Mammalian

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.
  • noun. An animal of the class Mammalia; a mammal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of, or pertaining to, mammals.
  • adjective. Like a mammal.
  • noun. Any mammal.
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  • noun. any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk
  • adjective. of or relating to the class Mammalia
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    "So, I guess, especially after Vicki Lundblad did her work, which I think was really the first experimental work showing that telomere maintenance was essential for avoiding senescence and therefore all of the other things that would follow from that, it became obvious that a lot of people were going to come into this field and move it forward in mammalian systems and explore the linkage to aging and cancer."
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