Definition of animal

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Animal (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..

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Range :: Range (v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
Tonometer :: Tonometer (n.) An apparatus for studying and registering the action of various fluids and drugs on the excised heart of lower animals.
Parchment :: Parchment (n.) The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum..
Bill :: Bill (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal..
Veretillum :: Veretillum (n.) Any one of numerous species of club-shaped, compound Alcyonaria belonging to Veretillum and allied genera, of the tribe Pennatulacea. The whole colony can move about as if it were a simple animal..
Zoography :: Zoography (n.) A description of animals, their forms and habits..
Crustacean :: Crustacean (n.) An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.
Oviduct :: Oviduct (n.) A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes..
Acetabulum :: Acetabulum (n.) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
Muse :: Muse (n.) A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset..
Macrodont :: Macrodont (n.) A macrodont animal.
Burrow :: Burrow (n.) A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation..
Deer :: Deer (n. sing. & pl.) Any animal; especially, a wild animal..
Mesocoracoid :: Mesocoracoid (n.) A process from the middle of the coracoid in some animals.
Cruorin :: Cruorin (n.) The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal; haemoglobin.
Postfrontal :: Postfrontal (a.) Situated behind the frontal bone or the frontal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone back of and below the frontal in many animals.
Electro-vital :: Electro-vital (a.) Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals..
Vascular :: Vascular (a.) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc..
Crouch :: Crouch (v. i.) To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear..
Ringleader :: Ringleader (n.) The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals..
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