Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Animal

Nouns
  • animal, animal kingdom
  • fauna
  • brute creation. beast, brute, creature, critter [U.S.]
  • wight, created being
  • creeping thing, living thing
  • dumb animal, dumb creature
  • zoophyte. [major divisions of animals] mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe. [microscopic animals] microbe, animalcule etc. Littleness. [reptiles] alligator, crocodile
  • saurian
  • dinosaur (extinct)
  • snake, serpent, viper, eft
  • asp, aspick. [amphibians] frog, toad. [fishes] trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel. [insects] ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee. [arthropods] tardigrade, spider. [classification by number of feet] biped, quadruped
  • [web-footed animal] webfoot. flocks and herds, live stock
  • domestic animals, wild animals
  • game
  • beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea
  • black game, black grouse
  • blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe. [domesticated mammals] horse etc. (beast of burden) Carrier
  • cattle, kine, ox
  • bull, bullock
  • cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn
  • sheep
  • lamb, lambkin
  • ewe, ram, tup
  • pig, swine, boar, hog, sow
  • steer, stot
  • tag, teg
  • bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat. [dogs] dog, hound
  • pup, puppy
  • whelp, cur, mongrel
  • house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog
  • mastiff
  • blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound
  • harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever
  • Newfoundland
  • water dog, water spaniel
  • pug, poodle
  • turnspit
  • terrier
  • fox terrier, Skye terrier
  • Dandie Dinmont
  • collie. [cats--generally] feline, puss, pussy
  • grimalkin
  • gib cat, tom cat. [wild mammals] fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe
  • caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar. [birds] bird
  • poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl
  • feathered tribes, feathered songster
  • singing bird, dicky bird
  • canary, warbler
  • finch
  • aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon. [undesirable animals] vermin, varmint [U.S.], pest.
Adjectives
  • animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy
  • piscatory, piscatorial
  • molluscous, vermicular
  • gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped.