mammal

英 [ˈmæml]

美 [ˈmæml]

n.  哺乳动物

复数：mammals　

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牛津词典

noun

• 哺乳动物
  any animal that gives birth to live babies, not eggs, and feeds its young on milk. Cows, humans and whales are all mammals .

柯林斯词典

• 哺乳动物
  Mammalsare animals such as humans, dogs, lions, and whales. In general, female mammals give birth to babies rather than laying eggs, and feed their young with milk.

英英释义

noun

• any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair
  Synonym:mammalian

双语例句

• Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that can infect aves 、 mammal and human beings.
  弓形虫是一种全球性分布的寄生原虫，可感染鸟类、哺乳动物和人。
• The camel is a mammal, but the kiwi is bird.
  骆驼是一种哺乳动物，但是几维鸟是一种鸟。
• Terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb.
  陆栖或水栖的食肉类哺乳动物；陆栖类的每个肢体上有四或五个带爪的趾。
• Obviously sleeping safely at sea can pose problems, but the marine mammal system has addressed them.
  显然安全地在海里睡觉会产生一些问题，但海洋动物的系统已解决了这些问题。
• Its hairy body suggests a mammal.
  它毛茸茸的身体表明它是哺乳动物。
• Some scientists, however, say that the dolphin, a sea mammal, is just as smart.
  然而，有些科学家说，海豚，一种海中的哺乳动物，也有那么聪明。
• A mammal having nails or claws.
  有指甲或爪的哺乳动物。
• Most native mammal species have been severely depleted.
  大多数本地哺乳动物的数量都已经大大减少了。
• Until recently no primate, and no tropical mammal, was known to hibernate.
  直到近来没有灵长类动物，没有热带哺乳动物是熟知去冬眠的。
• A whale is no less a mammal than a horse is.
  鲸鱼和马一样都是哺乳动物。