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Animal

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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Physical 84% connected

Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material…

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Physical 84% connected

Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material…

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Acrodont 76% connected

One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.

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Adult 76% connected

Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.

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Albino 76% connected

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is defi…

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Biped 76% connected

A two-footed animal, as man.

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Captive 76% connected

A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another.

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Darter 76% connected

One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.

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Embryo 76% connected

The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant

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Feeder 76% connected

One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.

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Female 76% connected

An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

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Game 76% connected

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

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Giant 76% connected

A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

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Herbivore 76% connected

One of the Herbivora.

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Hexapod 76% connected

Having six feet.

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Insectivore 76% connected

One of the Insectivora.

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Invertebrate 76% connected

Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebrae; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata.

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Larva 76% connected

Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, a…

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Male 76% connected

Evil; wicked; bad.

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Mate 76% connected

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, a…

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Metazoan 76% connected

One of the Metazoa.

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Offspring 76% connected

The act of production; generation.

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Peeper 76% connected

A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.

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Pest 76% connected

A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.

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Pet 76% connected

A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.

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Pleurodont 76% connected

Having the teeth consolidated with the inner edge of the jaw, as in some lizards.

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predator 76% connected

An organism that hunts and feeds on other organisms

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Prey 76% connected

Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.

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Quarry 76% connected

Same as 1st Quarrel.

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Racer 76% connected

One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse.

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Scavenger 76% connected

A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any ani…

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Stayer 76% connected

One who upholds or supports that which props; one who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains; also, colloquially, a horse, man, etc., that has en…

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Stunt 76% connected

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.

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Survivor 76% connected

One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.

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Thoroughbred 76% connected

Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettleso…

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Young 76% connected

Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young…

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Broader term 2

Being 76% connected

of Be

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Organism 76% connected

Organic structure; organization.

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Animalize 74% connected

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.

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Animalize 74% connected

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.

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Component part 3

Caput 70% connected

The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.

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Face 70% connected

The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which…

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Head 70% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Synonym 7

Beast 92% connected

Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Brute 92% connected

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Carnal 92% connected

Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritu…

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Creature 92% connected

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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Fauna 92% connected

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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Fleshly 92% connected

Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal.

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Sensual 92% connected

Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the…

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