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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 |
|---|---|
| coregonidae | family of whitefishes |
| coriariaceae | plant family based on Coriaria |
| corimelaenidae | family of burrowing bugs |
| corixidae | family of water boatmen |
| cormophyta | plant division with a stem-and-root axis |
| corrigiolaceae | plant family based on Corrigiola |
| corydora | South American catfish genus Corydoras |
| coryphaenoididae | family of grenadier fishes |
| coryphodon | genus of extinct primitive mammals |
| coscinodiscaceae | family of centric diatoms |
| costaea | genus of Cuban shrubs (Rubiaceae) |
| cotylophora | division of ruminants with cotyledonary placenta |
| covillea | genus of the creosote bush |
| crassina | genus of bivalve mollusks (= Astarte) |
| crataeva | genus of trees, family Capparaceae |
| criocephalus | genus of longhorn beetles |
| crocodilidae | family of crocodiles |
| crossopodia | genus of fossil annelid trails |
| crossosomataceae | family of flowering plants |
| crypteroniaceae | family of flowering plants |
| cryptobranchia | group of hidden-gilled mollusks |
| cryptobranchiata | division of hidden-gilled animals |
| cryptobranchidae | family of giant salamanders |
| cryptocephala | group of hidden-headed animals |
| cryptocleidus | genus of plesiosaurs |
| cryptoglaux | genus of saw-whet owls |
| cryptomonadina | order of flagellate protozoa |
| cryptonemiales | order of red algae |
| cryptophagidae | family of silken fungus beetles |
| cryptozonia | division of starfishes |
| crypturi | group of tinamous |
| ctenocephalus | genus of fleas |
| ctenodipterini | group of fossil lungfishes |
| ctenodontidae | family of nuculoid bivalves |
| ctenoidei | order of ctenoid-scaled fishes |
| cultirostres | Cuvier's group of knife-billed waders |
| cultrirostres | group of knife-billed birds |
| cursoriidae | family of coursers (birds) |
| cuscutaceae | the dodder family |
| cutleriales | order of brown algae |
| cyanastraceae | small family of African bulbs |
| cyanospiza | genus of buntings, the indigo bunting |
| cyathophyllidae | family of fossil rugose corals |
| cyathophyllum | genus of fossil rugose corals |
| cycadofilicales | order of fossil seed ferns |
| cycadofilices | group of fossil seed ferns |
| cyclobothra | genus of mariposa lilies |
| cycloconium | genus of fungi, olive leaf-spot |
| cycloganoidei | order of ganoid fishes |
| cycloidei | order of cycloid-scaled fishes |
| cyclomyaria | group of tunicates, the doliolids |
| cyclospondyli | group of sharks with ring-like vertebrae |
| cyclosporales | order of brown algae (Fucales) |
| cyclosporeae | group of brown algae |
| cyclosporinae | subgroup of brown algae |
| cyclostomatidae | family of bryozoans |
| cyclostomi | class of jawless fishes, lampreys |
| cyclostomidae | family of cyclostomatous bryozoans |
| cyclothurus | genus of silky anteaters |
| cydonium | genus of sponges |
| cygninae | subfamily of swans |
| cynias | genus of smooth-hound sharks |
| cynocrambaceae | plant family of Cynocrambe (Theligonum) |
| cynomoriaceae | plant family of the parasite Cynomorium |
| cynopithecidae | family of dog-faced Old World monkeys |
| cynoxylon | genus of dogwoods, the flowering dogwood |
| cynthiidae | family of ascidians of the genus Cynthia |
| cyprididae | family of freshwater ostracods |
| cypridina | genus of luminous ostracods |
| cypridinidae | ostracod family of the genus Cypridina |
| cyprina | genus of marine bivalves, the Iceland cockle |
| cyprinodontes | group of killifishes, the toothed carps |
| cypseliformes | bird order comprising the swifts |
| cypselomorphae | group of swift-like birds |
| cyrtandraceae | plant family of Cyrtandra, gesneriads |
| cyrtidae | family of small-headed flies |
| cystidea | class of stalked fossil echinoderms |
| cystignathidae | frog family, the Leptodactylidae |
| cystoflagellata | order of luminous marine flagellates |
| cystopus | genus of white-rust fungi, now Albugo |
| cytinaceae | family of parasitic plants of genus Cytinus |
| cytoryctes | genus once held to be the cause of smallpox |
| daceloninae | kingfisher subfamily of genus Dacelo |
| daedalidae | family named from the genus Daedalea |
| daemonelix | ichnogenus of fossil corkscrew burrows |
| danaidae | family of milkweed butterflies |
| dapedium | genus of fossil ganoid fishes |
| dapedius | genus of fossil ganoid fishes |
| daphnaceae | plant family of Daphne, the Thymelaeaceae |
| dasya | genus of red algae |
| dasypaedes | birds whose young hatch downy |
| datisca | plant genus, the false hemp |
| datiscaceae | plant family of the genus Datisca |
| daulias | genus of nightingales |
| dawsoniaceae | moss family of the genus Dawsonia |
| decarhinus | genus name in -rhinus (ten-nosed) |
| deciduata | division of placental mammals |
| deinocephalia | suborder of therapsid reptiles |
| deinoceras | extinct mammal genus (Dinoceras) |
| deinodon | genus of theropod dinosaurs |
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