WORK ANIMAL
Dictionary entry overview: What does work animal mean? • WORK ANIMAL (noun)
The noun WORK ANIMAL has 1 sense:
1. an animal trained for and used for heavy labor
Familiarity information: WORK ANIMAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WORK ANIMAL (noun)
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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