mammal
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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 (synset 101864419)associated with:- amniota - higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development
- amnion, amnios, amniotic sac - thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)
- chorion - the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)
- allantois - the vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut in many embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)
- biauriculate heart - a heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles
- mount, ride - copulate with
- digitigrade - (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)
- plantigrade - (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do)
- estrous - (of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus; in heat
- anestrous - (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat
- weaned - freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk
is a type of: craniate, vertebrate - animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or craniumsubtypes:- female mammal - animals that nourish their young with milk
- tusker - any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar)
- prototherian - primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea
- metatherian - primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas
- eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
- fossorial mammal - a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging
belongs to: class mammalia, mammalia - warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the femalehas:same as: mammalian
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