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mammaldom

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Etymology

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Frommammal +‎-dom.

Noun

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mammaldom (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The condition of being amammal.
    • 1951, Alan Devoe,This Fascinating Animal World, page 4:
      The whole of this vastmammaldom which so dwarfs us is itself no more than a tenth of the entirety of the vertebrates (the backboned animals).
    • 2007 February 20, Natalie Angier, “A Mammal in Winter With a Furnace of Her Own”, inNew York Times[1]:
      At the museum, visitors are reminded thatmammaldom did not confer any major advantages on its earliest practitioners.
    • 2009, Christopher McDougall,Born to Run, page214:
      But why, in allmammaldom, would a jackrabbit need a spring-loaded belly?

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