Glossary of Terms
An online resource for students of nature and the outdoors.
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- albino
- an organism exhibiting deficient pigmentation
- analgesic
- pain relief
- anticoagulant
- a substance that hinders the clotting of blood
- arboreal
- inhabiting or frequenting trees
- anterior
- situated near or toward the head or part most nearly corresponding to a head
- articulation
- a movable joint between rigid parts of an animal
- aversion
- a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it
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- carnivorous
- meat-eating
- carrion-
- the dead and rotting body of an animal
- cartilaginous
- composed of cartilage which is a usually translucent somewhat elastic tissue
- chemoreceptor
- a sense organ (as a taste bud) responding to chemical stimuli
- cloaca
- the common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes
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- epidermal
- of the epidermis; skin
- efficacy
- the power to produce an effect
- endemic
- belonging to or native to a particular area
- eradicate
- to do away with as completely as if by pulling up by the roots
- extirpate
- to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.
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