Definizione monolingua

animal

animal (plural animals)

1. In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).

   A cat is an animal, not a plant.

   Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not plants.

2. In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human being.
3. In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc)
4. (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.

   My students are animals.

5. (informal) A person of a particular type.

   a political animal

animal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to animals.

   animal instincts

2. Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.

   animal passions

3. Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
   • 2003, To explain what activated the flesh, ‘animal spirits’ were posited, superfine fluids which shuttled between the mind and the vitals, conveying messages and motion. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 47)
4. (slang, Ireland) Excellent.

animal

1. brutally

Definizione dizionario animal

	animale
	unhindered by social codes
	of soul
	of animals
	organism other than man
	person who behaves wildly
	organism
	Qualsiasi organismo vivente caratterizzato da un movimento volontario, che possiede cellule con pareti non di cellulosa ed organi di senso specializzati che abilitano risposte veloci agli stimoli, e capace di ingerire complesse sostanze organiche provenienti da altri esseri viventi.
	Any living organism characterized by voluntary movement, the possession of cells with noncellulose cell walls and specialized sense organs enabling rapid response to stimuli, and the ingestion of complex organic substances such as plants and other animals.

	bestia
	organism other than man
	person who behaves wildly
	organism

animalesco

bruto

animal

animale domestico

animalia

bestiame

vèstia

Altri significati:

Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.

(informal) A person of a particular type.

Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.

Of or relating to animals.

In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human being.

(figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.

Any living organism of the Animalia reign except human

In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).

(slang, Irish) Excellent.

In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc)