In cooking, to cut open & spread flat, as with shrimp or steak
Nearly a quarter of all species of mammals are these flyers
(Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo) The manatee can live in both of these types of environments, or in a mixture of them called brackish
An African species of this reptile in the genus Dasypeltis feeds entirely on birds' eggs
The golden type of this, now a common pet, was thought to be extinct until around 1930
Though it's not a feline, this creature sometimes has "cat" attached to its name
Rudyard Kipling called this animal's hump "An ugly lump which well you may see at the zoo"
In Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", "Out of the houses" these "came tumbling", great, small, lean, brawny...
An old proverb says, "If wishes were" these, "beggars would ride"
Bret Harte wrote of this scavenger: "Blown out of the prairie in twilight & dew, half bold & half timid, yet lazy all through"