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eläimellinen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • animal noun A living, moving organism that feeds on other organisms rather than making its own food, as distinct from plants and fungi.
  • bestial adj Savage, cruel, or animal-like in a shocking or brutal way.
  • brute noun A rough, violent, or unthinking person.

Senses

eläimellinen is used for these senses in English:

  • animal Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
  • animal (science) Any member of the kingdom Animalia of multicellular organisms that are usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing them from plants and fungi) and which derive energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (further distinguishing them from plants).
  • bestial (literally, _, and, _, figuratively) Beast-like
  • brute Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans). [from 16th c.]
  • goatish Goaty, goatlike.

animal — full definition

  1. noun A living, moving organism that feeds on other organisms rather than making its own food, as distinct from plants and fungi.
  2. noun Any creature other than a human, especially a mammal.
  3. noun Informal: a person who acts in a wild, brutal, or uncontrolled way.
  4. adj Relating to animals, or driven by raw physical instinct rather than reason.
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