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1. An organism of the kingdom Animalia, distinguished from plants by certain characteristics, as the power of locomotion, fixed structure and limited growth, and nonphotosynthetic metabolism.
2. A living organism that is distinguished from plants by independent movement and responsive sense organs.
3. A living being; a member of the higher of the two series of organized beings, of which the typical forms are endowed with life, sensation, and voluntary motion; but of which the lowest forms are hardly distinguishable from the lowest vegetable forms by any more certain marks than their evident relationship to other animal forms, and thus to the animal series as a whole rather than to the vegetable series.
4. Any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well-defined shape and usually limited growth, can move voluntarily, actively acquire food and digest it internally, and have sensory and nervous systems that allow them to respond rapidly to stimuli: some classification schemes also include protozoa and certain other single-celled eukaryotes that have motility and animallike nutritional modes.
5. In common usage: one of the lower animals; a brute, or beast, as distinguished from mankind.
2. Animals are such beings, which, besides the power of growing, and producing their like, as plants and vegetables have, are endowed also with sensation and spontaneous motion.
2. A living organism that is distinguished from plants by independent movement and responsive sense organs.
3. A living being; a member of the higher of the two series of organized beings, of which the typical forms are endowed with life, sensation, and voluntary motion; but of which the lowest forms are hardly distinguishable from the lowest vegetable forms by any more certain marks than their evident relationship to other animal forms, and thus to the animal series as a whole rather than to the vegetable series.
4. Any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well-defined shape and usually limited growth, can move voluntarily, actively acquire food and digest it internally, and have sensory and nervous systems that allow them to respond rapidly to stimuli: some classification schemes also include protozoa and certain other single-celled eukaryotes that have motility and animallike nutritional modes.
5. In common usage: one of the lower animals; a brute, or beast, as distinguished from mankind.
Often restricted by the uneducated to quadrupeds; and familiarly applied especially to such as are used by man, as a horse, ass, or dog.
An older definition from the 1755 Dictionary of the English Language
1. An animal is a living creature, corporeal, distinct, on the one side, from pure spirit, on the other, from mere matter.2. Animals are such beings, which, besides the power of growing, and producing their like, as plants and vegetables have, are endowed also with sensation and spontaneous motion.
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“animal”
(Latin: animal; a collective name for the animals of a certain region or time)
(Greek: animal, wild beast, wild animal)
(Greek: animal, animals; living beings; life)
(Latin: animal life, a living being, living; breath; soul; mind)
(Greek: of the bear, bear [the animal]; or the north, northern)
(Latin: to cut, geld, spay; to remove the testicles or ovaries of an animal, including humans)
(Greek: cells, cell, hollow; used primarily in the extended sense of "animal or plant cells" [because cells were originally thought to be hollow])
(Animal health and dung beetle health: they are both vital)
(feeding on a mixed diet of plant and animal ingredients)
(Named after the Italian physician and physicist who investigated the nature and effects of what he conceived to be electricity in animal tissue; who in 1762 discovered and first described voltaic electricity; electric currents; and primarily, direct electrical current.)
(Latin: otter; aquatic animal)
(precursor of hypnotism, believed by Mesmer to involve animal magnetism)
(Greek > Latin > Old French: Greek skorpios, Latin scorpionem, Old French scorpion; poisonous animal related to the spiders)
(Latin: bristle [short stiff hair on an animal or plant, or a mass of short stiff hairs growing; especially, on a hog's back or a man's face])
(Greek > Latin: inner room, bedchamber; so called by Galen because chambers at the base of the brain were thought to supply animal spirits to the optic nerves; thalamus, the middle part of the diencephalon (the area in the center of the brain just above the brain stem that includes the thalamus and hypothalamus) which relays sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex of the brain)
(Greek > Latin > Old French: swift animal)
(Latin: bear [the omnivorous animal, a.k.a. a carnivore])
(Latin: victima, a beast of sacrifice; probably a consecrated animal)
(Greek: diseases communicated from one kind of animal to another or to human beings; usually restricted to diseases transmitted naturally to man from animals)
(Greek: diseases communicated from one kind of animal to another or to human beings; usually restricted to diseases transmitted naturally to man from animals)
Word Entries containing the term:
“animal”
animal bipes implume
A two-footed animal without feathers.
A Latinized form of Plato's definition of mankind.
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anima-, anim- +
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Latin Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Words: Group A
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animal husbandry
That branch of agriculture specializing in the breeding, raising, and care of farm animals.
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anima-, anim- +
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aquatic animal, aquatic animals
An animal having a water habitat.
Aquatic animals require a watery habitat, but do not necessarily have to live entirely in water.
Animal environments are classified as either aquatic (water), terrestrial (land), or amphibious (water and land).
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anima-, anim- +
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aqua-, aquatic-, aqui-, aqu-, -aquatically, aque-, -aqueous +
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