ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animal communication mean? 

• ANIMAL COMMUNICATION (noun)
  The noun ANIMAL COMMUNICATION has 1 sense:

1. communication between animals (of the same species)

  Familiarity information: ANIMAL COMMUNICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMAL COMMUNICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Communication between animals (of the same species)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("animal communication" is a kind of...):

sign; signal; signaling (any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animal communication"):

birdcall; birdsong; call; song (the characteristic sound produced by a bird)