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Definition of "wildlife" []

  • Wild animals and vegetation, especially animals living in a natural, undomesticated state. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "wildlife" in a sentence
  • "The change in wildlife is tremendous, more deer, more moose, more small game and certainly more game birds."
  • "The term wildlife as used here includes plants as well as animals in the wild."
  • ""When people hear I rescue wild animals, they freak out at the word wildlife, sometimes imagining I have tigers living in the closets," she says."