mammal(n = noun.animal) 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 milk;
is a kind of craniate, vertebrate
has parts: coat, pelage, hair, pilus
is a member of class mammalia, mammalia
has particulars: female mammal, tusker, prototherian, metatherian, eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal, fossorial mammal
One of the Mammalia. [1913 Webster]
mammal, n. any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, usu. a warm-blooded quadruped with hair or fur, the females of which possess milk-secreting mammae for the nourishment of the young, and including human beings, dogs, rabbits, whales, etc.
Derivative:
mammalian adj. & n. mammalogy n.
Etymology:
mod.L mammalia neut. pl. of L mammalis (as MAMMA(2))
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aquatic mammal, artiodactyl mammal, cetacean mammal, digitigrade mammal, egg-laying mammal, eutherian mammal, female mammal, fissiped mammal, fossorial mammal, gnawing mammal, hoofed mammal, leporid mammal, mammal family, mammal genus, mammal semnopithecus, megatherian mammal, musteline mammal, perissodactyl mammal, pinniped mammal, placental mammal, plantigrade mammal, pouched mammal, sirenian mammal, unguiculate mammal, viverrine mammal, young mammal