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Definition of Class mammalia
1. Noun. Warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female.
Member holonyms: Young Mammal, Mammal, Mammalian, Prototheria, Subclass Prototheria, Pantotheria, Subclass Pantotheria, Metatheria, Subclass Metatheria, Eutheria, Subclass Eutheria, Ungulata, Unguiculata
Group relationships: Craniata, Subphylum Craniata, Subphylum Vertebrata, Vertebrata
Generic synonyms: Class
Literary usage of Class mammalia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"A SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF THE class mammalia. THE preceding supplemental essays
on the text of our author, like the text itself, by no means furnish even ..."
2. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"CHARACTERS AND PRIMARY GROUPS OF THE class mammalia. § 172. Class Characters.—Mammals
are outwardly distinguished by a covering of hair, entire or partial, ..."
3. Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits by William Benjamin Carpenter (1857)
"OF THE class mammalia. 71. THE class MAMMALIA is composed of Man, and of all the
animals which resemble him in the most important points of their ..."
4. A Text Book of Anatomy, and Guide in Dissections: For the Use of Students of by Washington R. Handy (1854)
"The class mammalia, with but few exceptions, have teeth; and, according to M.
Geoffroy, St. Hilaire, some animals which appeared to be ..."
5. Research in China by Eliot Blackwelder, Bailey Willis, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth (1907)
"class mammalia. Mammals are by no means common in most parts of northern China.
In the more densely populated portions of the empire the reasons for this ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"An animal of the class Mammalia.— Aerial mammals, the bats.—Age of mammals, the
Tertiary period in geology. ..."
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