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aurochs |
Noun
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large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox |
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aurochs |
Noun
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European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison |
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antelope |
Noun
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graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward |
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argali |
Noun
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wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia |
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argal |
Noun
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wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia |
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addax |
Noun
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large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa |
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aoudad |
Noun
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wild sheep of northern Africa |
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audad |
Noun
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wild sheep of northern Africa |
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ai |
Noun
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a sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot and each hindfoot |
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alpaca |
Noun
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domesticated llama with long silky fleece |
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alpaca |
Noun
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a thin glossy fabric made of the wool of the Lama pacos, or made of a rayon or cotton imitation of that wool |
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alpaca |
Noun
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wool of the alpaca |
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armadillo |
Noun
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burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates |
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apar |
Noun
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South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates |
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animal leg |
Noun
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the leg of an animal |
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air bladder |
Noun
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an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy |
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air sac |
Noun
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any of the membranous air-filled extensions of the lungs of birds |
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air sac |
Noun
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any of the thin-walled extensions of the tracheae of insects |
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air sac |
Noun
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a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs |
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ape |
Noun
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any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all |
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ape |
Noun
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person who resembles a nonhuman primate |
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ape |
Noun
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someone who copies the words or behavior of another |
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ape |
Verb
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to represent in or produce a caricature of |
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ape |
Verb
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to imitate uncritically and in every aspect |
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anthropoid ape |
Noun
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any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae |
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aye-aye |
Noun
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nocturnal lemur with long bony fingers and rodent-like incisor teeth closely related to the lemurs |
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angwantibo |
Noun
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a kind of lemur |
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allice shad |
Noun
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European shad |
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allis shad |
Noun
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European shad |
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allice |
Noun
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European shad |
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allis |
Noun
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European shad |
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alewife |
Noun
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shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn |
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alewife |
Noun
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flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams |
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anchovy |
Noun
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small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste |
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anchovy |
Noun
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tiny fishes usually canned or salted |
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armored catfish |
Noun
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South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates |
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acanthopterygian |
Noun
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a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |
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angler |
Noun
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fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey |
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angler |
Noun
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a fisherman who uses a hook and line |
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angler |
Noun
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a scheming person |
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anglerfish |
Noun
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fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey |
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angler fish |
Noun
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fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey |
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allmouth |
Noun
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fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey |
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argentine |
Noun
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any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes |
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antenna |
Noun
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one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans |
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antenna |
Noun
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an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals |
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antenna |
Noun
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sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ |
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amberjack |
Noun
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any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes |
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amberfish |
Noun
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any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes |
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arista |
Noun
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bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies |