mammiferous

American  

[ma-mif-er-uhs] / mæˈmɪf ər əs /

adjective

1. having mammae; mammalian.

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mammiferous British  

/ mæˈmɪfərəs /

adjective

1. having breasts or mammae

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Etymology

Origin of mammiferous

First recorded in 1795–1805; mamm(a) ² + -i- + -ferous

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Example Sentences

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mammiferous

So far as I'm aware," replied Edwin smiling, "philosophers have just as warm red blood as other mammiferous animals.

From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse

In the mammiferous class our influence is chiefly displayed in increasing the number of quadrupeds which are serviceable to us, and in exterminating or reducing the number of those which are noxious.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell

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

The several species of that gigantic genus of birds, the Deinornis seem here to have replaced mammiferous quadrupeds, in the same manner as the reptiles still do at the Galapagos archipelago.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

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

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