mammalian vs vertebrate

vertebrate vs mammalian

mammalian and vertebrate both are nouns.

mammalian and vertebrate both are adjectives.

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

As nouns, vertebrate is a hypernym of mammalian; that is, vertebrate 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
vertebrate: 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 craniate.

mammalian (noun)	vertebrate (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)	vertebrate (adjective)
of or relating to the class Mammalia	having a backbone or spinal column

Difference between mammalian and vertebrate

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