| acanthopterygian | Belonging to the class or subclass Actinopterygii of ray-finned fishes; designating or relating to these fishes. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| acousticolateralis | attrib. = acousticolateral adj. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| acromyodian | Of a bird: having a syrinx whose muscles are attached to the ends of the… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| addra | In full addra gazelle. The dama gazelle, Gazella dama; spec. one of the eastern red-necked subspecies G. d. ruficollis. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| aegithognathous | Designating a conformation of the bones of the palate typical of passerine birds… | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| aeluroid | Of, relating to, or designating the division or superfamily Aeluroidea of the… | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| alcyonoid | Designating various sponges superficially resembling alcyonarian corals. Obs. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| ali- | a lateral expansion of the ethmoid bone in certain birds; also as adj. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| alopecoid | Of or relating to a division of the dog family Canidae that comprises the foxlike… | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| ambi- | Ichthyol., having the scales on both sides of the body minutely toothed along the edges. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| ambiens | A muscle in the thigh of certain birds, so called from the way in which it winds in passing from the hip to the foot. | 1873 | Go To Quotation |
| amphisbaenian | A burrowing, usu. limbless lizard of the family Amphisbaenidae (suborder Sauria or Lacertilia… | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| amphistylic | Having pillars or piers on both sides: applied to the skulls of certain sharks… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| amplexus | The mating embrace of frogs and toads, in which the male clasps the female's body tightly from behind. | 1932 | Go To Quotation |
| angwantibo | A small rare primate, Arctocebus calabarensis, related to the potto and loris, and native to western Africa. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| anomalure | An animal of the African genus Anomalurus of rodents resembling the flying squirrels… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| aoudad | A species of wild sheep, Ovis or Ammotragus tragelaphus (often domesticated), found in N. Africa. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| Arctoid | Resembling a bear; spec. belonging to, or having the characters of, the division Arctoidea… | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| arthrobranchia | = arthrobranch n. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| autostylic | Having a skull in which the palatoquadrate element of the upper jaw is attached to or… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| autotomous | Relating to or involving autotomy; of the nature of autotomy; = autotomic adj. 2. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| barasingha | The east Indian deer Cervus wallichii; also, C. duvauceli, the Swamp Deer. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| beisa | An African antelope, Oryx gazella beisa. | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| bharal | The wild or blue sheep of the Himalayas and south-western China, Pseudois nayaur. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| boodie-rat | A species of rat-kangaroo. Also called boodie. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| cacomistle | A raccoon-like animal of the south-western U.S. and Mexico, Bassariscus astutus. | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| chunga | A crane-like bird (Chunga burmeisteri), also known as Burmeister's seriema, found in… | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| ciconiine | Belonging to or having the characteristics of the suborder Ciconiæ. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| cladistic | Based on or employing the concept of a clade or the ideas of cladistics; devised in accordance with cladistics. | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| colobus | A member of a genus of African monkeys so called, distinguished by their shortened thumbs. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| conure | A popular name for a bird belonging to a group of Central and South American… | 1858 | Go To Quotation |
| coracoidal | Of or pertaining to the coracoid. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| cotype | One of two or more specimens upon which the description of a species is based… | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| crumen | The suborbital gland in deer and antelopes, secreting a waxy substance. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| dentalium | A tooth-shell of the genus so named (cf. dental n. 4). Also attrib. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| diaxon | Of sponge spicules: Having two axes. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| dibatag | A species of antelope, Ammodorcas clarkei, found in Somalia, having recurved horns ringed at the base. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| Dinornis | A name given by Prof. Owen to a genus of recently extinct birds of great size, the… | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| dodo | An extinct bird, Didus ineptus, belonging to the family Columbidæ, formerly inhabiting… | 1628 | Go To Quotation |
| dromaeognathous | Having the bones of the palate arranged as in the emu and its allies. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| Dromornis | A genus of extinct Australian ratite birds allied to the Emu. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| epiplankton | That portion of the plankton occurring from the surface of the sea to a depth of about one hundred fathoms. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| erythrism | Abnormal or excessive redness (in the plumage of birds or hair of mammals); a red variety (of some recognized species). | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| eutherian | A member of the Eutheria, an infraclass which comprises the placental mammals. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| eyra | In full eyra cat. A wild cat, Felis yagouaroundi, in its red phase, found in an… | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| fierasfer | A small parasitic fish of the family Carapidæ, which includes a genus once called Fierasfer… | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| galpon | In South America, a building given to the use of labourers on a farm. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| gamasid | A parasitic mite of the family Gamasidæ of the order Acarida, the beetle-mite or spider-mite. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| geckoid | Resembling a gecko. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| guira | In full guira cuckoo. A non-parasitic cuckoo, Guira guira, found in eastern tropical South America. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| hangul | A deer, Cervus cashmiriensis, related to and perhaps a race of the red deer. | 1858 | Go To Quotation |
| heloderm | A large and repulsive-looking venomous lizard of the genus Heloderma, having its skin… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| Himalo- | used as combining form of the Himalayas, as in Himalo-Chinese adj. | 1873 | Go To Quotation |
| homalogonatous | Belonging to the division Homalogonatae of birds, comprising those which have a rectus femoris or ambiens muscle in the leg. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| homarine | Belonging to the genus Homarus (family Nephropidae) of large-clawed lobsters; resembling… | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| inangulated | Angled inwardly. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| intercalarium | An element found between adjacent neural arches in the vertebral column of elasmobranchs and certain other fishes. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| inyala | An antelope of south-eastern Africa, Tragelaphus angasi, ranging from Malawi to northern KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| isopedine | A bony material, present as a layer in some fish scales, consisting of sheets of collagenous fibres within a mineralized matrix. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| lemuridous | Belonging to the family Lemuridæ. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| lipotype | (See quot. 1882.) | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| macrodont | Chiefly Physical Anthropol. Having large teeth. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| malmag | The spectral tarsier, Tarsius spectrum, of Sulawesi and other islands of South-East Asia. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| martineta | A tinamou, Eudromia elegans, a bird of southern Argentina. Also martineta tinamou. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| maxillo- | Forming adjectives (often used as nouns) with the sense ‘of or relating to the maxilla and… | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| meandrically | In the manner of the meanders of a river. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| melba finch | A small West African songbird, Pytilia melba (family Estrildidae), the male of which has… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| mesomere | Zool. Each of a series of axial elements in the primitive vertebrate fin (archipterygium) or forelimb. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| mesomyodian | Of a bird: having a syrinx whose muscles are attached to the middle of the… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| mesoplankton | Plankton inhabiting the region between about 200 metres (approx. 670 feet) from the sea… | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| Mesotherium | A genus of large notoungulates known from fossils of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| metapophysis | An accessory process or prominence on certain vertebrae; (Anat.) a rounded prominence… | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| Metatheria | With pl. (or rarely sing.) concord. An infraclass of mammals, comprising the… | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| metatherian | Of, relating to, or designating mammals of the infraclass Metatheria. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| microdont | Having or characterized by relatively or abnormally small teeth; designating such a tooth. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| microsporidiosis | Infection with microsporidia. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| moa-hunter | A person who hunts moas; spec. a member of an early Maori culture in New Zealand, characterized by hunting moas. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| moho | The takahe, Porphyrio mantelli, a flightless rail. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| myomorphine | = myomorph adj. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Myrmecobius | A genus of termite-eating Australian marsupials whose only living representative is the… | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| Mysticete | = Mysticeti n. Usu. with pl. concord. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| necrotizing | = necrotization n. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| noctilionine | Belonging or related to the genus Noctilio (now regarded as constituting the family Noctilionidae… | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| non-mammalian | Not mammalian. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Notogaea | Originally: a zoogeographical division comprising the Australian, New Zealand… | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| notornis | The takahe, Porphyrio mantelli (family Rallidae), a flightless rail of New Zealand… | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| oculomotor | Of or relating to movement of the eye; (Anat.) designating or relating to the third… | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| olivescent | Somewhat olive-coloured; of a dull greenish-yellow shade. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| oo- | a blue pigment occurring in the shells of birds' eggs. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| orthopterist | An expert in or student of the orthoptera. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| orthopteron | = orthopteran n. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| oscinine | = oscine adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| oviform | Of the spigelian lobe of the liver in a ruminant: broad-based (like that of a sheep). Cf. rusiform adj. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| oxea | In sponges: a needle-shaped spicule which is pointed at both ends. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| pagurine | = pagurid adj. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| palolo | Any of various marine polychaete worms of the families Eunicidae and Nereidae which swarm… | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| paradoxurine | Of or relating to the subfamily Paradoxurinae of the family Viverridae, which comprises… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| parastacine | Belonging or relating to the genus Parastacus or family Parastacidae of freshwater crayfish of the southern hemisphere. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| paratype | A specimen mentioned in the original description of a species in addition to the holotype (or isotypes). | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| pedicellar | Relating to or of the nature of a pedicel. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| pedimanous | Designating or relating to mammals whose feet (esp. hind feet) resemble hands in having an opposable digit. Cf. pedimane n. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| pelecanine | Of, relating to, or resembling the pelican; of or relating to a group of birds… | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| peristeromorphic | Belonging to or having the characters of the Peristeromorphae. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| phasianine | Of or relating to the subfamily Phasianinae of the family Phasianidae, which is sometimes… | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| phenetic | Designating or relating to the classification of organisms on the basis of… | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| phyllobranchiate | Provided with phyllobranchiae; of the nature of a phyllobranchia. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| phylum | Biol. Originally: any large group of organisms considered to have originated from… | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| pleurobranchia | = pleurobranch n. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| plumicome | In siliceous sponges: a type of six-rayed spicule (hexaster) each of whose rays branches to form a feather-like tuft. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| pluvialine | Of, relating to, or resembling a plover. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| podobranchia | = podobranch n. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| polydactyly | The condition of having more than the usual number of digits (esp. more than five) on a… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| polymyodian | Of a bird: having a syrinx with several distinct muscles; spec. (in Müller's scheme)… | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| polyprotodontid | = polyprotodont adj. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| postminimus | A supernumerary digit outside the little toe or finger. Also: the pisiform bone of the wrist. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| powder-down | A down feather which grows continuously and disintegrates into a powder at the tips… | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| prehallux | A rudimentary digit found on the inner side of the tarsus of some mammals… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| proavis | = proavian n. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| procyonine | Of, relating to, or characteristic of raccoons and coatis, or the subfamily Procyoninae… | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| promammal | A member of a group of (actual or hypothetical) animals representing the evolutionary… | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| propterygium | The anterior of three principal cartilages which primitively comprise the base of each… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| prosopium | Mivart's term for: the bones of a parrot's skull forming the upper mandible of the bill. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| protarsal | Of or relating to the protarsus of an insect. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| protastacus | A hypothetical evolutionary ancestor of the crayfishes. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| proteroglyphous | Designating or characteristic of a venomous snake having fixed fangs in the front of the… | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| protoconch | The embryonic shell in gastropods and certain cephalopods, often retained at the tip of the adult shell. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| Prototheria | With sing. concord: a subclass of mammals comprising the monotremes and their… | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| pseudaxine | Designating a group of deer that includes the sika, Cervus nippon, and related species. Cf. axine adj. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| pseudepiploon | The omentum (epiploon) of a bird, which resembles that of a mammal but is connected to a smaller number of abdominal organs. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| pseudosuchian | Of, relating to, or designating small extinct reptiles of the… | 1913 | Go To Quotation |
| pteroclomorphic | Resembling that of a sandgrouse (family Pteroclididae). | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| pteropine | Of or relating to the genus Pteropus of Old World fruit bats (family Pteropodidae)… | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| pterylosis | The arrangement or disposition of the feathers of a bird, esp. where this occurs… | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| pygostyle | A triangular bony plate, formed of the fused caudal vertebrae, which supports the tail feathers in most birds. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| pylangium | In amphibians and some fishes: the first or proximal part of the conus arteriosus which… | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| pyrenaematous | Of a vertebrate: having nucleated red blood cells. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| rachial | Characterized by a rachis; of or relating to a rachis. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| ranid | A frog of the large family Ranidae, which comprises typical frogs with long hind legs… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| remicle | A small outermost wing feather in some birds, attached to the second phalanx of the second digit. Cf. remex n. 1. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| retinule | = retinula n. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| rhipidoglossan | = rhipidoglossate adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| rhynchocephalic | Beak-headed; spec. = rhynchocephalian adj. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| rhynchotal | = rhynchotous adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| Robertson's law | An empirical law stating that the number of chromosome arms of a population or species… | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| rusiform | Of the spigelian lobe of the liver in a ruminant: pedunculate (as in deer of the genus Rusa). Cf. oviform adj. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| rusine | Of, relating to, or characteristic of the genus or subgenus Rusa of Asian deer (see rusa n.). Cf. rucervine adj. | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| salivan | = salivary adj. 2. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| saltator | A tanagrine bird of the genus Saltator. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| samango | In full, samango guenon or monkey. An African monkey, Cercopithecus mitis, which has blue-grey fur with black markings. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| seriema | A large long-legged crested bird, Cariama cristata, inhabiting parts of Brazil; the crested screamer. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| servaline | Resembling the serval: used to designate a serval in a darker colour phase than usual… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| shapoo | A kind of sheep (Ovis vignei) found in Ládák (Kashmír) and south-western China. | 1858 | Go To Quotation |
| somal | Of or pertaining to the body. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| spiculo- | combining form of spiculum n. (cf. sense 3), occurring in a few terms, as spiculo-fibre, spiculo-fibrous. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| spinelet | A small spine or spiny process. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| spinulation | The form or arrangement of spinules. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| spongioid | Like that of a sponge. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| stylote | Of sponge-spicules: Having the form of a style or stylus. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| sublingua | In certain mammals, esp. lemurs, lorises, and related primates: a (typically cartilaginous) brushlike structure under the tongue. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| Swinhoe | The name of Robert Swinhoe (fl. 1862 – 3), British consul in Taiwan, used in the… | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| Sykes | Cercopithecus albogularis, a blue-grey guenon native to East Africa. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| taipan | A large dark brown venomous snake, Oxyuranus scutellatus, of the family Elapidæ, native to northern parts of Australia. | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| tetract | Having four rays or branches; quadriradiate. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| tetraplous | Fourfold, quadruple. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| thooid | n. A beast of this division. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Timeliidae | The family of songbirds that comprises the babblers (now called Timaliidae). Cf. Timelia n. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| timeliine | Belonging to or characteristic of the songbird genus Timelia or the subfamily Timeliinae… | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| tornus | The inner or anal angle of the wing of an insect, esp. of the secondary wing of a tineid moth. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| toxius | A form of sponge-spicule: see quot. 1886. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| triaxial | Having three axes: said in Geom. of co-ordinates; in Zool. of sponge-spicules. Also… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| tritural | Adapted for trituration. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| trochilidine | Belonging to or characteristic of the family Trochilidæ or humming-birds. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| tupsee | A fish of the genus Polynemus, allied to the mullet, 8 or 9 inches long, found in the… | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| tylo- | a sponge-spicule of the form of a rod with a knob at one end (the other end being pointed); also attrib. or as adj. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| tylote | A sponge-spicule of the form of a cylindrical rod with a knob at each end; also attrib. or adj. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| unicolour | = unicolorous adj. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| urial | A wild sheep, a subspecies of Ovis orientalis, having a reddish coat and long, curved… | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| urraca | (See quots.) | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| ursid | Of, pertaining, or belonging to the family Ursidæ. | 1921 | Go To Quotation |
| Wallace | a hypothetical boundary proposed by Wallace in 1858 as separating the Oriental and the Australasian biogeographical regions. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| zoogeography | The geographical distribution of animals. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
