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    CLASS MAMMALIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the femaleplay

    Synonyms:

    class Mammalia; Mammalia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("class Mammalia" is a kind of...):

    class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

    Meronyms (members of "class Mammalia"):

    young mammal (any immature mammal)

    mammal; mammalian (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)

    Prototheria; subclass Prototheria (echidnas; platypus)

    Pantotheria; subclass Pantotheria (generalized extinct mammals widespread during the Jurassic; commonly conceded to be ancestral to marsupial and placental mammals)

    Metatheria; subclass Metatheria (pouched animals)

    Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

    Ungulata (in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals; now divided into the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates))

    Unguiculata (in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising mammals with nails or claws; distinguished from hoofed mammals and cetaceans)

    Holonyms ("class Mammalia" is a member of...):

    Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)

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