Meanings
- pluralplural onlyMammiferous animals; mammalians; mammals.
Most mammifera exhale, in the rutting season, peculiar emanations serving to announce to the male the presence of the female, and excite in him the sexual desire.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 80
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