mammalia

Noun
  1. Warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female (synset 101864106)
    is a type of: class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
    member holonym:
    • 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
    belongs to: craniata, subphylum craniata, subphylum vertebrata, vertebrata - fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals
    same as: class mammalia

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