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Monday, February 14, 2011

Animals/ 動物/الحيوانات

Generic terms

This table contains terms generally applicable across some common categories of animals.
Animal Young Female Male Group Adjective Sex unspecified generic term
Bird chick hen cock flock avian bird
Bovine calf cow bull herd bovine cow, cattle
Canine pup bitch dog pack canine dog
Feline kitten, cub queen tom clan feline cat
Fish fry, fingerling

school, shoal piscine, ichthyic fish

 Terms by species

Animal Young Female Male Group Adjective Meat
Aardvark cub sow boar pack, grouping

African buffalo calf cow bull


Alligator hatchling cow bull bask, congregation eusuchian
American Bison (Buffalo) calf cow bull herd bovine, bubaline
Ant larva, pupa queen, worker, gyne drone army, colony, nest, swarm, byke formic, myrmecine
Anteater pup sow boar


Antelope calf doe buck herd, cluster alcelaphine, bubaline, antilopine
Ape infant shrewdness, troop simian
Armadillo pup, baby sow boar herd, arrangement, pack cingulatan
Donkey foal jenny jack pace, band, drove, herd, coffle asinine
Baboon infant
troop, tribe, flange, congress

Badger cub sow boar cete, colony, sett, company musteline
Barracuda



percesocine
Bat pup colony, cloud, cauldron pteropine, noctillionine
Bear cub sow boar sleuth, sloth ursine
Beaver kit, kitten, pup family, colony

Bee larva, pupa queen, worker  drone grist, hive, swarm, colony apic, apian, apiarian
Bison calf cow bull herd, troop

Boar shoat

sounder

Bush baby infant queen king, drake congress, plot, gathering galagine
Butterfly caterpillar

rabble, flight, flutter, swarm pieridine, pierine
Camel calf cow bull flock,herd camelid, cameline
Cat kitten, kit molly, queen, pussy tom  clowder, clan,cluster, clutter, glaring, kindle (young) feline
Cattle calf cow bull herd, drift, drove, mob bovine, vituline (young), vaccine (female), taurine (male) beef, veal
Chamois calf doe bull herd rupicaprine
Cheetah cub

coalition

Chicken chick, peep hen, pullet rooster, cock(-erel) flock, brood galline poultry
Chimpanzee infant empress blackback troop, group, harem panine
Cobra


quiver, has elapid
Cockroach nymph

intrusion blattid
Cormorant chick

gulp, flight

Cougar cub cougress



Coyote cub, pup, whelp bitch dog pack, train canine
Crab hen cock, jimmy consortium cancrine
Crane chick, colt

herd, sedge, siege alectorine
Crocodile hatchling cow bull bask, nest, congregation, float crocodilian
Crow


hover, murder, parcel corvine
Deer calf, fawn doe, hind, cow buck, stag, bul, hart (red deer) herd, mob, rangale cervine, elaphine venison, humble (organ meat)
Dog whelp, pup, puppy bitch, dam dog, stud, sire pack, litter (young), kennel, gang, legion canine
Dogfish


troop
capeshark (USA), rock salmon (UK), flake (UK, AUS), huss (UK), rigg (UK), kahada (CAN)
Dolphin calf, pup cow bull team, school, pod, herd, team, alliance (male), party (female) delphine
Donkey/Ass foal jenny jack pace, band, drove, herd, coffle asinine
Dove chick hen cock cote, flight, dole, dule, piteousness, troop columbine
Dragonfly nymph queen king, drake cluster, flight anisopteran
Duck duckling duck, hen drake flock, brace, bunch (on water), team anatine, fuliguline poultry
Dugong calf cow bull herd dugongine
Eagle eaglet convocation, brood, aerie aquiline
Echidna puggle sow boar flock, parade, herd tachyglossine
Eel leptocephalus (larva), elver (juvenile) swarm, cell, pipe, array

Eland calf




Elephant calf cow bull herd, flock, parade Proboscine, Proboscidean
Elephant seal calf cow bull herd, pack, arrangement miroungan
Elk (wapiti) calf cow bull gang, herd cervine venison
Falcon eyass/eyas falcon tiercel gross, battalion acciptrine
Ferret kit jill hob business, fesny(i)ng musteline
Finch chick hen cock quiver fringilline
Fly maggot

swarm, cloud, business dipterous
Fox cub, kit, pup vixen tod, dog leash, skulk vulpine
Frog polliwog, tadpole, froglet - - colony,bundle ranine
Gaur calf cow bull herd bovine, gaurine garabeef
Gazelle calf cow bull herd gazelline
Gerbil pup doe buck horde cricetine
Giant Panda cub sow boar


Giraffe calf, giraffeling cow bull herd, journey, stretch, tower giraffine
Gnu calf




Goat kid doe, doeling buck, buckling herd, mob, tribe caprine, hircine chevon, cabrito, mutton
Goose gosling goose gander gaggle (skein when in flight) anatine, anserine poultry
Gorilla infant blackback,
silverback
troop, group (band) simian
Guanaco chulengo


camelid
Guinea fowl chick hen cock rasp numidine poultry
Guinea pig pup sow boar herd

Gull chick, scorrie hen cock flock larine
Hamster pup doe buck horde, saladbowl cricetid
Hare leveret doe, jill buck, jack band, down leverine, leporine
Hawk eyas hen tiercel cast, kettle, boil accipitrine, falconine
Hedgehog hoglet sow boar array erinaceine
Heron


siege

Hippopotamus calf cow bull bloat, crash, herd, thunder hippopotamine
Hornet larvae, pupae queen drone swarm vespine
Horse foal, colt (male), filly (female) mare stallion herd, band, mob equine
Human child, girl, boy woman man people, band, crowd, clan, tribe, children (young) human long pig (See cannibalism)
Hyena cub, pup, whelp bitch dog clan, cackle hyenine
Iguana



iguanine
Jackal pup

pack

Jaguar cub

shadow

Jellyfish planula, polyp, ephyra sow boar smack, smuck, smuth ,fluther, bloom scyphozoan
Kangaroo joey flyer, doe boomer, buck mob, troop, court macropodine
Koala joey doe buck colony, population phascolarctine
Komodo dragon hatchling, chick, calf cow, hen bull, cock bank varanine
Kouprey calf cow bull herd sauveline, bovine
Kudu calf

fork|
Lark chick hen cock exaltation alaudine
Lemur infant princess dictator plot, congress, conspiracy lemurine
Leopard cub leopardess leopard leap, lepe pardine
Lion cub lioness lion pride leonine
Llama cria hembra macho herd, flock camelid
Loris infant doe buck colony, drove, harem, troop lorisine
Louse nymph colony, infestation, lice pediculine
Lobster
hen cock risk homarine
Lyrebird
hen cock musket menurine
Magpie chick hen cock tiding, tittering, gulp, murder, charm, flock garruline
Mallard duckling hen drake sord, lute, brace, puddling, flush anatine poultry
Manatee calf cow bull herd manatine, sirenian
Meerkat pup mob, clan, gang
Mink cub, kit sow boar
musteline
Mole pup sow boar labour, company, movement talpine
Monkey infant troop, tribe simian
Moose calf cow bull herd cervine venison
Mouse pinkie, kitten, pup doe buck nest, colony, harvest, horde, mischief murine pinkie/fuzzie/hopper (pet food)
Mosquito nymph, wriggler, tumbler scourge, swarm, cloud aedine, anopheline
Mule foal molly, mare mule john, horse mule barren, pack, span, rake

Nightingale chick hen cock watch, flock, route, match philomelian
Okapi calf cow bull herd okapine
Oryx calf




Ostrich hatchling, chick

flock, troop ratite, struthious
Otter pup, whelp sow boar romp, bevy, lodge, family, raft musteline, lutrine
Owl owlet

parliament, stare, wisdom strigine
Ox calf cow bull yoke, team, drove, herd, nye bovine
Oyster spat

bed, hive, cast, culch ostracine meat
Panther cub pantheress

pantherine
Partridge chick hen, chantelle cock covey perdicine
Peafowl chick, peachick peahen peacock party, muster, ostentation, pride pavonine poultry
Pelican chick, nestling

scoop, pod

Penguin chick, nestling


spheniscine
Pig piglet, shoat/shote (a young, just weaned pig), gilt (female) sow boar herd, drove,sounder, mob, drift porcine, suilline pork, ham, bacon
Pigeon squab hen cock flight, loft, flock, kit pullastrine squab
Pony foal (either sex), colt (young, immature male), filly (young, immature female) mare stallion herd, marmalade, string equine
Porcupine pup sow boar prickle hystricine
Quelea chick hen cock flock, swarm queline
Rabbit bunny, kit, kitten, nestling doe, jill buck, jack warren, nest, colony, bevy, bury, drove, trace leporine
Raccoon cub, kit sow boar nursery, gaze procyonine
Rail chick reeve ruff
ralline
Ram lamb ewe ram flock arietine, ovine lamb and mutton
Rat kitten, nestling, pinkie, pup doe buck colony, horde, mischief, pack, plague, swarm murine
Raven


unkindness congress, conspiracy, parliament, murder, crime corvine
Red deer calf hind stag herd
venison
Red panda cub sow boar pack ailuirine
Reindeer (caribou) calf cow bull herd rangiferine
Rhinoceros calf cow bull crash, herd ceratorhine
Salamander tadpole, salamanderling sow boar maelstrom, band caudatan
Sea lion pup, beach weaner, calf cow bull pod, colony, crash, flock, harem, bob, herd, rookery, team, hurdle otarine
Seal pup cow bull pod, rookery, bob, herd, harem phocine
Seahorse seafoal seamare seastallion shoal hippocampal
Seastar chick hen cock group, school asteridan
Shark cub

hogue selachian
Sheep lamb ewe ram drove, mob, flock, herd ovine lamb, mutton, hoggett, haggis (visceral meat)
Shrew shrewlet, baby sow boar colony, race, drove soricine
Skunk kit sow boar


Snail - n/a n/a hood gastropodian escargot
Snake snakelet, hatchling (a newly-hatched snake) pit, nest or bed anguine, elapine, serpentine, viperine, ophidian
Spider spiderling

cluster, clutter arachnine, arachnoid
Squid chick hen cock roundup, audience tethidine calamari
Squirrel pup, kit, kitten doe buck squad, dray, scurry sciurine
Swan cygnet, flapper pen cob flock cygnine
Tapir calf cow bull measure, herd tapirine
Tarsier infant doe buck herd, plot, harem, troop tarsiine
Tiger cub tigress tiger streak tigrine
Toad tadpole, toadlet knot, lump ranine, batrachian
Turkey poult hen tom, gobbler, stag, jake (immature) cream, rafter

Turtle hatchling bale, dule chelonian
Vicuña calf cow, señorita bull, señor posse, herd cameline
Walrus calf cow bull herd, flock odobenine
Wasp larva queen, worker drone swarm, hive vespine
Water buffalo calf cow bull pot
carabeef
Weasel pup bitch, doe, jill buck, dog, hub, jack sneak, gang musteline
Whale calf cow bull gam, pod, herd, school cetacean, cetaceous
Wolf cub, pup whelp bitch, she-wolf dog pack lupine
Worm wormlet

bed, bunch, clew, squirm helminthic, vermian
Yak calf cow bull herd, cabinet

Zebra foal mare stallion dazzle[citation needed], herd zebrine, hippotigrine



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