Grasps the nutrient organ whence the term mammalia. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 06: Poems from the Breakfast Table Series] Reference
A, A1 and A2 are all members of the superset "mammalia", A being the ancestor of A1 and A2. From Wordnik.com. [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference
Last and greatest of the mammalia are the whales. From Wordnik.com. [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference
Also the first appearance of mammalia does not show transitions. From Wordnik.com. [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference
The lower mammalia exhibit a simpler order of "mentality" denoted. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
I exclaimed, swallowing my ration of mammalia in one astonished gulp. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917] Reference
As for men, they would have existed only in treatises on the mammalia. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
All salmon are fish, for neither salmon nor fish belong to the class mammalia. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Only after them do the higher orders of mammalia appear; and last of all organisms, man. From Wordnik.com. [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference
We have heretofore mentioned the possibility of the appearance of the mammalia before the bird. From Wordnik.com. [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference
He is equally at home among the birds, the insects and the reptiles, the fishes or the mammalia. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
Monkeys, as a whole, form a very isolated group, having no near relations to any other mammalia. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
Nor whether or not his rants against mammalia ursidae cost my beloved Golden Bears of UC Berkeley. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Thill: Roll Call Slams The Colbert Report. Bears Win.] Reference
Primates are eutheria, or true mammalia possessing a placental attachment of the young within the parent. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
Of the indigenous mammalia, the only one now left of any size, which is common, is the Cervus campestris. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
New Zealand has no indigenous mammalia, but in their place great cursorial birds with but rudimentary wings. From Wordnik.com. [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference
The average of mammalia is 1 to 186; of birds, 1 to 212; of reptiles, 1 to 1,321; and of fishes, 1 to 5,668. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
So far the examples have been taken from one order of the highest class of backboned animals, called mammalia. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
It belonged to the southern group of mammalia; and, as the winters became cold, it probably migrated each fall. From Wordnik.com. [The Tree-Dwellers] Reference
Indeed, in mental respects, the chimpanzee surpasses all of the other mammalia, with the sole exception of man. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
In mammalia and birds the distinction is marked by genera, families, and even orders confined to one region; in. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
The embryos of wildcats and dogs, rabbits and rats, pigs, deer, and sheep, and of all other mammalia, possess similar structures. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
South America is the home of a peculiar order of mammalia -- of the edentata, to which belong the sloth, the armadillo, and the like. From Wordnik.com. [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference
From reptiles we advance to birds, and thence to mammalia, which are commenced by marsupialia, acknowledgedly low forms in their class. From Wordnik.com. [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference
The first traces of mammalia to be found in the Upper Keuper formation, and in the Jura, belong to the order of opossums or marsupialia. From Wordnik.com. [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference
We must pass with only brief mention the lower orders of mammalia, like the insect-eating forms to which armadillos and ant-bears belong. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
Among the millions of organic forms, from corals up to mammalia of the London and Paris basins, hardly a single secondary species is found. From Wordnik.com. [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference
The other name for breasts is mammary gland (in Latin, mamma -- breast), and all animals who suckle their young are called mammals or mammalia. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
Himalo-Chinese fauna, a rapid immigration of new types took place, and many of the less specialised forms of mammalia and birds became extinct. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria] Reference
A noticeable departure from the rule obtaining in the vascular system of mammalia also occurs to the exposed situation of the femoral artery in man. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884] Reference
They may be lizards, or small birds, or very young mammalia, so complete is the similarity in the mode of formation of the head and trunk in these animals. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
In man and the mammalia the costal arches hold relation with the pulmonary organs, and these costae fail at that region where the ventral organs are located. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The fossil deer of North America, as well as many other even-toed members of the group of mammalia possessing hoofs, provide the same kind of conclusive evidence. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
It is surprising to find how insignificant are the details to which appeal must be made in order to draw a line between our own division of mammalia and the others. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
The cranium, or brain-case of bone, is relatively larger than the "face," and it bulges upward so as to lie no longer behind the latter as it does in the lower mammalia. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
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