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Mammal vs Mammaldom - What's the difference?

mammal | mammaldom |

As nouns the difference between mammal and mammaldom

is that mammal is an animal of the class mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young while mammaldom is (rare) the condition of being a mammal.

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 (-)

    mammaldom

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) The condition of being a mammal.
  • *1951 , Alan Devoe, This Fascinating Animal World , page 4:
    • The whole of this vast mammaldom which so dwarfs us is itself no more than a tenth of the entirety of the vertebrates (the backboned animals).
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 20, author=Natalie Angier, title=A Mammal in Winter With a Furnace of Her Own, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=At the museum, visitors are reminded that mammaldom did not confer any major advantages on its earliest practitioners. }}
  • *2009 , Christopher McDougall, Born to Run , page 214:
    • But why, in all mammaldom , would a jackrabbit need a spring-loaded belly?

    Related terms

    *reptiledom