-al [-ial, -eal]

1. An organism of the kingdom Animalia, distinguished from plants by certain characteristics, as the power of locomotion, fixed structure and limited growth, and nonphotosynthetic metabolism.
2. A living organism that is distinguished from plants by independent movement and responsive sense organs.
3. A living being; a member of the higher of the two series of organized beings, of which the typical forms are endowed with life, sensation, and voluntary motion; but of which the lowest forms are hardly distinguishable from the lowest vegetable forms by any more certain marks than their evident relationship to other animal forms, and thus to the animal series as a whole rather than to the vegetable series.
4. Any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well-defined shape and usually limited growth, can move voluntarily, actively acquire food and digest it internally, and have sensory and nervous systems that allow them to respond rapidly to stimuli: some classification schemes also include protozoa and certain other single-celled eukaryotes that have motility and animallike nutritional modes.
5. In common usage: one of the lower animals; a brute, or beast, as distinguished from mankind.

Often restricted by the uneducated to quadrupeds; and familiarly applied especially to such as are used by man, as a horse, ass, or dog.

An older definition from the 1755 Dictionary of the English Language

1. An animal is a living creature, corporeal, distinct, on the one side, from pure spirit, on the other, from mere matter.
2. Animals are such beings, which, besides the power of growing, and producing their like, as plants and vegetables have, are endowed also with sensation and spontaneous motion.

Music that is played without harmony; lacking harmony; unharmonious.

Characterized by or relating to an aura.

1. Happening every two years.
2. Used to describe a plant that lives for two years and produces flowers and fruit in the second year.

Note: biannual means "twice a year"; which is, within the same year.

1. In politics, involving or carried out by two groups; especially, the political representatives of two countries.
2. Relating to or affecting both of two sides; bilateralism, bilaterally.
3. Arranged symmetrically on opposite sides of an axis.

1. The ability to speak two languages easily and naturally.
2. Written, expressed, or conducted in two languages; such as, a bilingual dictionary.
3. Having or using two languages; such as, a bilingual nation.

A reference to the desires and appetites of the flesh; sensual.