Animal synonyms
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The definition of a scavenger is a person, animal or insect who takes what others have left or thrown away.
The totality of all things that exist:
A domestic animal, especially a cow, horse, or mule.
The definition of bestial is savage, or like a beast or wild animal.
domestic animal
A nonhuman creature
A bishop of highest rank in a province or country.
An animal other than a human, especially a large four-footed mammal.
The definition of animalistic is driven by physical appetites or animal desires.
(Informal) Disagreeable; unpleasant
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wild-animal
(Figuratively) One exhibiting uncontrolled behaviour.
beast of the field
A nonhuman creature
The definition of a pet is a companion animal that you take care of and that keeps you company, like a dog or a cat.
An animal, esp. a mammal, with four feet
An animal, being or construction that goes about on two feet (two legs).
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An organism that eats both plants and animals.
lower animal
A nonhuman creature
zooidal
Of or pertaining to a zooid.
Of, pertaining to, or concerned with animals
An obnoxious person or troublemaker.
Arising from impulse or natural inclination.
Of or relating to material things:
Of, relating to, or consisting of muscle:
Resulting from, or showing preoccupation with, bodily or sexual pleasure
Having to do with or preoccupied with bodily or sexual pleasures; sensual or sexual
Relating to or concerning nature:
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Another, extinct member of the genus Homo.
Any of a large group of chordates of the subphylum Vertebrata (or Craniata), characterized by having a backbone. Vertebrates are bilaterally symmetrical and have an internal skeleton of bone or cartilage, a nervous system divided into brain and spinal cord, and not more than two pairs of limbs. Vertebrates have a well-developed body cavity (called a coelom) containing a chambered heart, large digestive organs, liver, pancreas, and paired kidneys, and their blood contains both red and white corpuscles. Vertebrates include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
A plant that ingests small animals, esp. insects
one of God's creatures
A nonhuman creature
(Informal) A very large animal, plant, or object.
Something of mixed origin or composition, such as a word whose elements are derived from different languages.
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An organism that feeds chiefly on plants.
insectivore
An insectivorous organism.
creeping thing
A nonhuman creature
wild thing
A nonhuman creature
A fierce, brutal person
spiritual (antonym)
Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.
intellectual (antonym)
Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
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supernatural (antonym)
Of or relating to existence outside the natural world.
An organism, especially an animal, that moves from one region to another (as for breeding) or that has established itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
theriomorph
zoomorphism
The representation of animal forms in decorative art or symbolism
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To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.
plant (antonym)
The buildings, fixtures, and equipment, including machinery, tools, and instruments, necessary for an industrial operation or an institution:
mineral (antonym)
Any substance that is neither vegetable nor animal
body (related)
Relating to the desires and appetites of the body
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
brutelike
Resembling a brute or some aspect of one.
(Zoology) Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.
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erotomaniacal
fiendlike
Resembling a fiend.
noncivilized
Not civilized.
a representative of the fauna
A mobile organism
An animal, such as a donkey, ox, or elephant, used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work.
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Any of a subkingdom (Protozoa) of microscopic animals made up of a single cell or a group of more or less identical cells and living in water or as parasites, including ciliates, flagellates, rhizopods, and sporozoans
animalian
(Rare) of an animal or animals
nymphomaniacal
palaeoniscid
sharkish
Having shark-like characteristics, for example fierceness or agility.
Any of a genus (Muntiacus) of small jungle deer of Southeast Asia and the East Indies: the males have horns and long, sharp, tusklike canine teeth
oont
(India) A camel, especially an attractive camel
pangolin
Any of an order (Pholidota) of toothless, scaly mammals of Asia and Africa, feeding on ants and termites and able to roll into a ball when attacked; scaly anteater
pelycosaur
Any of various extinct, chiefly carnivorous synapsids of the Carboniferous and Permian Periods, including the dimetrodon and other species with saillike structures along the back.
phalanger
A member of any of various families of small, plant-eating Australian marsupials (order Diprotodontia), living chiefly in trees and often having bushy, prehensile tails, including flying phalangers and cuscuses
phytosaur
Any member of the family Phytosauridae or Parasuchidae, a group of large semi-aquatic predatory archosaurs, resembling modern crocodiles, that flourished during the Late Triassic period.
Any of various extinct marine reptiles of the group Plesiosauria of the Mesozoic Era, having paddlelike limbs, a short tail, and sometimes a very long neck.
postlapsarian
pteranodon
Any of a genus (Pteranodon) of large, toothless, Late Cretaceous pterosaurs having a long, bony crest at the back of the head
Any of various small, extinct flying reptiles (pterosaurs) of the genus Pterodactylus of the late Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. Pterodactyls had long, narrow jaws with sharp teeth, and a wingspan of 1 m (3.3 ft) or less.
(Often italicized) A traditional Bangladeshi hanging basket
suslik
Any of several large Eurasian squirrels, of the genera Citellus or Spermophilus
The giant armadillo.
titanosaur
Any of a genus (Titanosaurus) of large, plant-eating, amphibious sauropods of the Cretaceous
trachodon
triceratops
A large ceratopsian dinosaur of the genus Triceratops of the Cretaceous Period, having a large bony frill at the back of the skull, a pair of horns above the eyes, and a single horn on the nose.
Any large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, of the family Tyrannosauridae, that lived in North America during the Cretaceous period.
uintathere
unhuman
Either of two wild African hogs (Phacochoerus africanus or P. aethiopicus), having two pairs of curved tusks and wartlike growths on the face.
Sensual; carnal.
Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
Existing in a wild or untamed state.
Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.
Worldly:
dumb animal
A nonhuman creature
So obvious or conspicuous as to cause or heighten offense:
A small game bird
nonrational
Alternative spelling of non-rational.
nutria
The only member (Myocastor coypus) of a family (Myocastoridae) of South American water-dwelling rodents with webbed feet and a long, almost hairless tail; coypu
zoril
animalic
(Rare) of or concerning animals
Of or pertaining to ethology.
theriomorphic
Conceived of as having the form of an animal
zoic
Having the form of an animal; animal-like, zoomorphic.
zoogenic
Originating, or produced by animals rather then plants
zoogenous
Of or having animal form
zoophilic
Of, relating to, or affected with zoophilia.
animalcule
A microscopic or minute organism, such as an amoeba or paramecium, usually considered to be an animal.
animalculum
animalia
The animal instincts or nature in human beings
The organisms of a specific region or period considered as a group.
An animal, plant, foreign word, etc. that has become naturalized
unlicked
Not licked.
aardwolf
A mammal (Proteles cristatus) of southern and eastern Africa, similar to a hyena but feeding mainly on termites and insect larvae.
A wild sheep (Ammotragus lervia) native to northern Africa and naturalized in the southwestern United States, having long, curved horns and long hair on the neck and chest.
apar
The three-banded armadillo, Tolypeutes matacus
binturong
A civet (Arctictis binturong) of Southeast Asia with a long prehensile tail.
brachiosaur
Any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
brontothere
camelopard
(Heraldry) A bearing resembling a giraffe but represented with long curved horns.
carabao
carpincho
cat-a-mountain
cattalo
Alternative form of cattelo.
chevrotain
Any of several small deerlike hornless ruminants of the genera Hyemoschus, Moschiola, and Tragulus, native to tropical and subtropical forests of India, Southeast Asia, and west-central Africa.
cotylosaur
(Paleontology, dated) A member of the Captorhinidae, the earliest group of true reptiles from the Carboniferous through the Permian.
cruel-hearted
dimetrodon
Any of various carnivorous pelycosaurs of the genus Dimetrodon of the Permian Period, having long spines on the back that supported a sail-like structure, and powerful jaws with sharp teeth.
dinichthyid
(Zoology) Any member of the Dinichthyidae.
diplodocus
Any of a genus (Diplodocus) of huge, plant-eating sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
The reddish-brown color phase of the jaguarundi.
A South American ruminant mammal (Lama guanicoe), related to the llama and having soft, fine wool.
Any of several small, ungulate herbivorous mammals, of the order Hyracoidea, with a bulky frame and fang-like incisors; they are native to Africa and the Middle East.
Any of several wild goats of the genus Capra, especially C. ibex, native to mountainous regions of Eurasia and northern Africa, and having long, ridged, backward-curving horns.
A medium-sized Central and South American wild cat, Puma yagouaroundi, Herpailurus yagouaroundi or Felis yagouaroundi.
kaama
(Rare) The hartebeest.
mouflon
A wild sheep (Ovis musimon) native to the mountainous regions of Corsica and Sardinia: the male has large, curving horns
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Biological is defined as a blood relation.
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