Animal

[L,. animal a living being; anima, breath.] A living being with an organized ma¬ terial body, and endowed with the powers of sen¬ sation and voluntary motion. All animals are cla ed together in one great body called the Animal Kingdom, which is separated into a num¬ ber of sub-kingdoms or grand divisions, of which the highest is the vertebrata, or animals with an internal skeleton.