animals
- 1Plural of animal.
Several animals fled the forest as the wildfire spread.
Marine biologists tagged dozens of animals to track their migration.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s, that carries every meaning of its singular. That range matters: in biology the word takes in the whole animal kingdom, people included, but in everyday speech it usually means creatures other than humans, often just mammals or land-dwelling vertebrates. A phrase like humans and animals relies on the narrower meaning; a biologist's count of animals may include insects, worms and us.
animals is a form of animal
animal, noun: A living creature that feeds on plants, other animals or their remains and can usually move, such as a mammal, bird, fish or insect; science includes humans, but everyday use usually does not. Full entry
- Forms
- animalanimals plural
- Spelling
- animal → animals: add -s
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