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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 |
|---|---|
| globiocephalus | genus of pilot whales |
| glossiphonidae | family of leeches |
| gnathobdellae | group of jawed leeches |
| gnathobdellida | order of jawed leeches |
| gnathostomi | group of jawed vertebrates |
| gobia | group of goby fishes |
| gobiesocidae | family of clingfishes |
| gobioidea | superfamily of gobies |
| goniodoridae | family of nudibranch sea slugs |
| goniopholidae | family of fossil crocodilians |
| goodenoviaceae | plant family, the Goodeniaceae |
| gordiacea | order of horsehair worms |
| gorgoniacea | order of sea fans and horny corals |
| gourinae | subfamily of crowned pigeons |
| gracilariidae | family of leaf-mining moths |
| graminaceae | the grass family (Gramineae) |
| graphidiaceae | family of crustose lichens |
| grapsidae | family of shore crabs |
| grapta | genus of anglewing butterflies |
| graptolithida | order of graptolites |
| graptolithina | class of graptolites |
| graptolitoidea | group of graptolites |
| graptoloidea | order of graptolites |
| gregarinaria | group name for the gregarine protozoa |
| gregarinida | order of gregarine protozoa |
| gregarinina | suborder of gregarines |
| gregarinoidea | group of gregarine protozoa |
| gressoria | group of walking insects, the mantids |
| greyiaceae | S. African plant family Greyiaceae |
| grinnellia | genus of red algae |
| gryphosaurus | genus, Wagner's early name for Archaeopteryx |
| gymnarchidae | family of African freshwater fishes |
| gymnoblastea | suborder of hydroid polyps |
| gymnocerata | division of hemipterous insects |
| gymnoderinae | subfamily of bare-necked fruitcrows |
| gymnodiniaceae | family of dinoflagellates |
| gymnodiniidae | family of dinoflagellates |
| gymnodontes | group of plectognath fishes (puffers) |
| gymnolaema | class of bryozoans (Gymnolaemata) |
| gymnonoti | group of naked-backed eel-like fishes |
| gymnopaedes | group of birds hatched naked |
| gymnorhininae | subfamily of Australian magpies |
| gymnostomata | group of gymnostomatous ciliates |
| gymnostomina | division of gymnostomous mosses |
| gymnotoka | group of animals bearing naked young |
| gymnurinae | subfamily of gymnures (moonrats) |
| gyrencephala | division of mammals with convoluted brains |
| gyrodactylidae | family of monogenean flukes |
| gyrophora | genus of rock-tripe lichens |
| gyrophoraceae | family of lichens |
| gyrostachys | genus of orchids (= Spiranthes) |
| gyrotheca | genus of Haemodoraceae (= Lachnanthes) |
| haematobranchia | zool. group of blood-gilled animals |
| haematocrya | vertebrate division, the cold-blooded |
| haematophilina | zool. group of blood-sucking bats |
| haematotherma | vertebrate division, the warm-blooded |
| haematoxylon | genus of leguminous trees, logwood |
| haemogregarinidae | family of blood-parasitic protozoa |
| haemosporidium | genus of blood-parasitic protozoa |
| halichondriae | group of siliceous sponges |
| haliserites | genus of fossil seaweeds |
| halitheriidae | family of fossil sea-cows |
| hallopididae | family of fossil reptiles (Hallopus) |
| halocynthiidae | family of ascidians (sea-squirts) |
| halopsychidae | family of pelagic sea-butterflies |
| haloragidaceae | family of aquatic plants, water-milfoils |
| hamamelidanthemum | fossil genus of witch-hazel flowers |
| hamamelidoxylon | fossil genus of witch-hazel wood |
| hamamelites | fossil genus of witch-hazel leaves |
| haplodoci | order of fishes, the toadfishes |
| haploma | of the Haplomi, an order of soft-rayed fishes |
| harelda | genus of sea-ducks, the old-squaw |
| harpagornis | genus of extinct New Zealand eagles |
| harpalides | group of carabid beetles (Harpalus) |
| harporhynchus | genus of American thrashers |
| harpula | genus of volute molluscs |
| hartmannia | genus of evening-primroses |
| helianthoidea | order of anthozoans (sea anemones) |
| heliornithes | group of sungrebes (birds) |
| helminthocladiaceae | family of red algae |
| helvellales | order of ascomycete fungi |
| hemiascales | order of ascomycete fungi |
| hemiasci | group of fungi, the Hemiasci |
| hemibasidiales | order of smut fungi |
| hemibasidii | group of smut fungi |
| hemibasidiomycetes | class of fungi |
| hemibranchii | order of fishes, the sticklebacks |
| hemichorda | group of hemichordates |
| hemigale | genus of banded palm civets |
| hemiganus | extinct mammal genus |
| hemimetabola | division of insects |
| hemimyaria | order of tunicates, the salps |
| hemipodii | group of button-quails |
| hemipodius | genus of button-quails |
| hemiramphinae | subfamily of halfbeak fishes |
| hemophileae | bacterial tribe around Haemophilus |
| hemophilus | genus of bacteria, Haemophilus |
| heptatrema | genus of hagfishes with seven gill-pores |
| herodiones | Herodiones, the heron group of birds |
| herpetomonas | genus of flagellate protozoa |
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