Animals

Aquila rapax
brownish eagle of Africa and parts of Asia
 
quack-quack
child's word for a duck
 
Anser anser
common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds
 
Archosargus rhomboidalis
sea bream of warm Atlantic waters
 
ram
uncastrated adult male sheep
 
leafhopper
small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants
 
Trigla lucerna
a kind of gurnard
 
King Charles spaniel
a toy English spaniel with a black-and-tan coat; named after Charles II who popularized it
 
krill
shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales
 
Martes foina
Eurasian marten having a brown coat with pale breast and throat
 
Mercenaria mercenaria
an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
 
Fossa fossa
civet of Madagascar
 
flour beetle
an insect that infests flour and stored grains
 
Trachinotus carolinus
found in coastal waters New England to Brazil except clear waters of West Indies
 
Passerina cyanea
small deep blue North American bunting
 
doe
mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'
 
Ptychozoon homalocephalum
a gecko that has membranous expansions along the sides of its body and limbs and tail that enable it to glide short distances
 
Loxostege similalis
moth whose larvae are garden webworms
 
Yorkshire terrier
very small breed having a long glossy coat of bluish-grey and tan
 
Hynerpeton bassetti
fossil amphibian of the Devonian having well-developed forelimbs; found in Pennsylvania
 
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