2. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna -- (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Overview of adj brute
The adj brute has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) beastly, bestial, brute, brutish -- (resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners")