mammallike

English

Etymology

mammal +‎ -like

Adjective

mammallike (comparative more mammallike, superlative most mammallike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mammal.
    • 1993 May 28, Harold Henderson, “The Descent of Dinosaurs”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      Also common were squat, mammallike traversodonts.
    • 1997 November 14, John A. Ruben et al., “Lung Structure and Ventilation in Theropod Dinosaurs and Early Birds”, in Science‎, volume 278, number 5341, →DOI, pages 1267–1270:
      Birds […] lack a crocodilelike or mammallike thoracic-abdominal subdivision of the visceral cavity (Fig. 2 C).
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