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| n. (state) | 1. being, beingness, existence | the state or fact of existing.; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" |
| ~ state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes.; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" |
| ~ actuality | the state of actually existing objectively.; "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality" |
| ~ timeless existence, timelessness, eternity | a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife. |
| ~ preexistence | existing in a former state or previous to something else. |
| ~ coexistence | existing peacefully together. |
| ~ subsistence | the state of existing in reality; having substance. |
| ~ presence | the state of being present; current existence.; "he tested for the presence of radon" |
| ~ life | the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living.; "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others" |
| ~ aliveness, animation, living, life | the condition of living or the state of being alive.; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes" |
| ~ life | a characteristic state or mode of living.; "social life"; "city life"; "real life" |
| ~ transcendence, transcendency | a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience. |
| ~ possibleness, possibility | capability of existing or happening or being true.; "there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired" |
| n. (tops) | 2. being, organism | a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently. |
| ~ animate thing, living thing | a living (or once living) entity. |
| ~ benthos | organisms (plants and animals) that live at or near the bottom of a sea. |
| ~ dwarf | a plant or animal that is atypically small. |
| ~ heterotroph | an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition. |
| ~ parent | an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained. |
| ~ cell | (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ animal, animate being, beast, creature, brute, fauna | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement. |
| ~ plant life, flora, plant | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion. |
| ~ native | indigenous plants and animals. |
| ~ recombinant | a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred. |
| ~ conspecific | an organism belonging to the same species as another organism. |
| ~ carrier | (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring. |
| ~ denizen | a plant or animal naturalized in a region.; "denizens of field and forest"; "denizens of the deep" |
| ~ amphidiploid | (genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent. |
| ~ diploid | (genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number. |
| ~ haploid | (genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes. |
| ~ heteroploid | (genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species. |
| ~ polyploid | (genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes. |
| ~ animalcule, animalculum | microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium. |
| ~ micro-organism, microorganism | any organism of microscopic size. |
| ~ aerobe | an organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life. |
| ~ anaerobe | an organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live. |
| ~ crossbreed, hybrid, cross | (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species.; "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey" |
| ~ polymorph | an organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites. |
| ~ congenator, congeneric, congener, relative | an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus). |
| ~ plankton | the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water. |
| ~ nekton | the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales. |
| ~ parasite | an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host. |
| ~ host | an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association. |
| ~ commensal | either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent. |
| ~ myrmecophile | an organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant. |
| ~ eucaryote, eukaryote | an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells. |
| ~ procaryote, prokaryote | a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma. |
| ~ zooid | one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan. |
| ~ body part | any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity. |
| ~ tissue | part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function. |
| ~ fertilized ovum, zygote | (genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell). |
| ~ parthenote | a cell resulting from parthenogenesis. |
| ~ organic chemistry | the chemistry of compounds containing carbon (originally defined as the chemistry of substances produced by living organisms but now extended to substances synthesized artificially). |
| ~ clon, clone | a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction. |
| ~ stratum | one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock). |
| ~ atavist, throwback | an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism. |
| ~ individual | a single organism. |
| ~ mascot | a person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure. |
| ~ mutant, mutation, sport, variation | (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration. |
| ~ postdiluvian | anything living after Noah's flood. |
| ~ sitter | an organism (person or animal) that sits. |
| ~ stander | an organism (person or animal) that stands.; "a crowd of sitters and standers" |
| ~ utterer, vocaliser, vocalizer | an organism that can utter vocal sounds.; "an utterer of foul oaths"; "is the giraffe a vocalizer?" |
| ~ fungus | an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia. |
| ~ nonvascular organism | organisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses. |
| ~ relict | an organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated. |
| ~ saprophyte, saprophytic organism | an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium. |
| ~ saprobe | an organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic matter in stagnant or foul water. |
| ~ katharobe | an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic matter. |
| ~ metabolic process, metabolism | the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life. |
| ~ morphogenesis | differentiation and growth of the structure of an organism (or a part of an organism). |
| ~ bioluminescent | (of living organisms) emitting light.; "fireflies are bioluminescent" |
| ~ cellular | characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization).; "the cellular construction of a beehive"; "any effective opposition to a totalitarian regime must be secretive and cellular" |
| ~ actinal | (of radiate organisms) located on the surface or end on which the mouth is situated. |
| creature | | |
| n. (tops) | 1. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement. |
| ~ organism, being | a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently. |
| ~ ritual killing, sacrifice | the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity. |
| ~ tracking, trailing | the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind. |
| ~ animal kingdom, animalia, kingdom animalia | taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals. |
| ~ pest | any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc..; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides" |
| ~ critter | a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals). |
| ~ creepy-crawly | an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects). |
| ~ darter | a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly.; "squirrels are darters" |
| ~ peeper | an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds. |
| ~ homeotherm, homoiotherm, homotherm | an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature. |
| ~ ectotherm, poikilotherm | an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals. |
| ~ range animal | any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep). |
| ~ varment, varmint | any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote. |
| ~ scavenger | any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter. |
| ~ work animal | an animal trained for and used for heavy labor. |
| ~ domestic animal, domesticated animal | any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment. |
| ~ feeder | an animal that feeds on a particular source of food.; "a bark feeder"; "a mud feeder" |
| ~ migrator | an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the year. |
| ~ molter, moulter | an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair). |
| ~ pet | a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement. |
| ~ stayer | a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance.; "the horse that won the race is a good stayer" |
| ~ stunt | a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth. |
| ~ marine animal, marine creature, sea animal, sea creature | any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals. |
| ~ female | an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa). |
| ~ male | an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova). |
| ~ adult | any mature animal. |
| ~ young, offspring | any immature animal. |
| ~ pureblood, purebred, thoroughbred | a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses. |
| ~ giant | any creature of exceptional size. |
| ~ survivor | an animal that survives in spite of adversity.; "only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters" |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ insectivore | any organism that feeds mainly on insects. |
| ~ acrodont | an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets. |
| ~ pleurodont | an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets. |
| ~ micro-organism, microorganism | any organism of microscopic size. |
| ~ actinomycete | any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales. |
| ~ zooplankton | animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae. |
| ~ conceptus, fertilized egg, embryo | an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life. |
| ~ chordate | any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column. |
| ~ invertebrate | any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification. |
| ~ metazoan | any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges. |
| ~ omnivore | an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances. |
| ~ predatory animal, predator | any animal that lives by preying on other animals. |
| ~ prey, quarry | animal hunted or caught for food. |
| ~ game | animal hunted for food or sport. |
| ~ hexapod | an animal having six feet. |
| ~ biped | an animal with two feet. |
| ~ larva | the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose. |
| ~ racer | an animal that races. |
| ~ fictional animal | animals that exist only in fiction (usually in children's stories). |
| ~ trap | a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned. |
| ~ humaneness | the quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals). |
| ~ body, organic structure, physical structure | the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being).; "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" |
| ~ animal tissue | the tissue in the bodies of animals. |
| ~ head, caput | the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains.; "he stuck his head out the window" |
| ~ side | either the left or right half of a body.; "he had a pain in his side" |
| ~ face | the part of an animal corresponding to the human face. |
| ~ nose | the sense of smell (especially in animals).; "the hound has a good nose" |
| ~ diet | the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal). |
| ~ transmitter, vector | any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease.; "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"; "fleas are vectors of the plague"; "aphids are transmitters of plant diseases"; "when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects" |
| ~ captive | an animal that is confined. |
| ~ mate | the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner).; "he loved the mare and all her mates"; "camels hate leaving their mates" |
| ~ sitter | an organism (person or animal) that sits. |
| ~ stander | an organism (person or animal) that stands.; "a crowd of sitters and standers" |
| ~ wart | any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals). |
| ~ schistosome dermatitis, swimmer's itch | a sensitization reaction to repeated invasion of the skin by cercariae of schistosomes. |
| ~ debone, bone | remove the bones from.; "bone the turkey before roasting it" |
| ~ domesticate, tame | make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans.; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" |
| ~ domesticise, domesticize, domesticate, tame, reclaim | overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable.; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" |
| ~ drench | force to drink. |
| ~ pasture, graze, crop | let feed in a field or pasture or meadow. |
| ~ topknotted, crested, tufted | (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination.; "golden crested"; "crested iris"; "crested oriole"; "tufted duck"; "tufted loosestrife" |
| ~ bone-covered | (of animals) armored with bone. |
| ~ free-swimming, unattached | (of animals) able to swim about; not attached. |
| ~ hispid | (of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles.; "plants with hispid stems" |
| ~ flesh-eating, meat-eating, zoophagous | (of animals) carnivorous. |
| ~ phytophagic, phytophagous, phytophilous, plant-eating | (of animals) feeding on plants. |
| ~ all-devouring | (of animals) both plant-eating and flesh-eating. |
| ~ insectivorous | (of animals and plants) feeding on insects. |
| ~ epizootic | (of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region.; "an epizootic disease" |
| ~ adult, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup, big | (of animals) fully developed.; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman" |
| ~ half-blooded, half-bred, half-breed | (of animals) having only one purebred parent. |
| ~ registered | (of animals) officially recorded with or certified by a recognized breed association; especially in a stud book.; "a registered Percheron" |
| ~ unregistered | (of animals) not recorded with or certified by an official breed association.; "unregistered dairy cattle" |
| ~ gregarious | (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species.; "gregarious bird species" |
| ~ social | tending to move or live together in groups or colonies of the same kind.; "ants are social insects" |
| n. (person) | 2. creature, wight | a human being; `wight' is an archaic term. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| n. (person) | 3. creature, puppet, tool | a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else. |
| ~ slave | a person who is owned by someone. |
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