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any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young.

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Origin:
1820–30; as singular of Neo-Latin Mammalia neuter plural of Late Latin mammālis of the breast. See mamma², -al¹

Related forms

mam·mal·like, adjective

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There is no other species of mammal in which the male contributes so much to rearing successful offspring.

They began by finding a molecule that would carry a novel amino acid to a mammal cell's protein factories.

They were one of several different mammal lineages that emerged around that time.

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There is no other species of mammal in which the male contributes so much to rearing successful offspring.

They began by finding a molecule that would carry a novel amino acid to a mammal cell's protein factories.

They were one of several different mammal lineages that emerged around that time.

Play the game and see if you can identify the mammal shown here.

Perhaps a multicuberculate-a variety of small mammal that became extinct many millions of years ago-dug out such a hole.

Disease can drive a mammal species to extinction: this doesn't seem surprising, but until today it hadn't been proven.

They are a little more than reptile but not quite a bird and not quite a mammal.

Other species of mammal prune plants too-albeit as a side-effect of eating them.

Australian dinosaurs may have been its neighbors, but a new mammal has an even more outlandish claim to fame.

In fact, each mammal group appears to have its own unique brain structure.

Watch underwater footage of the mammal and hear its strange clicking sounds that are crucial to their survival.

The types of samples range from mammal blood to bird liver to whale skin.

The reason for this convoluted procedure is that adult mammal cells are set in their ways.

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossil remains of an ancient, chipmunk-size mammal with enormous forearms.

Suggesting that this is not a human phenom but a mammal one.

Complete skeletons are exceptionally rare, and the few scraps of tiny mammal bones are often found in isolation.

When the nine-banded species of this mammal breeds it bears monozygotic quadruplets.

Until now, the last mammal family to be discovered was that of the bumblebee bat-the world's smallest known mammal.

And that¿s one of the things that have changed through evolution in a number of mammal groups.

Camels can go without water longer than any other mammal by storing water in its bloodstream.

If there was a federal mammal cloning program, nobody would object to restricting human cloning on moral grounds.

The pronghorn is the second fastest land mammal in the world, after the cheetah.

The mammal is said to be the size of a rat, though not itself a rodent.

Much of the bird and mammal collection is available online for researchers.

And thus for keeping those bones from winding up in the mouth of a hungry mammal.

Telltale features of the tooth identify it as that of a marsupial mammal.

There is not one kind of bird, one kind of fish, one kind of animal or one kind of mammal.

Scientists have discovered a unique long-whiskered rodent representing a previously unknown mammal family.

There is a bird way and a mammal way to create intelligence, he said.

They're the skater-set of the backyard mammal world.

Grey whales undertake one of the longest migrations of any mammal on earth.

Experts estimate that one-eighth of all bird species, one-fifth of mammal species and one-third of amphibian species are at risk.

They may have heated the mammal bones before crushing them, to enhance the extraction of the marrow fat.

The find could alter ideas about early mammal evolution.

Now hear this: early mammal fossil shows how sensitive ear bones evolved.

New brain tissue usually arrives when a display animal somewhere dies, or a beached marine mammal dies.

Paleontologists brave wildfires, parasites and scorching temperatures in search of ancient mammal fossils.

Whether you're trying to save a mammal as big as a rhino or something small, first of all there has to be political will.

Ants' muscles are not unlike those of a mammal in many ways.

The first global camera-trap mammal study has imaged apes, jaguars, and other mammals-including a seemingly camera-shy poacher.

Army say they've developed the first man-made spider silk, made from mammal cell cultures of a cow.

Vanishing habitat and the decline of the cats' large mammal prey are also contributing factors.

In related news, scientists recently reported that one in four mammal species are threatened with extinction.

In fact, the indigenous badgerlike mammal is often considered to be a.

Arizona were prospecting around an ancient limestone fissure when they discovered a cache of ancient mammal bones.

Researchers and wildlife managers were caught off-guard by the outbreak, which is unprecedented in known mammal history.

But their ascension was hardly a foregone conclusion: no other mammal has conquered the air.

In fact summer heat might be a disadvantage for a large hairy mammal as that.

No true flesh-eating land mammal has weighed over a tonne.

Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not.

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World English Dictionary

mammal (ˈmæməl)

—n
	any animal of the Mammalia, a large class of warm-blooded vertebrates having mammary glands in the female, a thoracic diaphragm, and a four-chambered heart. The class includes the whales, carnivores, rodents, bats, primates, etc

[C19: via New Latin from Latin mamma breast]

mammalian

—*adj*, —n

'mammal-like

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

mammal

1826, Anglicized form of Mod.L. Mammalia (1773), coined 1758 by Linnaeus for the class of mammals, from neut. pl. of L.L. mammalis "of the breast," from L. mamma "breast," perhaps cognate with mamma.

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Science Dictionary

mammal (mām'əl) Pronunciation Key
Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, whose young feed on milk that is produced by the mother's mammary glands. Unlike other vertebrates, mammals have a diaphragm that separates the heart and lungs from the other internal organs, red blood cells that lack a nucleus, and usually hair or fur. All mammals but the monotremes bear live young. Mammals include rodents, cats, dogs, ungulates, cetaceans, and apes.

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