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mammallike

mammallike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a mammal.

Adjective

mammallike (comparative more mammallike, superlative most mammallike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mammal.
    • Also common were squat, mammallike traversodonts.1993 May 28, Harold Henderson, “The Descent of Dinosaurs”, in Chicago Reader
    • Birds[…] lack a crocodilelike or mammallike thoracic-abdominal subdivision of the visceral cavity (Fig. 2 C).1997 November 14, John A. Ruben et al., “Lung Structure and Ventilation in Theropod Dinosaurs and Early Birds”, in Science, volume 278, number 5341, →DOI, pages 1267–1270

Synonyms of mammallike

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Forms of mammallike

comparativemore mammallike
superlativemost mammallike

Origin of mammallike

From mammal + -like.

Questions about mammallike

What does mammallike mean?
Mammallike means resembling or characteristic of a mammal.
What part of speech is mammallike?
Mammallike is an adjective.

Words near mammallike in the dictionary

  1. mammaliform
  2. mammaliforms
  3. mammalingus
  4. mammality
  5. mammalkind
  6. mammallike
  7. mammalness
  8. mammalogical
  9. mammalogies
  10. mammalogist
  11. mammalogists

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