noun
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
• Syn: ↑mammal
• Members of this Topic:
↑digitigrade, ↑plantigrade, ↑estrous, ↑anestrous, ↑weaned, ↑Amniota, ↑amnion, ↑amniotic sac, ↑amnios, ↑chorion, ↑allantois, ↑biauriculate heart, ↑ride, ↑mount
• Hypernyms: ↑vertebrate, ↑craniate
• Hyponyms:
↑female mammal, ↑tusker, ↑prototherian, ↑metatherian, ↑placental, ↑placental mammal, ↑eutherian, ↑eutherian mammal, ↑fossorial mammal
• Member Holonyms: ↑Mammalia, ↑class Mammalia
adjective
of or relating to the class Mammalia (Freq. 2)
• Pertains to noun: ↑Mammalia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.