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1!! List of things unique to the Dr. Seuss universe
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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