Glossary of ALL Terms for Data on EOL

F. Willemse collection: http://eol.org/schema/terms/collection_Fwillemse
facultative climber: http://eol.org/schema/terms/facultativeClimber
facultative epiphyte: http://eol.org/schema/terms/facultativeEpiphyte
facultative parasite: http://eol.org/schema/terms/facultativeParasite
famennian age: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Famennian

International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
farm: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000078
A tract of crop or grazing land, as well as the group of buildings with and often surrounding a farmhouse, including barns, sheds, and other outbuildings, used for agricultural production.
farm soil: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00005749
Soil which is part of a cropland or a rangeland biome.
farming symbiotroph: http://eol.org/schema/terms/farming_symbiotroph
A consumer that acquires nutrition by consuming an autotrophic symbiont growing on its body
fast: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0000912
Increased rate. A rate which is relatively high.
feather: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000022
One of the epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds. Feathers are formed in tiny follicles in the epidermis, or outer skin layer, that produce keratin proteins.
feces: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q496
solid or semisolid remains of the food that could not be digested, from any animal
feeding current: http://eol.org/schema/terms/feedingCurrent
An organism which obtains food by utilizing a feeding current.
feeding structure: https://eol.org/schema/terms/FeedingStructure
The morphological structure of body parts used to ingest food.
feet: http://mimi.case.edu/ontologies/2009/1/UnitsOntology#foot
A foot (plural: feet; abbreviation or symbol: ft or ′ (the prime symbol) is a unit of length. Since 1960 the term has usually referred to the international foot, defined as being one third of a yard, making it 0.3048 meters exactly. It is an integral part of both the imperial and United States customary systems of units. It is subdivided into 12 inches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foot_(unit)&oldid=587535236
female: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0000383
A biological sex quality inhering in an individual or a population that only produces gametes that can be fertilised by male gametes.
female flowers: http://eol.org/schema/terms/femaleFlowers
carpellate or pistillate; having only functional carpels
femur II length: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Femur2Length
A 1D measurement of the distance along a straight line connecting the base and the tip of the femur of the second leg.
femur length: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_0004348
The distance from point to point along the longest axis of the long bone of the thigh.
femur width: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_1000666
The distance from side to side of the long bone of the thigh.
fen: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000232
A freshwater peat land with chemically basic (which roughly means alkaline) ground water.
ferralsol: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002246
Ferralsols represent the classical, deeply weathered, red or yellow soils of the humid tropics. These soils have diffuse horizon boundaries, a clay assemblage dominated by low-activity clays (mainly kaolinite) and a high content of sesquioxides.
fertile: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0000955
being capable of initiating, sustaining, or supporting reproduction.
fertilization: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0009566
The union of gametes of opposite sexes during the process of sexual reproduction to form a zygote. It involves the fusion of the gametic nuclei (karyogamy) and cytoplasm (plasmogamy).
fertilized soil: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00005754
fetus: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/EFO_0001323
a developmental stage in animals before birth
fiber: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q161
natural or synthetic substance made of long, thin filaments
field notes: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/fieldNotes
One of a) an indicator of the existence of, b) a reference to (publication, URI), or c) the text of notes taken in the field about the Event.
field number: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/fieldNumber
An identifier given to the event in the field. Often serves as a link between field notes and the Event.
field soil: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00005755
fifth instar larva stage: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fifthInstarLarva
The fifth stage of instar larva stage.
filiform: http://eol.org/schema/terms/filiform
thread-like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_botanical_terms#filiform
filter feeder: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1252491
a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure
final instar larva: http://eol.org/schema/terms/finalInstarLarva
Last larval lifestage before pupal or adult stage
fire resistance: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FireResistance
The ability of an organism to resist burning.
fire tolerance: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FireTolerance
The relative ability of a plant to resprout, regrow, or reestablish from residual seed after a fire.
USDA PLANTS database Characteristics Data Fields (Fire tolerance). http://plants.usda.gov/charinfo.html
first appearance: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
first instar larva stage: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_8000000
The first stage of instar larva stage. [ IDOMAL : 0000656 ]
fissure cave: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000263
A narrow, verical cave passage, often developed along a joint but not necessarily so. Usually due to solution but sometimes to tension.
fixes: https://eol.org/schema/terms/fixes
Captures an element from the air and incorporates it into its biochemistry
fjord: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000039
A long and narrow sea inlet with high steeply sloped walled sides. A fjord is a landform created during a period of glaciation.
flagellate: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q113627402
a cell or organism with one or more whip-like appendages called flagella
fleshy fruit: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fleshyFruit
A fruit with at least one tissue that is succulent at maturity.
http://www.uv.es/jgpausas/brot.htm
flight: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000367
self-propelled movement of an organism from one location to another through the air, usually by means of active wing movement
floian age: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Floian

International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
flood meadow: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000154
An area of grassland or pasture beside a river, subject to seasonal flooding.
flood plain: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000255
An area which is subject to periodic flooding.
flooded forest: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1940784
forest growing on an alluvial zone, subject to periodical inundation during the floods
flooded grassland: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000195
flooded savanna: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000190
A flooded savanna biome is a savanna biome which has very wet to saturated soil moisture content.
floodway: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000256
The stream channel and adjacent areas that carry flood flows in a flood plain.
florivore: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q48835467
animal that mostly eats flowers
flower color: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0000537
A flower anatomy and morphology trait (TO:0000499) which is associated with the color of the flower (PO:0009046).
flowering: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0007016
A sporophyte reproductive stage during which a flower on a whole plant is open
flowering and fruiting: http://eol.org/schema/terms/floweringAndFruiting
flowering stage: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0007616
A flower development stage that begins when pollen is released by anther dehiscence and/or the stigma is receptive and ends with the process of pollination and/or floral organ senescence
fluid flow rate: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0002243
the volume of fluid which passes per unit time
flume: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000079
An open artificial water channel, that leads water from a diversion dam or weir completely aside a natural flow, often an elevated box structure (typically wood) that follows the natural contours of the land.
fluorite: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_46713
fluvisol: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002273
Fluvisols accommodate genetically young, azonal soils in alluvial deposits.
fodder: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_03301293
Feed for domesticated animals
foliicolous: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5464375
organism that grows on the leaves of vascular plants
foliose: http://eol.org/schema/terms/foliose
leaflike, with flat sheets of tissue not tightly bound
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fungi/lichens/lichenmm.html
folivore: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q617573
herbivore animal that specializes in eating leaves.
fomite: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00010358
A fomite is any inanimate object or substance capable of carrying infectious organisms (such as germs or parasites) and hence transferring them from one individual to another. A fomite can be anything such as a cloth or mop heads so when cleaning this is important to remember that this could aid when spreading pathogenic organisms.
food: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2095
any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body
food additive: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_03412972
food colorant: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_03303179
foraging habitat: http://eol.org/schema/terms/ForagingHabitat
Primary habitat where the species forages during the breeding season.
Richard M. Sibly, Christopher C. Witt, Natalie A. Wright, Chris Venditti, Walter Jetz, and James H. Brown. 2012. Energetics, lifestyle, and reproduction in birds. PNAS 109(27):10937-10941, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206512109
foram feeder: https://eol.org/schema/terms/foram_feeder
a consumer that feeds primarily on foraminifera
forb: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0900037
whole plant forbacious
forelimb length: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_0010023
The distance from point to point along the longest axis of the anterior/superior jointed appendages used for locomotion or grasping.
forest: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000174
A forest biome is a terrestrial biome which includes, across its entire spatial extent, densely packed vegetation which strongly limits light penetration to the forest floor.
forest edge: http://eol.org/schema/terms/forestEdge
forest soil: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002261
fork length: http://eol.org/schema/terms/ForkLength
refers to the length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the end of the middle caudal fin rays and is used in fishes in which it is difficult to tell where the vertebral column ends
definition from Wikipedia
fork length: http://purl.org/obo/owlATOL_0001658
length of a fish from the tip of the snout to the end of the middle caudal fin rays
forms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C25513
combine to create (something), eg: a structure
fortunian age: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Fortunian

International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
fossorial: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2850019
organism that is adapted to digging and life underground.
fossorial and/or ground dwelling: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossorialOrGround
An organism that is adapted to terrestrial life below ground, on or near the ground.
fossorial and/or ground dwelling only: http://eol.org/schema/terms/groundDwelling
An organism that spends most of its time on the ground or underground.
fourth instar larva stage: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_8000003
The fourth stage of instar larva stage. [ IDOMAL : 0000659 ]
fragrance: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_48318
A substance, extract, or preparation for diffusing or imparting an agreeable or attractive smell.
Frank, J. Howard: https://www.marinespecies.org/imis.php?module=person&persid=26517
a contributor to WoRMS
frasnian age: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Frasnian

International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
free-living: http://eol.org/schema/terms/freeliving
An organism that lives freely in its environment and that does not live inside another organism nor is attached to another organism.
freshwater: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000873
A biome that applies to the freshwater realm.
freshwater: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000306
freshwater animals: https://eol.org/schema/terms/freshwater_animals
animals naturally inhabiting freshwater
freshwater benthic: https://eol.org/schema/terms/freshwater_benthic
freshwater benthic (benthic meaning 'bottom') habitat includes lakebeds, river beds, and the bottoms of all freshwater bodies
freshwater carnivore: https://eol.org/schema/terms/freshwater_carnivore
A consumer that feeds primarily on freshwater animals
freshwater decapods: https://eol.org/schema/terms/freshwater_decapods
decapods naturally inhabiting freshwater
freshwater habitat: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002037
A habitat that is in or on a body of water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids (<0.5 grams dissolved salts per litre).
freshwater marsh: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000053
A marsh associated with water that contains low concentrations of salts.
freshwater wetland: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000243
A wetland whose water that contains low concentrations of salts.
fringing reef: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1999990
A marine reef with either an entirely shallow backreef zone (lagoon) or none at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringing_reef
frond length: http://eol.org/schema/terms/frondLength
frontal: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C161325
Of, or related to, or in the direction of the front of the body.
fructose: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fructose
free-standing branching tubes
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fungi/lichens/lichenmm.html
frugivore: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1470764
organism that eats fruit.
fruit: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0009001
A multi-tissue plant structure (PO:0025496) that develops from a gynoecium (PO:0009062) and may have as parts one or more seeds (PO:0009010)
fruit color: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0000147
fruit development stage: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0025500
A sporophyte reproductive stage that begins when a fruit on a whole plant that is not currently participating in a whole plant fruit development stage begins a fruit initiation stage, and ends with the earliest of the following: (1) the whole plant begins a sporophyte senescent stage, (2) the whole plant begins a sporophyte dormant stage, or (3) all fruits on the whole plant are finished ripening.
fruit distribution: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0017771
spatial pattern of fruit on the parent plant
fruit length: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0001366
fruit or seed color: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FruitSeedColor
The predominant and conspicuous color of the mature fruit or seed from a landscaping aesthetics standpoint.
USDA Plants database. Characteristics Data Fields. http://plants.usda.gov/charinfo.html
fruit position: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_1000011
the position of a fruit on the parent plant
fruit ripening complete stage: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0007038
The stage at which fruit ripening is complete
fruit shape: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0000032
fruit size: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0004480
fruit type: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0000850
A fruit anatomy and morphology trait (TO:0002629) which is associated with the type of a fruit (PO:0009001).
[database_cross_reference: PO:0009001] [database_cross_reference: TO:moorel]
fruit width: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0015921
fruiting body form: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fruitbodyform
morphological characteristic of the fruiting body
fruiting body height: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fruitingBodyHeight
maximum dimension away from the substrate of the fruiting body or sporocarp, the fungal structure on which spore-producing structures are borne.
fuel: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_33292
An energy-rich substance that can be transformed with release of usable energy.
fumarole: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000216
A hole in the Earth's crust from which steam and gases are emitted.
fungi: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q764
a kingdom of organisms
fungivore: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3331325
organism that consumes fungi
furniture: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000587
a movable object intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., chairs, stools and sofas) and sleeping (e.g., beds)
furongian epoch: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Furongian

International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale