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mammalian, a. and n.|mæˈmeɪlɪən|
[f. Mammalia + -an.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to the Mammalia.
1851D. Wilson Archæol. & Preh. Ann. Scotl. i. i. 22 Extensive discoveries of mammalian remains. 1855W. S. Dallas in Syst. Nat. Hist. II. 375 Most of the bones in the Mammalian skeleton are solid. 1880Haughton Phys. Geog. iii. 81 The lower forms of Mammalian life.
B. n. One of the Mammalia.
1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Animals II. xxiv. 515 The bears, the foxes, and other Mammalians. 1865Farrar Chapt. Lang. 15 The action is as instinctive to them as sucking is to every infant mammalian. |