Nouns denoting animals

grackle
long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage
 
freshwater bass
North American food and game fish
 
respiratory syncytial virus
a paramyxovirus that forms syncytia in tissue culture and that is responsible for severe respiratory diseases such as bronchiolitis and bronchial pneumonia (especially in children)
 
family Orycteropodidae
aardvarks
 
teredo
typical shipworm
 
Homo sapiens
the only surviving hominid; species to which modern man belongs; bipedal primate having language and ability to make and use complex tools; brain volume at least 1400 cc
 
family Icteridae
American orioles; American blackbirds; bobolinks; meadowlarks
 
Cygnus columbianus bewickii
Eurasian subspecies of tundra swan; smaller than the whooper
 
gecko
any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless
 
genus Pseudococcus
type genus of the Pseudococcidae
 
genus Tragopan
a genus of Phasianidae
 
Neophron percnopterus
small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia
 
anseriform bird
chiefly web-footed swimming birds
 
appendicularia
free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates
 
righteye flounder
flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head
 
order Siluriformes
an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes
 
order Pedipalpi
whip scorpions
 
mealybug
scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees
 
bird
warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
 
genus Epinephelus
genus of groupers or sea bass
 
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