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Shaped like a papilla; mammilliform.

A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister.

Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). See Musang.

An outer garment made of the skins of birds or mammals, worn by Eskimos, etc.

The covering, or coat, of a mammal, whether of wool, fur, or hair.

A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to Artiodactyla.

Same as Mammalia.

A suborder of aquatic carnivorous mammals including the seals and walruses; -- opposed to Fissipedia.

A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

A division of mammals including the apes and monkeys. Sometimes used in the sense of Primates.

rtaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal.

A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.

The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.

The firmament; the sky. [Poetic] Shoots against the dusky pole. Milton.

The condition of having more than two mammæ, or breasts.

A nocturnal mammal (Perodictius potto) of the Lemur family, found in West Africa. It has rudimentary forefingers. Called also aposoro, and bush dog.

A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones.

A pale green mineral occurring in crystalline aggregates having a botryoidal or mammillary structure, and rarely in distinct crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

ine substance; -- probably so called from the resemblance of the wartlike crystals to the mammillæ on the surface of prehnite.

The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.