Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Wild animals and vegetation, especially animals living in a natural, undomesticated state.
Wiktionary
- n. animals living and plants growing in their natural environment
- n. slang members of a college fraternity
WordNet 3.0
- n. all living things (except people) that are undomesticated
Examples
“The change in wildlife is tremendous, more deer, more moose, more small game and certainly more game birds.”
“The term wildlife as used here includes plants as well as animals in the wild.”
“When people hear I rescue wild animals, they freak out at the word wildlife, sometimes imagining I have tigers living in the closets," she says.”
The Huffington Post: Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Wild Things' Foster Mom
“The term wildlife was defined in Anon [6] as “in a more scientific sense … wildlife refers to all nondomesticated organisms.”
“I garuntee most of them haven't looked at the cold hard facts on how our hunting results in wildlife management on the highest level when done right, and that most of the money used to preserve populations and their habitats comes from lisence fees, stamps, etc.”
“Her baptism in wildlife research was in the Galapagos Islands and Malaysian Borneo.”
“The world's wildlife is being washed away on a tide of platitudes.”
“If you had any education in wildlife management or carrying capacity you would not be saying that.”
“Politicians and all Americans need to be educated in wildlife management and carrying capacity.”
“The U.S. Geological Survey says wild pythons, "presumably the result of released pets," could spread as far north as Virginia and threaten wildlife from the bayous of Louisiana to the San Francisco Bay.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wildlife’.
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Life is rife .................
-ife- & -iferous : common and not-so-common words about life
fructiferous, ifere, glomuliferous, graniferous, guttiferales, lifen, manifest, nimbiferous, oviferous, roriferous, petaliferous, rangifer and 105 more...
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AGRI - sustainable agriculture
abiota, aborigines, absorptive capacity, acceptable daily ..., acclimation, acid precipitation, acquired by weeds..., active solar heating, acute, adaptation, additives, aerosol and 447 more...
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Nature and Environment
north, east, west, mountain, sea, beach, river, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, island and 205 more...
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Jams, Jellies, and Preserves
I've thought of a few of the most common sorts. Additions sought.
traffic, door, toe, fish, wildlife, bean, strawberry, apricot, raspberry, blackberry, boysenberry, grape and 51 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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thegirlnextfloor's list
autumnal, avalanche, silhouette, antique, abysmal, scorch, sonic, surge, symmetry, whisper, penchant, dissipate and 349 more...
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Black Saturday
A list in relation to the bushfires which commenced in earnest on Saturday 7 Feb 2009 in the state of Victoria, Australia.
marysville, ember attack, fire services, megafire, relief effort, emergency, cfa, brian naylor, kinglake, darkest day, last stand, hotline and 61 more...
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TT1 Lesson 1
Busch Gardens, parrot, coast, heart, nest, nestled, spectacular, Africa, fashioned, century, excitement, excited and 31 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wildlife.
bilby "More than a million native animals may have perished in Victoria's fire inferno, a wildlife expert says.
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The wildfires cut through parks and forests and sent countless wombats and other native species fleeing. One resident reported seeing kangaroos bouncing down the road with flames at their backs. 'It is devastating, the actual size of the destruction is devastating to a number of wildlife populations,' Ms (Gayle) Chappell said."
- Fires may have killed a million animals, ninemsn.com.au, 12 Feb 2009. Feb 12, 2009
pterodactyl *reads WordNet definition*
What about undomesticated people? Jul 22, 2008
reesetee *eye roll*
Why don't we relocate Boehner to ANWR? Then he can say with certainty that a creature lives there.
Jul 21, 2008
skipvia "In a press conference today previewing a House Republican trip to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that’s meant to promote drilling, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) doubted the existence of actual wildlife in the refuge. “We’re going to look at this barren, Arctic desert where I’m hoping to see some wildlife,�? said Boehner. “But I understand there’s none there.�?
-ThinkProgress.
This comes as a great surprise to most Alaskans, not to mention the bears (polar, brown, and black) wolves, foxes, musk oxen, wolverines, moose, Dall sheep, hares, marmots, pika, fish, and countless native and migrating bird species that live there. Oh...and the 600,000 caribou in the Porcupine herd. Jul 17, 2008