Definition of "animals" []

• Plural form of animal. (noun)

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• "So, as the only way to save the other animals from being all killed, _God has made some special animals to fight those deadly animals_."
• "We say _lower animals_, because man is really an animal, a member of the great animal kingdom, though not a beast -- at least he should not be a beast, though some animals in human form approach very closely to the line that separates humanity from brutes."
• "And _All elephants are sagacious_ does not limit sagacity to elephants: regarding 'sagacious' as possibly denoting many animals of many species that exhibit the quality, this proposition is equivalent to '_All elephants are_ some _sagacious animals_.'"