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The meaning of MAMMAL is any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans.
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any animal in which the female gives birth to babies, not eggs, and feeds them on milk from her own body.
MAMMAL meaning: 1. any animal of which the female feeds her young on milk from her own body. Most mammals give…. Learn more.
mammal. / ˈmæməl; mæˈmeɪlɪən / noun. any animal of the Mammalia, a large class of warm-blooded vertebrates having mammary glands in the female, a thoracic diaphragm, and a four-chambered heart. The class includes the whales, carnivores, rodents, bats, primates, etc.
Mammals are animals such as dogs and humans that give birth to babies rather than laying eggs, and feed their young with milk. American English : mammal / ˈmæməl / Arabic : ثَدِيِيّ
Every one is a mammal — a hairy, warm-blooded, milk-drinking vertebrate, just like you. All mammals are part of the scientific class mammalian, which got its name from the mammary glands used to nourish mammal babies.
definition: any of the vertebrate animals that feed their babies with milk from the female mammary glands and usu. produce live young, as opposed to laying eggs. Although whales resemble fish, they are in fact mammals.