Wiktionary Appendix: Animals

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Table of contents

1 Taxonomy of the animal kingdom 2 Male and female animals, their young, homes, groups, sounds and related adjectives 2.1 Adjectives to be checked 2.2 See also

Taxonomy of the animal kingdom

• See the Wikipedia article on animals

Male and female animals, their young, homes, groups, sounds and related adjectives

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 technical Latinate terms (such as equine) and common English terms (such as horsy).

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.

Animal	Male	Female	Young	Home	Group	Sound	Adjective	Related terms
general			baby, baby + name of animal	burrow a, den a, hold a, hole a, lair a, menagerie h, zoo or zoological gardens h	colony		name of animal + (-)like (eg cat-like)	hibernaculum, litter
agouti							dasyproctid, dasyproctine
alligator	bull	cow	hatchling
amphibian							amphibian
ant				ant-hive h, ants' nest a, formicarium a, formicary a, nest a			formicid	nurse, worker
ant-eater							myrmecophagous
antelope			kid				antilopine	bok
ape					troop, shrewdness		apish, simian
ass	jackass, jack	jenny-ass, jenny, she-ass				bray, hee-haw	asinine	donkey
badger			kit, kitten	hole a, set or sett a			meline
bat							cheiropterous
bear		she-bear	bear cub, cub		sloth	growl	bearish, ursine
beaver				beavery a/h, lodge a
bee	drone	queen		apiary h, beehive h, hive h	swarm	buzz, hum	apian	nurse, worker
beetle			grub				coleopterous
bird	cock, cock-bird	hen, hen-bird	chick, squab	aviary h, bird-cage h, bird's nest a, hive-nest a, nest a, nest-box h, nesting-box h, nesting-place a	flock	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						boom
bug							hemipteral, hemipteran, hemipterous
bulldog			bull-pup
butterfly		caterpillar					lepidopterous, papilionaceous
camel							cameline
capuchin monkey							cebine
carnivore							carnivorous
carp							cyprine
cat	tom, tomcat	queen	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	hen	chick	battery h, chicken run h, coop h, hen-house h, pen h, run h	flock	cackle, chuck, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, crow, pule	gallinaceous, galline	clutch, cockerel
civet							viverrine
cockroach
cod							gadoid, gadine
crane						clang
crane-fly							tipulid
cricket						chirp, churr	crickety
crocodile							crocodilian
crow					murder	caw	corvine
crustacean							crustacean
deer	buck	doe	fawn, calf		herd	bell, troat	cervine	hart, hind, knobber, royal, spitter, stag
dinosaur							dinosaurian
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
dove			dove-bird (obsolete), doveling	columbarium, dovecot or dovecote h, dovehouse h	flight	coo	columbine, dovish (mainly in political sense)
duck	drake	duck	duckling			quack	anatine
eagle		eagle hen	eaglet	eyrie or eyry or aerie or aery a		squawk	aquiline
earthworm (see also worm below)							lumbricine
echidna			puggle
eel			elver					eelfare
elephant	bull	cow	calf		herd	trumpet	elephantine
falcon							falconine
ferret	buck, hob, hob-ferret	gill, jill	kit
finch					charm, chirm (obsolete)
fish			fry, spawn	aquarium h, fish-pond h	school, shoal		fishy, piscine
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	vixen, fox bitch	cub, fox cub, kit	burrow a, earth a, fox burrow a, fox-earth a, hole a, kennel a	skulk	bark, yap, yelp	foxy, vulpine
frog			froglet, frogling, tadpole	froggery a, ranarium h	froggery	croak	froggy, ranid	frog spawn
gadfly							tabanid
game								brace
gerfalcon	tercel jerkin
giraffe							giraffine	camelopard
goat	billy-goat, buck, buck-goat, he-goat	nanny-goat, nanny, she-goat	goatling, kid, kidling			bleat	caprine, goatish, goaty, hircine	geep
gnat							trumpet
goose	gander	goose	gosling		flock, gaggle (on water), skein (in flight)	cackle, clang, hiss, honk	anserine, goosy
grasshopper						pitter	acridian
grouse							tetraonid, tetraonine
guinea-fowl	guinea-cock	guinea-hen
gull							laridine
hare	buck, jack hare	doe	leveret		huske (obsolete), down (obsolete)		leporine
hawk	tercel, tiercel, tercelet, tiercelet				mew h		falconine	eyas
hedgehog							erinaceous
herbivore							herbivorous
heron				heronry h
hippopotamus							hippopotamian, hippopotamic, hippopotamine	hippo
hornet				nest a
horse	entire u, stallion u, gelding c	mare	colt, foal, hogget, filly f	mews h, stable h, stall h		neigh, whinny	equine, horsy	dam, gee-gee, sire
house fly			larva		swarm		muscid
human	man	woman	child, boy m, girl f				hominid
hyena							hyenesque, hyenic, hyenine, hyenish
hyrax							hyracine
iguana							ignuanian, iguanid
insect			grub, larva	insectarium h			insectan	bug, chrysalis, creepy-crawly, imago, pseudiamgo, pupa, subimago
jackdaw								daw
kangaroo			joey				macropine	boomer, roo
kite						pule	milvine
koala								Australian bear, koala bear, native bear
lapwing					desert
lark					bevy, exaltation
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
lizard							lacertian, lacertine, saurian
locust							acridian, locustal
louse			nit				pedicular, pediculine
mackerel							scombroid
magpie								mag, pie
mammal							mammalian
marsupial							marsupial
marten							musteline
mink			kit
mite							acarian, acarine
moa							dinornithine
mole					labour (obsolete)		moley, talpine
mollusc							molluscan, molluscous
mongoose			cub, kit		band, pack	meef
monitor							varanian	monitor lizard
mosquito						trumpet
moth		caterpillar					lepidopterous
moth (clothes moth)							tineid
mouse				mouse-hole a, mousery a, nest a		peep, squeak	mousy, murine
mule								hinny
mullet							mugiloid
muskrat			kit
mussel							mytiloid
nightingale					watch
octopus							octopean, octopian, octopic, octopine
oryx							orygine
osprey							pandionine	fish eagle, fish hawk
ostrich							struthious
otter				couch a, holt a, lodge a
owl			owlet	owlery		hoot, screech, tu-whit tu-whoo	owlish, owly, strigine
ox	bull u, ox c, bullock c	cow	calf, stirk, bull-calf m, cow-calf f, heifer f	barn (US) h, byre h, corral h, cowhouse h, cowshed h, cow-stable h, cow-stall h, crib h, cub h, kraal h, pen h, stall h	herd, drove	bellow (bull), low, moo, roar (bull)	bovine, taurine m	cattabu, cattalo or catalo, cattle, dam, freemartin, steerling, team
oyster			brood, spat	hive h			ostraceous, ,ostracean
pachyderm							pachydermatous
palm-cat							paradoxurine
panther		pantheress					pantherine
parrot						squawk	parroty, psittacine
partridge					covey		perdicine
peafowl	peacock	peahen			muster		pavonine
penguin				penguinery a
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	cote h, pen h, pig-cote h, pigpen h, pigsty h, sty h	herd, pig-herd, sounder	grunt, squeal	piggy, porcine, suidian, suilline	farrow, piggy, porker, swine
pigeon			piper, squab	pigeon-cote, pigeon-house, pigeon-loft, loft		coo
plover					congregation (obsolete)
polecat			kit					fitchet or fitchew, foumart
porcupine							hystricine
porpoise					school
Portuguese man-of-war							physalian
primate							primatal
python							pythonine
quail					bevy
rabbit	buck	doe		burrow a, hutch h, rabbit-hole a, rabbitry h, rabbit-warren a, warren a			rabbitish, rabbity
rail							ralline
rat			puppy	nest a, rat-cage h, rat-hole a, rattery h			rattish, ratty
rattlesnake							crotaline	rattler (US)
raven				ravenry a/h		croak	corvine
reindeer							rangiferine
rhinoceros							rhinocerotic
robin	cock, cock-robin	hen						redbreast
rodent				nest a			rodential, rodentian, glirine
roe deer	roebuck	roe-doe			bevy			roe
rook			squab
ruff		ree, reeve
salmon			grilse, peal, smolt				salmonoid
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	cot or cote h, fold h, pen h, sheepfold h, sheepcote h, sheep-pen h	flock, drove	baa, bleat	ovine, sheepy
shrew							soricine
skink							scincoid
slug							limacine
snail				snailery h			snaily
snake				snake-house h, snakery h		hiss	anguine, ophidian, serpentine	serpent
snipe					wisp
songbird						song	oniscine, oscine
sparrow	cock, cock-sparrow	hen
spider				cobweb a, spider's web a, web a			arachnidan, araneidan
squirrel				dray or drey a			sciurine, squirrelly	skug
starling					murmuration		sturnine
swallow					flight		hirundine
swan	cob	pen	cygnet	swannery h			cycnean, cygnean, swanny
tapeworm							taenioid
tarsier							tarsioid
teal					spring (archaic)
termite				termitarium a, termitary a			termitic, termitine
thrush			thrushling				turdine
tiger		tigress	cub, tiger cub			growl	tigerish, tigerly, tigery, tigrine	tigon
tit							parine	titmouse
toad							toady
torpedo							torpedinoid
tortoise							chelonian, testudinian
turkey	turkey-cock	turkey-hen	turkey-chick, chick			gobble
turtle							chelonian
viper							viperine, viperish	adder
vole							microtine
vulture							vulturine
wasp	drone	queen	larvae	nest a, vespiary a			vespine, waspish
weasel							musteline
whale	bull	cow	calf	whalery h	pod, school		cetacean, whalish
wolf	dog	bitch, she-wolf	cub, wolf cub, wolfling		pack, wolf pack	bark, bay, howl	lupine, wolfish, wolfy
woodcock					fall (obsolete)
woodlouse							oniscoid
woodpecker							picine
worm (see also earthworm above)				wormery h			vermian, wormy
Yak
zebra							zebrine	zebrinny, zebrule
zho	zobo	zhomo

Adjectives to be checked

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

• leech: hirudinal
• mongoose: herpestine
• ostrich: struthionine
• otter: lutrine
• pig: suine
• rabbit: leporine
• reptile: reptilian
• skunk: musteline

From Category:English collective nouns - some of these are already in the table:

• band of coyotes, etc.
• bevy of beauties.
• brood of chicks, etc.
• clutch of eggs, etc.
• colony of ants.
• flock of birds, sheep, etc.
• gaggle of geese.
• herd of cattle, sheep, etc.
• litter of cubs, kittens, etc.
• mob of kangaroos, emus, etc.
• murder of crows.
• pack of dogs, etc.
• pod of whales or dolphins.
• pride of lions.
• school of fish.
• shoal of fish.
• swarm of bees, flies, etc.

See also

• List of collective terms for animals compiled by the Oxford English Dictionary
• List of adjectives for animals