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Definition: Mammalia |
MammaliaNoun1. Warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Mammalia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references) |
Etymology: Mammalia \Mam*ma"li*a\, plural noun. [New Latin expression, from the Latin expression mammalis. See Mammal.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Satire | MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: MammaliaSynonym: class Mammalia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Mammalia |
| English words defined with "Mammalia": Bimana ♦ Cheiroptera, class Mammalia ♦ Deciduata, Didelphia ♦ Gyrencephala ♦ Herbivora ♦ Implacentalia ♦ Lyencephala ♦ mammalian, Mammifer, Mammiferous, Mastology, Monodelphia ♦ Pilifera, Placentalia ♦ Taxeopoda, Tillodontia, Toxodonta ♦ Unguiculata, Ungulata ♦ Zonaria. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Mammalia": aardvaarks ♦ hunter kill ♦ monotremes ♦ re-introducing, restocking ♦ sportsman toll ♦ to bag ♦ wildlife reserve. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mammalia" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (Mammals). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mammalia, order 1, primates ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Mammalia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Mammalia" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Mammalia": class Mammalia. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mammalia | 37 |
class mammalia | 18 |
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| Language | Translations for "Mammalia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjitar (mammal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | млекопитаещи, бозайници. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | emlõsök. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ammaliamay mamífero (mammal). (various references) млекопитающие. (various references) sisari. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "Mammalia": mammalian, mammalians. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Mammalia" (pronounced 'Mam*ma"li*a'): Abdominalia, Acholia, Alalia, Antlia, Aurelia, Bacchanalia, Cerealia, Coelia, Dahlia, Generalia, Grindelia, Hydrocorallia, Implacentalia, Larvalia, Linguatulida, lobelia, Lupercalia, magnolia, Marginalia, melancholia, Nebalia, Neuroglia, Paraphernalia, Penetralia, Physalia, Prosocoelia, Pseudocoelia, Quinquennalia, replica, Rosalia, Saturnalia, stapelia, Tetractinellida, Thulia. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-l-m-m-m" | |
-2 letters: mammal. | |
-3 letters: lamia, mamma. | |
-4 letters: alma, amia, imam, lama, lima, mail, maim, malm, mama. | |
-5 letters: aal, ail, aim, ala, ama, ami, lam, mil, mim. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-l-m-m-m" | |
+1 letter: mammalian. | |
+2 letters: mammalians. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6D 6D 61 6C 69 61 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -- -- .- .-.. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101101 01101101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a m m a l i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006D 006D 0061 006C 0069 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767797967787567 |
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