mammalian

1. Of or relating to the class Mammalia (synset 302843157)

1. 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 cranium
   subtypes:

   • 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 female
   has:

   • coat, pelage - growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal
   • hair, pilus - any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
   same as: mammal

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