common shiner silversides Notropis cornutus | the common North American shiner |
common canary Serinus canaria | native to the Canary Islands and Azores, popular usually yellow cage bird noted for its song |
common yellowthroat Maryland yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas | an American warbler |
common starling Sturnus vulgaris | gregarious bird having plumage with dark metallic gloss, builds nests around dwellings and other structures, naturalized worldwide |
common European jay Garullus garullus | fawnolored jay with black-and-white crest and blue-and-black wings |
common nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes | Old World nutcracker |
common newt Triturus vulgaris | small semiaquatic salamander |
common snapping turtle snapper Chelydra serpentina | large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water, prone to bite |
common iguana iguana Iguana iguana | large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back, used as human food in Central America and South America |
common kingsnake Lampropeltis getulus | widespread in United States except northern regions, black or brown with yellow bands |
common garter snake Thamnophis sirtalis | a garter snake that is widespread in North America |
common water snake banded water snake Natrix sipedon Nerodia sipedon | in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia, western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water |
adder common viper Vipera berus | small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia |
common scoter Melanitta nigra | a variety of scoter |
common brant goose Branta bernicla | the best known variety of brant goose |
common opossum Didelphis virginiana Didelphis marsupialis | omnivorous opossum of the eastern United States, noted for feigning death when in danger, esteemed as food in some areas, considered same species as the crab-eating opossum of South America |
common wallaby Macropus agiles | a small wallaby having a height ofinches |
common shrew Sorex araneus | common American shrew |
common roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides | intestinal parasite of humans and pigs |
common limpet Patella vulgata | marine limpet |
common spoonbill Platalea leucorodia | pure white crested spoonbill of southern Eurasia and northeastern Africa |
common murre Uria aalge | the most frequent variety of murre |
finback finback whale fin whale common rorqual Balaenoptera physalus | large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat, of Atlantic and Pacific |
common dolphin Delphinus delphis | black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water, |
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 |
harbor seal common seal Phoca vitulina | small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere |
common lynx Lynx lynx | of northern Eurasia |
common louse Pediculus humanus | head or body louse |
common mosquito Culex pipiens | common house mosquito |
common wasp Vespula vulgaris | a variety of vespid wasp |
common pond-skater Gerris lacustris | a variety of water strider |
common booklouse Trogium pulsatorium | a variety of booklouse |
common European earwig Forficula auricularia | sometimes destructive to cultivated bulbs |
common zebra Burchell's zebra Equus Burchelli | of the plains of central and eastern Africa |
common eland Taurotragus oryx | dark fawnolored eland of southern and eastern Africa |
common raccoon common racoon coon ringtail Procyon lotor | North American raccoon |
common eel freshwater eel | eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn, found in Europe and America, marketed both fresh and smoked |
common American shad Alosa sapidissima | shad of Atlantic coast of North America, naturalized to Pacific coast |
common mackerel shiner Scomber scombrus | important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean, its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales |
common ax common axe Dayton ax Dayton axe | an ax with a long handle and a head that has one cutting edge and one blunt side |
common room | a sitting room (usually at school or university) |
common denominator | an attribute that is common to all members of a category |
common wart | a benign growth (often with a rough surface) |
common touch | the property of appealing to people in general (usually by appearing to have qualities in common with them) |
common good commonweal | the good of a community |
common carotid artery common carotid | runs upward in the neck and divides into the external and internal carotid arteries |
common iliac artery | terminal branches of the abdominal aorta |
common cardinal vein | the major return channels to the heart, formed by anastomosis of the anterior and posterior cardinal veins |
common facial vein | vein formed by union of facial vein and the retromandibular vein and emptying into the jugular vein |
common iliac vein | formed by the internal and external iliac veins, unites with its fellow from the opposite side of the body to form the inferior vena cava |