Nouns denoting animals

genus Rhynchoelaps
Australian coral snakes
 
mushroom coral
flattened disk-shaped stony coral (usually solitary and unattached)
 
family Machilidae
jumping bristletails
 
sphenisciform seabird
flightless cold-water seabirds: penguins
 
family Podicipedidae
coextensive with the order Podicipitiformes
 
genus Aegypius
a genus of Accipitridae
 
Regulus calendula
American kinglet with a notable song and in the male a red crown patch
 
order Artiodactyla
an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes
 
family Chinchillidae
small bushy-tailed South American burrowing rodents
 
Bitis arietans
large African viper that inflates its body when alarmed
 
Irish water spaniel
breed of large spaniels developed in Ireland having a heavy coat of liver-colored curls and a topknot of long curls and a nearly hairless tail
 
Pan troglodytes troglodytes
black-faced chimpanzees of central Africa; closely related to eastern chimpanzees
 
night heron
nocturnal or crepuscular herons
 
family Trochilidae
hummingbirds
 
Balaenoptera musculus
largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere
 
fang
canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey
 
order Collembola
minute wingless arthropods: springtails
 
Fucus serratus
brown algae seaweed with serrated edges
 
phylum Cycliophora
tiny marine organisms each the size of a period found in great numbers on lobsters' lips; identified tentatively in 1995 as a new phylum or as possible link between Entoprocta and Ectoprocta
 
Semnopithecus entellus
langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India
 
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