mammal

Other forms of mammal

plural

mammals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mammal

What does mammal mean?

mammal means "any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk".

How many syllables are in mammal?

mammal has 2 syllables: mam-mal. The stress falls on "mam". In IPA it is /ˈmæməl/.

What is another word for mammal?

Close synonyms include mammalian. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mammal a common word?

mammal is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.