ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

flocks and herds, live stock; domestic animals, wild animals; game, ferae naturae
[Lat.]; beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea; black game, black grouse;
blackcock † , duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe.
[domesticated mammals] horse &c (beast of burden) 271; cattle, kine † , ox; bull,
bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin † ; ewe, ram, tup;
pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot † ; tag, teg † ; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat.
[dogs] dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep
dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog;
mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound;
harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water
spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie.
[cats--generally] feline, puss, pussy; grimalkin † ; gib cat, tom cat.
[wild mammals] fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote,
elk, moose, musk ox, sambar † .
[birds] bird; poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet † , rooster, dunghill
cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird;
canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine † , cushat † , cygnet, ringdove † , siskin, swan, wood
pigeon.
[undesirable animals] vermin, varmint [U.S.], pest.
Adj. animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy; piscatory † ,
piscatorial; molluscous † , vermicular; gallinaceous, rasorial † , solidungulate † , soliped † .
367. Vegetable -- N. vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure.
plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.
annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic.
timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst † , frith † , holt, weald † , park, chase,
greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage † , tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet,
spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk † , ceja [Sp.], chaparal, motte
[U.S.]; arboretum &c 371.
bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf;
pasture, pasturage; turbary † ; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen,
moss, conferva † , mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria † , banyan; blow, blowth † ; floret † , petiole;
pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.
foliage, branch, bough, ramage † , stem, tigella † ; spray &c 51; leaf.
flower, blossom, bine † ; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree; pulse, legume.
Adj. vegetable, vegetal, vegetive † , vegitous † ; herbaceous, herbal; botanic † ; sylvan,
silvan † ; arborary † , arboreous † , arborescent † , arborical † ; woody, grassy; verdant,
verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous † , ligneous; wooden, leguminous; vosky † , cespitose † ,
turf-like, turfy; endogenous, exogenous.
Phr. green-robed senators of mighty woods [Keats]; this is the forest primeval
[Longfellow].
368. [The science of animals.] Zoology -- N. zoology, zoonomy † , zoography † , zootomy † ;
anatomy; comparative anatomy; animal physiology, comparative physiology;
morphology; mammalogy.