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Woman

A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent).

Animal

A person who behaves in a bestial or brutish manner.

Woman

An adult female human.

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.

Woman

Women considered as a group; womankind
“Woman feels the invidious distinctions of sex exactly as the black man does those of color” (Elizabeth Cady Stanton).

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
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Woman

An adult female human belonging to a specified occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination
An Englishwoman.
Congresswoman.
A saleswoman.

Animal

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

Woman

A female servant or subordinate.

Animal

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

Woman

A wife.

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.
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Woman

A female lover or sweetheart. See Usage Notes at chairman, female, lady, man.

Animal

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

Woman

An adult female human.

Animal

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

Woman

(collective) All female humans collectively; womankind.

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).

Woman

A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.

Animal

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

Woman

A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).

Animal

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

Woman

A female person who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. Used as the last element of a compound.

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.

Woman

A female attendant or servant.

Animal

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

Woman

To staff with female labor.

Animal

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

Woman

(transitive) To make effeminate or womanish.

Animal

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

Woman

(transitive) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

Animal

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

Woman

(transitive) To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.

Animal

, thing.
A whole different animal

Woman

Of or relating to a woman/women; female.

Animal

Of or relating to animals.
Animal instincts

Woman

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.
I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.

Animal

Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
Animal passions

Woman

The female part of the human race; womankind.
Man is destined to be a prey to woman.

Animal

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

Woman

A female attendant or servant.

Animal

Excellent

Woman

To act the part of a woman in; - with indefinite it.

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.

Woman

To make effeminate or womanish.

Animal

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

Woman

To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

Animal

Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.

Woman

An adult female person (as opposed to a man);
The woman kept house while the man hunted

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.

Woman

Women as a class;
It's an insult to American womanhood
Woman is the glory of creation

Animal

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

Woman

A human female who does housework;
The char will clean the carpet

Animal

A living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Woman

A female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man;
He was faithful to his woman

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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