Vulcan | English | Description | Category |
---|---|---|---|
a'kweth | hidden | name of Sandworm of Vulcan | animal |
a'kweth | Underliers | huge sand worms; perhaps exists only in legends | animal |
a'lazb | spider | arachnoid [taxonomical term] | animal |
aluk | fish | generic term for any of the class Osteichthyes, having a bony skeleton (noun) | animal |
aushfa | animal | a organism of the kingdom Animalia with a capacity for locomotion, pronounced response to stimuli, fixed bodily structure (VLI) | animal |
aushfatra | fauna | the animals living within a given area or environment during a stated period | animal |
aylak | reptile | palm-sized, mud-coloured scavenger; scaly with twin whiplike tails; corpses feed lematyas | animal |
c'hik | burrowing mammal | small burrowing mammal | animal |
ch'kariya | mammal - burrowing | a burrowing mammal that relies on the roots of plants for water and nourishment; long and slender; sparse hair; very small (Surak's Soul) | animal |
chkariya | weasel | weasel-like animal that eats carrion, fruit, small animals; lives in temperate zone (Way of Kolinahr, Demons, The Lost Years) | animal |
chorka | camel | an extinct camel-like animal | animal |
d'rachanya | dragon | extinct Vulcan flying reptile (Karracaz's Fanfic - Here Be Dragons) | animal |
dokai | fowl | a large domesticated fowl that is used for keeping weeds/insects out of fields in the circumpolar region of Vulcan (Official ST Cooking Manual) | animal |
duf | leather | the dressed or tanned hide of an animal, usually with the hair removed; any of various articles or parts made of dressed or tanned hide | animal |
dukal-talvot | coccus | any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria | animal |
dzharel | jarel | a pony-like horned animal | animal |
eik-alem'es-kupik | euryhaline | describes water organisms that tolerate a wide range of salinity | animal |
eik-falek'es-kupik | eurythermal | describes organisms that tolerate a wide range of temperatures | animal |
eik-yokulik | euryphagic | describes organisms that tolerate a wide range of foods | animal |
ek'ash'ya | gastropod | class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes | animal |
ek'esh-tukh-kupik | euryoxic | describes organisms that tolerate a wide range of oxygen to live | animal |
ek'neshuhk | obligate parasite | a parasite that cannot lead an independent nonparasitic existence, in contrast to facultative parasite | animal |
el-ukalik | fissiped | having the toes separated from one another, as in the feet of certain carnivorous mammals | animal |
falek'es-ashausu | thermophile | an organism – a type of extremophile – which thrives at relatively high temperatures, up to about 60° C | animal |
fan'yokulsu | omnivore | an omnivorous person or animal; that takes in everything available, either plant or animal; eats either plants or animals | animal |
git'woa | amphibian | cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form | animal |
ha'gel-yokulsu | phototroph | a photoautotroph; an organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances using light as an energy source | animal |
ha-guhsh-yokulsu | detritivore | an organism that feeds on decaying animal or plant material; detritivores such as bacteria, earthworms, and many insects aid in breaking down soil | animal |
hafau-ha-vel | relict | an organism or species of an earlier time surviving in an environment that has undergone considerable change | animal |
haterkadu | symbiont | am organism in a symbiotic relationship | animal |
haurok | bird | a type of bird | animal |
hayalit | reptile | small burrowing desert animal; chameleon with carapace; barely qualifies as an animal | animal |
i'dek | animal | a organism of the kingdom Animalia with a capacity for locomotion, pronounced response to stimuli, fixed bodily structure | animal |
ikh'kom | carnivore | any of various predatory, flesh-eating mammals of the order Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, bears, weasels, hyenas, and raccoons [taxomomic term] (Marketa) | animal |
jarel | horse like animal | small horned equestrian-like animal | animal |
k'karee | snake | mottled blue-grey poisonous snake; found in the desert | animal |
k'nurt | rodent | a Vulcan rodent similar to a rabbit | animal |
kahm-yokulsu | carnivore | a flesh-eating animal; one who victimizes or injures others; a predator (VLI) | animal |
kahtel | cattle | cattle (Vulcanized Terran word) | animal |
kastik-yokulsu | herbivore | an animal that feeds chiefly on plants | animal |
keh-masunol-yokulsu | methanotroph | an organism capable of oxidizing methane. | animal |
kelek-aushfa | pet | an animal kept for amusement or companionship | animal |
kenel | horse-like animal | an extinct horse-like animal | animal |
kid | feather | one of the horny, elongated structures that form the plumage of birds (noun) | animal |
krin-tu | wolf-like animal | an extinct wolf-like animal; also called "krinti" | animal |
krinti | canine | a Vulcan canine | animal |
krovill | toothless animal | a toothless animal able to eat anything (Planet of Judgement) | animal |
kuht | herd | A number of animals of one species that remain together as a group (noun) | animal |
kushel | bird | generic term for of the class Aves of warm-blooded, egg-laying, feathered vertebrates with forelimbs modified to form wings | animal |
kushel | fowl | a bird, such as the duck, goose, turkey, or pheasant, that is used as food or hunted as game | animal |
kwai-aushfatra | wildlife | wild animals and vegetation, especially animals living in a natural, undomesticated state | animal |
lanka-gar | bird - night-flier | night-flier (bird of prey); a nocturnal predatory bird | animal |
lara | bird | a dazzlingly blue desert bird | animal |
le-matya | mammal - wild cat-like | omnivorous Vulcan animal, has poisonous claws, green-white diamond pattern in its fur [TAS Yesteryear] | animal |
masunol-yokulsu | methylotroph | an organism capable of oxidizing organic compounds which do not contain carbon-carbon bonds; if able to oxidize methane, also a methanotroph | animal |
masutra-guhl | sea gull | mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs | animal |
masutraik numo-ha-vel | plankton | a collection of small or microscopic organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water | animal |
masutraik numo-mahal-vel | nekton | the collection of marine and freshwater organisms that can swim freely and are generally independent of currents ranging from microbes to whales | animal |
masutral'esk | sea monster | mythical or legendary creatures, believed to dwell in the sea and often imagined to be of immense size | animal |
mathra | butterfly | any of various insects of the order Lepidoptera, characteristically having slender bodies, knobbed antennae, and four broad, usually colorful wings | animal |
mor'gril | wolverine | a psionically-aware animal similar to a Terran wolverine | animal |
mor-gril | wolverine | a psionically aware animal similar to a Terran wolverine | animal |
nas'ksiem | cetacean | large aquatic mammal having fins, no fur, and no hind limbs | animal |
natya-shidik | heteromorphic | having different forms at different periods of the life cycle, as in stages of insect metamorphosis | animal |
nor-sehlat | nor-sehlat | a larger, predatory sehlat relative; lives in the deep desert and is unable to climb rocks to catch its prey | animal |
o'ktath | an aquatic mammal | Vulcan aquatic mammal similar to an Earth dolphin; streamlined and fast-moving. [source: Autobiography of Mr. Spock] | animal |
od'u | cephalapod | a marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles [taxonomic word] | animal |
oluhk | snake | any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes or Ophidia (anc.) | animal |
rala | wing | one of a pair of movable organs for flying, as the feather-covered modified forelimb of a bird or the skin-covered modified digits of the forelimb of a bat | animal |
ravot | insect | any of numerous small arthropod animals characterized by three pairs of legs and a body segmented into head, thorax, and abdomen | animal |
ravot sher'khah | insect | an insect that feeds exclusively on the sher'khah tree | animal |
rish-ha-vel | crossbreed | an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species (noun) | animal |
risov-ha-vel | anaerobe | an organism, such as a bacterium, that can live in the absence of atmospheric oxygen | animal |
ron-tu | dog-like animal | an extinct dog-like animal; was domesticated as a pet | animal |
sakasu-nalatra-neshuhk | biotroph | a parasite that feeds on the living tissue of its host | animal |
sark | beetle | any of numerous insects of the order Coleoptera, having biting mouthparts and forewings modified to form horny coverings that protect the underlying pair of membranous hind wings when at rest | animal |
sau-krusik | palmate | having webbed toes, as the feet of many water birds | animal |
sehlat | bear-like animal | a large bear-like animal with 6 inch fangs, often domesticated as a pet | animal |
sha'amii | goat-like animal | live in Sas-a-shar desert; it yields milk, as well as long, silken "wool" (Official ST Cooking Manual) | animal |
sha'mi | sheep-like animal | a Vulcan animal whose long curly hair is used in the textile industry | animal |
sha'vokh | bird | a large, desert-dwelling carrion-eating bird whose wingspan is 2.5 m; a vulture | animal |
sham'amii | type of cattle | a domesticated animal; it yields milk and other dairy products; has long silky wool which is famous; does not require grain feed but can subsist quite well on the native browse (Nurse Chapel's Cook Book) | animal |
shatarr | lizzard | poisonous lizzard that live under rocks and in caves; found in the desert (The Lost Years) | animal |
shatarr | small mammal | a small animal that lives in the countryside around Shi'Kahr. [source: Autobiography of Mr. Spock] | animal |
shavokh | bird | hunting bird; gold-brown feathers; 2.5 m wing span; found in the desert; vulture-like bird | animal |
si-falek-aushfa | poikilotherm | an organism, such as a fish or reptile, having a body temperature that varies with the temperature of its surroundings; cold-blooded | animal |
sov-ha-vel | aerobe | an organism, such as a bacterium, requiring oxygen to live | animal |
starok | bat | nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate | animal |
stonn | horn | one of the hard, usually permanent structures projecting from the head of certain mammals; a bony core covered with a sheath of keratinous material | animal |
tcha'be'she | Sandworm | ancient Vulcan 'underlier', a Sandworm of Vulcan | animal |
tchakarya | ferret | a small, ferret-like predator; also spelled chkariya (see that for a better definition) | animal |
tchorka | camel | an extinct camel-like animal | animal |
te-resh-kah | silver bird | silver bird-like predator; the Vulcan "silver-bird"; also spelled teresh-kah | animal |
teresh-kah | silver bird | silver bird-like predator; the Vulcan "silver-bird"; also spelled te-resh-kah | animal |
tevanu-yokulsu | scavenger | an animal, such as a bird or insect, that feeds on dead or decaying matter; one that scavenges, as a person who searches through refuse for food | animal |
treit | flock | a group of animals that live, travel, or feed together (noun) | animal |
tugno't | sheep-like animal | a sheep-like animal native to Vulcan; its soft, curly woool is used for Vulcan robes (Orion Press Lexicon) | animal |
ukraluk | reptile | generic term for a cold-blooded, usually egg-laying vertebrates of the class Reptilia | animal |
va'khen | bird | a flying preditor of the mountains | animal |
valit | rodent | small, rust-coloured, burrowing rodent; found in the desert | animal |
vek t'rikas-sa-nel | tapetum | a membranous layer or region, especially the iridescent membrane of the choroid of certain mammals | animal |
vralt | goat | an animal similar to a mountain goat | animal |
wil'tei | canine | any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles; of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae | animal |
xirahnah | silver birds | the legendary Vulcan "silver birds"; they have chromium-coloured feathers; falcon-sized; make a "chir-up"-like sound or an eerie cry; nest furtner north in the L-langon range; usually come over the Sas-a-shar at dawn (Orion Press Lexicon) | animal |
zud-fam- | edentate | of or pertaining to an order of placental animals like sloths/armadillos/anteaters; are toothless animals | animal |
105 terms found.