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Hypercarnivore and Animal Definitions

Hypercarnivore

Any animal whose diet is predominantly (more than 70%) meat from animals.
Most sharks are hypercarnivores.

Animal

Any of numerous multicellular eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Metazoa (or Animalia) that ingest food rather than manufacturing it themselves and are usually able to move about during at least part of their life cycle. Sponges, jellyfishes, flatworms, mollusks, arthropods, and vertebrates are animals.

Hypercarnivore

(paleobiology) Any creature with an increased slicing component of dentition relative to the grinding component.

Animal

An animal organism other than a human, especially a mammal.

Animal

A person who behaves in a bestial or brutish manner.
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Animal

A human considered with respect to their physical nature, as opposed to rational or spiritual nature.

Animal

A person having a specified aptitude or set of interests
“that rarest of musical animals, an instrumentalist who is as comfortable on a podium with a stick as he is playing his instrument” (Lon Tuck).

Animal

Relating to, characteristic of, or derived from an animal or animals, especially when not human
Animal cells.
Animal welfare.

Animal

Relating to the physical as distinct from the rational or spiritual nature of people
Animal instincts and desires.

Animal

(science) A eukaryote of the clade Animalia; 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.
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Animal

(loosely) Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.

Animal

Any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).

Animal

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

Animal

(informal) A person of a particular type.
He's a political animal.

Animal

, thing.
A whole different animal

Animal

Of or relating to animals.
Animal instincts

Animal

Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
Animal passions

Animal

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

Animal

Excellent

Animal

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.

Animal

One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.

Animal

Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.

Animal

Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.

Animal

Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.

Animal

A living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Animal

Of the appetites and passions of the body;
Animal instincts
Carnal knowledge
Fleshly desire
A sensual delight in eating
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Animal

Of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from an animal or animals;
The animal kingdom
Animal instincts
Animal fats
Decaying vegetable matter

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