English > mammal: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| 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. |
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| Synonym | mammalian |
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| Category of | Amniota | Higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development |
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| allantois | The vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut in many embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) |
| amnion, amniotic sac, amnios | Thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) |
| anestrous | (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus |
| biauriculate heart | A heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles |
| chorion | The outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) |
| digitigrade | (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) |
| estrous | (of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus |
| plantigrade | (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) |
| ride, mount | copulate with |
| weaned | Freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk |
| Member of | Mammalia, class Mammalia | warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female |
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| Parts | coat, pelage | growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal |
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| hair, pilus | Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal |
| Narrower | female mammal | animals that nourish their young with milk |
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| fossorial mammal | A burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging |
| metatherian | Primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas |
| placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal | mammals having a placenta |
| prototherian | Primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania / Tasmania and New Guinea |
| tusker | Any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar) |
| Broader | vertebrate, craniate | animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium |
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| Spanish | mamífero, mamíferos, mammalia |
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| Catalan | mamífer |
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