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" (50 found)
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Noun(3 words)
Adjective(9 words)
mammal classmammal groupmammal likemammal relatedmammalian anatomymammalian formmammalian morphologymammalian skeletonmammalian structure
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5 entriesmammalian brainmammalian dentitionmammalian skeletonmammalian skullmammalian teeth
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6 entriesmammalian anatomymammalian biologymammalian brainmammalian dentitionmammalian evolutionmammalian physiology
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2 entriesmore mammalianmost mammalian
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“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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