Nouns denoting animals

sunfish

among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters

 

mane

long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck

 

Holstein-Friesian

a breed of dairy cattle from northern Holland

 

Acris gryllus

a cricket frog of eastern United States

 

Spanish pointer

a strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches; scents out and points to game

 

Hermissenda crassicornis

a kind of sea slug

 

gnathostome

a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws

 

petrel

relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land

 

Sebastodes miniatus

a commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North America

 

waterbuck

any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers

 

genus Rattus

common house rats; upper incisors have a beveled edge

 

lorikeet

any of various small lories

 

Damaliscus lunatus

a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal

 

genus Porphyra

a genus of protoctist

 

genus Struthio

type genus of the Struthionidae: African ostriches

 

bruin

a conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox'

 

ostracoderm

extinct fish-like jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic

 

butcherbird

large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns

 

genus Cariama

the type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama

 

phragmocone

the thin conical chambered internal shell (either straight or curved) of a belemnite