| animal |
one of a large group of living things that is not a plant. Animals can move around by themselves to find food. [2 definitions] |
| animalcule |
a tiny or microscopic creature. |
| behemoth |
any enormous or powerful creature or thing. [1/2 definitions] |
| being |
any living creature. |
| Caliban |
a grotesque, brutish, half-human creature in the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare. |
| centaur |
a creature in Greek mythology that has the head, arms, and chest of a man and the trunk and legs of a horse. |
| critter |
(informal) a living creature, especially an animal that lives in the wild. |
| elf |
an imaginary small creature that looks like a human and has magical powers. |
| fairy |
an imaginary tiny creature in human form, thought to have magic powers. |
| genotype |
the genetic makeup of a living creature. (Cf. phenotype.) [1/2 definitions] |
| gnome1 |
a creature in fairy tales that lives inside the earth and guards precious treasure. Gnomes are often portrayed as little old men with beards. |
| goblin |
a small, ugly creature in fairy tales that does evil or mischief to humans. |
| humanoid |
a humanlike creature or robot. [1/2 definitions] |
| Loch Ness monster |
an unidentified creature or family of plesiosaur-like creatures said to live in Loch Ness, a lake near the city of Inverness in northern Scotland. |
| Martian |
in science fiction, a creature from the planet Mars. [1/2 definitions] |
| mermaid |
an imaginary sea creature with the head and upper body of a woman and the lower body and tail of a fish. |
| merman |
a mythical sea creature with the head and upper body of a man and the lower body and tail of a fish. |
| missing link |
a certain creature, not yet discovered, that would represent the supposed evolutionary stage between ape and man. [1/2 definitions] |
| monster |
a large, frightening creature that is not real. |
| mossback |
an old aquatic creature, such as a turtle, with a mosslike growth of algae on the back. [1/2 definitions] |
| Noah |
according to the Old Testament, the Hebrew patriarch who was commanded by God to build an ark on which to board his family and two of every kind of creature to save them from the great flood that was to engulf the world. |