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mam·mal
(măm′əl)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 mammālis, of the breast, from Latin mamma, breast; see mā- in Indo-European roots.]
mam·ma′li·an (mă-mā′lē-ən) adj. & n.
mammal
(ˈmæməl)n
(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
[C19: via New Latin from Latin mamma breast]
mammalian adj, n
ˈmammal-ˌlike adj
mam•mal
(ˈmæm əl)n.
any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Mammalia, characterized by a covering of hair on some or most of the body, a four-chambered heart, and nourishment of the newborn with milk from maternal mammary glands.
mam·mal
(măm′əl) Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals 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. Dogs, mice, whales, and humans are mammals.
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.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() craniate, 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 dolphinsProverbs
"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, titanothereTranslations
ثَدِيِيّحَيَوان من الثَّدْيِيات
бозайник
savec
pattedyr
mamulo
imetaja
پستاندار
nisäkäs
sisavac
emlõs
spendýrspendÿr
哺乳動物
포유동물
žinduolisžinduolių
zīdītājs
mamifer
cicavec
sesalec
däggdjur
สัตว์เลี้ยงลูกด้วยนม
memelimemeli hayvan
ссавці
động vật có vú
mammal
(ˈmӕməl) noun any member of the class of animals (including man) in which the females feed the young with their own milk. Monkeys are mammals.
mamˈmalian (-ˈmei-) adjectivemammal
→ ثَدِيِيّ 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mam·mal
n. animal mamífero.