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Synonyms for mammalian


Grammar : Adj
Spell : muh-mey-lee-uh n, -meyl-yuh n
Phonetic Transcription : məˈmeɪ li ən, -ˈmeɪl yən

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Définition of mammalian

Origin :
  • 1813, from mammal + -ian. As a noun, from 1835.
  • As in animal : adj beastlike; carnal
Example sentences :
  • And we have seen the sudden increase of mammalian life in Tertiary times.
  • Extract from : « The Prehistoric World » by E. A. Allen
  • Mammalian bones are also plentifully distributed in the Danish kitchen-middens.
  • Extract from : « Primitive Man » by Louis Figuier
  • No other mammalian baby is so much of a baby and yet comes so near to being no baby at all.
  • Extract from : « Winter » by Dallas Lore Sharp
  • No associated implements or remains of mammalian skeletons are recorded.
  • Extract from : « Prehistoric Man » by W. L. H. Duckworth
  • He also considers that the mammalian scaphoid represents a centrale.
  • Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds
  • About the middle of the mammalian series it begins to be convoluted.
  • Extract from : « Evolution » by Joseph Le Conte
  • Nor have we any record of the mammalian life in this 'ancient loess' of Europe.
  • Extract from : « Men of the Old Stone Age » by Henry Fairfield Osborn
  • I have adopted his attitudes, but have not ventured to give them mammalian ears.
  • Extract from : « Omphalos » by Philip Henry Gosse
  • But from what is known, other mammalian characters can be pointed out.
  • Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
  • Instinctively, the mammalian mother feeds, warms and defends her young.
  • Extract from : « Psychology » by Robert S. Woodworth

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