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

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   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: mammalian, mammiferous, mammalian, mammiferous