| 单词 | mammalian |
| 释义 | mammalian (once / 13356 pages) adjn WORD FAMILY mammalian: mammalians+/mammal: mammalian, mammals USAGE EXAMPLESMany of their mammalian class members, in the meantime, have since been featured in three-dimensional reconstructions of their habitats. Washington Times(Nov 27, 2016) Nevertheless, I still declined to venture under the whale to check out its mammalian navel, which the app also steers you to. New York Times(Nov 21, 2016) But birds don’t have a mammalian brain or use a larynx to make sounds. Nature(Nov 17, 2016) 1adj of or relating to the class Mammalia 2n 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 Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper mammal Lucy incomplete skeleton of female found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974 Sir Bartonthoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1919 Gallant Foxthoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1930 Omahathoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1935 War Admiralthoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1937 Whirlawaythoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1941 Count Fleetthoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1943 Assaultthoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946 Citationthoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1948 Secretariatthoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1973 Seattle Slewthoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1977 Affirmedthoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1978 female mammal animals that nourish their young with milk tuskerany mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar) prototherianprimitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea metatherianprimitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammalmammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials fossorial mammala burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging egg-laying mammal, monotremethe most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria marsupial, pouched mammalmammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried farm animal, livestock, stockany animals kept for use or profit bullmature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle cowmature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull' yearlingan animal in its second year buckmature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope) doemature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck' insectivoresmall insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals aquatic mammalwhales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals carnivorea terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal Fissipediain some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora Orycteropus afer, aardvark, ant bear, anteaternocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata bat, chiropterannocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate gnawing mammal, lagomorphrelative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing gnawer, rodentrelatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing naked mole ratfetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites Damaraland mole ratcolonial mole rat of western Africa; similar to naked mole rat Ungulatain 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) hoofed mammal, ungulateany of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically Unguiculatain former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising mammals with nails or claws; distinguished from hoofed mammals and cetaceans unguiculate, unguiculate mammala mammal having nails or claws coney, cony, das, dassie, hyraxany of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes pachydermany of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus edentateprimitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America anteater, pangolin, scaly anteatertoothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites primateany placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet tree shrewinsectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout colugo, flying cat, flying lemurarboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps proboscidean, proboscidianmassive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk plantigrade, plantigrade mammalan animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings digitigrade, digitigrade mammalan animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses craniate, vertebrate animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium |
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