armadillo
armadillo (n.)1570s, from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado \\\"armored,\\\" from Latin armatu...
badger
badgerbadger: [16] The Old English term for a ‘badger’ was brock, a word of Celtic origin, and badge...
bat
batbat: Bat as in ‘cricket bat’ [OE] and bat the animal [16] come from entirely different sources. B...
bear
bearbear: [OE] The two English words bear ‘carry’ and bear the animal come from completely different...
beaver
beaverbeaver: [OE] Like bear, beaver appears to mean etymologically ‘brown animal’. Old English beof...
bison
bisonbison: [14] Bison appears to be of Germanic origin, from a stem *wisand- or *wisund-. This beca...
buffalo
buffalobuffalo: [16] English probably acquired buffalo from Portuguese bufalo, originally naming the...
calf
calfcalf: English has two distinct words calf, both of Germanic origin. Calf ‘young cow’ goes back t...
camel
camelcamel: [OE] Naturally enough, camel is of Semitic origin: Hebrew has gāmāl, for example, and Ar...
chimpanzee
chimpanzee (n.)1738, from a Bantu language of Angola (compare Tshiluba kivili-chimpenze \\\"ape\\\")...
deer
deerdeer: [OE] In Old English, dēor meant ‘animal’ in general, as opposed to ‘human being’ (as its m...
dolphin
dolphindolphin: [13] The ultimate source of dolphin is Greek delphís ‘dolphin’, which some have link...
elephant
elephantelephant: [13] Elephants were named from their tusks. Greek eléphās (probably a borrowing fr...
ferret
ferretferret: [14] A ferret is, from an etymological point of view, a ‘thieving animal’. The word co...
fox
vt. 欺骗；使变酸\nn. 狐狸；狡猾的人\nvi. 假装；耍狡猾手段\nn. (Fox)人名；(英、法、德、意、西、瑞典)福克斯fox 狐狸，欺骗，迷糊来自PIE*puk, 尾巴。因狐狸毛茸茸的大...
gazelle
n. 瞪羚；小羚羊\nvi. 似瞪羚般跳跃\nn. (Gazelle)人名；(西)加塞列gazelle 羚羊来自阿拉伯语。gazellec. 1600, from French gazelle, Ol...
giraffe
giraffegiraffe: [17] The 16th-century name for the ‘giraffe’ was camelopard, a compound of camel and...