Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept Animal

More specialized WordNet synsets

vermin

any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats

work animal

an animal trained for and used for heavy labor

varmint, varment

any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g. coyote

scavenger

any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter

draft animal

an animal used for pulling heavy loads

beast of burden, jument

an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work

pack animal, sumpter

an animal such as a mule or burro or horse used to carry loads

feeder

an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening

domestic animal

any of various domesticated animals

hatchling

any recently hatched animal (especially birds)

stocker

an animal usable in or suitable for a breeding establishment

head

a single domestic animal: "200 head of cattle"

pet

a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement

marine animal, sea animal

any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals

pollard

a usually horned animal that as either shed its horns or had them removed

dam

female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock

sire

male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse

thoroughbred, purebred, pureblood

a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses

mutant

an animal that has undergone mutation

herbivore

any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants: "horses are herbivores"; "the sauropod dinosaurs were apparently herbivores"

carnivore

any animal that feeds on flesh: "Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore"; "insectivorous plants are considered carnivores"

acrodont

an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets

pleurodont

an animal having teeth consolidate with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets

crossbred

esp an animal produced by a cross between two pure breeds

zooplankton

animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae

livestock, stock, farm animal

not used technically; any animals kept for use or profit

yearling

an animal in its second year

omnivore

an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances

big game

large animals that are hunted for sport

prey, quarry

animal hunted or caught for food

game

animal hunted for food or sport

quadruped

an animal esp. a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking

biped

an animal with two feet

fictional animal

animals that exist only in fiction (usually in children's stories)

live body

a living body of an animal or person

system

the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole; "exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system"

fauna

all the animal life in a particular region

breed, strain, stock, variety

a special kind of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new variety of sheep"

captive

an animal that is confined

animallike

resembling or having characteristics of an animal; "dull animallike eyes"; "an animallike obstinacy"

clawed, taloned

of animals

armored, armoured

used of animals; provided with protective covering

scaly, scaley, scaled

(zoology) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles

bone-covered

(of animals) armored with bone

unarmored, unarmoured

used of animals; without protective covering

scaleless

destitute of scales

jointed

(zoology) having joints or jointed segments;

unjointed

(zoology) without joints or jointed segments

vagile

(zoology) having freedom to move about; "vagile aquatic animals"

free-swimming, unattached

(of animals) able to swim about; not attached

homoecious

used of parasitic animals that complete the life cycle on a single host; "homoecious tapeworms"; "a homoecious beetle that is parasitic in the nest of an ant"

homoecious

of parasitic animals such as tapeworms or some beetles; having the same host during the entire life cycle

heteroecious

of parasitic animals; spending different stages of the life cycle on different host species

duckbill, duck-billed

having a beak resembling that of a duck; "a duck-billed dinosaur"

rostrate

having a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis

beakless

not having a beak or bill

hairy, hirsute

having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"

bipedal, biped, two-footed

having two feet

quadrupedal, quadruped, four-footed

having four feet

predacious

hunting and killing other animals for food

piscivorous

feeding on fishes

anthophagous, anthophilous

feeding on flowers; "some insects are anthophagous"

herbivorous

feeding only on plants

baccivorous

feeding on berries

carpophagous, fruit-eating(a)

feeding on fruit

grass-eating(a)

feeding on grasses

plant-eating(a), phytophagic, phytophagous, phytophilous

(of animals) feeding on plants

omnivorous

feeding on both plants and animals

all-devouring(a)

(of animals) both plant-eating and flesh-eating

holozoic

obtaining nourishment as animals do by ingesting complex organic matter

bobtail, bobtailed

having a short or shortened tail; "bobtail mare"

caudate, caudated

(zoology) having a tail or taillike appendage

tailed

having a tail

swallow-tailed

(especially of butterflies and birds) having a forked tail like that of a swallow

acaudate, acaudal

(zoology) lacking a tail or taillike appendage

anurous, tailless

not having a tail; "anurous toads and frogs"

myrmecophilous

(biology) used or benefited by ants through sharing their nest

fattened

(of market animals) made ready for market

unfattened

(of market animals) not optimal for marketing

cade

(of a young animal) abandoned by its mother and raised by hand; "a cade calf"

branchiate, gilled

provided with gills; "a gilled tadpole"

abranchiate, abranchial, abranchious, gill-less

having no gills

earthborn

springing from or born on the earth; "earthborn beings"

infrahuman

belonging to a group below humans in evolutionary development; "infrahuman animals"

grade

(of domestic animals) improved by selective breeding

scrub

(of domestic animals) not selectively bred

metabolic, metabolous

(zoology) undergoing metamorphosis

ametabolic, ametabolous

(zoology)undergoing slight or no metamorphosis

axenic

(of experimental animals) raised under sterile conditions; "axenic conditions"; "germfree animals"

migratory

used of animals that move seasonally; "migratory birds

nonmigratory, resident

used of animals that do not migrate

polyestrous, polyoestrous

having more than one period of estrus per year

monestrous, monoestrous

having one estrous cycle per year

diestrous, dioestrous, diestrual, dioestrual

(of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity

herding(a), swarming(a), social

(of birds and animals) tending to move or live together in groups or colonies of the same kind; "ants are social insects"; "the herding instinct in sheep or cattle"; "swarming behavior in bees"

broken, broken in

tamed or trained to obey; "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in"

unbroken

not subdued or trained for service or use; "unbroken colts"

undomesticated

not domesticated; "a few undomesticated horses left"

unsegmented, nonsegmental

(zoology) having a body that is not divided into segments; "unsegmented worms"

disjunct

(zoology) having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects

metameric, segmental, segmented

(zoology) having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters

viviparous

(zoology) producing living young

oviparous

(zoology) egg-laying

ovoviviparous

(zoology) producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body

unweaned

not weaned; "some children remain unweaned until their second or third birthdays"

weaned

freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk; "the just-weaned calf bawled for its mother"

anguine

(zoology) of or related to or resembling a snake

arenicolous

growing or living or burrowing in sand; "arenicolous worms"

zoic

pertaining to animals or animal life or action

colonial

of animals who live in colonies, such as ants