Nouns denoting animals
- family Caeciliadae
- coextensive with the order Gymnophiona: legless amphibians
- family Muscidae
- two-winged flies especially the housefly
- Amia calva
- primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America
- dimetrodon
- carnivorous dinosaur of the Permian in North America having a crest or dorsal sail
- Cynocephalus variegatus
- a variety of flying lemur
- mamba
- arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal
- Ictalurus punctatus
- freshwater food fish common throughout central United States
- sea tangle
- any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria
- genus Polypedates
- type genus of the Polypedatidae
- sea urchin
- shallow-water echinoderms having soft bodies enclosed in thin spiny globular shells
- digger wasp
- solitary wasp that digs nests in the soil and stocks them with paralyzed insects for the larvae
- Plethodon cinereus
- common salamander of eastern North America
- ciliate
- a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell
- genus Mylodon
- type genus of the Mylodontidae; sometimes included in family Megatheriidae
- Lama peruana
- used in the Andes as a beast of burden and source of wool; considered a domesticated variety of the guanaco
- courser
- formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle
- genus Trichoglossus
- a genus of Loriinae
- thick skin
- skin that is very thick (as an elephant or rhinoceros)
- redbone
- a speedy red or red-and-tan American hound
- order Strigiformes
- owls
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