Noun: mammal ma-mul
- 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 milk
"Humans are mammals, as evidenced by our hair and ability to produce milk";
- mammalian
Derived forms: mammals
Type of: craniate, vertebrate
Part of: class Mammalia, Mammalia
Encyclopedia: Mammal