mammalian

mam·mal

M0068100 (măm′əl)n. 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.

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

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mam·ma′li·an (mă-mā′lē-ən) adj. & n.

mam•ma•li•an

(məˈmeɪ li ən, -ˈmeɪl yən)

n. 1. an animal of the class Mammalia; mammal. adj. 2. belonging or pertaining to the class Mammalia; characteristic of mammals. [1825–35] mam•mal•i•ty (məˈmæl ɪ ti) n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	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 milkmammalcraniate, vertebrate - animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or craniumAmniota - higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during developmentamnion, 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 femalefemale mammal - animals that nourish their young with milktusker - any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar)prototherian - primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guineametatherian - primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americaseutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupialspelage, coat - growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animalfossorial mammal - a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for diggingpilus, 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 auriclesmount, 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"
Adj.	1.	mammalian - of or relating to the class Mammalia

Translations

哺乳动物的

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. 哺乳動物 哺乳动物mamˈmalian (-ˈmei-) adjective 哺乳動物的 哺乳动物的