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animal

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1. animal - Noun

2. animal - Adjective

3. animal - Adjective Satellite

4. Animal - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Man is a reasoning Animal. Seneca

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. Samuel Butler (novelist)

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people. Doris Day

A tree without fruit is firewood, clouds without rain are smoke, and a person without wisdom is an animal. Azerbaijani Proverb

The flesh of a young animal tastes flat. African Congo Proverb

If men were now to turn their hostility towards the cat, it would not be long before the domestic cat becomes a wild animal. Nigerian Proverb

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