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Roget-categorie 366

3. Words relating to matter
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#366. Animal

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animal, animal kingdomfaunabrute creation.
beast, brute, creature, critter [U.S.]wight, created beingcreeping thing, living thingdumb animal, dumb creaturezoophyte.
[major divisions of animals] mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe.
[microscopic animals] microbe, animalcule etc. 193.
[reptiles] alligator, crocodilesauriandinosaur (extinct); snake, serpent, viper, eftasp, aspick.
[amphibians] frog, toad.
[fishes] trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel.
[insects] ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee.
[arthropods] tardigrade, spider.
[classification by number of feet] biped, quadruped[web-footed animal] webfoot.
flocks and herds, live stockdomestic animals, wild animalsgame, ferae naturae [Lat.]beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the seablack game, black grouseblackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe.
[domesticated mammals] horse etc. (beast of burden) 271cattle, kine, oxbull, bullockcow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthornsheeplamb, lambkinewe, ram, tuppig, swine, boar, hog, sowsteer, stottag, tegbison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat.
[dogs] dog, houndpup, puppywhelp, cur, mongrelhouse dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dogmastiffblood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter houndharrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retrieverNewfoundlandwater dog, water spanielpug, poodleturnspitterrierfox terrier, Skye terrierDandie Dinmontcollie.
[cats
generally]
feline, puss, pussygrimalkingib cat, tom cat.
[wild mammals] fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roecaribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar.
[birds] birdpoultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowlfeathered tribes, feathered songstersinging bird, dicky birdcanary, warblerfinchaberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon.
[undesirable animals] vermin, varmint [U.S.], pest.

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animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishypiscatory, piscatorialmolluscous, vermiculargallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped.

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