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In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).
: ''A cat is an animal, not a plant.''
: ''Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not plants.''
In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a being.
In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc)
(figurativel) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
: ''My students are animals.''
(informa) A person of a particular type.
: ''a political animal''
Of or relating to animals.
: ''animal instincts''
Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
: ''animal passions''
Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
* 2003, To explain what activated the flesh, ‘animal spirits’ were posited, superfine fluids which shuttled between the mind and the vitals, conveying messages and motion. — Roy Porter, ''Flesh in the Age of Reason'' (Penguin 2004, p. 47)
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Or or relating to animals; (l).
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