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Definition of Mammalian

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the class Mammalia.

2. 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.

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

mamma mia mamma virilis mammae mammal mammal-like reptile mammal-like reptiles mammal Semnopithecus mammal family mammal genus mammaldom

mammalgia mammalia mammaliaform mammaliaforms mammalial mammalian (current term) mammalian expression vector mammalians mammaliferous mammalities

mammality mammallike mammalogical mammalogies mammalogist mammalogists mammalogy mammaloid mammaloids mammals

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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