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wild-animal

wild-animal is the archaic form of wild animal.

Meaning of wild animal

Noun

wild animal (plural wild animals)

  1. Any (nonhuman) animal living in a natural, undomesticated state.
    • Visitors must not feed the wild animals, for the health and safety of both the animals and the visitors.
  2. (figuratively) A person exhibiting uncontrolled and risky, possibly aggressive, behaviour.
    • We've got some wild animals up in here tonight!

Forms of wild-animal

pluralwild-animals

Questions about wild-animal

What is wild-animal the archaic form of?
Wild-animal is the archaic form of wild animal.

Words near wild-animal in the dictionary

  1. wild wests
  2. wild woman
  3. wild women
  4. wild yam
  5. wild yams
  6. wild-animal
  7. wild-animals
  8. wild-ass
  9. wild-asses
  10. wild-card
  11. wild-cards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wild-animal (page history and authors); wild animal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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