mam·mal (m m  l)n. Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young. [From Late Latin mamm  lis, of the breast, from Latin mamma, breast; see m-2 in Indo-European roots.]mam·ma li·an (m-ml -n) adj. & n. |
mammal [ˈmæməl]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) any animal of the Mammalia, a large class of warm-blooded vertebrates having mammary glands in the female, a thoracic diaphragm, and a four-chambered heart. The class includes the whales, carnivores, rodents, bats, primates, etc.
[via New Latin from Latin mamma breast]
mammalian [mæˈmeɪlɪən] adj & n
mammal-like adj
| mammal (mml) Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, whose young feed on milk that is produced by the mother's mammary glands. Unlike other vertebrates, mammals have a diaphragm that separates the heart and lungs from the other internal organs, red blood cells that lack a nucleus, and usually hair or fur. All mammals but the monotremes bear live young. Mammals include rodents, cats, dogs, ungulates, cetaceans, and apes. |
mammal
- amniocentesis, amnion - Amniocentesis is formed by amnion, the innermost membrane enclosing a fetus, and Greek kentesis, "pricking."
- endoskeleton - Contained entirely within the body of an animal, like that of mammals.
- pelage - The fur, hair, wool, etc. of a mammal.
- rhinarium - The hairless, habitually moist nose of some mammals, such as the antelope.
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  mammal - 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 milkcraniate, vertebrate - animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium Amniota - higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development amnion, amnios, amniotic sac - thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) chorion - the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) allantois - the vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut in many embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) class Mammalia, Mammalia - warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female female mammal - animals that nourish their young with milk tusker - any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar) prototherian - primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea metatherian - primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials fossorial mammal - a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging pilus, hair - any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup" biauriculate heart - a heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles digitigrade - (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) plantigrade - (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) estrous - (of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus; in heat; "the estrous state"; "the estrous cycle" anestrous - (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat; "an anestrous bitch" weaned - freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk; "the just-weaned calf bawled for its mother" |
mammal see anteaters and other edentates, bats, carnivores, cattle and other artiodactyls, horses, rhinos and other perissodactyls, marsupials, monkeys, apes and other primates, rabbits and hares, rodents, sea mammals, shrews and other insectovores, whales and dolphins
Proverbs
"The leopard does not change his spots"
"The leopard does not change his spots"
Extinct mammals
apeman, aurochs, australopithecine, baluchitherium, chalicothere, creodont, dinoceras or uintathere, dinothere, dryopithecine, eohippus, glyptodont, Irish elk, labyrinthodont, mammoth, mastodon, megathere, nototherium, quagga, sabre-toothed tiger or cat, tarpan, titanothere
Translations
n mammal [ˈmӕməl]
any member of the class of animals (including man) in which the females feed the young with their own milk Monkeys are mammals. soogdier حَيَوان من الثَّدْيِيات бозайник savec pattedyr das Säugetier θηλαστικό mamífero imetaja پستاندار nisäkäs mammifère יוֹנֵק स्तनपायी sisavac emlős (állat) mamalia spendÿr mammifero ほ乳動物 포유 동물 žinduolis zīdītājs mamalia zoogdier pattedyr ssak mamífero mamifer млекопитающее cicavec sesalec sisar däggdjur สัตว์เลี้ยงลูกด้วยนม memeli hayvan 哺乳動物 ссавець ثدوی یا پستانی طبقے کا حیوان động vật có vú 哺乳动物
adj mamˈmalian [-ˈmei-]
soogdieragtig ثَدْيي، لَبون бозайнически savčí pattedyr-; pattedyrs- Säugetier-... θηλαστικός mamífero imetaja پستاندار nisäkäs- mammifère יוֹנֵק स्तनीय वर्ग koji pripada rodu sisavaca emlős menyusui spendÿra- mammifero ほ乳動物の 포유류의 žinduolių zīdītāju- mamalia borst{#169} pattedyr- ssący mamífero mamifer относящийся к млекопитающим cicavčí sesalski koji se odnosi na sisare däggdjurs- ซึ่งเป็นของสัตว์เลี้ยงลูกด้วยนม memeli 哺乳動物的 такий, що відноситься до ссавців ثدوی thuộc loài động vật có vú 哺乳动物的
mammal → ثديي savec pattedyr Säugetier θηλαστικό mamífero nisäkäs mammifère sisavac mammifero 哺乳動物 포유동물 zoogdier pattedyr ssak mamífero млекопитающее däggdjur สัตว์เลี้ยงลูกด้วยนม memeli động vật có vú 哺乳动物
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