mammal
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- noun
- /ˈmæməl/
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mamífero
- Humans belong to the class of animals known as mammals, characterized by fur and milk production.
- marine mammals
- large mammals
- small mammals
I asked it what's the fastest land mammal, and it told me.
- I asked it what's the fastest land mammal, and it told me.
- Look at just about any mammal and you find the same pattern.
- It's just that they tend to be present in both mammals and reptiles.
- But these new mammals could invent a new behavior.
- So, so, so mammals have very few births per litter.
- There are no native mammals to New Zealand other than marine mammals.
Examples
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Each contains three or four different small mammals: rats, guinea pigs, small lab mice, hamsters, and rabbits.
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The beaver is a mammal which has always been of interest to man.
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One of the essential needs of all mammals is play.
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And yet they gave rise to all the mammals on Earth, including us.
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Name as many mammals as you can in 60 seconds.
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No, this was the first mammal cloned from cells of an adult mammal.
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And they were all mammals, arguably the easiest life forms to identify.
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But although they were small, these mammals were triumphant.
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And so human beings and all mammals really love salt and crave salt.
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While on the talus, we saw a pika, or cony, a small mammal related to rabbits.
Academic text (2011)
Compounds
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A warm-blooded animal that has a placenta to feed its unborn young
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A mammal with hooves and an even number of toes, like deer, pigs or camels
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A mammal that lives underground and uses strong front legs to dig, like a mole
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A furry animal like a rabbit or hare with long ears and strong hind legs
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A large extinct ground sloth from South America that lived during the Ice Age
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A meat-eating mammal like a weasel or otter with a long slender body
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A mammal with hooves and an odd number of toes, like a horse or rhino
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A mammal that walks with the whole bottom of its foot on the ground
How Complex
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mammal comes from the Latin word mamma, meaning 'breast' or 'udder', and is the same root behind mammary and the familiar 'mama' sound. So, a mammal is an animal whose females make milk to feed their young.