Animal

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: an=i=mal

CIDE DICTIONARY

Animal, n. [L., fr. anima breath, soul: cf. F. animal. See Animate.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.  [1913 Webster]

Animal, a. [Cf. F. animal.].

•  Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.  [1913 Webster]
•  Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.  [1913 Webster]
•  Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.  [1913 Webster]

Animal magnetism. See Magnetism and Mesmerism. -- Animal electricity, the electricity developed in some animals, as the electric eel, torpedo, etc. -- Animal flower (Zoöl.), a name given to certain marine animals resembling a flower, as any species of actinia or sea anemone, and other Anthozoa, hydroids, starfishes, etc. -- Animal heat (Physiol.), the heat generated in the body of a living animal, by means of which the animal is kept at nearly a uniform temperature. -- Animal spirits. See under Spirit. -- Animal kingdom, the whole class of beings endowed with animal life. It embraces several subkingdoms, and under these there are Classes, Orders, Families, Genera, Species, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Animal, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a living organism which feeds on organic matter, usu. one with specialized sense-organs and nervous system, and able to respond rapidly to stimuli.
2 such an organism other than man.
3 a brutish or uncivilized person.
4 colloq. a person or thing of any kind (there is no such animal).
--adj.
1 characteristic of animals.
2 of animals as distinct from vegetables (animal charcoal).
3 characteristic of the physical needs of animals; carnal, sensual.

Idiom

animal husbandry the science of breeding and caring for farm animals. animal magnetism hist. mesmerism. animal spirits natural exuberance.

Etymology

L f. animale neut. of animalis having breath f. anima breath

THESAURUS

Animal

Adamic, Angora goat, Arctic fox, Belgian hare, Caffre cat, Circean, Draconian, Goth, Gothic, Indian buffalo, Kodiak bear, Neanderthal, Tartarean, Virginia deer, aardvark, aardwolf, alpaca, ammonite, animalian, animalic, animalistic, ankylosaur, anteater, antelope, antelope chipmunk, anthropophagite, anthropophagous, aoudad, apar, aphrodisiomaniacal, archaeohippus, archaeotherium, archelon, armadillo, arthrodiran, ass, atrocious, aurochs, badger, bandicoot, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bassarisk, bat, bawdy, bear, beast, beastlike, beastly, beaver, being, bestial, bettong, binturong, bison, black bear, black buck, black cat, black fox, black sheep, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, blue fox, bobcat, bodily, bothriolepis, brachiosaur, brontops, brontothere, brown bear, brush deer, brush wolf, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutelike, brutish, buffalo, buffalo wolf, burro, burro deer, cachalot, camel, camelopard, cannibal, cannibalistic, capybara, carabao, caribou, carnal, carpincho, cat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, cattalo, cavy, chamois, cheetah, chevrotain, chinchilla, chipmunk, cinnamon bear, clitoromaniacal, coarse, coccostean, coelodont, compsognathus, concupiscent, coon, coon cat, coryphodon, cotton mouse, cotton rat, cotylosaur, cougar, cow, coyote, coypu, creature, creeping thing, creodont, critter, crossopterygian, crude, cruel, cruel-hearted, cur, cynodictis, deer, deer tiger, demoniac, demoniacal, destroyer, devilish, diabolic, diatryma, dimetrodon, dingo, dinichthyid, dinothere, diplodocus, dirty, dog, donkey, dormouse, dromedary, duck-billed dinosaur, dumb, dumb animal, dumb friend, earthy, echidna, edaphosaurid, eland, elasmosaur, elephant, elk, ermine, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, eryopsid, eurypterid, eyra, fallen, fallow deer, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, ferret, field mouse, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fisher, fitch, fleshly, flying phalanger, foumart, fox, fox squirrel, gazelle, gemsbok, genet, giant sloth, giraffe, glutton, glyptodont, gnu, gnu goat, goat, goat antelope, goatish, gopher, grizzly bear, gross, ground squirrel, groundhog, guanaco, guinea pig, gynecomaniacal, hadrosaur, hamster, hare, harnessed antelope, hartebeest, hedgehog, hellish, hippopotamus, hog, horny, horse, hot, hound, hyena, hyrax, hysteromaniacal, ibex, ill-bred, impolite, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, insect, instinctive, instinctual, ithyphallic, jackal, jackass, jackrabbit, jaguar, jaguarundi, jerboa, jerboa kangaroo, kaama, kangaroo, kangaroo mouse, kangaroo rat, karakul, kinkajou, kit fox, koala, lapin, lapsed, lascivious, lecherous, lemming, leopard, leopard cat, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lion, living being, living thing, llama, lubricious, lustful, lynx, mammal, mammoth, man-eater, mara, marmot, marten, mastodon, material, materialistic, meerkat, mindless, mink, mole, mongoose, mongrel, monster, moose, mouflon, mountain goat, mountain lion, mountain sheep, mouse, mule, mule deer, muntjac, murderous, musk deer, musk hog, musk-ox, muskrat, musquash, nihilist, nilgai, noncivilized, nonrational, nonspiritual, nutria, nymphomaniacal, obscene, ocelot, okapi, onager, oont, opossum, organism, orgiastic, otter, ounce, outlandish, ox, pack rat, painter, palaeodictyopteron, palaeoniscid, palaeophis, palaeosaur, palaeospondylus, panda, pangolin, panther, peccary, peludo, pelycosaur, phalanger, physical, phytosaur, pig, pine mouse, platypus, plesiosaur, pocket gopher, pocket mouse, pocket rat, polar bear, polar fox, polecat, porcupine, possum, postlapsarian, pouched rat, poyou, prairie dog, prairie wolf, priapic, primitive, pronghorn, protoceratops, protylopus, prurient, pteranodon, pteraspid, pterichthys, pterodactyl, pterosaur, puma, rabbit, raccoon, randy, rat, red deer, red squirrel, reindeer, reptile, rhinoceros, roe, roe deer, roebuck, rough-and-ready, rude, ruthless, sable, sadistic, salacious, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, satyric, sauropod, savage, scelidosaur, sensual, serpent, serval, sexual, sexy, shark, sharkish, sheep, shrew, shrew mole, sika, silver fox, skunk, slavering, sloth, smilodon, snake, snowshoe rabbit, springbok, squirrel, stoat, subhuman, suslik, swamp rabbit, swine, swinish, takin, tamandua, tamarin, tapir, tarpan, tatou, tatou peba, tatouay, tiger, tiger cat, timber wolf, titanosaur, trachodon, tree shrew, triceratops, trilobite, troglodyte, troglodytic, truculent, tyrannosaur, uintathere, unchristian, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unhuman, unkempt, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unspiritual, untamed, urus, vandal, varmint, vermin, vicious, viper, vole, wallaby, warthog, water buffalo, waterbuck, weasel, wharf rat, whelp, whistler, white fox, wild, wild ass, wild boar, wild goat, wild man, wild ox, wildcat, wildebeest, wolf, wolfish, wolverine, wombat, wood rat, woodchuck, woolly mammoth, worm, wrecker, yak, zebra, zebu, zoic, zooid, zooidal, zoologic, zoological, zoril

ROGET THESAURUS

Animal

Life

N life, vitality, viability, animation, vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit, respiration, wind, breath of life, breath of one's nostrils, oxygen, air, respirator, artificial respirator, heart and lung machine, iron lung, medical devices, lifeblood, Archeus, existence, vivification, vital force, vitalization, revivification, Prometheus, life to come, physiology, biology, animal ecology, nourishment, staff of life, genetics, heredity, inheritance, evolution, natural selection, reproduction (production), microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe, obligate anaerobe, halophile, methanogen, archaebacteria, microaerophile, animal, vegetable, artificial life, robot, robotics, artificial intelligence, breathing, breathing rate, heartbeat, pulse, temperature, preservation of life, healing (medicine), living, alive, in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living, on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated, animative, lively, all alive and kicking, tenacious of life, full of life, yeasty, vital, vitalic, vivifying, vivified viable, zoetic, Promethean, vivendi causa, atqui vivere militare est, non est vivere sed valere vita.

Animal

N animal, animal kingdom, fauna, brute creation, beast, brute, creature, critter, wight, created being, creeping thing, living thing, dumb animal, dumb creature, zoophyte, mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe, microbe, animalcule, alligator, crocodile, saurian, dinosaur (extinct), snake, serpent, viper, eft, asp, aspick, frog, toad, trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel, ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee, tardigrade, spider, biped, quadruped, webfoot, flocks and herds, live stock, domestic animals, wild animals, game, ferae naturae, beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea, black game, black grouse, blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe, horse, cattle, kine, ox, bull, bullock, cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn, sheep, lamb, lambkin, ewe, ram, tup, pig, swine, boar, hog, sow, steer, stot, tag, teg, bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat, dog, hound, pup, puppy, whelp, cur, mongrel, house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog, mastiff, blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound, harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever, Newfoundland, water dog, water spaniel, pug, poodle, turnspit, terrier, fox terrier, Skye terrier, Dandie Dinmont, collie, feline, puss, pussy, grimalkin, gib cat, tom cat, fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe, caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar, bird, poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl, feathered tribes, feathered songster, singing bird, dicky bird, canary, warbler, finch, aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon, vermin, varmint, pest, animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy, piscatory, piscatorial, molluscous, vermicular, gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped, animal, animal kingdom, fauna, brute creation, beast, brute, creature, critter, wight, created being, creeping thing, living thing, dumb animal, dumb creature, zoophyte, mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe, microbe, animalcule, alligator, crocodile, saurian, dinosaur (extinct), snake, serpent, viper, eft, asp, aspick, frog, toad, trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel, ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee, tardigrade, spider, biped, quadruped, webfoot, flocks and herds, live stock, domestic animals, wild animals, game, ferae naturae, beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea, black game, black grouse, blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe, horse, cattle, kine, ox, bull, bullock, cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn, sheep, lamb, lambkin, ewe, ram, tup, pig, swine, boar, hog, sow, steer, stot, tag, teg, bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat, dog, hound, pup, puppy, whelp, cur, mongrel, house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog, mastiff, blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound, harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever, Newfoundland, water dog, water spaniel, pug, poodle, turnspit, terrier, fox terrier, Skye terrier, Dandie Dinmont, collie, feline, puss, pussy, grimalkin, gib cat, tom cat, fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe, caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar, bird, poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl, feathered tribes, feathered songster, singing bird, dicky bird, canary, warbler, finch, aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon, vermin, varmint, pest, animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy, piscatory, piscatorial, molluscous, vermicular, gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped.