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What is the difference between mammal and dassie?

mammal | dassie |

As nouns the difference between mammal and dassie

is that mammal is an animal of the class mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young while dassie is a small, herbivorous mammal in the order hyracoidea the rock hyrax.

mammal

English

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Noun

(en noun)
  • An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.
  • (paleontology) A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * mammalian * mammality * mammalogy

    Related terms

    * mammarial * mammary (-)

    dassie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, herbivorous mammal in the order Hyracoidea . The rock hyrax.
  • * The dassie is the closest living relative to the elephant.

    • Synonyms

    * hyrax

    Related terms

    * dassiepis

    Anagrams

    * South African English