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Definition of mammal noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

mammal

noun
 
/ˈmæml/
 
/ˈmæml/
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  1. any animal that gives birth to live young, not eggs, and feeds its young on milk. Cows, humans and whales are all mammals.
    • deaths among marine mammals
    Topics Animalsb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • large
    • small
    • higher
    • …
    mammal + noun
    • species
    • population
    preposition
    • among mammals
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    Word Originearly 19th cent.: anglicized form (first used in the plural) of modern Latin mammalia, neuter plural of Latin mammalis (adjective), from mamma ‘breast’.
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