ANIMAL

I. noun see: animate Date: 14th century any of a kingdom (Animalia) of living things including many-celled organisms and often many of the single-celled ones (as protozoans) that typically differ from plants in having cells without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for photosynthesis, in requiring more complex food materials (as proteins), in being organized to a greater degree of complexity, and in having the capacity for spontaneous movement and rapid motor responses to stimulation, 2. one of the lower ~s as distinguished from human beings, mammal , a human being considered chiefly as physical or nonrational, a person with a particular interest or aptitude , matter , thing , ~like adjective II. adjective Date: 1615 of, relating to, resembling, or derived from ~s, 2. of or relating to the physical or sentient as contrasted with the intellectual or rational, sensual , fleshly , of or relating to the ~ pole of an egg or to the part from which ectoderm normally develops, see: carnal ~ly adverb