MAMMALIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mammalia mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• 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 ("Mammalia" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "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 ("Mammalia" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

Mammalia, Reptilia, Gastropoda, Insecta, etc that contains a large number of different sublineages, but have shared characteristics in common (e.g. warm-blooded, fur, six legs etc).

(Class, NCI Thesaurus)