vertebrate vs mammalian

mammalian vs vertebrate

vertebrate and mammalian both are nouns.

vertebrate and mammalian both are adjectives.

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

As nouns, mammalian is a hyponym of vertebrate; that is, mammalian is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than vertebrate:

vertebrate: animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
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 hyponyms of vertebrate include fetus, foetus, Amniota, amniote, aquatic vertebrate, gnathostome, bird, amphibian, reptile, reptilian, mammal, tetrapod.

vertebrate (noun)	mammalian (noun)
animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium	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 (adjective)	mammalian (adjective)
having a backbone or spinal column	of or relating to the class Mammalia

Difference between vertebrate and mammalian

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