mammalian

1. 1.

   of or relating to the class Mammalia

Other forms of mammalian

plural

mammalians·

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 mammalian

What does mammalian mean?

mammalian 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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mammalian?

mammalian has 4 syllables: mam-ma-li-an. The stress falls on "ma". In IPA it is /məˈmeɪliən/.

What is another word for mammalian?

Close synonyms include mammal. 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 mammalian a common word?

mammalian is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.