Mammal - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Mammal :  (noun)

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

Based on WordNet 2.0

Mammal : \Mam"mal\, n.; pl. Mammals. [L. mammalis belonging to the breast, fr. mamma the breast or pap: cf. F. mammal.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the Mammalia.

Age of mammals. See under Age, n., 8.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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