Peasant's Revolt
Great Revolt | a widespread rebellion in against poll taxes and other inequities that oppressed the poorer people of England, suppressed by Richard II |
| great care | more attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons, the pilot exercised great care in landing |
World War I
World War
Great War
First World War
War to End War | a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from to |
great white shark
white shark
man-eater
man-eating shark
Carcharodon carcharias | large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas, known to attack humans |
blue shark
great blue shark
Prionace glauca | slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark, blue body shades to white belly, dangerous especially during maritime disasters |
great bowerbird
Chlamydera nuchalis | large bowerbird of northern Australia |
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus | brown North American horned owl |
great grey owl
great gray owl
Strix nebulosa | large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia |
| lizard | relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail |
iguanid
iguanid lizard | lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands, typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males |
zebra-tailed lizard
gridiron-tailed lizard
Callisaurus draconoides | swift lizard with long black-banded tail and long legs, of deserts of United States and Mexico |
fringe-toed lizard
Uma notata | with long pointed scales around toes, of deserts of United States and Mexico |
| earless lizard | any of several slender lizards without external ear openings: of plains of western United States and Mexico |
| collared lizard | any of several robust long-tailed lizards with collars of two dark bands, of central and western United States and northern Mexico |
| leopard lizard | any of several large lizards with many dark spots, of western United States and northern Mexico |
| spiny lizard | any of numerous lizards with overlapping ridged pointed scales, of North America and Central America |
| fence lizard | spiny lizard often seen basking on fences in the United States and northern Mexico |
western fence lizard
swift blue-belly
Sceloporus occidentalis | common western lizard, seen on logs or rocks |
eastern fence lizard
pine lizard
Sceloporus undulatus | small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia |
sagebrush lizard
Sceloporus graciosus | a ground dweller that prefers open ground and scattered low bushes, of United States west between Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains |
side-blotched lizard
sand lizard Uta stansburiana | one of the most abundant lizards in the arid western United States |
tree lizard
Urosaurus ornatus | a climbing lizard of western United States and northern Mexico |
horned lizard
horned toad horny frog | insectivorous lizard with hornlike spines on the head and spiny scales on the body, of western North America |
Texas horned lizard
Phrynosoma cornutum | of arid and semiarid open country |
| worm lizard | a lizard of the genus Amphisbaena, harmless wormlike limbless lizard of warm or tropical regions having concealed eyes and ears and a short blunt tail |
| night lizard | small secretive nocturnal lizard of southwestern North America and Cuba, bear live young |
skink
scincid
scincid lizard | alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales, more dependent on moisture than most lizards, found in tropical regions worldwide |
teiid lizard
teiid | tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail |
whiptail
whiptail lizard | any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards |
| caiman lizard | crocodile-like lizard of South America having powerful jaws for crushing snails and mussels |
agamid
agamid lizard | a lizard of the family Agamidae |
frilled lizard
Chlamydosaurus kingi | large arboreal insectivorous Australian lizard with a ruff of skin around the neck |
dragon flying dragon
flying lizard | any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body |
mountain devil
spiny lizard Moloch horridus | desert lizard that feeds on ants |
| anguid lizard | any of a small family of lizards widely distributed in warm areas, all are harmless and useful as destroyers of e.g. slugs and insects |
| alligator lizard | slim short-limbed lizard having a distinctive fold on each side that permits expansion, of western North America |
glass lizard
glass snake
joint snake | snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail |
| legless lizard | degenerate wormlike burrowing lizard of California closely related to alligator lizards |
| venomous lizard | any of two or three large heavy-bodied lizards, only known venomous lizards |
beaded lizard
Mexican beaded lizard
Heloderma horridum | lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales, of western Mexico |
lacertid lizard
lacertid | Old World terrestrial lizard |
| sand lizard Lacerta agilis | a common and widely distributed lizard of Europe and central Asia |
green lizard
Lacerta viridis | a common Eurasian lizard about a foot long |
monitor
monitor lizard
varan | any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia, fabled to warn of crocodiles |
Komodo dragon
Komodo lizard
dragon lizard
giant lizard
Varanus komodoensis | the largest lizard in the world ( feet), found on Indonesian islands |
apatosaur
apatosaurus
brontosaur
brontosaurus
thunder lizard
Apatosaurus excelsus | huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic |
| cuckoo | any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail |
European cuckoo
Cuculus canorus | common cuckoo of Europe having a distinctive two-note call, lays eggs in the nests of other birds |
black-billed cuckoo
Coccyzus erythropthalmus | North American cuckoo, builds a nest and rears its own young |
pheasant coucal
pheasant cuckoo
Centropus phasianinus | Australian bird with a tail like a pheasant |