Animal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia, differing from plants in certain typical characteristics such as capacity for locomotion, nonphotosynthetic metabolism, pronounced response to stimuli, restricted growth, and fixed bodily structure.
  • n. An animal organism other than a human, especially a mammal.
  • n. A person who behaves in a bestial or brutish manner.
  • n. A human considered with respect to his or her physical, as opposed to spiritual, nature.
  • n. A person having a specified aptitude or set of interests: "that rarest of musical animals, an instrumentalist who is as comfortable on a podium with a stick as he is playing his instrument” ( Lon Tuck).
  • adj. Relating to, characteristic of, or derived from an animal or animals: animal fat.
  • adj. Relating to the physical as distinct from the spiritual nature of people: animal instincts and desires.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or relating to animals.
  • adj. Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
  • adj. Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
  • adj. Excellent.
  • n. In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).
  • n. In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human being.
  • n. In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc)
  • n. A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
  • n. A person of a particular type.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.
  • n. One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man.
  • adj. Of or relating to animals.
  • adj. Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part.
  • adj. Consisting of the flesh of animals.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to sensation. See animal spirits, below.
  • Having life; living; animate.
  • Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a living being, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; of man, pertaining to those parts of his nature which he shares with inferior animals.
  • Of, pertaining to, or derived from animals.
  • n. A sentient living being; an individual, organized, animated, and sentient portion of matter; in zoology, one of the Animalia; a member of the animal kingdom, as distinguished from a vegetable or a mineral.
  • n. An inferior or irrational sentient being, in contradistinction to man; a brute; a beast: as, men and animals.
  • n. A contemptuous term for a human being in whom the animal nature has the ascendancy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. marked by the appetites and passions of the body
  • n. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
  • Equivalent
    physical   
    Synonym
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    beast    creature    brute    monster    savage    beastly    bestial    wild    animalistic    untamed   
    Unknown
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    creature    horse    fish    child    plant    human    body    monster    one    race