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MAMMALIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female
Synonyms:
class Mammalia; Mammalia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Mammalia" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "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 ("Mammalia" is a member of...):
Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)
