Definition of Animal group

1. Noun. A group of animals.

Generic synonyms: Biological Group
Specialized synonyms: Team, Brood, Flock, Flock, Fold, Herd, Herd, Pack, Pod, Pride, Clowder, School, Shoal, Caste, Colony, Warren, Breed, Stock, Strain, Drove, Litter
Group relationships: Fauna, Zoology

Lexicographical Neighbors of Animal Group

animal charcoal
animal communication
animal dander
animal dentistry
animal dextran
animal disease
animal fancier
animal fat
animal fiber
animal fibre
animal food
animal foot
animal fries
animal glue
animal graft
animal group (current term)
animal husbandry
animal identification systems
animal kingdom
animal leg
animal material
animal model
animal nature
animal oil
animal order
animal pigment
animal pole
animal product
animal products

Literary usage of Animal group

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1903)
"Why, to return to the reviewer's question, did the original animal group-names of captured women descend to their offspring within the group, say Emu, ..."

2. The Histology and Histochemistry of Man: A Treatise on the Elements of by Heinrich Frey (1875)
"B. Organs of the animal group. 6. Bony Apparatus. §288. Although we have already referred at some length, ..."

3. The Ethnological Journal (1865)
"It is intrinsic nature, it is ultimate purpose, it is character of mind, which makes the difference between animal and animal, group and group ; and here ..."

4. Animals With Backbones by Jo Ellen Moore (1998)
"Each member of the group paints an animal from their animal group. ... works together to make a chart, listing the characteristics of their animal group. ..."

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