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FEMALE MAMMAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Animals that nourish their young with milk
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("female mammal" is a kind of...):
female (an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa))
mammal; mammalian (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)
Meronyms (parts of "female mammal"):
dug (an udder or breast or teat)
mamma; mammary gland (milk-secreting organ of female mammals)