#366. Animal. —
N. animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation.
beast, brute, creature,
critter [US dialect], wight, created being;
creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, dumb creature;
zoophyte.
[major divisions of
animals] mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish,
crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod,
microbe.
[microscopic animals]
microbe, animalcule &c. 193.
[reptiles] alligator,
crocodile; saurian; dinosaur [extinct]; snake,
serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick[obs3].
[amphibians] frog, toad.
[fishes] trout, bass,
tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel.
[insects] ant, mosquito,
bee, honeybee.
[arthropods] tardigrade,
spider.
[classification by number
of feet] biped, quadruped.
flocks and herds, live
stock; domestic animals, wild animals; game,
ferae naturae[Lat]; beasts of the field, fowls of
the air, denizens of the sea; black game, black grouse;
blackcock[obs3], duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe.
[domesticated mammals]
horse &c. (beast of burden) 271; cattle,
kine[obs3], ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf,
heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin[obs3]; ewe,
ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot[obs3];
tag, teg[obs3]; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat.
[dogs] dog, hound; pup,
puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch
dog, sheep dog, shepherd’s dog, sporting dog,
fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog;
mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer
hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel,
pointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog,
water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox
terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie.
[cats][generally] feline,
puss, pussy; grimalkin[obs3]; gib cat, tom
cat.
[wild mammals] fox,
Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe;
caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar[obs3].
bird; poultry, fowl,
cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet[obs3],
rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered
tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird;
canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine[obs3], cushat[obs3],
cygnet, ringdove[obs3], siskin, swan, wood pigeon.
[undesirable animals]
vermin, varmint[Western US], pest.
Adj. animal, zoological
equine, bovine, vaccine,
canine, feline, fishy; piscatory[obs3],
piscatorial; molluscous[obs3], vermicular; gallinaceous,
rasorial[obs3], solidungulate[obs3], soliped[obs3].
#367. Vegetable.
— N. vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora,
verdure.
plant; tree, shrub,
bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.
annual; perennial, biennial,
triennial; exotic.
timber, forest; wood,
woodlands; timberland; hurst[obs3], frith[obs3],
holt, weald[obs3], park, chase, greenwood, brake,
grove, copse, coppice, bocage[obs3], tope, clump of
trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood;


