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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 |
|---|---|
| heterocera | Heterocera, the moths of the Lepidoptera |
| heterochloridales | order of xanthophyte algae |
| heterocoela | Heterocoela, a division of calcareous sponges |
| heterocotylea | order of monogenean flukes |
| heterodactylae | group of birds with heterodactyl feet |
| heterognathi | Heterognathi, a group of fishes |
| heterogyna | Heterogyna, hymenoptera with unlike females |
| heteromeri | Heteromeri, a group of beetles |
| heterometabola | insects with incomplete metamorphosis |
| heteromi | Heteromi, an order of deep-sea fishes |
| heteromita | genus of flagellate protozoa |
| heteromorpha | genus name, umbellifers; also insect group |
| heteromorphae | Heteromorphae, a group of birds |
| heteromya | Heteromya, a division of bivalves |
| heteromyaria | bivalves with unequal adductor muscles |
| heterophaga | Heterophaga, a group of feeders on varied food |
| heterophagi | Heterophagi, group name for varied feeders |
| heteropidae | family name, the Heteropidae |
| heterosiphonales | an order of algae |
| heterosomata | Heterosomata, the flatfishes |
| heterosomati | Heterosomati, the flatfish group |
| heterosomi | Heterosomi, order of flatfishes |
| heterosporeae | group of heterosporous plants |
| heterostraca | Heterostraci, extinct jawless armored fishes |
| heterotricha | Heterotricha, an order of ciliates |
| heterotrichales | Heterotrichales, an order of algae |
| hexacoralla | Hexacoralla, the six-rayed corals |
| hillhousia | genus of large sulphur bacteria |
| hippidium | genus of extinct South American horses |
| hippoglossidae | family of halibuts |
| hipposelinum | genus of umbellifers, alexanders |
| hippuritidae | family of rudist bivalves |
| hirneola | genus of jelly fungi, the Jew's-ear |
| hispinae | subfamily of leaf-beetles |
| histiophoridae | family of sailfishes |
| histiophorus | genus of sailfishes |
| histriobdella | genus of annelids parasitic on lobsters |
| holconoti | group of surf-perches |
| holectypina | group of fossil sea-urchins |
| holochoanites | group of fossil nautiloids |
| holochoanoida | division of nautiloid cephalopods |
| holognatha | orthopteran group with entire jaws |
| holomyaria | group of nematode worms |
| holomyarii | nematode group, Holomyarii |
| holoptychiidae | family of fossil lobe-finned fishes |
| holosiphona | cephalopod group with complete siphuncle |
| holosomata | zoological group with undivided body |
| holostomata | gastropod division with entire aperture |
| holothuria | genus of sea-cucumbers |
| holothuridea | class of sea-cucumbers |
| holothurioidea | class of sea-cucumbers |
| holotricha | order of ciliate protozoans |
| holotrichida | ciliate group, Holotrichida |
| homalocenchrus | grass genus, cut-grass (Leersia) |
| homalopsinae | subfamily of water-snakes |
| homaloptera | genus of hillstream loaches |
| homalosternii | bird group with a flat sternum |
| homaridae | family of true lobsters |
| homocoela | group of calcareous sponges |
| homomorpha | zoological group of like-formed organisms |
| homoneura | division of primitive moths |
| homorelaps | genus of African harlequin snakes |
| hoplonemertini | order of armed nemertean worms |
| hormogonales | order of filamentous blue-green algae |
| hormogoneales | order of Cyanophyceae, var. of Hormogonales |
| hugonis | species epithet, as in Rosa hugonis |
| hyaenarctos | extinct genus of bear-dogs |
| hyaenodon | extinct genus of creodont carnivores |
| hyalospongia | class of glass sponges |
| hydrachnidae | family of water mites |
| hydradephaga | group of predaceous water beetles |
| hydrastis | genus of goldenseal |
| hydrocaryaceae | the water-chestnut family |
| hydrocharidaceae | the frogbit family |
| hydrochelidon | genus of marsh terns |
| hydrocleis | genus of water-poppies |
| hydrocorallia | group of coral-forming hydrozoans |
| hydrocorallinae | suborder of hydroid corals |
| hydrocores | group of aquatic bugs, the water bugs |
| hydrocorisae | division of aquatic Hemiptera |
| hydrodamalidae | family of sea cows, Steller's sea cow |
| hydrodictyaceae | family of water-net green algae |
| hydrodromica | group of aquatic mites |
| hydroida | order of hydrozoan polyps |
| hydroidea | order of hydrozoans, the hydroids |
| hydrophidae | family of sea snakes |
| hydrophinae | subfamily of sea snakes |
| hydrophora | division of hydroid polyps |
| hydrophyllaceae | the waterleaf family of plants |
| hydropterideae | group of water ferns |
| hyenia | genus of Devonian fossil plants |
| hymenogaster | genus of false truffle fungi |
| hymenophyllites | genus of fossil filmy ferns |
| hyolithes | genus of Paleozoic conical fossils |
| hyolithidae | family of fossil hyoliths |
| hyperotreta | group of cyclostomes, the hagfishes |
| hyphomycetales | order of imperfect fungi |
| hypnale | genus of Asian hump-nosed pit vipers |
| hypochnaceae | family of basidiomycete fungi |
| hypoparia | suborder of trilobites |
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