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wild animal

/ˈwaɪld ˈænɪməl/

wild animal noun: any (nonhuman) animal living in a natural, undomesticated state.

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!

wild animal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam

wild animal in Hindi

animal living in a natural, undomesticated state
वन्यजीव vanyajīv

wild animal in Tamil

animal living in a natural, undomesticated state
காட்டுவிலங்கு kāṭṭuvilaṅku

wild animal in Telugu

a wild animal
క్రూరజంతువు krūrajantuvu

wild animal in Malayalam

a wild animal
വ്യാഡം vyāḍaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
wild animal in Kannada
ಕಾಡುಮೃಗ, ವನ್ಯಜಂತು
wild animal in Arabic
حَيَوَان بَرِّيّ ḥayawān barriyy, حَيَوَان وَحْشِيّ ḥayawān waḥšiyy
wild animal in Indonesian
binatang liar, margasatwa
wild animal in Thai
สัตว์ป่า sàt-bpàa

Forms of wild animal

pluralwild animals
alternative form (archaic)wild-animal

Questions about wild animal

What does wild animal mean?
Wild animal means any (nonhuman) animal living in a natural, undomesticated state.
What is wild animal in Hindi?
Wild animal in Hindi is वन्यजीव (vanyajīv). See Wild animal meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is wild animal?
Wild animal is a noun.
How do you pronounce wild animal?
Wild animal is pronounced /ˈwaɪld ˈænɪməl/.
What is the plural of wild animal?
The plural of wild animal is wild animals.

Words near wild animal in the dictionary

  1. wild
  2. wild almond
  3. wild almonds
  4. wild and woolly
  5. wild and wooly
  6. wild animal
  7. wild animals
  8. wild as a Tuckernuck steer
  9. wild as a wet hen
  10. wild asparagus
  11. wild asparaguses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wild animal (page history and authors); క్రూరజంతువు (Telugu) (page history and authors); വ്യാഡം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); wild animal (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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