class Mammalia

Thesaurus

Noun

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class Mammalia - warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the femaleMammaliayoung mammal - any immature mammalCraniata, subphylum Craniata, subphylum Vertebrata, Vertebrata - fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammalsmammal, mammalian - 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 milkPrototheria, subclass Prototheria - echidnas; platypusPantotheria, subclass Pantotheria - generalized extinct mammals widespread during the Jurassic; commonly conceded to be ancestral to marsupial and placental mammalsMetatheria, subclass Metatheria - pouched animalsEutheria, subclass Eutheria - all mammals except monotremes and marsupialsUngulata - 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)Unguiculata - in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising mammals with nails or claws; distinguished from hoofed mammals and cetaceansclass - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders