animal material

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   material derived from animals

   Broadermaterial

   Narrowerfeatheranimal productanimal oildentinebonehornshellanimal fat

Questions about animal material

What does animal material mean?

animal material means "material derived from animals".

Is animal material a common word?

animal material is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.