female mammal vs mammalian

mammalian vs female mammal

female mammal and mammalian both are nouns.

female mammal is not an adjective while mammalian is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
female mammal	Yes	No	No	No
mammalian	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, mammalian is a hypernym of female mammal; that is, mammalian is a word with a broader meaning than female mammal:

female mammal: animals that nourish their young with milk
mammalian: any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk

Other hypernyms of female mammal include female, mammal.

female mammal (noun)	mammalian (noun)
animals that nourish their young with milk	any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk

female mammal (adjective)	mammalian (adjective)
	of or relating to the class Mammalia

Difference between female mammal and mammalian

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