mammiferous
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of mammiferous
Example Sentences
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The vesicle corresponds to the vesicle, or germinal spot, in the eggs of birds, and ovum of mammiferous animals.
From The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. by Compton, D. A.
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 should the great island of New Zealand be without one mammiferous quadruped except the mouse, and that was probably introduced with the aborigines?
From The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
S. Julian, elevation and plains of. —salt lake of. —earthy deposit with mammiferous remains. —tertiary formations of. —subsidence at.
From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles
She was a mother because she was mammiferous.
From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
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