grey market gray market | an unofficial market in which goods are bought and sold at prices lower than the official price set by a regulatory agency |
whale shark Rhincodon typus | large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide, resembles a whale and feeds chiefly on plankton |
manta manta ray devilfish | extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes, usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned |
grey skate gray skate Raja batis | common European skate used as food |
grey kingbird gray kingbird petchary Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis | a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America, similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird |
Canada jay grey jay gray jay camp robber whisker jack Perisoreus canadensis | a jay of northern North America with blackapped head and no crest, noted for boldness in thievery |
catbird grey catbird gray catbird Dumetella carolinensis | North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing |
ern erne grey sea eagle gray sea eagle European sea eagle white-tailed sea eagle Haliatus albicilla | bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail, of Europe and Greenland |
great grey owl great gray owl Strix nebulosa | large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia |
greyhen grayhen grey hen gray hen heath hen | female black grouse |
Hungarian partridge grey partridge gray partridge Perdix perdix | common European partridge |
African grey African gray Psittacus erithacus | commonly domesticated grey parrot with red-and-black tail and white face, native to equatorial Africa |
giant kangaroo great grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus | very large greyish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas |
mussel | marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc. |
marine mussel mytilid | marine bivalve mollusk having a dark elongated shell, live attached to solid objects especially in intertidal zones |
edible mussel Mytilus edulis | a mussel with a dark shell that lives attached to rocks |
freshwater mussel freshwater clam | bivalve mollusk abundant in rivers of central United States |
pearly-shelled mussel | the pearly lining of the dark shells is a source of mother-of-pearl |
thin-shelled mussel | mussel with thin fragile shells having only rudimentary hinge teeth |
zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha | inch long mollusk imported accidentally from Europe, clogs utility inlet pipes and feeds on edible freshwater mussels |
octopus devilfish | bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles |
whale louse | amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans |
seed shrimp mussel shrimp ostracod | tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell |
whale | any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head |
baleen whale whalebone whale | whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water |
right whale | large Arctic whalebone whale, allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil |
bowhead bowhead whale Greenland whale Balaena mysticetus | large-mouthed Arctic whale |
blue whale sulfur bottom Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere |
finback finback whale fin whale common rorqual Balaenoptera physalus | large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat, of Atlantic and Pacific |
sei whale Balaenoptera borealis | similar to but smaller than the finback whale |
lesser rorqual piked whale minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata | small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific |
humpback humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae | large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives |
Eschrichtius genus Eschrichtius | type and sole genus of the Eschrichtiidae |
grey whale gray whale devilfish Eschrichtius gibbosus Eschrichtius robustus | medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific |
toothed whale | any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc. |
sperm whale cachalot black whale Physeter catodon | large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil, also a source of ambergris |
pygmy sperm whale Kogia breviceps | small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America |
dwarf sperm whale Kogia simus | very small (to feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific |
beaked whale | any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw |
bottle-nosed whale bottlenose whale bottlenose Hyperoodon ampullatus | northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead |
killer whale killer orca grampus sea wolf Orcinus orca | predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin, common in cold seas |
pilot whale black whale common blackfish blackfish Globicephala melaena | small darkolored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States, the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school |
white whale beluga Delphinapterus leucas | small northern whale that is white when adult |
timber wolf grey wolf gray wolf Canis lupus | a wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America |
grey fox gray fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus | dark grey American fox, from Central America through southern United States |
digger wasp | solitary wasp that digs nests in the soil and stocks them with paralyzed insects for the larvae |
grey lemming gray lemming red-backed lemming | Old World lemming |
eastern grey squirrel eastern gray squirrel cat squirrel Sciurus carolinensis | common medium-large squirrel of eastern North America, now introduced into England |
western grey squirrel western gray squirrel Sciurus griseus | large grey squirrel of far western areas of United States |
grey gray | horse of a light gray or whitish color |