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Definition of Mammalian
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Craniate, Vertebrate
Examples of category: Amniota, Amnion, Amnios, Amniotic Sac, Chorion, Allantois, Biauriculate Heart, Mount, Ride, Digitigrade, Plantigrade, Estrous, Anestrous, Weaned
Group relationships: Class Mammalia, Mammalia
Specialized synonyms: Female Mammal, Tusker, Prototherian, Metatherian, Eutherian, Eutherian Mammal, Placental, Placental Mammal, Fossorial Mammal
Terms within: Coat, Pelage, Hair, Pilus
2. Adjective. Of or relating to the class Mammalia.
Definition of Mammalian
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.
Definition of Mammalian
1. Adjective. Of, or pertaining to, mammals. ¹
2. Adjective. Like a mammal. ¹
3. Noun. Any mammal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mammalian
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mammalian
Literary usage of Mammalian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"In this communication I record a number of observations on the hearts of mammalian
embryos, the mammals used being rats, dogs and rabbits. ..."
2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1897)
"... series of studies on the action of certain poisons on the mammalian heart which
... on the mammalian circulation has been hitherto examined only by the ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"With this object a large number of experiments have been performed upon excised
mammalian nerve. The nerves after removal were placed upon a number of ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Among the Marsupialia the Tasmania n devil (Sarcophilus) gives a very good idea
of a generalized mammalian brain, and shows a large development of the parts ..."
5. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"In this study, we tested this hypothesis in mammalian cells using the electric
ray D. ... The o-rab3 protein shares significant homology to the mammalian ..."
6. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1880)
"I. THE TERTIARY, OR mammalian AGE. Of the TERTIARY age, all the mammalian species
are extinct ; and the proportion of living Invertebrates — Radiates, ..."
7. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1875)
"I. THE TERTIARY, OR mammalian AGE. Of the TERTIARY age, all the mammalian species
are extinct ; and the proportion of living Invertebrates — Radiates, ..."
8. Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a by George John Romanes, Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1892)
"But, by comparing all mammalian limbs together, it is easy to obtain a generalized
type of mammalian limb, ..."
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