Group 2: Growth, Body, and Insects#

Theme: A young keeper cares for growing animals and learns how they survive.

cricket /ˈkrɪk.ɪt/ noun

1. Cricket is an outdoor game played with bats, a ball, and wickets between two teams of eleven players.

feed /fiːd/ verb

1. If you feed a person or animal, you give them food to eat.
2. When an animal feeds, it eats food.

protein /ˈprəʊ.tiːn/ noun

1. Protein is a substance found in food such as meat, eggs, and cheese, which the body needs in order to grow and stay strong.

vitamin /ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/ noun

1. Vitamins are substances that you need in small amounts in order to remain healthy, and which you get from food.

metabolism /məˈtæb.əl.ɪ.zəm/ noun

1. Your metabolism is the way that chemical processes in your body use food and water in order to grow and heal and to produce energy.

fur /fɜː/ noun

1. Fur is the thick, soft hair that grows on the bodies of many animals, such as cats, dogs, and rabbits.
2. Fur is also the skin of an animal with the hair still attached to it, used to make coats and other clothing.

paw /pɔː/ noun

1. The paw of an animal such as a dog, cat, or bear is its foot, which has claws and soft pads.

claw /klɔː/ noun

1. The claws of a bird or animal are the hard, curved, sharp nails on its feet.
2. The claws of a crab or lobster are the large curved parts that it uses for holding things.

bristle /ˈbrɪs.əl/ noun

1. Bristles are short, stiff, thick hairs, especially those on the back of a pig or on a brush.

curl /kɜːl/ noun verb

1. If your hair curls, or if you curl it, it forms tight curves or spirals.
2. A curl is a piece of hair or other material that forms a curved or spiral shape.

butterfly /ˈbʌt.ə.flaɪ/ noun

1. A butterfly is an insect with a long thin body and four large, usually brightly coloured wings.

spider /ˈspaɪ.də/ noun

1. A spider is a small creature with eight thin legs that often spins a web to catch insects for food.

mosquito /mɒˈskiː.təʊ/ noun

1. A mosquito is a small flying insect that bites people and animals in order to drink their blood.

skin /skɪn/ noun

1. Your skin is the natural outer covering of your body, or that of an animal.

pest /pest/ noun

1. A pest is an insect or small animal that damages crops, food, or livestock.

parasite /ˈpær.ə.saɪt/ noun

1. A parasite is a plant or animal that lives on or inside another living thing and feeds on it, often causing it harm.

proliferate /prəˈlɪfəreɪt/ verb

1. If things proliferate, they increase quickly in number.

beak /biːk/ noun

1. A bird’s beak is the hard, pointed part of its mouth.

devour /dɪˈvaʊ.ə/ verb

1. If you devour food, you eat it quickly and hungrily.

worm /wɜːm/ noun

1. A worm is a small animal with a long, thin, soft body and no legs, which lives in soil or water.

insect /ˈɪn.sekt/ noun

1. An insect is a small creature such as a fly, beetle, or ant, which has six legs and often has wings.

wing /wɪŋ/ noun

1. The wings of a bird, insect, or bat are the two parts of its body that it uses for flying.

feather /ˈfeðə/ noun

1. A feather is one of the many soft, light things that cover the body of a bird.

plume /pluːm/ noun

1. A plume is a large, soft, and decorative feather.

courtship /ˈkɔːtʃɪp/ noun

1. Courtship is the special behaviour that animals show when they are trying to attract a sexual partner.

mate /meɪt/ verb noun

1. When animals mate, they have sex in order to produce young.
2. An animal’s mate is its sexual partner.

lay /leɪ/ verb

1. When a female bird, insect, or reptile lays an egg, she pushes it out of her body.
2. If you lay something somewhere, you put it down carefully in a flat position.

brood /bruːd/ noun verb

1. A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother.
2. When a bird broods, it sits on its eggs to keep them warm until they hatch.

hatch /hætʃ/ verb noun

1. When an egg hatches, or when a young bird, fish, or insect hatches, it comes out of its egg.
2. A hatch is a group of young birds, fish, or insects that have all come out of their eggs at the same time.

fin /fɪn/ noun

1. A fish’s fins are the flat parts which stick out from its body and help it to swim and keep its balance.

spawn /spɔːn/ noun verb

1. Spawn is the soft, jelly-like eggs laid in water by fish, frogs, or toads.
2. When fish, frogs, or toads spawn, they produce and deposit a large number of eggs.

breed /briːd/ verb noun

1. If you breed animals or plants, you keep them in order to produce young ones with particular qualities.
2. A breed of a pet or farm animal is a particular type that has been developed by people.

interbreed /ˌɪntəˈbriːd/ verb

1. If different types of animals or plants interbreed, or if you interbreed them, they reproduce together to produce new varieties.

hybridize /ˈhaɪbrɪdaɪz/ verb

1. If two different types of animals or plants hybridize, or if you hybridize them, they produce a new plant or animal from two different species.

sterility /stəˈrɪləti/ noun

1. Sterility is the condition of being unable to produce children, young animals, or seeds.

mature /məˈtʃʊə/ adjective verb

1. A mature person, animal, or plant is fully grown and developed.
2. When something matures, it becomes fully grown or developed.

secrete /sɪˈkriːt/ verb

1. If an animal or plant secretes a substance, it produces it from its cells or tissues.

excrete /ɪkˈskriːt/ verb

1. When an animal or plant excretes waste matter, it passes that matter out of its body.