Compound Words for Animals and Insects

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw (7)
  2. 2. The commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic ___ moth which spins a cocoon (8)
  3. 4. Echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk (8)
  4. 5. Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest (9)
  5. 8. Long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds (11)
  6. 9. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (9)
  7. 11. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals (8)
  8. 13. Nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites (8)
  9. 14. The larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae (8)
  10. 15. Relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur (8)

Down

  1. 1. Any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is ___ or predominantly ___ (9)
  2. 3. The largest breed of dogs (9)
  3. 6. Large hare of western North America (10)
  4. 7. Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping (11)
  5. 10. Largest North American frog (8)
  6. 12. Either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber (8)