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Synonyms for mammal


Grammar : Noun
Spell : mam-uh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmæm əl



Définition of mammal

Origin :
  • 1826, anglicized form of Modern Latin Mammalia (1773), coined 1758 by Linnaeus for the class of mammals, from neuter plural of Late Latin mammalis "of the breast," from Latin mamma "breast," perhaps cognate with mamma.
  • noun animal
Example sentences :
  • Also its bones were not those of a mammal, but the cartilagenous bones of a fish.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
  • Inside the body of the mammal this is impossible, because the air is too far away.
  • Extract from : « The Meaning of Evolution » by Samuel Christian Schmucker
  • So the allantois of the reptile has become the placenta of the mammal.
  • Extract from : « The Meaning of Evolution » by Samuel Christian Schmucker
  • That bolt, which would have shocked a mammal into insensibility, only slowed the Throg.
  • Extract from : « Storm Over Warlock » by Andre Norton
  • It has thus the power of grasping a tree which no other mammal possesses.
  • Extract from : « The Western World » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • They differ at least as much from the parent as any one mammal from another.
  • Extract from : « More Letters of Charles Darwin » by Charles Darwin
  • Well, Master 'Sunbeam,' in what class will you place this mammal?
  • Extract from : « Adventures of a Young Naturalist » by Lucien Biart
  • And then we have still the amphibian, the lizard, and the bird or mammal, up to man.
  • Extract from : « Socialism: Positive and Negative » by Robert Rives La Monte
  • Society—as yet, at least—is not an organism in the sense that a tree or a mammal is.
  • Extract from : « Socialism: Positive and Negative » by Robert Rives La Monte
  • Mahmoud obtained a fox, which was his first mammal, saving a bushy-tailed rat.
  • Extract from : « Southern Arabia » by Theodore Bent

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