Animals

Orpington

English breed of large chickens with white skin

 

sand lance

very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches

 

fence lizard

spiny lizard often seen basking on fences in the United States and northern Mexico

 

morula

a solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits; develops into the blastula

 

langouste

large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters

 

Australopithecus afarensis

fossils found in Ethiopia; from 3.5 to 4 million years ago

 

Pteropus hypomelanus

a variety of fruit bat

 

Welsh terrier

wire-haired terrier resembling Airedales but smaller; developed in Wales for hunting

 

bottom lurkers

a fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water

 

gelding

castrated male horse

 

darkling groung beetle

sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain

 

Cygnus cygnus

common Old World swan noted for its whooping call

 

bottom-dweller

a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water

 

mesohippus

North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses

 

Mullus surmuletus

brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels

 

jellyfish

any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans

 

solitaire

a dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song

 

Strix aluco

reddish-brown European owl having a round head with black eyes

 

Equus grevyi

zebra with less continuous stripes

 

staghorn coral

large branching coral resembling antlers