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 |
|---|---|
| sinupallialia | division of bivalves having a pallial sinus |
| sinupalliata | division of bivalves having a pallial sinus |
| siphonales | order of green algae |
| siphonata | group of siphon-bearing molluscs |
| siphoneae | group of siphonaceous green algae |
| siphoniata | group of siphon-bearing molluscs |
| siphonifera | group of siphon-bearing animals |
| siphonobranchiata | division of gastropods with a siphon |
| siphonocladiales | order of green algae |
| siphonogama | division of the seed plants |
| siphonognathidae | family of weed whiting fishes |
| siphonostoma | group of tube-mouthed worms and copepods |
| siphonostomata | order of tube-mouthed parasitic copepods |
| siphunculata | order of the sucking lice |
| sipunculacea | group of peanut worms |
| sipunculida | class of peanut worms |
| sipunculoidea | superorder of peanut worms |
| sirenoidei | order of lungfishes |
| sirex | genus of horntail wood wasps |
| siricoidea | superfamily of horntail wasps |
| sirmuellera | genus of Australian Proteaceae, a Banksia synonym |
| sisalana | species epithet of Agave sisalana, sisal |
| sittinae | subfamily of the nuthatches |
| sivatheriidae | family of extinct giraffe relatives |
| sivatheriinae | subfamily of Sivatherium |
| smilaceae | family of greenbriers (Smilax) |
| solenoconcha | molluscan class, the tusk shells |
| solenoglypha | group of snakes with hollow erectile fangs |
| solenostomidae | family of ghost pipefishes |
| solidungula | Solidungula, the solid-hoofed mammals |
| solpugida | order of sun spiders |
| solpugidea | sun spiders, a variant ordinal name |
| solpugides | sun spiders, another form of the ordinal name |
| sondylomorum | a genus name, capitalized in the source; cf. Spondylomorum |
| soricoidea | superfamily of shrew-like insectivores |
| sorosporium | genus of smut fungi |
| spatangina | group of heart urchins |
| spatangoidea | order of heart urchins |
| spathiflorae | group of monocots with spathed flowers |
| spermaphyta | division of seed plants |
| spermophyta | division of seed plants |
| sphacelariales | order of brown algae |
| sphaeriales | order of flask fungi |
| sphaerioidaceae | family of fungi |
| sphaerobolaceae | family of cannonball fungi |
| sphaerococcaceae | family of red algae |
| sphaerococcus | genus of red algae |
| sphaeromidae | family of isopod crustaceans |
| sphaeropsidaceae | family of pycnidial fungi |
| sphaerostilbe | genus of fungi |
| sphecina | group of digger wasps |
| sphegidae | family of digger wasps |
| sphegoidea | superfamily of wasps |
| sphenisci | penguin group (Spheniscus and allies) |
| spheniscomorphae | group comprising the penguins |
| sphenodontia | order of reptiles containing the tuatara |
| sphenophyllaceae | family of fossil horsetail-like plants |
| sphingurinae | subfamily of New World tree porcupines |
| sphyraenidae | family of barracudas |
| spicaria | genus of moulds |
| spioniformia | group of spionid polychaete worms |
| spiraeaceae | former family of rosaceous plants |
| spirifera | genus of fossil brachiopods |
| spiriferacea | superfamily of spire-bearing brachiopods |
| spirobranchia | group of worms with spiral gills |
| spirobranchiata | group of spiral-gilled animals |
| spirographis | genus of tube-dwelling polychaete worms |
| spondiaceae | plant family of the hog plums (Spondias) |
| spondylocladium | genus of imperfect fungi |
| spongida | old class name for the sponges |
| spongiozoa | old group name for the sponge animals |
| spongiozoon | a single sponge animal, singular of Spongiozoa |
| squaloidei | suborder of the dogfish sharks |
| squamariaceae | family of red algae |
| squamipennes | old group of the scaly-finned fishes |
| squamipinnes | old group of the scaly-finned fishes |
| squatarola | genus of the grey plovers |
| squatinoidei | suborder of the angel sharks |
| squilloidea | superfamily of the mantis shrimps |
| stauraxonia | Haeckel's division of cross-axed radiate animals |
| steatornithes | group containing the oilbird, Steatornis |
| steganophthalmata | division of covered-eyed medusae |
| steganophthalmia | alternative name for the covered-eyed medusae |
| steganopodes | order of totipalmate birds, pelicans and their kin |
| stenofiber | Steneofiber, a genus of fossil beavers |
| stenophragma | former genus of crucifers, the mouse-ear cress |
| stephanokontae | group of algae bearing a crown of flagella |
| stephanurus | genus of kidney worms of swine |
| stercorariinae | subfamily of skuas and jaegers |
| sterelminthus | division of solid-bodied parasitic worms |
| stereornithes | extinct order of great South American birds |
| sterninae | subfamily of terns |
| stictaceae | family of lichens |
| stictidaceae | family of ascomycete fungi |
| stigmariae | Stigmaria, the fossil rootstocks of lepidodendrons |
| stilophoraceae | family of brown algae |
| stomapoda | order of mantis shrimps, the stomatopods |
| stomatoda | zoological group of mouth-bearing forms |
| stomoisia | genus of bladderworts split from Utricularia |
| stratiomyiidae | family of soldier flies |
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