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mammiferous, a.|mæˈmɪfərəs|
[f. as prec. + -ous: see -ferous.]
1. = mammalian a.
1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 495 The..larger mammiferous animals. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 59 None of the associated mammiferous remains belong to species which now exist. 1850H. Miller Footpr. Creat. viii. (1874) 148 A more exact resemblance to the mammiferous tail. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. x. (1878) 271 Mammiferous remains.
2. Of a part of the body: Bearing the mammæ.
1878Bell tr. Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 422 The marsupium..encloses the mammiferous region of the abdomen. |