Living creature

noun

1. Any of a kingdom (Animalia) of living things including many-celled organisms and often many of the single-celled ones (such 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 (such 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 animals see lower as distinguished from human beings
3. Mammal
4. A human being considered chiefly as physical or nonrational
5. A person with a particular interest or aptitude

   "a political animal"

6. Matter, thing

   "the theater … is an entirely different animal"

adjective

1. Of, relating to, resembling, or derived from animals

   "animal instincts"

2. Of or relating to the physical or sentient as contrasted with the intellectual or rational
3. Sensual, fleshly

   "indulged his animal appetites"

4. Of or relating to the animal pole of an egg or to the part from which ectoderm normally develops

noun

1. An office or department responsible for enforcing ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals

noun

1. A small cookie in the shape of an animal

noun

1. Body heat

noun

1. A branch of agriculture concerned with the production and care of domestic animals

noun

1. A basic group of natural objects that includes all living and extinct animals compare mineral kingdom, plant kingdom

noun

1. A mysterious force claimed by Mesmer to enable him to hypnotize patients
2. A magnetic charm or appeal

noun

1. An animal sufficiently like humans in its anatomy, physiology, or response to a pathogen to be used in medical research in order to obtain results that can be extrapolated to human medicine

noun

1. The point on the surface of an egg that is diametrically opposite to the vegetal pole and usually marks the most active part of the protoplasm or the part containing least yolk see blastula