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Definition of Animals
1. animal [n] - See also: animal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Animals
Literary usage of Animals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"Furthermore, the quantitative output in the urine of both albumin and glucose
was greater in the old animals than in the young animals. ..."
2. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"Of the Love and Hatred of animals. But to pass from the passions of love and
hatred, and from their mixtures and compositions, as they appear in man, ..."
3. The Journal of Science (1864)
"Gallon on Domestication of animals.—Gibb on the Larynx of the Negro. ... He then
entered into the question of the acclimatization of animals. ..."
4. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"Accordingly the savage makes it a rule to spare the life of those animals which
he has no pressing motive for killing, at least such fierce and dangerous ..."
5. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Other imitative communications of animals and man. ... All animals imitate the
activities of other members of their species on a very large scale. ..."
6. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY CHAPTER I INSECTS AND OTHER animals Among the larger groups of
... A sixth large group is composed mainly of soft, jelly-like animals, ..."
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