1. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement
   "The study of animal evolution reveals the complex history of life on Earth";
   - animate being
    
2. Someone who treats others inhumanely, or is regarded as wildly violent or uncivilized
   "The gang leader was an animal";
   - brute
    
3. Any non-human animal, esp. a land-living mammal
   "The national park has a variety of fearsome animals";
   - beast, creature, brute
    
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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