Animals, Insects, & Birds Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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Non-plant life forms other than humans: wildlife, domesticated creatures, insects, fish, shellfish, mammals, birds, pets, etc. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

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slow elk n. A slow elk is the cattle rustler’s (cattle thief’s) term for a calf. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Jun. 25, 2005)

snood n. “(Look at) the red coloration on the male turkey’s head,” explains the biologist. “He has an appendage of skin that sticks out right between it’s eyes. When it’s mating, that enlarges and droops down over its bill, and that’s called a snood.” [English Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Nov. 26, 2006)

snow nose n. Some dogs have what’s called a snow nose; it’s lighter in the winter and darkens (under the sun) in summer. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Mar. 1, 2007)

spaghetti tag n. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game tagged the shark Foy caught with what is known as a spaghetti tag in Prince William Sound in 1999. She is No. 990432 and was tagged with about 230 other sharks that year. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Feb. 12, 2007)

spike n. Seibelman raises maggots, commonly known in ice-fishing parlance as “spikes,” or, perhaps a bit more technically accurate, fly larva. Not just any fly larva, Seibelman says; he produces larva from large blow flies. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Dec. 21, 2005)

spook n. Sandi has a chronic cough after surviving a fire at the track last year. Marco because he’s a “spook,” what the industry calls extremely shy dogs. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Jargon] [full cite] (Nov. 8, 2006)

squatch n. From more than 30 expeditions, we know that sasquatches are primates with certain predictable behavior patterns.…The name “bigfoot” has caught on with the public, but most investigators refer to them as “squatches.” [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 10, 2007)

squibbon n. “Squibbons,” a hybrid squid-gibbon ape, live in trees, eat plants as well as flish and “represent the pinnacle of intelligent life on Earth,” according to Dixon and Adams’ vision. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Biology] [full cite] (May. 4, 2005)

stigmergy n. His hypothesis of “stigmergy” is that building behavior is at first uncoordinated…when the construction at any one point reaches a certain critical density it attracts other termites topochemically. These focuses of the building material determine where the new pellets of earth used in the building are to be deposited. The constructions built thus act as new determinant stimuli for further construction. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Science Jargon] [full cite] (May. 10, 2004)

stigmergy n. The World-Wide Web is human stigmergy. The web and its ability to let anyone read anything and also to write back to that environment allows stigmeric communication between humans. Some of the most powerful forces on the web today, Google and weblogs are fundamentally driven by stigmeric communication and their behaviour follows similar natural systems like Ant Trails and Nest Building that are accomplished using stigmergy. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Science Jargon] [full cite] (May. 10, 2004)

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