mammalian
English Thesaurus
1. 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)
| hypernym | : | craniate, vertebrate, |
| definition | : | animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | female mammal, |
| definition | : | animals that nourish their young with milk (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | tusker, |
| definition | : | any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar) (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | prototherian, |
| definition | : | primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | metatherian, |
| definition | : | primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | fossorial mammal, |
| definition | : | a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | coat, pelage, |
| definition | : | growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | hair, pilus, |
| definition | : | any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal (noun.body) |
| member meronym | : | class mammalia, mammalia, |
| definition | : | warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female (noun.animal) |
| domain member category | : | amniota, |
| definition | : | higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development (noun.animal) |
| domain member category | : | amnion, amnios, amniotic sac, |
| definition | : | thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) (noun.animal) |
| domain member category | : | chorion, |
| definition | : | the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) (noun.animal) |
| domain member category | : | allantois, |
| definition | : | the vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut in many embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) (noun.animal) |
| domain member category | : | biauriculate heart, |
| definition | : | a heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles (noun.body) |
| domain member category | : | mount, ride, |
| definition | : | copulate with (verb.contact) |
| domain member category | : | digitigrade, |
| definition | : | (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) (adj.all) |
| domain member category | : | plantigrade, |
| definition | : | (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) (adj.all) |
| domain member category | : | estrous, |
| definition | : | (of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus; in heat (adj.all) |
| domain member category | : | anestrous, |
| definition | : | (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat (adj.all) |
| domain member category | : | weaned, |
| definition | : | freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | mammalian, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the class Mammalia (adj.pert) |
2. of or relating to the class Mammalia (adj.pert)
| pertainym | : | class mammalia, mammalia, |
| definition | : | warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | 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) |
3. 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)
| derivation | : | mammalian, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the class Mammalia (adj.pert) |
4. of or relating to the class Mammalia (adj.pert)
| pertainym | : | class mammalia, mammalia, |
| definition | : | warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | 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) |
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