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List of animal names. Mother sea otter with sleeping pup, Morro Bay, California. In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on ...
Secret Service code name. President John F. Kennedy, codename "Lancer" with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, codename "Lace". The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. [1] The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when ...
macaw. Tupi. From ará ("macaw"), an onomatopoeia based on the sound of their call. [21] Arackar licanantay †. titanosaur. Kunza †. Arackar means "skeleton" and licanatay is another name for the Atacama people, the indigenous inhabitants of the region where the holotype was found, who previously spoke Kunza.
ˆ. Lists of amphibians of the United States (1 C, 32 P) Lists of birds of the United States (1 C, 90 P) Lists of fishes of the United States (25 P) Lists of mammals of the United States (1 C, 54 P) Lists of reptiles of the United States (1 C, 30 P)
A code name, codename, call sign or cryptonym is a code word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project, or person. Code names are often used for military purposes, or in espionage. They may also be used in industrial counter-espionage to protect secret projects and the like from business rivals, or to give ...
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...
The reconstructed Old Chinese pronunciation of the Chinese word is /ni[ŋ]/. A Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-mi(j)-n gives rise to Old Chinese /*miŋ/, modern Chinese 民 mín "people" and to Tibetan མི mi "person, human being". In some tribal or band societies, the local endonym is indistinguishable from the word for "men, human beings".
Animal turning into a human. Bak (Assamese aqueous creature) Bakeneko (cat) Boto Encantado (river dolphin) Jorōgumo (spider) Kitsune, Huli Jing and Kumiho (fox) Kushtaka (Otter) Lady White Snake, Ichchhadhari Nag and Yuxa (snake) Myrmidons (ant) Pipa Jing (jade pipa) Selkie (seal) Tanuki (racoon dog) Toyotama-hime (crocodile or shark) Tsuru ...