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Female mammal   /fˈimˌeɪl mˈæməl/   Listen
Female mammal

noun
1.
Animals that nourish their young with milk.






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"Female mammal" Quotes from Famous Books



... the glands and of their peculiar physiology in evolution. The obvious explanation from the Lamarckian point of view, and in my opinion the true one, is that they owed their origin at the beginning to the same stimulation which is applied to them now in every female mammal that bears young. There is, as we have seen, a difficulty in explaining how the occurrence of parturition causes the secretion of milk to begin, but it is certain that the secretion soon stops if the milk is not drawn from the ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham



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