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n. - Warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by milk glands in the female.

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  • Grasps the nutrient organ whence the term mammalia,
  • A, A1 and A2 are all members of the superset "mammalia", A being the ancestor of A1 and A2.
  • Indeed any one of the three is more like to the other two than to any other kind of mammalia; although some naturalists prefer considering the giraffe as a species of deer.
  • Last and greatest of the mammalia are the whales.
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