Nouns denoting animals
- partridge
- a popular North American game bird; named for its call
- division Chlorophyta
- large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls; classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae; obviously ancestral to land plants
- scorpion fish
- marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines
- hackle
- long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants
- genus Thrips
- type genus of the Thripidae
- mud dauber
- wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae
- Roccus saxatilis
- marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
- genus Eoraptor
- primitive theropod found in Argentina; early Triassic
- horse's foot
- the hoof of a horse
- Lagodon rhomboides
- similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States
- motmot
- tropical American bird resembling a blue jay and having greenish and bluish plumage
- genus Leishmania
- flagellate protozoan that causes leishmaniasis
- Drymarchon corais
- large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico
- class Placodermi
- extinct group of bony-plated fishes with primitive jaws
- sculpin
- any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths
- family Myliobatidae
- eagle rays
- Anomia ephippium
- thin-shelled bivalve having the right valve deeply notched
- chorioallantois
- the very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois
- Scartella cristata
- inhabits both coasts of tropical Atlantic
- genus Nasua
- coatis
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