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# mammal

«mammal» in Mova's school dictionary: **an animal that has hair or fur, breathes air and feeds…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a mammal, mammals)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mammal is an animal that has hair or fur, breathes air and feeds its babies with milk. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mammal/#m2)

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

### In the corpora

- [Whales are mammals: they breathe air, are warm-blooded, give birth to live young and feed them milk.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/6/)
- [The vaquita, a porpoise in Mexico, is the rarest sea mammal; around ten were reported in recent surveys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/12/)
- [New Zealand had no ground-hunting mammals before people came, so birds like the kiwi and kakapo did not need to fly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/10/)
- [Snakes are cold-blooded, so they need far less food than mammals; a big python can go months without a meal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/4/)
- [Red foxes live on more continents than any other wild meat-eating mammal, and many live in cities such as London.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mammal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mammal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.