"wild-animal" meaning in English

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      "form": "wild-animals",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1859 December 12, Western [pseudonym], “Correspondence of the Express”, in The Iredell Express. […], volume III, number 5, Statesville, N.C., published 1860 January 6, front page, column 1",
          "text": "South of us begins a short distance, an interminable morass; a paradise for sportsmen, inhabited only by water-fowl, wild-animals, snakes, mosquitoes, and a few squatter sovereigns.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1860 September 1, J. W. Bradley, “New Illustrated Edition of Livingstone’s Explorations in Africa”, in Waukegan Weekly Gazette, volume 10, number 49, Waukegan, Ill., page [2], column 7",
          "text": "We have just published a New Edition of this Great Work, Illustrated with very fine CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES: Giving the Coloring to Life of the Scenery and Wild-Animals From Drawings made by DR. LIVINGSTONE, during Sixteen Year Wanderings in the Wilds of South Africa!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1871 June 7, “Social Instincts of Animals”, in The Bedford County Press, volume IV, number 15, Bloody Run, Pa., front page, column 4",
          "text": "Some recent contributions to animal psychology, which are both new and interesting, have been made by Mr. Francis Galton, on the half-wild cattle of western South Africa, which he thus describes: “[…] They were watched from a distance during the day, as they roamed about over the country, and at night they were driven with cries to enclosures, into which they rushed much like a body of terrified wild-animals driven by huntsmen into a trap.[…]”\nWild animals is unhyphenated in the versions published in Littell’s Living Age, Macmillan’s Magazine, and The Galaxy.",
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        }
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        "Archaic form of wild animal."
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    {
      "form": "wild-animals",
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      ]
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  ],
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          "ref": "1859 December 12, Western [pseudonym], “Correspondence of the Express”, in The Iredell Express. […], volume III, number 5, Statesville, N.C., published 1860 January 6, front page, column 1",
          "text": "South of us begins a short distance, an interminable morass; a paradise for sportsmen, inhabited only by water-fowl, wild-animals, snakes, mosquitoes, and a few squatter sovereigns.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1860 September 1, J. W. Bradley, “New Illustrated Edition of Livingstone’s Explorations in Africa”, in Waukegan Weekly Gazette, volume 10, number 49, Waukegan, Ill., page [2], column 7",
          "text": "We have just published a New Edition of this Great Work, Illustrated with very fine CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES: Giving the Coloring to Life of the Scenery and Wild-Animals From Drawings made by DR. LIVINGSTONE, during Sixteen Year Wanderings in the Wilds of South Africa!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1871 June 7, “Social Instincts of Animals”, in The Bedford County Press, volume IV, number 15, Bloody Run, Pa., front page, column 4",
          "text": "Some recent contributions to animal psychology, which are both new and interesting, have been made by Mr. Francis Galton, on the half-wild cattle of western South Africa, which he thus describes: “[…] They were watched from a distance during the day, as they roamed about over the country, and at night they were driven with cries to enclosures, into which they rushed much like a body of terrified wild-animals driven by huntsmen into a trap.[…]”\nWild animals is unhyphenated in the versions published in Littell’s Living Age, Macmillan’s Magazine, and The Galaxy.",
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