Meanings
nounmammaldom (uncountable)
- rareuncountableThe condition of being a mammal.
But why, in all mammaldom, would a jackrabbit need a spring-loaded belly?
2009, Christopher McDougall, Born to Run, page 2142 more examples
The whole of this vast mammaldom which so dwarfs us is itself no more than a tenth of the entirety of the vertebrates (the backboned animals).
1951, Alan Devoe, This Fascinating Animal World, page 4At the museum, visitors are reminded that mammaldom did not confer any major advantages on its earliest practitioners.
2007 February 20, Natalie Angier, “A Mammal in Winter With a Furnace of Her Own”, in New York Times
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