CLASS MAMMALIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does class Mammalia mean? 

• CLASS MAMMALIA (noun)
  The noun CLASS MAMMALIA has 1 sense:

1. warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female

  Familiarity information: CLASS MAMMALIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLASS MAMMALIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

class Mammalia; Mammalia

Hypernyms ("class Mammalia" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "class Mammalia"):

young mammal (any immature mammal)

mammal; 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 milk)

Prototheria; subclass Prototheria (echidnas; platypus)

Pantotheria; subclass Pantotheria (generalized extinct mammals widespread during the Jurassic; commonly conceded to be ancestral to marsupial and placental mammals)

Metatheria; subclass Metatheria (pouched animals)

Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Ungulata (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 cetaceans)

Holonyms ("class Mammalia" is a member of...):

Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)

 Context examples 

The branch of science concerned with the means and consequences of transmission and generation of the components of biological inheritance in animals of the class Mammalia.

(Mammalian Genetics, NCI Thesaurus)

A cell originating from or isolated from an animal of class Mammalia.

(Mammalian Cell, NCI Thesaurus)