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 |
|---|---|
| thos | Thos, the genus of jackals |
| thuyopsis | genus of conifers, Thujopsis |
| thylacynus | Thylacinus, genus of the thylacine |
| thymallidae | family of graylings, Thymallus |
| thymelaeales | order of plants, Thymelaeales |
| thyrostracan | of the Thyrostraca, cirriped crustaceans |
| thysanopteron | a thrips, member of the Thysanoptera |
| thysanoura | Thysanura, order of bristletails |
| thysanouran | a bristletail, member of the Thysanura |
| thysanourous | of the Thysanura, bristletails |
| tichorhine | of the woolly rhinoceros, R. tichorhinus |
| tillaea | genus of small stonecrop plants |
| tillaeastrum | genus of plants allied to Tillaea |
| tillodontidae | family of extinct tillodont mammals |
| timaliinae | subfamily of babblers, Timaliinae |
| timaliine | of the babbler subfamily Timaliinae |
| timelia | genus of babblers, Timelia |
| timeliidae | family of babblers, Timeliidae |
| timeliine | of the babbler subfamily Timeliinae |
| tinean | of the clothes moth family Tineidae |
| tineine | of the moth subfamily Tineinae |
| tingidae | family of lace bugs, Tingidae |
| tingitid | a lace bug of the family Tingitidae |
| tingitidae | family of lace bugs, Tingitidae |
| tinoceras | genus of extinct uintathere mammals |
| tinoceratid | member of the family Tinoceratidae |
| titanichthyidae | family of extinct armoured fishes |
| titanotheridae | family of extinct titanotheres |
| tortricina | group of tortricid moths |
| tortulaceae | family of mosses |
| totipalmatae | old order of totipalmate birds |
| tovariaceae | family of flowering plants |
| toxicophidia | old group of venomous snakes |
| toxifera | group of venomous animals |
| toxotae | group based on Toxotes, the archerfishes |
| trachearia | division of tracheate arthropods |
| tracheophonae | suborder of tracheophone passerine birds |
| trachomedusae | order of jellyfishes, the Trachymedusae |
| trachypterus | genus of ribbonfishes |
| traguloidea | superfamily of chevrotains |
| trapaceae | family of aquatic plants, the water chestnuts |
| trematodea | class of parasitic flatworms, the flukes |
| treronidae | family of green fruit pigeons |
| treroninae | subfamily of green fruit pigeons |
| tribonemaceae | family of yellow-green filamentous algae |
| trichoglossidae | family of brush-tongued parrots, the lories |
| trichoglossinae | subfamily of brush-tongued parrots |
| trichosporum | genus of yeast-like fungi, now Trichosporon |
| triconodonta | order of Mesozoic mammals with three-cusped teeth |
| tricyrtis | genus of lilies, the toad lilies |
| trigoniaceae | family of tropical trees and shrubs |
| trigoniidae | family of bivalve molluscs |
| trigonocephalus | former genus of pit vipers |
| trimucronatus | New Latin specific name, three-pointed |
| triodontes | plural of Triodon, pufferfish genus |
| triodontoidea | superfamily of pufferfishes |
| triodontoidei | suborder of pufferfishes |
| triopidae | family of tadpole shrimps |
| triplochitonaceae | family of trees (Triplochiton) |
| tripylaea | order of radiolarians |
| tristichaceae | family of aquatic plants (Tristicha) |
| trochalopoda | group of gastropods |
| trochelminthes | phylum of rotifers and allies |
| trochosphaera | genus of rotifers |
| trochosphaerida | order of rotifers |
| troglodytinae | subfamily of wrens |
| tropidoleptus | genus of fossil brachiopods |
| trygonidae | family of stingrays |
| trypaneidae | family of fruit flies |
| trypetidae | family of fruit flies |
| trypodendron | genus of bark beetles |
| tuberales | order of ascomycete fungi (truffles) |
| tuberculariaceae | family of imperfect fungi |
| tubicolae | group of tube-dwelling annelid worms |
| tubiflorales | order of tubular-flowered plants |
| tubulariae | group of tubularian hydroids |
| tubularida | order of hydroids |
| tubulibranchiata | group of tube-shelled gastropods |
| turicata | species epithet of the tick Ornithodoros turicata |
| turnicomorphae | group of button-quail-like birds |
| turricula | genus of marine gastropods |
| turrilepas | genus of fossil cirripedes |
| tylostoma | genus of fossil gastropods |
| tylostomaceae | family of stalked puffball fungi |
| typotheriidae | family of extinct South American ungulates |
| tyranninae | subfamily of tyrant flycatchers |
| tyroglyphidae | family of cheese mites |
| ulophocinae | obsolete zoological subfamily, -inae name |
| umbellulidae | family of sea pens (Umbellula) |
| urbicolae | old group name for the skipper butterflies |
| uredineae | order of rust fungi |
| urediniopsis | genus of rust fungi |
| urocerata | old group of horntail sawflies |
| urocerid | a horntail of the family Uroceridae |
| uroceridae | family of horntail sawflies |
| uropsile | shrew mole of the genus Uropsilus |
| usneaceous | of the Usneaceae, the beard lichens |
| uvella | old genus of grape-clustered flagellates |
| vallisneriaceous | of the Vallisneriaceae, the eelgrass family |
| valoniaceae | family of green algae |
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