animate being

Other forms: animate beings

Definitions of animate being

1. noun

   a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
   synonyms: animal, beast, brute, creature, fauna

   types:

   pest

   any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

   critter

   a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals)

   creepy-crawly

   an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects)

   darter

   a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly

   peeper

   an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds

   homeotherm, homoiotherm, homotherm

   an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature

   ectotherm, poikilotherm

   an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals

   range animal

   any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep)

   varment, varmint

   any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote

   scavenger

   any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter

   work animal

   an animal trained for and used for heavy labor

   domestic animal, domesticated animal

   any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment

   feeder

   an animal that feeds on a particular source of food

   migrator

   an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the year

   molter, moulter

   an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair)

   pet

   a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement

   stayer

   a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance

   stunt

   a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth

   marine animal, marine creature, sea animal, sea creature

   any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals

   female

   an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)

   male

   an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)

   adult

   any mature animal

   offspring, young

   any immature animal

   pureblood, purebred, thoroughbred

   a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses

   giant

   any creature of exceptional size

   survivor

   an animal that survives in spite of adversity

   mutant

   an animal that has undergone mutation

   herbivore

   any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants

   insectivore

   any organism that feeds mainly on insects

   acrodont

   an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets

   pleurodont

   an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets

   zooplankton

   animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae

   conceptus, embryo, fertilized egg

   an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life

   chordate

   any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column

   invertebrate

   any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification

   metazoan

   any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges

   omnivore

   an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances

   predator, predatory animal

   any animal that lives by preying on other animals

   prey, quarry

   animal hunted or caught for food

   game

   animal hunted for food or sport

   hexapod

   an animal having six feet

   biped

   an animal with two feet

   larva

   the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose

   racer

   an animal that races

   fictional animal

   animals that exist only in fiction (usually in children's stories)

   captive

   an animal that is confined

   mate

   the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)

   vermin

   any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats

   bottom-feeder

   a scavenger that feeds low on the food chain

   beast of burden, jument

   an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work

   draft animal

   an animal used for pulling heavy loads

   feeder

   an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening

   stocker

   a domestic animal (especially a young steer or heifer) kept as stock until fattened or matured and suitable for a breeding establishment

   hatchling

   a young bird or animal that has just emerged from an egg

   head

   a single domestic animal

   by-catch, bycatch

   unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species

   hen

   female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster

   orphan

   a young animal without a mother

   young mammal

   any immature mammal

   sire

   male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse

   dam

   female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock

   carnivore

   any animal that feeds on flesh

   blastosphere, blastula

   early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs

   gastrula

   double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm

   morula

   a solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits; develops into the blastula

   cephalochordate

   fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column

   tunicate, urochord, urochordate

   primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva

   ascidian tadpole

   free-swimming larva of ascidians; they have a tail like a tadpole that contains the notochord

   craniate, vertebrate

   animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

   young bird

   a bird that is still young

   arthropod

   invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

   female mammal

   animals that nourish their young with milk

   zoophyte

   any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant such as a sea anemone or coral or sponge

   parazoan, poriferan, sponge

   primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

   cnidarian, coelenterate

   radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms

   comb jelly, ctenophore

   biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb

   worm

   any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

   borer, woodborer

   any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood

   bladder worm

   encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm

   cercaria

   tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage

   rotifer

   minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion; constituents of freshwater plankton

   mollusc, mollusk, shellfish

   invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

   spat

   a young oyster or other bivalve

   Canis familiaris, dog, domestic dog

   a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds

   greyhound

   a tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog

   Felis catus, Felis domesticus, domestic cat, house cat

   any domesticated member of the genus Felis

   stray

   an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal)

   big game

   large animals that are hunted for sport

   game bird

   any bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport

   wireworm

   wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants

   mealworm

   the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae

   wiggler, wriggler

   larva of a mosquito

   jointworm, strawworm

   larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains

   ant lion, antlion, doodlebug

   the larva of any of several insects

   aphid lion, aphis lion

   carnivorous larva of lacewing flies

   dobson, hellgrammiate

   large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait

   caseworm

   insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body

   caterpillar

   a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth

   nymph

   a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)

   leptocephalus

   slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes

   bot

   botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human

   grub

   a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects

   phoronid

   hermaphrodite wormlike animal living in mud of the sea bottom

   bryozoan, moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss

   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

   ectoproct

   sessile mossy aquatic animal having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles

   entoproct

   any of various moss-like aquatic animals usually forming branching colonies; each polyp having a both mouth and anus within a closed ring of tentacles

   Symbion pandora

   only known species of Cycliophora; lives symbiotically attached to a lobster's lip by an adhesive disk and feeding by means of a hairy mouth ring; its complex life cycle includes asexual and sexual phases

   brachiopod, lamp shell, lampshell

   marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide

   peanut worm, sipunculid

   small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut

   echinoderm

   marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies

   filly

   a young female horse under the age of four

   colt

   a young male horse under the age of four

   male horse

   the male of species Equus caballus

   steeplechaser

   a horse trained to run in steeplechases

   finisher

   an animal that wins in a contest of speed

   bullock, steer

   castrated bull

   polliwog, pollywog, tadpole

   a larval frog or toad

   young fish

   a fish that is young

   type of:

   being, organism

   a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently