Meaning

1 senses

  1. Any mammal.

More definitions
  • 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 milk

Examples

2 sentences

  1. By their appearance, dolphins might look like fish, but they actually belong to the mammalian family.

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  2. An article describing the discovery of the reptilian fossil with mammalian teeth is published this week in the journal Nature.

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Forms

plural: mammalians
Singularmammalian
Pluralmammalians

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Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • 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 milk:mammal

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mamaB2mambamammaB2mammalmammothmanA1
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