Definition of domestic animal
: any of various animals (such as the horse or sheep) domesticated so as to live and breed in a tame condition
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Recent Examples of domestic animal from the Web
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Aldicarb has been used to poison both wild and domestic animals.
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At the same time, catastrophically, native peoples increasingly died of diseases, usually smallpox, that had moved from domestic animals to humans.
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Bacterial production of insulin increased its availability and reduced costs by eliminating the need to harvest it from domestic animals.
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Kitchen offers a variety of educational programs and displays designed to educate participants on birth, growth, development, diet and habitat for both wild and domestic animals.
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Ticks get the illness by biting infected deer, mice, birds, or domestic animals.
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Priestas, who is being held at the Porter County Jail, was previously charged in Porter County with two felony counts of killing a domestic animal after police found the dogs, Mugsy and Marley, dead in rural Porter Township on Feb. 21.
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Among non-domestic animals, bees, wasps and hornets present the greatest danger.
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While widespread in these traditional societies, cats, dogs, and other familiar domestic animals represent only a minority of the vast range of species kept as pets.
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First Known Use of domestic animal
1743
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