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mammiferous [ma-mif-er-uh s] ExamplesWord Origin adjective
- having mammae; mammalian.
Origin of mammiferous First recorded in 1795–1805; mamm(a)2 + -i- + -ferous Examples from the Web for mammiferous Historical Examples of mammiferous
It only remains for me to say something of the mammiferous fauna of North and South America.
Charles Lyell
But the remarkable fossils for which the Stonesfield slate is most celebrated, are those referred to the mammiferous class.
A Manual of Elementary Geology
Charles Lyell.
The creative fiat went forth, and the mammiferous animals,—cattle and beasts of the earth,—came into existence.
Hugh Miller
The vesicle corresponds to the vesicle, or germinal spot, in the eggs of birds, and ovum of mammiferous animals.
The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato; and How to Cook the Potato
D. H. Compton and Pierre Blot
In standard works on natural history the animals under consideration are classed as mammiferous Didelphæ.
Louis Figuier
British Dictionary definitions for mammiferous mammiferous adjective
- having breasts or mammae