| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea |
Alectura lathami
,
brush turkey
|
| burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea |
anteater
,
echidna
,
spiny anteater
|
| species of bacillus that causes anthrax in humans and in animals (cattle and swine and sheep and rabbits and mice and guinea pigs); can be used a bioweapon |
anthrax bacillus
,
Bacillus anthracis
|
| South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig |
aperea
,
Cavia porcellus
,
wild cavy
|
| part of the western Pacific Ocean north of Australia and south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia |
Arafura Sea
|
| pine of Australia and New Guinea; yields a valuable light even-textured wood |
Araucaria cunninghamii
,
hoop pine
,
Moreton Bay pine
|
| amphibious rat of Australia and New Guinea |
beaver rat
|
| broad indentation of the Gulf of Guinea in western Africa |
Bight of Benin
|
| island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Equatorial Guinea |
Bioko
|
| any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area |
bird of paradise
|
| group of islands in the southwestern Pacific northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea |
Bismarck Archipelago
|
| largest of the Solomon Islands; a province of Papua New Guinea |
Bougainville
|
| depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean between New Guinea and the Solomon Islands |
Bougainville Trench
|
| erect evergreen shrub or small tree of Australia and northern Guinea having palmately compound leaves |
Brassaia actinophylla
,
Schefflera actinophylla
,
umbrella tree
|
| port and the capital of Guinea |
capital of Guinea
,
Conakry
,
Konakri
|
| administrative capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea |
capital of Papua New Guinea
,
Port Moresby
|
| capital and largest city of Togo; located in the south on the Gulf of Guinea |
capital of Togo
,
Lome
|
| large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest |
cassowary
|
| type genus of the Caviidae: guinea pigs |
Cavia
,
genus Cavia
|
| guinea pig family |
cavy
|
