What does animal mean

Crossword clues for animal

animal

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

animal

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a human/animal/plant cell

▪ the structure of plant cells

animal experiments (=experiments using animals)

▪ I think most animal experiments are cruel and unnecessary.

animal husbandry

animal instinct

▪ It's animal instinct to attack the leader of the herd when his strength begins to fail.

animal lovers

▪ animal lovers

animal rights activists/campaigners/groups etc

▪ Bill has been involved in the animal rights movement for years.

animal rights

▪ Animal rights campaigners say the dogs are being bred in terrible conditions.

animal rights

▪ Bill has been involved in the animal rights movement for years.

bird/animal/plant species

▪ You can see many different bird species on the canal.

farm animals

▪ It is used mainly for feeding farm animals.

human/animal anatomy

▪ Knowledge of human anatomy is essential to figure drawing.

human/animal behaviour

▪ the scientific study of human behaviour

▪ detailed observations of animal behaviour

human/animal bones

▪ They dug up a lot of human bones from under the castle.

pack animal

party animal

plant/animal ecology (=the animals, plants etc that live in a particular place)

▪ a new book about the plant ecology of this fascinating area

political/gay/animal rights etc activist

stuffed animal

the higher animals/mammals/organisms etc (=animals etc that are more intelligent or advanced than others)

wild animals

▪ wild animals

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

domestic

▪ The founding of these organisations gave real impetus to a movement directed towards improving the lot of domestic animals.

▪ Although the afflicted creatures do not behave aggressively, Fosco said, they still pose a threat to domestic animals.

▪ Diseases similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy have recently been reported in several species of domestic and zoo animals.

▪ Familiarity alone prevents our seeing how universally and largely the minds of our domestic animals have been modified by domestication.

▪ The economy was mixed with remains of wheat, grinding stones and iron sickles indicating agriculture alongside the remains of domestic animals.

▪ Such rules serve to distinguish further basic social categories: friends from enemies, domestic animals from wild beasts, and so on.

▪ The lack of fish remains and the presence of bones of domestic animals suggests that food supply was no problem.

▪ The trouble is that Barbary apes are not domestic animals.

large

▪ Cleo staggered back from the loving assault being bestowed upon her by the two larger animals.

▪ And then I see a large brown animal.

▪ There was a noise in the room, like the breathing of some large animal.

▪ The basic food of herbivores is plants, so even the largest carnivorous animals are indirectly dependent on plants.

▪ Generally the larger the animal, the greater the concern with its ill-treatment.

▪ When there is a severe food shortage, the first to suffer are the larger animals.

▪ Drove roads have wide verges originally to accommodate large numbers of animals on the move.

▪ The method adopted by larger animals to speed up the distribution of essential materials is to force carrier-fluid through transport systems.

small

▪ Larger animals require more food than smaller animals, but smaller animals have a higher metabolic rate.

▪ That brush is a shelter for small animals and birds as well as a critical repository of seeds from native plants.

▪ In all of these places you will find a wide variety of interesting small animals.

▪ At first it was too dark to make out the small animal, but eventually I made out two white-throated sparrows.

▪ Put these in a shallow dish and look for small animals on the stems and on the underside of leaves.

▪ In early days the packs had concentrated on the caribou, but the semi-domestic, smaller animals were easier prey.

▪ The quarters of a small animal were wrapped in a leather sack and tied to a tree's branch.

▪ It sounded like small animals running up and down.

wild

▪ A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

▪ The cypress was sacred to her; and all wild animals, but especially the deer.

▪ The philosophy of animal rights calls for an end to the capture and training of wild animals, for purposes of entertainment.

▪ The Cro-Magnon cave paintings demonstrate that wild animals also can be part of the family.

▪ Once I used a gun to shoot a wild animal.

▪ So what accounts for the enduring appeal of wild animal patterns?

▪ To be tom apart by wild animals.

▪ Many of the stringed instruments imitate the sounds of horses; wind instruments imitate the sounds of birds and other wild animals.

■ NOUN

farm

▪ Under increasing public pressure, farmers are taking a greater interest in free-range systems which give a fairer deal to farm animals.

▪ The farm animals begin to stir, the roosters consider crowing.

▪ The next shelf we stopped on was filled with farm animals.

▪ If you use straw as bedding for farm animals, generally speaking you improve the welfare of those animals.

▪ Read in studio Farm animals have been killed and thousands of bales of hay destroyed in a barn fire.

▪ Look out for our forthcoming profile of Sir Richard Body, and articles on farm animal welfare.

▪ There have also been cases where children have experienced food poisoning after touching farm animals.

kingdom

▪ The animal kingdom does not display a linear pattern of species linking the lowest forms to humankind.

▪ Such a crude lie can surely be perceived by that genius of the animal kingdom, humans.

▪ It is possible that the entire animal kingdom is the inevitable by-product of the process.

▪ With man effort not often matched in the animal kingdom, he overcame that considerable obstacle.

▪ They are the tanks of the animal kingdom, and they come in many forms.

▪ This we shall see to be as true of man as of any of his relatives in the animal kingdom.

▪ The animal kingdom gets its fair share of attention as children learn how to care for pets.

▪ The circles were full up, and therefore man was not a part of the animal kingdom at all.

life

▪ The animal life is also very rich.

▪ Strictly speaking, of course, there are no ends in animal life for a Darwinian.

▪ He recognizes his kinship and identity with all men and with all forms of animal life.

▪ To many biologists, it provides the key to explaining the complexities of animal life.

▪ He pedalled along the canal bank quite slowly, keeping his eyes skinned for signs of defunct animal life.

▪ Without oxygen animal life on earth would not be possible.

▪ The growth of the human embryo recapitulated the history of animal life as revealed by the fossil record.

▪ But co-operation and self-sacrifice also exist, even at quite basic levels of conscious animal life.

welfare

▪ Why is the Minister so inconsistent in his approach to animal welfare?

▪ Each year animal welfare groups document instances of cruelty, but prosecutions have been rare.

▪ Look out for our forthcoming profile of Sir Richard Body, and articles on farm animal welfare.

▪ Brigitte, 58, who devotes her life to animal welfare, said she felt 17 again.

▪ That change would be in the best interests of the meat industry, the consumer and animal welfare.

▪ Material also available on animal welfare, patterns of food consumption and grassland utilisation.

▪ Worries about pollution levels from intensive indoor units and growing concern about animal welfare are also motivating factors.

▪ There will also be an increase in humanitarian concerns about animal welfare.

world

▪ His response is to abandon the troubled human mind, and delve into the animal world instead.

▪ It is not true that the will to power alone characterises the animal world.

▪ Our whole vocation is to transcend the baser instincts of the animal world and be stewards and not spoilers of creation.

▪ There is always a lot going on the animal world and not always enough room to print it.

▪ It is the most potent poison known to us from the entire animal world.

▪ Equally vulnerable to human weapons are the armoured giants of the animal world, the rhinos and the elephants.

▪ And it invites the conclusion that rhodopsin-like compounds are a particularly favoured way of going about light detection in the animal world.

▪ The classic form of induced altruism in the animal world is, of course, the bird raising the cuckoo's egg.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

dumb animals/creatures

▪ We would become like dumb animals, oxen, or go crazy, and probably both.

▪ Would that as many animal lovers were as quick to speak and defend dumb animals instead of staying silent as so many do.

▪ You don't have to look far to see these dumb creatures crawling across the branches of many organizations today.

the animal/plant/mineral kingdom

▪ It ignores the obvious discriminations which we make between similar treatment of different species within the animal kingdom.

▪ Its object was to show the comparative structure and functions of organs throughout the animal kingdom.

▪ Molluscs Molluscs belong to the largest phylum in the animal kingdom and are a very varied group of animals.

▪ The circles were full up, and therefore man was not a part of the animal kingdom at all.

▪ They are the tanks of the animal kingdom, and they come in many forms.

▪ This we shall see to be as true of man as of any of his relatives in the animal kingdom.

▪ Upon the balance between them depends the enormous variety of societies seen in the animal kingdom.

▪ With man effort not often matched in the animal kingdom, he overcame that considerable obstacle.

the natural/animal/plant world

▪ He can live in and accept the natural world, yet his soul lofts upward.

▪ However we have seen that quantum theory places considerable restraint on a plain man's objectivist view of the natural world.

▪ In that casual gesture she trampled upon an awesome human achievement and upon great sacrifices contributed by the natural world.

▪ It is not true that the will to power alone characterises the animal world.

▪ Similarly, these continuing contests in the natural world were leading to areas which were specialised in their functions.

▪ The focus today is not the predicted disappearance of order but the abundance of it throughout the natural world.

▪ We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ farm animals

▪ Get away from me, you animal!

▪ Glycogen is found in a variety of animal tissues, particularly the liver.

▪ wild animals in the jungle

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Animals contract the infection by eating feed that has been supplemented by the tissues of other infected animals.

▪ Apparently the animal can go all winter without food, but it periodically needs real sleep.

▪ Data on experimental animals show that it may be the long term consequence of glomerular haemodynamic abnormalities induced by long term hyperglycaemia.

▪ Go round the animals rather than walking through a group of them.

▪ My gut felt like I had reached my hand into a dying animal.

▪ The animals are, and he's got his comeuppance.

▪ We are merely animals, creatures that are brought kicking and screaming into this world and then die.

▪ We saw it as an opportunity to harvest an animal and help out Fish and Game.

II.adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

life

▪ In the end, plant and animal life is choked to death.

▪ They show not the slightest sign of that one essential attribute we think animal life should have: movement.

shelter

▪ While he continued to paint, James had taken a low-paying job at an animal shelter.

▪ Fifteen years ago you never saw a Rottweiler in an animal shelter.

▪ Contributions of money will help the league build an animal shelter.

species

▪ They suggested that human cultures might have evolved in a manner analogous to plant and animal species.

▪ This 11-acre sanctuary is home to more than 100 animal species and hundreds of species of plants.

▪ Some aquatic plants and animal species have become extinct.

welfare

▪ The study aims to determine what effect recent developments in technology and slaughterhouse design have had on animal welfare standards.

▪ Many animal welfare groups oppose padded steel-jawed traps.

▪ It is the money-making of animal rights organisations which science threatens, not animal welfare.