What word, from the Greek, is used to describe animals such as Elephants, Rhinoceroses etc.?
"Pachydermata Placcyderma (from two Greek words παχύς ""pachys"", ""thick"" and δέρμα ""derma"", ""skin"", meaning 'thick skin') is an obsolete order of mammals described by Gottlieb Storr, Georges Cuvier and others, at one time recognized by many systematists. Because it is polyphyletic, the order is no longer in use, but it is important in the history of systematics. Outside strict biological classification, the term ""pachyderm"" remains commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, and hippopotamuses. Cuvier's Pachydermata included the three families of mammals he called Proboscidiana, Pachydermata Ordinaria, and Solipedes, all herbivorous. They are now divided into the Proboscidea (represented among living"
"and popular culture. The word ""elephant"" is based on the Latin ""elephas"" (genitive ""elephantis"") (""elephant""), which is the Latinised form of the Greek ἐλέφας (""elephas"") (genitive ἐλέφαντος (""elephantos"")), probably from a non-Indo-European language, likely Phoenician. It is attested in Mycenaean Greek as ""e-re-pa"" (genitive ""e-re-pa-to"") in Linear B syllabic script. As in Mycenaean Greek, Homer used the Greek word to mean ivory, but after the time of Herodotus, it also referred to the animal. The word ""elephant"" appears in Middle English as ""olyfaunt"" (c.1300) and was borrowed from Old French ""oliphant"" (12th century). ""Loxodonta"", the generic name for the African"
"originated from the translation of the Hebrew word ""re'em"" into Greek as μονόκερως, ""monokeros"", in the Septuagint. In Psalm 22:21, the word ""karen"", meaning horn, is written in singular. The Roman Catholic Vulgata and the Douay-Rheims Bible translated ""re'em"" as rhinoceros; other translations are names for a wild bull, wild oxen, buffalo, or gaur, but in some languages a word for unicorn is maintained. The Arabic translation ""alrim"" is the most correct choice etymologically, meaning 'white oryx'. The Phoenix Zoo and the Fauna and Flora Preservation Society of London (now Fauna and Flora International), with financial help from the World"
"from the name Fauna, a Roman goddess of earth and fertility, the Roman god Faunus, and the related forest spirits called Fauns. All three words are cognates of the name of the Greek god Pan, and ""panis"" is the Greek equivalent of fauna. ""Fauna"" is also the word for a book that catalogues the animals in such a manner. The term was first used by Carl Linnaeus from Sweden in the title of his 1745 work ""Fauna Suecica"". ""Cryofauna"" refers to the animals that live in, or very close to, ice. ""Cryptofauna"" are the fauna that exist in protected or"
"cats comes from two coins from Magna Graecia dating to the mid-fifth century BC showing Iokastos and Phalanthos, the legendary founders of Rhegion and Taras respectively, playing with their pet cats. Housecats seem to have been extremely rare among the ancient Greeks and Romans; the Greek historian Herodotus expressed astonishment at the domestic cats in Egypt, because he had only ever seen wildcats. Even during later times, weasels were far more commonly kept as pets and weasels, not cats, were seen as the ideal rodent-killers. The usual ancient Greek word for ""cat"" was ""ailouros"", meaning ""thing with the waving tail"","
"their pet cats. Housecats seem to have been extremely rare among the ancient Greeks and Romans; Herodotus expressed astonishment at the domestic cats in Egypt, because he had only ever seen wildcats. Even during later times, weasels were far more commonly kept as pets and weasels, not cats, were seen as the ideal rodent-killers. The usual ancient Greek word for ""cat"" was ""ailouros"", meaning ""thing with the waving tail"", but this word could also be applied to any of the ""various long-tailed carnivores kept for catching mice"". Cats are rarely mentioned in ancient Greek literature, but Aristotle does remark in"
"film ""The Gods Must Be Crazy"" (1980), which shows an African rhinoceros putting out two campfires. Rhinoceros A rhinoceros (, , ), commonly abbreviated to 'rhino', is one of any five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae, as well as any of the numerous extinct species. Two of the extant species are native to Africa and three to Southern Asia. The term ""rhinoceros"" is often more broadly applied to now extinct relatives of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea. Members of the rhinoceros family are some of the largest remaining megafauna, with all species able to reach or exceed one"
"each other both visually and vocally. Human activities have threatened wild equine populations. The word ""equus"" is Latin for ""horse"", and is cognate with the Greek ἵππος (""hippos""), ""horse"", and Mycenaean Greek ""i-qo"" /ikkʷos/, the earliest attested variant of the Greek word, written in Linear B syllabic script.; compare the alternative development of the Proto-Greek labiovelar in Ionic ἴκκος (""ikkos""). The genus ""Equus"" was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. It is the only recognized extant genus in the family Equidae. The first equids were small, dog-sized mammals (e.g. ""Eohippus"") adapted for browsing on shrubs during the Eocene, around"
"and another about abortives. Elephantis Elephantis (fl. late 1st century BC) was a Greek poet and physician apparently renowned in the classical world as the author of a notorious sex manual. Due to the popularity of courtesans taking animal names in classical times, it is likely Elephantis is two or more persons of the same name. None of her works have survived, though they are referenced in other ancient texts. According to Suetonius, the Roman Emperor Tiberius took a complete set of her works with him when he retreated to his resort on Capri. One of the poems in the"
"Rhinoceros A rhinoceros (, , ), commonly abbreviated to 'rhino', is one of any five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae, as well as any of the numerous extinct species. Two of the extant species are native to Africa and three to Southern Asia. The term ""rhinoceros"" is often more broadly applied to now extinct relatives of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea. Members of the rhinoceros family are some of the largest remaining megafauna, with all species able to reach or exceed one tonne in weight. They have a herbivorous diet, small brains (400–600 g) for mammals of their"
"animals are found in different countries. They may be metonymic, naming a person's profession, generally in the Middle Ages; toponymic, naming the place where a person lived; or nicknames, comparing the person favourably or otherwise with the named animal. In the cultures of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, animal stereotypes grew until by the time of Virgil, animal epithets could be applied to anything from an abstract concept like love or fear, to a whole civilisation. An author could use an animal's name to emphasise a theme or to provide an overview of a complex epic tale. For example, Homer"
"ρινό- (""rhino-"" — nose) and -κερος (""-keros"" — horn of an animal) and Latin: ""uni-"" meaning single and ""-cornis"" meaning horn. Ancestral rhinoceroses first diverged from other perissodactyls in the Early Eocene. Mitochondrial DNA comparison suggests the ancestors of modern rhinos split from the ancestors of Equidae around 50 million years ago. The extant family, the Rhinocerotidae, first appeared in the Late Eocene in Eurasia, and the ancestors of the extant rhino species dispersed from Asia beginning in the Miocene. Fossils of ""R. unicornis"" appear in the Middle Pleistocene. In the Pleistocene, the genus ""Rhinoceros"" ranged throughout South and Southeast"
"impossible to capture alive. In today's English language, the term ""monoceros"" typically refers to a unicorn or similar one-horned creature. Monoceros (legendary creature) The monoceros () is a legendary animal with only one horn. It derives from the Greek word ""Μονόκερως"", a compound word from μόνος (""monos"") which means ""only one"" / ""single"" and κέρας (""keras"") (neuter gender, which means ""horn"". The monoceros was first described in Pliny the Elder's ""Natural History"" as a creature with the body of a horse, the head of a stag (minus the antlers), the feet of an elephant, and the tail of a wild"
"The word ""sphinx"" comes from the Greek Σφίγξ, apparently from the verb σφίγγω (""sphíngō""), meaning ""to squeeze"", ""to tighten up"". This name may be derived from the fact that, in a pride of lions, the hunters are the lionesses, and kill their prey by strangulation, biting the throat of prey and holding them down until they die. However, the historian Susan Wise Bauer suggests that the word ""sphinx"" was instead a Greek corruption of the Egyptian name ""shesepankh"", which meant ""living image"", and referred rather to the ""statue"" of the sphinx, which was carved out of ""living rock"" (rock that"
"broad diet, and strength (which it uses to move heavy carcasses into trees), as well as its ability to adapt to various habitats ranging from rainforest to steppe, including arid and montane areas, and its ability to run at speeds of up to . Fossil parts dating to the Late Pleistocene were excavated in Europe and Japan. The common name ""leopard"" () is a Greek compound of ""leōn"" (""lion"") and ""pardos"" (""male panther""). The name reflects the fact that in antiquity, a leopard was believed to be a hybrid of a lion and a panther. The Greek word is related"
"new species into an environment. The term ""necrofauna"" is a portmanteau consisting of two morphemes. The first morpheme, “necro,” comes from the Greek prefix ""necro"", meaning death. “Fauna,” meanwhile, refers to the animals that inhabit a particular time period or environment and is derived from the Greek name ""Fauna"", the Roman goddess of earth and fertility. Alex Steffen is referred to as the first person to coin the neologism “necrofauna” in Jason Mark’s ""Earth Island Journal"" article titled “Back From the Dead.” The word was used in the context of describing the phenomenon of ""charismatic necrofauna,"" which expresses the possibility"
"or connected to the mainland during the Messinian salinity crisis. Deinotherium Deinotherium (""terrible beast"" derived from the Ancient Greek , ' meaning ""terrible"" and , ' meaning ""beast"") was a large prehistoric relative of modern-day elephants that appeared in the Middle Miocene and survived until the Early Pleistocene. During that time it changed very little. In life, it probably resembled modern elephants, except it had downward curving tusks attached to the lower jaw. ""Deinotherium"" is the type genus of the family Deinotheriidae, which evolved from the smaller, early Miocene ""Prodeinotherium"". These proboscideans represent a totally distinct line of evolutionary descent"
"graphic novels. Cynocephaly is generally distinguished from lycanthropy (werewolfism) and dogs that can talk. The word ""cynocephaly"" is taken (through Latin) from the Greek word κῠνοκέφᾰλοι ""kynokephaloi"", from ""kyno–"" (combining form of κύων ""kyōn"") meaning ""dog"" and κεφαλή ""kephalē"" meaning ""head"". The same ""dog"" root is found in the name ""Cynomorpha"" (""dog-shaped"") for a sub-group of the family Cercopithecidae, which contains many species of macaques and baboons. Cynocephaly was familiar to the ancient Greeks from representations of the Egyptian gods, Duamutef (Son of Horus), Wepwawet (The opener of the ways), and Anubis (the Egyptian god of the dead). The Greek"
"another Greek word, ""oura"", plus ""phasianos"", pheasant. The noun ""pheasant"" was originally applied to a bird that was native to the valley of the Phasis River (now the Rioni River), which is located in Georgia. In the time of Lewis and Clark the word ""pheasant"" stood for ""a genus of gallinaceous birds"", according to lexicographer Noah Webster (1806), and the explorers often used it in that sense. ""Gallinaceous"" then referred to ""domestic fowls, or the gallinae""; the family Galliformes (Latin ""gallus"", cock, and ""forma"", shape) now includes pheasants, grouse, turkeys, quail, and all domestic chickens. Sage Grouse are also collectively"
"the Latin for ""having claws like an eagle's"", a reference to the claws on its three-fingered hand. E. D. Cope (1866) published a paper on the specimen within a week of its discovery, and named it ""Laelaps aquilunguis"" at a meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. """"Laelaps"""", which is derived from the Greek for “hurricane” or “storm wind”, was also the name of a dog in Greek mythology that never failed to catch what it was hunting. ""Laelaps"" gained popularity as both a poetic and evocative name and became one of the first dinosaurs described from North"
"to the Saami word ""raingo"". Linnaeus chose the word ""tarandus"" as the specific epithet, making reference to Ulisse Aldrovandi's ""Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum historia"" fol. 859–863, Cap. 30: De Tarando (1621). However, Aldrovandi and Konrad Gesner – thought that ""rangifer"" and ""tarandus"" were two separate animals. In any case, the ""tarandos"" name goes back to Aristotle and Theophrastus. The use of the terms Reindeer and caribou for essentially the same animal can cause confusion, but the IUCN clearly delineates the issue: ""The world's Caribou and Reindeer are classified as a single species ""Rangifer tarandus"". Reindeer is the European name for the"
"brink of extinction since the late 1990s. Alopekis Alopekis is an ancient Greek breed of dog. The name Alopekis means “small fox” or “fox-like” in the Greek language. The breed is mentioned by several ancient Greek and classical writers such as Aristotle, Xenophon, and Aristophanes, and is depicted in many archaeological finds such as pottery, carvings, statuettes, sculpture, and tomb monuments. The oldest representation comes from prehistoric neolithic times. It is an inscribed terracotta vessel dating back to 3000 years BC from Thessaly, bearing the schematic outline of the characteristic silhouette of the Alopekis and is now at the Archaeology"
"the study of both reptiles and amphibians is called herpetology. The word ""amphibian"" is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος (""amphíbios""), which means ""both kinds of life"", ""ἀμφί"" meaning ""of both kinds"" and ""βιος"" meaning ""life"". The term was initially used as a general adjective for animals that could live on land or in water, including seals and otters. Traditionally, the class Amphibia includes all tetrapod vertebrates that are not amniotes. Amphibia in its widest sense (""sensu lato"") was divided into three subclasses, two of which are extinct: The actual number of species in each group depends on the"
"Griffin The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Greek: γρύφων, ""grýphōn"", or γρύπων, ""grýpōn"", early form ""γρύψ"", ""grýps""; ) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and sometimes an eagle's talons as its front feet. Because the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle the king of birds by the Middle Ages the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature. Since classical antiquity, Griffins were known for guarding treasure and priceless possessions. In Greek and Roman texts, griffins and"
"Werecat A werecat (also written in a hyphenated form as were-cat) is an analogy to ""werewolf"" for a feline therianthropic creature. Ailuranthropy comes from the Greek words ""ailouros"" meaning ""cat"", and ""anthropos"", meaning ""human"" and refers to human/feline transformations, or to other beings that combine feline and human characteristics. Its root word is also used in ailurophobia, the most common term for a phobia of cats. Ailuranthrope is a lesser-known term that refers to a feline therianthrope. Depending on the story in question, the species involved can be a domestic cat, a tiger, a lion, a leopard, a lynx, or"
"Monoceros (legendary creature) The monoceros () is a legendary animal with only one horn. It derives from the Greek word ""Μονόκερως"", a compound word from μόνος (""monos"") which means ""only one"" / ""single"" and κέρας (""keras"") (neuter gender, which means ""horn"". The monoceros was first described in Pliny the Elder's ""Natural History"" as a creature with the body of a horse, the head of a stag (minus the antlers), the feet of an elephant, and the tail of a wild boar. It has one black horn in the middle of its forehead, which is two cubits in length, and is"
"is composed of (""rhino-"", ""nose""), (""keras"", ""horn"") and ""ontos"": on: with a horn on the nose. The plural in English is ""rhinoceros"" or ""rhinoceroses"". The collective noun for a group of rhinoceroses is ""crash"" or ""herd"". The name has been in use since the 14th century. The family Rhinocerotidae consists of only four extant genera: ""Ceratotherium"" (White rhinoceros), ""Dicerorhinus"" (Sumatran rhinoceros), ""Diceros"" (Black rhinoceros) and ""Rhinoceros"" (Indian and Javan rhinoceros). The living species fall into three categories. The two African species, the white rhinoceros and the black rhinoceros, belong to the tribe Dicerotini, which originated in the middle Miocene, about"
"valued since ancient times for making a range of items, from ivory carvings to false teeth, fans, dominoes and joint tubes. Elephant ivory is the most important source, but ivory from mammoth, walrus, hippopotamus, sperm whale, killer whale, narwhal and wart hog are used as well. Elk also have two ivory teeth, which are believed to be the remnants of tusks from their ancestors. The national and international trade in ivory of threatened species such as African and Asian elephants is illegal. The word ""ivory"" ultimately derives from the ancient Egyptian ""âb, âbu"" (""elephant""), through the Latin ""ebor-"" or ""ebur""."
"in human medicine. Currently, some snake venom has been used to create anti-coagulants that work to treat strokes and heart attacks. The word ""herpetology"" is from Greek: ἑρπετόν, ""herpeton"", ""creeping animal"" and , ""-logia"", ""knowledge"". People with an avid interest in herpetology and who keep different reptiles or amphibians often refer to themselves as ""herpers"". ""Herp"" is a vernacular term for non-avian reptiles and amphibians. It is derived from the old term ""herpetile"", with roots back to Linnaeus's classification of animals, in which he grouped reptiles and amphibians together in the same class. There are over 6700 species of amphibians"
"Anthropophilia In parasitology, anthropophilia, from the Greek ἅνθρωπος (anthrōpos, ""human being"") and φιλία (philia, ""friendship"" or ""love""), is a preference of a parasite or dermatophyte for humans over other animals. The related term endophilia refers specifically to a preference for being in human habitats, especially inside dwellings. The term ""zoophilia"", in this context, describes animals which prefer non-human animals for nourishment. Most usage of the term ""anthropophilia"" refers to hematophagous insects (see ""Anopheles"") that prefer human blood over animal blood (zoophily, but see other meanings of zoophily). Examples other than haematophagy include geckoes that live close to humans, pied crows"
"which have been known as ""lemurs"" ever since. The name derives from the Latin term ""lemures"", which refers to the ""spirits of the dead"" from Roman mythology. According to Linnaeus' own explanation, the name was selected because of the nocturnal activity and slow movements of the slender loris. Being familiar with the works of Virgil and Ovid and seeing an analogy that fit with his naming scheme, Linnaeus adapted the term ""lemur"" for these nocturnal primates. However, it has been commonly and falsely assumed that Linnaeus was referring to the ghost-like appearance, reflective eyes, and ghostly cries of lemurs. It"
"animal stereoscopic vision. Chameleons are adapted for climbing and visual hunting. They live in warm habitats that range from rain forest to desert conditions, with various species occurring in Africa, Madagascar, southern Europe, and across southern Asia as far as Sri Lanka. They also have been introduced to Hawaii, California, and Florida, and often are kept as household pets. The English word ""chameleon"" ( ) is a simplified spelling of Latin """", a borrowing of the Greek (""khamailéōn""), a compound of (""khamaí"") ""on the ground"" and (""léōn"") ""lion"". A group of chameleons is referred to by the collective noun ""camp""."
"specific animals with a sort of phrónēsis which confers them capabilities to ""learn and receive instruction"" with rudimentary understanding of some significant signs. Those animals do practice deliberative, judicial, and epideictic rhetoric deploying ethos, logos, and pathos with gesture and preen, sing and growl. Since animals offer models of rhetorical behavior and interaction that are physical, even instinctual, but perhaps no less artful, getting rid of our accustomed focus on verbal language and consciousness concepts will help people interested in rhetoric and communication matters promote human-animals' rhetoric. The ""locus classicus"" for Greek and Latin primary texts on rhetoric is the"