Meanings

Hexanchidae (family with four species and three genera of cow sharks characterized by either one or two additional pairs of gill slits)

Varanidae (family of carnivorous monitor lizards)

Acanthuridae (family of marine tropical surgeonfishes, tangs, and unicornfishes)

Scatophagidae (family of small Indo-Pacific fish commonly called scats)

Ephippidae (family of mostly marine spadefishes)

Luvaridae (family containing one extant species of perciform fish similar to a surgeonfish)

Zanclidae (family of perciform fish)

planetary science

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

special course

one's special subject

Naticidae (family of molluscs comprising the moon snails)

Thamnophilidae (family comprising the antbirds)

Cardiidae (family of bivalve molluscs comprising the cockles)

Veneridae (family of bivalve molluscs comprising the Venus clams)

Buccinidae (family of gastropod mollusc comprising the true whelks)

Geisteswissenschaften (i.e. the humanities, excluding the arts)

brain science

Tachyglossidae (family including the echidnas)

to inflict