| Noun | 1. | subclass Eutheria - all mammals except monotremes and marsupials class Mammalia, Mammalia - warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials Insectivora, order Insectivora - shrews; moles; hedgehogs; tenrecs Cetacea, order Cetacea - an order of Eutheria order Sirenia, Sirenia - an animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea cow Carnivora, order Carnivora - cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia Fissipedia - in some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora order Tubulidentata, Tubulidentata - an order of Eutheria Chiroptera, order Chiroptera - an old order dating to early Eocene: bats: suborder Megachiroptera (fruit bats); suborder Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats) Lagomorpha, order Lagomorpha - rabbits; hares; pikas; formerly considered the suborder Duplicidentata of the order Rodentia order Rodentia, Rodentia - small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis Hyracoidea, order Hyracoidea - hyraxes and some extinct animals order Perissodactyla, Perissodactyla - nonruminant ungulates: horses; tapirs; rhinoceros; extinct forms Artiodactyla, order Artiodactyla - an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes Edentata, order Edentata - order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos order Pholidota, Pholidota - pangolins; in some former classifications included in the order Edentata order Primates, Primates - an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings order Scandentia, Scandentia - a small order comprising only the tree shrews: in some classifications tree shrews are considered either primates (and included in the suborder Prosimii) or true insectivores (and included in the order Insectivora) Dermoptera, order Dermoptera - flying lemurs order Proboscidea, Proboscidea - an order of animals including elephants and mammoths Ailuropodidae, family Ailuropodidae - in some classifications considered the family comprising the giant pandas class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |