mammiferous

[ ma-mif-er-uhs ]

adjective

1. having mammae; mamma; mammalian.

mammiferous

/ mæˈmɪfərəs /

adjective

1. having breasts or mammae

Word History and Origins

Origin of mammiferous¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; mamm(a) ² + -i- + -ferous

Example Sentences

Sexual desire manifests itself in the human female to a greater degree at these periods, and in the female of mammiferous animals at no other time.

From Project Gutenberg

This actually occurs with respect to one of the preceding examples, "Man is a mammiferous animal having two hands," which is the scientific definition of man, considered as one of the species in Cuvier's distribution of the animal kingdom.

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On the fifth day, the inhabitants of the waters, then flying things, then great reptiles, and then mammiferous animals, were created.

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We know, as geologists, that the dynasty of the fish was succeeded by that of the reptile; that the dynasty of the reptile was succeeded by that of the mammiferous quadruped; and that the dynasty of the mammiferous quadruped was succeeded by that of man, as man now exists—a creature of a mixed character, and subject, in all conditions, to wide alternations of enjoyment and suffering.

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Then the reptiles began to appear in abundance, with tortoises and enormous birds of a low organization, but no mammiferous animal is found, until we reach the oölite; and scarcely any till we rise to the tertiary strata, when they became abundant; but not so numerous as at present, though for the most part of larger size.

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