(sciences) Any member of the kingdomAnimalia ofmulticellularorganisms that are usuallymobile, whosecells are not encased in a rigidcell wall (distinguishing them fromplants andfungi) and which derive energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (further distinguishing them from plants).
It cannot be denied it [thechameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemiousanimall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people,animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
Own me, I'll let you play the role I'll be youranimal
2024 July 14, Rachel Hall, quoting Jodie White, “‘I’ve never seen owt like it’: England fans in Benidorm in high spirits before Euro final”, inThe Guardian[1],→ISSN:
She speculated that things could deteriorate later: “I think they’re scared of the English, which is fair; we areanimals.”
(informal) A person of a particulartype specified by an adjective.
FromMiddle Englishanimal, fromLatinanimālis, from eitheranima(“breath, spirit”) oranimus. Originally distinct from the noun, it became associated with attributive use of the noun and is now indistinguishable from it.
The season has been most unfavourable toanimal life; and I, who am merelyanimal, have suffered much by it.
1809,William Martin,Outlines of an Attempt to Establish a Knowledge of Extraneous Fossils, on Scientific Principles.[…], Macclesfield, Cheshire:[…] J. Wilson. Sold by the Author,[…]; J. White,[…], andLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme,[…],page141:
[…]—according to Sanssure, Abbé Fortis, Bruckenman, Jameson, Dr. Richardson, &c. &c. bothanimal and vegetal remains have been detected in Basalt and Wacke.
The unsatisfactory material at our command, however, renders it difficult to determine why we cannot prove a worship of a living incarnation for every deity who is represented on the monuments in a form either wholly or partiallyanimal. We must wonder why, for example, the sacred hawk or hawks of Horus at Edfu (who never has human form) are scarcely mentioned.
I thought: if pain is the thing shared by all living creatures, then I’m no longer human oranimal or vegetal; I am unplugged from the tick of metabolism; I am mineral.
2015 August, Joseph M. Luguya, “Part 1: The Demented Scholar”, inHumans: The Untold Story of Adam and Eve and their Descendants, volume one (The Thesis), Silver Spring, Md.: Original Books,→ISBN,page46:
In any case, the argument the inhabitants of these parts would have advanced as their strongest one against the so-called chastity belt would, of course, have been that living species, whetheranimal or vegetative, were made the way they were for an obvious reason.
2016 August 26, Spencer Kornhaber, “Britney Spears Finds Grace in the Hook-Up on 'Glory'”, inThe Atlantic[2]:
But the line also distills pop culture’s big commandment about sex to itsanimal essence: If you’re not screwing somebody, you’re nobody.
Pertaining to thespirit orsoul; relating to sensation or innervation.
2003, Roy Porter,Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published2004, page47:
To explain what activated the flesh, ‘animal spirits’ were posited, superfine fluids which shuttled between the mind and the vitals, conveying messages and motion.
“animal”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“animal”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"animal", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
2010, João José da Costa,Fábulas do jeito que só vovô sabia contar, Clube de Autores,page38:
Quando a flor do abacateiro recebe o pólen de outra flor de abacateiro trazido pelas abelhas, beija-flores, borboletas e outrosanimais, ela fica polinizada e começa a gerar um fruto, que é o abacate.
