mammal
noun /ˈmæml/
/ˈmæml/
- any animal that gives birth to live young, not eggs, and feeds its young on milk. Cows, humans and whales are all mammals.
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Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- large
- small
- higher
- …
- species
- population
- among mammals
Word Originearly 19th cent.: anglicized form (first used in the plural) of modern Latin mammalia, neuter plural of Latin mammalis (adjective), from mamma ‘breast’.
