animal
animate being
beast
brute
creature
fauna | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement |
| wild pitch | an errant pitch that the catcher cannot be expected to catch and that allows a base runner to advance a base |
| wild-goose chase | the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable |
Wild West Show
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | a spectacular show organized in by William F. Cody that featured horseback riding and marksmanship on a large scale, toured the United States and Europe |
| animal husbandry | breeding and caring for farm animals |
zoolatry
animal-worship | the worship of animals |
Animalia
kingdom Animalia
animal kingdom | taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals |
| range animal | any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep) |
| work animal | an animal trained for and used for heavy labor |
| draft animal | an animal used for pulling heavy loads |
pack animal
sumpter | an animal (such as a mule or burro or horse) used to carry loads |
domestic animal
domesticated animal | any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment |
marine animal
marine creature
sea animal
sea creature | any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals |
| animal virus | an animal pathogen that is a virus |
| animal order | the order of animals |
| wild duck | an undomesticated duck (especially a mallard) |
livestock
stock
farm animal | any animals kept for use or profit |
| wild dog | any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves |
predator
predatory animal | any animal that lives by preying on other animals |
animal foot
foot | the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings |
silkworm giant silkworm
wild wilkworm | larva of a saturniid moth, spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon |
bryozoan
polyzoan
sea mat
sea moss
moss animal | sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles, attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding |
aperea
wild cavy
Cavia porcellus | South American cavy, possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig |
| wild horse | undomesticated or feral domestic horse |
| wild ass | any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa |
African wild ass
Equus asinus | a wild ass of Africa |
wild boar
boar Sus scrofa | Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come, introduced in United States |
ox
wild ox | any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos |
| Asian wild ox | genus of Asiatic wild oxen |
| wild sheep | undomesticated sheep |
goat
caprine animal | any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns |
| wild goat | undomesticated goat |
| fictional animal | animals that exist only in fiction (usually in children's stories) |
| animal leg | the leg of an animal |
| wild card | a playing card whose value can be determined by the person who holds it |
animality
animal nature | the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect |
bewitchery
beguilement
animal magnetismb | magnetic personal charm |
| animal tissue | the tissue in the bodies of animals |
comparative psychology
animal psychology | the branch of psychology concerned with the behavior of animals |
| animal communication | communication between animals (of the same species) |
| wild card | an unpredictable factor, the weather was a wild card |
lamb's-quarter
pigweed
wild spinach | leaves collected from the wild |
| wild spinach | leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach |
| hog plum wild plum | fruit of the wild plum of southern United States |
groundnut
potato bean
wild bean | nutlike tuber, important food of Native Americans |
wild rice
Indian rice | grains of aquatic grass of North America |
| animal group | a group of animals |
| Wild West | the western United States during its frontier period |
wilderness
wild | a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition, it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers |
blue sky
blue
blue air
wild blue yonder | the sky as viewed during daylight, he shot an arrow into the blue |