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This article aims at finding some problems in teaching names of animals and plants of the Malay-Indonesian language. For this aim, it compares names of certain animals and plants contained in dictionaries, including: Malay monolingual dictionary; Indonesian monolingual dictionary; Indonesian-English bilingual dictionary; and Indonesian-Korean bilingual dictionary. By this work, we are able to find some errors in the common names of animals and plants. Wrong names of animals and plants in dictionaries have often led students falsely recognize those animals and plants. These errors are resulted from the mistranslation, which is also caused by the fact that the dictionary-makers did not consult scientific names of animals and plants. Based on these problem-findings, this article suggests that educating names of animals and plants to students requires a systematic research and a careful arrangement of those common names based on the scientific names.