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mammalian

[ UK /mæmˈe‍ɪli‍ən/ ]
[ US /məˈmeɪɫiən, məˈmeɪɫjən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to the class Mammalia
NOUN
  1. 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

How To Use mammalian In A Sentence

  • This indicates a level of plasma membrane invagination comparable with mammalian skeletal muscle.
  • The ‘hammer’ and ‘anvil’ bones of the mammalian ear are descendants of these nubbins.
  • Experts agree that hippos belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed creatures whose extant representatives include camels, pigs and ruminants such as cows.
  • This company's workhorse is lemna, also known as duckweed-a tiny, aquatic clonal plant that doubles its biomass every 36 hours-and is skilled at making proteins that mammalian cells struggle, and often fail, to produce. News from The Scientist
  • On the mainland they fall prey to both mammalian and avian predators.
  • I would like to digress at this point, to describe another use for allopruinol which materialized about 10 years later, because it typifies the kind of chemotherapeutic selectivity which can be achieved with purine analogs as the result of differences in the specificties of parasitic and mammalian enzymes. Nobel Lecture The Purine Path To Chemotherapy
  • As indicators of insect and mammalian resistance we conducted bioassays to measure the performance of a geometrid moth, Epirrita autumnata, and counted the amount of resin droplets on the shoot of the saplings, respectively.
  • To conclude, obtaining more data for mammalian groups has given the major gain in understanding eutherian evolution.
  • Our analysis of 1170 mammalian karyotypes provides strong evidence that karyotypic evolution is driven by nonrandom segregation during female meiosis.
  • The mammalian chorioallantoic placenta synthesizes, transports, and metabolizes a suite of steroid and peptide hormones PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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