animal

Definitions

• In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plant and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plant).
• In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
• In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fish, insect, etc.).
• (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
• (informal) A person of a particular type.
• matter, thing.