FEMALE MAMMAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does female mammal mean? 

• FEMALE MAMMAL (noun)
  The noun FEMALE MAMMAL has 1 sense:

1. animals that nourish their young with milk

  Familiarity information: FEMALE MAMMAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEMALE MAMMAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Animals that nourish their young with milk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("female mammal" is a kind of...):

female (an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa))

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)

Meronyms (parts of "female mammal"):

dug (an udder or breast or teat)

mamma; mammary gland (milk-secreting organ of female mammals)