V - VOCABULARY About animals

ABOUT ANIMALS

Antlers: one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family.

Beak: the bill of a bird.

Claw: a sharp usually slender and curved nail on the toe of an animal.

Feather:  any of the light horny epidermal outgrowths that form the external covering of the body of birds.

Fin: an external membranous process of an aquatic animal (as a fish) used in propelling or guiding the body.

Fur: the hairy coat of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick; also : such a coat with the skin.

Gill: an organ (as of a fish) for obtaining oxygen from water.

Hoof: a curved covering of horn that protects the front of or encloses the ends of the digits of an ungulate mammal and that corresponds to a nail or claw.

Horn:  one of the usually paired bony processes that arise from the head of many big mammals and that are also found in some extinct mammals and reptiles.

Paw: the foot of a quadruped (as a lion or dog) that has claws; broadly : the foot of an animal.

Scale: a small, flattened, rigid, and definitely circumscribed plate forming part of the external body covering especially of a fish.

Shell: a hard rigid usually largely calcareous covering or support of an animal, also, the hard or tough often thin outer covering of an egg (as of a bird or reptile).

Snout: a long projecting nose. An anterior prolongation of the head of various animals.

Spot: a small area visibly different (as in color, finish, or material) from the surrounding area.

Stripe: a line or long narrow section differing in color or texture from parts adjoining.

Tail: the rear end or a process or prolongation of the rear end of the body of an animal.

Tentacle: any of various elongate flexible usually tactile or prehensile processes borne by animals and especially invertebrates chiefly on the head or about the mouth.

Tusk: an elongated greatly enlarged tooth (as of an elephant or walrus) that projects when the mouth is closed and serves especially for digging food or as a weapon; broadly : a long protruding tooth.

Wing: one of the movable feathered or membranous paired appendages by means of which a bird, bat, or insect is able to fly.