Word Finder - animal

definition

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).

example

A cat is an animal, not a plant. Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not plants.

synonyms

• beast
• creature

definition

In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.

synonyms

• beast

definition

In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).

definition

A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.

example

My students are animals.

synonyms

• brute
• monster
• savage

definition

A person of a particular type.

example

He's a political animal.

definition

Matter, thing.

example

a whole different animal

I went to college and studied animal husbandry.

What's the most dangerous animal out there?

He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him day by day, and the divine being established.

The man before her was poised like an animal on a hunt, his penetrating, dark eyes pinned on her.

Every animal had to earn its keep.

The steady tread of some large animal continued in her direction - a mountain lion?

But when he saw that the horsemen did not dismount and that the wolf shook herself and ran for safety, Daniel set his chestnut galloping, not at the wolf but straight toward the wood, just as Karay had run to cut the animal off.

She frequently walks a dog, a loathsome animal who fails to warm to my affection.

I tried to describe to her the appearance of a camel; but, as we were not allowed to touch the animal, I feared that she did not get a correct idea of its shape.

Any time a wild animal isn't afraid of you, there is probably something wrong.

Curious about the great animal, Yully approached the fence.

They are the biggest thing out there, but actually, under the right circumstances, any animal can be dangerous.

They, of course, are Walden all over and all through; are themselves small Waldens in the animal kingdom, Waldenses.

She instantly leaped to the side and rolled away from the animal, glancing up as the rifle belched flames.

In him the animal man chiefly was developed.

Unwilling to root for either animal, Carmen turned Ed back toward the tree line.

If you gave me free rein I'd have every kind of animal there was.

He does me a favor by allowing you to ride on the animal, and I do him a favor by taking care of it.

I didn't get a degree in animal husbandry so I could sit in the house knitting booties.

The panicked animal fought him for its head instead, refusing to obey him.

Taran cursed the animal again under his breath and blocked two strikes before they broke free of the footmen.

The ship anchored near the shore, where barbarians in ill-fitting clothing made of animal skins awaited them.

Lana exclaimed as the large animal knocked her back.

Natasha looked from one to the other as a hunted and wounded animal looks at the approaching dogs and sportsmen.

The food of the adult is almost exclusively animal, - insects, especially large ants, snails, lizards and snakes, but it also eats certain large red berries.

The pampas were almost destitute of animal life before the horses and cattle of the Spanish invaders were there turned out to graze, and the puma and jaguar never came there until the herds of European cattle attracted them.

The general shape of the animal is ungainly, owing to a huge hump on the withers, at which point the height is about 3 ft.

This animal can scarcely be regarded as more than a local race, and should be styled Oreamnus montanus kennedyi.

Deciduous premolar preceded by a minute molariform tooth, which remains in place until the animal is nearly full grown.

This odd animal is provided with a bill or beak, which is not, like that of a bird, affixed to the skeleton, but is merely attached to the skin and muscles.

They never, in any situation, cultivated the soil for any kind of food-crop. They never reared any kind of cattle, or kept any domesticated animal except the dog, which probably came over with them in their canoes.

We do not find their behaviour like that of the motor mechanism of an animal.

It reminds us of a similar property of animal protoplasm which finds its expression in the rhythmic beat of the heart and other phenomena.

The elementary unit of plant structure, as of animal structure, is the cell.

The nucleus was definitely recognized in the plant cell by Robert Brown in 1831, but its presence had been previously indicated by various observers and it had been seen by Fontana in some animal cells as early as 1781.

The cytological evidence for this appears to be made stronger for animal than for plant cells.

Thus he demonstrated that the forms of the land exercise a directive and determining influence on climate, plant life, animal life and on man himself.

Different species of organisms come to perfection in different climates; and it may be stated as a general rule that a species, whether of plant or animal, once established at one point, would spread over the whole zone of the climate congenial to it unless some barrier were interposed to its progress.

Many theories of the relation of human to animal sacrifice have been put forward, most of them on an insufficient basis of facts.

The chief constituent of hard animal fats, such as beef and mutton tallow, &c.; also contained in many vegetable fats in smaller quantity.

Largely present in olive oil and other saponifiable vegetable oils and soft fats; also present in animal fats, especially hog's lard.

The chief constituent of palm oil; also contained in greater or less quantities in human fat, olive oil, and other animal and vegetable fats.

One makes him the son of Mandane, a daughter of Astyages (originally evidently by a god), who is exposed in the mountains by his grandfather on account of an oracle, but suckled by a dog (a sacred animal of the Iranians) and educated by a shepherd; i.e.

That these primary divisions of every group are characterized by definite peculiarities of form, structure and economy, which, under diversified modifications, are uniform throughout the animal kingdom, and are therefore to be regarded as the primary types of nature.

That the different ranks or degrees of circular groups exhibited in the animal kingdom are Nine k in number, each being involved within the other."

They all grow slowly, and it is not until the animal is about six months old that they are united into one firm bone.

These terms were explained in his great work L' Organisation du regne animal, oiseaux, begun in 1855, to mean exactly the same as those applied by Merrem to his two primary divisions.

The popular name for the animal is tamandud.

The first class include such changes as the alcoholic fermentation of sugar solutions, the acetic acid fermentation of alcohol, the lactic acid fermentation of milk sugar, and the putrefaction of animal and vegetable nitrogenous matter.

He may, in fact, be called the father of modern pathology, for his view, that every animal is constituted by a sum of vital units, each of which manifests the characteristics of life, has almost uniformly dominated the theory of disease.since the middle of the 59th century, when it was enunciated.