| bosk-- |
oxlike creature, huge, shambling animal with a thick humped neck and
long shaggy hair, wide head, tiny red eyes, temperament of a sleen, two
long wicked horns that reach out from its head
which suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. 4/4 large,
horned shambling ruminant of the Gorean Plains 6/26 |
| Cosian wingfish-- |
tiny delicate fish, blue, about the size of a tarn disk...3 or 4 slender
spines in its dorsal fin which are poisonous, capable of hurling itself
from the water and for brief distances, on its
stiff pectoral fins, gliding through the air...4/84 sometimes referred
to as the songfish as a portion of its courtship rituals, the males and
females thrust their heads from the water and utter a whistling sound.
Found only in the waters of Cos. 4/85 |
| crested lit & fruit tindel-- |
...cloak of yellow and red feathers, from the
crested lit and the fruit tindel, brightly plumaged birds of the rain forest.
13/236 |
| eels-- |
voracious..Gorean delicacy, carnivorous. river
eels, black eels, spotted eel 25/428 carnivorous, frequent the lower delta
6/8 |
| frevet-- |
usually come out after dark, small, quick, mammalian
insectivore, they control the beetles and lice, and
such. 21/276 |
| Ushendi fisher-- |
...long, white, curling feathers, long-legged,
wading bird. 13/236 |
| gant, marsh-- |
small, horned, web-footed, aquatic fowl, broad-billed
and broad-winged 6/4 |
| gim-- |
...the call of a tiny horned gim, the tiny purplish owllike bird.
7/97 ... throaty warbling, so loud for such a small bird, of
the tiny horned gim. 8/106 |
| goat, mountain-- |
agile and bellicose, Gorean mountain goat 1/147 |
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| Vosk gulls-- |
..about 40 inches long, metal piled and fletched
with 3 half-feathers from Vosk gulls 6/68 |
| hith-- |
huge, many-banded Gorean python. 2/26 |
| bounding hurt-- |
wool is woven into clothing 24/377 bounding, two-legged, marsupial...sheared for
its wool, replaces it's wool 4 times a year, raised in large
herds. 5/39 |
| jard-- |
small scavenging bird...commonly moves in flocks
25/400 |
| kaiila-- |
herbivorous, lofty, substantially the same animal as is found in the
Tahari, save for the wider footpads of the Tahari
beast, suitable for negotiating deep sand...17/35 |
| kailiauk-- |
kailiauk--short-trunked, stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny,
wild, heavy, haunches marked in red and brown bars, wide heads bristle
with a trident of horns...4/2 lumbering, gregarious, short tempered, trident
horned 17/35 gigantic, dangerous beast, often standing from twenty to twenty-five
hands at the shoulder and weighing as muc as
four thousand pounds...feathered...almost never hunted on foot unless in
deep snow....17/40 ribs are vertical to the ground...17/41 seldom moves
at night...17/39 |
| kite, Gorean |
wild..shrill call 4/4 |
| larl-- |
tawny leopardlike beast, indigenous to the Voltai and several of Gor's
ranges, seven feet high at the shoulder, carnivorous 1/147 when hunting
alone is silent 1/148 wide, fierce head, 2-3 feet in diameter...sharp,
pointed ears 1/148 huge, cat-like predator commonly found in mountainous
regions 4/2 pantherlike carnivore which may stand six to eight
feet high at the shoulder. 2/21 |
| leech-- |
...wet, half-flattened, some four incheslong, a half inch thick..24/97
two common ways to remove the are heat and salt...it is not wise to apply
force to them....too often part of the creature
is left in the body which must then be removed with a knife or similar
tool. 24/100 |
| lelt-- |
Lelts are often attracted to the salt rafts, largely by the vibrations
in the water, picked up by their abnormally developed lateral-line
protrusions, and their fernlike craneal vibration receptors, from the
cones and poles. Too, though they are blind, I think either the light,
or the heat, perhaps, from our lamps, draws them.
The tiny eyeless heads will thrust from the water, and the fernlike filaments
at the side of the head will open and lift, orienting themselves to one
or the other of the lamps.
Tribesmen of Gor, p.247 |
| ost-- |
venemous brilliantly orange reptile little more than a foot in length,
whose bite spelled an excrutiating death within
seconds. 2/26 |
| Ushendi ost-- |
are red with black stripes. Anatomically, ad with
respect to toxin, they are almost identical to the common ost. 13/239 |
| panther-- |
...save for the panther teeth about his neck...13/239
He had worn at his loins the pelts of the yellow panther. He wore,
too, the teeth of his beast as a necklace. 13/236 |
| parrots, lits & fleer-- |
We may perhaps somewhat loosely speak of this first zone as the 'floor',
or better, 'ground zone' of the rain forest. In the level of the
emergents there live primarily birds, in particular parrots, long billed fleers
and needle tailed lits. 13/311-12 |
| parsit fish-- |
.. slender striped parsit fish has vast plankton banks north of Kassau
, silverish, striped with brown,...smoked, dried parsit fish.
bond-maid gruel-- fresh water with Sa-Tarna
meal, and then stirring in the raw fish. 9/27 & 64 |
| qualae-- |
tiny, small three-toed mammals, stiff brushy mane of black hair, travel
in flocks 1/141 |
| salamander-- |
"Among the lelts, too, were, here and there, tiny salamanders,
they, too, white and blind. Like the lelts, they were, for their size,
long-bodied, were capable of long periods of domancy and posessed a slow
metabolism, useful in an environment in which food is not plentiful.
Unlike the lelts, they had long stemlike legs....but the filaments, in
the case of the salamanders, interestingly, are not vibration receptors,
but feather gills, an external gill system."
Tribesmen
of Gor, p.247 - 248 |
| shark--common |
common nine-gilled with many varieties; marsh shark and the sharks
of the Vosk and Laurius have adapted to freshwater. 24/93
skin is very rough, abrasive...sicklelike tail...man is not the natural
prey of them 24/174 marsh shark - long-bodied, nine-gilled
6/13 ...probably descendents of Earth sharks placed experimentally in Thassa
millenia ago by Priest-Kings...4/205 |
| shark--marsh |
long-bodied, nine-gilled 6/13...adapted to freshwater |
| sleen-- |
smaller than forest sleen, unpredictable, viscious, seven feet in length,
furred six-legged mammalians; have undulating gait, heads are viper shaped.
Domesticated as herd sleen. 4/2 relentless hunters and paws have
six claws. 4/28 six-legged, long-bodied mammalian carnivore, almost
as much a snake as an animal. 2/26 ...six short
legs....like a furred lizard, its pointed, whiskered snout ......2/34
full grown, 19 or 20 feet long, wide nocturnal eyes...2/36 six legged,
large-eyed, sinuous, mammalian resembling a furred serpentine lizard; reliable,
indefatigable hunter; can follow a scent days old with ease; unusually
keen senses 6/105 |
| tabuk-- |
one-horned, yellow antelope 1/145 single-horned,
yellow antelopes...2/48 |
| tarn, common-- |
huge birds, light for its size due to the comparative hollowness
of its bones, extremely powerful...plummage varies, black, white, multicolored
most common being greenish-brown, vicious, seldom more
than half tamed, carnivorous, fear nothing but the tarn-goads. War
tarns have their talons shod with steel. 1/51-53 huge, vicious bird,
alert 4/225 & 226 can carry a knotted rope of seven to ten without
difficulty 4/256 gigantic, hawklike saddle-birds 2/23 becomes
disoriented, uncoordinated, and drops screaming back to the plains below
when entering the mountains. 2/48 |
| tarn, racing |
different from the common and war tarns, extremely light bird, its
beak is narrower and lighter than that of a common or war tarn; wings are
commonly broader and shorter; cannot carry a great
deal of weight; lack the stamina of the other tarns 5/143-144 |
| tarn, war |
bred for strength, speed agility, swiftness of reflex and combative
instincts; talons shod with steel, extremely dangerous
5/143 |
| tarsk-- |
six-tusked wild boar, formidable 2/77 |
| tharlarion, broad-- |
slow-moving, four-footed 1/125 draft lizards 2/76
become unmanageable when entering the mountains 2/48 |
| tharlarion, high-- |
a species of saddle lizard 1/52 runs on its two back feet in
great bounding strides, its carnivorous mouth is lined with long
gleaming teeth, has two small, ridiculously disproportionate
forelegs that dangle absurdly in front of its body. 1/115 need far less
water than a tarn 1/125 |
| tharlarion, river-- |
domesticated, vast, herbivorous, web-footed lizards 4/3&4 |
| tharlarion, sea-- |
travel in packs beneath the waves...not much more than teeth and tail |
| tharlarion, tiny water-- |
carnivorous, similar to pirhana in that they pick the bones clean.
1/85-86 about 6 inches long, scavengers 6/1 |
| tumit-- |
large flightless bird that has a long hooked beak which is longer
than a man's arm. 4/2 large, flightless
carnivorous birds of the southern plains...4/331 |
| turtle, marsh |
large, edible 24/200 |
| turtle, Vosk |
...or one of the great hook-beaked turtles of the river would seize
my body and drag it and the frame under the water, destroying me in the
mud below. 1/139 gigantic, persistent and carnivorous 4/204 |
| ul-- |
a giant pterodactyl ranging far from its native swamps in the delta
of the Vosk, silent, predatory. winged tharlarion, wings of skin and stretch
from the jointed, hind legs, clawed, of the creature to an extremely long,
fourth digit on its clawed hand...predatory...24/182
territorial and isolated 24/203 predatory winged tharlarion 6/1 webbed,
scaled wings 6/77 will not attack a tarn as it would be torn
to pieces 17/19 |
| urt-- |
small horned rodent 2/60 has three rows of needlelike white teeth;
two horns, tusks like flat crescents curved from its jaw, another two horns
similar to the first modifications of the bony
tissue forming the upper ridge of the eye socket, protruded over those
gleaming eyes... 2/86 long hairless tail...2/86 silken, blazing-eyed, live
mostly on the garbage in the canals; carnivorous at times 6/121 air-breathing
mammal..long, triangular head 17/67 |
| vart-- |
a blind, batlike flying rodent, the size of a small dog. can strip
a carcass in a matter of minutes. sometimes rabid 2/26 |
| verr-- |
long-haired with spiraled horns 1/147 small long-haired, less
beligerent and sizeable than the wild verr of the Voltai Ranges 4/10 |
| vulo-- |
domesticated pigeon raised for eggs and meat 4/1 |
| ant, white (termite)-- |
white ants, or termites, of the vicinity, breaking apart their high,
towering nests of toughened clay, some of them thirty-five feet in
height 13/293 |
| anteater-- |
...harmless, unless you cross its path or disturb it lives on the white
ants, or termites, of the vicinity, breaking apart their high, towering
nests of toughened clay, some of them thirty-five feet in height,
with its mighty claws, then darting its four-foot-long tongue, coated with
adhesive saliva, among the nest's startled occupants, drawing thousands
in in a matter of moments into its narrow, tubelike mouth. 13/293 |
| Brak bush-- |
the leaves of which, when chewed, have a purgative effect 5/211 |
| dina flower-- |
a small, lovely, multiply petaled flower, short-stemmed, and
blooming in a turf of green leaves, usually on the slopes of hills, in
the northern temperate zones of Gor, in its budding, though in few other
ways, it resembles a rose; it is an exotic, alien flower; it is also spoken
of, in the north, where it grows most frequently, as the slave flower...
11/61 |
| ferns-- |
...amongst the ferns and flowers....4/190 |
| festal-- |
type of shrubbery 24/339 |
| flaminium-- |
scarlet, large-budded, five-petaled 8/154 |
| flower tree-- |
segmented trunk...4/216 dangling loops of interwoven blossoms...curved
branches..emerge in bouquets in subtle,delicate patterns of shades and
hues...4/217 |
| gitch-- |
"...not like the gitches whose bites are rather painful. Some
of them are big fellows, too. But there aren't many of them around.
The frevets see to it..." 21/277 |
| golden beetle-- |
narcotic, filamented mane...curved, hollow, laterally moving jaw-pincers,
drains the Priest-Kings of their body fluid, feeding
itself, slaying them. 10/31 |
| Ka-la-na tree-- |
yellow wine tree of Gor. 4/217 |
| Katch-- |
foliated leaf vegetable 10/37 |
| leech plant-- |
fastens two hollow thorns, like fangs into its victim. the chemical
responses of the bladderlike pods produce a mechanical
pumping action and the blood is sucked into the plant to nourish it. 2/33 |
| needle or sting fly-- |
most originate in the delta, eggs laid on the stems of the rence plants,
tend to be attracted to the eyes as to moist
bright objects...the sting is painful extremely so, but is not usually
dangerous unless inflicted in great numbers...several stings can induce
nausea, fatal only if stung numerous times...a painful swelling in the
area of the sting is a common reaction...swelling subsides usually in a
few Ahn. 24/161-162 |
| roach-- |
We watched a large, oblong, flat-bodied black object,
about a half hort in length, with long feelers, hurry toward a crack at
the base of the wall. "That is a roach," he said. "They are harmless...."
21/277 |
| needle trees, evergreens-- |
used for masts, spars, cabin and deck planking 6/141 |
| rence-- |
has a long thick root about four inches thick which lies horizontally
under the surface of the water, small roots sink into the mud, as many
as a dozen 'stems' extend upwards from the root often
fifteen-sixteen feet from the root; has an excrescent, usually single floral
spike; used in manufacturing rence paper; root: certain wooden tools and
untensils are carved from it, a good fuel. stem--used to make reed boats,
sails, mats, cords, a kind of fibrous cloth. pith--edible, one of the staples
of the rence growers' diet, on occasion used as caulking for boat
seams, but tow and pitch covered by tar or grease are generally used
6/7 |
| rennels-- |
poisonous, crablike desert insects 4/27 |
| rep bush-- |
... small, reddish, woody bush, commercially grown in several areas,
but particularly below Ar and above the equator; the cheap rep-cloth is
woven in mills, commonly, in various cities; it
takes dyes well and, being cheap and strong, is popular, particularly
among the lower castes." 6/10 - 11 |
| slime worm-- |
a long, wormlike animal, eyeless, with a small red mouth 3/105 |
| Swamp Spider-- |
has four pairs of eyes, sensory hairs on its appendages, monstrous
insect. mandible like curved knives. do not hurt rational creatures
1/81-83 long black hairs cover the thorax 1/84
resides in swamp forest of Ar 1/89 |
| talender-- |
a delicate yellow flower often associated in the Gorean mind with love
and beauty 4/218 & 219 ...in the Gorean mind, is associated with beauty
and passion. Free Companions on the Feast of their Free Companionship,
commonly wear a garland of talenders. Sometimes slave girls, having
been subdued, but fearing to speak, will fix talenders in their hair. 6/217 |
| Tem-wood-- |
linear, black, supple...4/217 used for rudders and oars 6/141 |
| tes-- |
type of shrubbery 24/339 |
| tor-- |
type of shrubbery...fairly translated to mean the bright shrub or the
shrub of light...abundant bright flowers, either yellow or white depending
on the variety...flowers in the fall. 24/339 ...does
not grow higher than a man's waist 24/340 |
| tospit bush-- |
wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum,
grows on a tospit bush, patches which are indigenous to the drier
valleys of the western Cartius. They are bitter
but edible. 4/59 |
| Tur-- |
large trunked reddish tree 4/217 used for galley frames, beams,
clamps and posts and for hull planking 6/141 |
| Tur-pah-- |
vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet ovate leaves....leaves
are edible and used in sullage and other Gorean dishes. 4/217 |
| Veminium-- |
a kind of bluish wild flower commonly found on the lower slopes of
the Thentis range 5/163 |
| vines-- |
...for the vine, it rustled and lifted itself just beyond my reach.
4/210 |
| violet grass-- |
grass...one of several hues used in Pleasure gardens
...some dark blue and yellowish orange grass...4/219 |
| Vosk carp-- |
...probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle. 6/1 |
| Vosk sorp-- |
giant shell 6/14 wore a headband of pearls of the Vosk
sorp 6/21 |
| zarlit fly-- |
very large, about two feet long, with four large, translucent wings
with a span of about a yard, large pad-like feet, most are purple and harmless
to humans...24/160 harmless, purple, about 2
feet long, four translucent wings spanning about a yard, pad-like feet
6/15 |
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