Associations to the word «Mammal»

Wiktionary

MAMMAL, noun. An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.
MAMMAL, noun. (paleontology) A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.

Dictionary definition

MAMMAL, 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.

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