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Metacromion :: Metacromion (n.) A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals.

Scapula :: Scapula (n.) The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.

Palmigrade :: Palmigrade (a.) Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals..

Milk :: Milk (n.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts..

Paleotherium :: Paleotherium (n.) An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama..

Bovid :: Bovid (a.) Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.

Cow :: Cow (n.) The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc..

Entomere :: Entomere (n.) The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals..

Poupart''s Ligament :: Poupart's ligament () A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones..

Prostate :: Prostate (a.) Standing before; -- applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra..

Floccus :: Floccus (n.) The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.

Dinoceras :: Dinoceras (n.) A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.

Suspensory :: Suspensorium (n.) Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals..

Coryphodon :: Coryphodon (n.) A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant..

Glires :: Glires (n. pl.) An order of mammals; the Rodentia.

Lissencephala :: Lissencephala (n. pl.) A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc..

Ungulata :: Ungulata (n. pl.) An extensive group of mammals including all those that have hoofs. It comprises the Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla.

Allantoidea :: Allantoidea (n. pl.) The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals..

Calf :: Calf (n.) The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale..

Putrescin :: Putrescin (n.) A nontoxic diamine, C4H12N2, formed in the putrefaction of the flesh of mammals and some other animals..

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