Real Words Without Definition
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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 |
|---|---|
| phytomastigoda | class of plant-like flagellates |
| phytomonadida | order of green flagellates |
| phytomonadina | suborder of green flagellates |
| phytophagineae | group of plant-eating sawflies |
| phytozoaria | old group of the zoophytes |
| piaropus | genus of the water-hyacinth |
| picariae | Picariae, group of picarian birds |
| picarii | Picarii, order of woodpecker-like birds |
| picrorhiza | genus of Himalayan herbs, kutki |
| picumninae | subfamily of piculets |
| pieridinae | subfamily of white butterflies |
| pimplinae | subfamily of ichneumon wasps |
| pinacoceras | genus of Triassic ammonites |
| pinacoceratidae | family of Triassic ammonites |
| pinguiculaceae | family of the butterworts |
| pinnigrada | old group name for the pinnipeds |
| piprinae | subfamily of manakins |
| piricularia | genus of fungi causing rice blast |
| pithecanthropi | Latin plural of the genus Pithecanthropus |
| pithecanthropidae | family of fossil ape-men |
| pitylus | genus of neotropical grosbeaks |
| pityocampa | genus/epithet of the pine processionary moth |
| placoganoidei | order of plate-scaled ganoid fishes |
| placoidei | group of sharks and rays |
| placoides | Latin group name for the placoid fishes |
| placophora | class of chitons |
| plagiostomata | group of sharks and rays |
| plagiostomi | order of sharks and rays |
| planarida | old group name for the planarian worms |
| planipennia | suborder of neuropterous insects (lacewings) |
| planosarcina | genus of motile spherical bacteria |
| plantaginales | order of plants, the plantain group |
| planuloidea | hypothetical group of planula-like animals |
| plasmodiophora | genus of parasitic slime molds (clubroot) |
| plasmodiophorales | order of parasitic slime molds |
| plastidozoa | group name for unicellular animals |
| platoda | old class name for the flatworms |
| platycarpus | genus name, Greek "broad-fruited" |
| platyctenea | order of creeping ctenophores |
| platyhelmia | group name for the flatworms |
| platyptera | group of flat-winged insects |
| platyrhina | genus of thornback rays |
| platyrhini | group of broad-nosed New World monkeys |
| platyrrhina | group of New World broad-nosed monkeys |
| platysomidae | family of fossil palaeoniscoid fishes |
| platystomidae | family of picture-winged flies |
| plecotinae | subfamily of long-eared bats |
| plectospondyli | group of ostariophysan fishes |
| plesianthropus | genus of South African fossil hominid |
| pleuracanthea | group of extinct sharks |
| pleuracanthidae | family of extinct sharks |
| pleuracanthini | tribe of extinct sharks |
| pleurobrachia | genus of ctenophores, the sea gooseberries |
| pleurobrachiidae | family of ctenophores |
| pleurocapsa | genus of blue-green algae |
| pleurocapsaceae | family of blue-green algae |
| pleurocarpi | group of pleurocarpous mosses |
| pleurocera | genus of freshwater snails |
| pleuroceridae | family of freshwater snails |
| pleurococcaceae | family of green algae |
| pleurodelidae | family of newts and salamanders |
| pleurodira | suborder of side-necked turtles |
| pleuronema | genus of ciliate protozoans |
| pleuropterygii | order of fossil sharks |
| pleurosticti | division of lamellicorn beetles |
| pleurotomariidae | family of slit-shell gastropods |
| pleurotomidae | family of turrid gastropods |
| pleurotremata | division of sharks with lateral gill-slits |
| pliosauridae | family of short-necked plesiosaurs |
| ploceinae | subfamily of weaver-birds |
| plowrightia | genus of ascomycete fungi |
| plumiera | Plumiera, genus of frangipani (Plumeria) |
| plusiinae | subfamily of noctuid moths |
| pneumobranchia | group of air-breathing gastropods |
| pneumobranchiata | order of pulmonate molluscs |
| podaliriidae | family of swallowtail butterflies |
| podarginae | subfamily of frogmouths |
| podaxonia | group of worms with a ventral nerve-cord |
| podocarpineae | tribe of yew-like conifers |
| podophrya | genus of suctorian ciliates |
| podophryidae | family of suctorian ciliates |
| podophthalmata | division of stalk-eyed crustaceans |
| podophthalmia | group of stalk-eyed crustaceans |
| podophyllaceae | family of plants, the may-apples |
| podosomata | group of arachnids with a leg-bearing podosoma |
| podosphaera | genus of powdery-mildew fungi |
| podostemaceae | family of river-weeds |
| podostemon | genus of river-weeds |
| podostemonaceae | family of river-weeds |
| podostomata | group of gephyrean worms |
| poecilocyttares | division of social wasps with varied nests |
| poecilopoda | class of arthropods, the king-crabs |
| poephaga | group of grass-eating animals |
| poephagus | genus including the yak |
| pogoniris | Pogoniris, section of the bearded irises |
| polionotus | species epithet, grey-backed (oldfield mouse) |
| polybranchiata | group of many-gilled molluscs |
| polycladida | order of flatworms |
| polymastiga | group of many-flagellate protozoa |
| polymastigida | order of flagellate protozoa |
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