Plural of animale or a collective term for animals; used in scientific Latin naming conventions to refer to multiple animal organisms.
From Latin 'animalis' (living, relating to animals) in plural form. It's primarily found in formal scientific nomenclature and medieval/classical texts.
Scientists still use Latinized plurals like 'animala' in formal taxonomy and philosophical texts—it's a holdover from when all serious scholarship was written in Latin!
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