mammiferous
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of mammiferous
Example Sentences
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The order of mammiferous animals to which apes belong.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
She was a mother because she was mammiferous.
From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
There are, also, extensive LOW tracts of country covered with a deposit containing mammiferous remains, precisely like that just described in the more eastern parts of the province.
From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles
The sea-wolf or loup marin of Champlain is the marine mammiferous quadruped of the family Phocidae, known as the seal.
From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)
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.
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