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A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.

Any one of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth. [Written also tetradon.]

Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper.

Any one of many species of small delicately colored butterflies belonging to Thecla and allied genera; -- called also hairstreak, and elfin.

er (Zoöl.), a tree hopper (Thelia cratægi) which lives on the thorn bush, apple tree, and allied trees.

A small South American bird (Anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree.

A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush. Sage thrasher. (Zoöl.) See under Sage. -- Thrasher whale (Zoöl.), the common killer of the Atlantic.

Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.

Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.

A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbæna, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower.

Any one of several species of South American birds belonging to Tinamus and allied genera.

Any one of many species of long-legged dipterous insects belonging to Tipula and allied genera. They have long and slender bodies. See Crane fly, under Crane.

oöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to Siva, Milna, and allied genera. -- Tit babbler (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small East Indian and Asiatic timaline birds of the genus Trichastoma. -- Tit for tat. Etym: [Probably for tip for tap. See Tip a slight blow.] An equivalent;…

A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.

Any one of numerous small spring birds belonging to Anthus, Corydalla, and allied genera, which resemble the true larks in color and in having a very long hind claw; especially, the European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).

Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singing birds belonging to Parus and allied genera; -- called also tit, and tomtit.

Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidæ. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to fe…

of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.

A Florida and West Indian grunt (Bathystoma, or Hæmulon, rimator); also, any of various allied species.

Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.