S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
S: (n) dog, domestic dog, Canis familiaris (a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds) "the dog barked all night"
S: (n) canine, canid (any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles)
S: (n) carnivore (a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal) "terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb"
S: (n) mammal, mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)
S: (n) vertebrate, craniate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)
S: (n) chordate (any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column)