (as a feather that is barbed on one side).


haemorrhagia

(zoology) A former genus, Haemorrhagia, of moths belonging to the family Sesiidae, now placed in genus Hemaris in Sphingidae.


submental

(entomology, relational) Under the mentum; pertaining to the submentum.


amphidisc

(zoology) A small siliceous spicule having a denticulate wheel at each end, found in freshwater sponges.


nasicornous

From Latin nasus (“nose”) and cornu (“horn”).

(zoology, rare) Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros does.


insectology

From French insectologie; equivalent to insect + -ology. Compare Latin īnsectum and īnsecta.


naticoid

en-adj

naticoid (comparative more naticoid, superlative most naticoid)

more naticoid (comparative)
most naticoid (superlative)

(zoology) Resembling or belonging to the genus Natica of moon snails.


naticoid

(zoology) Any creature resembling or belonging to the genus Natica.


xantusiid

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


protoculture

Life in this primitive condition of nature is not, in the words of Hobbes, "nasty, brutish, and short"; it is a world of rules, a world in which physical aggression and sexuality are shaped by a protoculture.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 67:

(physical anthropology) The passing of behaviours from one generation to another among non-human primates. These cultures are very rudimentary, and do not exhibit complex cultural technology.


Jin

Cambridge University Press
Jin
Jin (Chinese surname)
Jin Prefecture (Shaanxi)
Jurchen Jin
Linfen

From the atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 金 (Jīn, literally “gold, golden”). As a surname, legendarily derived from the descendants of Shaohao who took a golden phoenix as their tribal emblem. As an area and town in Shaanxi, named for the placer deposits of gold on the Yue River. As a Jurchen empire and dynastic name, a Chinese calque of Jurchen name of the Ashi River within modern Harbin, preserved in Chinese transcription as 按出虎 (Ànchūhǔ) (Middle Chinese: ʔan-tsyhwit-xu). As a Manchu empire and dynastic name, an early continuation of the former Jurchen name prior to the 1636 proclamation of the Qing.

der

(historical, ethnography, uncommon) Synonym of Jurchen: the Tungusic people who ruled this empire.


cucullus

(zoology) A colour marking or structure on the head somewhat resembling a hood.


epibranchial

1920, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, Volumes 8-9, Royal Society of South Africa, page 92,
According to T. J. Parker, they probably represent the epibranchial region of the second branchial arch, and Beddard also refers them to the same arch.

We demonstrate that in the chick head, integration between the epibranchial placodes and the hindbrain is achieved as the neuroglial hindbrain crest cells guide the epibranchial neuronal cells inward to establish their central connections.

2001 October 19, Jo Begbie, Anthony Graham, “Integration Between the Epibranchial Placodes and the Hindbrain”, in Science, volume 294, number 5542, →DOI, pages 595–598:

(zoology, fish anatomy, embryology) Of or pertaining to a segment, below (more ventral than) the pharyngobranchial segment and above (more dorsal than) the ceratobranchial segment, on either side of a branchial arch (in a fish) or of a pharyngeal arch (in the embryo of a vertebrate).

epibranchial

pertaining to a particular segment of a branchial arch or of a pharyngeal arch


epibranchial

The fourth and fifth epibranchials of other genera have the same tendency as these clupeids and salmonids.

1969, Gunnar Bertmar, B. G. Kapoor, Robert Victor Miller, “Epibranchial Organs in Lower Teleostean Fishes-An Example of Structural Adaptation”, in William J. L. Felts, Richard J. Harrison, editors, International Review of General and Experimental Zoology, Volume 4, Academic Press, page 41:

In the place where Howes's (1985b) fig. 9 identifies epibranchial 4, our Gonorynchus specimen has both epibranchials 4 and epibranchial 5, not in contact except at their dorsal fusion and ventral articulation, as illustrated in Monad (1963, fig. 40) (epibranchial 5 identified as "cartilage semilunaire").

1996, Sarah V. Fink, William L. Fink, “Chapter 11: Interrelationships of Ostariophysan Fishes (Teleostei)”, in Melanie L.J. Stiassny, Lynne R. Parenti, G. David Johnson, editors, Interrelationships of Fishes, Academic Press, page 231:

Branchial abductors move the epibranchials apart, opening the gill slits.

2000, Stephen M. Deban, David B. Wake, “Chapter 3: Aquatic Feeding in Salamanders”, in Kurt Schwenk, editor, Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates, Academic Press, page 74:

(zoology, fish anatomy) An epibranchial cartilage or bone.


siphonapterology

/ˌsaɪfənæptəˈɹɑləd͡ʒi/

/ˌsaɪfənæptəˈɹɒləd͡ʒi/

His collections, writings and enthusiasm gave a decided impetus to twentieth-century siphonapterology and the world flea fauna is currently being covered in a superb monographic series of volumes based on his material.

1984, J. S. Fairley, An Irish Beast Book: A Natural History of Ireland's Furred Wildlife:

The scientific study of fleas and other insects of the order Siphonaptera.


epicœle

In the cerebellum the thickening takes place to such an extent that the epicœle is usually obliterated altogether.

1921, Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell, A Text‐Book of Zoology, volume II, Macmillan and Co., page 97:

(zoology) A perivisceral cavity made by an invagination of an ectoderm.


pygopodid

/ˈpaɪɡəʊˌpɒdɪd/

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


gekkonid

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

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

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


paludicole

en-adj

paludicole (comparative more paludicole, superlative most paludicole)

more paludicole (comparative)
most paludicole (superlative)

From Latin palūs (“marsh”) + -cole. Compare French paludicole.

The species are strictly paludicole[…]

1892, Elliott Coues, Key to North American birds:

(zoology) Paludicolous; inhabiting marshes.


Papuasia

(anthropology) Melanesia: New Guinea and neighboring islands to the west and east


philopatric

philopatric (comparative more philopatric, superlative most philopatric)

more philopatric (comparative)
most philopatric (superlative)

(ethology) Of or pertaining to philopatry.


pennatula

en-noun

pennatula (plural pennatulas or pennatulae)

(zoology) Any of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a feather-like form; a sea pen.


xenopid

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

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

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

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

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


dasyclad

(zoology) Any of the order Dasycladales of green algae.


receptaculitid

(zoology) A probably benthic marine calcareous dasyclad known only from fossils.


semiobscure

(zoology) Of the wings of insects: deeply tinged with brownish-grey, but semitransparent.


jelerang

(zoology, archaic) A large squirrel of Java and Southern Asia.


dermochelyid

Loss of scutes (and corresponding loss of sucli^([sic]) on the underlying shell plates) is widely regarded as a derived condition that has occurred independently in trionychids, advanced carettochelyids (Carettochelyidae), and derived sea turtles such as dermochelyids and protostegids (e.g., Meylan 1988; Hirayama and Chitoku 1996).

2012, Donald B. Brinkman, editor, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles:

(zoology) Any of the family Dermochelyidae of marine turtles.


dasyurine

en-adj

dasyurine (comparative more dasyurine, superlative most dasyurine)

more dasyurine (comparative)
most dasyurine (superlative)

(zoology) Resembling or pertaining to the dasyures.


rypophagous

From Ancient Greek ῥύπος (rhúpos, “filth”) + -phagous.

rypophagous beetles


renette

From Latin rēnes (“the kidneys, reins”) + -ette (“small”).

af

(nematology) A specialized excretory cell in some nematode worms.


larine

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


zygaenid

From translingual Zygaenidae, from Zygaena.

(zoology) Any member of the moth family Zygaenidae.


retinaculum

From Latin retināculum, from retinēre (“hold back”).

(zoology) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.

(zoology) A loop on the underside of the forewing of some moths.


palpicorn

(zoology, archaic) One of the Palpicornia, an obsolete group of aquatic beetles with short club-shaped antennae and long maxillary palpi.


lumbriciform

en-adj

lumbriciform (comparative more lumbriciform, superlative most lumbriciform)

more lumbriciform (comparative)
most lumbriciform (superlative)

(zoology) Resembling an earthworm; vermiform.


unibranchiate

Some molluscs are unibranchiate.


subocular

(zoology) One of the scales below the eyes.


arthroderm

(zoology) The external covering of an arthropod.


cyclobranchiate

(zoology) Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets do.


hornwrack

en-noun

hornwrack (countable and uncountable, plural hornwracks)

(zoology) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra, especially species Flustra foliacea.


fissilingual

en-adj

fissilingual (comparative more fissilingual, superlative most fissilingual)

more fissilingual (comparative)
most fissilingual (superlative)

From Latin fissus (p.p. of findere (“to split”)) + lingual.

fissilingual lizard


rhomboganoid

(zoology) A fish of the obsolete suborder Rhomboganoidei, roughly corresponding to the gars (Holostei).


mariput

(zoology) A species of civet; Ictonyx striatus.


pamprodactylous

(ornithology) Having forward-facing toes.


oceloid

oceloid (comparative more oceloid, superlative most oceloid)

more oceloid (comparative)
most oceloid (superlative)

oceloid cat

oceloid leopard

(zoology, archaic) Resembling the ocelot.


pluteal

pluteal arms

pluteal larvae

pluteal stage

(zoology) Of or pertaining to a pluteus.


urochordal

urochordal animal

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Urochorda.


wekau

(zoology) An extinct small New Zealand owl with short wings and long legs that lived chiefly on the ground (†Sceloglaux albifacies).


uromere

(obsolete, zoology) Any of the abdominal segments of an arthropod.


V-moth

(zoology) A common grey European moth, Macaria wauaria, with a V-shaped spot of dark brown on each forewing.


ostreaceous

/ˌɒstɹiˈeɪʃəs/

From Latin ostrea (“an oyster”). See oyster.

the crustaceous or ostreaceous body

1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:

(zoology) Of or pertaining to an oyster, or to a shell.


thickskin

(zoology) Applied to various creatures having a thick skin.


siphunculated

Cephalopods may have very various forms , and may even be chambered and siphunculated; but , in this case , the chamber nearest the mouth of the shell is small , and incapable of lodging the viscera

1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, A Manual of the anatomy of vertebrated animals:


synallaxine

From Ancient Greek συναλλάσσω (sunallássō, “bring into contact”) + -ine.

der

(zoology) Having the outer and middle toes partially united; said of certain birds related to the creepers.


urostege

(zoology) One of the plates on the underside of a snake's tail.


neuropter

(zoology) A lacewing of the order Neuroptera


phocal

they wended their way westward to fields of blood and phocal carnage

1885, Gordon Stables, Wild Adventures round the Pole:


piceous

en-adj

piceous (comparative more piceous, superlative most piceous)

more piceous (comparative)
most piceous (superlative)

From Latin piceus (“like pitch; pitch-black”) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting possession or presence of a quality). Piceus is derived from pix (“pitch, tar”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat; milk”)) + -eus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the sources of attributes). The English word is cognate with Italian piceo (“like pitch; of a dark brown colour”), Spanish piceo (“like pitch; of a dark brown colour”).

cog

piceous:

Piciroſtris. Oblong, black: ſilvery-ſilky: ſnout half way and legs piceous.

1806, Charles Linné [i.e., Carl Linnaeus], William Turton, A General System of Nature, through the Three Grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, […] In Seven Volumes, volume II (Animal Kingdom), part I (Insects), London: Printed [by Dewick & Clarke] for Lackington, Allen, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 215:

The colour of the upper part is a mixture of yellowish-white and piceous disposed in dots, exactly resembling mosaic work, [...]

1828 June 17, Thomas Bell, “VII. Description of a New Species of Agama, Brought from the Columbia River by Mr. [David] Douglass.”, in The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume XVI, London: Printed by Richard Taylor, […]; and by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […]; and William Wood, […], published 1833, →OCLC, pages 105–106:

Abdomen with shining cinereous tomentum, and with five lines of piceous spots; [...] Tibiæ piceous towards the tips; tarsi piceous.

1868 February 6, Andrew Murray, “On an Undescribed Light-giving Coleopterous Larva (Provisionally Named Astraptor illuminator)”, in The Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology, volume X, London: Sold at the [Linnean] Society [of London]’s apartments, […]; and by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, and Williams and Norgate, published 1870, →OCLC, paragraph 16, page 90:

Front and middle legs yellow, coxae black behind, femora piceous posteriorly; [...]

1940 September, R. A. Cushman, A Review of the Parasitic Wasps of the Ichneumonid Genus Exenterus Hartig (United States Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication; no. 354), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 12:

Agabus elongatus [...] Legs rufous; metafemur piceous.

1995, Anders N. Nilsson, Mogens Holmen, “Subfamily Colymbetinae”, in N. P. Kristensen, editor, The Aquatic Adephagia (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. II. Dytiscidae (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica), volume 32, Leiden, New York, N.Y.: E[vert] J[an] Leiden, →ISBN, →ISSN, paragraph 95, page 110:

From the year of its establishment, darkness seemed to have found a home in Beet College. Dark pink for the brick buildings, dark green for the doorjambs and the benches, dark iron for the hinges, dark stone for Nathaniel's Tomb; darkness in the piceous roots of trees that broke through the earth like bones through skin.

2008, Roger Rosenblatt, chapter 1, in Beet: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ecco Press, →ISBN:

Gyrophaenia uteana Casey [...] [H]ead piceous, pronotum dark rufo-testaceous to piceous; elytra reddish-brown with sutural region and posterior angles piceous, abdomen yellowish- or reddish-brown, apical portion often darker, piceous; [...]

2018, Jan Klimaszewski et al., “Tribe Homalotini Heer, 1839”, in Aleocharine Rove Beetles of Eastern Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae): A Glimpse of Megadiversity, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, paragraph 162, page 378:

(chiefly entomology) Resembling pitch in colour; a very dark brown.


godsib

Learned borrowing from Middle English godsib; doublet of gossip; see those entries for more.

lbor

The fireplace also heated water for the godsibs to wash their hands with as they were instructed by the rubric to do before leaving the church.

1920, Courtenay Frederic William Dunn, The Natural History of the Child: A Book for All Sorts and Conditions of Men, Women, and Children, page 233:

[…] the Bumgardners' maid, with Preston and Penelope in tow, was exchanging defamatory gossip with her godsib Ofelia Gomez, Luke Regan's scullion.

1965, Willard Marsh, Week with No Friday:

The Vicosino then went to his godsib and then to the Cornell Peru Project field director for confirmation of […]

1966, Henry F. Dobyns, Paul L. Doughty, Allan R. Holmberg, Cornell Peru Project, Peace Corps Program Impact in the Peruvian Andes: Final Report:

After a man's kin and godsibs, the next allegiance is to his paisanos (fellow countrymen) or […]

1968, Paul L. Doughty, Mary F. Doughty, Huaylas: An Andean District in Search of Progress, page 37:

[…] to members of their own family, intimates (especially their godsibs), and ideally the priest, who usually is too busy to accept all invitations.

1968, Earl W. Morris, Coming Down the Mountain: The Social Worlds of Mayobamba:

[…] where 34 % of testators who mentioned godchildren were homonymous with those godsibs.

2006, David Postles, Joel Thomas Rosenthal, Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales (Western Michigan Univ.)

The most important people in the baptismal party that processed from Newbold Revel to the church porch were the three people who had undertaken to support the baby's introduction into the Christian faith. […] Godsibs, as godparents were called, were chosen with care and took their responsibilities seriously. […] since a baby was almost always given the Christian name of the most important godsib, his name must provide a clue.

2007, Christina Hardyment, Malory: The Knight Who Became King Arthur's Chronicler, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 50:

Holinshed's Chronicle says: 'James Earl of Desmond being suffered and not controlled, during the government of Richard Duke of York his godsib and of Thomas Earl of Kildare his kinsman, did put upon the King's subjects […]'

2013, Edmund Curtis, A History of Medieval Ireland (Routledge Revivals): From 1086 to 1513, Routledge, →ISBN, page 306:

(chiefly historical or anthropology) One's sibling or kin via a godfamily tie: one's or one's child's godparent, or one's godchild's parent, or one's godparent's child.


longipennate

en-adj

longipennate (comparative more longipennate, superlative most longipennate)

more longipennate (comparative)
most longipennate (superlative)

Having wings that, when folded, extend past the end of the tail.


brevipen

From Latin brevis (“short”) + penna (“wing”). Compare French brévipenne.


phyllophagous

(zoology) that feeds on leaves; leaf-eating


testudinarious

testudinarious (comparative more testudinarious, superlative most testudinarious)

more testudinarious (comparative)
most testudinarious (superlative)

But the mists had not managed to suck from them their testudinarious colours.

(zoology) Resembling or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise.


phyllopodous

(zoology, of a crustacean limb) flattened and flap-like


operculiform

operculiform (comparative more operculiform, superlative most operculiform)

more operculiform (comparative)
most operculiform (superlative)

From Latin operculum (“a cover”) + -form. Compare French operculiforme.

operculiform appendage

operculiform ring

(zoology) Having the form of a lid or cover.


opercular

opercular bone

opercular cavity

opercular flap

opercular mechanism

opercular movement

opercular plate

opercular pouch

opercular series

(anatomy, botany, zoology) relating to the operculum


hogsty

From Middle English hogstye, equivalent to hog + sty.


nematognath

Formed as nemato- + -gnath after the scientific Latin Nēmatognathī.

(zoology, archaic) catfish; one of the Nematognathi, now called Siluriformes.


ambulatorial

ambulatorial (comparative more ambulatorial, superlative most ambulatorial)

more ambulatorial (comparative)
most ambulatorial (superlative)

From Latin ambulator (“walker or wanderer”) + -ial.

suffix

Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build; the feet are larger and more ambulatorial, the wings are shorter and not so thin; the birds winnow the air in a steady course unlike the buoyant dashing flight of their relatives.

1872, Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds:

(zoology) ambulatory; adapted for walking; gressorial


serratirostral

(zoology) Having a toothed bill, like that of a toucan.


operculiferous

operculiferous lobe

operculiferous body


glossinid

(zoology) Any member of the family Glossinidae, including the tsetse fly.


notothenioid

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the perciform suborder Notothenioidei, the Antarctic icefish


lyencephalous

(zoology, obsolete) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the obsolete group Lyencephala; having the corpus callosum absent or rudimentary.


nematocalyx

(zoology) A kind of cup or calicle containing nematocysts, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae.


urogastric

(zoology) Behind the stomach; said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.


velella

(zoology) Any of the genus Velella of free-floating marine protozoans in family Porpitidae.

vélelle

a free-floating marine organism similar to a small jellyfish


prosternum

(zoology) The ventral sclerite (plate) of the prothorax of an insect.


interdome

(archaeology) The open space between the inner and outer shells of a dome or cupola of masonry.


delphinoid

en-adj

delphinoid (comparative more delphinoid, superlative most delphinoid)

more delphinoid (comparative)
most delphinoid (superlative)

From Latin delphinus (“a dolphin”) + -oid.

(zoology) Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin


natatorious

natatorious legs

(zoology, obsolete, rare) Adapted for swimming; natatory


uropodal

uropodal exopod

uropodal plate

uropodal sympod


urosome

(zoology) The abdomen or postabdomen of an arthropod


malacostomous

malacostomous (comparative more malacostomous, superlative most malacostomous)

more malacostomous (comparative)
most malacostomous (superlative)

malacostomous fish

(zoology, archaic) Having soft jaws without teeth.


bicalcarate

(zoology) Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird may.


vitellogene

(zoology) A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in trematodes, turbellarians, and some other helminths.


prosobranch

(zoology) A gastropod with gills in front of the heart, formerly thought to belong to a single group, Prosobranchia.


chalybeous

chalybeous (comparative more chalybeous, superlative most chalybeous)

more chalybeous (comparative)
most chalybeous (superlative)

From Ancient Greek χάλυψ (khálups, “steel”) + -ous.

(zoology) steel blue; of the colour of tempered steel.


pedipalpous

(zoology, archaic, rare) pedipalpal (pertaining to, or resembling, the pedipalps).


ischiopodite

(zoology) The segment of a crustacean's limb that is attached to the ischium.


verriculate

verriculate (comparative more verriculate, superlative most verriculate)

more verriculate (comparative)
most verriculate (superlative)

(zoology) Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches.


didactylous

(zoology) Having only two digits; two-toed.


chylaqueous

(zoology) Consisting of chyle diluted with water; said of a liquid that forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.


heterodactylous

trogons are heterodactylous

heterodactylous legs

(zoology) Having the first and second toes turned backward


diphygenic

Of diphy- + -genic, from Ancient Greek διφυής (diphuḗs, “double”) and -γενής (-genḗs, “offspring”)

der

(zoology) Having two modes of embryonic development.


subtypical

en-adj

subtypical (comparative more subtypical, superlative most subtypical)

more subtypical (comparative)
most subtypical (superlative)

(zoology) Deviating somewhat from the type of a species, genus, or other group; slightly aberrant.


ganoine

(zoology) A glassy, often multi-layered mineralized tissue that covers the scales, cranial bones and fin rays in some fish.


endostoma

From endo- (“inside”) + Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).

af

(zoology) A plate that supports the labrum in certain crustacea.


lumbric

The next day, while at stool, the patient discharged a lumbrics followed by the expulsion of two more, during the day, without faecal discharge ; treatment continued. The third day, another lumbric was expelled; the fourth, two others, &c, in all, ten lumbrics.

1859 July, William Farell, “Santonine in Verminous Affections”, in The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 15, page 472:

(zoology, obsolete) An intestinal parasitic worm.


helianthoid

(zoology, obsolete) Of or pertaining to the Helianthoidea, an obsolete subdivision of zoophytes, certain sea anemones and similar species


steganopodous

From Ancient Greek στεγανός (steganós, “cover, roof”) + -podous.

der

(zoology, obsolete) Having all four toes webbed together (said of birds of the former suborder Steganopodes).


metagastric

metagastric area

metagastric lobe

metagastric region

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.


triarticulate

triarticulate antenna

triarticulate palpi

triarticulate tarsus


monotrematous

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Monotremata or monotremes.


monotrematous

The anatomy of the olfactory organ of Belone belone differs clearly from so-called monotrematous olfactory organs.

2005, Klaus Reutter, Fish Chemosenses, page 23:

Three-spined sticklebacks, similar to their Spinachia cousins, are monotrematous, that is, each olfactory organ has only a single naris.

2006, Sara Ostlund-Nilsson, Biology of the Three-Spined Stickleback, page 200:

(ichthyology) Of the olfactory organ of a fish, having a single opening from which water flows in and out.


neuropodium

From neuro- + -podium, due to the nerve located on the ventral side of the parapodium.

(zoology) The ventral lobe or branch of a parapodium


lophobranchiate

(zoology, obsolete) Of or pertaining to the obsolete order of fish Lophobranchii, roughly corresponding to modern-day order Syngnathiformes.


biarticulate

biarticulate antenna

biarticulate muscle

biarticulate thorax

biarticulate setae

(chiefly zoology) Having, or consisting of, two joints.


hexapodous

(zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.


osphradium

(zoology, anatomy) a sensory organ in certain molluscs, whose main function is believed to test incoming water for silt and other possible food particles.


lithophagous

The ostrich is lithophagous.

(zoology) Eating or swallowing stones or gravel.

(zoology) Eating or destroying stone, like some mollusks, sponges, annelids, and sea urchins.


hornotine

(zoology) A yearling; a bird born in the current year.


bedsite

(zoology) The spot where an animal sleeps.


echinodermal

echinodermal debris

echinodermal larva

echinodermal skeleton

(zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.


nomopelmous

From Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “division, distribution”) + πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”) + -ous.

Passerine birds are nomopelmous.

(zoology, archaic, rare) Having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux.


branchiferous

/bɹæŋˈkɪfəɹəs/

From branchia + -ferous, or directly from New Latin branchiferus.

(zoology, archaic) Having gills; branchiate.


fenestral

(archaeology) A casement or window sash closed with cloth or paper instead of glass.


tectibranch

(zoology) One of the order Tectibranchiata.


parasital

en-adj

parasital (comparative more parasital, superlative most parasital)

more parasital (comparative)
most parasital (superlative)

parasital chemicals


lophobranch

From Ancient Greek λόφος (lóphos, “crest”) and βράγχια (bránkhia, “gills”).

(zoology, obsolete) Any member of the obsolete order Lophobranchii of fishes, now roughly corresponding to order Syngnathiformes.


epicranial

From epi- + cranial, or epicranium + -al.

(entomology) Of or relating to the epicranium of an insect's head.


neuropteral

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Neuroptera.


browspot

(zoology) A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.


octopede

From octo- + -pede. Piecewise doublet of octopus.

Spiders are octopedes.


lobiped

lobiped (comparative more lobiped, superlative most lobiped)

more lobiped (comparative)
most lobiped (superlative)

Coots and grebes are lobiped.


skowitz

From the fish's name in the Nisqually subdialect of southern Lushootseed.


endophragmal

endophragmal skeleton

endophragmal system

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the endophragma.


vespertilionine

(zoology) Any bat of the family Vespertilionidae or subfamily Vespertilioninae


sinupalliate

sinupalliate (comparative more sinupalliate, superlative most sinupalliate)

more sinupalliate (comparative)
most sinupalliate (superlative)

At the same time the posterior gape of the valves would lead one to expect a sinupalliate character.

1895, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales:

(zoology) In molluscs, having an indented pallial line or sinus.


sinupalliate

But even this new conception would not furnish the clew to the law of torsion as long as the hinge line is considered (as by Jackson) one radius of the angle of torsion; with Noetling's data a comparison of the valves of Nucula with any sinupalliate pelecypod valve shows, that though in both the axis of the hinge is parallel to the oro-anal axis, a torison^([sic]) of 90° of the valve of Nucula has taken place with reference to that of the sinupalliates.

1903, The American Geologist, volume 31, page 35:

Larger suspension feeders are also very abundant, such as the endobyssate bivalve Hoernesia with shell torsion and a thick umbo used as an anchor (McGHEE, 1978), as well as the deep-burrowing sinupalliate Pleuromya.

2012, G. Einsele, Cyclic and Event Stratification, page 277:

(zoology) A mollusc with an indented pallial line or sinus.


epimeral

epimeral plate


madoqua

(zoology, obsolete) A small Abyssinian antelope, Salt's dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana)


notopodium

(zoology) The dorsal lobe or branch of a parapodium of an annelid.


paramere

(zoology) One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, such as a starfish


keratophyte

/ˈkɛɹətəʊfaɪt/

From kerato- (“horn”) + -phyte (“plant”).

(zoology) Alternative spelling of ceratophyte


fenestrule

From Latin fenestrula (“a little window”), diminutive of fenestra (“a window”).

(zoology) One of the openings in a fenestrated structure.


foveolate

foveolate (comparative more foveolate, superlative most foveolate)

more foveolate (comparative)
most foveolate (superlative)

(zoology, botany) Having small pits or depressions, like the receptacle in some composite flowers.


sarcoblast

There is nothing improbable therefore in the assumption that the entire series in their earliest condition, that is to say when the chitinoid exudation of which the test is entirely composed makes its appearance around the sarcoblast, are identical in form .

1885 November, Surgeon-Major Wallich, “Critical Observations on Prof. Leidy's "Freshwater Rhizopods of North America," and Classification of the Rhizopods in general”, in Annals & Magazine of Natural History, page 332:

(zoology) A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods, thouth to play a role in nutrient storage or in the metabolism of the cell.


lunulet

the lunulet on the wings of many insects

(zoology, archaic) A small crescent-shaped spot, found on some animals.


palmigrade

From Latin palma (“palm of the hand”) + -grade (“means of walking”).

af

palmigrade posture

palmigrade stance

palmigrade walking

(zoology) Putting the whole foot on the ground when walking, like some mammals do.


libellulid

(entomology) A dragonfly of the Libellulidae family.


caducibranchiate

From Latin caducus (“falling”) (from cadere (“to fall”)) + English branchiate.

(zoology) With temporary gills; applied to those amphibians in which the gills do not remain in adult life.


inferobranchian

(zoology, obsolete) Any of the Inferobranchiata, a former suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, now mostly classified as Armina and Phyllidia.


notobranchiate

(zoology, obsolete) Of or pertaining to the Notobranchiata, an obsolete subdivision of nudibranches having cerata on their back, roughly equivalent to suborder Cladobranchia.


amphipodous

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.


parnassian

(entomology) A papilionid butterfly of the holarctic alpine genus Parnassius or the subfamily Parnassiinae; an apollo butterfly.


parnassian

(entomology) Of, relating to, or designating papilionid butterflies of the genus Parnassius or the subfamily Parnassiinae, consisting of the apollo butterflies.


reticularian

(zoology) Any of Reticularia, a division of rhizopods.


bimuscular

Bivalve molluscs are bimuscular.


lamellibranchiate

(zoology) Having lamellar gills; relating to the lamellibranchs


intermodillion

(archaeology, dated) The space between two modillions.


galagid

(zoology) Any galago in the family Galagidae.


medusiform

en-adj

medusiform (comparative more medusiform, superlative most medusiform)

more medusiform (comparative)
most medusiform (superlative)

(zoology) Resembling a medusa in shape or structure.


autophagi

From auto- (“by oneself”) + Latin -phagus (“eater”, plural -phagī). The attested Ancient Greek αὐτοφάγος (autophágos) would have meant "self-devouring, autophagous".

(zoology, obsolete) Birds that are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as they are hatched.


interambulacral

interambulacral plate

interambulacral region

interambulacral joint

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.


tetractinellid

From translingual Tetractinellida and Tetractinellidae.

bor

(zoology) Any sponge of the order Tetractinellida or family Tetractinellidae.


wagati

(zoology) A small East Indian wild cat, Felis wagati, regarded by some as a variety of leopard.


rostelliform

en-adj

rostelliform (comparative more rostelliform, superlative most rostelliform)

more rostelliform (comparative)
most rostelliform (superlative)

(entomology) Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak.


nectostem

From necto- + Ancient Greek στέμμα (stémma, “wreath”).

af

(zoology) That portion of the axis which bears the nectocalyces in siphonophores.


monogastric

(zoology) Having a simple single-chambered stomach.


monogastric

(zoology) Any organism with a simple single-chambered stomach.


divaricator

The relative position of the adductor and divaricator impressions varies somewhat in different species of the genus, as we have already described; thus, in P. giganteus, P. longispinus, &c., the divaricators are situated immediately under and outside of the adductor, while in P. pustulosus, P. humerosus, &c., the adductor is located between the two divaricator impressions, as in the case of P. comoides.

1862, Thomas Davidson, William Herbert Dalton, A Monograph of the British Fossil Brachiopoda, page 277:

The interior of the ventral valve differs from the dorsal one by having its divaricator scars much narrower, and its occlusor impressions closer at the anterior extremity, and leaving only a very small space between them for the two little scars which Mr. Hancock thinks might belong to the anterior extremity of the dorsal adjustor.

1866, Palaeontographical Society - Volume 19, page 79:

Relaxation of the divaricator fibers and maximal contraction of the radial myofilaments, which put the medial basement membranes in tension, may cause medial bending in the hook supports and closing of the hook apparatus.

2012, Issues in Biological and Life Sciences Research, page 688:

(zoology) One of the muscles that open the shell of a brachiopod; a cardinal muscle.


rupicola

(ornithology) Any of several South American passerine birds, of the genus Rupicola, having bright plumage and a fan-shaped crest on the head.


pentacrinoid

(zoology) An immature comatula when it is still attached by a stem.


culiciform

en-adj

culiciform (comparative more culiciform, superlative most culiciform)

more culiciform (comparative)
most culiciform (superlative)

culiciform insect

culiciform mosquito


turritelloid

turritelloid (comparative more turritelloid, superlative most turritelloid)

more turritelloid (comparative)
most turritelloid (superlative)

(zoology) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the turritellas.


subimago

en-noun

subimago (plural subimagos or subimagoes or subimagines)

subimagos (plural)
subimagoes (plural)
subimagines (plural)

From sub- + imago, after German Subimago.

Subimago, Fem.—Dull piceous: antennæ black: abdomen more than twice the length of the thorax: setæ brownish testaceous, mutilated: legs dull testaceous; fore-legs brown: wings gray; veins black, not strongly marked.

1853, Francis Walker, Catalogue of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, page 538:

The subimago (a winged, but usually sexually immature stage) in the life cycle of mayflies is unique among living insect orders. The Ephemeroptera have two winged-instars, the subimago and the adult (or imago).

1996, Richard W. Merritt, An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America, page 126:

Subimagos emerge at the surface, fly to a support, molt immediately to the adult stage, live only a few hours, swarm, and mate shortly after ecdysis.

2009, James H. Thorp, Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates:

Subimagines flutter away immediately and rest at protected sites near the stream for up to 2-3 days, until the molt to the very short-lived adult occurs.

2011, Rüdiger Wagner, Central European Stream Ecosystems: The Long Term Study of the Breitenbach:

(zoology) A stage in the development of certain insects, intermediate between pupa and imago, during which the insect can fly but must shed a skin before becoming mature.


repagulum

Borrowed from Latin repagulum (“bolt, bar, restraint”).

bor

(zoology) A modified abortive egg that may be used to protect the other eggs from predation.


omostegite

From omo- (“shoulder”) + Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”) + -ite.

affix

Ancient Greek <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">στέγος</i> (stégos, “roof”)

(zoology) The part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove.