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Definition of: Mammalia
(ma·mā′lē·ə) noun plural
A class of vertebrates whose females have milk–secreting mammae to nourish their young, including man, all warm–blooded quadrupeds, seals, cetaceans, and sirenians. [<NL <LL mammalis of the breast <L mamma breast]
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