Definition of animal

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Animal (a.) Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food..

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Phytozoon :: Phytozoon (n.) A plantlike animal. The term is sometimes applied to zoophytes.
Bill :: Bill (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal..
Paroophoron :: Paroophoron (n.) A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male..
Argas :: Argas (n.) A genus of venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje..
Deciduous :: Deciduous (a.) Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals, such as hair, teeth, antlers, etc.; also, shedding leaves or parts at certain seasons, stages, or intervals; as, deciduous trees; the deciduous membrane..
Mineral :: Mineral (v. i.) Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral)..
Vives :: Vives (n.) A disease of brute animals, especially of horses, seated in the glands under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration..
Zoanthropy :: Zoanthropy (n.) A kind of monomania in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals.
Grow :: Grow (v. i.) To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
Fish :: Fish (n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces..
Tripe :: Tripe (n.) The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food..
Vivisection :: Vivisection (n.) The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations..
Oviparous :: Oviparous (a.) Producing young from rggs; as, an oviparous animal, in which the egg is generally separated from the animal, and hatched after exclusion; -- opposed to viviparous..
Low :: Low (n.) The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals.
Suprastapedial :: Suprastapedial (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that part of the columella of the ear which projects above the connection with the stapes, as in many animals..
Binomial :: Binomial (a.) Having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other the species, to which it belongs..
Mouldwarp :: Mouldwarp (n.) See Mole the animal.
Metamere :: Metamere (n.) One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva..
Person :: Person (n.) A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child..
#NAME? :: -pod () A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod..
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