ferals

Definition of feralsnext
plural of feral
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Noun
  • Plus, pet owners like myself will appreciate not having to worry about our animals being around pesticides.
    Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026
  • As previously noted, one of the gifts of Russian greats that Saunders most celebrates is their way of locating complex truths in the stuff of ordinary lives—their towns and farms, and their families, their servants; their animals.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • Thatch roofing alone has declined in popularity in the region because of these critters.
    Stefan Ionescu May 20, New Atlas, 20 May 2026
  • The action is smooth, with the Switch 2 not hiccupping when juggling dozens of small critters.
    Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • For all of these creatures, the coast’s patchwork of barrier islands, beaches, sandbars, salt marshes, tidal creeks and estuaries are vitally important for survival.
    Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 16 May 2026
  • The slick creatures, with their blunt heads and whiskers, are sometimes easy to spot in the water, but the restaurants that have perfected eating them are a bit harder to find.
    Chelsea Brasted, Southern Living, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • Abby’s Magical Beasties, where one of the beasties goes missing, and Abby must problem-solve.
    Sarah Scott, Parents, 3 Nov. 2025
  • In a horrific twist, Kasumi (Kana Hanazawa) wakes up way too early — and thus has to battle the ferocious beasties to survive.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Nagatitan would have lived with smaller plant-eating dinosaurs, including iguanodontians, some cousins of the Triceratops called ceratopsians, as well as large carnivores, and flying pterosaurs.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 May 2026
  • Manure from animals that don’t consume meat (rabbits, cows, horses) is fine, but do not use waste from carnivores.
    Jessica Damiano, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • There is no centralized nasal airway to clear, and no evidence of a sneeze reflex comparable to that seen in vertebrates.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • In his lab, which studies the exchange of gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide between vertebrates and their environments, Damsgaard’s team used microsensors to measure oxygen levels in the retinas of zebra finches, pigeons, and chickens.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • That’s happened in several Mid Atlantic rivers, but in the absence of larger brutes like blues and flathead, channels will thrive and can break the 15-pound mark.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2026
  • In Raspail’s tale, hordes of impoverished and dark-​skinned brutes from India descend onto French shores by way of rafts, the first wave of an invasion of the civilized West by the brown-​skinned developing world.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
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“Ferals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ferals. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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