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1. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement
   - animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
    
2. Someone who treats others inhumanely, or is regarded as wildly violent or uncivilized
   - brute
    
3. Any non-human animal, esp. a land-living mammal
   - beast
    
4. A particular kind of person or thing
   "he's a strange animal";
   - beast

1. Marked by the appetites and passions of the body
   "animal instincts";
   - carnal, fleshly, sensual

Derived forms: animals

See also: physical

Type of: being, organism

Part of: animal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia

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