working animal

English

Noun

working animal (plural working animals)

1. An animal which is kept mainly to do work, such as a draft animal or a service animal, not mainly as a pet nor for its animal products.

Hyponyms

• aid dog
• assistance dog
• barn cat
• detection dog
• draft animal
• draft horse
• farm cat
• guard dog
• guide dog
• hearing dog
• hearing-ear dog
• helper dog
• hero rat
• mule
• ox
• police dog
• rescue dog
• seeing-eye dog
• service animal
• service dog
• sheepdog
• workstock

 

Coordinate terms

• livestock (mainly coordinate, but overlapping), pet, wild animal

Translations

animal kept for work

• Afrikaans: werksdier
• Finnish: työjuhta
• German: Arbeitstier (de) n