mammallike

English

Etymology

From 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^[1]:

     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^[2], volume 278, number 5341, →DOI, pages 1267–1270:

     Birds […] lack a crocodilelike or mammallike thoracic-abdominal subdivision of the visceral cavity (Fig. 2 C).