eutherian mammal

/juˌθɪriən ˌmæməl/

Definitions of eutherian mammal

1. noun

   mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
   synonyms: eutherian, placental, placental mammal

   types:

   farm animal, livestock, stock

   any animals kept for use or profit

   bull

   mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle

   cow

   mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'

   yearling

   an animal in its second year

   buck

   mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)

   doe

   mature female of mammals of which the male is called 'buck'

   insectivore

   small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals

   aquatic mammal

   whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals

   carnivore

   a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal

   Fissipedia

   in some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora

   Orycteropus afer, aardvark, ant bear, anteater

   nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata

   bat, chiropteran

   nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate

   gnawing mammal, lagomorph

   relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing

   gnawer, rodent

   relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

   Ungulata

   in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals; now divided into the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)

   hoofed mammal, ungulate

   any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically

   Unguiculata

   in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising mammals with nails or claws; distinguished from hoofed mammals and cetaceans

   unguiculate, unguiculate mammal

   a mammal having nails or claws

   coney, cony, das, dassie, hyrax

   any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes

   pachyderm

   any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus

   edentate

   primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America

   anteater, pangolin, scaly anteater

   toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites

   primate

   any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet

   tree shrew

   insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout

   colugo, flying cat, flying lemur

   arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps

   proboscidean, proboscidian

   massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk

   plantigrade, plantigrade mammal

   an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings

   digitigrade, digitigrade mammal

   an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses

   mole

   small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet

   shrew, shrewmouse

   small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles

   Erinaceus europaeus, Erinaceus europeaeus, hedgehog

   small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines

   tendrac, tenrec

   small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar; resembles a hedgehog

   Potamogale velox, otter shrew, potamogale

   amphibious African insectivorous mammal that resembles an otter

   blower, cetacean, cetacean mammal

   a large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs and no hind limbs such as whales, dolphins, and porpoises

   sea cow, sirenian, sirenian mammal

   any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs

   pinnatiped, pinniped, pinniped mammal

   aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers

   fissiped, fissiped mammal

   terrestrial carnivores; having toes separated to the base: dogs; cats; bears; badgers; raccoons

   canid, canine

   any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles

   felid, feline

   any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws

   bear

   a massive carnivorous or omnivorous mammal with a long shaggy coat and strong claws

   viverrine, viverrine mammal

   small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World

   fruit bat, megabat

   large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit

   carnivorous bat, microbat

   typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects; worldwide in distribution

   Duplicidentata

   in former classifications considered a suborder of Rodentia coextensive with the order Lagomorpha: gnawing animals

   leporid, leporid mammal

   rabbits and hares

   coney, cony, mouse hare, pika, rock rabbit

   small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America

   mouse

   any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails

   rat

   any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse

   murine

   a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae

   water rat

   any of various amphibious rats

   New World mouse

   a variety of rodent

   Ondatra zibethica, muskrat, musquash

   beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur

   Florida water rat, Neofiber alleni, round-tailed muskrat

   of Florida wetlands

   Sigmodon hispidus, cotton rat

   destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America

   wood rat, wood-rat

   any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)

   hamster

   short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches

   gerbil, gerbille

   small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping

   lemming

   any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution

   hedgehog, porcupine

   relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur

   jumping mouse

   any of several primitive mouselike rodents with long hind legs and no cheek pouches; of woodlands of Eurasia and North America

   jerboa

   mouselike jumping rodent

   dormouse

   small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather

   squirrel

   a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail

   prairie dog, prairie marmot

   any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry

   marmot

   stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter

   beaver

   large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges

   Aplodontia rufa, mountain beaver, sewellel

   bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent

   cavy

   short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent

   Dolichotis patagonum, mara

   hare-like rodent of the pampas of Argentina

   Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, capibara, capybara

   pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent

   Dasyprocta aguti, agouti

   agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food

   Cuniculus paca, paca

   large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America; highly esteemed as food

   mountain paca

   rodent of mountains of western South America

   Myocastor coypus, coypu, nutria

   aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur

   Chinchilla laniger, chinchilla

   small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur

   mountain chinchilla, mountain viscacha

   a rodent native to the mountains of Chile and Peru and now bred in captivity

   Lagostomus maximus, chinchillon, viscacha

   gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas

   abrocome, chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla

   ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes

   mole rat

   furry short-limbed tailless rodent resembling a true mole in habits and appearance; of eastern Europe and Middle East

   mole rat

   African rodent resembling a mole in habits and appearance

   sand rat

   small nearly naked African mole rat of desert areas

   dinocerate

   an extinct ungulate

   Procavia capensis, rock hyrax, rock rabbit

   hyrax that lives in rocky areas

   odd-toed ungulate, perissodactyl, perissodactyl mammal

   placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot

   artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate

   placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot

   stag

   adult male deer

   mustelid, musteline, musteline mammal

   fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals

   armadillo

   burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates

   sloth, tree sloth

   any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits

   megatherian, megatherian mammal, megatheriid

   a large extinct ground sloth

   mylodontid

   a variety of extinct edentate

   mylodon

   large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America

   New World anteater, anteater

   any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites

   simian

   an ape or monkey

   ape

   any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all

   anthropoid

   any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids

   hominoid

   a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea

   hominid

   a primate of the family Hominidae

   monkey

   any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)

   pen-tail, pen-tailed tree shrew, pentail

   brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia

   prosimian

   primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits

   lemur

   large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails

   tarsier

   nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates

   Cynocephalus variegatus

   a variety of flying lemur

   elephant

   five-toed pachyderm

   mastodon, mastodont

   extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth

   procyonid

   plantigrade carnivorous mammals

   type of:

   mammal, mammalian

   any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk