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Definition of Mammifers
1. mammifer [n] - See also: mammifer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mammifers
Literary usage of Mammifers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America by Charles Darwin (1897)
"THE Pampean formation is highly interesting from its vast extent, its disputed
origin, and from the number of extinct gigantic mammifers embedded in it. ..."
2. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1851)
"In comparing the wild mammifers which inhabit separate countries we are enabled
to draw inferences with greater certainty from the facts which present ..."
3. A Theory of Creation by Francis Bowen (1845)
"sters, huge lizards and other reptiles, with an imperfect apparatus of respiration,
began to breathe an atmosphere not yet fitted for birds and mammifers. ..."
4. Charles Darwin's Works by Charles Darwin (1896)
"... hones and infusoria of; P. Alia, shells, bond and infusoria of; co-existence
of the recent s/telli and extinct mammifers— ..."
5. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1835)
"The cerebellum is large, almost without lateral lobes, and formed principally uy
the vermiform process. Several parts found in the brain of mammifers are ..."
6. Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review (1862)
"But what genus of mammifers is met with, all at once and originally, ... Of two
hundred genera of mammifers there are one hundred and sixty which have their ..."