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Mammalian

noun

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. Synonym: mammal.

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"Mammalian" Quotes from Famous Books

... unknown natural forces, however, might have made no more of us than of non-mammalian and less ...

— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England

... matter, which is even more surprising than those to which I have yet referred. There is a limestone formation near Oxford, at a place called Stonesfield, which has yielded the remains of certain very interesting mammalian animals, and up to this time, if I recollect rightly, there have been found seven specimens of its lower jaws, and not a bit of anything else, neither limb-bones nor skull, or any part whatever; not a fragment of the whole system! Of course, it would be preposterous to imagine that the beasts ...

— The Past Condition of Organic Nature • Thomas H. Huxley

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