mammalian vs craniate

craniate vs mammalian

mammalian and craniate both are nouns.

mammalian is an adjective but craniate is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mammalian	Yes	Yes	No	No
craniate	Yes	No	No	No

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

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
craniate: animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

Other hypernyms of mammalian include vertebrate.

mammalian (noun)	craniate (noun)
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	animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

mammalian (adjective)	craniate (adjective)
of or relating to the class Mammalia

Difference between mammalian and craniate

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