Mammaldom

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being a mammal. rare, uncountable

    "The whole of this vast mammaldom which so dwarfs us is itself no more than a tenth of the entirety of the vertebrates (the backboned animals)."

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"The whole of this vast mammaldom which so dwarfs us is itself no more than a tenth of the entirety of the vertebrates (the backboned animals)."

Etymology

From mammal + -dom.

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