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Life :: Life (n.) The potential principle, or force, by which the organs of animals and plants are started and continued in the performance of their several and cooperative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual..

Foil :: Foil (n.) The track or trail of an animal.

Chromatophore :: Chromatophore (n.) A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods..

Retrogression :: Retrogression (n.) Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism..

Hunting :: Hunting (n.) The pursuit of game or of wild animals.

Animal :: Animal (a.) Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites..

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)..

Dentary :: Dentary (n.) The distal bone of the lower jaw in many animals, which may or may not bear teeth..

Flesh :: Flesh (n.) Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish..

Charcoal :: Charcoal (v. t.) Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes..

Fibrin :: Fibrin (n.) An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin..

Trapper :: Trapper (n.) One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.

Nest :: Nest (n.) Hence: the place in which the eggs of other animals, as insects, turtles, etc., are laid and hatched; a snug place in which young animals are reared..

Towpath :: Towpath (n.) A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.

Chipmunk :: Chipmunk (n.) A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus..

Larva :: Larva (n.) The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape..

Blubber :: Blubber (n.) The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.

Adactylous :: Adactylous (a.) Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).

Progeny :: Progeny (n.) Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage..

Pestle :: Pestle (n.) The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork..

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