what is meant by animal?
A living organism characterized by voluntary movement. Classified under: Nouns with no superordinates. Synonyms: animal; animate being; beast; creature; fauna; brute. Hypernyms (animal is a kind of...): being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently) Meronyms (parts of animal): caput; head (the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains) face (the part of an animal corresponding to the human face) Meronyms (substance of animal): animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)