wild animal
Noun

wild animal (plural wild animals)

  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
  • French: animal sauvage
  • German: wildes Tier, Wildtier
  • Italian: animale selvatico
  • Portuguese: fera
  • Russian: ди́кое живо́тное
  • Spanish: fiera, animal salvaje, animal silvestre



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