By their appearance, dolphins might look like fish, but they actually belong to the mammalian family.
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Mammalian
//məˈmeɪl.jən//
Synonyms for "mammalian" (38 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (19)
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16 translations across 8 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 像哺乳動物一樣的 /像哺乳动物一样的 adj (like a mammal)
- 哺乳動物的 /哺乳动物的 adj (of, or pertaining to, mammals)
Czech
1 entries- savčí adj (of, or pertaining to, mammals)
Finnish
3 entries- nisäkkäiden adj (of, or pertaining to, mammals)
- nisäkäs adj (of, or pertaining to, mammals)
- nisäkäsmäinen adj (like a mammal)
French
1 entries- mammalien adj (of, or pertaining to, mammals)
Georgian
4 entries- ძუძუმწოვრებთან დაკავშირებული adj (of, or pertaining to, mammals)
- ძუძუმწოვრისებრი adj (of, or pertaining to, mammals)
- ძუძუმწოვრისებრი adj (like a mammal)
- ძუძუმწოვრული adj (of, or pertaining to, mammals)
Italian
1 entries- mammifero adj (of, or pertaining to, mammals)
Occitan
1 entries- mammalian adj (of, or pertaining to, mammals)
Russian
2 entries- как млекопита́ющее adj (like a mammal)
- относя́щийся к млекопита́ющим adj (of, or pertaining to, mammals)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
“You know, there were societies set up to deliberately introduce stuff so that the Europeans felt more at home. Australia just like New Zealand has suffered enormously as a result. Australia unfortunately has the worst record internationally for mammalian extinction, and that is largely to do with the activities of feral cats and feral foxes.”
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An article describing the discovery of the reptilian fossil with mammalian teeth is published this week in the journal Nature.
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The genetic evidence comes from an unusually well-preserved polar bear jawbone with a canine tooth still attached to it — a rare find because most polar bear carcasses are consumed by scavengers or sink to the sea bottom. The DNA mapped from the jawbone is the earliest mammalian genome ever sequenced.
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