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The Latin name of a group of plants or animals.
The naming system runs on endings, which is why there are so many. -idae is an animal family, -aceae a plant family, -inae a subfamily, -ales an order. achetidae is the crickets, acraeinae is a group of butterflies, agalenidae is the funnel-weaver spiders.
They are capitalised in real use but arrive here in lower case like everything else.
2,849 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
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| Word, sorted Z to A | What it names |
|---|---|
| abelicea | genus of elm-family trees (Zelkova) |
| abietineae | former tribe of conifers |
| acanthomeridae | family of giant flies |
| acarida | order of mites |
| acaridea | group of mites |
| acephalina | suborder of gregarine protozoa |
| achetidae | family of crickets |
| achlamydeae | flowering plants lacking a perianth |
| acholoe | genus of scale worms |
| achordata | animals without a notochord |
| achromatiaceae | family of colorless sulfur bacteria |
| achromobacterieae | tribe of bacteria |
| achyrodes | genus of grasses (Lamarckia) |
| acinetaria | group of suctorian protozoa |
| acinetina | group of suctorian protozoa |
| acipenseroidei | suborder of sturgeons |
| acmaeidae | family of limpets |
| acnida | genus of amaranths, water hemp |
| acocanthera | genus of poisonous African shrubs |
| acoelomata | animals lacking a coelom |
| acoelomi | animals lacking a coelom |
| acraeinae | subfamily of butterflies |
| acrasiaceae | family of cellular slime molds |
| acrasiales | order of cellular slime molds |
| acrasida | group of cellular slime molds |
| acrasieae | group of cellular slime molds |
| acridiidae | family of grasshoppers |
| acroceratidae | family of small-headed flies |
| acroceridae | family of small-headed flies |
| acrochordidae | family of wart snakes |
| acrochordinae | subfamily of wart snakes |
| acrogynae | group of liverworts |
| acromyodi | group of true songbirds |
| acronycta | genus of dagger moths |
| acrosticheae | group of ferns |
| acrostichum | genus of leather ferns |
| acrotreta | genus of fossil brachiopods |
| acrotretidae | family of fossil brachiopods |
| acrydium | genus of grasshoppers |
| actaeaceae | plant family based on Actaea |
| actaeonidae | family of sea snails |
| actiniomorpha | group of sea anemones |
| actinocrinidae | family of fossil crinoids |
| actinoida | order of sea anemones |
| actinoidea | group of actinozoans |
| actinomyxidia | order of myxosporidian parasites |
| actinomyxidiida | order of actinomyxidian protozoa |
| actinonema | genus of leaf-spot fungi |
| actinopoda | group of radiolarian protozoa |
| actinosphaerium | genus of heliozoan protozoa |
| actipylea | order of radiolarians |
| acutilinguae | division of sharp-tongued bees |
| adelarthra | group of arachnids |
| adelarthrosomata | arachnid group Adelarthrosomata |
| adeleidae | family of coccidian protozoa |
| adelochorda | group of hemichordates |
| adelops | genus of blind cave beetles |
| adenanthera | genus of leguminous trees |
| adenophora | genus of bellflowers |
| adenophoreus | gland-bearing taxon (cf. Adenophorea) |
| adinida | order of dinoflagellates |
| aecidiaceae | family of rust fungi |
| aecidiomycetes | class of rust fungi |
| aegeriidae | family of clearwing moths |
| aegialitis | genus of plovers (also of mangroves) |
| aegithognathae | group of passerine birds |
| aeolidae | family of nudibranch molluscs |
| aeolididae | family of nudibranch molluscs |
| aepyornithiformes | order of elephant birds |
| aequipalpia | insect division with equal palpi |
| aerobranchia | group of air-breathing gilled animals |
| aerocharidae | a zoological family (Aerocharidae) |
| aesculaceae | horse-chestnut family |
| aetomorphae | group of eagle-like birds of prey |
| agalena | genus of funnel-web spiders (Agelena) |
| agalenidae | family of funnel-weaver spiders |
| agapetidae | family of satyrine butterflies |
| agaristidae | family of noctuoid moths |
| agastreae | group of sponges lacking a gastric cavity |
| agelacrinites | genus of fossil edrioasteroids |
| agelacrinitidae | family of fossil edrioasteroids |
| agelaus | genus of American blackbirds (Agelaius) |
| aglypha | series of snakes with ungrooved fangs |
| aglyphodonta | division of ungrooved-toothed snakes |
| aglyphodontia | division of ungrooved-fanged snakes |
| agnathostomata | superorder of jawless-mouthed sea urchins |
| agoniatites | genus of Devonian ammonoids |
| agriochoeridae | family of extinct artiodactyls |
| agrionia | group of damselflies (Agrion) |
| agrionidae | family of damselflies |
| agriotypidae | family of aquatic parasitic wasps |
| agriotypus | genus of aquatic ichneumon wasps |
| aigialosauridae | family of extinct marine lizards |
| ailuroidea | superfamily of cat-like carnivores |
| ailuropus | genus of the giant panda |
| aistopodes | order of extinct limbless amphibians |
| alactaga | genus of jerboas (Allactaga) |
| albuginaceae | family of white-rust fungi |
| alcaligenes | genus of bacteria |
| alcedininae | subfamily of kingfishers |
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