1 | !! List of things unique to the Dr. Seuss universe |
2 | [[foldercontrol]] |
3 | |
4 | [[folder: Animals]] |
5 | * '''Bar-ba-loot''': A furry creature that looks sort of like a bipedal bear and is about the size of a very small cat. They play in shady areas and eat sweet food. If they go too long without eating, they get gassy. |
6 | * '''Swomee Swan''': An orange and yellow swan with a melodious call. |
7 | * '''Humming fish''': A fish similar to a large goldfish which can hum. They can walk on their fins and breathe air but still need water, preferably non-polluted. |
8 | * '''Who''': A small humanoid big enough to fit on speck of dust. They cannot be seen with the naked eye, but can occasionally be heard. |
9 | * '''Birthday bird''': A large, talking bird whose job it is to host birthday parties. |
10 | * '''Glunk''': A large creature that can speak and eats a certain type of stew. They are very hard to "un-thunk". |
11 | * '''Gox''': A large, apelike creature who likes to box. |
12 | * '''Doubt Trout''': A kind of fish. |
13 | * '''Beft''': Large, birdlike creatures who always travel left. |
14 | * '''Zizzerzazzerzuzz''': A large, pink and white creature. |
15 | * '''Fifferfefferfeff''': A furry, bipedal creature with feathers on its head. |
16 | * '''Zed''': A small, yellow, domesticated animal that walks upright and has a long, fast-growing hair upon its head. |
17 | * '''Zans''': A deer-like creature. |
18 | * '''Klotz''' and '''Glotz''': Both deer-like creatures, but they have black spots. |
19 | * '''Bifferbaum bird''': A kind of bird that uses its nest only for sleeping and rebuilds it each night. |
20 | * '''Spotted atrocious''': A very large creature that [[ExtremeOmnivore eats many things]], including people. |
21 | * '''Sneetch''': A large, yellow, birdlike creature that lives on the beach. Some, called the star-bellied sneetches, have green stars on their bellies, while the others, called plain-bellied sneetches, don't. |
22 | * '''Jibboo''': A shadowy, birdlike humanoid. |
23 | * '''Tweetle-beetle''': A kind of aggressive beetle. |
24 | * '''Snoo''': A humanoid, moose-like creature. |
25 | * '''Pillow Snake''': A snake that sits on a pillow. |
26 | * '''Wasket''': A little pink creature. |
27 | * '''Vug''': A large, possibly dangerous creature. |
28 | * '''Which-what-who''': A creature with a human's head, legs, arms and body, a duck's feet, a spout on its head, antlers, a leopard's tail, and an elephant's trunk. |
29 | * '''Ikka''', '''Gritch''', '''Grickle''', '''Wild Wheef''' and '''Nupper''': All sapient creatures who like steak and dislike stew. You can tell them apart because Ikkas are short and green and yellow with wings but not birds, Gritches are a bit taller and orange and yellow and a bit like birds, Grickles are quite tall and purple, Nuppers are orange, spotty and walk on all fours and wild Wheef are green with long noses and blue hair. |
30 | [[/folder]] |
31 | [[folder: Plants]] |
32 | * '''Truffula tree''': A rare tree with brightly-coloured, silky tuft on top instead of leaves. The fruit is edible and looks like grapes. |
33 | * '''Pillberry vine''': A vine that grows bad-tasting berries that add feathers to birds' tails. |
34 | * '''Grickle grass''': A very hardy type of grass. |
35 | * '''Snide''': A kind of grass-like plant that grows in "snide fields". |
36 | * '''Moose-moss''': Moss that moose like to eat. |
37 | * '''Bippolo tree''': A very rare tree. If somebody makes a wish before planting the seed, the tree will grow what was wished for. |
38 | * '''Zinniga-Zanniga Tree''': A tree that produces pink flowers. The juice of the flowers allegedly has amazing healing properties, but it is unknown if that is true because it was said as part of a trick. |
39 | [[/folder]] |
40 | [[folder: Places]] |
41 | * '''Whoville''': A town where Whos live. They celebrate human traditions like Christmas (they even have their own SantaClaus) and put the word "Who" onto words. |
42 | * '''Katroo''': A city that hosts very elaborate birthday parties. |
43 | * '''Na-nupp''': A place that is supposedly on another planet as there are three moons. All the birds there are diurnal. |
44 | * '''Da-dake''': Another place with only diurnal birds. There is a lot of water there. |
45 | * '''Thneedville''': A town where everything is artificial. Not in the books, but it's in the movie of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' |
46 | * '''The River Woo-Wall''': A river that is considered aesthetically pleasing. |
47 | ** Another one is the '''River Wah-Hoo'''. |
48 | * '''Roover River''': Another river. |
49 | * '''The Waiting Place''': A place where everybody waits. |
50 | * '''The Ocens of Olf''': Part of the sea. |
51 | * '''Solla Sollew''': An almost-perfectly utopian city. |
52 | * '''Boola Boo Ball''': A ''perfectly'' utopian city. |
53 | [[/folder]] |
54 | [[folder: Food and Drink]] |
55 | * '''Green Eggs and Ham''': Just what it sounds like. To clarify, the ham is green too. |
56 | * '''Scrambled Eggs Super Dee Dooper Dee Booper Special Deluxe a la Peter T. Hooper''': a kind of scrambled eggs made from the eggs of many different strange birds. |
57 | [[/folder]] |
58 | [[folder: Vehicles]] |
59 | * '''Zike Bike''': A wacky kind of bicycle. |
60 | * '''Crunk Car''': A weird sort of car. |
61 | * '''Wubble''': A type of animal-pulled vehicle. |
62 | [[/folder]] |
63 | [[folder: Clothes]] |
64 | * '''Thneed''': A thing knitted from the tufts of truffula trees that can be an article of clothing and many other things besides. |
65 | * '''Gruvulous Glove''': A kind of glove that has a secret compartment. |
66 | [[/folder]] |
67 | [[folder: Games]] |
68 | * '''Up, Up, Up with a Fish''': Lifting up a fish tank in a weird way. |
69 | * '''Fun in a Box''': Introducing two Things in a box. |
70 | [[/folder]] |
71 | [[folder: Other]] |
72 | * '''Puzzler''': A word for the brain. |
73 | * '''Pal-alace''': A word for palace. |
74 | * '''Mustard-off pool''': A swimming pool designed specifically for removing mustard. |
75 | * '''Sweeping-up-afterwards broom''': A broom designed just for sweeping up a mess caused by a big event. |
76 | * '''Un-thinker''': The part of the mind that can "un-thunk" things. |
77 | * '''Un-thunk''': To imagine that something doesn't exist [[PuffOfLogic to the point of it no longer existing.]] |
78 | * '''Thinker-upper''': The part of the mind that thinks things up. |
79 | * '''Mind-maker-upper''': One who is good at making up their mind. |
80 | * '''Footsy''': If someone is footsy, they use their feet a lot. |
81 | * '''Whisper-ma-phone''': A horn tied to a hose meant for whispering through. |
82 | * '''Lurkem''': An office to lurk in. |
83 | * '''Snuvv''': The secret compartment in a gruvolous glove. |
84 | * '''Un-slump''': To un-slump oneself is to get oneself out of a slump. |
85 | * '''Star-off Machine''': A machine to remove stars from Sneetches' tummies. |
86 | * '''Blibber-blubber''': Stuff that's hard to pronounce. |
87 | * '''Tweetle-beetle battle''': A battle between tweetle-beetles. |
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