Tiracchana-yoni

Tiracchāna-yoni: 'animal womb'; birth as animal. The animal kingdom belongs to the sense-world see: loka is one of the 4 lower worlds see: apāya and one of the 3 woeful courses of existence.
==References==
Maha Thera Nyanatiloka. Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines, Buddhist Publication Society, first edition 1952. 
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