Associations to the word «Mammalian»

Wiktionary

MAMMALIAN, adjective. Of, or pertaining to, mammals.
MAMMALIAN, adjective. Like a mammal.
MAMMALIAN, noun. Any mammal.

Dictionary definition

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.
MAMMALIAN, adjective. Of or relating to the class Mammalia.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats