Definition of mammalia Mammalia
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What does mammalia mean?
WordNet
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| mammalia - warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female | ||
| class Mammalia | ||
| class elegance in dress or behavior; "she has a lot of class" | ||
| craniata, subphylum craniata, subphylum vertebrata, vertebrata fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals | ||
| young mammal any immature mammal | ||
| mammal, 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 | ||
| prototheria, subclass prototheria echidnas; platypus | ||
| pantotheria, subclass pantotheria generalized extinct mammals widespread during the Jurassic; commonly conceded to be ancestral to marsupial and placental mammals | ||
| metatheria, subclass metatheria pouched animals | ||
| eutheria, subclass eutheria all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | ||
| ungulata in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals; now divided into the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates) | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- mammalia (n. pl.)
The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother.
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