Yes, animal is in the scrabble dictionary
...and is worth 11 points by itself.
animal
adjective
1. Relating to the physical as distinct from the spiritual nature of people: animal instincts and desires.
2. Relating to, characteristic of, or derived from an animal or animals: animal fat.
3. Of, relating to, resembling, or derived from .
4. Of or relating to the physical or sentient as contrasted with the intellectual or rational.
5. Of or relating to the animal pole of an egg or to the part from which ectoderm normally develops.
noun
1. A human considered with respect to his or her physical, as opposed to spiritual, nature.
2. A multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia, differing from plants in certain typical characteristics such as capacity for locomotion, nonphotosynthetic metabolism, pronounced response to stimuli, restricted growth, and fixed bodily structure.
3. A person having a specified aptitude or set of interests: "that rarest of musical animals, an instrumentalist who is as comfortable on a podium with a stick as he is playing his instrument” ( Lon Tuck).
4. A person who behaves in a bestial or brutish manner.
5. An animal organism other than a human, especially a mammal.
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manila | 8 |
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