Animal coat distributed about the body (10)
I believe the answer is:
anatomical
'the body' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'animal coat distributed' is the wordplay.
'distributed' is an anagram indicator.
'animal'+'coat'='animalcoat'
'animalcoat' with letters rearranged gives 'ANATOMICAL'.
'about' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for anatomical that I've seen before include "Relating to bodily structure" , "Relating to studies of the body" , "structural details" , "Pertaining to bodily structure" .)