fossorial mammal vs mammalian

mammalian vs fossorial mammal

fossorial mammal and mammalian both are nouns.

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

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

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

fossorial mammal: a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging
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 fossorial mammal include mammal.

fossorial mammal (noun)	mammalian (noun)
a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging	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

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

Difference between fossorial mammal and mammalian

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