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Relating to the class of warm blooded animals that feed their young milk and have hair or fur.

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Usage examples (35)
  • The fictional creature had many mammalian characteristics.
  • Prions are propagated in mammalian brains and not in cell culture used to make vaccines.
  • National Institutes of Health to test the feasilibity of gene targeting in mammalian cells.
  • I'd been following developments in mammalian cloning since Dolly, the sheep, was cloned in 1999.
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