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Word Define
Animals
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cat | a carnivorous mammal (Felis catus) long domesticated as a pet and for catching rats and mice |
| Dog | a furry animal with four legs, a pointed nose, and a tail. |
| Bird | a warm blooded member of the Aves class, which has feathers, a beak, no teeth, wings and bears young in eggs |
| Fish | an animal that lives in water and has fins for swimming and gills for breathing. |
| Frog | a small animal belonging to a group called amphibians. This mean that they live part of their life in water and the other part of it on land. |
| Snake | a snake is a reptile with a long, slender body but no arms or legs. |
| Monkey | a type of animal that is closely related to apes and humans and that has a long tail and usually lives in trees |
| Hippopotamus | a very large mammal of Africa south of the Sahara Desert that spends most of its time in the water, feeds on plants, has an extremely large head and mouth, very thick hairless grayish skin, and short legs with four toes on each foot; |
| Lion | a large mammal of the cat family that has a brownish buff coat, a tufted tail, and in the male a shaggy mane and that lives in open or rocky areas of Africa |
| Bear | large heavy mammals that have long shaggy hair and small tails and feed largely on fruit, plants, and insects as well as on flesh |
| Zebra | a plant-eating African mammals that are related to the horse, have a hide striped in black or dark brown and white or buff, and are swift runners |
| Giraffe | a large swift cud-chewing spotted African mammal with a very long neck that is the tallest of living four-footed animals |
| Wolf | a large bushy-tailed mammal with ears standing straight up that resemble the related dogs, that prey on other animals, and that often live and hunt in packs |
| Moose | a large cud-chewing mammal with broad flattened antlers and humped shoulders that is related to the deer and lives in forests of Canada, the northern U.S., Europe, and Asia |
| Rabbit | a small burrowing mammal with long ears and short tails |
| Beaver | a large plant-eating rodent that has webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail and that builds dams and houses of mud and branches which are partly underwater |
| Skunk | a black and white mammal that give off a fluid with a sharp and unpleasant smell when threatened |
| Cow | the adult female of cattle |
| Horse | a large hoofed grazing domesticated mammal that is used to carry or draw loads and for riding |
| Sheep | a cud-chewing mammals that are stockier than the related goats and lack a beard |
| Pig | a wild or domesticated swine of any age or weight |
| Elephant | a huge thickset nearly hairless mammal that have the snout lengthened into a trunk and two incisors in the upper jaw developed into long outward-curving pointed ivory tusks |
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