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ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. | mammalian - 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) 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 pelage, coat - growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal pilus, hair - any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup" mount, ride - copulate with; "The bull was riding the cow" 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" | | Adj. | 1. | mammalian - of or relating to the class Mammalia |
Translations mammalian [mæˈmeɪlɪən] adj ( Bio) ( species, behaviour) → dei mammiferi
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