Definition of Animal

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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.

One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.

Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.

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

Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.

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Animal Quotations

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Mark Twain

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
Walt Disney

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Groucho Marx

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash

Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle

The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle

Man is naturally a political animal.
Aristotle

Animal Translations

animal in Afrikaans is dier
animal in Danish is dyr
animal in Dutch is dierlijk
Animal in German is Tier
animal in Italian is animale
animal in Latin is bestia
animal in Norwegian is dyr
animal in Portuguese is animal
animal in Spanish is animal, bestia
animal in Swedish is animal, djur

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