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# mammal

noun (a mammal, mammals)

«mammal» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A mammal is an animal that has hair or fur, breathes air and feeds its babies with milk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mammal/#m1)
2. Most mammals give birth to live babies instead of laying eggs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mammal/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons on animal classification, mammals are warm-blooded vertebrates (animals with backbones): dogs, cats, cows, mice, whales, dolphins, bats and humans. Whales and dolphins live in water but are mammals; bats fly but are mammals. A few mammals, the platypus and echidna of Australia, lay eggs. Phrases: sea mammal, marine mammal, the largest mammal.

### Examples

- Dogs, horses and people are all mammals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mammal/#x1)
- A whale is a mammal, not a fish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mammal/#x2)
- Mammals feed their babies with milk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mammal/#x3)
- The blue whale is the largest mammal ever. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mammal/#x4)
- Bats are the only mammals that can fly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mammal/#x5)
- The platypus is a mammal that lays eggs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mammal/#x6)
- Mammals have hair or fur. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mammal/#x7)
- A kangaroo is a mammal that carries its baby in a pouch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mammal/#x8)

### Note

Countable: a mammal, mammals. Spell with double m: mammal. Traps: whales, dolphins and seals are mammals, not fish; bats are mammals, not birds; penguins are birds, not mammals.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mammal» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mammal/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mammal» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mammal.html) on Mova free.