| has gloss | (noun) mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
eutherian, placental mammal, eutherian mammal, placental |
| lexicalization | eng: eutherian mammal |
| lexicalization | eng: eutherian |
| lexicalization | eng: placental mammal |
| lexicalization | eng: placental |
| subclass of | (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, mammal |
| has subclass | (noun) any animals kept for use or profit
stock, livestock, farm animal |
| has subclass | (noun) mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
bull |
| has subclass | (noun) mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'
cow |
| has subclass | (noun) an animal in its second year
yearling |
| has subclass | (noun) mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
buck |
| has subclass | (noun) mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'
doe |
| has subclass | (noun) small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals
insectivore |
| has subclass | (noun) whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals
aquatic mammal |
| has subclass | (noun) a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; "terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb"
carnivore |
| has subclass | (noun) in some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora
Fissipedia |
| has subclass | (noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
aardvark, Orycteropus afer, anteater, ant bear |
| has subclass | (noun) nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
bat, chiropteran |
| has subclass | (noun) relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing
lagomorph, gnawing mammal |
| has subclass | (noun) relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing
gnawer, rodent |
| has subclass | (noun) in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals; now divided into the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
Ungulata |
| has subclass | (noun) any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically
ungulate, hoofed mammal |
| has subclass | (noun) in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising mammals with nails or claws; distinguished from hoofed mammals and cetaceans
Unguiculata |
| has subclass | (noun) a mammal having nails or claws
unguiculate mammal, unguiculate |
| has subclass | (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
coney, hyrax, das, cony, dassie |
| has subclass | (noun) any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus
pachyderm |
| has subclass | (noun) primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America
edentate |
| has subclass | (noun) toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
scaly anteater, pangolin, anteater |
| has subclass | (noun) any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
primate |
| has subclass | (noun) insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout
tree shrew |
| has subclass | (noun) arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps
flying cat, colugo, flying lemur |
| has subclass | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk
proboscidean, proboscidian |
| has subclass | (noun) an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings
plantigrade mammal, plantigrade |
| has subclass | (noun) an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses
digitigrade mammal, digitigrade |