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* Animals in (on) ''[[Nagasarete Airantou]]'' may as well be animals in name only. Lampshaded heavily by Ikuto in the beginning but he's since taken it in stride (especially those cotton balls they call "sheep"). Whenever a "real" animal appears it is given such "real" detail that even animals of the same species on Airantou find it horrifying.
* ''[[Rental Magica]]'' had it [[Played for Laughs]] right in the first episode ([[Anachronic Order|TV order]]), on account of [http://blog.seiha.org/images/rental1/rental1%20%284%29.jpg this] beast.
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'''Nekoyashiki''': (very calmly) [http://blog.seiha.org/images/rental1/rental1%20%2815%29.jpg A mammal on four legs with sharp teeth that barks]. If I don't call it a dog, what else should I call it? }}
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* Neal Stephenson's ''[[Anathem]]'' uses this, in addition to its inversion [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]]. Devices that are obviously cell phones and video cameras respectively are called "jeejahs" and "speelycaptors", but vegetables and animals of the alien planet on which the novel is set are named for their closest Earth equivalent and Earth Anglo units (feet, miles) are used.
* In the novelisation of ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]'' a [[Catgirl|felinoid crewmember]] is annoyed to be described as a "cat".
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"All right... both of you were in the back alley, weren't you?" }}
* One of S.L. Viehl's ''StarDoc'' books featured small, fuzzy, [[Take Our Word for It|very alien-looking]], ''herbivorous'' animals ... which were immediately identified as "kitties!" by a child.
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* The [[Dragaera]] novels use elements of this trope, as [[Word of God]] holds that the "orcas" of Dragaera could use an Earth Orca (Whale) for a chew toy. The Dragaeran word for "hawk" is a special case, as it refers to diurnal birds of prey of any sort, and hence applies both to genuine hawks ''and'' to non-biologically-speaking-hawk birds of prey (IE Shrikes, Falcons, Ravens, Keas...)
* Yulia Latynina's ''Inhuman'' features a character musing:
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* In [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s story "The Wall of Darkness", Shervane and his father's traveling party includes "certain animals it is convenient to call horses".
* In [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s short story "Paradises Lost", the colonists of a new planet (who are just off the [[Generation Ship]] where they've lived for several generations) dub a certain kind of insect a "dog". They know it's not what the word originally referred to, but no one's ever seen a dog, so no one cares.
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