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Animal vs. Yearling — What's the Difference?

Animal vs. Yearling — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Animal and Yearling

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Animal

Animals (also called Metazoa) are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development.

Yearling

An animal that is one year old or has not completed its second year.

Animal

A living organism that feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli
Wild animals adapt badly to a caged life
Humans are the only animals who weep

Yearling

A racehorse that is one year old, dating from January 1 of the year in which it was foaled in the Northern Hemisphere, and from July 1 or August 1 in the Southern Hemisphere.

Animal

Relating to or characteristic of animals
Animal welfare
The evolution of animal life
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Yearling

An animal that is between one and two years old; one that is in its second year (but not yet two full years old).
A yearling lamb

Animal

Relating to or denoting the pole or extremity of an embryo that contains the more active cytoplasm in the early stages of development.

Yearling

A racehorse that is considered to be one year old until a subsequent January 1st.

Animal

Any of numerous multicellular eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Metazoa (or Animalia) that ingest food rather than manufacturing it themselves and are usually able to move about during at least part of their life cycle. Sponges, jellyfishes, flatworms, mollusks, arthropods, and vertebrates are animals.

Yearling

(US) A sophomore at West Point military academy.

Animal

An animal organism other than a human, especially a mammal.

Yearling

An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; - applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.

Animal

A person who behaves in a bestial or brutish manner.

Yearling

Being a year old.

Animal

A human considered with respect to their physical nature, as opposed to rational or spiritual nature.

Yearling

A young child

Animal

A person having a specified aptitude or set of interests
“that rarest of musical animals, an instrumentalist who is as comfortable on a podium with a stick as he is playing his instrument” (Lon Tuck).

Yearling

A racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth

Animal

Relating to, characteristic of, or derived from an animal or animals, especially when not human
Animal cells.
Animal welfare.

Yearling

An animal in its second year

Animal

Relating to the physical as distinct from the rational or spiritual nature of people
Animal instincts and desires.

Animal

(science) A eukaryote of the clade Animalia; a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).
A cat is an animal, not a plant. Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not plants.

Animal

(loosely) Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.

Animal

Any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).

Animal

(figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
My students are animals.

Animal

(informal) A person of a particular type.
He's a political animal.

Animal

, thing.
A whole different animal

Animal

Of or relating to animals.
Animal instincts

Animal

Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
Animal passions

Animal

Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.

Animal

Excellent

Animal

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.

Animal

One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.

Animal

Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.

Animal

Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.

Animal

Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.

Animal

A living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Animal

Of the appetites and passions of the body;
Animal instincts
Carnal knowledge
Fleshly desire
A sensual delight in eating
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Animal

Of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from an animal or animals;
The animal kingdom
Animal instincts
Animal fats
Decaying vegetable matter

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