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Meanings of class Mammalia in English

Warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female.

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        Examples for "Mammalia"
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        It is figured in Blanford's 'Mammalia of the Second Yarkand Mission.'
        Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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        A sketch of the deposits containing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata.
        Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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        The islands have perhaps no truly indigenous Mammalia but bats.
        The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 / The Land of the Orang-utan and...
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        RODENTS.-Thegnawing Mammalia, such as the rats, rabbits, and squirrels.
        The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
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        Sir W. Elliot Catalogue of Mammalia 'Madras Journal of Lit.
        The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume...
        Usage of class Mammalia in English
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        The class Mammalia is scientifically defined as "all animals which have a vertebrated skeleton and suckle their young."
        Science & Education: Essays
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        From this I finally concluded that it belonged to the branch Vertebrata, class Mammalia, subclass Monodelphia, group Pisciforma, order Cetacea, family .
        Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
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        I concluded definitely that it belonged to the vertebrate branch, class mammalia.
        Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
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        The porcupine, he might say, is of the class mammalia, and the order glires.
        Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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        All salmon are fish, for neither salmon nor fish belong to the class mammalia.
        Deductive Logic
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        ... Lyell's memory plays him false when he says all anatomists were astonished at Owen's paper ("On the Characters, etc., of the Class Mammalia."
        Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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        "Two genera," our scholarly Conseil hastened to say, "that belong to the family Pinnipedia, order Carnivora, group Unguiculata, subclass Monodelphia, class Mammalia, branch Vertebrata."
        Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...