Appendix:Animals

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Taxonomy of the animal kingdom

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Each row of the table below gives specific terms for the male, female, young, home, group, sound and related adjective for a type of animal, where special terms exist.

Male: Terms for the male of the animal. Where specific terms exist for the castrated and uncastrated male, these are given, followed by c and u respectively.

Female: Terms for the female of the animal.

Young: Terms for the young of the animal. Where specific terms exist for the male and female young, these are given, followed by m and f respectively.

Home: Terms for the home of the animal. Those made by the animal itself are followed by a and those made by humans to keep the animal are followed by h.

Group: Terms for a group of animals of this type. Italicised terms are invented collective nouns rarely found outside lists of such terms and are not used by zoologists.

Sound: Terms for the cry of the animal or sounds that the animal makes.

Adjective: Adjectives describing the animal of this type. These include both common English terms (such as wormy), and technical or Latinate terms (such as vermian). Many of the technical terms are collateral adjectives.

Related terms: Alternative names for the animal, including slang terms, terms for animals of various ages, animals who are parents and terms otherwise too specific to feature in other columns.

Terms used for animals in general

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms

male
male + name of animal
neuter c
female
female + name of animal
baby
baby + name of animal
burrow a
den a
hold a
hole a
lair a
menagerie h
terrarium h
zoo or zoological gardens h
band (North American: applied to large mammals)
flock (applied to small farm animals and to birds)
herd (applied to large herbivorous mammals)
mob (Australian: applied to large mammals)
pack (applied to hunting animals)
school
  name of animal + (-)like (eg cat-like) hibernaculum
litter

A

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
agouti dasyproctid
dasyproctine
alligator bull cow hatchling
congregation
bellow
hiss
amphibian amphibian
ant antling (rare) ant farm h
ant-hive a
ants' nest a
formicarium h
formicary a
nest a
army
colony
swarm
formic
formicarian
formicid
nurse
queen
soldier
worker
ant-eater myrmecophagous
antelope kid herd snort antilopine bok
ape troop
shrewdness
apish
simian
ass jackass
jack
jenny-ass
jenny
she-ass
herd
pace
bray
hee-haw
asinine donkey
hinny
mule

B

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
badger boar sow cub
kit
kitten
hole a
set or
sett a
cete growl meline
bat bat tube h cheiropterous
bear she-bear
sow
bear cub
cub
sleuth
sloth
growl bearish
ursine
beaver beavery a/h
lodge a
bee drone queen (fertile)
worker (sterile)
fry
schadon (obsolete)
apiary h
beehive a/h
bike/byke a
hive a/h
skep h
colony
swarm (in flight)
buzz
hum
apian brood
nurse
worker
beetle grub coleopterous
bird cock
cock-bird
hen
hen-bird
chick
hatchling
squab
aviary h
bird-cage h
bird's nest a
hive-nest a
nest a
nest-box h
nesting-box h
nesting-place a
bunch (of waterfowl)
cloud (in flight)
congregation
flock
plump
pod (small flock)
string (flock flying in single file)
bird-song
call
cheep
chirp
chirrup
peep
pipe
song
trill
tweet
twitter
warble
avian
avine
ornithic
volucrine
birdie
brood
clutch
fledgling
hatch
bird of prey raptorial raptor
bittern sedge
siege
boom
boar
See pig below
buffalo gang beefalo
bison
cattalo or catalo
bug hemipteral
hemipteran
hemipterous
bulldog bull-bitch bull-pup
butterfly caterpillar lepidopterous
papilionaceous
chrysalis

C

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
camel calf bray cameline cama
capuchin monkey cebine
carnivore carnivorous
carp cyprine
cat tom
tomcat
gib c
queen (breeding) kitten
kit
kitty
clowder (obsolete)
kindle (of kittens; obsolete)
caterwaul
meow
mew
miaow
miaul
purr
waul
catty
feline
kittenish
(of a kitten)
moggy
puss
pussy
pussy-cat
chaffinch pink
chicken cock
rooster
capon c
hen chick battery h
chicken run h
coop h
hen-house h
pen h
run h
brood (of young)
clatch/cletch/clutch
flock
peep (obsolete)
cackle
chuck
cluck
cock-a-doodle-doo
crow
pule
gallinaceous
galline
clutch
cockerel
pullet
chough clattering (obsolete)
civet viverrine
cockroach roach
cod gadoid
gadine
coot covert (obsolete)
cow
See ox below
crab cock hen crablet
crabling
crabbery cast cancrine
crabbish
crablike
crane sedge
siege
clang
crane-fly tipulid
cricket chirp
churr
crickety
crocodile crocodilian
crow murder caw corvine
crustacean nauplius (larva) crustacean

D

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
deer buck
stag
doe
hind
fawn
calf
herd
rangale (obsolete)
bell
troat
cervine
rucervine (swamp deer)
hart
knobber
pricket
royal
spade
spayard
spayart
spay
spitter
dinosaur dinosaurian dino
dog dog bitch pup
puppy
whelp
den a
kennel h
doghouse h
pack bark
bay
bow-wow
growl
howl
snarl
whimper
whine
woof
yap
yelp
yip
yowl
canine
doggish
bow-wow
brach
cur
doggie or doggy
hound
mutt
pooch
team
wolfdog
dolphin calf dolphinarium h pod
school
click cetacean wolphin
dove dove-bird (obsolete)
doveling
columbarium
dovecot or
dovecote h
dovehouse h
dole (obsolete, fanciful)
flight
coo columbine
dovish (mainly in
political sense)
duck drake duck duckling badling (obsolete)
plump
raft (on water)
sord (of mallards; obsolete)
team (flying in a line)
quack anatine

E

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
eagle eagle hen eaglet eyrie or

eyry or
aerie or

aery a
squawk aquiline
earthworm
(see also worm below)
n/a: earthworms are
hermaphrodite
n/a: earthworms are
hermaphrodite
lumbricine
echidna puggle
eel leptocephalus (larva)
elver
eelfare
elephant bull cow calf herd trumpet elephantine
elk gang alcine

F

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
falcon tiercel formel/hen eyass/eyas falconine
ferret buck
hob
hob-ferret
gill
jill
kit business
fesnyng
finch charm
chirm (obsolete)
fish fry
hatchling
spawn
aquarium h
fish-pond h
fish tank h
vivarium h
vivary h
brood (of young - obsolete)
school
shoal
fishy
ichthyic
piscine
milter
flea pulicine
fly maggot swarm dipteran
dipterous
muscid
flycatcher muscicapine
flying fox pteropine
fowl (domestic) cock hen chick coop h
cote h
fowl-run h
pen h
run h
flock gallinaceous
galline
fox dog
dog-fox
tod
vixen
fox bitch
foxess
cub
fox cub
kit
burrow a
earth a
fox burrow a
fox-earth a
hole a
kennel a
lair a
skulk bark
yap
yelp
foxy
vulpecular
vulpine
vulpinary
vulpinous
frog froglet
frogling
polliwog (dialect term for tadpole)
tadpole (larva)
froggery a
ranarium h
froggery
army
croak froggy
ranarian (nonce word)
ranid
frog spawn

G

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
gadfly tabanid
game brace
gerbil buck doe pup gerbilarium h
gerfalcon tercel jerkin
giraffe bull cow calf giraffine camelopard
gnat trumpet
goat billy-goat
buck
buck-goat
he-goat
nanny-goat
nanny
she-goat
goatling
kid
kidling
yeanling
trip (dialect or obsolete) bleat caprine
goatish
goaty
hircine
geep
goose gander goose gosling flock
gaggle (on water)
skein (in flight)
cackle
clang
hiss
honk
anserine
goosy
gorilla band silverback
grasshopper pitter acridian
greyhound sapling
grouse covey
pack
tetraonid
tetraonine
guinea-fowl guinea-cock guinea-hen keet
gull mollyhawk (Larus dominicanus; New Zealand term) laridine

H

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
hare buck
jack hare
doe leveret form huske (obsolete)
down (obsolete)
trip (dialect or obsolete)
leporine
hawk tercel
tiercel
tercelet
tiercelet
hawkery h (nonce word)
mew h
cast
kettle
falconine eyas
sore
hedgehog hedgehoglet
hoglet
kitten
array
drift
erinaceous
herbivore herbivorous
heron heronry h siege
herring clupean (nonce word)
hippopotamus bull cow calf bloat hippopotamian
hippopotamic
hippopotamine
hippo
hornet bike/byke a
nest a
horse entire u
stallion u
gelding c
mare colt m
foal
hogget
filly f
haras h
mews h
stable h
stall h
stud h
rag (of colts; obsolete)
stable (from one stable)
string (for breeding in captivity)
stud (for breeding in captivity)
neigh
whinny
nicker
equine
caballine
horsy
dam
gee-gee
hinny
mule
sire
zebrule
house fly larva
maggot
swarm muscid
human being man woman child
boy m
girl f
domicile
home
house
residence
group
gang
band
hominid
human
hyena cub den clan
cackle
laugh hyenic
hyenine
hyenish
hyrax hyracine

I

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
iguana ignuanian
iguanid
insect grub
larva
nymph
pupa
insectarium h
insectary h
brood (of young)
cloud (in flight)
swarm
insectan bug
chrysalis
creepy-crawly
imago
pseudimago
pupa
subimago

J

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
jackdaw daw
jay chatter garruline

K

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
kangaroo boomer
buck
jack
doe
flyer
jill
joey court
mob (Australian)
troop
chortle macropine roo
kite pule milvine
koala Australian bear
koala bear
native bear

L

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
lapwing desert
lark bevy
exaltation
leech hirudinal (obsolete)
lemming microtine
lemur lemurian
leopard leopardess leap or lepe (both obsolete)
limpet patelline
lion lioness cub
lion cub
lionet
pride growl
roar
leonine
lionish

liger
tigon
lizard lacertian
lacertine
saurian
llama cama
lobster cock hen homarine lobsterish
locust chirp acridian
locustal
locustian
locustical
louse nit pedicular
pediculine

M

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
mackerel scombroid
magpie chatter garruline mag
pie
mammal mammalian
marsupial marsupial
marten musteline
mink kit
mite acarian
acarid
acaridan
acarine
moa dinornithine
mole labour (obsolete) moley
talpine
mollusc molluscan
molluscous
mongoose cub
kit
band
pack
monitor varanian
varanid
monitor lizard
mosquito wriggler (larva) trumpet
moth caterpillar lepidopterous
moth (clothes moth) tineid
mouse mouse-hole a
mousery a
nest a
peep
squeak
mousy
murine
mule hinny
zebrule
mullet mugiloid
muskrat kit
mussel mytiloid

N

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
nightingale watch

O

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
octopus octopean
octopian
octopic
octopine
orca calf gam
pod
school
shoal
grampus
killer whale
oryx orygine
osprey pandionine fish eagle
fish hawk
ostrich cock hen hatchling
chick
struthioid
struthionine
struthious
otter dog bitch (rare) cub couch a
holt a
lodge a
lutrine
owl owlet owlery parliament hoot
screech
tu-whit tu-whoo
owlish
owly
strigine
ox bull u
steer c
ox c
bullock c
cow calf
stirk
bull-calf m
cow-calf f
heifer f
barn (US) h
boose h
byre h
corral h
cowhouse h
cowshed h
cow-stable h
cow-stall h
crib h
cub h
hemel/hemmel h
kraal h
pen h
stall h
bunch (US)
herd
drove
mob (Australian)
bellow (bull)
low
moo
roar (bull)
bovine
taurine m
beefalo
cattabu
cattalo or catalo
cattle
dam
dzo or zo
freemartin
steerling
team
oyster brood
oysterling
spat
hive h ostraceous
ostracean
ostreaceous
oysterous
oystery

P

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
pachyderm pachydermatous
palm-cat paradoxurine
panther pantheress cub pantherine
parrot chick squawk parroty
psittacine
partridge covey perdicine
peafowl peacock peahen peachick muster pavonine
penguin chick rookery a
penguinery a/h
penguinry penguinesque
penguinish
penguinlike
perch percine
percher passerine
phalanger phalangistine
pheasant eye (obsolete) a
nide a
nye (dialect) a
pheasantry h
phasianine brace
pig boar u
hog c
sow hogget
piglet
pigling
shoat m
gilt f
cote h
pen h
pig-cote h
pigpen h
pigsty h
sty h
herd
pig-herd
sounder
oink
grunt
squeal
aprine (of wild boar; obsolete)
piggy
porcine
suidian
suilline
suine (nonce word)
farrow
piggy
porker
swine
pigeon piper
squab
pigeon-cote
pigeon-house
pigeon-loft
loft
kit coo peristeronic
plover congregation (obsolete)
polecat kit fitchet or fitchew
foumart
polyp polypine
porcupine hystricine
porpoise calf school cetacean
Portuguese man-of-war physalian
primate primatal
puffin puffling
python pythonine

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
quail bevy

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
rabbit buck doe kitten burrow a
cony-garth a
hutch h
rabbit-hole a
rabbitry h
rabbit-warren a
warren a
fluffle squeak leporine
rabbitish
rabbity
bunny
bunny rabbit
coney or cony
raccoon trill
rail ralline
rat kitten
puppy
nest a
rat-cage h
rat-hole a
rattery h
rattish
ratty
rattlesnake crotaline rattler (US)
raven ravenry a/h unkindness croak corvine
reindeer see deer above see deer above see deer above see deer above see deer above see deer above rangiferine see deer above
reptile reptilarium h
reptiliary h
reptillery h
reptilian
rhinoceros calf crash rhinocerotic
robin cock
cock-robin
hen redbreast
rodent nest a rodential
rodentian
glirine
roe deer roebuck roe-doe see deer above see deer above bevy see deer above see deer above roe
rook squab clamour
ruff ree
reeve

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
saki pithecian
salmon cock hen samlet salmonoid brandling
grilse
parr
peal
samlet
skegger
smolt
scorpion scorpionid
seal bull cow calf
puppy
rookery a
seal rookery a
pod phocine
sea-urchin echinal
sheep buck u (US)
ram u
tup u
wether c
ewe lamb
hogg
yeanling
cot or cote h
fold h
pen h
sheepfold h
sheepcote h
sheep-pen h
drove
flock
herd
trip (dialect or obsolete)
baa
bleat
ovine
sheepy
cade
chilver
gilter
thrinter
shrew soricine
skink scincoid
slug limaceous
limacine
limacoid
snail snailery h limaceous
snaily
snake ophidarium h
ophidiarium h
serpentarium h
snake-house h
snakery h
brood (of young) hiss anguine
ophidian
serpentine
serpent
snipe wisp
songbird song oniscine
oscine
sparrow cock
cock-sparrow
hen colony
sparrowhawk musket (obsolete)
spider cobweb a
spider's web a
web a
arachnidan
araneidan
spiderling
squirrel kitten dray or drey a sciurine
squirrelly
skug
starling chattering
murmuration
sturnine
stork mustering
swallow flight hirundine
swan cob pen cygnet swannery h bank
bevy
game
herd
lamentation
cycnean
cygnean
swanny

T

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
tapeworm taenioid
tarsier tarsioid
teal spring (archaic)
termite termitarium a
termitary a
termitic
termitine
thrush thrushling turdine
tick see mite
tiger tigress cub
tiger cub
growl tigerish
tigerly
tigery
tigrine

liger
tigon
tit parine titmouse
toad toady
torpedo torpedinoid
tortoise chelonian
testudinal
testudinate
testudinian
turkey tom
turkey-cock
turkey-hen turkey-chick
chick
gobble
turtle turtlet chelonian

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
viper viperine
viperish
adder
vole microtine
vulture vulturine

W

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
wasp bike/byke a
nest a
vespiary a
vespine
waspish
whale bull cow calf whalery h mob (Shetland dialect)
pod
school
sing cetacean
whalish
wigeon company
trip
wolf dog bitch
she-wolf
cub
wolf cub
wolfling
pack
wolf pack
bark
bay
howl
lupine
wolfish
wolfy
wolfdog
wombat cub marsupial

woodcock fall (obsolete)
woodlouse oniscoid
woodpecker picine
worm wormery h
worm farm h
vermian
wormy

vermiform

X, Y, Z

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Animal Male Female Young Home Group Sound Adjective Related terms
yak dzo or zo
zebra mare herd
zeal
neigh
whinny
nicker
zebrine zebrinny
zebroid
zebrule
zeedonk
zeehorse
zetland
zonkey
zony
zorse
zho zobo zhomo

Terms to be checked

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The terms below have not yet been verified. They will be researched at some point and added to the table if they are confirmed to be correct.

Not found in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989) nor in onelook as of November 2006:

See also

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