Nouns denoting animals
- genus Plecotus
- a genus of Vespertilionidae
- genus Oenanthe
- wheatears
- pikeblenny
- tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory
- family Littorinidae
- periwinkles
- Tayassu pecari
- blackish peccary with whitish cheeks; larger than the collared peccary
- dorbeetle
- Old World dung beetle that flies with a droning sound
- flame cell
- organ of excretion in flatworms
- dickey-bird
- small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds
- Larus marinus
- white gull having a black back and wings
- pupa
- an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
- carrion
- the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food
- family Cracidae
- curassows; guans; chachalacas
- genus Oestrus
- type genus of the Oestridae: sheep botflies
- Oncorhynchus keta
- a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish
- genus Varanus
- type and sole extant genus of the Varanidae
- subclass Diapsida
- used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archosauria
- genus Echeneis
- type genus of the Echeneididae: typical remoras
- tiger cat
- a cat having a striped coat
- family Desmidiaceae
- unicellular algae
- order Raptores
- term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes
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