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Mammal vs Mesonychian - What's the difference?

mammal | mesonychian |

As nouns the difference between mammal and mesonychian

is that mammal is an animal of the class mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young while mesonychian is any of several extinct carnivorous mammals of the order mesonychia .

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 (-)

    mesonychian

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several extinct carnivorous mammals of the order Mesonychia