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Noun: mammal  ma-mul
  1. 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