WORK ANIMAL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An animal trained for and used for heavy labor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("work animal" is a kind of...):

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "work animal"):

beast of burden; jument (an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work)

draft animal (an animal used for pulling heavy loads)

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