Nouns denoting animals
- Ixobrychus exilis
- small American bittern
- Anser cygnoides
- very large wild goose of northeast Asia; interbreeds freely with the greylag
- Carcharhinus limbatus
- widely distributed shallow-water shark with fins seemingly dipped in ink
- reduviid
- a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals
- Argyrotaenia citrana
- California moth whose larvae live in especially oranges
- bollworm
- any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls
- Pomatomus saltatrix
- bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters
- family Caprimulgidae
- goatsuckers
- trotter
- foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food
- ribbon worm
- soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract
- soldier
- a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony
- Hermissenda crassicornis
- a kind of sea slug
- apolemia
- large siphonophore of up to 50 ft long
- family Alcidae
- web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas: auks; puffins; guillemots; murres; etc.
- sclerite
- hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods
- thecodont reptile
- presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds
- family Pelecanidae
- pelicans
- springtail
- any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water
- genus Cimex
- type genus of the Cimicidae: bedbugs
- New Zealand wren
- birds of New Zealand that resemble wrens
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