Animals and Plants
Beluga (sturgeon): A large kind of sturgeon Beluga (whale) (from Russian белу́ха belukha): A type of white whale.
Khramulya (Russian: храму́ля), name of several fish species of Cyprinidae family: Anatolian Khramulya, Colchic Khramulya and Sevan khramulya.
Lenok (Russian: лено́к; otherwise known as Asiatic trout or Manchurian trout), a genus, Brachymystax, of salmonid fishes.
Sheltopusik (also Scheltopusik; Russian: желтопу́зик, literally "yellow-bellied"), European Legless Lizard (Pseudopus apodus).
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Famous quotes containing the words animals and/or plants:
“We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.”
—native American belief, quoted by D. Jenness in “The Carrier Indians of the Bulkley River,” Bulletin no. 133, Bureau of American Ethnology (1943)
“Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use,
Did after him the World seduce:
And from the fields the Flow’rs and Plants allure,”
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