Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having breasts or teats; mammiferous.
- n. An animal of the class Mammalia.
Wiktionary
- n. An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.
- n. paleontology A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) One of the Mammalia.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
Etymologies
- Modern Latin Mammalia, coined 1758 by Linnaeus for the class of mammals, from neuter plural of Late Latin mammalis ("of the breast"), from Latin mamma ("breast"), perhaps cognate with mamma (mother). (Wiktionary)
- From Late Latin mammālis, of the breast, from Latin mamma, breast; see mā-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The same sort of thing was true for the term mammal in the beginning.”
“Also the term mammal contains much more definitional weight than just "anything that has hair and is endothermic" there's the whole vertebrate thing and air breathing is right up there as well as living etc etc.”
“Monotremes defy the English word mammal, which implies breasts, or at least nipples.”
“For over two decades, I've been studying and writing about cetaceans, those whale and dolphin mammal cousins whose brain size, close-knit family societies, and communication skills rival our own.”
“An ambassador for his imperiled species, the playful 12-year-old marine mammal is curious and energetic.”
“Bumblebee bat - World's smallest mammal is endangered in Thailand where it is known from a single national park.”
“The act contains certain conditions for "exempt hunting" that allow the killing of wild mammals with the aid of dogs — if "as soon as possible after being found or flushed out the wild mammal is shot dead by a competent person.”
“But the singer hadn't jumped the fence at the enclosure, she was given special permission to meet the Latin American mammal, also known as a Brazilian aardvark, with her daughter Bluebell Madonna.”
“It would help if you please explain in detail how the word mammal is different than the word evolution in the sense we are discussing.”
“But this high-stepping mammal is not in search of cartes des visites — she’s the talisman of the Christian Louboutin boutique, which is famous for cutting-edge scarlet-soled footwear and has taken up residence in this former stationery store, and she’s just waiting for a surrealist or two to stroll in and pick up a pair of pumps. travel”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘mammal’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Nature and Environment
north, east, west, mountain, sea, beach, river, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, island and 205 more...
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6-letter words with precisely 1,2, & ...
allele, anatta, arrear, bedded, bettee, cocoon, doodad, gaggee, googol, hubbub, hammam, hummum and 30 more...
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Shadowkeir's list
This list, the one shown below this very message, is a collection of words that you cannot begin to fathom how much I adore. The list will also feature atithesis and contrasting words such as the t...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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my dictionary
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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vaticide, eyeball, pillow, deciduous, temerity, lush, vroom, catapult, cascade, bookish, banana, thrust and 18 more...
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Animal Study
Words that have to do with animals that live in the North East.
habitat, adapt, carnivore, herbivore, nocturnal, predator, prey, mammal, reptile, amphibian, bird, warm blooded and 9 more...
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root, acquiesce, other, bliss, latinate, burst, consistent, gut, hither, tea, wilful, time and 47 more...
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at the zoo
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