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单词 mammiferous
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mammiferousadj.

Brit. /maˈmɪf(ə)rəs/, U.S. /mæˈmɪf(ə)rəs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: mamma n., -iferous comb. form.
Etymology: < mamma n. + -iferous comb. form, after French mammifère mammifer n. (only attested 1803 as adjective in French; quot. 1802 at sense 1 translates a use of the corresponding French noun).
1. (Chiefly in scientific use.) = mammalian adj. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > mammals > [adjective]
mammiferous1802
mammalian1813
mammalial1835
mammal1840
mammaliferous1874
1802 W. Ross tr. G. Cuvier Lect. Compar. Anat. I. i. 68 The mammiferous animals are viviparous, and nourish their young with milk.
1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 495 The..larger mammiferous animals.
1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 59 None of the associated mammiferous remains belong to species which now exist.
1841 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 132 116 The ‘zona pellucida’ in the mammiferous ovum.
1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 150 A more exact resemblance to the mammiferous tail.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species ix. 289 In regard to mammiferous remains..[etc.].
2. Geology. = mammaliferous adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.
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1837 Rep. 5th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1836 85 The author..proceeds to discuss the relation which this mammiferous stratum bears to the two tertiary deposits of the adjoining county.
1837 E. Charlesworth in Rep. 5th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1836 85 Mammiferous crag of Norfolk and Suffolk, hitherto confounded with red crag, containing about 80 species of shells: proportion of extinct species undecided.
3. Zoology. Of a part of the body: bearing the mammae; (also, of a mammal) bearing mammae. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [adjective] > having
breasted1571
mammeated1656
mammillary1792
busted1838
mammate1857
mammilliferous1857
mammiferous1869
mammulose1889
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. viii. 114 Beasts, quadrupedal, mammiferous, Do credit to their beasthood.
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 422 The marsupium..encloses the mammiferous region of the abdomen.
4. [By confusion with mammiform adj.] Breast-shaped.
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1922 F. P. Grove in R. Brown & D. Bennett Anthol. Canad. Lit. in Eng. (1982) I. 267 My eye saw nothing except a mammiferous waste, cruelly white, glittering in the heatless, chuckling sun.
1992 N.Y. Times 7 July c15/1 A silver slab punctuated by two sharply tipped, mammiferous bulbs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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