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mammal
noun as in animal
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The term “gestation,” for instance, is derived from the Latin verb gestāre, used to describe a mammal carrying a burden.
A flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, from an infected little mammal—usually a rat—can hop from the dying rat onto a human and bite it.
Fernandez-Duque discovered that owl monkeys are the only reliably monogamous mammal species.
If you like mammal species from the suborder Vermilingua (meaning "worm tongue")...
Nicaragua: Nicaragua boasts not one, but two species of everyone's favorite armored mammal, the armadillo.
No insect—so far as I can remember—has a thick neck; nor has any mammal or bird a thin one, like the wasp, bee, or fly.
Without it a mammal will perish in less than three minutes; hence there is no need of the body so urgent as that of oxygen.
The bat's secret appears to be that he is not the bird-mammal, but the mammal-insect: economy of tissue, hibernation.
Once more the ever-hungry little mammal claimed the spoils of victory.
Then Quawteaht a second time gave strength and down the mammal plunged dragging with him the second Thunder Bird.
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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mammal, such as: beast, creature, and vertebrate.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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