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Look up: mammal

  1. Mammal
    Mammals are hairy warm-blooded animals that nourish their young with milk. Mammals evolved during the Triassic period . People are mammals.
    Found on http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subject

  2. Mammal
    see 'mammalia'
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. Mammal
    An animal that has a backbone, breathe`s air, feeds its young with mother`s milk, and regulates its own body temperature.
    Found on http://www.wolfsource.org/?page_id=63

  4. mammal
    [n] - any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. mammal
    member of the highest class of Vertebrata comprising man and all the other animals that nourish their young with milk Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. Mammal
    Mam'mal noun ; plural Mammals . [ Latin mammalis belonging to the breast, from mamma the breast or pap: confer French mammal .] (Zoology) One of the Mammalia . Age of mammals . See under Age , noun , 8.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/14

  7. mammal
    <zoology> One of the Mammalia. Age of mammals. ... Origin: L. Mammalis belonging to the breast, fr. Mamma the breast or pap: cf. F. Mammal. ... (20 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  8. mammal
    mammalian noun 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
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. Mammal
    `Mammals` (class `Mammalia`) are warm-blooded, vertebrate animals characterized by the presence of sweat glands, including milk producing sweat glands, and by the presence of: hair, three middle ear bones used in hearing, and a neocortex region in the brain. Most mammals also possess specialized teeth and utilize a placenta in the ontogeny. The mammalian brain regulates endothermic and circulatory systems, including a four-chambered heart. Mammal...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal

  10. mammal
    (mam´әl) an individual of the Mammalia, a division of vertebrates, including all that possess hair and suckle their young. adj., mammal´ian., adj.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  11. Mammal
    • (n.) One of the Mammalia.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  12. mammal
    any member of the group of vertebrate animals in which the young are nourished with milk from special mammary glands of the mother. In addition to ... [66 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/22

  13. mammal
    mammal Etymologically, mammal denotes an 'animal that suckles its young'. The word is a derivative of mammalia, the term for that whole class of animals, coined by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus from Latin mammalis 'of the breast', which has been traced back to a prehistoric Indo-European element mamma.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  14. Mammal
    Group of warm blooded vertebrate animals. Common characteristics found in these organisms include: hair, milk secretion, diaphragm for respiration, lower jaw composed of a single pair of bones, middle ear containing three bones, and presence of only a left systemic arch.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo

  15. mammal
    A member of the class Mammalia. Mammals are warm-blooded, usually hairy vertebrates whose offspring are fed with milk secreted by the mammary glands. All but a few are placental. The bones and muscles of the legs carry the weight of the body, while the backbone is a girder between them from which ...
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi

  16. mammal
    mammal, an animal of the highest class of vertebrates, the Mammalia. The female has mammary glands, which secrete milk for the nourishment of the young after birth. In the majority of mammals the body is partially or wholly covered with hair; the heart has four chambers, and only the left aortic arc...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08314


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21 November 2009

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On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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