placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal

mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

• livestock, stock, farm animal — not used technically; any animals kept for use or profit
• bull — mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
• cow — mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'
• yearling — an animal in its second year
• buck — mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
• doe — mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'
• insectivore — small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals
• aquatic mammal — whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals
• carnivore — terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb
• Fissipedia — in some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora
• aardvark, ant bear, anteater, Orycteropus afer — nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
• bat, chiropteran — nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
• lagomorph, gnawing mammal — relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing
• rodent, gnawer, gnawing animal — relatively small gnawing animals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing
• Ungulata — in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals; now divided into the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
• ungulate, hoofed mammal — any of a number of hoofed mammals superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically
• Unguiculata — in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising mammals with nails or claws; distinguished from hoofed mammals and cetaceans
• unguiculate, unguiculate mammal — a mammal having nails or claws
• hyrax, coney, cony, dassie, das — any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
• pachyderm — any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus
• edentate — primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central and South America
• pangolin, scaly anteater, anteater — toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
• primate — any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
• tree shrew — insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout
• flying lemur, flying cat, colugo — arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps
• proboscidean, proboscidian — massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk
• plantigrade mammal — an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings
• digitigrade mammal — an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses

• mammal — 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

• Eutheria, subclass Eutheria — all mammals except monotremes and marsupials