bastard strangles

From bastard (“a variation that is not genuine”) + strangles.

When horſes have either the real or baſtard ſtrangles, or are changing their foal teeth, or are putting out their upper tuſhes, ſome of them have their ſight weak and troubled, [...]

1735, “EYE of a horse”, in The Sportsman’s Dictionary: Or, The Country Gentleman’s Companion, in All Rural Recreations: […], volume I, London: Printed for C. Hitch, […], and C. Davis, […]; and S. Austin, […], →OCLC, paragraph 3:

Monſieur Solleyſell, as well as our own Countryman Mr. Markham, has accounted for the Baſtard Strangles in a very odd kind of Manner.

1742, Henry Bracken, “Of the Bastard Strangles”, in Farriery Improv’d: Or, A Compleat Treatise upon the Art of Farriery. […], London: Printed for J. Clarke […]; and J. Shuckburgh […], →OCLC, page 29:

The origin of the term strangles arises from the fact that in some cases it is associated with symptoms of choking or strangulation, and it was divided by the old writers into simple and bastard strangles; the first form being that which ran a regular course, and the second consisting in the formation of multiple or successive abscesses. [...] Irregular or bastard strangles, on the other hand, is a very grave affection, in which the connective tissue of the lymphatics of the submaxillary region, and sometimes the salivary glands, are the seat of acute suppurative inflammation, [...]

1878, William Williams, “Terminations of Inflammation—Continued”, in The Principles and Practice of Veterinary Surgery, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, New York, N.Y.: Wm. Wood & Co. […], →OCLC, page 43:

The most common complication is bastard strangles, metastatic spread of the infection to lymph nodes and organs other than the nodes of the head.

2004, Bonnie Rush, Tim Mair, “Strangles”, in Equine Respiratory Diseases, Oxford, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Science, →ISBN, section III (Contagious Respiratory Diseases), page 164:

Isolation of infected animals can prevent epidemics of strangles and is recommended for new additions to a herd or group. In some horses, purpura hemorrhagica and even bastard strangles may follow vaccination, though this is relatively rare.

2005, Will A. Hadden III, “Head and Neck”, in Cheryl Rogers, G. Jeanne Wilcox, editors, Horseman’s Veterinary Encyclopedia, revised and updated edition, Guilford, Conn.: The Lyons Press, →ISBN, page 352:

Bastard strangles, in which abscessation develops in many organs, is a serious complication in about 1% of affected animals.

2011, P[atrick] J. Quinn et al., “Streptococci”, in Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease, 2nd edition, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, section III (Pathogenic Bacteria), page 192, column 1:

upper respiratory tract
upper respiratory tract

(veterinary medicine) A form of strangles, a bacterial upper respiratory tract infection of horses potentially causing airway obstruction, that has spread to other parts of the body and caused abscesses.

мыт

form of strangles that has spread to other parts of the body


marmosine

(zoology) Any mouse opossum of the tribe Marmosini.


gonoduct

(zoology) Either of a pair of ducts, leading from a gonad to the exterior, through which gametes pass


eyeband

(ichthyology, ornithology) A vertical colored streak across the eye.


haremic

en-adj

haremic (comparative more haremic, superlative most haremic)

more haremic (comparative)
most haremic (superlative)

(zoology) Living in harems, with one male herding or controlling many females.


nematogenesis

(zoology) The formation and development of a nematogen


hypantrum

(zoology) The point on the neural arch at the anterior ends of the vertebrae of various reptiles where it articulates with the hyposphene


pterygo-

From Ancient Greek πτέρῠγος (ptérŭgos), genitive singular of πτέρῠξ (ptérŭx, “wing”).

pterygoblast, pterygobranchiate

(zootomy) Of or relating to the wing or fin.


siphono-

From the combining form of Ancient Greek σίφων (síphōn, “siphon”).

(chiefly zoology, botany) Forming compound terms pertaining to siphons or tubes.


proctophagy

(zoology) The consuming of a mother's excrement (by a young animal) when searching for a teat


paraxonic

From para- + Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”) + -ic.

af

Deer, camels and peccaries possess paraxonic feet.

(zoology) In bearing weight evenly on two parallel axes within the foot, typically the third and fourth digits.


heterocolonial

(zoology) Relating to a colony of two or more different species.


homocolonial

(zoology) Relating to a colony of a single species.


hindhead

Top of the head pale yellowish brown, variously variegated,—across the hindhead there extends a narrow reddish brown line, and another of the same tint is observed between the eyes […]

1849, Andrew Smith, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa:


deimatic

en-adj

deimatic (comparative more deimatic, superlative most deimatic)

more deimatic (comparative)
most deimatic (superlative)

These deimatic eye spots do not have the same function as those that deflect predatory attack. They give to their owner the appearance of a considerable increase in size.

1988, John L. Cloudsley-Thompson, Evolution and Adaptation of Terrestrial Arthropods, page 122:

Intermediate between the clear cases of camouflage and signaling are deimatic displays.

2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 125:

(zoology) Designed to startle or frighten a potential predator.


ink sac

The ink sac feeds into the rectum, controlled by a sphincter and in some inking events mucus from another organ, the funnel organ is ejected with water and ink through the anus and the siphon to create a cloud of ink.

2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:

(zoology) A muscular bag found in certain cephalopods used to generate ink.


phyllostomatous

From phyllo- + -stomatous. Compare translingual Phyllostomus.


large chequered skipper

en-noun

large chequered skipper (plural large chequered skippers)

(lepidopterology, entomology) A butterfly, Heteropterus morpheus, of the family Hesperiidae.


-dactyl

From French -dactyle, from Latin -dactylus, ultimately from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”).


holothurid

(zoology) Any sea cucumber in the family Holothuriidae.

(zoology) Any sea cucumber (class Holothuroidea)


rudimentation

en-noun

rudimentation (countable and uncountable, plural rudimentations)

(zoology) The process of an organ being reduced to a rudimentary form.

(zoology) The rudimentary form that results from this process.


endophallus

(zoology) The inner wall of the aedeagus of an insect, derived during embryological development by the fusion of paired genital papillae to form a medial tube. The endophallus is eversible and flexible, is the actual intromittent organ, and sometimes has backward-orientated denticulations to achieve a firm hold on the vaginal walls of the female.


TAD

TAD (countable and uncountable, plural TADs)

(countable, veterinary medicine) Initialism of transboundary animal disease.


living chamber

Although most of the animal's body is in the living chamber, it maintains a slight presence in the phragmocone to control the gas-to-fluid ratio.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 36:

(zoology) The part of a cephalopod's shell which is physically occupied by the animal's body, as opposed to those chambers that serve to provide buoyancy.


stato-

From Ancient Greek στατός (statós, “standing”).

uder

(zoology, botany) propagules or spores in aquatic organisms.


shell sac

Baby cephalopods, even octopuses, all have a shell sac, which is comparable to the mantle folds that baby clams and snails use to make their shells.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 115:

(zoology) The sac in which the shell of a mollusc is secreted during development; (now especially) the fold of mantle in which a cephalopod secretes its pen or gladius.


scyphomedusan

(zoology) Any jellyfish belonging to the Scyphomedusae.


leuconoid

‘Leuconoid’ sponges, which include barrel sponges and tube sponges, have made filter feeding into an art form thanks to a brilliant but simple natural design.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 29:

(zoology) Relating to or resembling a leucon.


stegopterous

(zoology) Keeping the wings deflexed when at rest.


fin-footed

Pinnipeds are a widely distributed clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals.

(zoology) having feet that resemble a fin, such as the feet of pinnipeds


chone

From Ancient Greek χώνη (khṓnē, “a funnel”), contracted form of Ancient Greek χοάνη (khoánē).

(zoology) An inhalant or exhalant canal in a sponge; a pore sieve.


sarcenchyme

(zoology) One of the soft tissues of sponges.


spizine

(zoology) Relative to the Spizinae, an obsolete suborder of birds within the order Passeriformes (songbirds) that bear features characteristic of finches and similar small birds with a short conical bill, in use until the turn of the XIXᵗʰ century.


discomedusan

(zoology) A jellyfish of the subclass Discomedusae.


discomedusan

(zoology) Of or relating to the subclass Discomedusae.


spiraster

(zoology) In sponges, a short curved axial rod-like spicule with thick spines.


paragastric

(zoology) Relating to the paragaster (the cavity of the sac of a sponge)


nectarivory

Lower dipteran adults are predominantly penetrative or surface fluid feeders, frequently expressed as nectarivory, which sometimes is combined with the consumption of pollen or vertebrate blood (Fig. 9.3).

2005, David K. Yeates, Brian M. Wiegmann, The Evolutionary Biology of Flies, page 239:

Thus, nectarivory as a specialized diet is rare among parrot species and occurs in only a few isolated branches of the parrot phylogeny.

2015, Catherine A. Tofy, Parrots of the Wild: A Natural History of the World's Most Captivating Birds:

(zoology) The eating of nectar, especially as a major part of the diet of a particular species of animal.


subtabulate

(zoology) Partially or indistinctly tabulated.


folivory

The Koala of Australia with its elongated cecum, and many species of primates, sloths, and the pandas are noteworthy folivores.

2007, George A. Feldhamer et al., Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology, →ISBN:

(zoology) The eating of leaves, especially as a major part of the diet of a particular species of animal, such animals being called folivores.


gorytine

(zoology) Belonging to the wasp tribe Gorytini.


saurognathism

(zoology) The peculiar arrangement of the palatal bones in the Saurognathae.


latirostrate

en-adj

latirostrate (comparative more latirostrate, superlative most latirostrate)

more latirostrate (comparative)
most latirostrate (superlative)


anteciliary

anteciliary (comparative more anteciliary, superlative most anteciliary)

more anteciliary (comparative)
most anteciliary (superlative)

(lepidopterology) Situated before the ciliary band, that is, before the band in front of the marginal fringe of the wings.


scolopaceous

From Latin scolopax (“a snipe”) + -aceous.


seminymph

(zoology, obsolete) The pupa of an insect which undergoes only partial metamorphosis.


planariform

planariform (comparative more planariform, superlative most planariform)

more planariform (comparative)
most planariform (superlative)


culminicorn

(zoology) A horny piece on a bird's beak that envelopes the culmen in some bird species, such as mollymawks.


latericorn

(zoology) One of several horny pieces on the sides of a bird's upper beak below the culminicorn.


ramicorn

(zoology) One of several horny pieces on the sides of a bird's lower beak.


sphenodont

(zoology) Any member of the order Sphenodontida


venenosalivary

(zoology) Producing venom in the saliva.


September thorn

en-noun

September thorn (plural September thorns)

(lepidopterology) The geometrid moth Ennomos erosaria.


ergatomorphic

(zoology) Having the form of a worker organism.


palatobasal

(zoology, of birds) Relating to the base of the palatal area


anthozoon

From antho- + -zoon, after class name Anthozoa.

Unlike stony corals and other anthozoa, whose polyps have sixfold symmetry, the polyps of a gorgonian have eightfold symmetry.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 134:

(zoology) A member of the class Anthozoa, comprising marine invertebrates including corals and sea anemones.


-zoon

From Latin -zoon, from Ancient Greek ζῷον (zôion, “animal”).

(zoology) Forming nouns indicating individual members of taxonomic groups whose names end in -zoa.

(zoology) Forming nouns indicating organisms have a particular specified way of life.


hyponome

From Ancient Greek ὑπονομή (huponomḗ, “underground passage”).

der

Ordinarily, it swims forward, but the hyponome can give an emergency spritz, sending the hydrodynamic cone floating backwards at speed with a powerful jet through long thin streamers of brown seaweed and clouds of scattering shrimp.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 243:

(zoology) A tubular organ of a cephalopod, used to expel water.


perissodactylate

From translingual Perissodactyla + -ate (adjective-forming suffix)

af

(zoology) Of or relating to the Perissodactyla.


orthocerid

(zoology) a cephalopod of the extinct order Orthocerida.


hexaradiate

(zoology) Having six projections that radiate from a central point


planulate

From neo-Latin planulatus from Latin plānus + -ulus + -ātus.


ithomiine

(zoology) a butterfly in the nymphalid tribe Ithomiini.


avemetatarsalian

(zoology) A member of the Avemetatarsalia clade of archosaurs which resemble birds more than crocodiles.


hyperiidean

(zoology) Any amphipod of the suborder Hyperiidea.


scytodoid

(zoology) Of or resembling spiders in the genus Scytodes or in the family Scytodidae.


scytodoid

(zoology) Any spider in the superfamily Scytodoidea


submammalian

(zoology) Describing any animal that is considered to be less advanced than a mammal


isodictyal

(zoology) Of or relating to the Isodictya, a genus of marine demosponges.


paxilla

(zoology) An ossicle in the endoderm of the aboral surface of some starfish


polyactinal

(zoology) Having many rays; relating to a polyactine


semisocial

(zoology) Partially social, typically when juvenile but not when adult


octavolateral

(zoology) octaval and lateral: Used exclusively to describe a structure in the brains of fishes, namely the medial octavolateral nucleus or the dorsal octavolateral nucleus, both analogus to the mammalian cerebellum.


aspidorhynchiform

Clipping of translingual Aspidorhynchiformes

clipping

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

(ichthyology) Any extinct fish of the order Aspidorhynchiformes


dermopterotic

(ichthyology) A dermal bone that overlays the pterotic


dermosphenotic

(ichthyology) A superficial dermal bone behind the eye comprising the sixth infraorbital or suborbital


paragaster

(zoology) The cavity of the sac of a sponge.


philometrid

(zoology) Any member of the family Philometridae of nematodes.


subobsolete

(zoology) Nearly or almost obsolete (“imperfectly developed, not very distinct”).


rostralization

(zoology) The formation and development of a rostrum (beak)


spermatodactyl

(zoology) A modified chelicera used to transfer sperm from the male to the female


cephalofoil

From cephalo- + foil in the sense of hydrofoil.

(zoology) Either of the two outward extensions of the head of a hammerhead shark.


gynosome

(zoology) A penis-like organ in female Neotrogla.


teleosaurian

(zoology) Any member of the genus Teleosaurus.


hypocercal

(zoology, of a fish tail) having the lower lobe more pronounced or larger than the upper lobe


diporpa

As noted above, the diporpa is capable of locomotion and if it should meet another diporpa, the ventral sucker of one individual grasps the dorsal papilla of the other.

2007, Graham C. Kearn, Leeches, Lice and Lampreys:

(zoology) A juvenile diplozoid that has not yet coupled with another individual.


spinigrade

From Latin spina (“thorn”) + -grade (“means of locomotion”).

af

a spinigrade echinoderm


antipronograde

(zoology) Of or pertaining to a body posture that is not parallel to the ground when an animal is moving.


sympelmous

From sym- + Ancient Greek πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”) + -ous.

der

(zoology) Of birds: having the tendons of the deep flexors of the toes blended in one before separating to proceed one to each of the four digits.


semostomous

en-adj

semostomous (comparative more semostomous, superlative most semostomous)

more semostomous (comparative)
most semostomous (superlative)

From Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma, “mark”) + -stome + -ous.


nandiniid

(zoology) Any palm civet of the family Nandiniidae


stegokrotaphic

From Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”) + Ancient Greek κρότᾰφος (krótăphos, “temple”) + -ic.

der

(herpetology) Of a caecilian: Having a skull with a closed or fused temporal region.


zygokrotaphic

From zygo- + Ancient Greek κρότᾰφος (krótăphos, “temple”) + -ic.

(herpetology) Of a caecilian: Having a skull with an open temporal region.


pulmobranchiate

(zoology) Breathing by means of lung sacs.


prosobranchiate

From the taxonomic name Prosobranchia + -ate. By surface analysis, proso- + branchiate. Compare the taxonomic name Prosobranchiata.

surf

a prosobranchiate gastropod

(zoology) Synonym of prosobranch (“having the gills anterior to the heart”).


prosobranchiate

An external shell, usually sufficiently large to contain the entire animal, is common to all the prosobranchiates.

1880, George W[ashington] Tryon, Jr., “Prosobranchiata”, in Manual of Conchology; Structural and Systematic. […], volume II (Muricinæ, Purpurinæ), Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [T]he Author, Academy of Natural Sciences, […], →OCLC, “Anatomy” section, “External Features” subsection, page 6:

Pulmonate freshwater snails are found in every type of fresh water, as one might expect, and equally predictably the prosobranchiates are found only in streams and rivers.

1974, Philip Street, “Molluscs”, in Animal Reproduction, Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, →ISBN, page 151:

The number of axons in the static nerve of prosobranchiates is usually greater than the number of receptor cells.

1982, Yakov A[bramovich] Vinnikov, translated by Nicholas Bobrov, “Receptor Cells of the Gravity Organ of Invertebrates”, in Evolution of Receptor Cells: Cytological, Membranous and Molecular Levels (Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Biophysics; 34), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Mechanoreceptor Cells), page 93:

(zoology, uncommon) Synonym of prosobranch (“a gastropod with gills anterior to the heart”).


umbraculate

the umbraculate face of some of the Orthoptera

(zoology) Nearly covered by a projecting process.


pubigerous

en-adj

pubigerous (comparative more pubigerous, superlative most pubigerous)

more pubigerous (comparative)
most pubigerous (superlative)


eutroglophile

(zoology) Any epigean organism that is able to live its entire life in a cave.


vitellocyte

(cytology, zoology) A cell of the vitellarium


bottle jaw

en-noun

bottle jaw (countable and uncountable, plural bottle jaws)

bottle jaws (plural)
bottlejaw (alternative)

(veterinary medicine) sub-mandibular edema resulting from anemia usually caused by intestinal parasites.


penniferous

From Latin penna (“feather”) + -i- + -ferous.


lateral scale

(ichthyology) One of the scales along the midside that spans from the rear edge of the gill cover to the base of the caudal fin of a fish, usually along a lateral line.


tetradecapodous

a tetradecapodous crustacean


tetradecapod

(zoology) Any organism with fourteen feet.


scolytoid

(zoology) Resembling or characteristic of the bark-beetle genus Scolytus.


scolytoid

When suitable conditions for the cultivation of ambrosial fungi appear, the better-known 'pin-hole' borers (scolytoids) tunnel the wood.

1961, Arthur Ramon Penfold, J. L. Willis, The Eucalypts: Botany, Cultivation, Chemistry, and Utilization, page 166:

(zoology) A beetle of the bark-beetle genus Scolytus.


dendrodont

(zoology) Having teeth of a dendritic form.


dendrodont

(zoology, obsolete) A fish of the extinct fossil genus Dendrodus, having dendritic teeth.


respawner

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

(zoology) An organism that spawns again.


ornithopodous

(zoology) Having feet like those of a bird.

an ornithopodous dinosaur

(zoology) Belonging to the taxonomic clade of Ornithopoda.


discophorous

(zoology) Having a gelatinous bell or disk.


fringillaceous

From Latin fringilla (“finch”) + -aceous.

(zoology) Relating to the finches or Fringillidae.


fringilliform

From Latin fringilla (“finch”) + -iform.

(zoology) Resembling or relating to the finches.


grass staggers

(veterinary medicine) Synonym of grass tetany.


nonrutting

a nonrutting season

(zoology) Not involving or performing rutting (sexual activity).


scombriform

Back-formation from translingual Scombriformes

back-formation

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

(zoology) Any fish of the order Scombriformes


acleioproctic

a- + Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “collarbone”) + πρωκτός (prōktós, “anus”) (see procto-).

der

(zoology) Having the anus located dorsally.


basiflagellum

Antennae of first instar larvae comprised a smooth four-segmented basiflagellum and a seven-segmented, sensilla-rich distiflagellum. Lengthening of the basiflagellum was achieved by the addition of two annuli per moult, generated by division of the basal annulus (meriston).

2009 March, Dorit Hockman, Mike D. Picker, Klaus-Dieter Klass, Leonie Pretorius, “Postembryonic development of the unique antenna of Mantophasmatodea (Insecta)”, in Arthropod Structure & Development, volume 38, number 2, →DOI, page 125:

Morphologically, the antennae (Figs. 2, 3) (the average length, n = 4 for both species) in L. occidentalis are shorter (12.22 mm) in comparison to L. zonatus (15.67 mm). In L. occidentalis (Fig. 3a,c,e,g), the length of the particular segments is approximately: scape (2.61 mm), pedicel (3.86 mm), basiflagellum (2.60 mm), distiflagellum (3.14 mm).

2023 January 12, Artur Taszakowski, Adrian Masłowski, Kent M. Daane, Jolanta Brożek, “Closer view of antennal sensory organs of two Leptoglossus species (Insecta, Hemiptera, Coreidae)”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, →DOI, article 617, page 4:

(zoology) The portion of an insect's antenna that lies between the pedicel and the distiflagellum; the first segment of the flagellum.


planuloid

en-adj

planuloid (comparative more planuloid, superlative most planuloid)

more planuloid (comparative)
most planuloid (superlative)


planuliform

planuliform (comparative more planuliform, superlative most planuliform)

more planuliform (comparative)
most planuliform (superlative)


microzooid

(zoology) A very minute free-swimming zooid that buries itself in the body of a sedentary animalcule.


yinpterochiropteran

(zoology) Any bat of the suborder Yinpterochiroptera


oecium

From Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).

(zoology) The household common to the individuals of a compound organism.


scutation

en-noun

scutation (countable and uncountable, plural scutations)

The morphology of dermal scutation in callichthyids is quite different from that in loricariids, with two rather than three more series of overlapping plates along the body, suggesting that the types of scutation in callichthyids and loricariids are non-homologous.

1957, Contributions in Science - Issues 393-403, page 25:

There has been a great deal of stability in scutation of the carapace during chelonian evolution (Zangerl and Johnson, 1957).

1989, Charles Wax Caillouet, André M. Landry, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Biology, Conservation, and Management, page 202:

The dorsal scutations and configurations of the cephalic plates are also different in the two species.

1991, Mary E. Petersen, J. B. Kirkegaard, Systematics, Biology and Morphology of World Polychaeta:

With regard to the comparative anatomy of the bones of the skull, and the pattern of the scutation of the upper surface of the cranium, I regret that the state of the specimen in Professor Bell's collection does not permit the deduction of other distinctive characters which such parts of the cranial organization so satisfactorily afford.

2011, Richard Owen, Thomas Bell, Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the London Clay, →ISBN, page 28:

(zoology) The number and arrangement of scutes.


elytrae

(zoology) Scales found on the back of annelids or beetles.


sturnoid

The cross in Sydney's case is quite clearly one between the veritable Great Auk and the Mynah, which as you all know is one of several sturnoid passerine birds of India.

1968, Hugh MacDiarmid, The uncanny Scot: a selection of prose, page 164:


arietiform

/ˌɛəɹiˈɛtɪfɔːm/

/ˌɛɹiˈɛtɪfɔɹm/

From Latin arietis (the genitive singular of ariēs (“a ram”)) + English -form (suffix meaning ‘having the shape or form of’). Ariēs is derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁r-i-(e)t- (“a certain domestic animal”).

ref

From Robert Ridgway (1886) A Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists, and Compendium of Useful Knowledge for Ornithologists, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, figure XV.

der

The arietiform marks become broader and more prominent.

The great mass of the strata in question clearly belongs to the "Lima-beds or Zone of Ammonites Bucklandi." This is proved by the remarkable abundance of Gryphœa arcuata of the typical form, and by the numerous and fine examples of Lima gigantea which occur—and especially by the presence of such characteristic arietiform Ammonites as A. Bucklandi, Sow., A. Conybeari, Sow., A. Kridion, Hehl, and many others.

1878 January 23, John W[esley] Judd, “39. The Secondary Rocks of Scotland. Third Paper. The Strata of the Western Coast and Islands.”, in The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume XXXIV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer […], →ISSN, →OCLC, section V (Description of the Secondary Strata and Associated Formations in the Western Highlands), page 702:

The species is S[chlegelia] wilsoni, better known as Paradisea or Diphyllodes wilsoni, of Waigiou and Batanta. The male is 7¼ inches long, the tail 2, with its middle pair of feathers as long again, twice crossed and then curled in arietiform figure.

1890–1891, “Schlegelia”, in William Dwight Whitney, editor, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 5391, column 3:

The writer is of the opinion that this grouping is in great need of revision, in the following respects: Halilucites comprises the arietiform Hungarites of the Bosnian Muschelkalk and is either a synonym or subgenus of Eutomoceras Hyatt, for the type species of Hungarites Mojsisovies is one of the arietiform group and closely allied with Eutomoceras laubei Meek, the type of Eutomoceras.

1914, James Perrin Smith, “Systematic Descriptions”, in The Middle Triassic Marine Invertebrate Faunas of North America (United States Geological Survey Professional Paper; 83), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 75:

Discotropites mojsvarensis Smith, […] The form and ornamentation are decidedly arietiform and bear some resemblance to the arietiform Eutomoceras (Halilucites) of the Middle Triassic but differ in the spiral lines, long body chamber, and digitate septa.

1927, James Perrin Smith, “Systematic Descriptions”, in Upper Triassic Marine Invertebrate Faunas of North America (U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper; 141), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 42, column 2:

As compared with D[ipodomys] a[gilis] agilis, D. a. fuscus [a subspecies of kangaroo rat] differs as follows: Dorsal color darker; yellow-orange of sides paler, arietiform facial markings heavier, and black rather than brownish; […]

1943 September 16, Jean T[hresher] Boulware, “Dipodomys agilis fuscus, New Subspecies”, in J. F. Daniel, E. R. Hall, Harold Kirby, S. F. Light, editors, Two New Subspecies of Kangaroo Rats (Genus Dipodomys) From Southern California (University of California Publications in Zoölogy; volume 46, number 7), Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press; London: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 394:

(zoology) Having the shape of a ram's head or of the astrological symbol of Aries, ⟨♈⟩.


hair pencil

(zoology) A pheromone signalling structure found in lepidopteran males.


supracleithrum

(ichthyology, zoology) A bone of the pectoral girdle situated dorsal to the cleithrum


abligation

en-noun

abligation (countable and uncountable, plural abligations)

Cecal abligation as a method of control should be mentioned, although the author is not of the opinion that it is a practical and general method which can be adopted for the control of blackhead.

1940, Leland D. Bushnell, Poultry Practice, page 123:

(veterinary medicine, dated) The suturing or tying up of a body part.


perennibranch

(zoology) Any perennibranchiate organism.


anectic

Anectic forms are the deep burrowing species, producing channels to a depth of 1 metre or more.[…]Digging is less satisfactory for the anectic species, as the approaching disturbance causes them to retreat into the deep burrow system.

1973, Edward Russell, edited by Alan Wild, Russell's soil conditions and plant growth, 11th edition, page 510:


podapolipid

(zoology) Any member of the Podapolipidae.


limacoid

(zoology) A slug of the family Limacidae.


tephritoid

(zoology) Any fly of the superfamily Tephritoidea.


autogrooming

(zoology) The grooming of an animal by itself.


collocyte

From Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) + -cyte.

(botany, zoology) Any of various cells that produce gluey substances, that bind or capture prey or objects by securing them with gluey materials and structures, or that simply have a smooth and gelatinous appearance.


paleoprimatology

(zoology) The study of ancient (typically extinct) primates.


subprimate

(zoology) Any mammal that is not a primate


zombie deer disease

chronic wasting disease
chronic wasting disease#English

(veterinary, pathology, slang) Synonym of chronic wasting disease (“CWD”).


rhombogen

(zoology) The infusoriform embryo of a nematoid worm.


index digit

(zootomy) In other animals that digit corresponding to the human index finger.


rhagon

New Latin, from ῥᾱγ-, stem of Ancient Greek ῥάξ (rháx, “grape, berry”)

bor

(zoology) A form of sponge with clustered spherical flagellated endodermal chambers.


moon eye

(veterinary medicine) A kind of diseased eye in horses.


sclerocarpy

(zoology) The condition of being sclerocarpic


saturniine

(zoology) Any member of the Saturniinae subfamily of moths.


melolonthine

(zoology) Belonging to the Melolonthinae, a subfamily of scarab beetles.


ruteline

(zoology) Belonging to the Rutelinae, a subfamily of scarab beetles.


Hunter's organ

(zoology) One of the three pairs of abdominal organs that produce electricity in the electric eel, the other two being the main organ and Sach's organ.


Sach's organ

(zoology) One of the three pairs of abdominal organs that produce electricity in the electric eel, the other two being the main organ and Hunter's organ.


alloscutum

From Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) and from Latin scūtum (“shield”).

Powerful muscle groups are also present in the alloscutum of the female, nymphal, and larval Ixodid ticks, through which the tick is able to redistribute the centre of gravity and regain an upright position when it falls into an upside-down position.

2008, Heinz Mehlhorn, Encyclopedia of Parasitology, →ISBN:

(zoology) the flexible part of the dorsal body wall behind the rigid scutum in a hard tick, particularly a female — the alloscutum is the part of the body wall that must stretch to accommodate the blood that the tick swallows when it engorges in preparation for laying eggs.


sylviine

(zoology) Relating to the Sylviinae, a group of warblers.


semioviparous

(zoology, obsolete) Imperfectly viviparous; giving birth to immature young that finish developing outside the mother's body.


antiopelmous

From Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antíos, “opposed”) + πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”) + -ous.

der

(zoology) Of birds: having a zygodactylous foot with one tendon to flex the third toe and another, trifurcate tendon to flex the first, second and fourth toes.


protozoea

(zoology) A group of larval stages in the growth of decapods in which the antennae are used for movement, and mandibles for chewing.


mysis

Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek μῡ́ειν (mū́ein, “to close”, used of the lips or eyes).

(zoology) A set of growth stages in the larvae of Decapoda after protozoea and prior to the juvenile stage, in which pereiopods are used to move.


pachyodont

The pachyodont arrangement is characteristic of the Chamidae, the jewel boxes.

(zoology) Having hinge teeth with large obscure tubercules with corresponding pits on the opposite valve.


pachyodont

(zoology) An organism with teeth of this kind.


bridgeline

bridgelines (plural)
bridge line (alternative)

(zoology) A tough strand forming the basis of certain spiders' webs.


hand-footed

(zoology) Having feet that resemble hands.


mouthbreeder

The parents of certain African and Asian fishes show a sacrificial devotion to their young that must surely surpass the devotion of any other members of the animal kingdom. The mother or father mouthbreeder carries the eggs and babies around in his or her mouth.

1968, Alan Mark Fletcher, “The Mouthbreeder”, in Unusual Aquarium Fishes, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →OCLC, page 83:


round-mouthed

(zoology) Having a mouth without any lower jaw.


FIP

feline infectious peritonitis
feline infectious peritonitis#English

(uncountable, veterinary medicine) Acronym of feline infectious peritonitis.


isotoxin

(zoology) A toxin from an animal that is toxic to others of the same species.


biandry

Probably borrowed from German Biandrie or French biandrie. Equivalent to bi- + -andry.

(zoology) The state of having two male partners.


pachypod

In size and form of the bones this metapodium suggests comparison with the pachypod mammals, and most conspicuously, by the presence of five digits, with the elephant, in which the metapodial bones are equally large.

1871, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, volume 8, page 313:

(zoology, sometimes attributive) Any of a group of animals with thick feet.


pachydactylous

en-adj

pachydactylous (comparative more pachydactylous, superlative most pachydactylous)

more pachydactylous (comparative)
most pachydactylous (superlative)


gastraeum

(zoology) The whole undersurface of an animal.


supraperipheral

2015 April 29, Lysiloma, “Zonation Within the solidus Subspecies”, in The Liguus Discussion Board:

(zoology) In a gastropod shell the region just above the maximum width of the whorl.


subperipheral

(zoology) In a gastropod shell, denoting the region just below the maximum width of the whorl.


subchanneled

(radio, electronics, zoology) Divided into subchannels.


fetotomy

en-noun

fetotomy (countable and uncountable, plural fetotomies)

(veterinary medicine) The dissection of a dead unborn calf as an alternative to Caesarean section.


gravel nest

(zoology, ichthyology) A shallow depression made in the gravel bed of a water body in which fish lay eggs.


preflexion

(zoology) Before the flexion stage of larval development


migratory restlessness

(ornithology, zoology) Anxious behaviour in migratory animals, especially in birds, experienced at the beginning of the normal migration period; zugunruhe.


pupillate

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

[…] the anterior segments being dilated and having a large pupillate spot on either side representing the eye of the snake.

[…] pupillate gray rings.

1971, The Moths of America North of Mexico, Including Greenland, page 129:

(zoology) Having a central spot of another color, like the pupil of the human eye.


reverse shell

(zoology) A univalve shell whose volutions run in the opposite direction to that of a standard screw thread.


hemiclitoris

hemiclitoris (plural hemiclitorises or hemiclitorides)

hemiclitorises (plural)
hemiclitorides (plural)

(anatomy, zoology) An erectile organ in female snakes and lizards, in the latter of which it is eversible.


midband

(zoology) A band or stripe across the middle of part of an organism.


lysiosquilloid

Members of the family share with lysiosquilloids the subquadrate, distally ribbed propodi of maxillipeds 3-4, but differ in bearing a distinct median carina on the telson.

2002, A.. Wells, W. W. K. Houston, Crustacea: Malacostraca : Phyllocardia, Hoplocardia, Eucarida:

The lysiosquilloid Pullosquilla litoralis was previously reported to inhabit only tropical waters less than 2 m deep […]

2003, The Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 206, number 1, page 378:

Ahyong (1997) hypothesized that the long ischium of lysiosquilloid stomatopods increased the reach of their raptorial appendages, implying that this allowed these stomatopods a greater striking distance […]

2012, Les Watling, Martin Thiel, Functional Morphology and Diversity, page 278:

(zoology) Any mantis shrimp in the superfamily Lysiosquilloidea


tonic immobility

(zoology) A behaviour in which an animal appears to be temporarily paralysed and unresponsive to external stimuli, for example in response to the threat of a predator.


molosser

Derived from Molossia, an area of ancient Epirus, where the large shepherd dog was known as a Molossus

(zoology) A dog of various large, solidly-built breeds, typically having heavy bones, pendant ears, and a relatively short and well-muscled neck with a short, broad muzzle.


frontal point

(zoology) Either of two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds.


myostracum

At this place in the myostracum the smaller, second-order prisms […] range from two to 15 microns in diameter.

1964, Shell Structure and Muscle Scars of Cap-shaped Archaeogastropods:

In contrast to the muscle scars, the growth tracks of which are marked by a radial stretch of myostracum, the growth track of the pallial line is the boundary surface between two shell layers.

2014, Adolf Seilacher, Alan D. Gishlick, Morphodynamics, page 68:

(zoology) Part of shell wall secreted at attachment of adductor muscles.


discohexact

(zoology) A hexact with axes enlarged at the extremity.


hexaster

(zoology) A hexact with axes that branch into rays at the extremity.


transtilla

The small lobe of the transtillae distinguishes the species from its preceding congeners; the narrow vinculum is also a special feature.

1973, L. A. Gozmány, L. Vári, The Tineidae of the Ethiopian Region, page 131:

The male transtilla and valva are truncated, and the transtilla is as long as the valva (Fig. 71).

1992, James A. Scott, The Butterflies of North America, page 352:

One type is the separated transtilla covered with spines.

2000, Bulletin of Natural History, number 4, page 49:

(zoology) A band of connective tissue between and at the base of the valva of some insects.


actinogonidial

(zoology) Having radiately arranged genital organs.


species barrier

species barrier (plural species barriers)

The people had died because they ate meat from infected cows. A species barrier had crumbled.

2003 June 3, Sandra Blakeslee, “Mad Cows, Sane Cats: Making Sense of the 'Species Barrier'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The species barrier often is not an absolute barrier and refers to the difficulties in the transfer from one species to the next.

2004, W. Michael Scheld et al., editors, Infections of the Central Nervous System, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 261:

(pathology, zoology) The inability of a disease to be transmitted from one species to a different one.


axanthic

(herpetology) Coloured without normal yellow or red pigments, resulting in shades of grey.


sedimentator

In addition, by analogy with shallow-water suspension-feeders of corresponding groups, filtering sponges and bivalve molluscs (Limopsidae and Mytilidae) and sedimentors such as serpulomorph polychaetes, Bryozoa and most likely crinoids can be included among triptonovores.

1997, The Biogeography of the Oceans, page 468:

The survivors in hypertrophic lakes thus mostly consist of hig-efficiency bacteria feeders and of raptors, which also seems to be in accordances with Patalas (1954), (Pejler (1965) and Andersson et al. (1975). This can be achieved partly by a change in species composition, partly by changing proportions in the diet, implying that a greater fraction will consist of bacteria for the sedimentators and microfiltrators.

2012, Birger Pejiler, “Zooplanktic indicators of trophy and their food”, in C. Forsberg, J.A. Johansson, editors, Forest Water Ecosystems:

Excessive growth of blue-green algae inhibits the development of most sedimentators by eliminating most of the small algae which are the basic food of the phytophagous sedimentators (Edmondson, 1965; Pourriot, 1965; Dumont, 1977).

2012, Henri J. Dumont, J. Green, Rotatoria, page 61:

(zoology) An organism that feeds on bacteria or small algae that are found in sediments.


megatheropod

Juvenile T. rexes were light and agile before they leveled up into the adults we’re more familiar with. […] Other megatheropods, including abelisaurs and tarbosaurs, also grew from turkey-like hatchlings to bus-sized behemoths over the course of their lives.

2021 February 25, Cara Giaimo, “The Outsized Influence of Teen T. Rex and Other Young Dinosaurs”, in The New York Times:

(zoology) Any theropod dinosaur that exceeds 3000 kilograms in weight, and 9 meters in length.


orbitohyoideus

(zoology, anatomy) A large, tapering muscle, in some frogs, associated with the ceratohyal


gonodactyloid

The posterolateral margins are usually broadly rounded, but in Harpiosquillidae Manning, 1980, the posterolateral margins are deeply excavate, and in several gonodactyloids, the posterolateral margin is squared.

2000, Australian Journal of Zoology, volume 48, page 610:

It is possible that in the coral-dwelling gonodactyloids the accumulation of muscle tension and sudden release of the pendulum-like 'hammer' would impose too much stress on the muscles and skeleton of the appendage if animals were larger […]

2017, Robert H. Gore, Crustacean Biogeography:

(zoology) Any mantis shrimp in the superfamily Gonodactyloidea


squilloid

Squilloids, eurysquilloids, parasquilloids and lysiosquilloids burrow in soft, level substrates.

2004, Gary C. B. Poore, Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia:

In other groups, the midband ommatidial facets are hexagonal, but vary in number from two or six (usually six) in lysiosquilloids and eurysquilloids, always two in squilloids, and two or three (usually two) in parasquilloids; […]

2013, Carel von Vaupel Klein, Mireille Charmantier-Daures, Treatise on Zoology:

(zoology) A member of that taxonomic family Squillidae.


parasquilloid

(zoology) A mantis shrimp in the superfamily Parasquilloidea.


eurysquilloid

(zoology) A mantis shrimp in the superfamily Eurysquilloidea


bathysquilloid

Clipping of translingual Bathysquilloidea

clipping

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

Among the synapomorphies of the bathysquilloids is the elaborate ornamentation of the female gonopore, described in detail by Bruce (1988). This gonopore ornamentation is unique to the bathysquilloids, […]

2000, Australian Journal of Zoology, volume 48, numbers 4-6, page 625:

The tergite of the thoracic somites is smooth in most stomatopods, but is variously carinate in squilloids, bathysquilloids, parasquilloids and eurysquilloids.

(zoology) A mantis shrimp in the superfamily Bathysquilloidea.


lycosoid

(zoology) Any spider in the superfamily Lycosoidea or similar taxonomic group.


brood cocoon

(biology, arachnology) A cocoon-like structure made of web in which a female spider lays her eggs.


track and bowl system

en-noun

track and bowl system (plural track and bowl systems)

(zoology) A saucer-shaped depression surrounded by tracks, dug by the male kakapo to enhance its booming mating call.


semicaptivity

(zoology) The condition of being kept partially in captivity.


cryptozoic

(zoology) Living in a cavity or small cave.


lirula

From Latin lirula, from lira (“ridge of soil between furrows”) + -ulus (“diminutive suffix”).

(zoology) A tooth in the opercula of some bryozoans.


megalodontesid

(zoology) Any of the wood wasps in the family Megalodontesidae

megalodontid

technically invalid name in use before the family was renamed in 1996


ferret-badger

(zoology) Any of several small mustelid omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.


deuteroconch

deuteroconch (plural deuteroconches or deuteroconchs)

deuteroconches (plural)
deuteroconchs (plural)

A microspheric nucleoconch does not have an obvious deuteroconch, and is followed by a spiral nepionic stage, no matter what the adult chamber arrangement may be.

1954, Alan Hilder Smout, Lower Tertiary Foraminifera of the Qatar Peninsula, British Museum (Natural History), page 25:

(zoology) The second chamber of ammonites and other cephalopods


telogonic

From Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “degree of completion, end; telo-”) + Ancient Greek γόνος (gónos, “offspring; seed, genitals”) + -ic.

af

degree of completion, end; <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">telo-</i>

(zoology) Referring to nematodes in which new germ cells originate only at the distal end of the gonad.


hologonic

/ˌhɒl.əʊˈɡɒn.ɪk/

From Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole, entire; holo-”) + Ancient Greek γόνος (gónos, “offspring; seed, genitals”) + -ic.

whole, entire; <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">holo-</i>

(zoology) Referring to nematodes in which the germinal area extends the whole length of the gonad.


feline infectious peritonitis

en-noun

feline infectious peritonitis (uncountable)

(veterinary medicine) An uncommon but usually fatal cat disease caused by an aberrant immune response to infection with feline coronavirus (FCoV).


Adlet

(cryptozoology, mythology) Alternative letter-case form of adlet (“half-human, half-dog cryptid”).


schizodactylous

(zoology) Having some toes facing forward and some facing backwards


resilium

(zoology) An internal ligament that holds together the two valves of certain bivalve mollusks.


resilifer

(zoology) A recess or a process for the attachment of the resilium.


schizodont

The schizodont arrangement is found in most unionids.

(zoology) Having reverse V-shaped scissurate hinge teeth, and often an elongated lateral tooth.


schizodont

(zoology) An organism having hinge teeth of this kind.


jewel box

(zoology) Any of the Chamidae, a family of bivalves.


anodont

(zoology) Having a strong ligament, or a series of transverse ligamental grooves, instead of true hinge teeth.


protandrogonous

Probably from prot- + andro- + Ancient Greek γονή (gonḗ, “offspring; genitals”) + -ous, from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first, earliest”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man, male”).

af

protoandrogonous (alternative)
proto-androgonous (alternative)

Strongyloides stercoralis
Strongyloides stercoralis#Translingual

(nematology) Referring to female forms of certain nematodes (Strongyloides stercoralis), in which male reproductive organs develop and disappear before female reproductive organs develop.


procrusculum

From pro- (“before”) + Latin crusculum (“small leg or shank”), from diminutive of crūs (“leg, shank, shin”).

(zoology) The ambulatory buds of rediae.


pseudotympanum

(zoology) A translucent, triangular area behind the opercle of some fish (supposed to function in hearing).


theromorph

This functional configuration is as different from that of monkeys as the monkeys' is from that of the theromorphs. Monkeys share with certain theromorphs the possibility of having a free hand when seated […]

1993, André Leroi-Gourhan, Gesture and Speech, page 61:

(zoology) Any member of the Theromorpha.


vagrate

en-verb

vagrate (third-person singular simple present vagrates, present participle vagrating, simple past and past participle vagrated)

vagrates (present singular third-person)
vagrating (participle present)
vagrated (participle past)
vagrated (past)

There is scarcely any doubt, however, that a few do breed in the Carn districts, and that they vagrate out to surrounding hills.

1895, John Alexander Harvie-Brown, Thomas E. Buckley, A Fauna of the Moray Basin - Volume 2, page 156:

A moth that is possessed by the instinct to migrate (which is the wrong word; moths do not "migrate" as the zoologist knows migration; they "vagrate"), soars almost as soon as its wings are dry; the very first flight that it makes is the flight that carries it across the sea.

1940, The Entomologist; Volumes 73-75, page 205:

The neonate larvae appear from mid-June to early July and vagrate to the leaves, where they settle, preferably on the lower side.

1953, İstanbul Üniversitesi Fen Fakültesi Mecmuası:

Most western vagrants involve species that frequently vagrate to the East; the only exceptions are all from the Southwest: Broad-billed Hummingbird, Tropical/ Couch's Kingbird, and Cassin's Sparrow (DeSante & Pyle, 1986).

2006, Laurence Charles Binford, Birds of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, page 220:

(zoology) To wander randomly before settling in a new place to live.


subjective synonym

en-noun

subjective synonym (plural subjective synonyms)

(zoology, taxonomy) A synonym in which the names that are being synonymized have different types, based to some extent on the opinion of the writer.


objective synonym

objective synonym (plural objective synonyms)

(zoology, taxonomy) A synonym that shares the same type with the another name.


MSSC

Groups of species usually share some diagnostic MSSC, hypopygial form, body habitus, colouration and/or habitat preferences.

1994 December 23, Daniel J. Bickel, “The Australian Sciapodinae”, in Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement, →DOI, page 16:

(zoology) Initialism of male secondary sexual character.


vestibular system

vestibular system (plural vestibular systems)

(zoology, anatomy) The sensory system of vertebrates that provides the brain with information about motion, head position, spatial orientation, and sense of balance.


dymantic

en-adj

dymantic (comparative more dymantic, superlative most dymantic)

more dymantic (comparative)
most dymantic (superlative)


synecthran

From syn- (compare symbiosis) + Ancient Greek ἐχθρός (ekhthrós) + -an.

(zoology) An organism that lives in the home of another organism in order to exploit it, and is treated with hostility or indifference.


premental

(anatomy, zoology) In front of the mentum.


toothcombed

(zoology) Having a toothcomb (“a comb-like dental structure found in certain primates”).


flammulation

en-noun

flammulation (countable and uncountable, plural flammulations)


non-breeding

(zoology) Occurring outside of the breeding season; relating to any time of the year in which breeding does not take place.


lankesterellid

(zoology) Any member of the Lankesterellidae.


pithecology

From Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos, “ape”) + -ology.

(zoology, rare) The scientific study of apes.


coeloid

(zoology) A member of the Coleoidea subclass which includes octopuses and squid.


forcepstail

(zoology) A member of Diplura (two-pronged bristletails) in the families Evalljapygidae, Parajapygidae, and especially Japygidae.

(zoology) A member of dragonflies in the genera Phyllocycla (lesser forcepstails) and Aphylla (greater forcepgenus|stails).


doubletime

Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila melanogaster#Translingual

(zoology, molecular biology) A gene in Drosophila melanogaster that produces the DBT protein kinase, used to control circadian rhythm.

dbtS a mutant allele that shortens the circadian rhythm

dbtL a mutant allele that lengthens the circadian rhythm

dbtP a mutant allele that eliminates the circadian rhythm and kills the larva


etheostomine

(zoology) Belonging to the fish genus Etheostoma.


pennatulaceous

(zoology) Belonging to the Pennatulacea.


mucocyst

(zoology) A cyst, in some protozoans, that discharges mucoid material


beiging

(zoology) The process of becoming beige or brown for fat cells.


active photolocation

(ichthyology) The use of light originating from the organism to illuminate the visual field in order to see into the field of vision.


photolocation

photolocation (countable and uncountable, plural photolocations)

(ichthyology) The ability to use light to locate objects in the environment.


macrostomy

(zoology) The condition (of some snakes) of having a very large mouth (by dislocation of the jaw)


apotomized

(zoology) divided by, or cut at an apotome


notopodal

(zoology) Belonging to the Notopoda, a division of decapods including the dromioid crabs.


pholidote

(zoology) A member of the Pholidota; a pangolin.


thiobutabarbital

From thio- (“containing sulfur”) + secbutabarbital.

af

(pharmacology, veterinary medicine) A short-acting barbiturate derivative (trademark Inactin) which has sedative, anticonvulsant and hypnotic effects and is used in veterinary medicine for induction in surgical anesthesia.


trochanterofemoral

(zoology) Relating to the trochanter and femur of some arthropods.


kleptogyny

From klepto- (“theft”) + -gyny (“women”).

(zoology) A mating strategy in which a male copulates with a female in a harem while the owner of the harem is not paying attention.


nebbing

(zoology) The act of a pair of birds of touching or rubbing each other's bills.


ectaxonic

From ecto- + Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”) + -ic.

(anatomy, zoology) Having the outer digits more strongly developed than the inner ones


propubic

(zoology) Having a pubic shaft that is directed forward


aciculum

From Latin [Term?]. Compare English acicula.

(botany, zoology) A needlelike spine or bristle, specially the seta of an annelid


chiropodous

(zoology) Having feet that are adapted for grasping


scalid

From Ancient Greek σκαλιδον (skalidon, “hoe”).

der

(zoology) A curved spine arranged in circles on Loricifera, Kinorhyncha or Priapulida.


secodont

(zoology) Of teeth: blade-like; suited for cutting or slicing.


secodont

(zoology) A blade-like tooth, suited for cutting or slicing.


Cheetoh

(zoology) A domestic cat of a breed with distinctive spots and rosette patterning.


Lykoi

From Ancient Greek λύκοι (lúkoi, “wolves”), plural of λῠ́κος (lŭ́kos, “wolf”).

(zoology) A domestic cat of a breed that slightly resembles a werewolf.


zaphrentid

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

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

(zoology) Any member of the Zaphrentidae.


zonurid

(zoology) Any lizard belonging to the Zonuridae.


tarbosaur

From the genus name Tarbosaurus, formed with -saur.

(zoology) A tyrannosaurid dinosaur of the genus Tarbosaurus from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and China.


costulation

en-noun

costulation (countable and uncountable, plural costulations)


plectrotaxy

(zoology) The disposition of spurs at the distal ends of leg segments.


rufofulvous

en-adj

rufofulvous (comparative more rufofulvous, superlative most rufofulvous)

more rufofulvous (comparative)
most rufofulvous (superlative)


monostomous

(zoology) Having a single mouth or similar opening


even-toed ungulate

en-noun

even-toed ungulate (plural even-toed ungulates)

From even-toed (as a translation of the taxonomic name, translingual Artiodactyla, from Ancient Greek ἄρτιος (ártios, “even in number”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “toe”)) + ungulate.

der

(zoology) Any mammal in the order Artiodactyla, including camels, pigs and ruminants such as deer, cattle, goats, sheep and antelopes; as well as, in recent years, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises).


odd-toed ungulate

en-noun

odd-toed ungulate (plural odd-toed ungulates)

From odd-toed (as a translation of the taxonomic name, translingual Perissodactyla, from Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “odd in number”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “toe”)) + ungulate.

der

(zoology) Any mammal in the order Perissodactyla, including horses and other equids, rhinoceroses, and tapirs.


leuciscin

en-adj

leuciscin (comparative more leuciscin, superlative most leuciscin)

more leuciscin (comparative)
most leuciscin (superlative)

(ichthyology) Of or relating to the cyprinid tribe Leuciscini


leuciscine

leuciscine (comparative more leuciscine, superlative most leuciscine)

more leuciscine (comparative)
most leuciscine (superlative)

(ichthyology) Of or relating to the cyprinid subfamily Leuciscinae


leuciscine

(ichthyology) Any fish in the cyprinid subfamily Leuciscinae


retrocopulate

en-verb

retrocopulate (third-person singular simple present retrocopulates, present participle retrocopulating, simple past and past participle retrocopulated)

retrocopulates (present singular third-person)
retrocopulating (participle present)
retrocopulated (participle past)
retrocopulated (past)


Bostrichiform

en-adj

Bostrichiform (comparative more Bostrichiform, superlative most Bostrichiform)

more Bostrichiform (comparative)
most Bostrichiform (superlative)

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the coleopteran infraorder Bostrichiformia.


metastomium

(zoology) That portion of the head of an annelid situated behind the mouth


monotremous

The monotremous section of the Implacentalia is represented as in Australia, by the well known Platypus, and by an Echidna or Ant-eater which appears to differ from our own in nothing but the shorter spines and more hairy fur.

1868, Gerard Krefft, Notes on the Fauna of Tasmania, page 6:


gephyrocercal

(ichthyology) Having a caudal fin formed by the "bridging" of the dorsal and anal fins


quadricrescentoid

(zoology, dentistry) Having four crescentic folds.


intergenital

(zoology) Between the genital plates of an echinoderm


exogonine

(zoology) Any annelid of the subfamily Exogoninae


brush-tailed

"Coursing? What, with those long-legged, brush-tailed brutes, like a fox upon stilts, which the prefect cozened you into buying?"

1857, Charles Kingsley, Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face, volume II, page 170:

Nothing, only that it was restless and sticking its claws in the carpet to drag them out again, and apparently anxious to get out of the house - setting up its fur and looking brush-tailed, wild-eyed, and staring.

1867, George Manville Fenn, Bent, Not Broken, volume II, page 268:

(zoology) Having a furry tail, as many marsupials.


lingual nerve

(neuroanatomy, zootomy) A sensory branch of the mandibular nerve that supplies the mucous membrane of the anterior two thirds of the tongue and the floor of the mouth and responds to stimuli of pressure, touch, and temperature.


histotropic

(zoology) Relating to the period of development of a larva within the stomach of a mammal.


xanthonychid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Xanthonychidae.


otic ganglion

glossopharyngeal nerve
glossopharyngeal nerve

lesser petrosal nerve
lesser petrosal nerve

auriculotemporal nerve
auriculotemporal nerve

(neuroanatomy, zootomy) A small parasympathetic ganglion that is associated with the mandibular nerve, situated near the foramen ovale of the sphenoid bone, receives preganglionic fibers from the glossopharyngeal nerve by way of the lesser petrosal nerve, and sends postganglionic parasympathetic fibres to the parotid gland by way of the auriculotemporal nerve.


catastrophic moult

en-noun

catastrophic moult (plural catastrophic moults)

catastrophic moults (plural)
catastrophic molt (alternative)

(zoology) A similar process in some seals in which large areas of skin are lost


sinus venosus

sinus venosi (plural)
venous sinus (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from New Latin sinus vēnōsus (“venous hollow”).

ubor

(zootomy) The first chamber of the heart in fish, amphibians, and reptiles, emptying into the right atrium.


mesopubic

(zoology) Having the pubis bone centrally / medially located


machairodontid

(zoology) Any member of the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae of carnivoran felids.


rustic moth

(lepidopterology) Any of various moths belonging to genus Agrotis or other genera in the family Noctuidae, and having larvae that are cutworms.


cleaner shrimp

en-noun

cleaner shrimp (plural cleaner shrimps or cleaner shrimp)

cleaner shrimps (plural)
cleaner shrimp (plural)

(zoology) Any of a number of swimming decapod crustaceans that clean other organisms of parasites.


cervicospinal

(anatomy, zoology) Relating to the neck and the spine.


nomarthral

(zoology) Having normal articulation of the joints.


dichobunoid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the superfamily Dichobunoidae


subunguligrade

(zoology) Intermediate between unguligrade and digitigrade


phacochoere

(zoology) The warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus


narluga

/nɑːˈluː.ɡə/

(zoology) A hybrid whale, resulting from the crossbreeding of narwhal and beluga whales; but which feed on different prey than either parent species.


Moscow Watchdog

Moscow Watchdog (plural Moscow Watchdogs)

(zoology) A breed of dog that was bred in the former Soviet Union, descended from crosses between the Saint Bernard and the Caucasian shepherd.


Greenland Dog

(zoology) A large breed of husky-type dog kept as a sled dog.


Finnish Spitz

(zoology) A breed of dog originating in Finland.


American Eskimo Dog

American Eskimo Dog (plural American Eskimo Dogs)

(zoology) A breed of companion dog, originating in Germany, a member of the Spitz family.


Portuguese Sheepdog

Portuguese Sheepdog (plural Portuguese Sheepdogs)

(zoology) A medium-sized breed of dog of the herding dog type, one of the indigenous regional dogs of Portugal.


Swedish Lapphund

Swedish Lapphund (plural Swedish Lapphunds)

(zoology) A breed of dog of the spitz type from Sweden, used by the Sami people for herding and guarding their reindeer.


Finnish Lapphund

Finnish Lapphund (plural Finnish Lapphunds)

(zoology) A hardy, easygoing, medium-sized breed of the spitz type, originating in Finland.


Northern Inuit Dog

Northern Inuit Dog (plural Northern Inuit Dogs)

(zoology) A breed of dog developed from a breeding project in the UK in the 1980s with the objective of producing a dog breed that resembles a wolf.


Tamaskan Dog

From Munsee tamaska (“mighty wolf”) (+ English -n), from teme, tama (“wolf”) + maska (“big, strong, or mighty”); + English dog.

(zoology) A new dog breed with a wolf-like appearance known to have mixed origins, an offshoot of the Northern Inuit Dog.


West Siberian Laika

West Siberian Laika (plural West Siberian Laikas)

(zoology) A breed of spitz–type hunting dog, originating in Russia.


Interior Alaskan wolf

Interior Alaskan wolf (plural Interior Alaskan wolves)

Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories

(zoology) A subspecies of gray wolf native to parts of British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, interior Alaska and Yukon.


American Alsatian

American Alsatian (plural American Alsatians)

(zoology) A dog breed that was recently developed in California in the 1980s to resemble the now-extinct dire wolf.


East Siberian Laika

East Siberian Laika (plural East Siberian Laikas)

(zoology) A Russian breed of dog of the spitz type, a hunting dog originating in parts of Siberia east of the Yenisei.


Florida black wolf

Florida black wolf (plural Florida black wolves)

(zoology) An extinct subspecies of Canis lupus that was endemic to Florida.


Czechoslovakian Wolfdog

Czechoslovakian Wolfdog (plural Czechoslovakian Wolfdogs)

(zoology) A dog breed that began as an experiment conducted in Czechoslovakia in 1955.


Kunming Wolfdog

Kunming Wolfdog (plural Kunming Wolfdogs)

(zoology) A type of shepherd dog, created in the early 1950s to meet the need for military dogs in Yunnan, China.


Taimyr wolf

(zoology) An ancient wolf that inhabited the Taimyr Peninsula of northern Siberia.


Alaskan Husky

(zoology) The most commonly used dog in dog sled racing, a mongrel bred specifically for its performance.


Labrador Husky

Labrador Husky (plural Labrador Huskies)

Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador

(zoology) A sled dog that originated in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, closely related to the Canadian Eskimo Dog.


Yakutian Laika

(zoology) An ancient working dog breed that originated in the Arctic seashore of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).


Seppala Siberian Sleddog

Seppala Siberian Sleddog (plural Seppala Siberian Sleddogs)

(zoology) A rare working dog breed, developed for the purpose of pulling a sled in cold climates.


Lupo Italiano

From Italian lupo italiano (“Italian wolf”).

(zoology) A large dog breed from Italy allegedly produced by crossing a female Italian wolf and a male German Shepherd.


Italian wolf

(zoology) A subspecies of gray wolf native to the Italian Peninsula.


Alaskan tundra wolf

Alaskan tundra wolf (plural Alaskan tundra wolves)

(zoology) A North American subspecies of gray wolf native to the barren grounds of the Arctic coastal tundra region.


Great Plains wolf

Great Plains wolf (plural Great Plains wolves)

(zoology) An extinct subspecies of gray wolf that once extended throughout the Great Plains.


Black Norwegian Elkhound

Black Norwegian Elkhound (plural Black Norwegian Elkhounds)

(zoology) A small spitz breed classified as a hunting dog.


Hällefors Elkhound

Hällefors Elkhound (plural Hällefors Elkhounds)

(zoology, cynology) A medium-sized, rectangular spitz breed with either a sickle or curly tail, native to Sweden.


Korean Jindo

(zoology) An indigenous dog native to Jindo Island in South Korea.


Karelo-Finnish Laika

Karelo-Finnish Laika (plural Karelo-Finnish Laikas)

(zoology) A breed of spitz-type dog from the Karelian area of Russia, according to the Finnish Kennel Club the same breed as the Finnish Spitz.


Kishu Ken

Borrowed from Japanese 紀州犬 (Kishū-ken, “Kishū dog”).

bor+

(zoology) A dog of a Japanese breed descended from ancient medium-sized breeds.


Norrbottenspets

From Swedish, from Norrbotten + spets (“spitz”).

(zoology) A small to medium-sized breed with typical spitz-like features, traditionally kept as a hunting dog in northern Sweden.


Norwegian Elkhound

en-noun

Norwegian Elkhound (plural Norwegian Elkhounds)

(zoology) A dog of a certain northern spitz-type breed and also the national dog of Norway.


Norwegian Lundehund

Norwegian Lundehund (plural Norwegian Lundehunds)

(zoology) A small dog breed of the spitz type that originates in Norway, developed for the hunting of puffins and their eggs.


Pungsan dog

(zoology) A breed of hunting dog from North Korea, named for originating in Kimhyŏnggwŏn County.


Russo-European Laika

Russo-European Laika (plural Russo-European Laikas)

(zoology) A breed of hunting dog that originated in the forested region of Northern Europe and Russia.


Jämthund

From Swedish, named after Jämtland (derives from its inhabitants, the Jamts) + hund (“dog”).

(zoology) A breed of dog of the spitz type that is found in Northern Europe, eponymous with Jämtland.


Taiwan Dog

(zoology) A breed of small or medium dog indigenous to Taiwan.


Norwegian Buhund

Norwegian Buhund (plural Norwegian Buhunds)

From Norwegian + Norwegian buhund, from bu (“homestead, a simple building or mountain hut (where the shepherd lived while looking after his herd in the summer) but can also mean stock, as in livestock”) + hund (“dog”).

(zoology) A breed of dog of the spitz type, used as an all-purpose farm and herding dog, as well as a watchdog and a nanny dog.


Indian Spitz

(zoology) A spitz-type dog breed belonging to the utility group.


Donggyeongi

(zoology) A naturally bobtailed dog breed that originated in Korea, currently endangered.


Kintamani

(zoology) A dog native to the Indonesian island of Bali, which originated from the Kintamani region.


Jeju dog

(zoology) A breed of dog that was resurrected from the brink of extinction in 1986, originating from the island of Jeju, South Korea.


Thai Bangkaew Dog

Thai Bangkaew Dog (plural Thai Bangkaew Dogs)

(zoology) A medium-sized spitz-type dog, originating from Thailand.


Danish Spitz

(zoology) A dog breed, originating from Denmark, once known as the nanny dog.


Eurasier

Borrowed from German Eurasier (“Eurasian”), signifying the breed’s European and Asian background.

bor+

(zoology) A breed of dog of the spitz type that originated in Germany.


Hare Indian Dog

en-noun

Hare Indian Dog (plural Hare Indian Dogs)

(zoology) An extinct domesticated canine, originally bred in northern Canada by the Sahtú.


Salish Wool Dog

Salish Wool Dog (plural Salish Wool Dogs)

(zoology) An extinct breed of white, long-haired, Spitz-type dog that was developed and bred by the Coast Salish, whose fur was used like wool.


Tahltan Bear Dog

Tahltan Bear Dog (plural Tahltan Bear Dogs)

(zoology) An extinct dog breed that was raised by the Tahltan people to hunt bears.


pye-dog

pye-dogs (plural)
pye (alternative)
pi-dog (alternative)
pie-dog (alternative)
pie (alternative)

From Hindi पाहि (pāhi, “migrant farmer, passer-through”), from Sanskrit पार्श्व (pārśva, “side, vicinity”).

der

(zoology) Synonym of stray dog, particularly in Indian contexts.

Indian pariah dog
Indian pariah dog#English

(zoology) Synonym of Indian pariah dog, a breed indigenous to India.


Sinhala Hound

(zoology) A landrace of dog from Sri Lanka, often living in a semi-wild state scavenging for food.


perkinsozoan

(protozoology, zoology) Any parasite of the superclass Perkinsozoa


carcinize

en-verb

carcinize (third-person singular simple present carcinizes, present participle carcinizing, simple past and past participle carcinized)

carcinizes (present singular third-person)
carcinizing (participle present)
carcinized (participle past)
carcinized (past)
carcinise (alternative)

Back-formation from carcinization; analyzable as Ancient Greek καρκῐ́νος (karkĭ́nos, “crab”) + -ize.

affix

partially carcinized

(evolutionary theory, zoology) Of a species, to take on a cancroid form in the course of evolution.


bursa of Fabricius

en-noun

bursa of Fabricius (plural bursae of Fabricius)

Named after Hieronymus Fabricius, who described it in 1621.

(zoology) A glandular sac opening into the cloaca of a bird, producing B cells.


head pressing

(veterinary medicine) The condition, in certain mammals, of pressing the head or face against a wall or into a corner for no apparent reason, usually a sign of neurological disorder.


julidan

(zoology) Any of the order Julida of millipedes.


alpha pair

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

(zoology) The dominant breeding pair in a pack of animals.


UVC

UVC provided better estimates of the rare or cryptic reef associated species.

2012, Michael Lowry, Heath Folpp, Marcus Gregson, Iain Suthers, “Comparison of baited remote underwater video (BRUV) and underwater visual census (UVC) for assessment of artificial reefs in estuaries”, in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, volume 416ndash;417, →DOI, →ISSN, retrieved 2022-12-01:

underwater visual census
underwater visual census#English

(ichthyology) Initialism of underwater visual census.


zygokrotaphy

(herpetology) The trait of having a zygokrotaphic skull.


caducibranch

(zoology) Any caducibranchiate organism.


postmental

(anatomy, zoology) Posterior to the mentum.


otosteon

(zoology, anatomy, medicine) Synonym of otolith.


torpedinoid

(zoology) a member of the Torpediniformes order of electric rays.


mating bite

Differences in courtship behavior among higher taxa include use of the spurs by male pythons and boas, mating bites by some colubrids, […]

1997, Harry W. Greene, Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature, page 127:

Most of the wounds inflicted by these mating bites heal fairly quickly, but sometimes they can be quite severe.

Females bearing mating bites are seen from early May to early August, with the majority seen in May.

2017, Jose I. Castro, The Sharks of North America, page 436:

(zoology) A bite performed during copulation in certain species.


mating mark

The male crab observed in this study did not have mating marks prior to picking up the female.

1966, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, volume 23, numbers 7-2, page 1323:

Dependable indicators of female mating activity have been revealed, but mating activity of males has only been indirectly inferred through examination of so-called “mating marks”, presumably created during the premating embrace between a male and female.

2006, Justin C. Ainsworth, "An evaluation of the use of mating marks as an indicator of mating success in male Dungeness crabs", thesis submitted to Humboldt State University, page iii

Observations of female White Sharks with relatively recent mating marks are rare in CC [Central California].

2012, Michael L. Domeier, Global Perspectives on the Biology and Life History of the White Shark, page 165:

(zoology, rare) A lasting mark or wound sustained during copulation in certain species.


New Guinea singing dog

New Guinea singing dog (plural New Guinea singing dogs)

New Guinea Highlands
New Guinea Highlands

(zoology) Canis lupus hallstromi, a dog of an ancient lineage found in the New Guinea Highlands on the island of New Guinea, having a distinctive melodious howl.


monkey man

April 5, 2001, the Monkey Man attacks Anil Gopal.

2003, Henry Billings, On the Edge: Teacher's Guide, page 37:

Word is, he's on his way to Singapore in search of the Bukit Timah Monkey Man.

The most famous contemporary outbreak of Delhi heat hysteria was the Monkey Man panic of April and May 2001.

2013, Elizabeth Chatterjee, Delhi: Mostly Harmless:

(cryptozoology) A cryptid that is part monkey, part human.


aulodont

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the shape of the teeth in the Aristotle's lantern of certain sea urchins


anemochoria

Anemochoria may be important among seed plants for the distance reached by the diaspores.

1988, M. A. Gandolfo et al., “Akania patagonica n. sp. and additional material on Akania americana Romero & Hickey (Akaniaceae), from Paleocene sediments of Patagonia”, in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, volume 115, number 2, page 87:

Downstream transportation[…]is common to all aquatic animals which cannot maintain their position by swimming alone. The solution to this problem in freshwater is to produce a drought resistant life-stage adapted to passive (upstream) dispersal by anemochoria or zoochoria.

1994, Henri J. Dumont, “The distribution and ecology of the fresh- and brackish-water medusae of the world”, in Hydrobiologia, volume 212, page 7:

The presence of anemochoria can be considered as an indication of environmental disturbance in already established forest formations, since wind dispersion benefits these conditions.

2019, Maureen de Moraes Stefanello et al., “How Bovine Livestock Affects Seed Rain in Subtropical Climate Forest”, in Journal of Agricultural Science, volume 11, number 10, page 246:

(botany, zoology) Alternative form of anemochory.


Akbash

From Turkish Akbaş, a place name and surname, or from the equivalent phrase ak baş (literally “white head”), both from Ottoman Turkish آق باش (ak baş) with the same set of meanings.

(zoology) A dog of a breed native to Turkey, primarily used as livestock guardian dogs or shepherd dogs.


Kangal Shepherd Dog

Kangal Shepherd Dog (plural Kangal Shepherd Dogs)

(zoology) A large livestock guardian dog of a breed native to Sivas in Turkey.


Zerdava

(zoology) an aboriginal laika dog breed native to the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey


ISIM

w:International Society for Invertebrate Morphology

(zoology) Initialism of International Society for Invertebrate Morphology.


polyphagan

(zoology) Any member of the beetle suborder Polyphaga.


polyaxon

polyaxons (plural)
polyaxone (alternative)

(zoology) In a sponge, a spicule that has more than four centered axes.


acrodendrophily

From acro- (“tip”) + dendro- (“tree”) + -phily (“liking, tendency”). Coined by Garnham et al. in 1946.

af

(zoology, usually of mosquitos) The tendency of an animal to inhabit or frequent treetops.


unruffed

(zoology) Without a ruff (set of modified feathers around the neck of a bird).


galeid

(zoology) A member of the former shark family Galeidae.


carchariid

(zoology) Any member of the former sand shark family Carchariidae.


gigantostracan

(zoology) Any member of the Gigantostraca.


gorgonaceous

(zoology) Of or relating to the Gorgonacea.


in copula

(zoology) During copulation; in the copulative state.


ex copula

(zoology) Not during copulation; not in the copulative state.


fasciolar

(zoology) Of or relating to the fasciole.


splayleg

(agriculture, veterinary medicine) A disease of pigs in which the legs are splayed because of a myopathy.


leucocytozoan

(zoology) Any of the genus Leucocytozoon of parasitic alveolates.


pipimorph

(zoology) Any of the frogs of the clade Pipimorpha.


anancine

(zoology) Any of the extinct genus Anancus of elephantoid proboscideans native to Afro-Eurasia.


tarantulid

(zoology) Any member of the arachnid family Tarantulidae.


disparid

(zoology) Any member of the clade Disparida of extinct marine animals.


farm cat

(zoology) A domestic cat, usually of a mixed breed, that lives primarily outdoors, in a feral or semiferal state on agricultural properties and is expected to provide pest control by hunting rodents.


palisade worm

(helminthology, zoology) A nematoid worm, Strongylus equinus, which parasitizes the blood vessels of a horse, producing aneurysms, often fatal.


phalacrocoracine

(zoology) Relating to the Phalacrocoracidae.


craspedotal

(zoology) Of or relating to the Craspedota.


theront

From Ancient Greek θήρ (thḗr, “beast, fantastic animal”) + -ont.

der

(microbiology, ichthyology) The stage where a tomite elongates (swims away) after being released from the cyst.


tomite

(microbiology, ichthyology) The division of a tomont within a cyst.


protomont

(microbiology, ichthyology) An immature or beginning stage of a tomont.


protomite

(microbiology, ichthyology) An immature or beginning form of a tomite.


blackflap blenny

en-noun

blackflap blenny (plural blackflap blennies)

(ichthyology) Cirripectes auritus, a species of combtooth blenny found in saltwater coral reefs of the Western Pacific Ocean.


acutilingual

For example, the shape of the horn can be like a comb or the moon, and the shape of the head can be acutilingual or lamellirostral.

2021, Jianwei Zhang, Stefan Wermter, Fuchun Sun, Cross-Modal Learning: Adaptivity, Prediction and Interaction, page 2101:

(zoology) Having a sharply pointed tongue or oral region.


dendroclone

(zoology) A kind of regular or irregular branching spicule in certain sponges.


autoskeleton

(zoology) The true skeleton of a sponge, composed of elements secreted by the sponge itself.


glossograptid

(zoology) Any member of the Glossograptidae, an extinct family of graptolites.


pairing time

(zoology) A time when birds or other animals bond or mate.


tateril

Learned borrowing from translingual Taterillus.

lbor

(zoology) Gerbil of the genus Taterillus.


pteraspidomorph

(zoology) Any member of the Pteraspidomorphi, an extinct class of early jawless fish.


flehmen response

en-noun

flehmen response (plural flehmen responses)

(zoology) A behavior in which an animal curls back its upper lip exposing its front teeth, inhales with the nostrils usually closed, and then often holds this position for several seconds.


enteronephry

(anatomy, zoology) Of certain invertebrates, the opening of nephridial ducts directly into the digestive tract.


zygaenoid

Many zygaenoids are chemically defended as larvae (e.g., Dalceridae, Megalopygidae, and Limacodidae), […]

2017, Robert G. Foottit, Peter H. Adler, Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society, volume 1, page 482:

(zoology) A member of the superfamily Zygaenoidea.


mud duck

mud ducks (plural)
mudduck (alternative)

Spatula clypeata
Spatula clypeata#Translingual

(zoology) The northern shoveler (Spatula clypeata).


Bernese mountain dog

Bernese mountain dog (plural Bernese mountain dogs)

(zoology) A large dog breed, one of the four breeds of the Sennenhund-type dogs from the Swiss Alps.


Sennenhund

(cynology, zoology) Farm dogs of the general livestock guardian type, consisting of four breeds, all sporting a unique tricolor coat.


bleeding-heart monkey

bleeding-heart monkey (plural bleeding-heart monkeys)

From bleeding-heart + monkey, so named for the bright red patches of skin on the breast.

(zoology) Synonym of gelada (Theropithecus gelada, Theropithecus pavian)


nonconsorting

In contrast, subjects responded much more weakly when they heard a nonconsorting male's grunts and the female's copulation call played from different speakers.

2008, Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind, page 105:


xiphiiform

The sword and the spear are formed of the greatly produced premaxillary bones and constitute the most marked character of the xiphiiform fishes.

1940, Eugene Willis Gudger, The Alleged Pugnacity of the Swordfish and the Spearfishes as Shown by Their Attacks on Vessels, page 219:

Scientific investigation on xiphiiform fishes from Formosa

1955, Joel Asaph Allen, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, page 356:


octopodoid

(zoology) A member of the cephalopod superfamily Octopodoidea.


callorhynchid

(paleontology, ichthyology) A fish in the family Callorhynchidae, now considered a synonym of the Callorhinchidae.


land slug

land slugs (plural)
land-slug (alternative)


water snail

water snails (plural)
water-snail (alternative)

From water + snail. Compare land snail, sea snail, etc.

(zoology) An aquatic (usually freshwater) snail.

especially, a pond snail (Lymnaeidae spp.)


acciptrid

(zoology) Any bird from the Accipitridae family


Henry's pocket

If you examine a dog's ear very gently, you will find a little fold of skin ... known as Henry's pocket

1971, Olive Royston, Living Creatures of an English Home, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN, page 64:

[M]ites can be seen ... in Henry's pocket of the ear (especially in cats)

1991, D. I. Grant, Skin Diseases in the Dog and Cat, 2nd edition, Oxford: Blackwell, →ISBN, page 44:

The small folds of skin found inside cats' ears are called 'Henry's pockets'

2021 March 26, “Feline Friday Adoptable 'Cool Cats'”, in Greenville Daily Advocate, Greenville, OH, page 2:

(anatomy, zoology) The cutaneous marginal pouch in the ear of an animal, especially a cat or dog.


myoglossatan

en-adj

myoglossatan (comparative more myoglossatan, superlative most myoglossatan)

more myoglossatan (comparative)
most myoglossatan (superlative)

suf

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

Based on molecular data, Kristensen et al. (2015) contradicted the myoglossatan monophyly, in favour of the clade Acanthopteroctetidae + ...

2022 June 27, Weiting Zhang, Chungkun Shih, Michael S. Engel, Dong Ren, Cretaceous lophocoronids with short proboscis and retractable female genitalia provide the earliest evidence for their feeding and oviposition habits:

Other putative myoglossatan au- tapomorphies include the somewhat enlarged median mesonotal wing process, as well as the upwards bend of acrotergite I and ...

1998, Teilband/Part 35 Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography:

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the clade Myoglossata, including butterflies and moths.


daily torpor

(biology, zoology) A type of heterothermy which lasts less than 24 hours and is accompanied by continued foraging.


tachymetabolism

(biology, zoology) A fast metabolism at rest.


vasodentin

(zoology) Dentin containing capillaries found in some vertebrates.


glyptosaurine

Clipping of translingual Glyptosaurinae + -ine

clipping

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

suf

(paleontology, zoology) Any extinct anguid lizard of the subfamily Glyptosaurinae, known for their osteoderms.


nucleoconch

en-noun

nucleoconch (plural nucleoconchs or nucleoconches)

nucleoconchs (plural)
nucleoconches (plural)

This nucleoconch is less than half the size of that seen in the sections of D. crassa.

1945, John West Wells, American Old and Middle Tertiary Larger Foraminifera and Corals, page 77:

A microspheric nucleoconch does not have an obvious deuteroconch, and is followed by a spiral nepionic stage, no matter what the adult chamber arrangement may be.

1954, Alan Hilder Smout, Lower Tertiary Foraminifera of the Qatar Peninsula, British Museum (Natural History), page 25:

(zoology) The embryonic shell of a foraminifera, especially the protoconch and deuteroconch of a megalospheric form.


littorarian

suf

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

(zoology) Any sea snail in the genus Littoraria, which are a genus of periwinkles.


warty thick-toed gecko

en-noun

warty thick-toed gecko (plural warty thick-toed geckos or warty thick-toed geckoes)

warty thick-toed geckos (plural)
warty thick-toed geckoes (plural)

From warty + thick-toed gecko (gecko of genus "Elasmodactylus").

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(zoology) Elasmodactylus tuberculosus, a species of eastern-African gecko.


supratrochanteric

(zoology, anatomy) Above the trochanter of the femur.


eulepidine

If it should appear, as Yabe believes (1929), that L. ephippioides is also of the eulepidine type, then there is no specific difference between the two last mentioned species […]

1937, Joseph Augustine Cushman, Raymond Cecil Moore, John Bernard Reeside, Journal of Paleontology, volume 11, page 104:

The embryonic chambers are eulepidine.

1953, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, page 36:

The trybliolepidine type has developed independently from the eulepidine.

2015, Vladimir Pokorný, John W. Neale, Principles of Zoological Micropalaeontology, page 438:

(zoology) Having an embryonic apparatus in which the protoconch is completely enveloped by the deuteroconch, both chambers adhering only at one point of contact.


enoplan

(zoology) Of or relating to the worms of the class Enopla.


true sole

(ichthyology) Any sole of the family Soleidae.


sisoroid

(ichthyology) Any member of the Sisoroidea superfamily of catfish.


anteroverted

en-adj

anteroverted (comparative more anteroverted, superlative most anteroverted)

more anteroverted (comparative)
most anteroverted (superlative)
antroverted (alternative)

/ˌæn.t͡ʃɹəˈvɝː.tɪd/

The head is small and placed upon a short, distinct neck, and is thus less sessile than in Proterotherium, more antroverted and with the pit for the round ligament less extended proximally, but of similar ovoid shape, with the long axis directed anteroposteriorly.

1901, John Bell Hatcher, Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899, volume 7:

If the uterus is sharply antroverted or retroverted, it is often difficult to determine whether the os is open or closed as the axis of the cervix and the endometrial cavity lie in different planes.

1999, Robert G. Dart, Beth Kaplan, Kalli Varaklis, “Predictive value of history and physical examination in patients with suspected ectopic pregnancy”, in Annals of Emergency Medicine, volume 33, number 3, →DOI:

The operator maintains a view on the image screen as the transducer is advanced along the anterior vaginal wall, with the goal of final placement in the anterior fornix for the 90% of patients with an anteroverted uterus.

2017, James A. Connolly, Beatrice Hoffmann, Anthony J. Dean, Robert D. Jarman, Emergency Point-of-Care Ultrasound, page 129:


hell pig

As if hell pigs were not enough of a blight on the Oligocene landscape, Europe was home to two more groups of pig-like creatures.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 86:

(zoology) Any extinct pig-like mammal of the family †Entelodontidae; an entelodont.


flatnose

the flatnose catshark

the flatnose xenocongrid eel

(zoology) Designating various organisms that have a flat nose.


laminiplantation

(zoology, rare) The quality of being laminiplantar.


Peckhamian

From Peckham + -ian, after George and Elizabeth Peckham.

(zoology) Of or relating to aggressive mimicry.


aggressive mimicry

(zoology) A form of mimicry in which predators, parasites, or parasitoids share similar signals, using a harmless model, allowing them to avoid being correctly identified by their prey or host.


diprotodontoid

(zoology) Any marsupial in the vombatiform superfamily Diprotodontoidea.


larvarium

/lɑːˈvɛəɹi.əm/

Such a range of shelving, facing north, forms an excellent larvarium; the winds will blow about your larvæ and they will be reared in a state which closely approaches the natural one.

1943, Philip Bertram Murray Allan, Talking of Moths, page 318:

At the end of his so remote, so near, 1884 summer Van, before leaving Ardis, was to make a visit of adieu to Ada's larvarium.

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle:


xenocongrid

The vomerine dentition in a single median series distinguishes it from these and all other xenocongrids […]

1939, Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, numbers 373-436:

The posterior nostril in xenocongrids lies immediately before the center of the eye, on the outside of the upper lip, or inside the confines of the mouth; in the muraenids, it nearly always lies above the eye.

1993, James E. Böhlke, Charles C. G. Chaplin, Fishes of the Bahamas and Adjacent Tropical Waters, page 70:

(zoology) Any eel from the family Xenocongridae, the false morays (chlopsids).


otarine

Apart from having pinnae on the external ears, the otarine seals can at once be distinguished on land from phocids by their method of locomotion.

1972, David Edward Gaskin, Whales, Dolphins and Seals, page 153:

(zoology) Of or relating to the eared seals.


bone-crushing dog

en-noun

bone-crushing dog (plural bone-crushing dogs)

Carnivore damage and age distribution of the bones of the rhinoceros Teleoceras suggest that the bone-crushing dog Osteoborus, or a related carnivore, significantly influenced the accumulation of some of the vertebrate fossils.

He also saw many bone splinters which appeared to have been worked by humans. (We now know that they were fractured by an extinct family of bone-crushing dogs)

2002, Donald R. Prothero, Robert M. Schoch, Associate Professor of Science and Mathematics Robert M Schoch, Horns, Tusks, and Flippers: The Evolution of Hoofed Mammals, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 36:

Bone-crushing dogs, which are only distantly related to living wolves and coyotes, possessed heavy skulls and jaws and large, broad teeth.

2010, Rex Buchanan, Kansas Geology: An Introduction to Landscapes, Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils, University Press of Kansas, page 150:

(zoology) Any of a subfamily (Borophaginae) of large extinct canids of North America, noted for powerful teeth and jaws.


nymotypical

The nymotypical form occurs in the high mountains of Europe: the Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines, Carpathians and Balcan; the varietal forms distributed northward to Finland and eastwards to East Siberia.

1908, Adalbert Seitz, The Macrolepidoptera of the World, page 108:

(lepidopterology) The same as the first described form of a species.


rhizostomatid

Clipping of translingual Rhizostomatidae

clipping

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

(zoology) Any true jellyfish of the family Rhizostomatidae.


particoloured bat

en-noun

particoloured bat (plural particoloured bats)

(zoology, chiropterology) A species of vesper bat that lives in temperate Eurasia, eastwards over the Caucasus and Iran into Mongolia, northeast China, Korea, Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.


Nenets Herding Laika

Nenets Herding Laika (plural Nenets Herding Laikas)

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

(zoology, cynology) An aboriginal spitz landrace of dog originating from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, in Russia.


co-feed

en-verb

co-feed (third-person singular simple present co-feeds, present participle co-feeding, simple past and past participle co-fed)

co-feeds (present singular third-person)
co-feeding (participle present)
co-fed (participle past)
co-fed (past)

The two ape bands went on to co-feed in the same tree, or forage alongside each other for different foods.

(intransitive, zoology) To feed together with a different taxon


Prussian carp

en-noun

Prussian carp (plural Prussian carp or Prussian carps)

Prussian carp (plural)
Prussian carps (plural)

(ichthyology) A member of the family Cyprinidae, which includes other fish such as the common carp, goldfish, and the smaller minnows.


whitenose

(zoology) Designating various creatures with a white nose.


Missouri canary

Missouri canary (plural Missouri canaries)

(zoology, rare) A mule; a sterile hybrid of a donkey and a horse.


Blue Sucker

(ichthyology) A long-lived freshwater species of fish in the sucker family that is of conservation concern.


meadow jumping mouse

meadow jumping mouse (plural meadow jumping mice)

(zoology) A jumping mouse found in moist habitats throughout much of Canada and the northeastern United States, Zapus hudsonius.


lygosomine

In both these studies, the lygosomine skinks examined had a diploid number of 2n = 30.

1979, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, volume 6, number 3, page 609:

Not all of the wholly viviparous lygosomine genera are likely to represent independent origins of viviparity; some may have inherited viviparity from a live-bearing ancestor.

2004, D. R. Khanna, Biology of Reptiles, page 221:

The agamid Physignathus lesueurii is at least semi-aquatic as are four members of the Australian lygosomine skink genus Eulamprus (E. quoyii, E. leuraensis, E. kosciuskoi, E. tympanum).

2008, E. V. Balian, C. Lévêque, H. Segers, Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment, page 584:

(zoology) Any skink belonging to the subfamily Lygosominae.


gorilline

A very fragmentary canine tooth of a putative "gorilline” was reported by Cecchi and Pickford in 1989 from Nkondo, western Uganda, dating to perhaps 3.5 ma ( see Boaz, 1994 ).

1995, Noel Thomas Boaz, Linda D. Wolfe, Biological Anthropology: The State of the Science, page 36:

In this contribution we adopt a less radical solution: we lump all the great apes into the family Hominidae; within that grouping, we recognizes ^([sic]) three living subfamilies, the Ponginae (or “pongines”) for the orangutans, the Gorillinae (or “gorillines”) for the gorillas, and the Homininae (or "hominines") for both modern humans and chimpanzees.

2004, Joel Cracraft, Michael J. Donoghue, Assembling the Tree of Life, page 518:

Its dental traits strongly indicate that it is the earliest species of the subfamily Gorillinae, suggesting that the last common ancestor between hominines (chimpanzees and humans) and gorillines may have lived more than 10 million years ago, that is, 2 million years earlier than the previously believed date of divergence based on DNA molecular-clock calibrations.

2010, H. James Birx, 21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook:

(zoology) Any hominid in the proposed subfamily Gorillinae (corresponding to the tribus Gorillini).


water-rat

(zoology) Alternative form of water rat.


secundly

[…] stem prostrate with a terminal tuft of secundly curved linear leaves […]

1894, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Orchideae to Cyperaceae, page 268:

(botany, zoology) In a secund arrangement.


pseudomorphine

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Relationships of pseudomorphines to other harpaline tribes are unsettled as stated by Deuve (1993: 98).

2012, Yves Bousquet, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, North of Mexico, page 66:

Known only from trap samples, nothing is known about their habits, although researchers suspect that they may be associated with ants or termites, like other pseudomorphines.

2023, Arthur V. Evans, The Lives of Beetles: A Natural History of Coleoptera, page 146:

(zoology) Any ground beetle of the tribe Pseudomorphini, within the family Carabidae.


peltogaster

(zoology) Any member of the genus Peltogaster.


zoeform

en-adj

zoeform (comparative more zoeform, superlative most zoeform)

more zoeform (comparative)
most zoeform (superlative)

How far the young lobster is zoeform, may be seen on a comparison of it with the figure of the Zoe, p.275.

1835, Magazine of Natural History, volume 8, page 483:

Crustacea.—Embryos are often dissimilar from the adult form. The most conspicuous of these is the larva (Zoe) of the Decapoda, and the active zoeform young of Cirripedia (barnacles) and Lernæacea (lerneans).

1874, Harrison Allen, Outlines of Comparative Anatomy and Medical Zoology, page 131:


larentiine

We report a larentiine species, Collix stellata Warren, for the first time from Korea.

2011 July 7, Sei-Woong Choi, “A New Record of Collix stellata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Korea”, in The Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology:

The present study provides a first inventory of the primary type specimens of larentiine moth species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) described from Indonesia.

2015 July 17, Olga Schmidt, “List of primary types of the larentiine moth species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) described from Indonesia - a starting point for biodiversity assessment of the subfamily in the region”, in Biodivers Data Journal:

(lepidopterology, entomology) Any moth in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae.


japygoid

For example, there are 32 species endemic to California, but no japygoids have been reported from Nicaragua, El Salvador, or Belize in Central America, or from many states in the United States and Mexico.

1981, The Pearce-Sellards Series, numbers 33-46, page 1:

(zoology) Any hexapod of the superfamily Japygoidea.


semiburrowing

Some terrestrial forms are semiburrowing, whereas others are arboreal (tree dwelling).

2011, John P. Rafferty, Reptiles and Amphibians, page 241:


harpaline

Borrowed from translingual Harpalinae. By surface analysis, translingual Harpalus + -ine. Further from Latin Harpalus and Ancient Greek Ἅρπαλος (Hárpalos).

surface analysis

[…] some genera listed by Jeannel as selenophorines were shifted to the harpaline group, and vice versa […]

1959, The Coleopterists' Bulletin, volume 13, page 61:

The harpaline genus Chydaeus includes about 25 species […]

(zoology) Belonging to the taxonomic subfamily Harpalinae.


harpaline

In many ditomines and harpalines, the males possess four laterally extended tarsi, but both sexes climb on umbelliferous plants and other herbs with the same ease.

2000, Pietro Brandmayr, Natural History and Applied Ecology of Carabid Beetles, page 87:

(zoology) Any ground beetle of the taxonomic subfamily Harpalinae.


semihorny

(chiefly zoology) Somewhat or partially horny (hard or bony).


coliadine

(lepidopterology, entomology) Any butterfly in the subfamily Coliadinae.