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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Lecithin :: Lecithin (n.) A complex, nitrogenous phosphorized substance widely distributed through the animal body, and especially conspicuous in the brain and nerve tissue, in yolk of eggs, and in the white blood corpuscles..
Predacean :: Predacean (n.) A carnivorous animal.
Interradial :: Interradial (a.) Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoology, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish..
Parasite :: Parasite (n.) An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo..
Instep :: Instep (n.) That part of the hind leg of the horse and allied animals, between the hock, or ham, and the pastern joint..
Anthropology :: Anthropology (n.) The science of man; -- sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal..
Indri :: Indri (n.) Any lemurine animal of the genus Indris.
Leviathan :: Leviathan (n.) An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture..
Parenchyma :: Parenchyma (n.) The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like..
Animalness :: Animalness (n.) Animality.
Squat :: Squat (a.) Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting..
Cry :: Cry (v. i.) A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves..
Lip :: Lip (n.) One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself..
Ant-bear :: Ant-bear (n.) An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga..
Migrant :: Migrant (n.) A migratory bird or other animal.
Skirt :: Skirt (n.) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals..
Range :: Range (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species..
Phytophagous :: Phytophagous (a.) Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal..
Hybrid :: Hybrid (n.) The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.
Terrestrial :: Terrestrial (a.) Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals..
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