mammiferous
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of mammiferous
Example Sentences
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Among these were four previously unknown species of mammiferous animals, forty-five of fishes, thirty of reptiles, besides rare kinds of molluscs, polypes, annelides, &c., &c.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by D'Anvers, N.
This formation is highly remarkable, from abounding with mammiferous remains, which have not as yet been examined by Professor Owen, but which include some large, but mostly small, species of Pachydermata, Edentata, and Rodentia.
From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles
Why, if they had been born in North America they would have known how to treat that mammiferous biped called man, and would have fled at the first glimpse of us.
From The Field of Ice Part II of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Verne, Jules
N. and S., mammiferous fauna of, 633.Ammonia in lavas, 550.Amonoosuck, flood in valley of, 209.Ampère,
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
South America; of their standing perfectly insulated, and exhibiting all the characters of a creation entirely distinct, and, except as to the general character of mammiferous quadrupeds, perfectly of its own kind.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832 by Various
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