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mam·mal

(măm′əl)

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.

[From Late Latin mammālis, of the breast, from Latin mamma, breast; see mā- in Indo-European roots.]

mam·ma′li·an (mă-mā′lē-ən) adj. & n.

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mammal

(ˈmæməl)

(Zoology) any animal of the Mammalia, a large class of warm-blooded vertebrates having mammary glands in the female, a thoracic diaphragm, and a four-chambered heart. The class includes the whales, carnivores, rodents, bats, primates, etc

[C19: via New Latin from Latin mamma breast]

mammalian adj, n

ˈmammal-ˌlike adj

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mam•mal

(ˈmæm əl)

n.

any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Mammalia, characterized by a covering of hair on some or most of the body, a four-chambered heart, and nourishment of the newborn with milk from maternal mammary glands.

[1820–30; as singular of New Latin Mammalia, neuter pl. of Late Latin mammālis of the breast. See mamma², -al¹]

mam·mal

(măm′əl)

Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals whose young feed on milk that is produced by the mother's mammary glands. Unlike other vertebrates, mammals have a diaphragm that separates the heart and lungs from the other internal organs, red blood cells that lack a nucleus, and usually hair or fur. All mammals but the monotremes bear live young. Dogs, mice, whales, and humans are mammals.

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mammal

amniocentesis, amnion - Amniocentesis is formed by amnion, the innermost membrane enclosing a fetus, and Greek kentesis, "pricking."
endoskeleton - Contained entirely within the body of an animal, like that of mammals.
pelage - The fur, hair, wool, etc. of a mammal.
rhinarium - The hairless, habitually moist nose of some mammals, such as the antelope.

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Noun

mammal - 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

mammalian

craniate, vertebrate - animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

Amniota - higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development

amnion, amnios, amniotic sac - thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)

chorion - the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)

allantois - the vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut in many embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)

class Mammalia, Mammalia - warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female

female mammal - animals that nourish their young with milk

tusker - any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar)

prototherian - primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea

metatherian - primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas

eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

pelage, coat - growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal

fossorial mammal - a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging

pilus, hair - any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"

biauriculate heart - a heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles

mount, ride - copulate with; "The bull was riding the cow"

digitigrade - (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)

plantigrade - (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do)

estrous - (of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus; in heat; "the estrous state"; "the estrous cycle"

anestrous - (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat; "an anestrous bitch"

weaned - freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk; "the just-weaned calf bawled for its mother"

mammal

see anteaters and other edentates, bats, carnivores, cattle and other artiodactyls, horses, rhinos and other perissodactyls, marsupials, monkeys, apes and other primates, rabbits and hares, rodents, sea mammals, shrews and other insectovores, whales and dolphins

Proverbs
"The leopard does not change his spots"

Extinct mammals

apeman, aurochs, australopithecine, baluchitherium, chalicothere, creodont, dinoceras or uintathere, dinothere, dryopithecine, eohippus, glyptodont, Irish elk, labyrinthodont, mammoth, mastodon, megathere, nototherium, quagga, sabre-toothed tiger or cat, tarpan, titanothere

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Translations

ثَدِيِيّحَيَوان من الثَّدْيِيات

бозайник

savec

pattedyr

Säugetier

θηλαστικά θηλαστικό

mamulo

mamífero

imetaja

پستاندار

nisäkäs

mammifère

sisavac

emlõs

spendýrspendÿr

mammifero

哺乳動物

포유동물

žinduolisžinduolių

zīdītājs

mamifer

cicavec

sesalec

däggdjur

สัตว์เลี้ยงลูกด้วยนม

memelimemeli hayvan

ссавці

động vật có vú

哺乳动物

mammal

[ˈmæməl] N → mamífero m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

mammal

[ˈmæm^əl] n → mammifère m

mammal

n → Säugetier nt, → Säuger m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

mammal

[ˈmæm/əl] n → mammifero

mammal

(ˈmӕməl) noun

any member of the class of animals (including man) in which the females feed the young with their own milk. Monkeys are mammals.

mamˈmalian (-ˈmei-) adjective

mammal

→ ثَدِيِيّ savec pattedyr Säugetier θηλαστικό mamífero nisäkäs mammifère sisavac mammifero 哺乳動物 포유동물 zoogdier pattedyr ssak mamífero млекопитающее däggdjur สัตว์เลี้ยงลูกด้วยนม memeli động vật có vú 哺乳动物

mam·mal

n. animal mamífero.

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Now, unless the sandbank had been submitted to the intermittent eruption of a geyser, the Governor Higginson had to do neither more nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour.

In these simultaneous observations they thought themselves justified in estimating the minimum length of the mammal at more than three hundred and fifty feet, as the Shannon and Helvetia were of smaller dimensions than it, though they measured three hundred feet over all.

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The highest type of man and one other animal, the only mammal existing on Mars, alone have well-formed nails, and there are absolutely no hoofed animals in existence there.

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When we bear in mind that Britain has now hardly one peculiar mammal, and France but few distinct from those of Germany and conversely, and so with Hungary, Spain, &c., but that each of these kingdoms possesses several peculiar breeds of cattle, sheep, &c., we must admit that many domestic breeds have originated in Europe; for whence could they have been derived, as these several countries do not possess a number of peculiar species as distinct parent-stocks?

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Cabbage palm and gray plum, pisang and scitamine they found in abundance, with wild pineapple, and occasionally small mammals, birds, eggs, reptiles, and insects.

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For Big-Tooth also had an other-self, and when he slept that other-self dreamed back into the past, back to the winged reptiles and the clash and the onset of dragons, and beyond that to the scurrying, rodent-like life of the tiny mammals, and far remoter still, to the shore-slime of the primeval sea.

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This brought the lecturer to the great ladder of animal life, beginning low down in molluscs and feeble sea creatures, then up rung by rung through reptiles and fishes, till at last we came to a kangaroo-rat, a creature which brought forth its young alive, the direct ancestor of all mammals, and presumably, therefore, of everyone in the audience.

Creatures which were supposed to be Jurassic, monsters who would hunt down and devour our largest and fiercest mammals, still exist."

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women.

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In this leathern band were stuck feathers, flowers, or the tails of small mammals. All wore necklaces of the teeth or claws of wild beasts, and there were numerous metal wristlets and anklets among them.

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To further help mammals, last month the Department for Transport announced the launch of a new mammal road sign, featuring a hedgehog, which will soon be on the side of Britain's roads.

Roadkill plea to drivers to help animals in need

Mammal surveys coordinator David Wembridge said: "Mammals on Roads began over 18 years ago and though no-one likes seeing road kill, recording such sightings every year tells us how wild mammals are faring in the surrounding landscape.