animal

The result is that I included 70 animal names, but Swadesh only 4 ; ;

their classes of animal and plant terms are restricted to generalizations or recurrent parts ( fish, bird, tree, grass, horn, tail, bark, root ).

Had Hoijer substituted for his 15 adjectival slots 15 good animal and plant items, his rate of stem replacement would have been lower and the age of Athabascan language separation smaller.

The attempt failed: the animal is now dead.

As we think of the long and excruciating pain it must have suffered, we are very likely to say: `` It was a bad thing that the little animal should suffer so ''.

Let us suppose that the animal did not in fact fall into the trap and did not suffer at all, but that we mistakenly believe it did, and say as before that its suffering was an evil thing.

The rows of animals and birds, in particular, suggest awareness of Oriental animal friezes, transmitted perhaps via Syrian silver bowls and textiles, but the specific forms of these rows on local vases and metal products are nonetheless Greek.

Temperature, wind, oxygen content, depth, bottom character, and animal life are the chief environmental variables.

All living creatures from the lowest form of insect or animal life evidence the power of creativity, if it is only to reproduce a form like their own.

While man shares this procreative function with all his predecessors in the evolutionary process, he is the only animal with a true non-instinctive and conscious creative ability.

An animal, bird or insect creates either a burrow, or nest or hive in unending sameness according to specie.

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

The residue from soybean processing goes mainly into animal feeds.

The single animal or a small bunch were referred to as `` strays '' ; ;

`` Tailin' '' was the throwin' of an animal by the tail in lieu of a rope.

Any animal could when travelin' fast, be sent heels over head by the simple process of overtakin' the brute, seizin' its tail, and givin' the latter a pull to one side.

This throwed the animal off balance, and over it'd crash onto its head and shoulders.

An animal covered with splotches or spots of different colors was called a `` brindle '' or `` brockle ''.

A `` lineback '' was an animal with a stripe of different color from the rest of its body runnin' down its back, while a `` lobo stripe '' was the white, yeller, or brown stripe runnin' down the back, from neck to tail, a characteristic of many Spanish cattle.

Such an animal was said to be `` mealynosed ''.

An animal with distinct coloration, or other marks easily distinguished and remembered by the owner and his riders, was sometimes used as a `` marker ''.

Such an animal has frequently been the downfall of the rustler.

There was a grunt, curiously inarticulate, like that of an animal in pain.

Only that curious, animal grunting Alec had heard during their fight.