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pinion |
Noun
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a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack |
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pinion |
Verb
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cut the wings off (of birds) |
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pinion |
Verb
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bind the arms of |
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palm cat |
Noun
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spotted or striped arboreal civet of southeast Asia and East Indies |
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palm civet |
Noun
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spotted or striped arboreal civet of southeast Asia and East Indies |
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predator |
Noun
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any animal that lives by preying on other animals |
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predator |
Noun
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someone who attacks in search of booty |
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predatory animal |
Noun
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any animal that lives by preying on other animals |
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prey |
Noun
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animal hunted or caught for food |
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prey |
Noun
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a person who is the aim of an attack, especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation, by some hostile person or influence |
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prey |
Verb
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prey on or hunt for |
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prey |
Verb
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profit from in an exploitatory manner |
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pallid bat |
Noun
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drab yellowish big-eared bat that lives in caves |
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pipistrelle |
Noun
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small European brown bat |
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pipistrel |
Noun
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small European brown bat |
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polar bear |
Noun
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white bear of Arctic regions |
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pocketed bat |
Noun
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small brown bat of California and northern Mexico |
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pocketed freetail bat |
Noun
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small brown bat of California and northern Mexico |
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pine sawyer |
Noun
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large beetle whose larvae bore holes in pine trees |
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pollinator |
Noun
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an insect that carries pollen from one flower to another |
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potato bug |
Noun
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black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves |
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potato beetle |
Noun
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black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves |
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proturan |
Noun
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any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head |
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pincer |
Noun
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a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods |
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pincer |
Noun
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a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping |
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pea weevil |
Noun
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larvae live in and feed on seeds of the pea plant |
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paper wasp |
Noun
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any of several social wasps that construct nests of a substance like paper |
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pubic louse |
Noun
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a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body |
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punkie |
Noun
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minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects |
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punky |
Noun
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minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects |
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punkey |
Noun
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minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects |
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psychodid |
Noun
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a fly of the family Psychodidae |
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pomace fly |
Noun
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any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits |
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potter bee |
Noun
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solitary bee that builds nests of mud or pebbles cemented together and attached to a plant |
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pharaoh ant |
Noun
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small red ant of warm regions |
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pharaoh's ant |
Noun
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small red ant of warm regions |
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praying mantis |
Noun
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the common mantis |
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praying mantid |
Noun
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the common mantis |
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potter wasp |
Noun
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any of various solitary wasps that construct vase-shaped cells of mud for their eggs |
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plant bug |
Noun
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small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juices |
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phasmid |
Noun
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large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants |
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phasmid insect |
Noun
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large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants |
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powder-post termite |
Noun
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extremely destructive dry-wood termite of warm regions |
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pismire |
Noun
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social insect living in organized colonies |
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psylla |
Noun
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small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping |
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psyllid |
Noun
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small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping |
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periodical cicada |
Noun
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North American cicada |
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pond-skater |
Noun
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long-legged bug that skims about on the surface of water |
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pine spittlebug |
Noun
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North American insect that attacks pines |
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plant louse |
Noun
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any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants |