Animals Flashcards
general behaviour
active dormant solitary, reclusive gregarious, social sedentary, settled nomadic, migrating
size
very large, massive, giant large medium, intermediate small very small, pygmy
Development
full-grown, mature
young, immature
Body
long-bodied short-bodied heavy-bodied, stocky, stubby, chunky low-slung sleek-bodied, slender
Colouration
plain, colourful, marked, unmarked, regular (markings), irregular, uniform, variable, alternating, dense, scattered, tinged, tinted, tipped, ringed (spots), buff, tawny, dusky, grizzled
Areas of body
above, below on the back or top side, dorsal on or along the side, lateral on the stomach or underside, ventral upperpart, underpart front/anterior hind/posterior
close together (antonym)
widely spaced, separated
close together
joined, webbed, proximal
parts of body
well-developed
poorly developed
undeveloped
no longer used as a body part, vestigial
warm blooded
endothermic, homoiothermic
cold-blooded
ectothermic, poikilothermic
active during daylight
diurnal
active at night
nocturnal
active at dawn or twilight
crepuscular
passing the winter in a lethargic and low-metabolic state
hibernating
passing the summer in a lethargic and low metabolic state
aestivating
two-legged
bicrural
two footed
biped
four-footed
quadruped, tetrapod
many footed
polyped
having no feet
apodal
having hand like feet
pedimanous, pedimane
having arms
brachiate
two handed
bimanous
having nails or claws
unguiculate
having feathered feet
plumiped, braccate
web footed
palmiped
capable of grasping
prehensile
capable of being extended
protractile, protrusile
capable of being drawn back
retractile
scratching the ground for food
rasorial
having ears
aurated
having a tail
caudate
having no tail
anurous
having a tail with colour hands
ring-tailed
having horns
corniculate
having no horns
acerous
having two teeth
bidentate
having no teeth
edentate
having two antennae or tentacles
dicerous
not adapted to flying
flightless
having wings
pennate, alate
having no wings
apterous
having feathers
plumaged, plumose
having a peak
rostrate, rhamphoid
having scales
squamate, squamous, squamose
shedding or peeling off scales
desquamate
having a bony or horny shell-like case
loricate
having gills
branchiate
having a thick hide
pachydermatous
having a rough skin with sharp points
muricate
having no hair
naked, hairless
having fur (pelage)
furred, furry
having shiny fur
sleek-furred
having soft hair
pilose
having bristles or spines
spiny, hispid, setaceous
covered with bristles or spines
echinate
covered with small bristles of spines
echinate
covered with small bristles of spines
echinulate
divided into defined segments or sections
segmented
of two colours
bicoloured
of three colours
tricoloured
having stripes
striped, banded
having long markings or somewhat uneven stripes
streaked
having longitudinal stripes
vittate
having transverse or crosswise stripes
cross-banded, cross-barred
having spots of colour (or black or white)
spotted, mottled, maculate, liturate
having small spots of colour (or black and white)
flecked, fleckled, speckled, specked, stippled, irrorate
having large and irregular spots
blotched
having black-and-white blotches
piebald
having patches of white and a colour not black
skewbald
having a mask-like facial marking or colouration
masked
having a visibly collar-like part or marking
collared, ruffed
having a tuft or ridge like formation on the head or back
crested
having a fin along the back
fin backd
having a highly developed sense of smell
macromatic
having a weakly developed sense of smell
microsmatic
having virtually no sense of smell
anosmatic
imitative in colour or form
apatetic
warning off by colours or changed in the body
aposematic
serving to conceal
cryptic
imitating others by things by using something as a covering
allocryptic
giving birth to young rather than producing eggs
viviparous
laying eggs
oviparous
laying eggs but retaining them until hatching time
ovoviviparous
widely distributed around the globe
cosmopolitan
dwelling in a particular region
endemic
dwelling in a particular region
endemic
dwelling in the same region or overlapping regions
sympatric
dwelling in different regions
allopatric
dwelling in the air
aerial
dwelling on the ground
terrestrial, terricolous
dwelling (insects) at or near the ground’s surface
epigeal
dwelling underground
subterranean, hypogeous
dwelling in caverns
cavernicolous
dwelling in burrows
cunicular
dwelling (insects) under a stone
lapidicolous
dwelling in a tube
tubicolous
dwelling in mud
limicolous
dwelling in dung
coprophilous, coprozioc, stercoricolous
dwelling in the desert
deserticolous
dwelling (or burrowing) in sand
arenicolous
dwelling in meadows or fields
practicolous, arvicoline
dwelling on land and in water
amphibian
dwelling in mountains
montane
dwelling in trees
arboreal
dwelling in water
aquatic
dwelling in fresh water
freshwater
dwelling in the sea
oceanic, pelagic, marine, maricolous
dwelling in active or moving waters
lotic
dwelling in still or slow moving waters
lentic
dwelling along the seacoast
litteral, orarian, limicoline
