Definitions for mammal

mammal mam·mal

Spelling: [mam-uh l]
IPA: /ˈmæm əl/

Mammal is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in mammal (aalmmm).

Definitions for mammal

noun

  1. any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young.

Origin of mammal

1820-30; as singular of New Latin Mammalia neuter plural of Late Latin mammālis of the breast. See mamma2, -al1

Examples for mammal

The boy screamed a deep guttural scream that did not seem to belong to any mammal I knew of.

If you like mammal species from the suborder Vermilingua (meaning "worm tongue")...

It has thus the power of grasping a tree which no other mammal possesses.

Inside the body of the mammal this is impossible, because the air is too far away.

But along with whales, their mammal cousins, dolphins may face more danger over the long term below the surface of the sea.

The term “gestation,” for instance, is derived from the Latin verb gestāre, used to describe a mammal carrying a burden.

So the allantois of the reptile has become the placenta of the mammal.

Also its bones were not those of a mammal, but the cartilagenous bones of a fish.

That bolt, which would have shocked a mammal into insensibility, only slowed the Throg.

They differ at least as much from the parent as any one mammal from another.

Word Value for mammal
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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