animal : Idioms & Phrases

• noun black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment
  bone char; animal black; bone black.
  

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• noun black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment
  bone char; animal black; bone black.
  

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• noun communication between animals (of the same species)
  

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• noun a disease that typically does not affect human beings
  

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• the electricity developed in some animals, as the electric eel, torpedo, etc.

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• noun a person who breeds animals
  

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• noun any fat obtained from animals
  
  • animal fat is high in saturated fatty acids

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• noun fiber derived from animals
  animal fiber.
  

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• noun fiber derived from animals
  animal fiber.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a name given to certain marine animals resembling a flower, as any species of actinia or sea anemone, and other Anthozoa, hydroids, starfishes, etc.

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• noun the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
  foot.
  

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• noun a protein gelatin obtained by boiling e.g. skins and hoofs of cattle and horses
  

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• noun a group of animals
  

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• (Physiol.), the heat generated in the body of a living animal, by means of which the animal is kept at nearly a uniform temperature.

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• noun breeding and caring for farm animals
  

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• noun taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals
  kingdom Animalia; Animalia.
  

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• the whole class of beings endowed with animal life. It embraces several subkingdoms, and under these there are Classes, Orders, Families, Genera, Species, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.

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• noun the leg of an animal
  

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• noun magnetic personal charm
  bewitchery; beguilement.
  

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• . See Magnetism and Mesmerism.

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• noun material derived from animals
  

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• noun the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect
  animality.
  

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• noun any oil obtained from animal substances
  

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• noun the order of animals
  

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• noun pigment occurring in animals
  

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• noun a product made from animal material
  

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• noun the branch of psychology concerned with the behavior of animals
  comparative psychology.
  

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• noun a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals
  zoologist.
  

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• noun the outer covering of an animal
  

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• . See under Spirit.

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• noun one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body
  glycogen.
  

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• noun a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display
  stuffer; taxidermist.
  

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• noun the tissue in the bodies of animals
  

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• noun a toxin resembling bacterial toxins in its antigenic properties that is found in the fluids of certain animals
  zootoxin.
  

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• noun one who trains or exhibits animals
  handler.
  

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• noun an animal pathogen that is a virus
  

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• noun the worship of animals
  zoolatry.
  

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• noun any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
  goat.
  

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• (Zoöl.), one of the polyps by which corals are formed. They are often very erroneously called coral insects.

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• noun any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment
  domestic animal.
  

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• noun any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment
  domestic animal.
  

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• noun an animal used for pulling heavy loads
  

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• any animal except man; usually restricted to a domestic quadruped; so called in contradistinction to man, who is a "speaking animal."

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• noun any animals kept for use or profit
  livestock; stock.
  

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• noun animals that exist only in fiction (usually in children's stories)
  

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• (Zoöl.), the galago of West Africa; so called because it feeds on gums. See Galago.

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• noun any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals
  marine animal; marine creature; sea creature.
  

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• noun sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
  bryozoan; sea mat; sea moss; polyzoan.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a bryozoan.

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• noun an animal (such as a mule or burro or horse) used to carry loads
  sumpter.
  

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• noun any animal that lives by preying on other animals
  predator.
  

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• noun any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep)
  

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• noun any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals
  marine animal; marine creature; sea creature.
  

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• (Zoöl.), animals having a firm, calcareous shell, as oysters and clams, thus distinguished from crustaceous animals, whose shells are more thin and soft, and consist of several joints, or articulations, as lobsters and crabs.

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• to throw with the feet upwards, in such a manner as to prevent its rising again.

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• (Script.), those which the Israelites were forbidden to use for food.

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Veg"e*to-an"i*mal adjective

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1. (Biol.) Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of rotifers having a ciliated disk at the anterior end.

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• noun an animal trained for and used for heavy labor
  

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