Body parts

A fleece is the entire coat of wool that is on an animal like a sheep. The term fleece is usually used to refer to the wool after it has been removed by shearing the sheep.

Flesh is the soft parts of a person or animal, particularly the muscle and fat. Flesh can also refer to the soft, edible parts of fruit. Flesh is not usually used to refer to fish.

A flipper is an arm, leg or wing of an animal that lives in the sea. Flippers have been adapted for swimming and look very much like fish fins. Flippers can be seen on animals like whales, dolphins, seals and penguins.

Your foot is on the end of your leg. You use your feet to stand on. You have five toes on each foot. You wear shoes and socks on your feet.

Your forearm is the lower part of your arm, between your wrist and elbow.

Your forehead is the part of your head between your eyebrows and your hairline.

Freckles are brown spots that you usually get on your nose and cheeks but can appear anywhere that sunshine can reach. Freckles are most common in people with very pale skin, especially people with ginger hair.

Fur is the thick hair that covers many animals. If you are going to make a coat out of fur, it would be made from the skin of the animal as well as the fur that grows out of the skin.

Not to be confused with fir, a kind of tree.

Gills are what creatures that live in water use to breathe. Fish gills are easy to see, between their head and their side fins. Other creatures have less obvious gills, that look like fine, tufty growths.

A goatee is a kind of beard that is only on the point of a man's chin rather than on the sides of his face too. A goatee has that name because it looks a bit like the kind of beard goats have.