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 D. A. Compton
She was a mother because she was mammiferous.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
The creative fiat went forth, and the mammiferous animals,—cattle and beasts of the earth,—came into existence.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
On the fifth day, the inhabitants of the waters, then flying things, then great reptiles, and then mammiferous animals, were created.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
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 Sir Francis Darwin
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