Library / English Dictionary

YOUNG MAMMAL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any immature mammal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("young mammal" is a kind of...):

offspring; young (any immature animal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "young mammal"):

baby (a very young mammal)

pup; whelp (young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf)

wolf cub; wolf pup (a young wolf)

cub; young carnivore (the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion)

kit (young of any of various fur-bearing animals)

suckling (a young mammal that has not been weaned)

calf (young of domestic cattle)

calf (young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo)

kitten; kitty (young domestic cat)

foal (a young horse)

piggy; piglet; shoat; shote (a young pig)

heifer (young cow)

bullock (young bull)

lamb (young sheep)

fawn (a young deer)

Holonyms ("young mammal" is a member of...):

class Mammalia; Mammalia (warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female)

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