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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

physical entity go
an entity that has physical existence

object, physical object go
a tangible and visible entity

whole, unit go
an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity

living thing, animate thing go
a living (or once living) entity

organism, being go
a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna go
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

chordate go
any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column

vertebrate, craniate go
animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

mammal, mammalian go
any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair

placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal go
mammals having a placenta

edentate
primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth

noun.animal

6 Subcategories

armadillo go
burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates
sloth, tree sloth go
any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America
megatherian, megatheriid, megatherian mammal go
a large extinct ground sloth
mylodontid go
a variety of extinct edentate
mylodon go
large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America
anteater, New World anteater go
any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites