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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mammal
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
marine mammals
▪ the effects of oil pollution on marine mammals
the higher animals/mammals/organisms etc (=animals etc that are more intelligent or advanced than others)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
female
▪ In general, all female mammals are cyclic, but only some are seasonal.
▪ Only a small proportion of the millions of eggs with which a female mammal is born mature and are released at ovulation.
high
▪ Certainly, it plays a more important role in higher mammals than in lower ones.
▪ They are expanding their knowledge of brain circuitry and learning-related physiological changes in the brains of higher mammals.
large
▪ For the large mammals, clearing the mountainsides for planting was inevitably disastrous.
▪ What is the largest land mammal now living in California?
▪ While larger mammals can often adapt, many lovely birds, butterflies, moths and other insects can not.
▪ Those of some larger mammals, for example hares and lynx, fluctuate in longer cycles of 10-13 years.
▪ Numbers of large mammals, including elephants, will have fallen victim to booby traps and land-mines.
▪ In percentage terms the number of larger mammals, including primates, is very low.
▪ The effects of trampling by large mammals on pellets can be destructive, especially if the pellets are fresh or wet.
▪ Much obviously will have survived, but large mammals have probably been greatly reduced in number.
marine
▪ It had previously been thought that pollution posed the greatest threat to inshore marine mammals.
▪ The state of California includes among its natural endowments an unusual variety of valuable marine mammals.
▪ The Anisakidae are ascaridoids whose adults are parasitic in a wide rage of animals, including marine mammals and birds.
▪ An estimated 145, 000 of the marine mammals live off the California coast.
▪ Section 22 of the Act provided for the establishment of marine mammal sanctuaries.
▪ What happens to a large fish or a marine mammal when it dies?
▪ It covers fisheries, marine mammals and other resources within EEZs, providing for stocks that are shared by neighbouring states.
▪ But the powerful resonance of a marine mammal exhaling through its blowhole again reaches my ears.
other
▪ Poisoned wheat is put inside the holder which is designed to let in grey squirrels and exclude other small mammals.
▪ But they possess no vocal chords as man and other mammals do.
▪ Add in the E. coli living in other mammals and the number becomes even larger.
▪ A cross between man and other branches of mammals, that lived in the sea?
▪ Colugos differ in so many ways from other mammals that they thoroughly merit an order of their own.
▪ Like many other mammals, bats are also particularly well endowed with olfactory receivers and transmitters.
▪ This is known in other mammals including Ring-tailed Lemurs - also to be seen in the Walled Garden.
small
▪ It should be noted, however, that the sample tested is far smaller for mammals than for humans.
▪ What ever the bone type, however, Dodson found that very low water velocities were sufficient to move small mammal bones.
▪ They do not, however, collect bone, and they mostly gnaw larger pieces of bone rather than small mammal bone.
▪ This is probably a comparatively rare occurrence for small mammals, but it certainly does occur.
▪ Predation One of the major causes of mortality in small mammals is predation.
▪ Stages in the formation and modification of small mammal bone assemblages.
▪ Lagomorphs such as rabbits and hares are also included here as small mammals.
▪ More versatile hunters such as the Kestrel will take any small mammals, birds, reptiles or even beetles as they are available.
■ NOUN
fauna
▪ Equitability depends on two things, the original equitability of the small mammal fauna and the degree of predator selectivity.
▪ The Westbury sediments are middle Pleistocene in age with numerous small mammal faunas in different parts of the breccia sequences.
land
▪ Their most important protein sources are from the sea as land mammals are now in decline.
▪ What is the largest of all land mammals? 7.
▪ What is the largest land mammal now living in California?
sea
▪ Senators F. Sea mammals 7.
species
▪ The forests are home to 12 % of the world's mammal species and almost a fifth of bird species.
▪ More than 100 bird species and 35 mammal species have been identified at the park.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although humans may have the longest lifespan of any mammal, giant tortoises have the longest recorded lives among vertebrates.
▪ But not all mammals are as dependent upon their eyes as you.
▪ Coniferous forests, often hunting by day for mammals as large as squirrels and lemmings.
▪ In the older Secondary rocks there seemed to be no mammals at all, only bizarre reptiles.
▪ More than 100 bird species and 35 mammal species have been identified at the park.
▪ The whale then becomes a fine symbol for Melville because it is for him neither fish nor mammal.
▪ They are nocturnal and live on leaves, insects, small mammals and birds.
▪ While larger mammals can often adapt, many lovely birds, butterflies, moths and other insects can not.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mammal

Mammal \Mam"mal\, n.; pl. Mammals. [L. mammalis belonging to the breast, fr. mamma the breast or pap: cf. F. mammal.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the Mammalia.

Age of mammals. See under Age, n., 8.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mammal

1826, anglicized form of Modern Latin Mammalia (1773), coined 1758 by Linnaeus for the class of mammals, from neuter Late Latin mammalis "of the breast," from Latin mamma "breast," perhaps cognate with mamma.

Wiktionary
mammal

n. 1 An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young. 2 (context paleontology English) A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.

WordNet
mammal

n. 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

Wikipedia
Mammal

Mammals ( class Mammalia from Latin mamma "breast") are a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles and birds by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones and mammary glands.

Mammals include the largest animals on the planet, the great whales, as well as some of the most intelligent, such as elephants, primates and cetaceans. The basic body type is a terrestrial quadruped, but some mammals are adapted for life at sea, in the air, in trees, underground or on two legs. The largest group of mammals, the placentals, have a placenta, which enables the feeding of the fetus during gestation.

Mammals range in size from the bumblebee bat to the blue whale. With the exception of the five species of monotreme (egg-laying mammals), all modern mammals give birth to live young. Most mammals, including the six most species-rich orders, belong to the placental group. The three largest orders in number of species are Rodentia: mice, rats, porcupines, beavers, capybaras and other gnawing mammals; Chiroptera: bats; and Soricomorpha: shrews, moles and solenodons. The next three biggest orders, depending on the biological classification scheme used, are the Primates including the great apes and monkeys; the Cetartiodactyla including whales and even-toed ungulates; and the Carnivora which includes cats, dogs, weasels, bears and seals.

The word " mammal" is modern, from the scientific name Mammalia, coined by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, derived from the Latin mamma ("teat, pap"). All female mammals nurse their young with milk, which is secreted from special glands, the mammary glands. According to Mammal Species of the World, 5,416 species were known in 2006. These were grouped in 1,229 genera, 153 families and 29 orders. In 2008 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) completed a five-year, 1,700-scientist Global Mammal Assessment for its IUCN Red List, which counted 5,488 species. In some classifications, extant mammals are divided into two subclasses: the Prototheria, that is, the order Monotremata; and the Theria, or the infraclasses Metatheria and Eutheria. The marsupials constitute the crown group of the Metatheria, and include all living metatherians as well as many extinct ones; the placentals are the crown group of the Eutheria. While mammal classification at the family level has been relatively stable, several contending classifications regarding the higher levels—subclass, infraclass and order, especially of the marsupials—appear in contemporaneous literature. Much of the changes reflect the advances of cladistic analysis and molecular genetics. Findings from molecular genetics, for example, have prompted adopting new groups, such as the Afrotheria, and abandoning traditional groups, such as the Insectivora.

The early synapsid mammalian ancestors were sphenacodont pelycosaurs, a group that produced the non-mammalian Dimetrodon. At the end of the Carboniferous period, this group diverged from the sauropsid line that led to today's reptiles and birds. The line following the stem group Sphenacodontia split-off several diverse groups of non-mammalian synapsids—sometimes referred to as mammal-like reptiles—before giving rise to the proto-mammals ( Therapsida) in the early Mesozoic era. The modern mammalian orders arose in the Paleogene and Neogene periods of the Cenozoic era, after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, and have been among the dominant terrestrial animal groups from 66 million years ago to the present.

Mammal (EP)

Mammal is the self-titled debut Extended play (EP), by Australian hard rock band, Mammal from 2006. The band sold the EP independently at their live shows and on their website until early 2007 when they signed with Metropolitan Groove Merchants (MGM) to distribute it independently. The original version (no longer in print) was replaced by the MGM version, released in March. The EP peaked into the top 20 of the AIR Charts.

Mammal (album)

Mammal is the second studio album by the Irish black metal band Altar of Plagues. It was released through Candlelight Records in Europe and Profound Lore Records in North America, each with different artwork.

Mammal (band)

Mammal were an Australian band that formed in March 2006. Mammal rose up the ranks of the Australian music scene very quickly. Their first self-titled EP was recorded soon after the band came together. Their debut live album "Vol:1 The Aural Underground" was recorded just 4 months after the band started touring at a sold out show at The Evelyn Hotel on 2 February 2007. Mammal also released a single titled "Slaves/Nagasaki in Flames" AA side, featuring 3 songs. Mammal entered the studio on 21 April 2008 to begin recording their debut studio album, The Majority which was released in August 2008. It peaked at No. 51 on the ARIA Albums Chart in early September. Some of the band's songs, including Hell Yeah!, New Breed Judas and Slaves, received regular airplay on Australian radio station Triple J.

Mammal (disambiguation)

A mammal is a member of a class of vertebrates.

Mammal, mammals or mammalia may also refer to:

  • Mammal (band), an Australian band
  • Mammal (film), a 2016 Irish film
  • The Mammals, an American folk rock band
  • Mammals (play), a play by Amelia Bullmore
  • "Mammal", a song by They Might Be Giants on the album Apollo 18
  • Mammal (EP), the debut EP by Mammal
  • Mammal (album), an album by Irish black metal band Altar of Plagues
  • Mammalia, the debut album by drum & bass band Comparative Anatomy
Mammal (film)

Mammal is a 2016 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Rebecca Daly. It was shown in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

Usage examples of "mammal".

That was also the year that John Philips identified the great sequence of geological formations, the Palaeozoic, the age of fishes and invertebrates, the Mesozoic, the age of reptiles, and the Cenozoic, the age of mammals.

For paleontologists, cynodonts are among the most fascinating of fossils because they provide the evolutionary link between reptiles and mammals.

Tritylodonts were highly specialized cynodonts with molar-like cheek teeth showing multiple roots as in mammals.

Implacental Mammals peculiar to America and Australia, such as Opossums, Dasyures, Wombats, and Kangaroos.

They will allow meaningful statements about dogs and cats, because they are organic as distinct from inorganic, mammals as distinct from marsupials, and, though frisky, have clearly defined boundaries which demark them from the whole world of non-dogs and non-cats.

The association of this phenomenon with dreaming in human beings is so clear that it is now generally accepted that all mammals and marsupials dream.

This implies the kind of prolonged activity seen in endothermic mammals and birds, rather than ectothermic lizards and turtles.

But that has not happened: mammals have remained evolutionarily committed to their characteristic reproductive strategy.

Evidently, there was nothing physiologically inevitable about human female menopause, and there was nothing evolutionarily inevitable about it from the perspective of mammals in general.

When the dinosaurs died, the mammals took over the planet, and some evolved into monkeys, then apes, then Stone Age people.

Perhaps, though, not inappropriate for the old gelada male and his fiery red chest, which suddenly flashed between the dark terrace bars - catching a bit of the blood-lit reflections coming out the Small Mammal House door.

From the top of the Late Pliocene Chapadmalalan layers, Ameghino extracted the femur of a toxodon, an extinct South American hoofed mammal, resembling a furry, short-legged, hornless rhinoceros.

Among them were little, horse-like creatures, no larger than a fox terrier, resembling the Hyracotherium of the Eocene, early progeniators of the horse, which but added to the amazing confusion of birds, mammals, and reptiles of various eras of the evolution of life on the outer crust.

We share the limbic system with the other mammals but not, in its full elaboration, with the reptiles.

A schematic representation of this picture of the human brain is shown opposite, and a comparison of the limbic system with the neocortex in three contemporary mammals is shown above.