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Meanings of mammalia in English

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

Usage of mammalia in English
1
The mammalia have this kind of an eye; the Indian the same.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
2
We know more about the feathered tribes than the mammalia of Mexico.
The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
3
I concluded definitely that it belonged to the vertebrate branch, class mammalia.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
4
Can we lift the mammalia up into the high estate of motherhood?
The Precipice: A Novel
5
I claim to be of the class, mammalia; order, primates; genus, homo!
The Prairie
6
No progress has yet been made at Mundesley in discovering the contemporary mammalia.
The Antiquity of Man
7
This seems to be a reminiscence of the destruction of the great mammalia.
Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel
8
As for men, they would have existed only in treatises on the mammalia.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 / A Mag...
9
And the babe die of pap as they talk of mammalia.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12,...
10
All the mammalia as well as shells are of recent species.
The Antiquity of Man
11
The other species of mammalia are generally hotter than human beings.
The Field of Ice / Part II of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras
12
It was sympathetic help, such as man only among the higher mammalia shows.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua
13
The marsupial animals are placed by some zoologists in the lowest class of mammalia.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
14
Thus, the mammalia breathe by lungs; the fishes, by gills.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
15
Taking them in the usual order of mammalia, we have three kinds truly carnivorous.
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found: A Book of Zoology for...
16
The porcupine, he might say, is of the class mammalia, and the order glires.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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