wild animal

See also: wild-animal

English

Alternative forms

• wild-animal (archaic)

Pronunciation

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Noun

wild animal (plural wild animals)

Picture dictionary

wild animal

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1. Any (nonhuman) animal living in a natural, undomesticated state.

   Coordinate terms: livestock, pet, working animal

   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!

Translations

animal living in a natural, undomesticated state

• Arabic: حَيَوَان بَرِّيّ m (ḥayawān barriyy), حَيَوَان وَحْشِيّ m (ḥayawān waḥšiyy)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܲܝܘܲܬ ܒܲܪܝܼܵܐ f (ḥaywat barīyā)
• Bulgarian: ди́во живо́тно n (dívo živótno)
• Catalan: fera (ca) f, bèstia (ca) f
• Central Sierra Miwok: halé·-to-
• Cherokee: ᎡᎿᎢ (ehnai)
• Chickasaw: nannimilhlha'
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 野獸 / 野兽 (zh) (yěshòu), 野生動物 / 野生动物 (zh) (yěshēng dòngwù)

• Crimean Tatar: kiyik ayvan
• Czech: divoké zvíře sg or n
• Danish: vilddyr n
• Dutch: wild dier
• Finnish: villieläin (fi)
• French: animal sauvage m
• Galician: animal salvaxe m, besta brava f (archaic)
• Georgian: ნადირი (ka) (nadiri), მხეცი (mxeci), გარეული ცხოველი (gareuli cxoveli)
• German: wildes Tier n, Wildtier (de) n
• Greek: αγρίμι (el) n (agrími)
• Hebrew: חַיַּת בַּר f (khayyát bar)
• Hindi: जंगली प्राणी (jaṅglī prāṇī)
• Hungarian: vadállat (hu), vad (hu)
• Icelandic: villidýr (is) n
• Indonesian: binatang liar
• Irish: beithíoch allta m
• Italian: animale selvatico m
• Japanese: 野生動物 (ja) (やせいどうぶつ, yaseidōbutsu)
• Khmer: សត្វព្រៃ (sat prɨy)
• Korean: 야생 동물 (yasaeng dongmul)
• Latin: bēstia (la) f, fera (la) f
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: янлык (janlyk)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: villdyr n

  Nynorsk: villdyr n

• Old English: wilddēor n
• Portuguese: fera (pt) f
• Quechua: k'ita uywa
• Romanian: animal sălbatic n
• Russian: ди́кое живо́тное n (díkoje živótnoje)
• Sicilian: vestia (scn) f, bestia (scn) f
• Spanish: fiera (es) f, animal salvaje m, animal silvestre m, tecuán m
• Swahili: mnyamapori
• Thai: สัตว์ป่า (th) (sàt-bpàa)
• Wutunhua: redak

See also

• beast
• game
• wildlife

References

• “wild animal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.