mammal : Idioms & Phrases

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Age of mammals

  • noun approximately the last 63 million years
    Cenozoic; Cenozoic era.
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  • . See under Age, n., 8.
Webster 1913

aquatic mammal

  • noun whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals
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artiodactyl mammal

  • noun placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot
    artiodactyl; even-toed ungulate.
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cetacean mammal

  • noun large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals
    cetacean; blower.
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digitigrade mammal

  • noun an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses
    digitigrade.
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egg-laying mammal

  • noun the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria
    monotreme.
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eutherian mammal

  • noun mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
    eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental.
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female mammal

  • noun animals that nourish their young with milk
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fissiped mammal

  • noun terrestrial carnivores; having toes separated to the base: dogs; cats; bears; badgers; raccoons
    fissiped.
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fossorial mammal

  • noun a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging
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gnawing mammal

  • noun relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing
    lagomorph.
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hoofed mammal

  • noun any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically
    ungulate.
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leporid mammal

  • noun rabbits and hares
    leporid.
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mammal family

  • noun a family of mammals
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mammal genus

  • noun a genus of mammals
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mammal semnopithecus

  • noun langurs
    Presbytes; genus Presbytes.
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megatherian mammal

  • noun a large extinct ground sloth
    megatheriid; megatherian.
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musteline mammal

  • noun fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals
    musteline; mustelid.
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perissodactyl mammal

  • noun placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot
    perissodactyl; odd-toed ungulate.
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pinniped mammal

  • noun aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers
    pinnatiped; pinniped.
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placental mammal

  • noun mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
    eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental.
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plantigrade mammal

  • noun an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings
    plantigrade.
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pouched mammal

  • noun mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried
    marsupial.
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sirenian mammal

  • noun any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs
    sirenian; sea cow.
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unguiculate mammal

  • noun a mammal having nails or claws
    unguiculate.
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viverrine mammal

  • noun small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World
    viverrine.
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young mammal

  • noun any immature mammal
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