Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
193. [reptiles] alligator, crocodile; saurian; dinosaur [extinct];
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snake, serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick[obs3]. [amphibians] frog,
toad. [fishes] trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine,
mackerel. [insects] ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee. [arthropods]
tardigrade, spider. [classification by number of feet] biped,
quadruped. flocks and herds, live stock; domestic animals, wild
animals; game, ferae naturae[Lat]; beasts of the field, fowls of
the air, denizens of the sea; black game, black grouse;
blackcock[obs3], duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe. [domesticated
mammals] horse &c. (beast of burden) 271; cattle, kine[obs3], ox;
bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep;
lamb, lambkin[obs3]; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow;
steer, stot[obs3]; tag, teg[obs3]; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog,
cat. [dogs] dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house
dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy
dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound,
grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound;
harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever;
Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit;
terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie.
[cats][generally] feline, puss, pussy; grimalkin[obs3]; gib cat,
tom cat. [wild mammals] fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart,
buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox,
sambar[obs3]. bird; poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken,
chanticleer, partlet[obs3], rooster, dunghill cock, barn door
fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky
bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine[obs3], cushat[obs3],
cygnet, ringdove[obs3], siskin, swan, wood pigeon. [undesirable
animals] vermin, varmint[Western US], pest. Adj. animal,
zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy;
piscatory[obs3], piscatorial; molluscous[obs3], vermicular;
gallinaceous, rasorial[obs3], solidungulate[obs3], soliped[obs3].
#367. Vegetable.—N. vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure.
plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass. annual;
perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic. timber, forest; wood,
woodlands; timberland; hurst[obs3], frith[obs3], holt,
weald[obs3], park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice,
bocage[obs3], tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney;
underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk[obs3], ceja[Sp],
chaparral, motte [obs3][U.S.].; arboretum &c. 371. bush, jungle,
prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass,
turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary[obs3]; sedge, rush, weed;
fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva[obs3], mold;
growth; alfalfa, alfilaria[obs3], banyan; blow, blowth[obs3];
floret[obs3], petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.
foliage, branch, bough, ramage[obs3], stem, tigella[obs3]; spray
&c. 51; leaf. flower, blossom, bine[obs3]; flowering plant; timber
tree, fruit tree; pulse, legume. Adj. vegetable, vegetal,
vegetive[obs3], vegitous|; herbaceous, herbal; botanic[obs3];
sylvan, silvan[obs3]; arborary[obs3], arboreous[obs3],
arborescent[obs3], arborical|; woody, grassy; verdant, verdurous;
floral, mossy; lignous[obs3], ligneous; wooden, leguminous;
vosky[obs3], cespitose[obs3], turf-like, turfy; endogenous,
exogenous. Phr. "green-robed senators of mighty woods" [Keats];
"this is the forest primeval" [Longfellow].
#368. [The science of animals.] Zoology.—N. zoology, zoonomy[obs3],
zoography[obs3], zootomy[obs3]; anatomy; comparative anatomy; animal
physiology, comparative physiology; morphology; mammalogy.
anthropology, ornithology, ichthyology, herpetology, ophiology[obs3],
malacology[obs3], helminthology[Med], entomology, oryctology[obs3],
paleontology, mastology[obs3], vermeology[obs3]; ichthy &c.
ichthyotomy[obs3]; taxidermy. zoologist &c. Adj. zoological &c. n.
#369. [The science of plants.] Botany.—N. botany; physiological
botany, structural botany, systematic botany; phytography[obs3],
phytology[obs3], phytotomy[obs3]; vegetable physiology,
herborization[obs3], dendrology, mycology, fungology[obs3],
algology[obs3]; flora, romona; botanic garden &c. (garden) 371[obs3];
hortus siccus[Lat], herbarium, herbal. botanist &c.; herbist[obs3],
herbarist[obs3], herbalist, herborist[obs3], herbarian[obs3]. V.
botanize, herborize[obs3]. Adj. botanical &c. n.; botanic[obs3].
#370. [The economy or management of animals.] Husbandry.—N.
husbandry, taming &c. v.; circuration[obs3], zoohygiantics[obs3];
domestication, domesticity; manege[Fr], veterinary art; farriery[obs3];
breeding, pisciculture. menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden; bear
pit; aviary, apiary, alveary[obs3], beehive; hive; aquarium, fishery;
duck pond, fish pond. phthisozoics &c. (killing) 361[obs3][Destruction
of animals]; euthanasia, sacrifice, humane destruction. neatherd[obs3],
cowherd, shepherd; grazier, drover, cowkeeper[obs3]; trainer, breeder;
apiarian[obs3], apiarist; bull whacker [U.S.], cowboy, cow puncher
[U.S.], farrier; horse leech, horse doctor; vaquero, veterinarian, vet,
veterinary surgeon. cage &c. (prison) 752; hencoop[obs3], bird cage,
cauf[obs3]; range, sheepfold, &c. (inclosure) 232. V. tame,
domesticate, acclimatize, breed, tend, break in, train; cage, bridle,
&c. (restrain) 751. Adj. pastoral, bucolic; tame, domestic.
#371. [The economy or management of plants.] Agriculture.—N.
agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming; georgics,
geoponics[obs3]; tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry,
vintage; horticulture, arboriculture[obs3], floriculture; landscape
gardening; viticulture. husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist;
agricultor[obs3], agriculturist; yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of
the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman; granger, habitat, vigneron[obs3],
viticulturist; Triptolemus. field, meadow, garden; botanic
garden[obs3], winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen
garden, market garden, hop garden; nursery; green house, hot house;
conservatory, bed, border, seed plot; grassplot[obs3], grassplat[obs3],
lawn; park &c. (pleasure ground) 840; parterre, shrubbery, plantation,
avenue, arboretum, pinery[obs3], pinetum[obs3], orchard; vineyard,
vinery; orangery[obs3]; farm &c. (abode) 189. V. cultivate; till the
soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the
ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop
and top; backset [obs3][U.S.]. Adj. agricultural, agrarian,
agrestic[obs3]. arable, predial[obs3], rural, rustic, country;
horticultural.
#372. Mankind.—N. man, mankind; human race, human species, human
kind, human nature; humanity, mortality, flesh, generation. [Science of
man] anthropology, anthropogeny[obs3], anthropography[obs3],
anthroposophy[obs3]; ethnology, ethnography; humanitarian. human being;
person, personage; individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body,
somebody; one; such a one, some one; soul, living soul; earthling;
party, head, hand; dramatis personae[Lat]; quidam[Lat]. people,
persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large;
general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal,
commonwealth; republic, body politic; million &c. (commonalty) 876;
population &c. (inhabitant) 188. tribe, clan (paternity) 166; family
(consanguinity) 11. cosmopolite; lords of the creation; ourselves. Adj.
human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social;
cosmopolitan; anthropoid. Phr. "am I not a man and a brother?"
[Wedgwood].
#373. Man.—N. man, male, he, him; manhood &c. (adolescence) 131;
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gentleman, sir, master; sahib; yeoman, wight|!, swain, fellow, blade,
beau,
elf, chap, gaffer, good man; husband &c. (married man) 903; Mr.,
mister;
boy &c. (youth) 129.
[Male animal] cock, drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck,
horse,
entire horse, stallion; gibcat[obs3], tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram,
tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot[obs3].
androgen.
homosexual, gay, queen[slang].
V. masculinize
Adj. male, he-, masculine; manly, virile; unwomanly, unfeminine.
Pron. he, him, his.
Phr. hominem pagina nostra sapit [Lat][Mar.]; homo homini aut
deus
aut lupus [Lat][Erasmus]; homo vitae commodatus non donatus est
[Lat][Syrus].
#374. Woman.—N. woman, she, her, female, petticoat.
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feminality[obs3], muliebrity[obs3]; womanhood &c. (adolescence)
131.
womankind; the sex, the fair; fair sex, softer sex; weaker vessel.
dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs. lady, donna belle[Sp], matron,
dowager, goody, gammer[obs3]; Frau[Ger], frow[obs3], Vrouw[Dutch],
rani;
good woman, good wife; squaw; wife &c. (marriage) 903; matronage,
matronhood[obs3].
bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist.
nymph, wench, grisette[obs3]; girl &c. (youth) 129.
[Effeminacy] sissy, betty, cot betty [U.S.], cotquean[obs3],
henhussy[obs3], mollycoddle, muff, old woman.
[Female animal] hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny
goat,
tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen.
gynecaeum[obs3].
estrogen, oestrogen.
consanguinity &c. 166[female relatives], paternity &c. 11.
lesbian, dyke[slang].
V. feminize.
Adj. female, she-; feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly,
maidenly,
wifely; womanish, effeminate, unmanly; gynecic[obs3], gynaecic[obs3].
Pron. she, her, hers.
Phr. "a perfect woman nobly planned" [Wordsworth]; "a lovely lady
garmented in white" [Shelley]; das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan
[Ger][Goethe]; "earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected" [Lowell]; es
de
vidrio la mujer[Sp]; "she moves a goddess and she looks a queen"
[Pope];
"the beauty of a lovely woman is like music" [G. Eliot]; varium et
mutabile
semper femina [Lat][Vergil]; "woman is the lesser man" [Tennyson].
#374a. Sexuality [human]—N. sex, sexuality, gender; male,
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masculinity, maleness &c. 373; female, femininity &c. 374.
sexual intercourse, copulation, mating, coitus, sex; lovemaking,
marital relations, sexual union; sleeping together, carnal knowledge.
sex instinct, sex drive, libido, lust, concupiscence; hots, horns
[coll]; arousal, heat, rut, estrus, oestrus; tumescence; erection,
hard-on,
boner.
masturbation, self-gratification, autoeroticism, onanism,
self-abuse.
orgasm, climax, ejaculation.
sexiness, attractiveness; sensuality, voluptuousness.
[sexual intercourse outside of marriage] fornication, adultery.
[person who is sexy] sex symbol, sex goddess; stud, hunk.
one-night stand.
pornography, porn, porno; hardcore pornography, softcore
pornography;
pin-up, cheesecake; beefcake; Playboy[magazines with sexual photos],
Esquire, Hustler.
[unorthodox sexual activity] perversion, deviation, sexual
abnormality; fetish, fetishism; homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality;
sodomy, buggery; pederasty; sadism, masochism, sado-masochism; incest.
V. mate, copulate; make love, have intercourse, fornicate, have
sex,
do it, sleep together, fuck[vulg.]; sleep around, play the field..
masturbate, jerk off[coll.], jack off[coll.], play with oneself.
have the hots[coll]; become aroused, get hot; have an erection,
get it
up.
come, climax, ejaculate.
Adj. sexy, erotic, sexual, carnal, sensual.
hot, horny, randy, rutting; passionate, lusty, hot-blooded,
libidinous; up, in the mood.
homosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual.
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