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mammaldom

noun

Etymology

From mammal + -dom.

Definitions

  1. The condition of being a mammal.

    • 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).
    • At the museum, visitors are reminded that mammaldom did not confer any major advantages on its earliest practitioners.
    • But why, in all mammaldom, would a jackrabbit need a spring-loaded belly?

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA