mammalia
English Thesaurus
1. warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | class, |
| definition | : | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders (noun.group) |
| member holonym | : | young mammal, |
| definition | : | any immature mammal (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | mammal, mammalian, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | pantotheria, subclass pantotheria, |
| definition | : | generalized extinct mammals widespread during the Jurassic; commonly conceded to be ancestral to marsupial and placental mammals (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | ungulata, |
| definition | : | in 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) (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | unguiculata, |
| definition | : | in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising mammals with nails or claws; distinguished from hoofed mammals and cetaceans (noun.animal) |
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