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 |
humor humour sense of humor
sense of humour | the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous, she didn't appreciate my humor, you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor |
| 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 |
purposefulness
sense of purpose | the quality of having a definite purpose |
sense organ
sensory receptor
receptor | an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation |
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 |