mammifero

Definitions of mammifero
  1. noun
    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
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    placentati
    mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
    bestiame, stalla
    any animals kept for use or profit
    mucca, scrofa, vacca
    mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'
    cervo
    mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'
    insettivoro
    small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals
    mammifero acquatico
    whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals
    carnivoro
    a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal
    oritteropo
    nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
    nottola, pipistrello
    nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
    ungulati
    any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically
    pachiderma
    any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus
    primate
    any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
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    notocordato, vertebrato
    animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
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