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Plural of mammal

regular plural

The plural of mammal is mammals.

Forms of mammal

Singularmammal /ˈmæməl/
Pluralmammals
Countablecountable

Mammals in a sentence

  • Hedgehogs and bears are two of the many mammals that hibernate in winter.From the entry hibernate
  • The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal.From the entry imply
  • The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries.From the entry contemporary
  • Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.From the entry cute
  • The echidna is a monotreme, which is the extremely small subset of oviparous mammals.From the entry oviparous

Meaning of mammal

  1. noun A vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having fur or hair and producing milk with which to feed their young.
  2. noun A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.

Full definition of mammal

Questions about the plural of mammal

What is the plural of mammal?
The plural of mammal is mammals.
Is mammal countable?
Mammal is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mammal (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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