mammalian vs female mammal

female mammal vs mammalian

mammalian and female mammal both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, female mammal is a hyponym of mammalian; that is, female mammal is a word with a more specific, narrower 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
female mammal: animals that nourish their young with milk

Other hyponyms of mammalian include tusker, prototherian, metatherian, eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal, fossorial mammal.

mammalian (noun)	female mammal (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 that nourish their young with milk

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

Difference between mammalian and female mammal

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